Listening to an audio book

Stephen Kings' "Under the Dome".

Strange, but reminiscient of Rod Serling's "Monsters on Mainstreet", but with people rather than aliens playing games.

Well, back to doing the laundry and gardening.

*coughclearingthroatcough*

Can still taste smoke and ash from the fires down south. Aikidomayland brought a Venatlin inhaler for me, as mine was past it's 'us by' date. I've used the inhaler more in the past few days than I have had to in the past few months. (Not to worry ShadoutCarver, it is working, and within the recommended dosage. Does hurt a bit to breathe, but not too bad.)

Seems at least one of the bush fires is 'suspicious origin' aka deliberately set and not a controlled burn off.

Comfy socks!

Look what arrived in the mail/post today.

Thank you, ChocolateTrudi, they are beautiful, fit to perfection, and won't show cat fur! :D

Why outsourcing is messing up customer service.

Phone rang

"Hello, can I speak to Mr W*** C****?"

"Sorry, no, he can't be reached at his home number during business hours, as he is at his place of business."

"May I leave a message?"

"Sure"

"I'm calling from Ameircan Express...." (I interrupt her)

"No, you may not leave a message. For over a year now, you guys keep calling to bitch the payment is late, only to have the bill arrive at our house 4 days later. We have told you about this over and over, and you just can't take notes. You can't get your calling/billing cycle in sync, so until you do, stop calling us. It's been paid (was paid in full as a matter of fact), get YOUR records straight."

And then I hung up on her. That felt so good.

Fleetwood Mac, Perth, Dec 12 2009

Title says it all! Got some pics of the concert. Had to use old Pentax, as getting my Lumix in would have been.. difficult. So, sorry about the graininess!

These guys still rock the house. They opened with MONDAY MORNING, and closed with SILVER SPRING.

Lindsey Buckingham doesn't just play the guitar, he becomes part of it. Wow, I bow to his greatness.



Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood and Lindsey Buckingham.



Finally managed to get a shot of John McVie, as there was stage scaffolding between us.



Mick Fleetwood says good night to us. And it wasn't just a quick g'bye. We got one helluva thank you from them all. I don't know who had the better time. Us, the concert goers, or them.

Come what may

Took Aikidomayland to Disc World for a diagnostic. Paul will call us back on the verdict. Also, I told him I received an email from Acer, about their NEW quad cores available now. He will be looking into that.

Raided the "Wishing tree". Two little kids will have something under the tree this year. Well, two somethings. Every year I do this. It stems from when I was in real dire straights, some friends rallied around and helped. And I promised I would return the favor every year if I could.

Simba was naughty again. *sigh* I was thinking about where he was doing this improper toileting. The futon (
Aikidomayland
slept on that a few times), Alans' bed, and
Aikidomayland's
side of the bed. Could he be seeing Aikidomayland and Alan as dominant males, so is making his mark? Don't know, but I wasn't happy. I cold busted Simba, and I hollered. He knew he had done wrong, and hid. He was also expecting to be hit. He cringed, ducked and closed his eyes. Was I angry at his behavior? Yes, but wasn't going to beat him for it.

Why the hell do they make it so damned hard to find answers?

Ok, installing Quicktime Pro and iTunes. They both install perfectly and run just fine.. the first time they are launched. After that, I kept getting error after error after error (QTFC_CFUNiCharGetUnicodePropertyDataForPlane to be exact) and searching on Google and other info sites resulted in me wanting to tear my hair out. I decided just a few bad words would suffice. Uninstalled, rebooted, reinstalled, rebooted, and still the problem persisted.

Then, I tweaked something so I could get a more specific verbose error message. #2093. Ok, off I go in search of answers again.. and again, and again. (insert many more bad words here).

I happened to chance on the right combination of key words to find the solution.

Go "Start > Computer". In Computer, go "Tools > Folder Options". Click the "View tab". Make sure that "Show hidden files and folders" is selected and that "Hide extensions for known filetypes" is unchecked. Okay out of the tab.

You next step depends on whether or not you've got a 32-bit or a 64-bit Vista.

If you're 32-bit: Open the C:\Windows\system32\ folder. Look for a QTCF.dll file. When you find the QTCF.dll, drag it out onto the desktop. If Quicktime/Itunes launches correctly, that was the problem.

-->If you're 64-bit:

First, open the C:\Windows\system32\ folder. Look for a QTCF.dll file. If you find a QTCF.dll, drag it out onto the desktop.

Second, open the C:\Windows\sysWOW64\ folder. Look for a QTCF.dll file. If you find a QTCF.dll, drag it out onto the desktop.

Once you've cleared System32 and SysWOW64 of any copies of QTCF.dl. If Quicktime/Itunes launched correctly, that was the problem.

Time for the next Win 7 64bit problem to be installed, I guess.

Smash forehead into keyboard to continue!