Seems as though one of our new trees in Arizona has wilted and just fallen over to the ground.... And that's not much of a surprise, as it was in the 100 plus fifteen range all week down there.....
But the gardener folks were supposed to come back and stake these trees so that wouldn't happen..... And of course staking didn't happen, once we left the area and paid the money..... I just knew that's how it would go... But sometimes I try and trust folks....... Generally that tends to bite me in the backside......
So I spent much of the morning calling trying to find this fellow to go look at the plantings and check the water system.... Finally he answered the phone....
Sometime about noon, we had a visit from the younger son and his family.... That's three kids all running around here at once..... And Ben and I got off discussing the rebuilding of all of these computer machines I have been working on and what was learned.... He has a broken one as well.... Are all computers broken?
They eventually went to the housing association pool to take a refreshing dip, as tomorrow is back to school day for all three of the kids.... The youngest is now officially a kindergartener... I feel old......
Then the the stock broker called in the sleepy late summer afternoon, as the markets are drifting sideways and I think he was just looking for someone to talk to... Over the years we have become friends and talk we doooooooo.
But tonight I was determined to go ride the scooter again after it was a little darker, and cooler... The bike just shined after riding in yesterday's rain, probably the first water it has seen in some time, as it has been way too hot to actually get out the hose and bucket....... The soft rain water didn't even spot the windshield.
Tomorrow is another one of those medical days for me, and I am not looking forward to the needles that always go with that experience.... I am hard to get some blood out of.....
So rather than stay up all night, I will sign this off for now and catch you later...
Retired Rod
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Breakfast in the Rain!!
It was looking rather bleak when I looked out of the blinds on the upstairs windows this morning, thinking about riding to the Romeo luncheon... Gray and overcast is the best way to describe what I saw in the street in front of our house......
It wasn't really raining yet, but I had to go West to the town of Gardner and it didn't look very promising in that direction.. But what the heck a little rain won't matter, so I dressed for the trip...
Loyce thought I was nuts and told me so in the garage as I was pushing the bike out of the garage, and it had begun to sprinkle.... But I was determined to go thru with it by now, so I headed out into the bleak overcast...
The destination was Todd's Diner on the main street in Gardner about 14 miles to our Southwest..
The picture of Todd's Diner above is posted on the Romeo Rider's forum and I included the HTML code for it to appear here as well.... It must have been snapped on a much nicer day....! There are a lot of pictures on that web site and good descriptions from other riders if you click here..
As is usually the case, I wasn't in any of the pictures other than sitting behind the couple in this photo, while I was talking non stop to the fellow over in the corner drinking coffee.
By this time, most of the other riders had decided to brave the now heavily descending rain, and those of us that were chicken were still sitting around waiting for it to slow up some or stop....
This was the special of the lunch day, with a large plate of ham and beans with corn bread... But what I didn't know was that they also brought a side of potatoes... Either as hash browns or slice and fried potatoes.... They just hadn't arrived yet...
This wasn't my plate, as I had a small breakfast, but rather it was the brunch of the fellow with the coffee cup pictured above.... We sat and talked for some time, while the rain slowed outside....
Eventually I became brave enough to head for home, but it was still raining right along.... And yes I got wet, and no I didn't have any rain gear on... I even had my small helmet that doesn't have a face shield, so the rain was hitting me in the face fairly hard. That meant I went back into the town neighborhoods quickly from the highway and rode at 35 miles an hour rather than highway speeds...
After arriving home and hanging the motorcycle gear on a peg to dry, I found we had the grand girls here while their parents were out doing adult things..... So that was our entire afternoon.......
Claire and I worked with the computer talking about maps and states and history of the white house and all the former presidents...... Boom just like that the day was gone...
Retired Rod
It wasn't really raining yet, but I had to go West to the town of Gardner and it didn't look very promising in that direction.. But what the heck a little rain won't matter, so I dressed for the trip...
Loyce thought I was nuts and told me so in the garage as I was pushing the bike out of the garage, and it had begun to sprinkle.... But I was determined to go thru with it by now, so I headed out into the bleak overcast...
The destination was Todd's Diner on the main street in Gardner about 14 miles to our Southwest..
The picture of Todd's Diner above is posted on the Romeo Rider's forum and I included the HTML code for it to appear here as well.... It must have been snapped on a much nicer day....! There are a lot of pictures on that web site and good descriptions from other riders if you click here..
As is usually the case, I wasn't in any of the pictures other than sitting behind the couple in this photo, while I was talking non stop to the fellow over in the corner drinking coffee.
By this time, most of the other riders had decided to brave the now heavily descending rain, and those of us that were chicken were still sitting around waiting for it to slow up some or stop....
This was the special of the lunch day, with a large plate of ham and beans with corn bread... But what I didn't know was that they also brought a side of potatoes... Either as hash browns or slice and fried potatoes.... They just hadn't arrived yet...
This wasn't my plate, as I had a small breakfast, but rather it was the brunch of the fellow with the coffee cup pictured above.... We sat and talked for some time, while the rain slowed outside....
Eventually I became brave enough to head for home, but it was still raining right along.... And yes I got wet, and no I didn't have any rain gear on... I even had my small helmet that doesn't have a face shield, so the rain was hitting me in the face fairly hard. That meant I went back into the town neighborhoods quickly from the highway and rode at 35 miles an hour rather than highway speeds...
After arriving home and hanging the motorcycle gear on a peg to dry, I found we had the grand girls here while their parents were out doing adult things..... So that was our entire afternoon.......
Claire and I worked with the computer talking about maps and states and history of the white house and all the former presidents...... Boom just like that the day was gone...
Retired Rod
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Cooler and reports of heat in the desert.
Today was an overcast day with kind of a foggy morning... The heat was off visiting other parts of the country, so that was somewhat of a relief.....
Loyce was gone to the younger son's house for much of the day while she was involved with the grand kids.... I kind of hung back around home with Biscuit.... She really has separation anxiety when Loyce goes anywhere without her.... She was up in my lap whining and crying that her mommy left her behind...
By about noon, I received the phone call that I needed to go to the Doctor's office and leave off some of those testable bodily fluids in preparation for the official visit that I have scheduled for Thursday... One of the main reasons that we had to come back here to Kansas...
But then tonight I was talking to the security folks out in Arizona as they were doing the walk around of our house, and they indicated the it was 117 this afternoon...........Yeow!!
I'm fairly certain that it is a good thing that we didn't stay any longer in Arizona than we needed to... 117, that's crazy... Linda the security lady, said the TV people were talking about cooking eggs on the blacktop again, because of the heat....
But in contrast, yesterday when I was out on the scooter early in the morning, it was 81 here.... And I was riding along at about 50 miles an hour and it seemed cool, or almost cold as the air came thru my ventilated cycle jacket... So I guess you do get used to the extreme heat.... I know my Canadian friends begin to complain when it gets into the 80s, that it is sooo hot and humid.. It was about 95 when I came back from the ride, and it was finally beginning to be a little warm for the endeavor...
And lastly, I'm not sure I should report on this least I might invite the virus to return, but it seems to be gone from this Window's computer for now..... Maybe AVG will get it into their security package... And judging by the questions from Microsoft on IE, Live Essentials will have it very soon as well.....
Have a good day today, as I will be off on the scooter for another Tuesday luncheon, by the time you are reading this...
Retired Rod
Loyce was gone to the younger son's house for much of the day while she was involved with the grand kids.... I kind of hung back around home with Biscuit.... She really has separation anxiety when Loyce goes anywhere without her.... She was up in my lap whining and crying that her mommy left her behind...
By about noon, I received the phone call that I needed to go to the Doctor's office and leave off some of those testable bodily fluids in preparation for the official visit that I have scheduled for Thursday... One of the main reasons that we had to come back here to Kansas...
But then tonight I was talking to the security folks out in Arizona as they were doing the walk around of our house, and they indicated the it was 117 this afternoon...........Yeow!!
I'm fairly certain that it is a good thing that we didn't stay any longer in Arizona than we needed to... 117, that's crazy... Linda the security lady, said the TV people were talking about cooking eggs on the blacktop again, because of the heat....
But in contrast, yesterday when I was out on the scooter early in the morning, it was 81 here.... And I was riding along at about 50 miles an hour and it seemed cool, or almost cold as the air came thru my ventilated cycle jacket... So I guess you do get used to the extreme heat.... I know my Canadian friends begin to complain when it gets into the 80s, that it is sooo hot and humid.. It was about 95 when I came back from the ride, and it was finally beginning to be a little warm for the endeavor...
And lastly, I'm not sure I should report on this least I might invite the virus to return, but it seems to be gone from this Window's computer for now..... Maybe AVG will get it into their security package... And judging by the questions from Microsoft on IE, Live Essentials will have it very soon as well.....
Have a good day today, as I will be off on the scooter for another Tuesday luncheon, by the time you are reading this...
Retired Rod
Monday, August 13, 2012
Incredibar Mystart (Hijack software, BeWare!!!)
Where to begin? I down loaded SpyBot which is free from the internet, and started it scanning my computer with a program called Search and Destroy.....
And it found all this incredibar and mystart stuff and identified itself as a trojan... It offered to remove all of the offending files and I thought I was done with it..... Wrong....
The program said the some of the files were attached as being used by a program and couldn't be removed.... By that time it was way into the middle of the night, and I left the program on its slow scan after a clean reboot where none of the programs had been started except the SpyBot itself....
It ran most of the morning, because when I put the computer down last night, it went to sleep and shut down the scan..... I went on a scooter ride!!
It still wasn't done when I came back because once I set the machine down it went to sleep again.... So I had to babysit it to keep it awake, and eventually it found a couple of the files and we removed them too.
Well that's the end of that, I thought........... Wrong...
As I was using the computer again tonight, I found that my search engine was still using My Start by Incredibar..... Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
This time I used the computer explorer and searched on the above terms and removed any file that had that name in it manually.......... A bunch of cookies and stuff... Then dumped the recycle bin.... But as I was about to go back into the browser, (Chrome) I noticed that a download that I hadn't initiated began to download ....................INCREDIBAR.............................. I quickly halted that and deleted the file..... dumping the recycle bin as well.......
It's still listed as my preferred browser as well here on google chrome.... Must be some cookie that is calling for the download of this trojan. I may have to dump all of the cookies as well just as a precaution. I'll do that next....
I went into Wrench, Settings, and Search where I managed the available search engines and hovered over My Start and killed it with the X that shows up over to the right of the line... I selected google again, but will it stay...
I started MS IE, and they had a dialog box asking if my search engine had been changed in their browser and even though it hadn't been changed yet, I answered yes and sent it back to mother MS IE... So they must be all over this....
It hasn't found or attacked my LINUX box yet, just the windows laptop...... Maybe I will just shut down the Microsoft computers completely until this goes away.... Loyce, go back to your apple will you!
Yep, there were a bunch of cookies in the Chrome cookie folders..... With that offending name in them... They're gone now.....
Retired Rod
And it found all this incredibar and mystart stuff and identified itself as a trojan... It offered to remove all of the offending files and I thought I was done with it..... Wrong....
The program said the some of the files were attached as being used by a program and couldn't be removed.... By that time it was way into the middle of the night, and I left the program on its slow scan after a clean reboot where none of the programs had been started except the SpyBot itself....
It ran most of the morning, because when I put the computer down last night, it went to sleep and shut down the scan..... I went on a scooter ride!!
It still wasn't done when I came back because once I set the machine down it went to sleep again.... So I had to babysit it to keep it awake, and eventually it found a couple of the files and we removed them too.
Well that's the end of that, I thought........... Wrong...
As I was using the computer again tonight, I found that my search engine was still using My Start by Incredibar..... Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
This time I used the computer explorer and searched on the above terms and removed any file that had that name in it manually.......... A bunch of cookies and stuff... Then dumped the recycle bin.... But as I was about to go back into the browser, (Chrome) I noticed that a download that I hadn't initiated began to download ....................INCREDIBAR.............................. I quickly halted that and deleted the file..... dumping the recycle bin as well.......
It's still listed as my preferred browser as well here on google chrome.... Must be some cookie that is calling for the download of this trojan. I may have to dump all of the cookies as well just as a precaution. I'll do that next....
I went into Wrench, Settings, and Search where I managed the available search engines and hovered over My Start and killed it with the X that shows up over to the right of the line... I selected google again, but will it stay...
I started MS IE, and they had a dialog box asking if my search engine had been changed in their browser and even though it hadn't been changed yet, I answered yes and sent it back to mother MS IE... So they must be all over this....
It hasn't found or attacked my LINUX box yet, just the windows laptop...... Maybe I will just shut down the Microsoft computers completely until this goes away.... Loyce, go back to your apple will you!
Yep, there were a bunch of cookies in the Chrome cookie folders..... With that offending name in them... They're gone now.....
Retired Rod
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