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  Jimmy and his wife are buying a condo in CA.  They have signed the papers.  They will pay $1400.00 a month for a one bedroom condo.  The loan is for 30 years.  His wife seems to be leading in this project and Jimmy is following.
  Darlene says she will be OK alone in TX.  She needs help.  Her computer is a mess.  It takes forever for her to do anything with the computer.  She needs a printer but can't get the printer too work.  She can not get the mail from her mail box.  She can get mail to the post office to go to the store with out paying a woman to help her.  Her eBay business is way down.  I am not sure if I should try and link with her computer and do some things remote to get it working for her.  If it were to crash or have some problems there would not be anyone to help her.

  Ken called me two times today to have me check on his Chameleons.  The other day, when he was sick, I had to go over to the pet store and buy six crickets for him. 
  I just had to look at the aquarium tanks at the pet store.  Remember I had a 29 gallon tank in Dallas and when we moved I just gave the entire setup to a young guy.  Now I am thinking, hell wanting, another aquarium.  In fact I would like to have two.  One for salt water and one for fresh water.  The salt water one I would just like a small one that I could keep some simple things in and in fact would not even have to be fish.  The fresh water tank I would like to have it be maybe one of those corner tanks about 36 gallons. 
  I love Discus (Symphysodon aequifasciatus) fish.  Yes I have had them in the past.  Maybe a 30 or 40 gallon tall tank would be good for them.  Truth is I can not afford the hobby.  When you have tropical fish as a hobby your always spending money.
  I have amateur radio as a hobby and with that hobby you can buy a radio and that is about all you have to spend.  Sure some people go nuts and spend a lot of money but you don't have to do that...
  But I do love Discus. 

Porn Commission for December $39.80

  Ken missed work again.  He still will come out with 5 hours of over time this week.  He gets paid each week.  I am not sure I ever had a job that paid me each week. I was always paid each two weeks.
  I got my adult commission yesterday and it was $39.80 for the month.  That is good.  People used to order $29.00 worth of videos most of the time.  Now they seem to be ordering $9.00 worth of videos but more of them are ordering and it works out the same on my commission.  I used $30.00 of the money for food and I got about $7.00 left over.
  Remember I said I was surprised that I had not received a telephone/Internet bill from AT&T.  Well I got one yesterday and it was a turn off notice.  It is for $262.78 and if they do not get the past due amount of $124.47 by the 26th they will turn off service.  This is the first bill I got from them.  I did not receive a bill for last month or a late notice.  I should have logged into the account when I wondering about my bill.  Well I get my SS money on the 26th and I will just have to pay on line and hope they post it to my account right away.  All I have right now is $7.00 to last me until the 26th.  (Today is the 22nd of December.)
  I have not received any information about the new health insurance.  On my medications I am down to 3 for one of them and about 10 for the other three medications.  It looks like I will get them filled just before the 1st of the year.  That will give me about a month to get a new health insurance card.  I hope I did not make a mistake on picking this new health care insurance company.
  I tried calling Jimmy last night on the telephone but there was no answer.  I am worrying about Jimmy.  I fear something bad may happen.
  Jimmy just called me on the telephone.  He sounded OK.  He said he is going to move to Texas in a week.  I feel better now.  I was worrying about him.

Live Free or Die Hard

"Hacker Matt Farrell (Justin Long), not knowing who he is working for, finishes work on a computer program and sends it to Mai Linh (Maggie Q), who advises her boss and lover, Thomas Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant), that they can now proceed with their evil plan. The criminal mastermind begins killing the hackers he hired by exploding their computers by means of a virus he has implanted, and commencing the initial stages of a computer attack on US government networks..."  That is the start of "Live Free or Die Hard" (2007) and it is the best of the Die Hard string of movies.  If you like this sort of movie and I do you got to see it.
  I just got to add this from the IMDB site:

  "Factual errors: The "police radio" in McClane's NYPD car (and a few other official vehicles in the film) was actually a ham radio. It was an ADI model AR-147 FM transceiver. It was tuned to 144.330 MHz which is an amateur radio frequency in the two meter band. Except for extraordinary emergencies, that band is not used for law enforcement communication..."

 "Factual errors: The CB radio frequency is 66.6 but CB radio is in the 27MHz frequency. 66.6 would be in the broadcast TV portion of the spectrum.."
  I am a ham radio operator so I noticed these errors and just had to post the information.
 
  I think you will enjoy the movie.

No Right to Privacy When Your Computer is Repaired

  The following is from Slashdot: 
"ZDNet's Police Blotter bring us the interesting story of a Pennsylvania man who brought his computer into Circuit City to have a DVD burner installed on his computer and wound up being arrested for having child pornography on his hard drive. Circuit City employees discovered the child pornography while perusing Kenneth Sodomsky's hard drive for files to test the burner, then proceeded to call the police, who arrested Sodomsky and confiscated the computer. Sodomsky's lawyer argued in court that the Circuit City techs had no right to go rifling through the hard drive, and the trial court agreed, but prosecutors appealed and the appeals court overturned the lower court's decision, based on the fact that Sodomsky had consented to the installation of the DVD drive."

 

Radio Shack Scanners On Sale

  I been checking the Radio Shack web site for the last few months waiting for their scanners to go on sale again.  Well almost all of them are on sale.  The sale ends December 24th and I do not get my SS money until December 26th.
  It looks like I will have to wait until the after Christmas sale.  Smile
  What I want to do and I am not sure I can even do it with the Internet bandwidth I have now... I want to hook up a radio scanner. 



  Above is the Radio Shack PRO-2055 1000 channel Triple-Trunking Scanner.  The normal price is $199.99 but it on sale now for $149.99 until December 24th.
  What I want to do is run the scanner and feed the audio out on my web site.  So you could listen to air, police, fire, Coast Guard and other transmissions.  I would also have some video to go with it.  I think it would be fun. 
  I have done it a bit in the past.  It is funny I seem to find it harder to send out audio than I do video.
  I have paid for the software and have the cables that will let me program and control the scanner via the computer.  It was for a Radio Shack scanner that I had before but it will work with the PRO-2055.
  I will get the project done sometime.
  I think I will put the audio feed on CQ CQ de NØUWY when I get the scanner.  I may tie it in with my web cam.  It should be a fun project.

Five more days until Christmas - Merry Xmas All

  Ken had to take a vacation today because he was sick.  He has been working a lot of over time and so this will cost him some money.  He spent all day watching his chameleons.  They are doing OK.  They are  eating crickets. 
  Russell got the paper work today from a company that he put in a job application with..They want to do a police back ground check on him.  He knows he needs to dye his hair back to it's normal color.  They are not going to hire someone with yellow hair.  Smile
  Darlene and I are worrying about Jimmy.  We have not had any contact with him.  He has not answered his cell phone.

  I had two chicken breasts today.  I has pizza today.  Then I got two boxes of Cheez-Its today.  I should not be eating them (due to salt).  I feel pretty good right now.  My left foot is starting to swell up. I got to stop eating those Cheez-Its. 
 
  Russell just got home with blue black dye.  He said he will use it if they contact him for a job interview.

  I have not received any phone bill from AT&T or BellSouth.  Not sure which company I am signed up with.  I am glad I did not receive a bill because I have not had the money.  But now if I get the bill I will get my SS money in six days and can pay the phone bill (it is also the Internet bill).  I expect the bill to be big.  The reason I expect it to be big is because they gave me $150.00 worth of re-bates.  I have no idea how to get the re-bates. 

  Russell came home the other day with a D-Link wireless Internet camera.  It was missing one of the two antennas and the mount.  The price however was $8.00 for the camera.  He hooked it on my computer so he could test it.  The video was not very good.  I may mess with it someday.

  I did not get my adult video commission money yet.  I can not count on getting it on the 19th of the month any more.  I will get it.  I think I will get about $40.00 in commissions.  That is a lot of money to me.

  I was just talking to Russell and he is all excited about the job interview.  He wants the new job.  I am sure they will call him for the interview.  I am sure he will do a good job of the interview.  I hope he gets the job.

Ousted Georgia Lawmaker to run for president

Former Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney to run as Green Party candidate

McKinney made headlines for confrontation with Capitol Hill officer

McKinney introduced a bill to impeach President Bush
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- Former Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney, who was ousted from office last year after a headline-grabbing scuffle with a Capitol Hill police officer, has decided to seek the presidency -- as a Green Party candidate.
  I reported about Cynthia McKinney a couple of times in the past.  Fox "news" and my friends in the past would say see McKinney is a Democrat.  I would say she was not a real Democrat but that did not go over with my friends.  Now you can see that she is not a Democrat and never was a real one.  She would run as a KKK member if she could and if she could win a seat.
  I guess the news had to report what she is doing now...but I hope they now stop reporting on her and no matter what she does to get attention I hope they just don't report on her.

Cheap Perverts - smile

  Today I should get my commission money from the adult banners that I have on Howard's Notebook and Denizens of the PornFolio.  When I had those adult banners here I would get a notice that someone had signed up and spent $39.00 for x number of minutes of adult videos.  Now I get notices that someone spent $9.00 for 60 minutes of video. 
  OH do not worry I do not see any personal information when you order.  I just get a message like this:

"MOVIE SALES:
--------------------
QUAN PART NUMBER DESCRIPTION PRICE
1 CNVHM-100010-60 60 Minutes $9
Credits: - $0.00
ORDER TOTAL: $9"
 
  My commission check today is not going to be for very much money. 
   

  I think I ran all the real perverts off of my sites.  I should not say bad things about Republicans.  They were spending a lot of money on adult videos.
  Just kidding I have no idea who orders adult videos.  (It is the born again people.  Smile)
  I do think that often the people who object the most to these things are the real perverts.  I do not have any problem with any of it and I am one of the most moral people around.  (OK OK I don't have any offers to do sinful things.  I guess you have to add that into the mix.  Smile)

Huckabee Subliminal Christmas Message?

 
(CNN) — "Republican Mike Huckabee poked fun at critics who said a bookshelf in his new Christmas-themed ad that appeared to highlight the shape of a cross was meant to send a subliminal message..."
  I sort of liked Mike Huckabee when I first heard of him.  But he has been playing the religion card too much.  I suspect that his people set up this video for that reason.  It could be an accident but I don't think so.
  The more Huckabee speaks the less I like him. 
  “The very word Christmas comes from the contraction of 'Christ Mass' — the worship of Christ – again, change the word if we don't want to talk about it, but that’s what it symbolizes and represents.”
  Fox "news" and the crazy right wing nuts are the ones that created this issue.  Some people say "Merry Christmas" and others say Happy Holidays or something else.  It has never been some plan to spit on Jesus Christ.  It is just a plan by Fox "news" and now people like Mike Huckabee to use the decent, dare I say simple minded, God fearing born again people. 
  I discussed this issue  here on November 18, 2007 in the post "Christmas is a Pagan Holiday."
  I do not understand how the good decent God fearing people can let Fox "news" and now Mike Huckabee fuck them in the ass in public and they just go right along with it.
  This is a created issue to get support for Fox "news", Bill O'Reilly and others.
  I never knew that this was an issue until I heard Bill O'Reilly start to talk about it.  I think he made it into an issue.  Maybe this has always been something that has been a thorn in the side of the right wing born again gang.  I just never knew that it upset them until I heard Bill O'Reilly screaming about it on his show. 
  It is just like the Halloween issue with them.  I was working at a small hospital with a real nice born again nurse.  She had about seven kids and she home educated them...well  you know the whole deal.  She was a real sweet and good woman...Well one Halloween I asked her if she took her kids out for trick-or-treating.  She got sort of upset and started to reel off this little speech, that she must have learned at church, about how Halloween was a pagan holiday.  At first I was thinking she was pulling my leg.  I laughed and then I found out it was for real.  She would not let her kids have anything to do with Halloween. 
  Well she was right...Halloween was a pagan holiday and again the Catholic Church, which she hates by the way, took it over and made it into a Catholic holy day. 
  When I was a kid we all went out trick-or-treating.  Religion had nothing to do with it.  We did not think it was a pagan holiday or a Catholic day or anything...It was just a time to dress up and get lots of candy. 
  I feel like people are breaking up the United States.  Groups are getting their people over in this corner and before long we will be putting up walls and shooting at each other.
  We got to put an end to all this crazy division that is taking place in the United States.

  Merry Christmas to all.

Darlene is happy

  I got a phone call from Darlene.  That is my ex-wife and she lives in Texas.  She was all excited and happy.  She then sent me an email to tell me more about the boxes she just got for Christmas from LaDawna.
  Darlene said;  "...one full of fresh fruit and vegetables...broccolli, carrots, lettuce, tomatoes, small cooking potatos, green beans, avacados, fresh garlic etc.
  She said "...you would not believe it.." and then she said there was a box with pears, two different kinds of apples, oranges, tangalos etc.  She said another box was a tray of cookies and cheese...  She said "you would not believe the stuff..."
  So Darlene is happy. 
  At first Darlene did not know who sent the stuff.  She said it was "organic" and I said it had to come from LaDawan and Aaron.  Smile
  LaDawna, my oldest daughter, and her husband are both vegetarians.  (Hay...all my kids could not turn out well.  Smile.)

  Darlene is my ex-wife.  We got married when she was 18 and I was 26.  We were married for 12 years and then she decided that she was not happy with me and she wanted to find someone she was attracted too and someone that she could love.  So she wanted a divorce.  She had a hard life before we were married and a hard live after she divorced me.
  I do not have any hard feeling about her.  She has some major problems but then she is female and what female does not have major problems.  (Smile)
  Darlene calls me everyday.  It is rare that she calls and is happy.  So this was a good call.  I wish she felt like this all the time.  Hell if she felt like this all the time she might not call me all the time.  (Smile)

  I guess it also shows us all that a kind deed can bring a lot of joy to someone.
  I am not much of a Christmas person.  My father and mother were both big time drinkers and most of the time they made a mess of Christmas.  I always hated the days after Christmas.  The other kids wanted to know what I got and I would have to find a way to change the subject.  I was pretty good at it.
  When I got married Darlene was big time into Christmas.  She loved that time of the year.  So we had a tree and lots of gifts under the tree and she baked cookies and made fudge.  Of course we had four little kids.  When you got kids you got to do the Christmas thing.
  So Dar has that Christmas joy again at least for today.