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Photo Gallery

I been working on setting up a new photo gallery.  I know I have a number of them already.
The ImageEvent site has worked out pretty good for me over the years.  I even set up an entire site that is going to be about video.  It still needs a lot of work.  It needs a name.  I am calling it, right now, HNB Photo Portal. 

I just set up Gallery.  I am not sure how long I will keep it on line.  I do not like it.  It just does not seem like it is working well for me.  I just set it up less than an hour ago.  It may not be in operation by the time you read this.

I am just now setting up Coppermind.  I will see if I like it any better.

Ken took his new bike out for a ride today.  He went past a car dealer.  Well not past the dealer.  He asked about the price of a car he is interested in and came home and looked it up on the Internet.  Ken and Russ have now gone back to the car dealer.  I will not be surprised if he comes home with a new car.

Russell decided that he does not want to keep his Casio EX-Z70 camera.  I just paid him $100.00 and will give him $100.00 later for it.  I guess I will be selling my newCanon PowerShot A5300 on eBay.  If anyone is interested in it now let me now before I list it on eBay.

Open Source as Alternative: Osalt.Com

Dick, in Kansas City, pointed out this site to me:  Osalt.Com
"Our mission is to provide easy access to high quality open source alternatives to well-known commercial products. And remember that open source software is also a freeware alternative."

 

It looks like a good site.

South Florida Home Prices Retreat

I took two DVDs to the mail box at 0700 hours 12/29/2006.  If your in Denver CO I just want to smile and say the weather here is great.  I do no own a coat. 

Took this photo during the walk.

Took these photos - Looking East.

It was so hard to walk just to the mail box and back.  I am so tired and so weak. Hell I just walked a few blocks to the mail box and I need to go to bed and rest. 
I should have seen the heart doctor this year.  Maybe I could have started off 2007 feeling better. 
In the past I had chest pain and the doctor would always want to know if it was after physical exertion.  It was not.  Now I get pain and weakness after any, even a very small amount, of physical exertion.
I have no had an ECG or chest x-ray in a long time.
I am sure they are going to want me to do a treadmill test and I think that should kill me for sure.
In a few days it is going to be 2007 and I am going to start off watching my diet.  I know I have got to see a heart doctor.

South Florida home prices retreat

This place were we are living is in an excellent area.  When we moved in it was apartments but it went condo.  The place we live was bought by a guy in NM.  He got it as an investment.  All the other owners when they paid for the condos did major improvements.  They spend a lot of money.  When this place was apartments they were all rented out.  Now many of these condos are vacant and have signs up looking for buyers or renters.  We pay the owner the same we paid as rent ($900.00 a month).  He is paying out more than he is taking in for this place.  There are some repairs and things that need to be done here but he has no interesting in doing them.
I think a long term investment in real estate here is an excellent idea.  But, I think, you need to invest for the long term and have the money to keep with it.
I can not believe all the condos that are going up around this place.  I find it hard to believe that people can afford to pay the prices. 

I have a lottery ticket for tomorrow and the jackpot is $20 million so I don't have to worry about a thing.

Hussein to hang this weekend

CNN says Hussein to hang this weekend.  There is a guy that had total power.  He had everything.  His own slave nation.  He could do anything he wanted and he is going to hang this weekend.

I got the paper work from the Any, Any, Any plan today.  I am not sure of this but it looks like office visits are $5 and $25.  They were $10 and $35 with Humana. 
It looks like my current medications are going to cost me $75.00 a month if I am reading the book correct.  It was $40.00 with Humana.  Doxazosin is in teir 1 and will cost me nothing.  Simvastation is teir 2 and Avodart is teir 3.  I maybe wrong on the medication costs.  I will find out when I get a refill.

The Any, Any, Any Plan

I got my The Any, Any, Any Plan card today.  It looks like doctor's office visits are $5/$25.  The card says that Rx are $0/$25/$60/33%.  I walked over to the doctor's office today and made sure my appointment today was cancelled and I got an appointment for January 8, 2007 at 1300 hours.

Sorry to hear of the death of President Ford.  He was a good and honest man.  I am not sure how he became a Republican.  I suspect his hero was President Harry S. Truman.  Ford did not do the great and wonderful things that Truman did but Ford was honest and truthful like Truman.

Tony Blair is on vacation here in Miami.  God I love it down here.  We have everyone coming here.  Many "VIPs" live here.  I saw on local TV Blair and his family coming out of an eating place down here and the people were cheering him.  He looked a little surprised by it.  The people that were inside eating at the time said Blair was very warm and friendly with them.
I got a new radio today, a Radio Shack Pro-2054, I should try and listen and see if I can pick up any of the security detail.

Connectiviy Issues because of Taiwan 6.7 Earthquake

I was on line looking at pre-paid cell phones.  The problem is that I never use a telephone.  I do not want to pay $40.00 or $50.00 a month for a cell phone.  I do want to have a cell phone.  They often are a big help.  I can get by with 300 minutes a year or less. 
So I want a cheap service.  My problem, and I know this is dumb, I want a real nice phone.  I want a phone that has a good camera built in the phone.  I am a geek I admit it.  But I can not bring myself to get cheap pre-paid cell phone service and spend a arm and a leg for a high tech high priced cell phone.  So I end up with nothing.

One of the hosting companies I used for years was Flexihosting. They were excellent and I can recommend them.  They were super fast on helping with problems and they were excellent when it came to keeping you up to date on problems and issues.

Here is some information they just put out.  My guess is that this problem does not just effect them. 

"A strong earthquake off Taiwan's southern coast has damage undersea cables disrupting Internet communication across the region as several major Trans Atlantic transit and peering links were damaged. We understand that our upstream providers have already diverted data traffic through backup links and Asia Pacific Cable Network engineers have already begun work repairing their undersea cables.

The spokesperson from Asia Pacific Cable Network estimates that the complete restoration of the link to full capacity will take approximately 3 weeks however he assure that connectivity will improve by the day.

More news about this quake can be found at:

1)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aYHaxhLE4rr0&refer=home

2) http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061227.wquake26/BNStory/International/home

Update:  12/28/2006 from CNN

The Day After Christmas

I walked up to the mail box and sent back two DVDs to Blockbuster.

I saw these birds in the parking lot.  In Orlando there were a lot of these and other colors and sizes.  They are here but just not as many.

Russell is working.  Ken is off until after the 1st of the year and then he will start his new job.  He will be on the job here for a few months and then they send him to Washington DC area for six weeks of additional training.

Are any of you going to make New Year's resolutions?  What are they going to be?  I love to make them.  I

30 minutes - vistors

I took a look at a 30 minute time frame for ShowMeBlog.  The question being how did people find the site? 
Four people did a search for "Little People, Big World" and found this site.  When you do that search we are number one of the list of sites.
One person did a search for "had to find a bathroom" and got directed to this site.
A 14 year old boy did a search using "I am 14 + My penis is 2 inches + is that normal?"
One foolish person did a search using "how to make a living playing Keno?"
Two people did a search looking for the bare "cunt" of Briteny Spears.
One person came to ShowMeBlog because of one of my videos on YouTube.

That was 30 minutes of ShowMeBlog for 12/26/2006.  Just over 800 visitors have come to the site today. 

Christmas Gift

A few weeks ago I was watching TV and they have a show were they show hi-tech stuff.  Not sure if your like me but everything I see on the show I want.  They showed a small Coke machine that will keep about 10 cans of Coke cold.  It will run off of house current or you can plug it into 12 volts and run it.  So you can take it in the car and power it.  I was thinking what a neat toy.  It is almost like they were making it just for Jim Howard.

I did not mention it to anyone and forgot all about it.
Guess what I got for Christmas?

It looks great.  I got it right next to my bed.  I know I know..that is not diet Coke in the machine. 
It is very quiet.  There is a fan that is not loud.  I have not taken a can out it yet.  I wanted to give it time to get them nice and cold.  I suspect that it chills cans but I don't see it getting them real cold. I also find it hard to believe that out at a beach in the heat and sun that it would even chill the cans.
I wish Ken had not spent the money.  I would like to see him return it and get himself a battery for his lap top or something.  But how do you ask someone to take back and return a gift?

Russell has to be at work at 0700 hours.  Ken has to take a new medical exam and drug screen for the FAA.  The old ones that Ken took have expired.  The FAA has made a job offer to Ken and I am not sure what Ken is going to do about it.
Ken has an excellent job now.  He just spent 3 months in training and the company treated him very well.  My kids and my grandson are at an age where they have to decide on choices, that are imporant, those choices are going to have a major effect on their life.
My decisions are what health insurance do I want to sign up for and were do I want to be buried in a few years.  (Truth is I don't even have to decided on where to get buried.  I have told my kids to have cremation done on my body or donate my body for medical research.)

Rocky Balboa

Ken and Russell went to see "Rocky Balboa" and Ken offered to pay my way if I wanted to go but I was not interested in seeing that movie.
Ken has been checking, online, for houses to rent in this area.  He also has been checking on the price of new cars.  He does not plan to get a new car right away..but he will be getting one soon.

I have a appointment with the doctor for the 27th.  I cam going to call tomorrow and cancel again.  I have not seen the heart doctor that he wanted me to see and I have not got the lab work done.  I suspect that they will not be open tomorrow and they will take an extra day off and that means I will have to call on the 27th and cancel.  I hate that.


Russell took this photo of me with my camera.  We were testing his camera vs
my camera.  God I look old and I look bad.