If you read my story about my car, the Blue Chariot, you know I took a trip up north last week. Up north for me is Bergen County, New Jersey. My parents live up there and I went up to visit. Usually when I go there it is a holiday or at least an...
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For the last several months I have been on blood thinners for a condition I have and man, oh man, do I bruise, sometimes. Yesterday I had my blood taken and the phlebotomist had a hard time finding my vein. She rooted around till she eventually got it and the blood we needed, but...
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I have always been a Grateful Dead fan. Since the early 1970s I have been listening and enjoying the music. I still listen to the music today, it has been a comfort and friend over the years. It, like anything else that is of excellent quality has stood the test of time, in my...
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I was a Boy Scout growing up and their motto was be prepared, it still is. I am usually prepared even today – one thing that I used to carry back then that I still carry with me today is a knife. A good pocket knife is the handiest thing you can have on...
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I was driving north yesterday, realizing how much I like my little car. It’s not flashy, it gets me from point A to point B, and it has very few problems (knock on wood). It is a 2003 Nissan Sentra and I bought it used, I’d had a Nissan Altima before this car and...
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For more than half of my life I have had a beard. I had one in college, I had a big beard and it was all brown hair. Now that I am older it has turned grey. My beard makes me look older – since there is no fountain of youth I figured I...
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I just got back from the Laundromat and it is a great place. I hear a lot of folks complain about going there to do their laundry but in my view it has many advantages. Today I walked in and there was the Swedish Bikini team washing their uniforms and towels. OK, OK I...
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What is it all about? Does it matter and who will care? A friend of mine and I are going to get this going and see if we can accomplish helping others through suggestions. We do not have all the answers, nobody does. I used to know everything when I was younger and going...
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Just to let you all know it’s possible, I have upgraded my Compaq Presario SR2020NX from the stock AMD Athlon 3500+ to an AMD Athlon 64 x2 4200+. I followed all the links I found on the internet saying that I should upgrade the bios first (see link below) but I am not sure...
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