Obama seems quite mixed up. He releases information on how we interrogate prisoners but classifies this exercise of flying Air Force One around the Statue of Liberty. It would seem to me he might have wanted to do it the other way around. Let the people of New York know a couple of planes will be flying low near the city. They found out as soon as it happened anyways. But please don’t tell our enemies how we get information. It just makes it that much easier for them to attack us.
Monday April 27, 2009
Wednesday April 22, 2009
Bees!
We had bees! We actually still have them but they should be gone later tonight.
A few weeks ago we noticed a few bees buzzing around an old wooden box we had out back. I went over and opened it to look inside and didn’t see anything. Then about a week ago Ann and Jenny saw some of them buzzing around near the same box but this time there were a lot. Now we must take an intermission.
While growing up in Tucson and going to Flowing Wells I had a friend named Roger Taylor. He was with me from Kindergarten on up and graduated with me but I hadn’t seen him since then. A few weeks ago I learned of a web site that is getting my class together for a reunion later this year. On that site was a map that shows where everyone is. Roger showed up as being in the San Fernando Valley not far from me. I happened to exchange some messages with Lynette McGee who is still in touch with Roger and Mike Keller, another school mate. They got a message to Roger to contact me so he did and we met for lunch. I found out he is also interested in riding quads so I invited him to Pismo over this last weekend. At that time I found out he was also a beekeeper. Now back to the bee story.
When we got back from Pismo we decided he should come and get the bees so today he did. I learned some interesting things and got some great pics. Here’s one and the rest are in my gallery.
Thursday April 16, 2009
Go Ashton!
It will probably be over by the time you read this but today it’s been kind of interesting. Ashton Kutcher has challenged CNN to see who gets to 1 million Twitter followers first. It’s been on Yahoo and there is even a site that is updating it live. I’m pulling for Ashton.
Saturday April 11, 2009
It’s Alive!!!
Ok, it was alive before but now it’s running OS X 10.3.9. It took a lot of work to get it there but I won’t go into the details now. Maybe in an additional post that I will call Upgrading my iMac or maybe just another page. Here it is as it’s booting up.
Saturday April 4, 2009
$5 Apple
I’ve wanted a Mac for a while but I couldn’t justify spending much on one. I finally looked on Ebay and found an old iMac located out in Oxnard and the bid was at $2.25. I bid $2.50 and put in a max bid of $5.00. I didn’t think there was any chance but a few days later I was told I won. The guy who had it sent me a message asking if I was going to pick it up or did I want him to ship it. I said I would drive out on Saturday and so today Betty and I did.
He said it turned on but he didn’t have a mouse or keyboard so he didn’t know if it worked. When I got it home I plugged in a mouse and turned it on. It works like a champ. I will need to get a keyboard but that should be around $5 too. Not really sure what I’ll do with it but I’ve been wanting to relearn the Mac OS so this is perfect.
