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Update on laptop crisis

Just a short follow up to my sudden laptop crisis.

Well, I and parents both had forgotten that my Dad had bought a Dell Inspiron 1545 for himself, before he bought his 17 inch dell laptop. So, they’re letting use it.

The only problem I am having…. is getting the silly thing to update and boot properly.

It is a windows Vista premium machine and during an update, it stalled and I shut down and restarted. Now, I’m having problems getting the thing to boot.

So, I am putting it thought its paces with testing. Wish me luck!

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A followup on an previous entry

Now before I begin this, let me state for the record, that this is not a walk back of any sort, but rather a followup to an older posting.

It appears that when I posted my entry titled, “It’s a damned shame” that I did not have all of the information related to what was going on.

It does seem that a particular person does have a bit of a problem; and that problem is hate. For the record; yes, I did check out his timeline and yes, I did see some stuff that, yes, even bothered me.

Let me also state that I am one of the most open minded persons in the World. I even have been known to stick my own size 12 foot in my own mouth during the heat of the battle and I have ended up apologizing for it afterward too.

However, when I see someone joking about one of the biggest players in the Jewish Holocaust and thinking that it is actually funny — that is a problem.  Please Note: I am not a rabid anything and I tend to keep in open mind. However, what happened during that time period is not funny or even something that should be even remotely joked about, at all. If one does this, it does, in my mind; bring into question one’s motives and — quite bluntly, their sanity.

Anyone that knows me and anything about my blogs that I have ran for the last 8 years; knows that I have been a “Tell it like it is, shoot from the hip” type of a guy. However, I also happen to be someone, who has a build-in moral compass. When that moral compass senses evil and wrong; I head in the opposite direction. This is what happened here and this is why I blocked said person mentioned in the blog posting linked to in this blog posting here. I also blocked a few of his friends too.

I tend to make a point to stay out of blog disputes and wars.  But, I do not wish to be associated with those who traffic in hate. Not after what happened to me a few years ago. No way, No how.

 

 

 

A special thank you!

To my friend Chris Muir, who makes the wonderfully awesome Day by Day cartoon.

Chris answered my pitiful plea for donations with a nice donation of $20.00

You can read Chris’s cartoons at his website or look over in my right side bar and check out the latest one there.

Fun Fact: I started reading Day by Day, when I was still quite firmly in the Democratic Party camp. I found his comic quite amusing. I still do, more so now, than I ever did.

Chris is simply returning the favor; I have donated to his cause a few times and even bought ads on his site, until they went up to $5.00 a slot over on project wonderful.

Again, to Chris; thank you buddy! It will come in handy! 😀

 

Removed some postings

I’ve decided to remove some postings on this blog. Seeing I cannot even get a mention for stepping up to the plate and defending someone; I am removing any and all postings of recent that mentioned a few bloggers names.

As for the swatting stuff, and the harassment; couldn’t happen to a better bunch if you ask me.  As for a particular Jewish blogger, that I defended, I retract my defense. She is too stuck on herself to acknowledge we commoners. So, she’s on her own. Maybe one day she’ll learn to be a bit more gracious to people.

I’m just tired of elitist bullshit in the Conservative Blogging World. Why I hardly even write anymore. It is almost as bad as the elitist bullshit in the liberal Blogging world! Might even be a little bit worse.

That is all.

 

Some positive news on the job front

I have some good news to report. On Monday, I have to call a local company that hauls around “roll-offs” for scrap yards. I have just had some new neighbors move in across the street here and the oldest daughter’s boyfriend works for the place and told me they are hiring. I got the number and the people to talk to; so, on Monday I am calling them. This is not a sure thing or anything; but, I am hoping that something good comes of it.

I am beyond happy to get back to work. Seven years is plenty of time to be off, and to be quite honest, I want to get back to it. I fought the good fight of faith here in the blogosphere and I am quite ready to go back to being just another face in the crowd.

The blog will continue, I just will not be updating it as often; who knows, maybe I will start a trucking blog. 😀

Wish me luck, pray for me or whatever suits your fancy. 😉

Thanks!

-Pat

 

Islamic Hackers hack my blog.

Sort of a interesting surprise to wake up to…. But it seems that some Saudi Islamic hackers got to my theme or guessed my password and hacked the previous theme. They left a message.

Maybe my blog is making some sort of an impact. 😯

Either way, I dumped the former theme and came back to this one. Either way, I just don’t get why they picked this blog. It is not like this blog has a ton of traffic. I really have not been blogging that much, seeing that the Republican Party picked an idiot to run for President and too; I am just bored of the whole thing anymore. Adsense yanked my money making abilities and since Bush left and Obama is now hobbled, there is really nothing to fight against.

Anyhow, it’s raining around these parts. Maybe I will write some today.

 

A rather funny discovery

I was looking at my categories on the blog here, when I was doing my last posting. I had Technology spelled “Techology”

*facepalm* 😳

…and I couldn’t change it for some reason. (Bug in software?!?!)

Anyhow, it’s changed. I had to delete old category and add new one. (Which is a PITA, because I had to orphan some posts. Grrrr. :mad:)

 

That is it for this week! I shall return on Monday!

I thought I would let everyone know that I am going to be taking the weekend off. I will not lie to you all; I am feeling a bit glum right now. As I mentioned before, I thought I was getting a job. Well, that really did not pan out. My cousin from my Father’s side of the family got a job working for a uniform company. A few days back my cousin came over and really made it clear that if someone called from that company, that someone here at the house should answer the phone. Well, I took that as if I were going to get a phone call to come in for an interview or something. Anyhow, yesterday, I got word that the company really was not hiring anyone. It is not that I do not appreciate my cousin looking out for me, it is just that I have been out of work for so long, that I actually was a bit excited at the prospect of going back to work; only to have the rug yanked out from under me. It does tend to get a bit depressing. I am not blaming my cousin, he meant well. I blame the stupid economy.

Another thing that has me feeling a bit blue is the fact that my so-called “Small Business” is not getting any kind of business at all. It is because of the fact that I just cannot afford the cost of a license for a piece of software that handles the web site, billing, and automation of running a shared hosting business. The license is fifteen dollars a month directly from the software manufacture, or I can get it for twelve dollars and some change a month from a third party who buys the licenses in bulk. Either way, that comes to around one hundred and eighty dollars a year — Which, now, I just do not have to invest in a small business. Not to mention the costs of getting my LLC License and Tax License all set up. I have all those costs itemized over on my Amazon Wish List, in case anyone is interested in helping me out.

I will also make something abundantly clear; I do not blame anyone, but my own self for getting into this situation. I am the idiot, who had the accident back in 2004, which screwed me from ever being hired by another trucking company. I am the idiot who quit the job back in 2005, because it was making me physically sick and did not bother to find another job quickly. I did it, not anyone else. I am the idiot who sat around here and blogged my rear end off from 2006 until now and does not have a damned thing to show for it. It was I, nobody else. I am the one who has written things in the past that were taken out of context and construed as anti-Semitic and/or racist. I did it — no one else. A real man takes responsibility for his mistakes, cowards try to shift blame on others; and I am not a damned coward.

So, there you have it. That is what is happening in my life and it is enough to make a man just want to quit. However, I am not going to quit —- I am, however, going to take a break for the weekend.

Thanks for reading my sob story.

Your somewhat humble host,

Patrick