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  Russell got off work about 3 pm and got himself something to eat on the way home.  He fell onto his bed about 4 pm, fully dressed, and went to sleep.  It is almost 11 pm and he is still sleeping.  I am not sure what hours he works tomorrow.  I do not think he set the alarm clock.

  I had a hot pickle and some olives to eat today.  I have not hit the scale.  It is the other room and I don't want to wake Russell. 
  I had about five cans of Coke today.  That is not good. 
 
  I could not get CoffeeCup HTML Editor installed on the computer today.  It will not work with Vista.  CoffeeCup needs "dhtmled.ocx" and that is no longer park of Windows Vista.
  There is an HTML editor called WeBuilder 2006.  I downloaded it and it works great.  I think it is free.  No I just went to their site and it is $40.00 for it.  I guess it will time out for me in 30 days or something.  Now days I can not afford $40.00 for an HTML editor. 

I look better in day light!

  This QuickCam Pro 4000 seems to be working OK under Vista.  I am not sure if I will ever get the Philips webcam to work.  I want a different camera for a number of reasons.  (The Logitech QuickCam Ultra Vision is reported to work with Vista.)
  Now I know I am an old fat bald man.  I can't stand to see my self in a mirror or to myself in shop windows as I walk in a mall.  One reason is I don't think of myself as old and then I see myself and at first for a micro second it pops in my head...look at the old guy..then it hits me.. God that is me.
  This Pro 4000 webcam (USB webcam) with day light in the room I can stand to see myself.  I mean it is not pretty but I can stand it.  But at night with the light on in the room I look gross.
  I guess if I had some money I could put in some lighting that would be like sun light at night.  (Or I could just get a different camera. Smile)

  I have lost one pound or maybe two pounds.  I had one thing to eat yesterday and I had one thing to eat today.  I only had about 3 Cokes today.  I went back to the regular Coke.  Since I am eating very little I should go back to Coke Zero.
  I think the only way I can lose more than ten pounds is to cut off a body part.  My ex-wife might like to pick the part.

  I have a Florida Lotto ticket for Saturday November 11th.  The jackpot is $23 million. 
  I know I am not going to win, but as poor as I am, it is fun to think what if I won and what would I do with the money.  I would keep what I needed to live out my life well..and give the rest away.
  What would I do with the money for myself.  I would have my hearing tested and get two high tech hearing aids.  I would have someone come in to give me massages (massage not sex). 
  In case you wonder I would help out my ex-wife.  She treated me like shit over the years and did something to me that one person should never do to another person.  She has a lot of medical conditions and has some major mental conditions and I would see that she was well taken care of for the rest of her life.  (No when I said "taken care" of I did not mean like something out of the "God Father.")
  Darlene does not buy lottery tickets but if she did win she would share some of her money with me. 
  I been feeling pretty good the last couple of days.  My bathroom visits have not been as often.  My shoulder has not been hurting as much.  The sharp pain from my neck to face has been rare.  My entire body still hurts all the time but it has been like that so long that I sort of think of it as back ground pain and consider that as normal.  Sort of like the constant ringing (or cricket chirping) I have been hearing in my ears for as long as I can remember.  My feet are not swollen (because I have not been eating salt).  My neck does hurt and I feel a grinding and can hear it when I turn my head.  (That is one reason I would like a massage.) 
  I still have chest pain but again that is sort of normal for me.  I just worry when it feels different or if it hurts real bad.
  My grand father was sitting on a sofa at age 55 and he just fell over dead.  My father coded at age 65 and he was DRT (dead right there).  You know that is not a bad way to go.  Did you notice the 55 years of age and then the 65 years of age?  Maybe I will go at age 75.

Osbourne's of the Internet?

  Russell's bad habit of staying up late or staying up all night has started up again.  He was doing excellent at going to bed early but he is back to his old ways now.  He has to be up at 6 am and he is still up and watching TV and using his lap top computer.
  Sure at his age you can do that for a few years.  It takes a toll on you and your not fresh but you can do it.
  Russell missed years of school and they did "homeschooling" with him.  But the only education he got was from playing games on line all night.  At first the police came to the house and took him to school but even that did not work. 
  Of course all the had to do was pay him money to go to school and he would have been at the school an hour early each day and they would have had to kick him out at the end of the day.
  Russell loves money. 

Fraudulent eMail from "Social Security Administration"

  I received the following eMail:

2005 COLA news release

SOCIAL SECURITY

Social Security Announces 3.3 Percent Benefit Increase
for 2007

Monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income benefits for more
than 53 million Americans will increase 3.3 percent in 2007, the Social Security
Administration announced today.

Social Security and Supplemental Security Income benefits increase
automatically each year based on the rise in the Bureau of Labor Statistics'
Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers
(CPI-W), from the third quarter of the prior year to the corresponding period of
the current year.  This year's increase in the CPI-W was 3.3
percent.

The 3.3 percent Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) will begin
with benefits that nearly 49 million Social Security beneficiaries receive in
January 2007.  Increased payments to more than 7 million Supplemental Security
Income beneficiaries will begin on December 29.

Some other changes that take effect in January of each year are based on the
increase in average wages.  Based on that increase, the maximum amount of
earnings subject to the Social Security tax (taxable maximum) will increase to
$97,500 from $94,200.  Of the estimated 163 million workers who will pay Social
Security taxes in 2007, about 11 million will pay higher taxes as a result of
the increase in the taxable maximum in 2007.

NOTE: We now need
you to update your personal information. If this is not completed by November
11, 2006, we will be forced to suspend your account indefinitely

To confirm your records click here: ....."

  It is, of course, fake.  But a lot of old people are going to fall for this one.
I also bet you hear about this on the news.
 

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Wild Wild World of Vista

  Even the new AOL IM 6.0 beta will not run on Vista.  So I will be using the Yahoo VoIP for my phone service.  I am surprised that AOL and some of the other big time players would not have their software ready for Vista.

  Also VlogIt which I paid $50.00 for last year does not run in Vista. 

  Today (Friday November 10th 2006) the parking lots here were filled with cars.  I was thinking today is Friday but I had to check.  The mall was filled with people like it was a Saturday or a Sunday.
  It was because November 11th is Veterans Day.

  I found the following on a site:

 

"VA Urges Veterans to Wear Medals on Veterans Day

   

                        

WASHINGTON (Oct. 18, 2006) -- The Honorable R. James Nicholson,
Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and leaders of major veterans
organizations today called on America's veterans to help kindle a new
spark of patriotism on Veterans Day by wearing the medals they earned
during military service.

    

"We are announcing a
Veterans Pride Initiative to remind Americans of the pride and honor in
the hearts of those who have served," Nicholson said. "We expect
Americans will see our decorated heroes unite in spirit at ceremonies,
in parades and elsewhere as a compelling symbol of courage and
sacrifice on Veterans Day, the day we set aside to thank those who
served and safeguarded our national security."

    

The
campaign is modeled after a tradition in Australia and New Zealand,
countries who honor the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC)
on April 25. ANZAC Day sees veterans wearing their military decorations
whatever they are doing on that day. Nicholson said he hopes a U. S.
tradition will ensue to emulate this pride in being a veteran and in
honoring our veterans.

    

VA is offering information about the campaign on its Web page, http://www.va.gov/veteranspride/,
where veterans also can obtain information about how to replace mislaid
medals and learn how to confirm the decorations to which they are
entitled..."

I think we should honor our veterans all year.  I can understand something like this but I got a bad feeling about it.  I guess it is from watching TV, for years, and you will see news video from other nations and you see guys with metals all over them.  They don't have room for them.  It always seems like it is a nation like China, the former U.S.S.R. or some nation that is very war like with a large military.  It is not as bad as the video you see of guys in the streets shooting off guns in the air..but it just gives me a bad feeling for some reason.
  Since I am not a veteran however.. It might be best for me to just keep my big mouth shut.

What I remember most about Veterans Day is when I was in high school.  I went to an all male Catholic high school in Kansas City, Missouri.  It was also a "55-C" school.  That is like a big time ROTC.  The normal ROTC at a high school the guys would have a class a couple of times a week or something like that..
  We were in uniform all the time.  We had military each day.  All 500 of us had our own M1 (thank God no firing pins). 
  Each year for Veterans Day we marched in the event down town.  All the other ROTC schools would have their cadets taken down town by bus and then they would march.
  Not our school.  We marched from the school down town and then were in the parade.  So you had 500 cadets, a band and the colors marching down town and marching in the Veterans Day parade.  It was pretty neat.
 

      

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Looking for Donations

  I would like to get a better camera for ShowMeCam and for doing videos.  The current webcam does not work well with Windows Vista.
  So I am looking for donations.
  I can't send you a healing cloth or a sign photo of Jesus but here is the offer:

  For a donation of $25.00 or more you can pick two VHS videos.  They are used but in excellent condition.  I will send them to you via Priority Mail (U.S.A. only for the Priority Mail).
  For a donation of $100.00 or more you can pick nine VHS videos. 
  If you make a donation of $100.00 I will put some extra things in the priority box.  I am not sure how much I can get extra in the flat rate box but I will try and toss in some nice extra items for you.

  If you want to make the donation via PayPal you can pay to:  jhoward@hnb1982.com

  I don't have a PayPal button on this blog at this time but you can find one on
Howard's Notebook on the left side at the bottom of the site.

  See next page for the list of movies.   I only have one copy of each tape, of course, so I will have to change the offer after the first taker.
  Keep in mind your not buying VHS tapes your making a donation.  You just happen to get some VHS tapes as my way of saying thanks.

ShowMeCam

 

The Logitech QuickCam that I got from Russell is a QuickCam Pro 4000.  It is not a bad camera until you have used one of the later and newer cameras.  I am running it right now, using WebCamXP software, and with bright sun light it looks good.

Logitech Camera with Vista

  I got an older Logitech QuickCam camera to work with Windows Vista (32 bit).  I can not access the settings on the camera.  I also have a feeling that if I re-boot or if something else happens I may lose the install.  But for right now it is working.
  This is a video that I made with it.  The video sucks.
  I read that the new Logitech Ultra Vision works with Vista. 

Vista 32 bit

  I installed the 32 bit version of Vista.  I installed "Age of Mytholoogy" and it worked.  Remember it did not work on my computer running the 64 bit Vista.
  I installed Yahoo Messenger.  My VoIP worked with it.  Of course, it also worked on the 64 bit version. 
  I attempted to install the Philips SPC 900 NC/00 PC camera software and no luck.  I attempted a few different things but still no luck.  I think I will find a way  to get it working.
  Russell has an old QuickCam camera.  I think I can get it working.  I have not given it a try yet.
 
  One thing odd ...I have an external drive that is 120 GB.  You can hook it to the computer via a USB or Firewire cable.  I have done both in the past.  The O/S softwares always find it.  This 32 bit install did not find it.  I had it hooked up via Firewire.  I just hooked it up via USB and Vista found it right away.

  Well I have many more miles to go on my mission for God.

Windows Vista RC1 32 bit

  I just installed Windows Vista RC1 32 bit.  I killed off the old 64 bit install.  I just did it and the first thing I did was log in here to tell you all about it.
  I have not attempted to see the webcams will work.  Cross your fingers.
  So far the install looks OK.  I have not made any try and installing any hardware or software.  I think that is the real test.