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$42 Million Winner - but not me

  Someone won $42 million in the lottery but it was not me.  Again I did not get even one of the six numbers right.

  Russell gave me $100.00 to hold me over until I get my money.  I got Bar-B-Q from the mall and tomorrow Ken is going to the food store and I will get some food. 
 

  News:  I think Putin is correct.  Bush's words and deeds has made other nations want nuclear arms....I do not think that Obama is the right man for president right now....I am tried of all the talk about Smith.  People wonder why she would not allow DNA test of the baby.  I hope to God that the father of the baby was not her son.  I hate myself for even thinking it.  But it appears both did drugs and she had a problem with drinking.  Maybe there is some other reason she did not want anyone to know the who the father of the baby was...I think I been up too long and need some sleep.
 
 

Amelie

  I got two DVDs today from Blockbuster.  One was "Amelie" and I had got it from them before and forgot.  It was worth watching again. 
  "Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le" is a French movie.  It had English sub titles of course.

"Amélie is a shy waitress in a Montmartre café. After returning a long-lost childhood treasure to a former occupant of her apartment, and seeing the effect it has on him, she decides to set out on a mission to make others happy and in the meantime pursues a quirky guy who collects discarded photo booth pictures."

Serendipity

  What am I going to play with today?   OK OK get your minds out of the gutter please.  Smile
  I am installing right now:

  "Serendipity is a PHP-powered weblog application which gives the user an easy way to maintain an online diary, weblog or even a complete homepage. While the default package is designed for the casual blogger, Serendipity offers a flexible, expandable and easy-to-use framework with the power for professional applications"

  I am going to have it installed here in a bit and I will check it out.  Right now for "Community" type software I have installed them all.   I like PHPNuke and Joomla! so far the best.  Between PHPNuke and Joomla! I would have to pick Joomla!
  We will see if Serendipity makes my list soon.

Well I don't even have it installed yet and I am starting to see reports of problems with it and seeing reports about having to go in and edit PHP files.  This may not be software that is good for me to even mess with.. we will see.

Update:  02/10/2004 Here is what the new site looks like:  http://www.hnbdo.com/bbs/
I don't have anything on the site yet.  Not sure that I will put anything on it.  I just wanted to see how the software works.  It was an easy install.  It looks good.  I don't see anything special about it yet.

Happy Birthday

 

I want to wish my son Ken Howard a very happy birthday. 

I also want to Wish Milford a happy birthday today.  Milford is a very good friend, in NC, that I have never met in person but we have become good friends thanks to the Internet.

Two ShowMeCam Sites

  You do know I run a webcam 24/7?  I been doing that for years and years.   It was one of the first webcams. 
  The name has changed over the years and the url has changed.  For the past few months the url of ShowMeCam has been:  www.hnbbs.com and I like the look and feel of that site.  I am using Joomla! software for that site and it does not index well on search sites.
  So I have added a new webcam site:  www.showmeblog.com/webcam
  Let me know which one you like best and I will make sure that www.showmecam.us points to THAT site. 

  None of my family is too happy seeing any information about them in my blog. 
  But I just got to comment on things going on with Russell.  He got two or three promotions at work very fast and he never got the pay raise.  For months they been telling him that he will get it and the back pay and he never got it.
  Last week they told him his sales stats did not look good.  So they are going to put him in the printer and printer supply area.  That location/position will not pay the increase he was to get and that he never got. 
  Russell got his income tax refund.  He is going to loan me some money, so I can get eat, until I get my SS check (I get it in 18 days).
  Russell is going to use his income tax refund for college. So he will be signing up for classes at the community college.  He is going to tell work that he can not work at night from now on because he will be in school.  So he will work from about 0600 to 1500 hours and he will go to school at night.
  Ken will be happy that Russell is going to be in school.  Ken knows of a good job that he thinks he can get Russell when Russ gets some school under his belt.
 

Colonial Financian Center

  Well the Colonial Financian Center in Montgomery AL got my letter at 0800 hours today (Friday).  Since this is banking my guess is no one will look at it until Monday.  I wish I could charge them a fee each day that my money is with held from my account.  I got $7.00 in my account right now. 
 
  I do have a Missouri Lotto ticket thanks to Dick in Kansas City and I got a Florida Lotto ticket and the jackpot is $42 million.  With $42 million I could help everyone that I wanted to help.  That is a nice jackpot.

  I took my BP after a nap and after my heart was not pounding so hard and it was 138/65 and that is a good reading.

Everything is up to date in Kansas City

  God I miss Kansasa City (smile):

"Associated Press

February 9 2007, 1:35 PM EST

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-- A 69-year-old woman who was shocked with a stun gun after she honked her car horn at a police cruiser has been convicted of resisting arrest for sparking a quarrel with officers.

A Circuit Court jury refused to send Louise Jones to jail, fining her $650 instead.

Jones' attorney, Basil North, said he might appeal. ``We don't think she should have been convicted of anything,'' he said.

On June 15, 2004, police officers Cory Le Moine and Ryan VanDeusen responded to a domestic disturbance call near the Jones's home. The officers were cruising the street slowly, watching for trouble. Jones was in her car behind the police vehicle when she honked her horn and pulled into her driveway.

Police, spooked by the horn, parked and questioned Jones, leading to a scuffle after they threatened to write her a ticket. The stun gun of one of the officers discharged during the altercation, according to testimony.

The trial was Jones' second in the case.

She and her husband, 78-year-old Fred Jones who tried to break up the scuffle, had been convicted and sentenced to probation by a judge in Municipal Court over the incident. Both appealed, and charges against the husband were dismissed while the wife was granted a retrial in Circuit Court."

BP and Weight

  I been on a sort of diet/fast for the last few days.  I have lost 5 pounds.  I am now at 195 pounds. 
  I just took my blood pressure and it was not good.  It was 177/62 with heart rate of 69.  The doctor wants me to contact him if my BP is over 140.  He says with the medication I am taking that my BP should not get over 140.
  My heart has been pounding today. 
  I took my BP yesteday and it was 140/68 with heart rate of 59.

  I am going to wait and take my BP later.  I may also lay down and see if I can get my heart to stop pounding. 

  I had the news on today and the pissed me off.  I also got a phone call from Ken just before I took my BP and that is the first time I have even had to answer my cell phone so maybe all those factors enter into this all.  Of course my heart has been pounding off and on now for some time.  I was in the doctor's office back many months ago and he noticed it and wanted to know why it was pounding like that...that is when he first said he wanted me to see a heart doctor.

 

Missouri Show Me Powerball

  Dick in Kansas City sent me a ticket for the Missouri Powerball lotto.  It is one ticket but it is good for five weeks.  I did not know you could do that.  That is pretty neat.
  I just did a check and I have not won anything yet.  But this ticket will be good until 02/17/2007.
  The power ball number is 31 and I see it has come up a number of times.  If you have the power ball  number you get $3.00 it appears.  It did not come up this time.  So far I am not a winner.

  I have not heard from Colonial Bank yet.  They may have got my letter today.  If they don't get it today then tomorrow.  I hope they correct the problem for me.  It is going to hard for me to come up with the $55.00 late fee.  I think their bank should pay me that fee (and $4.60 for postage).
  I just checked the tracking number and they have not received my priority letter yet. 

  Russell has today off but he had to go in for a meeting.  He had training the other day on t-mobile phone service from a guy from t-mobile.  Russell found out that if a person works for t-mobile you get $20.00 for each person you sign up.  Russell is thinking about going to work for them part-time and then if it worked out he would just quit his current job and go to work for them.
 
  I got a bill from Atlantic Broadband.  They are "adjusting" their rates.  They are adjusting them up of course.  I pay for TV $48.95 a month and that is going to go up to $51.45 a month.  For high speed Internet I pay $45.95 a month and it will go up $1.00 a month. 
  There are other charges I pay $10.00 a month for two extra IP numbers.  I pay $4.00 a month for the cable modem.  There are a lot of taxes and fees that I pay.