Exciting morning

Not my Altima but just like it.

So we had some ice on the cars this morning. I tried to roll the windows down just to check. The passenger side would not come down, no biggie so I left it alone.

About 15 minutes later I am riding down the road and hear a loud CRACK! BAM!  I look at the window and it is gone.  No broken glass so I figure it is down in the down, but it doesn’t come back up.  My temperature reading says it is 29º and with the wind blowing in for the next 20 minutes I believe it.

Good news is that I have no deductible for the window replacement, the bad news is it will be repaired tomorrow afternoon…burrrrrr.

The morning of a geek

At work we, yes including me, thought of an idea about setting up the training computers with a program called, “Deep Freeze.”  Basically, this app allows you to set up a computer the way you want it and when people log onto it, do their training, save documents on that computer, etc. when restarted it all vanishes.

Excellent idea in concept but in reality I am now responsible for the care and feeding of 20 notebook computers that I must update when they are used, fix them, etc.  This morning it was Windows updates and adding one icon to the desktops.

Still better than the old days when people could change desktops, remove/add icons, etc.

Ahhh, the fun of being an IT guy and just think this morning before lunch I got ten of them done.  After lunch another ten and I guess I am finished…for a while anyway.

Captain George’s Seafood?

I was a real Captain George’s lover in the past. We moved away from the area where it was located 20+ years ago.

I’ve wanted to go again but never had the chance and also the price went way up over time. Both of these things kept me away.

This week we had the chance to visit their again…for free. We were disappointed. The quality of the food was way off and the number of seafood selections were down too.

There were many more non-seafood selections like BBQ ribs, chicken, beef, etc. along with many desserts.

An “unastounding” meal at best.

And I am glad it was free for us as I would have been really put out if I had to pay $80 of my money for a poor buffet, diet choke and top. (Don’t worry it was a time share ticket so no one wasted any personal $.)

I don’t suggest it if you want good seafood. Now if you are going for a huge volume of food at a high price it may be for you.  Other than that a seafood TV dinner would be as good.

11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King

Well, I read many reviews of 11/22/63: A Novel by S. King and some from folks whom I trusted their opinions. 

Now, this is the second King novel I’ve read (see below) since I am not a horror fan; however, I am a big Time Travel genre fan, so I had to give it a go.

Here are my few and simple thoughts and since I do not have a million published books like Mr. King, take it for what it is worth.  Of course, I will add that I have read many more books than he has written.

A length of 849 pages, or over 30 hours (the way I am “reading” it) is way too long.  If it were a riveting work of prose like, oh say, “The Lord of the Rings” that is fine.  But I think this book should have stopped around page 340 pages or the 12th hour. 

Many of the details are tedious and not tremendously useful to the story.  Of course, the main character made some stupid decisions and mistakes, but that happens in most books at times.  Authors do have to finish a fictional work since this way since not everything plays out in reality. 

The profanity is prolific, which I am not a fan of but if you like the “F-bomb” every page or two you should definitely read this one.

The time travel twist at the end was good but not the best of what I’ve read in the past.

So basically, a slow read, the length and in my opinion offensive language made this the second and most likely last Stephen King book I will read.

Wait, I did remember that I read the “Colorado Kid” since I like to watch “Haven” and heard that it was done from that book.  And the book, very short, which was great, but boring and never went anywhere.  Fortunately, the show is much better…at least the first seasons so far.  Oh, it also has not much other than a small basic story and names to match the book.

Ancient Rome declined bec…

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? — Will Rogers

I’m tired of all the politicking for the next Presidential election.  In my opinion they all lie so I guess we have to pick the one that lies the least or the one that lies like you like.

There have a few differences but once Obama is re-elected or Romney is elected they will forget the promises they made…and unfortunately so will most of the voters.

I imagine the USA will either get a lot worse, a lot better or stay about the same and the whiner winner in November will get the blame or credit.  

 

12.10 is coming soon

October 18, 2012 is the date.

Sorry but I am a Windows lover and an Ubuntu lover, gee, torn between two lovers, kind of reminds me of an old song. But anyway, I am looking forward to the update. 12.04 has been working great (even WI-Fi for a change).

I am ready to see what is new.

Oh yeah, and it wasn’t that great of a song last century but for you youngings…http://youtu.be/w1F5BLLFAeM

Google Nexus 7 Unboxing

This just cracked me up…