Expensive Smiles

Well, our outside temp is in the mid 50s (F) and it will warm up today.  Sometime this afternoon we should reach the mid 70s (F), then, however, the storms are going to roll into the area. Overnight the temps will drop back into what is considered more seasonal, with afternoon highs being in the low to mid 50s (F).  This is fine.

The new phone arrived yesterday.  Howie embarrassed me by jumping up on the UPS delivery man.  I apologized.  Howie's okay with most people, the he's always excited when the UPS man comes a knocking at the front door.  Yesterday was no different.

As for the new phone.  I thought I'd get it up and running in about 45 minutes.  Well, it took that long to transfer the data.  All the apps were there, however none of the apps recognized the phone.  This meant signing into every single one of them.  Some needed to uninstalled and then reinstalled before I could sign in because they were attached to the old phone's IP address.  Over all, it took me most of the afternoon.  I was scheduled to do a cardio and that got canceled.  I texted my trainer and his comment was that getting a new phone was as bad as having to change a credit card.  I haven't had to do the later, but I'll take his word on it.

This morning I went to the dentist.  I have a molar that cracked.  There's no help of saving it.  I can remember a time when, if you needed to have a tooth pulled, that would happen in the office.  Now I have to go to an oral surgeon.  He said I could replace it with an implant for around $4500.  I said no.  At my age I can think of much better things to do with my money than to pay for a molar implant.  He then said I use that tooth for only about 2% of my chewing anyway.  Why does everything have to be about greed?

And evidently Israel's Iron Dome is good when all it has to deal with are the small rockets shot at the country from a fairly close range.  Those missiles Iran is shooting at them?  A different story.  They are getting through.  Some of them have cluster bombs attached.  Even Fox Entertainment is reporting this.  Of course, Israelis are beginning to ask "where's Bibi?"  For those who don't know, 12 days ago he took a long flight out of Israel.  Some thing he might be in Florida.  Believe me, this spineless man is as far away from the war as he can possibly get.

Americas casualties are worse than Kegsbreath and his Department of Defense want to admit.  As of yesterday, the number of injured was somewhere around 150.  Even Karoline Leavitt admitted this.  But then she also said that the Orange Anus took us into this war on a hunch.  Just let those word swirl around in your brain for a bit.  Remember the saying Everything Trump touches dies?  Well, those things he touches are all hunches.  Oh, dear me.  I think we as a country should be very concerned.

Talarico Censored

When I got up this morning, our outside temp was 36 (F).  That's fine.  This means that the snow pack continued to melt all through the night.  For the next 3 days our highs will be in the 50s (F).  This is a really good thing since spring is only 31 days away.  Our future forecast calls for rain, not snow.  Those freezing days may be gone for another 10 months.  Nice.

I worked yesterday and had my review:  I meet expectations.  That's fine.  My days of over achieving are long since past, and when I did over achieve it had more to do with my enjoying the job rather than eyeing the next rung up the ladder.  I get an increase sometime in March.  Every penny is nice since it helps me buy finer bottles of wine.  The review was written by my supervisor, she has aspirations of climbing up onto that next rung.  Management, while getting paid a bit more, is expected to work at least 50 hours per week.  She also just had a birthday.  She's 67.  For her, I'm fairly certain that ship has long since sailed.

Otherwise, yesterday was pretty much meh. 

I'm planning on reactivating my Trainwell trainer for another 3 months.  I've changed my schedule and that's going to effect the days that I train.  Monday I now go in earlier so I can earlier.  

My phone is 5 years old, so I'm also looking at updating that.  I'm actually considering a flip phone.  I have this unique ability to turn on my phone when it's in my pocket, that's why I it's kept in a leather case. This is how it's been with every phone I've owned, and I'm hoping a flip phone my alleviate the problem..

And what about the FCC refusing to allow Colbert to air an interview with James Talarico?

Talarico a Christian Democrat who's drawing massive crowds in Texas.  The Republicans don't like him because he doesn't bow down and kiss Orangie's ass.  He is very popular, so the FCC, showing total ineptitude blocked the interview.  As a result, Talarico is getting far more press coverage this morning than if they had permitted Colbert to air the interview.  Basically, they cut off their nose to spite their face.  In doing so, they are pushing Orangie's approval rating deeper into the negative territory.  Of course the Republicans are beginning to get desperate.  They've hitched their wagons to a dementated, old nag.

While Talarico is on one end of the spectrum, Randy Fine, the Congressman from Florida is on the other end.  I don't doubt he is the fattie from middle-school who, instead of going to the gym, chose to gain weight and grow bitter.  He epitomizes every reason for having stereotypes of Jewish people, and you can  bet he doesn't care.  He's going to rub his hateful racism in your face every chance he gets.

 

There are pudding heads at Microsoft!

For those of you who didn't know, not too long ago Microsoft came out with a new product they called Windows 8.  I'd heard about it but not experienced the joy until I purchased a Samsung laptop (mostly for gaming) and discovered the pre-installed OS was Windows 8.  Five seconds after playing with it I realized there were some really high level pudding heads at Microsoft.  They have foisted an operating system on the public which is primarily designed for tablets and phones, not for laptops or PC's.  On a tablet or phone, a single swipe will scroll your apps either to the left or to the right, on a laptop you need to use your arrow keys to get to the desired app.  If you use your mouse and it strays to close to the right hand side your "charms" pop up, and then you have to wait for them to disappear to continue. You need to corner you mouse in the lower left hand corner to get to your actual desktop,  which is where I do most of my games are loaded.  You would have thought some pudding head at Microsoft would have realized most small businesses are not going to want their associates dicking around with a bunch of apps.  No, they want their associates working.

I read where one of the pudding brains at Microsoft was touting the fact that 100 millions licenses for Windows 8 had been sold.  She did not say there were that many satisfied customers, in fact customer sat did not even enter the news release.  However, if you do a search, there are vast numbers who are not happy.  Quite a number are running Windows 7 instead of the new OS and I suspect it's all because of the new Start screen.  I'm sure there were not be nearly the number of complaints if it were effective on desktops and laptops instead of being a massive waste of time.  How bad is the problem?  I understand that a number of the pudding brains at Microsoft have decided to pool their intelligence, the end result being a major patch which is supposed to be released in September.

Microsoft should have approached Windows 8 from two different angles since they do have two disparate customers, those who mainly use PC's and laptops, and those who use tablets and phones.  While some of us may have both of these product lines, the OS on each group needs to be different.   Instead they chose to lump them altogether and ended up with this fiasco that will probably, in the long run cost them more then they even vaguely anticipated.  It's time for the pudding heads at Microsoft to put on their thinking caps.