Saturday, February 01, 2014
Six Word Saturday
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my Six Words:
It really did, it crashed to the floor and broke the case. Now I have economy model HP but it has Windows 8 which I have to learn. Boo hoo.
All my 'favorites' are gone but Norton Identity Safe has survived with my passwords, etc. Pictures gone too. I'll learn NEW and keep working on getting the OLD back (some of it, what I can).
Six Words Saturday fine print:
Describe your life (or something) in a phrase using just six words for Six Word Saturday. Click the box at right to visit Cate's blog with Mr. Linky showing all the other blogs participating this week. Cate is the boss at Six Word Saturday. She would like for you to participate.
my Six Words:
Electronics failing -- Cellphone -- Now Laptop Crashed
It really did, it crashed to the floor and broke the case. Now I have economy model HP but it has Windows 8 which I have to learn. Boo hoo.
All my 'favorites' are gone but Norton Identity Safe has survived with my passwords, etc. Pictures gone too. I'll learn NEW and keep working on getting the OLD back (some of it, what I can).
Six Words Saturday fine print:
Describe your life (or something) in a phrase using just six words for Six Word Saturday. Click the box at right to visit Cate's blog with Mr. Linky showing all the other blogs participating this week. Cate is the boss at Six Word Saturday. She would like for you to participate.Labels: Computing, Jim's Life, Six Word Saturday
Friday, May 31, 2013
Six Word Saturday — A Random Five post [005], This and That —
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This Friday's post will start with a golf picture. This is Mrs. Jim teeing off at our # 14 hole yesterday about noon.
She had been playing with two other ladies at the start. But when a few rain sprinkles came they decided to quit.
Mrs. Jim called me at 10:45 to see if I wanted to join her out behind out house. So I played #'s 11 through 18 with her.
You can make the picture larger by clicking on it.
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1. Were you surprised to hear of this ship catching on fire? We were.
We will be cruising soon again with some family. Karen asked if we wanted to change our mind. I doubt she would want to change hers really.
I told her not to worry because the unwritten maritime rule is that women and children first and then followed by old people (pensioners like me).
She didn't comment on that (we text the 5000 and some miles).
The picture does make it look pretty bad.
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2. Good watermelon, bad watermelon? Which is which?
Hint, I took the one on the left back for a refund. It was awful. It looked weird too. Grown in Mexico didn't help.
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3. Bad Jim. Mrs. Jim's camera (a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W330) did not come with the proper cable to make uploads of her pictures.
So we would take the SD card out and place it in the SD card reader of her computer. Her computer is a Toshiba Portégé® 705 and in most respects is a perfect computer for a not too techie lady.
The SD port on her computer was always tricky and hard to get the card inserted. Last Friday it was particularly bad in acting up. So I gave it an extra push and literally pushed the back part of the reader away, breaking it off. We found it laying on top of her CD player. I am guessing that a lot of these break.
Mrs. Jim needed two pictures on that card because she was going to use the them in a magazine article she was working on. I suggested we take the computer in for "warranty" as surely it was defective in operating so hard and then breaking with normal use.
Mrs. Jim said no, don't do that as she would try to work it out with her "tools." That turned out bad too and the card went down inside deep, even blocking the CD from coming out. I was afraid something might short out inside so WE decided to leave it powered down and take it in.
Best Buy where we have out warranty said they would send it off. Either it would be defective or they would repair it for a charge. At any rate that would be THREE WEEKS. The Tech at Office Depot could take the back off and try to retrieve it. He warned that taking the back off might void the warranty . Or send it off for TWO WEEKS.
One other problem was that this was Sunday now, after church. Mrs. Jim said why didn't we call our friend at his home who has a computer tech business. We called him and he said to bring it over. At home he said he could 'loosen' the back and try to work it back out. Well, he did that and now all is up to snuff.
I would recommend this Dynex USB SD card reader instead of using the cable anyway. It is simple, plug the reader in, plug the card in, and copy/drag the picture to the desired computer file. I am using it for my own now also.
One problem, if your card isn't an SD or a Mini SD card then it won't work. You need a Universal Camera USB card reader for that. I think my Sony card, Pro Dual, will work with its adaptor. I will try it later. Now I am using the SDHC cards and this reader works great with them also.
4. Did you watch
C a r o l e . K i n g last Tuesday evening? She was honored at the White house. It was a nice 'oldie' song fest.
Her most played favorite was "You've got a friend." and she still could sing it very nicely Tuesday.
She was honored by being the first female song writer to be given the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song at the Library of Congress. (link)
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5. Read Your Car
Back a couple of years a had a weekend feature called "Read Your Car." It didn't go over real big so I stopped doing it. (link)
This car? Obviously a handicapped person in the family. There are no dents or large gashes so I would say that this is a conservative driver. Probably conservative in politics also.
The sticker in the rear window says that a "take charge person" does the driving. And the color being a beigey brown says that this person is quiet and doesn't care for attention. See the sticker below. Remember to click on it if you have trouble reading it.
==> I am linked up today with Nancy at A Rural Journal. She conducts her "A Random Five" blog hop there. Click that link to read other "A Random Five" posts or join in with your own.
==> Describe your life (or something) in a phrase using just six words for Six Word Saturday. Click the box at right to visit Cate's blog with Mr. Linky showing all the other blogs participating this week. Cate is the boss at Six Word Saturday. She would like for you to participate.
This Friday's post will start with a golf picture. This is Mrs. Jim teeing off at our # 14 hole yesterday about noon.She had been playing with two other ladies at the start. But when a few rain sprinkles came they decided to quit.
Mrs. Jim called me at 10:45 to see if I wanted to join her out behind out house. So I played #'s 11 through 18 with her.
You can make the picture larger by clicking on it.
............... [click again for extra large]
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1. Were you surprised to hear of this ship catching on fire? We were.We will be cruising soon again with some family. Karen asked if we wanted to change our mind. I doubt she would want to change hers really.
I told her not to worry because the unwritten maritime rule is that women and children first and then followed by old people (pensioners like me).
She didn't comment on that (we text the 5000 and some miles).
The picture does make it look pretty bad.
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2. Good watermelon, bad watermelon? Which is which?Hint, I took the one on the left back for a refund. It was awful. It looked weird too. Grown in Mexico didn't help.
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3. Bad Jim. Mrs. Jim's camera (a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W330) did not come with the proper cable to make uploads of her pictures. So we would take the SD card out and place it in the SD card reader of her computer. Her computer is a Toshiba Portégé® 705 and in most respects is a perfect computer for a not too techie lady.
The SD port on her computer was always tricky and hard to get the card inserted. Last Friday it was particularly bad in acting up. So I gave it an extra push and literally pushed the back part of the reader away, breaking it off. We found it laying on top of her CD player. I am guessing that a lot of these break.
Mrs. Jim needed two pictures on that card because she was going to use the them in a magazine article she was working on. I suggested we take the computer in for "warranty" as surely it was defective in operating so hard and then breaking with normal use.
Mrs. Jim said no, don't do that as she would try to work it out with her "tools." That turned out bad too and the card went down inside deep, even blocking the CD from coming out. I was afraid something might short out inside so WE decided to leave it powered down and take it in.
Best Buy where we have out warranty said they would send it off. Either it would be defective or they would repair it for a charge. At any rate that would be THREE WEEKS. The Tech at Office Depot could take the back off and try to retrieve it. He warned that taking the back off might void the warranty . Or send it off for TWO WEEKS.
One other problem was that this was Sunday now, after church. Mrs. Jim said why didn't we call our friend at his home who has a computer tech business. We called him and he said to bring it over. At home he said he could 'loosen' the back and try to work it back out. Well, he did that and now all is up to snuff.
I would recommend this Dynex USB SD card reader instead of using the cable anyway. It is simple, plug the reader in, plug the card in, and copy/drag the picture to the desired computer file. I am using it for my own now also.
One problem, if your card isn't an SD or a Mini SD card then it won't work. You need a Universal Camera USB card reader for that. I think my Sony card, Pro Dual, will work with its adaptor. I will try it later. Now I am using the SDHC cards and this reader works great with them also.
4. Did you watch C a r o l e . K i n g last Tuesday evening? She was honored at the White house. It was a nice 'oldie' song fest.
Her most played favorite was "You've got a friend." and she still could sing it very nicely Tuesday.
She was honored by being the first female song writer to be given the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song at the Library of Congress. (link)
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5. Read Your CarBack a couple of years a had a weekend feature called "Read Your Car." It didn't go over real big so I stopped doing it. (link)
This car? Obviously a handicapped person in the family. There are no dents or large gashes so I would say that this is a conservative driver. Probably conservative in politics also.
The sticker in the rear window says that a "take charge person" does the driving. And the color being a beigey brown says that this person is quiet and doesn't care for attention. See the sticker below. Remember to click on it if you have trouble reading it.
==> I am linked up today with Nancy at A Rural Journal. She conducts her "A Random Five" blog hop there. Click that link to read other "A Random Five" posts or join in with your own.
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I'm starting to like recycling my Friday blog again for Saturday Six Words.
It worked good last week I may just keep doing it. But it is (good) stuff to know about me?Does that make things better?
What do you think?
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==> Describe your life (or something) in a phrase using just six words for Six Word Saturday. Click the box at right to visit Cate's blog with Mr. Linky showing all the other blogs participating this week. Cate is the boss at Six Word Saturday. She would like for you to participate.Labels: A-Random-Five, Car Reading, Computing, Jim Does, Six Word Saturday, this-and-that
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Two down -- Gateway is still up and running
These two are down. Mrs. Jim's Averatec on the left was so nice for her. She really liked its 13-inch screen. It developed a vertical line on the display which turned into two. The extended warranty was over in a week. WalMart said send it back, they would fix it. [click on pictures for larger view]
Mrs. Jim's computer is now in Illinois with Micro Medics awaiting a new LCD panel (screen). On their first try the wrong one came, the right one is due in Illinois Monday. I assume it didn't have to come from China.On the right above is my computer, a old trusty HP. I've had it for years. It has a 14-inch monitor which I really like. Norton 360 was dragging it down, there was a fix but putting the fix on wasn't that easy. I killed it. It won't even come up in safe mode. Thank goodness HP was including restore discs back then. Now if I just had time to make it go again.
This is old faithful right now. Even though it isn't that old I must talk good about it because it is all we have right now. Mrs. Jim and I share it.
It is a Gateway (again 14-inch screen, I really like that size) and is young in years, less than a year. I bought it really cheap to take when we travel. That way if it got stolen in the airport or motel room or parking lot we wouldn't be out that much.
The Gateway has turned out to be my pet, it is fast and easy to work, especially with the Vista and Explorer 7. Here it is helping me do my Sunday school lesson preparation last Saturday. My desk was cluttered so I just cleared off the work table and worked there.
Out the window is our back yard. The first 22 feet are ours, the next part over to the houses we share with some golfers. Ours is a golf course home, we are on the dog leg of the eleventh fairway of the Weiskopff course. We have three courses in our subdivision, two of which we can afford (barely) to play.
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Can't live with them -- nor without
I saw this on Quilly's blog and decided to give it a try.
Here’s how it works – describe your life (or something) in a phrase using just six words.
For more information, ask Cate.
After you post, sign in there with Mr. Linky
and then visit others listed as you wish.
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Too bad, as you can see, Mrs. Jim had a happy little computer who didn't care one bit that it was broken. Bye-bye, and hurry back!
Labels: Blogging, Computing, Humor(?), Jim Does, Six Word Saturday
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Ruby (Red) Tuesday -- Santa came early this year, for Jim
Early was for my birthday in October
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This is my new Gateway laptop. I have not been using it much until now as I had to wait and renew my Norton antivirus for three computers this time.
The computer was a "bargain" as it is a discontinued model. Even though, it has three gigabyte (3GB) Ram and a nice 120 GB hard drive. The newer ones have more but this will be plenty for me.
I may keep it as my computer to use daily as it runs nice. I am liking Vista so far as well. I bought it to take on our jaunts and needed the price break so if it got stolen or lost I wouldn't be out very much (about two and a half months of my Ford retirement checks).
Did you know lap tops are the leading item lost and stolen in airports?
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Now for a change in scenery in case
you'd rather look at cars than computers
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Now for a change in scenery in case
you'd rather look at cars than computers
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Here we have my friend's 1937 Ford Stake Bed truck. Herb restored it doing all the work, even the painting.
This is the third 1937 Ford truck he has rebuilt. At present he is doing a 1934 Ford car.
Click the Ruby Tuesday button if you want to see more Ruby Tuesday posts.
Mary is in charge there, you can post your own if you wish.
Labels: Antiques, Cars, Christmas, Computing, Holiday Posts, Jim Does, People, Ruby Tuesday
