Where I have been?

My last blog is dated August 23rd 2014. I have just been super busy with school and life and I was debating seriously to let this blog go. Why was I thinking this, you may be wondering? I had run out of stuff to write about first, and then I got so busy with school. I had decided to put this blog on hiatus for awhile and then I simply was going to let it go. As you can see I am writing a post. I re-posted my first blog on social media and then I saw the last post I had written.

So now I am writing this. The world has changed alot since my last post everything from Ebola, to ISIS, to the announcement of Windows 10, the Ferguson, Missouri incident, and the list goes on.  All of these are worth me writing about and throwing my opinion on it, but I have not had the time.

So what have I been doing? Well school takes up most of my time. When I am not working on school work, I am helping out by working on other student's computers. I have been trying to find a second job at the college I attend.

My health as been the big issue here lately. I recently found out that my bad cholesterol is very high and I have been put on a diet and on crestor. I have been walking more. I have been parking further away from the building where my classes are held.

So this makes you ponder life more and it made me do a lifestyle change and it has been tough.

Thank you all for still supporting this blog since I have been away.

When Your Job Becomes More Like a Soap Opera Than Your Job

Many of us has had or still working at a job that is more dramatic than a soap opera and does not feel like your job. It happens when your boss hires their friends or associates and your boss is just hiring them as a favor or just to fill in a gap but they do not have the skills to do the job. But instead of coming to work to work they simply bring their drama to work and pull others into it. I have been in this situation where my boss hires friends or associates and the job turns into their own little party place or a place to settle what they have going on in their personal lives. It can lead to a human resource nightmare and it also leads to high turnover rates due to your serious workers feeling like they are being treated like crap and the friends who do nothing are untouchable. And you cannot report your boss to his superiors because of simple intimidation and he has already told lies to all of his superiors about how awesome he/she is and the rest of his or her team is simply untrustworthy crap.

I am still dealing with this at my job. Everytime I think it leaves when a store manager leaves it always comes back with the new. It gets old when the "deadwood" gets their way and the ones who need the job and work hard at what they do leave.

It is situations like this that has made me hate going to work and not trusting the people I work with. I work with some sticky fingered people and they are hard to catch. I stay stressed out when I am at work and this is why I do not work very many hours. It is also the main reason I am back in school and trying to find another job. I just cannot and simply will not deal with it anymore.

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Laptop Project Update

 How many of you remember the picture above from the Compaq Presario I was working on recently?

I finished it and returned it to its owner to get the picture below. My $40 pay to repair it.

The laptop had a minor fan error. It had a good size piece of debris in it. And since it was my first working project and since it was my best friend's fiancee computer. I was not going to charge them the suggested price of about $110. Since laptops are so much harder to do and the parts are smaller and more expensive to get. Well my friend before paying me had the nerve to try and get out of paying me the full $40 by challenging me to a game of classic Mortal Kombat. The deal was going to be if he won he paid me $20 and my reply was if I won he paid me $60. All I wanted was my $40 and be on my way but nope was not going to be that easy. So after a few minutes and his fiancee scared that I would take the laptop and walk out she intervened and I got my $40. If the argument had continued I was going to take the laptop with me and straight to a pawn shop. I had done a factory reset anyway so all of her stuff was off of it.

I am proud of making my first $40 doing computer repair. I wish I could of framed those $20's but since I am having to commute for school they both got used for gas. So here is to the memory of those 20's.

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Blue Screen of Death

All of us has seen a version of the blue screen of death, like the one in the picture attached. But very few know what it truly means when you see this. Alot of people freak out when this screen pops up.

So what does it mean? Some say it is the death of your computer plan and simple. But if you ask a computer technician what it means it is all based on the error codes you see towards the bottom of the screen if you see any at all. From what people have said to me about it, what it means is that your hard drive has been so badly corrupted with viruses that it shuts the computer down. Others say your hard drive has simply quit functioning. But all agree that you have to look up the error codes to truly find out why you have the blue screen of death. In the case of the computer in the photo the hard drive just died. The computer was OLD anyway.

So how many of you have seen this screen before?

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A Wrestling Fan No More

I recently used a blog about me being a 30 year wrestling fan as my throwback Thursday blog post. I enjoyed wrestling during that time period. But in the past few months I decided to quit watching it and keeping up with it. I got tired of it. The major companies were basically rehashing old ideas from the past or the recent past. The story lines as of late had gotten drab and boring to me. So I unsubscribed to all of the YouTube channels and I do not go to the websites anymore. I remember when wrestling was great and everything fresh. Now it is just tired and boring. Since WWE killed all of the competition they only mainly compete with themselves. TNA will eventually be like WCW and shut down. Ring of Honor has some potential but it is hard to keep up with them without having to pay just to see their TV shows online. None of the major channels around my area do not show ROH.

So I will always remember the good old days of wrestling. I am going to let the younger fans who probably have not seen past footage of wrestling enjoy it.

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Debating "God Damn it" with a Christian

I was at work one night, and as always a customer got on my nerves. I was in the back fussing and said "God damn it". So this started a debate with one of my Christian coworkers who took offense to me saying it. The coworker knew I was an Atheist.

So I got the usual reply about how I should not say it and using the Lord's name in vain, and the usual stuff I hear on a regular basis. Then out of nowhere they began to debate my "Atheism" by claiming since I am using the Lord's name in vain then I still do in away believe in God and religion. Then like most typical Chirstians they wanted to debate me why I no longer believe in God and religion. And of course also would not let me get a word in edgewise. So after what seemed an eternity of the mindless debating or total lack there of. My reply was simple. First off the use of God damn it has nothing to do with using his name in vain, and secondly it is used in anger due to certain situations, especially if you live in the South. I have been using God damn it forever even when I was a Christian. And finally I told them unlike them I do not have to force my beliefs on others and not listen to what others are telling them. I do not force my views on the world down others throats. You believe in what you want to believe, even though it blinds people to the truth that no one wants to see, and I believe what I want to believe.

I am a strong believer in logic and reason.

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Computer Blog: Laptop Project

A friend of mine called me over the weekend and wanted to know if I could come and check out two laptops he had. One is a Dell and the other is a Compaq Presario. His fiancee was more concerned about the Compaq because it was the only one out of the two that worked. Her complaint about it was that when you turn it on it was coming up with a fan error. So I took both the laptops and began looking at both of them.

The Dell is a total lost cause because I think the motherboard is shot or the hard drive is one. So I sat that one to the side to work on later. I may try to put in another laptop hard drive and go from there with the Dell.

The picture above is the Compaq Presario broken down except for the monitor. This took some time since this is my first project/repair so I was trying to be extremely careful. Plus I was nervous during the breakdown because compared to the "practice laptops" in class this one actually works. I now understand why computer technicians charge so much to work on a laptop. They are more compact compared to a desktop. There are alot of screws and as you move through the laptop they get smaller. I made it to the motherboard and got to the fan. I took it apart and cleaned it thoroughly. So in the next day or so I hope to have it back together and I hope it will turn back on.

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Robin Williams: R.I.P.

Robin Williams was a very funny comedian/actor. His passing was a tragic one. He lost his battle with depression and committed suicide via hanging.

I remember growing up watching Mork and Mindy, a sitcom that starred Williams as the alien Mork. It was a funny show and if you have not seen it go find it on Netflix or whatever you can stream it on. He had made alot of funny and some serious movies during his career. I know that movies like Ms. Doubt-fire, What Dreams May Come, Aladdin, and Hook are all showing up on people's favorite list of William's movies. Some never mention Good Morning Vietnam, Cadillac Man,  Good Will Hunting, Dead Poets Society, Jumanji, and the list goes on.

But what angers me about all of this is when news outlets and Christian groups add their commentary. I found out recently that an anchor on Fox news called Williams a coward for taking his own life. Christian groups are starting the whole he will burn in hell for all eternity because he took his own life. It is insulting to me what people say about other people when something tragic happens.

He took his own life due to depression/mental illness. People are claiming that they never knew he was depressed or troubled. Some people are good at hiding it. He was a celebrity, but he is also a person like all of us too.

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Computer Blog: An Update

How many of you remember this picture from a few months ago? Here is the update.

This is a HP Pavilion A305W desktop computer that I purchased for only $5 because it was going to be scrapped and I needed a computer to practice with at home. Yes it was dusty and dirty and I honestly did not think I was going to get it to work ever again.

I took it to the school I attend this was a couple of months ago. During the time this blog was on hiatus, this is why there are no pictures of the parts and what not. I plugged it in and it powered up and then it turned itself off. First diagnosis of this was either the motherboard or the power supply to the computer. So the power supply was removed and another one was put it. It powered up and it was wanting to stay on but it was turning itself off. So after some more trouble shooting and taking the computer completely apart. It was determined that the little plastic button on the front faceplate of the computer was the issue now. So a new spring was put into the button. Once again it was turned on and finally it was staying on. IT WAS ALIVE!!!

So after going through the software and discovering that the former owner was going to throw out a decent computer. Yes it runs Windows XP and it obviously has not had the security updates downloaded. The other issue that was discovered with this was the Cd drive was broken. It would not open at all. It was discovered after it was taken out of the computer case that a CD was broken in the drive. A piece of CD fell out of it while it was being taken out of the case. So it now has a new power supply and a new cd rom drive. It is put back together and running fine. I also did a factory reset to clear everything off of it.

So now I begin my portfolio.

Out of Exile

So how do I start this blog post since I have been away from blogging for nearly two months. To be honest I almost decided to quit blogging all together and just leave my blog on a high note, but after alot of thought just falling off the face of the blogging planet would not be fair to you, my readers. I lost interest in blogging, mainly due to I could not think of things to write about, and the second reason is life got in the way. I was too busy. I could not think of anything interesting to write about. I had lost my focus for doing this little blog. And to my surprise there were some people who found some of the older blogs interesting and reading them.
So my readers if I still have readers left. If you are wondering where I have been during my blog's hiatus. I have been dealing with all the usual things that I have mentioned in my past blogs. I have been trying to keep my composure and sanity in my little world. School keeps me focused and that is part of the reason why this blog faded away. I did not decide to go on hiatus, it just happened. My life away from school and blogging also got in the way. There were days that I simply did not feel like doing anything. I hope that some of you understand how I felt.

Now the question you are all asking is am I going to continue with this blog or is this post possibly my last? When I first logged on to this account I had thoughts of just saying good bye and either shut down this account in a few months or I would of just let goople sweep it away. I am amazed that google has not swept this blog away. But after logging on to this account and seeing that there was still a pulse. I have decided that I am going to continue this blog, but I will not be posting near as much as I used to. Not for awhile anyway until I get my groove back. So please be patient with me, and plus I am still in school so that is the main focus. I am also not wanting to burn myself out again feeling like I have to blog every single day. That is why I ran out of things to write about.

I am back, not at full writing capacity however.

What NOT To Teach to the Younger Generation

An older woman and her grand kids came into where I work a few Friday nights ago. They sat down and ordered a Large Meat Lover Pizza with double ham, beef and pork with a small order of wings. As their night went on the server came up to me and said a table asked to speak to the manager (which on this night it was me). So I went up to the table in question and the old woman was telling me how she was not going to pay for her pizza because it was too salty and she has high blood pressure and she was having a headache due to all of the salt content. Just to make a note for you my readers a meat lover pizza before you add to it has pepperoni, ham, beef, pork sausage, Italian sausage, and bacon. Plus she added more beef, more pork, and more ham and had 8 buffalo mild traditional wings. So the lady came to the counter to pay and was still complaining about how salty the pizza was and how she has high blood pressure and that she wanted the complaint number to complain about how salty we make our pizzas. So when I told her since she was complaining I discounted her ticket and all of a sudden she was fine and happy.  But I kindly reminded her that she gave herself her own headache when she ordered a meat lover with double meat, but after that little discount, she was not paying me any attention.

So the moral of this story is simply this: when you ask yourself why your kids or grand-kids are acting a fool in a restaurant because they were taught that they could get away with fake complaining because they saw others do it. Do not be surprised when the person behind the counter is judging you by the way you act.

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Anarchist in GA

Anarchism is a political philosophy that advocates stateless societies often defined as self-governed voluntary institutions.

This past Friday in Forsythe, GA, an anarchist tried to take over the courthouse. He pulled his van up to the steps of the courthouse and using stop sticks to prevent cars coming up from behind. He was armed with a rifle and a few smoke bombs and other various forms of ammunition and bombs. He shot at a police officer who returned fire and killed the anarchist before he could cause any more destruction.

This was reported by the major news outlets for a total of 5 minutes or less. If he was an Islamist or something else they would of been talking about it for a week.

Another perfect example is the anarchist couple who went on a killing spree in Las Vegas and then killed themselves. This also did not get much coverage.

Have we become so scared of the world outside of our own country not to care about what is going on in our own country?

Will we get this way eventually if there are more school shootings like the one that happened in Oregon this week?

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Possible Death of Blu-Ray

It was announced recently that sales and rentals of blue ray movies was down compared to when they first came out. People are predicting the end of Blue ray discs as a video medium. So why is this recent decline in sales a possible death sentence for blue ray.

Most people, and I, agree that the rise of the digital movie and movies on demand has hurt blue ray. Netflix and Hulu are perfect examples for the end of blue ray. The expense to buy movies on blue ray due to all of the extra features. There are fewer and fewer places to go and rent a physical movie on a disc. Video on demand is the reason why video stores are slowly dying out.

People are predicting that DVD, CD, and blu ray will all be relics due to the all digital age. Look at some newer models of cars that now have a port in their radios for a USB flash drive.

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Tech Blog: USB Flash Drives

The picture above is an example of what a USB flash drive looks like with out the cover on it. The picture is courtesy of Wikipedia. These hold more information on them compared to the 3.5 floppy disk. You can buy a flash drive in 2, 4, 8, 16, or 32 gigabyte. You can now use them in your car if you have a vehicle with a USB port in the radio. They are now making them smaller. 
Photo courtesy of amazon.com. So why are they being made smaller and make them easier to loose. With the increase use of laptops that has alot to do with it.

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Global Warming is NOT God's Wraith

In a recent video Matt Hague, son of John Hague, said that we the human race should not try to clean up the planet because all of the events that are going on are signs of God's return and we just need to quit trying to fix the planet and just let God come back. I heard of this video and was like really someone said that. He continued by saying that global warming does not exist, and scientists are just trying to make people secular and they do not know what they are talking about. Most Christians do not believe in global warming is a real thing and just want to claim its god's wraith and all the sinners need to come back to God. Despite all the evidence that has been presented and agreed upon. Several politicians have tried debunking global warming, by paying off scientists so they say "oh no there is no global warming".

Global warming is a real thing. Look at all the storms that have happened recently. The north and south poles are melting faster. A large section just recently fell into the ocean. We, the humans, on this planet are the reason all of these things are happening. Human greed is the major reason. We need to recycle more and use less. Look at how fast the honey bee is disappearing due to our pesticides.More and more wildlife are showing up in cities more and more because we have taken over their habitat. A bear was recently seen in a hammock in someone's back yard in Florida.

Luckily, whether its true or not, the US government is promising to cut back on emissions, and China is wanting to do the same thing. We will see how that goes.

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Computer Blog #2: Planning the Project

We continue our journey through this HP Pavilion a305w tower. After you open the cover and look inside you need to decide whether or not you are going to take pictures or draw everything in the tower so you can remember where everything connects when you go to put it back together. I will be doing a drawing for this project. With this being an older, unused tower, I recently took the tower to use an air compressor to blow all of the dust and bugs out of it. I know that you are supposed to use small cans of compressed air, but this system was so dusty I had to use something a little stronger to get the dust and all out of it.

Once you get your plan together you need either static gloves or a static bracelet, both of these are needed to protect your equipment from static electricity.  You need the right tools to get the screws out of it. In most systems you have two or more screws holding the power supply in place. In the picture above it is in the upper left hand corner with the yellow sticker on the side of it. For some systems you need a standard Philips and flat head screwdriver The other part you need a Philips head screwdriver, based on your system, is to get the motherboard out and to pull the optic drive, 3.5 floppy, and the hard drive.

Next computer blog the power supply.

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X-Men Days of Future Past (the movie) Review

This week's throwback Thursday post was the one where I talked about the comic book version of the story line Days of Future Past. I recently went to see the movie.

It was an awesome movie. Even though they did make some changes to story line compared to the comic book it was still a great film from start to finish. I recommend it to anyone who needs a good action movie. I agree with people who say that this film was better than the 3rd movie. Yes this movie was better than X-men the first class, but I liked that movie too.

There is another X-men movie coming out and if you hang around after the credits for the teaser. But for those of you who are curious the next movie is rumored with the teaser to involve Apocalypse. Now with this character a new movie could go either way either in the direction of the mutant massacre, where apocalypse creates the four horseman of apocalypse or they could go with the Age of Apocalypse, where like days of future past is a timeline altering story line involving Xavier's son going back into time and accidentally kills Xavier and this leads to Magento creating the X-men.

We will just have to wait and see.

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State of My Blog (May, 2014)

To my fellow readers,

Thank you all for still supporting this blog. I know that I did not write much in May. But like most bloggers I have been busy. School started for me and that has put me a little behind in the blogging department. My current job is still my job. And my insomnia is still around. Plus I have a physical class that is at 8 am everyday, and I work all weekend and do my school work. I am grateful to all of you that continue to follow this blog. It is you the readers that keep me doing this little project. Plus for all of you my newer readers I have been trying to post a "throwback Thursday post", which the past few I have done I think actually helps. I could be wrong but since I do not do Throwback Thursday pictures, I use my older blog postings on Thursdays.

I plan to restart the computer blogs. Which is just my journey to taking a computer apart and putting it back together. I have a practice tower I bought that I am going to use to get better at learning the inside of a computer. I had been pondering the idea of posting stuff I have been learning about Microsoft Office 2010, but that is still an idea.

So moving on....

I am still going to be doing this blog. I am still very much alive and breathing.

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Smash and Grab Robberies

In a different community close to mine a rash of what they call smash and grab robberies has gotten worse. It started with convenience stores and it has just gotten worse. They use a cinder block or something heavy to smash their way into a store through a window and go in quickly and go out quickly. They have been well covered and using socks as gloves. Well now they are using sledgehammers and breaking into dollar stores through the back wall of a business. How they are getting away with that without anyone hearing the noise is beyond me. They are causing alot of damage and the results usually mean higher prices for us the consumer.

So why are people doing this? Some want to blame the lack of jobs, lack of proper education and a few other things. In my opinion it is gang related. They are using this as an initiation, to get into the gang.

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Blind Faith

This blog involves my family who is after today I have decided is very fundamentalist creationist Christian. My family farms and was complaining that the weather had put them behind and my response was it was due to the destabilization in the weather due to Global Warming. To my surprise the response was Global warming does not exist so that must mean you are a democrat. My reply was I have no political ties, I am simply a realist. I asked if they had attended science classes, where I learned about global warming, evolution, etc. The reply from my family was that yes they did sit through science classes. So we were sitting around and the conversation started again about me believing in global warming. So my parents think they have failed in the way I was raised and that science is a "soothsayer". I wanted to jump up get on their computer and Google all of this knowledge that my family is blinding ignoring.

I used realist as a more protective way of saying atheist, but now that I know where in the Christian viewpoint they are at, I think its safer that I remain a closet atheist and just use realist for my own protection. I believe in science. I have sat through enough classes in school to have an understanding of what is going on in the world. I also sat through Biology and Anatomy classes so Evolution has been discussed in detail. Plus there are enough fossils in the world to prove how old the planet truly is.

It took an explorer crazy enough to prove that the world was not flat. We have enough evidence to prove global warming, evolution, and the age of our planet. "God's wraith" does not apply to the weather and what not. There are enough science/religious debates on the Internet. Human beings are the reason for global warming, human greed is the reason that politicians in power do not see what is truly going on, and a 2,000 year old book that was written by human beings should not be used to defend their opinions and make laws based on that.

Thank you Pat Robertson, John Hague, TBN and all the other supposed Christian rights for making my life more difficult. It hurt my feelings when family starts this we failed you in the way we raised you. They do not understand that even if I was raised fully in a church do they not think that I could still walk away from it.

Secularism is on the rise in this country. There are moments that I wish I could move to Sweden but it is just too cold.

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China Bans Windows 8

It was announced last week that the Chinese government was banning Windows 8 from their computers. Now here is what is funny about that, they are doing it due to the recent end of service for Windows XP. The Chinese do not want to upgrade from some reason from what I had read it was not entirely clear why they made this decision. I guess they did not want to spend money on either buying new computers or upgrading their old ones.

One theory is with them refusing to upgrade and with the recent announcement of several members of their military being indicted for hacking into certain US industry computer systems. That if they remain with XP it makes it easier for them to hack into other systems.

But we will not know for sure why.

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Memorial Day Vandalism

It was reported that in a local community some vandals once again hit the memorials for some of the wars. Why would someone do this, is my question? The commentator that was reporting this was saying how unamerican it was to vandalize a war memorial. The war memorials were spray painted with black spray paint. Maybe it was someone who was against war and past wars. Some claim it was just a bored teenager who wanted some attention. I figure it was a gang initiation. Maybe they will catch whomever did it.

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Computer Blog #1

This is a picture of an HP Pavilion a305w tower that I am using as practice to take apart and put back together a computer tower. I am learning this at school this semester and I bought this tower to expand what I am learning. I am going to make this a series of blogs about me doing this tower.

The view you are seeing is what it looks like when you first open the case. As you can see from the above picture you can see everything that runs this tower, hardware wise. You can see the power supply in the upper left hand corner. Below that is the motherboard and the cooling fan. To the right of the motherboard, is the hard drive. Above the hard drive is the 3.5 floppy drive, and above the floppy drive is the cd or optic drive.

When I get a free moment I am going to blog about every part of this tower when I pull it out of its case.

So why I am going to do this series? Well alot of people do not have a clue what is inside of a computer tower. So this series will be informative for you my readers and it will be practice for me.

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13 Days....

To my readers,

I am sorry that it might of seem like I feel off the face of the planet. I took a break from blogging, and I thought it was just a week turns out I have not written in 13 days. Time flies and I got busy with work and getting ready to go back to school. So I hope that everyone has not forgotten me.

So I am back....

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TBN's "Last Will" Commercial

TBN or Trinity Broadcast Network has what I thought was going to be a decent commercial on their channel recently. My parents watch those channels all of the time. The commercial starts off by saying why you need a Last Will so when you die your estate can stay in your family and not be taken over by the government. I was like ok a nonreligious related commercial on TBN finally, but I was so wrong. Towards the end of the commercial the narrator says, when you do write your will make sure you donate part of your estate to TBN. I was so disgusted when that was said and they played that commercial at least 5 more times. It like most of the programming on those networks it simply disgusted me and it insulted me. I know that Christians donate money, homes, cars, and various other items to their church or house of worship when they die or there families do after someone dies. That to me is ok. After members of my family passed we donated stuff to real charities that can use the stuff like, Goodwill.

That commercial was just in really poor taste. I mean that network bleeds its members dry when they are alive but to promote donating to us when you die that is just wrong. I mean their are more important organizations that you can give to when you are alive and after you are dead. These organizations actually help people, like the American Cancer Society.

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College Mergers: My Thoughts

In recent years colleges close to where I live are merging. Most are doing it to cut back costs and are supposed to bring more to the new areas where the schools are. The college I attend now is a prefect example of a technical college merger. They have been cutting costs, laying off employees, killing programs at the lower population campus, putting some better programs on the main campus (which is an hour away from where I live), and it just caused alot of confusion. My former program suffered from this confusion.  My college has 4 campuses. The attendance at the campus I go to has dropped severely, mostly in part due to students who want the better programs are going to another campus or their entire program of study is online. Online classes are the major reason no one wants to attend a real class. Some classes are good online, but not everyone can do an online class without detailed instruction. Plus the teachers do not do their part to prevent cheating in their current class or any of their future classes. I had one online class where the teacher prevented anyone from cheating. Even though the tests were timed anyone has those few extra seconds to google a question and find the answer.

Another pair of technical colleges are supposed to merge this summer and two (two) year colleges merged last year. I hope things go better for them.

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Blog #135

Greetings to my readers,

135 blogs later and this blog is still going strong. Thanks to all of you this blog is now at over 2400 page views. I hope that this continues. This blog post would of been up sooner, but I have debated the topic of this blog for the past few days, but thanks to this past weekend I decided what I was going to write about.

I have been in the hospitality business for many years and some of my past blogs talked about this topic. But after this past weekend where I work, I decided to write another topic on the subject. This past weekend some customers were just simply ridiculous. Their inconsideration got me to my blowing point and yes I did blow up, but not at the customer. I blew up in the back in the cooler and scared others I work with because they have never seen me this pissed off. To me the "customers" in my business have changed over the years and they have gotten worse and they all live in a "I want it now and fast" mentality. Where I used to work that was possible, but where I am currently working this does not apply. Since I have been working at my current job less the customer base seems to be getting worse and I have been in this business long enough and have seen the changes over the years. But I have no real outlet for my emotions and this has gotten worse here lately.And yes I have tried to ignore these people when they start. But I am back to that point and my body and spirit can not do this like I used to. This is why I have been in college to try and fix my life.

So my weekend began with a few future orders all at the same time and it was to the point where I had to call one of the customers back and tell them that their order would not be ready until 5:45 or closer to six due to the 3 other future orders that were due at the same time. I called the customer and apologized that his order would not be ready on time due to other big orders. His reply was, "THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE AND I NEED TO FIX THE ISSUE AND THAT HIS ORDER BETTER BE READY ON TIME..." I once again calmly explained to him that it was going to be later than 5:30 but let me see what I can do. Luckily his order was started and I went back to tell him that it was going to be about 5:40, his reply, "MY ORDER SHOULD OF COME FIRST, AND WHOEVER IS RUNNING THE PLACE SHOULD BE DOING BETTER....I SHOULD BE TREATED BETTER..." I apologized again and said his order would be ready in about 10 minutes, his reply "CLICK!". I went to the back and blew my top in the cooler. My day did not get better after that and I was hoping that the next two days would be better. Boy was I wrong.

The next day I was not at work 5 minutes before it started again, a customer arrived complaining that we change the rules on how we sell our product. She like so many of my constant complainers got a credit and out the door she went. A customer called later on and informed that I better have his order ready in 15 minutes not 20. I apologized and explained to him what was up and his reply was I want my order in 15 minutes and click. For the second day straight in the back blowing my top. The rest of the second day was filled with my usual constant complainers who know they will get free stuff no matter what. This fact is a major reason why I hate my job with a passion.

So day three comes and I am totally drained and in no mood for people's inconsideration. I actually thought it was going to be a good day, but once again I was wrong. A guy came in fussed about his order not looking right and I apologized for it and told him he would not even have to pay for it, if he just took his order no questions asked. He went to get his wife after that statement and she fussed about it too. He took it still fussing about it even though the guy DID NOT HAVE TO PAY FOR IT.

Statistically in the hospitality business every 1 out of 10 customers will not return if they have a bad experience. In my case this rule does not apply and they keep coming back and doing the same nasty habits over and over. My job is so scared of a recorded complaint that they want us to do anything possible to please this people and they are taking advantage of this, but you can not explain this to the higher ups. And I laugh at customers if they tell me that they are not ever coming back, and they start this for real we are not coming back crap but what happens the very next week, THEY COME BACK. Acting the same way they did before. This is the first time in awhile I have come so close as to telling a customer off and do it with a smile.

See why I feel like I am going to end up in an early grave.....

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Europe Bans American Beef and Apples

It was recently announced that the European nations were going to start banning American meat and apples due to what they are calling "increased chances of cancer in Europeans". In other words our products are supposed causing cancer in Europeans. I can see the beef from all of the antibiotics that are used on cattle and other livestock in this country. But apples I mean come on just because they do not want to take a couple of minutes to wash off an apple before they eat it. I mean getting pesticides off an apple is easier than getting the antibiotics out of the livestock.

China has been sending stuff that is bad for everyone. As this post is being written we are being told not to buy certain kinds of toothpaste that is made in China due to something in it.

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Fundraiser Debacle

A friend of mine works for a restaurant that claims it wants to help the community anyway it can through fundraisers and other means. As long as it means more business for the restaurant in question. So anyway my friend was telling me that this past Friday they were doing a fundraiser for one of the local school systems. I was like good about time someone tries to give back to the community. Well my friend told me recently that because they had raised more money for the school compared to that day's sales, the restaurant company is calling fowl. I was like WTF? The total according to my friend was like over $1,000 but because they missed sales the company is saying there is no way that much money can be raised. So according to my friend, the store manager has to go through all of the tickets that had anything to do with the fundraiser and do a total recount and turn that in. So my fellow readers that means the school is about to be screwed out of some money due to corporate greed. I told my friend that the restaurant in question should not even do fundraisers if that means they are going to screw them out of their money. Think about what the money could of done for the school system. This could of happened anywhere. If companies are so much more worried about their bottom line then why do things like a fundraiser to begin with. I understand that it is supposed to bring in new business but after all the hard work at the end of the day why screw an elementary school out of what could of helped some kids or saved some teachers their own money.

Good old corporate (and greedy) America.

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Google Plus Dead?

It was announced this week that Google Plus may be dead or dying and it might be headed out of our lives. I agree with alot of people that are saying good riddance. Yes I agree that Google made alot of mistakes with it. The biggest one of them all was forcing it down our throats and making us sign up for something we did not want or need. Alot of my friends and I gave it the old gung ho but none of us liked it. So how many dummy accounts were created or like I did just created due to being forced. Mine was created due to being forced when they did all of the changes to YouTube and the comment system. I never wanted to really comment on any videos I just watched them for the entertainment value.

So why did not Google learn from other failed sites like MySpace. I was on that site too back in the early days and I liked it the way it was, but they went to changing it and forcing changes on their members and now it is a ghost town that is trying to make a comeback, but I personally from what I have seen of its new format it still sucks. Now if Google had not forced it on us and actually gave us a chance to explore it, then they might of had something.

I wish companies would learn if it is not broke do not try to fix. Everything I used to enjoy in the early days of the Internet are gone. And everything I currently enjoy keeps getting changed over and over. I, like many of you, get tired of it.

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Selfies

A quick side note before I begin this blog selfie and twerking are not, to me, real words and how they became the words of 2013, I will never understand.

A selfie is a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website.

So by now you, the reader, are probably wondering why I am talking about selfies. I do not even like having my picture taken.

Well it was recently reported that people who have been taking alot of selfies of themselves, over time will become self conscious of themselves. As a result this has lead to either people being really unhappy with themselves or they have been running to a plastic surgeon. It was reported that statistically that people who take more selfies of themselves over time will eventually go see a plastic surgeon, because they do not want their looks to fade.

It was also reported that people who take alot of selfies and do not have a high self esteem will do one of two things. If people boost their self esteem by complimenting their pics it is supposed to help, but on the other side of the coin if they are bullied and the bad comments come then those same people are likely to take drastic measures.

I am one of those people that has no ego to feed as the saying goes. I have no self esteem to boost because it is pretty much dead. So I do not take pics of myself.

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Blog #130

Thank you all for the continuing support of this blog without any of you, the readers, I would not still be doing this blog. I also want to thank everyone who has helped make it blow up like it has. 130 blog posts later and this blog is still growing by leaps and bounds.

I am not perfect. I am a mediocre blogger who was lucky enough to have great facebook friends who by allowing me to tag them is what helped this blog grow. I am also on Twitter, but I use that account to mainly promote my blog and that is about it. I am very lucky to have at least one project grow.

I have been back on a downer lately. My job environment has been treating me like a second hand citizen. The people I deal with suffer from a horrible attitude and think they can get away with being a cretin. Sometimes it is the people I have to deal with and sometimes it is the co-workers themselves. For example this past weekend I had a 65 year old lady raise all kind of Hell at me for no reason what so ever besides she felt "entitled" and she wanted to cause a scene. I also had someone act a fool and try to claim something that I know there is no way in the quick time period could ever happen. But alas I work for a company where if the customer complains they always side with the customer. So we have to do whatever it takes to keep the customer from complaining. I recently had and still have been dealing with a lady who barely pinched her finger with a chair. She is making a big to do over nothing, she was not in pain and she kept eating, and she was a big to do Christian. This does not help my opinion of the "human condition".

The past 11 years have not been the best in the world for me and it shows and it never stops showing. I can no longer wear a "social mask", that has become unbearable. So I simply leave it at home. It is hard to rebuild your life when people and things keep dragging you down. After awhile you forget what it is like to be happy and you are left with being melancholy and suffer from anger management issues. So you add me being antisocial and an introvert and that leads to a train wreck waiting to happen. I dread leaving the house even when I do not have to work. I am hoping that when school starts soon then maybe things will get better.

I have tried to change my outlook on life, but like I said in a previous blog every time I try something new or different something always happens and I am back to square one.

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Why I Do Not Blog about Politics.

I mentioned in a recent post that I would share why I do not write about politics in my blogs unless it is something that has to do with my current college major or my former one.

Growing up I believed in Republican ideals. I grew up during the Reagan-omic period and so I agreed with what they were saying at them time, that and most of my family was Republican. But after the Reagan era ended and even though most people want to blame the Reagan era for the start of the downfall of our country, I disagree. After studying political science in college and taking two economics classes, all of this was a real eye opener to me and that is why I never voted in an election and I no longer believe in the political structure in this country. Plus after NAFTA cost me a really great job and it cost my community alot of great jobs. NAFTA and a few other trade laws basically almost killed the community I live in. Plus my local level government has not helped out either.

So I do not see the point on mentioning political issues in my blogs. We all know that we live in a corporately run country, that alot of the politicians claim they make Christian decisions that effect us all.

I simply no longer believe in the political process, just like I do not believe in Christian ideology.

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Being a Social Outcast

I have always been that weird misunderstood kid growing up. I grew up being an outsider. I have always been introverted. People always tell me I need to do things that would "get me out of my shell". But between being bullied and "being the quiet, smart, kid. Every time I tried to come "out of my shell" something always happened and I ran back to where I was "in my shell" except each time I got sent packing back into my shell, the walls grew higher and my anti social behavior started. Me being anti social and becoming an outcast or the nerd as it was so nicely put started due to me being bullied and being turned away by people and family. I thought it would get better once I got my first job, but once I started learning about the "human condition", I at times did not want to be in the world anymore. My visits to the comic book shops was a start in the positive direction until all of that turned its back on me. I found some peace in my local music store and the music I was listening to at that time. Once I got to college and begged my parents to stay at the dorms, my social skills got a little better, I found some friends and became a Christian, and I also learned about being internet savvy and being in chat rooms. But once I got out of college and back to my old routines and started going to a normal church and dating what was supposed to be a "Christian woman", that situation ran me back into my shell and seeing what turned out not to be a decent church body. After that I went to 3 other churches and I could not find another christian home. So I became an "at home" Christian and then I became an agnostic and then an Atheist. When I was married to what was supposed to be another Christain woman after that is when I became an Agnostic, I no longer believed in the church body but I did still believe in God. But as I said every time I tried coming out of my shell, things made me run back into my shell but the walls grew higher and the "shell" became an overly secure fort that I hardly let no one in.

So now at 37 years old, my introverted, anti social behavior, has gotten worse sometimes at the point of social anxiety. There are no like minded people in my community. Once I leave the house I have to put on my "mask" and there are some days I do not even put it on. My current working environment does not help matters. People's attitudes are getting worse and they all think they are "entitled" . I have become such an outcast in my own community when I am at places like Walmart I always get a weird look. It does not bother me.

This is why I have more online friends compared to "real life" friends. My online friends are more accepting of me. Even though most of them have never met me in person.

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Facebook Suspension

I logged onto my Facebook today and to my surprise I get this notice that says my liking and sharing has been complained about, and as a result I am suspended from liking and sharing for three days.So here is my question to Facebook, who complained to you, when a logical person all they had to do was simply email me or message me, that would of been easier. And like when I got suspended from Twitter, I got no email letting me know why or how. So did Facebook do like Twitter and just did it because they went after the wrong account.

I am not a Facebook troll, or a robot account, I am a real person simply using a pseudonym.

But it is what it is....

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State of My Blog (April 2014)

Well as I write this I am sitting at 2,155 pageviews. This blog has blown up, and I actually posted as many blogs this past month compared to March. I told you all that I would get back into the groove and make up for it. I think that I am a mediocre blogger. I wrote some book reviews this past month and those posts blew up with pageviews.I did not know that one of the books I reviewed had been out of print. Hopefully for those of you curious enough about that book went to your library and see if they had it. I know that it is available for Kindle. I experimented with my blogging more this past month to see what interests my readers.

I do not blog alot about politics and there are alot of reasons for that and I will cover that in a future blog. But anything politically related that involved my former college major and the people I was in the program with I covered it and that is about as far as I take a political conversation. And a state's increase of college tuition to me was just wrong this past month. We are college students who alot of us do not come from a well to do family. Some have had to take loans out, work two or more jobs, and get the money needed for college one way or another. If they want to increase tuition, in return they should lower the price of books, I mean really. This state does not understand that with the price increases some students are going to turn to online, out of state colleges. But they do not think about these things.

Thank you for being a loyal reader of this blog. Another month has gone by and alot of people have read my blog.

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Burger King's Big Chick King: My Thoughts

I recently tried Burger King's Big Chick King. For those of you that are regular readers of this blog know that I did a comparative review of the Big Mac and the Big King. As an admission to my readers at a past job I did try this and it turned out very good. But to me back in those days the Golden Arches $1 chicken sandwich is way better than BK's $1 chicken.

Now on to the review to me it was basic crap. I do not know if they did not change the cooking oil for the chicken products or not but overall BK it is a horrible idea. So to my readers this is a try at your own risk sandwich. Now granted I love the Big King and the other burgers on BK's menu and their Grilled chicken sandwich is awesome too but their fried chicken anything and their nuggets I will not touch.

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"Letting Go"

I want to apologize for not writing the past few days. But I have been letting go of things here in my real life. I have been shredding old papers. While I have been shredding all of this stuff, I have been letting go of what has been attached to this stuff. I am shredding and deleting things from my past major that I changed from back in Jan, and I am excited to start my new major, Computer Support Specialist, in a few weeks. I learned alot while in Health Information Technology, but I just could not see myself struggling after graduation and have to travel and volunteer to gain work experience. So that is gone, the textbooks I had have been gone since February. I have been shredding things from my failed marriage and going through this stuff is a reminder why my marriage failed and it is also a reminder that I need to let the grudge I have been carrying around for the past 6 years go. She has moved on and I have been trying but rebuilding my life has taken longer than expected. School has been my drive, but I got lost in the possibilities of health information technology, but people in the field as the saying goes "pulled back the curtain", and I really did not like the idea. It is funny how old papers reveal so much. I let go of Christianity easier than all of my grudges.

So as one door closes, another opens....or I hope so.

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Internet Explorer's Security Breach

It was announced over the weekend that Microsoft's Internet Explorer has a massive security issue and it effects all versions of IE. I quit using IE here recently it was just moving too slow for my blood. So I have been using Google Chrome and everything so far seems to be doing fine. I will however hope Microsoft gets this issue fixed since all of my online classes require either IE or Firefox. I did not care for Firefox when I used it one time.

So my question is how did Microsoft let this happen and how does it effect all versions of IE. When I saw the article posted the picture for it told the tale. It was a picture of someone pretending to stab their laptop.

Well more woes for Microsoft.

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I Was a Hardcore Comic Book Collector

Back when I was around 16 or 17 a comic book store opened and I took to it like a moth to the flame. The first store that opened in my community kept me modest. I read a very few comic books at this time. I was working my second job at this time. Then the first store closed due to the lack of business.

The second store opened and it had alot more selection and all of my friends went to this store so it was alot of word of mouth comic recommendations. The owner of this store let us order pretty much whatever we wanted and I was ready at least 30 titles a month from a bunch of different publishers. I mainly stayed with Marvel and Image. I read alot of the X-Men titles and I was big into Spawn by Image. So I developed a "comic book" habit. I was reading alot and spending alot. I quit going to the comic book shop after I got my first vehicle with a monthly payment and I discovered the local music store so I basically swapped habits, except music was cheaper, and I would buy some music every so often. I had to be reminded of my habit by a bunch of friends. So after that I quit going to the comic book shop except maybe once a month.

So what did I learn from this. Well I learned about debt and if you live beyond your means. But when you do not have alot of close friends and your anti-social a hobby can make your life a little easier. Reading and collecting comics did that for me. It was a release.

Now I am older and this was a life lesson.

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Blog #121

This little blog was started in Jan. The idea was this was going to be an outlet for me to talk about whatever I want to. I was not expecting this blog to be viewed by over 2,000 page views since I started it. I might not write the best blogs in the world, but I have made quite a few people curious and they brought friends with them. It still amazes me that this little side project has grown. I am a random blogger its based on what I see on the news, YouTube, and just various other sources, and some tidbits from me your blogger. I am not trying to change the world, I just want to educate it and make people curious. As I write this blog I have noticed that I have written almost as much as I did in February. March I could of done better, but I have just been dealing with alot. I feel I have made up for March here in April so I hope that you still enjoy this blog.

So for you 2,000 people who have visited this blog and kept coming thank you. For those of you that come and then came back with friends, thank you.

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No Easter Google Doodle

I found this update on a forum that was talking about that their was no Google Easter doodle. For those of you that do not know, on certain days/holidays if you go to google.com the Google logo will be what they called "doodled". Well this Easter they did not do one and that got everyone in the forum in an uproar. People claiming that google intentionally forgot Easter and they were claiming that it was unfair. I have an idea that many of these posts are fake but you know how overly sensitive some people can be and how easily someone can be up in arms about something so trivial.

Does anyone think that maybe since they did one last year that they did not want to do the same one again? And for those of you that complained about it, those people have no lives to be looking for something so trivial.

Does that mean those same people who fussed about no Easter doodle this year, did they fuss about today's doodle celebrating Earth Day?

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PC Novice Netscape Navigator

This is the 3rd issue in my series. Who remembers Netscape Navigator? This issue talked about all the things you could with the Navigator.

  Netscape Navigator was a proprietary web browser. It was the flagship product of the Netscape Communications Corp and was the dominant web browser in terms of usage share in the 1990s, although by 2002 its usage had almost disappeared. This was primarily due to the increased usage of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser software, and partly because the Netscape Corporation (later purchased by AOL) did not sustain Netscape Navigator's technical innovation after the late 1990s.

The business demise of Netscape was a central premise of Microsoft's antitrust trial, wherein the Court ruled that Microsoft Corporation's bundling of Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system was a monopolistic and illegal business practice. The decision came too late for Netscape however, as Internet Explorer had by then become the dominant web browser in Windows.

The Netscape Navigator web browser was succeeded by Netscape Communicator. Netscape Communicator's 4.x source code was the base for the Netscape-developed Mozilla Application Suite, which was later renamed SeaMonkey. Netscape's Mozilla Suite also served as the base for a browser-only spinoff called Mozilla Firefox and Netscape versions 6 through 9.

AOL stopped development of Netscape Navigator on 28 December 2007, but continued supporting the web browser with security updates until 1 March 2008. AOL allows downloading of archived versions of the Netscape Navigator web browser family. AOL maintains the Netscape website as an Internet portal.

But now in 2014 a new version of Netscape Navigator is available. Here is a review courtesy of Softpedia.

Netscape Navigator is no longer a valid web browser as its development stopped back in 2007 and all support was discontinued at the beginning of 2008.

Netscape Navigator is a web browserundefined built on the Mozilla platform. So, if you're on the hunt for new ways to navigate on the Internet, why not try something inspired by the best in the business?

The installation process takes little time to complete, and there are no extraordinary features to it, so, you can safely initiate the Navigator afterward.

The user interface looks extremely familiar - same search bar on the upper right corner, same add-ons, same Options interface... maybe Netscape has borrowed one too many elements from Firefox, but at least it has its well-known colors (which take after ESET Nod32 a little).

Features found in Netscape Navigator include an improved newsfeed support and methods of discussion, submission, the possibility to vote web pages, multi profile support, extensive security center, one-click searching from the address bar, Click-to-Seach, tabbed browsing, and others.

The default search engine is AOL's, but you can easily change that. Time it takes Netcape Navigator to load a page is fast, but not faster than in the case of its "mentor", and it gets stuck or crashes, in some rare occasions.

In addition, memory resources are significantly used, even when there's only a single web page opened, with text content.

Unfortunately, support for Netscape browsers was discontinued a while back, so the Navigator recommends you use Flock or Firefox.

Nevertheless, Netscape Navigator proves to be a pretty good alternative to other weaker web browsers, and it definitely deserves a fair trial. It's free, after all.

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PC Novice Windows 98

This was the second of three magazines I bought in either 1998 or 1999. It was a magazine called PC Novice. I googled the topic and found out it had a name change and closed its doors in 2012.

I remember buying this magazine I wanted to learn Windows 98 in depth and this was going to used as a step to get me back into school to learn how to be a computer tech. I already knew how to setup a computer and install software on it. Back in the day when they used diskettes and CD's for everything.

I remember Windows 95 and Windows 98. I liked 98 at the time it was at the time not as likely to crash unlike 95. If you had one virus in 95 you were done. I went through 2 computers with 98 one killed due to lightning the other due to alot of viruses on it courtesy of an ex-wife.

As I thumb through the magazine for the first time in 16 years alot of what Win 98 did back then we still do on Windows XP. I have not dealt with Windows 7 or 8 yet so I can not really say if things have changed that much. The only thing that has really changed since win 98 is that we do not use 3.5 floppy disks anymore.I of course have a stack of them running around and do not use them.

This magazine did keep things in simple English and that was a good thing especially for me who was just really learning Win 98.

Did the world make a big fuss over Windows 98 when Microsoft ended service of it?

That was the main point of this blog. Part of it was meant to be a throwback blog. I had read somewhere recently someone's response to everyone being "sensitive" about Windows XP coming to an end. "Most of the Windows XP computers are either passed on to senior citizens from family and that the rest of us needs to catch up with the 21st century".

My response is unless you used Windows 95 or even better Windows 3.1. Do not complain about us the XP users loving XP. I like Windows 7 and maybe if they work out the bugs in Windows 8 or 8.1 I might like that, when I get my next computer.

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PCNovice Guide to the Web

I found this magazine while cleaning out some old books that I do not use anymore. I had actually forgotten I had this magazine and thought it had been thrown out. This magazine originally came out between 1998 or 1999. Even though this magazine is 16 years old the sites that are mentioned in it are still relevant today because some of the sites listed here are still around. Other things this issue covered was "what was good and bad about AOL". Is AOL even still around? It also covers how to access the web, and how to pick the best ISP.

When I bought this magazine I used it alot to learn about the internet. Unfortunately computer information systems was not a major program at my local technical school and this magazine and two others made me want to work on and deal with computers. I never thought 16 years later I would finally be learning that.

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Food Safety Tips

I feel this subject is important and I want to share what I know with you my readers. In my community a local Chinese place recently had a visit by the state health inspector and they made a 50 on it. They are now on a monitor closely list where they have so many days/months to get their standards back up to state standards or decide to close. That is part of the reason for this blog. We live in a society where people are always in a hurry and they do not want to cook. I know people that will say even though I got a slight stomach ache and felt sick I would go back and eat there again. That mentality is everywhere. We all know someone that has said that. I know a few people that even though they got a little sick once or twice will go back to the same places they got sick from. Why? I have been in the hospitality business for 11 years. I annoy people I am with when we go out to eat because I look for things. And if you tell me you ate somewhere and got sick from it guess what I am not going. People have the same mentality when it comes to grocery stores too, but that is another blog post. So what I am about to share with you is things you should look for when you go out to eat and if any of your friends tell you that some restaurant made them sick before you go eat there look for these few things or ask to see them. 

First look around for certificates that are supposed to be in customer sight they are called servsafe certifications in some states something else is required look and see how many people are certified in that restaurant. In some states some places have to have at least 4 or 5 people certified and make sure they are current if you see them. 

Second thing to look for or ask for find their last DPH visit sheet or ask to see their last health inspector visit. Most places have them to where you can see them they are required to do that by law. If they are not making 85 or better. DO NOT EAT THERE. 

Thirdly there are little things you can see around you that will let you know whether or not to keep eating there. Ask yourself is your own kitchen either nasty/clean. 

It may annoy some fast food places but for your own safety ask them to cook your food fresh. 

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Malcolm Young of AC/DC

Today it was announced that due to an illness Malcolm Young of AC/DC is taking a break from the band. What type of illness is not totally clear. But AC/DC also announced that they are not retiring any time soon. Malcolm Young is a founder of AC/DC and has been with the group since the beginning. The band has been around for 40+ years and in that time has only lost one member of the band, the late Bon Scott in 1980.

Whoever they find to fill in for Malcolm Young will have big shoes to fill.

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State Announce Another Increase to College Tuition

It was announced this week that a state was going to again increase the tuition for all colleges in their state. At the flagship college of this state tuition is increasing by 7%. Every other college in the state is raising tuition by 2.5%. Alot of current students are going to have to struggle to pay for college and all of the high school kids in the future may not even go to college at all due to the fact they can not afford to go. Plus alot of high school students are seeing how hard it is to find a job with a college degree. The author of this blog got a college degree and could not find a job in my town and surrounding areas. That made me feel disheartened and I felt like I had wasted my parent's money and let them down. In my opinion more and more scholarships are in the wrong fields.

So as tuition increases their will be less students going to this state college's. It might help the state's technical colleges or all of these colleges you see on TV their attendance will go up.

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Kids React to a Rotary Phone and a Walkman

For those of you that are regular surfers of YouTube, you may of found the Fine Bros. channels. They do Kids react videos and the last two kids react videos they did were on items that I grew up with. A walkman and a rotary phone. The videos are both hilarious as the kids who range in age from 6-11 try to figure out both of these items. One kid tells the commentator that he felt sorry for the commentator growing up in the era of the walkman. The kids were asked how they would text on a rotary phone it was a trick question but one kid was actually trying to figure it out.

Videos like this just prove how much technology has changed.

Go check out the FineBros channel on YouTube.

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The State of Louisiana

The state of Louisiana is trying to do two things, both of which may end up getting them a few lawsuits, first thing they are trying to do is make the Bible the official state book. The bill has passed in one house and is being sent to the other. These politicians have nothing else to do with their time is there not other important things they could be debating on.

According to the Slate blog, alot of other politicians are complaining that other versions of the bible should be considered. Also according to the slate blog the complaining politicians feel like this:

It] brought immediate objection from Rep. Stephen Ortego, D-Carencro, who said his Catholic Bible contains some books that aren’t in the King James version. “A lot of people believe in a Bible that has things different than what’s in there, not just Catholics. It’s also Orthodox,” Ortego said. “Why not put all versions of the Bible? If there’s one, what are we saying about the rest of the people?” added Rep. Robert Billiot, D-Westwego.

Thank goodness for separation of church and state right? Wrong according to the Slate blog:

And so it was. But, what of that pesky church and state not comingling issue? Not a problem. Carmody points out, the Advocate reports, “the state can have more than one state book, just as it has more than one official jelly.” "This is not about establishing an official religion," Carmody told the Times-Picayune.

Well thank goodness for the ACLU:

The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana is predictably unimpressed. The organization says the bill "represents the use of religion to discriminate against Louisianians of minority faiths or who do not adhere to that particular book as part of their belief system. The bill will create more problems than it will solve by telling some Louisianians that their belief system is not full equal."

Hopefully the bill will not pass or Louisiana is going to be getting sued from all directions. Citizens of Louisiana do you think they could be using your tax money a little differently. Does Louisiana really need a state book?

*Credit for this portion of this post goes to the Slate blog site:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/04/14/louisiana_state_house_advances_bill_designating_the_bible_as_the_state_book.html *

Also the bill that was passed in 2008 called the Louisiana Science Education Act is being challenged because it overall allows teachers to promote creationism over Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

The Louisiana Science Education Act is an "academic freedom law" based on the Discovery Institute's academic freedom model statute. The LSEA allows teachers in public schools to use supplemental materials in the science classroom that are critical of established scientific theories "including, but not limited to, evolution, the origins of life, global warming and human cloning." Senator Nevers, sponsor of the bill, states that he introduced the bill at the behest of the Louisiana Family Forum to allow creationism to be taught in public schools. Gene Mills, president of the Louisiana Family Forum, states that the bill is necessary to allow teachers to "critically present" evidence and "quit choosing sides when it comes to teaching students this controversial subject matter."

Critics of the bill suggest that it is intended as an end-run around the federal ban on the teaching of creationism in public schools, and say that the sole purpose of the law is to provide legal cover to educators who want to introduce things other than science to the teaching of evolution in contravention of court rulings in cases such as Edwards v. Aguillard (1987) and Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District (2005), something opposed by the scientific community.

On June 3, 2008, The American Institute of Biological Sciences sent a letter to House Speaker Jim Tucker opposing SB 733. On June 20, 2008, AIBS and seven other societies sent a letter to Governor Bobby Jindal requesting that he veto SB733. The requesting societies included the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the American Ornithologists Union, the American Society of Mammalogists, the Botanical Society of America, the Natural Science Collections Alliance, the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, the Society of Systematic Biologists, and the Society for the Study of Evolution.

Overall this bill should not of passed back in 2008. Kids in school no matter what state they live in need to be taught Darwin's Theory of Evolution and the Big Bang Theory. I feel like these kids these days are getting brainwashed more and more. Keep truth and logic in schools and keep the Biblical stories where they belong in church and in the privacy at home.

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Fla. Woman Dies Due To a Health Condition

A 32 year old Florida woman died this week due to not being able to afford "Obamacare", she had a couple of kids and was working 3 jobs. She had a heart condition and due to her not making enough money a year she could not afford getting "Obamacare", but she could of qualified for Medicare/Medicaid expansion but the Republicans in Florida would not accept the expansion. So this young lady died while with a client from her heart condition. She could not afford her medications or able to go and see a doctor. After her funeral her best friend wrote the newspaper and claimed that politicians were the ones that killed her friend.

I understand why some states would not accept the expansion, many states do not have the money to afford it. As a result of these decisions it is estimated that 17,000 people a year will die due to the lack of health care.

Think about it for just a minute....

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Dionne Warwick Declares Bankruptcy

Former Solid Gold host, singer, and star of some infomercials, Dionne Warwick, announced this week that she was declaring bankruptcy due to the fact that she owes the IRS over $10 million and can not pay it. She claims that she only makes $25,000 month due to royalties and what not, and she claims that she can not pay the IRS. If it was me and owed the IRS where would I be jail, or they would be taking it out of my paycheck every time. She claims that she can barely afford her bills and what not on $25,000 a month, but she can still afford $5,000 a month on housekeeping. Time for her to clean her own house.

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God's Not Dead

God's Not Dead is a 2014 Christian drama film directed by Harold Cronk, and stars Kevin Sorbo, Shane Harper, David A.R. White and Dean Cain. The film was released to theaters on March 21, 2014, by Pure Flix Entertainment.

Josh Wheaton (Shane Harper), a devout Christian and freshman college student, enrolls in a philosophy class taught by a dogmatic and argumentative atheist. Professor Radisson (Kevin Sorbo) demands that all of his students must sign a declaration that "God is dead" in order to get a passing grade. Faced with a choice between passing the class and betraying his beliefs, Josh refuses. As Josh is the only student in the class to do so, the professor strikes a bargain: Josh must defend his position that "God's not dead" in a series of debates with him, with the class members ultimately deciding who wins. If Josh loses, he flunks. When Josh accepts the challenge, he gets more than he bargained for — jeopardizing his faith, his academic future, and even his relationships.

There are several struggles and personal beliefs going on as well in the film; Ayisha (Hadeel Sittu) must hide her Christianity from her devout Muslim family and father; Mina (Cory Oliver) must deal with her mother who is suffering from dementia, her rich and executive brother Mark (Dean Cain) who refuses to see their mother, she also is in a relationship with Radisson (which is also a struggle as Mina is a devout Christian and Radisson is an atheist), and is frequently belittled in front of his colleagues; Amy (Trisha LaFache), a businesswoman and animal right's activist, is diagnosed with cancer and Mark (her boyfriend) breaks up with her, seeming to care more about his business life than he did about Amy; Martin (Paul Kwo) is a foreign exchange student from China, who struggles are similar to Josh as his father does not want him screwing up his brother's scholarship (as Josh's girlfriend, Kara, did not want him standing up to Radisson as it would affect her scholarship).

Radisson has Josh spend 20 minutes at the end of every lecture to give his arguments on why God exists, but Radisson constantly has a counter argument against all of Josh's debates. Ultimately, it comes down to a debate between both Radisson and Josh, who both make compelling points from both sides. Josh questions Radisson, asking why he hates God and after Radisson gives his response, Josh asks Radisson how he can hate someone that he doesn't believe exists. In the end, every member of Josh's class, including Martin, stand up and say "God's Not Dead", causing Radisson to leave the room in defeat. Radisson ultimately has a change of heart upon reading a letter from his late mother, and leaves to find his ex-girlfriend Mina, who is attending a Newsboys concert. He is struck by a car while crossing the street and his ribs are crushed, leaving him slowly dying of internal hemorrhaging. Pastor Dave ( David A.R. White) finds him, and helps save Radisson, who becomes a born-again Christian moments before his death.

Why are atheists always seen as the "bad people"?

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Top 10 Events in Wrestling History....

This will be the top 10 events, in my opinion, that shocked and angered fans the most. All of these events can be looked up on YouTube most are on that site.

#10 The day Shane Douglas refused the NWA World Championship and declared himself the new ECW Heavyweight Champion.

#9 WCW's Bash at the Beach the night that Hulk Hogan and the Outsiders (Hall and Nash) formed the NWO. It was the first time in his career that Hulk Hogan ever turned "heel" the crowd went nuts throwing trash in the ring and boo-ing.

#8 WCW's Halloween Havoc Goldberg vs. DDP. This incident was the start of the end for WCW. The PPV ran later than expected and 2 minutes into this match the major PPV providers killed the signal and therefore alot of angry fans demanded their money back.

#7 ECW Heavyweight Champion Mike Awesome leaves ECW while still champion and takes a deal with WCW that makes him look like an idiot, he became "That 70's Guy".

#6 On an episode of WWF Primtime Bobby Heenan announces the coming of "The real World Champion" and is holding the NWA/WCW World Heavyweight Championship belt. The following week Ric Flair is announced. That even lead to Ric Flair being sued by WCW and WCW had to come up with a new belt.

#5 The end of the original ECW in 2001, and then the creation of WWE's version of ECW in 2005/6. Also WWE bought out WCW.

#4 Goldbery vs. Kevin Nash for the WCW world heavyweight championship at Starcade. This match ended Goldberg's winning streak. Goldberg was basically robbed of this match due to Scott Hall.

#3 Vince McMahon vs Bobby Lashley for the ECW Championship. After basically stacking the deck against Bobby Lashley. Vince McMahon became the ECW World Champion. This match was a result of Mr. McMahon losing his hair at Wrestle mania. It was also the last time Bobby Lashley was in WWE.

#2 WrestleMania 30 Undertaker vs. Brock Lesnar. This match was the end of the streak (21-1).

#1 Shawn Micheals vs. Bret Hart. Summerslam 97. This match would be known as the Montreal Screwjob. Because Bret Hart was headed to WCW, it was decided that Michaels was to win the match and the way the match ended with Mr. McMahon demanding the bell to be rung. This lead to Bret Hart spitting at McMahon and giving him a black eye.

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A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian novella by Anthony Burgess published in 1962. Set in a not-so-distant future English society that has a culture of extreme youth violence, the novel's teenage anti-hero, Alex, narrates his violent exploits and his experiences with state authorities intent on reforming him. When the state undertakes to reform Alex—to "redeem" him—the novel asks, "At what cost?". The book is partially written in a Russian-influenced argot called "Nadsat". According to Burgess it was a jeu d'esprit written in just three weeks.

In 2005, A Clockwork Orange was included on Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923, and it was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.The original manuscript of the book is located at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada since that institution purchased the documents in 1971.

Alex, a teenager living in near-future dystopian England, leads his gang on a night of opportunistic, random "ultra-violence". Alex's friends ("droogs" in the novel's Anglo-Russian slang, 'Nadsat') are: Dim, a slow-witted bruiser who is the gang's muscle; Georgie, an ambitious second-in-command; and Pete, who mostly plays along as the droogs indulge their taste for ultra-violence. Characterized as a sociopath and a hardened juvenile delinquent, Alex is also intelligent and quick-witted, with sophisticated taste in music, being particularly fond of Beethoven, referred to as "Lovely Ludwig Van".

The novel begins with the droogs sitting in their favorite hangout (the Korova Milk Bar), drinking "milk-plus", a drink consisting of milk, prodded with the customer's choice of certain drugs, including "vellocet", "synthemesc", or "drencrom" (which is what Alex and his droogs were drinking, according to Alex's own first-person narration). This drug, referred to as "knives", would "sharpen you up", as it did for Alex, in preparation of the night's mayhem. They assault a scholar walking home from the public library, rob a store, leaving the owner and his wife bloodied and unconscious, stomp a panhandling derelict, then scuffle with a rival gang. Joyriding through the countryside in a stolen car, they break into an isolated cottage and maul the young couple living there, beating the husband and raping his wife. In a metafictional touch, the husband is a writer working on a manuscript called "A Clockwork Orange," and Alex contemptuously reads out a paragraph that states the novel's main theme before shredding the manuscript. Back at the milk bar, Alex punishes Dim for some crude behaviour, and strains within the gang become apparent. At home in his dreary flat, Alex plays classical music at top volume while fantasizing about more orgiastic violence.

Alex skips school the next day. Following an unexpected visit from P. R. Deltoid, his "post-corrective advisor," Alex meets a pair of ten-year-old girls and takes them back to his parents' flat, where he serves them scotch and soda, injects himself with hard drugs, and then rapes them. That evening, Alex finds his droogs in a mutinous mood. Georgie challenges Alex for leadership of the gang, demanding that they pull a "man-sized" job. Alex quells the rebellion by slashing Dim's hand and fighting with Georgie, then in a show of generosity takes them to a bar, where Alex insists on following through on Georgie's idea to burgle the home of a wealthy old woman. The break-in starts as farce and ends in tragic pathos, as Alex's attack kills the elderly woman. His escape is blocked by an attack by Dim, as payback for the earlier fight, leaving Alex incapacitated on the front step when the police arrive.

entenced to prison for murder, Alex gets a job at the Wing chapel playing religious music on the stereo before and after services as well as during the singing of hymns. The prison chaplain mistakes Alex's Bible studies for stirrings of faith (Alex is actually reading Scripture for the violent passages). After Alex's fellow cellmates blame him for beating a troublesome cellmate to death, he agrees to undergo an experimental behaviour-modification treatment called the Ludovico Technique. The technique is a form of aversion therapy in which Alex receives an injection that makes him feel sick while watching graphically violent films, eventually conditioning him to suffer crippling bouts of nausea at the mere thought of violence. As an unintended consequence, the soundtrack to one of the films — Beethoven's Ninth Symphony — renders Alex unable to listen to his beloved classical music.

The effectiveness of the technique is demonstrated to a group of VIPs, who watch as Alex collapses before a walloping bully, and abases himself before a scantily-clad young woman whose presence has aroused his predatory sexual inclinations. Although the prison chaplain accuses the state of stripping Alex of free will, the government officials on the scene are pleased with the results and Alex is released into society early as a result.

Since his parents are now renting his room to a lodger, Alex wanders the streets homeless. He enters a public library where he hopes to learn a painless way to commit suicide. There, he accidentally encounters the old scholar he assaulted earlier in the book, who, keen on revenge, beats Alex with the help of his friends. The policemen who come to Alex's rescue turn out to be none other than Dim and former gang rival Billyboy. The two policemen take Alex outside of town and beat him up. Dazed and bloodied, Alex collapses at the door of an isolated cottage, realizing too late that it is the house he and his droogs invaded in the first part of the story. Because the gang wore masks during the assault, the writer does not recognize Alex. The writer, whose name is revealed as F. Alexander, shelters Alex and questions him about the conditioning. During this sequence, it is revealed that Mrs. Alexander died of injuries inflicted during the gang-rape, while her husband has decided to continue living "where her fragrant memory persists" despite the horrid memories. Alex reveals in his description that he has been conditioned to feel intolerable deathly nausea on hearing certain classical music. Alexander, a critic of the government, intends to use Alex's therapy as a symbol of state brutality and thereby prevent the incumbent government from being re-elected, but a careless Alex soon inadvertently reveals that he was the ringleader during the night two years ago. Frightened for his own safety, Alex blurts out a confession to the writer's radical associates after they remove him from F. Alexander's home. Instead of protecting him, however, they imprison Alex in a dreary flat not far from his parents' residence. They pretend to leave, and then while he is sleeping in a locked bedroom subject him to a relentless barrage of classical music, prompting him to attempt suicide by leaping from a high window.

Alex wakes up in a hospital, where he is courted by government officials anxious to counter the bad publicity created by his suicide attempt. With Alexander placed in a mental institution, Alex is offered a well-paying job if he agrees to side with the government. As photographers snap pictures, Alex daydreams of orgiastic violence and reflects upon the news that his Ludovico conditioning has been reversed as part of his recovery: "I was cured, all right".

In the final chapter, Alex finds himself half-heartedly preparing for yet another night of crime with a new trio of droogs. After a chance encounter with Pete, who has reformed and married, Alex finds himself taking less and less pleasure in acts of senseless violence. He begins contemplating giving up crime himself to become a productive member of society and start a family of his own, while reflecting on the notion that his own children will be just as destructive—if not more so—than he himself.