Conclusion of the day: people who use Outlook Express just plain don’t know any better. It is one of the worst applications you could put on your computer, and as of this morning I will no longer work on equipment that uses it. (Like AOL, the longer you use it, the more it takes over your system so that any change, even installing a digital camera driver, knocks it out of whack.)
JZ and I stopped at the Titanic, a micro-brewery on US1 in Miami. Youngest waitresses I’ve seen in Florida in years, but still by no means young. The place has copper vats in operation, total California style. JP had a dark ale that wound up costing $6 a glass. The place has a dead atmosphere, like a lot of Florida pubs during happy hour. The food looks great, but I don’t really know anybody who goes to a pub to eat it.Wallace reports rain and cool weather back in the Pacific Northwest. In a precedent, he was able to go on-line and show his personal dentist what he looked like for a while there. Wallace still gives me the gears for not liking that big waitress at one pub, but bear in mind he is much more a person of habit than I. When he returns to Miami in thirty years, he is far more likely than I to visit the same pub.
Mitch was also in touch, and he came down with food poisoning after eating an organic potato. I don’t get the connection but he did point out the potato was shrink-wrapped. He’s fine but he reports the trots to the point he wound up in the hospital. Yeow! (He also says surprise at the amount of material in this blog. Great, that is the desired response. Hi, Mitch. My records show we met around this time 38 years ago; we “rode the schoolbus to Little Smokey”.)
I seem to have a very satisfied database customer. Since she is already familiar with what database is supposed to do, she found the material I designed to be so much better than Microsoft Professional, that I have the go-ahead to develop an invoicing system. He husband recruits computer network people for “a major hotel chain”.
See the hotdog stand? I had to ask the lady behind the counter how they managed to get a stand setup in front of a Publix [supermarket]. The answer is that for a few weeks each year Publix does a charity drive, as opposed to paying higher for more educated and efficient checkout clerks. The hotdogs are part of the charity drive, although they still cost $1.75 each. The lady mentioned that she was the highest paid hotdog vendor in Florida. I asked how she figured that. Easy, she was “at Publix for over 15 years now as an assistant manager.” Okay.Next, I purchased a sound-hole pickup for the Fender. I am not going to drill a hole in the body or install a chrome jack. Total farmer style, I’m leaving the cord hanging off the pickup like the photo on the front of the box. I’ve also been getting replies from two different people called Jack, and got them mixed up. The one guy is a bartender in Ft. Lauderdale who wants to play a duo – and can book us in his own club for good money. (Regardless of what some say, money is always a consideration when performing music, and they are lying when they say otherwise. Or, they are over 45 and still begging money off mommy and daddy and still lying to boot.) He looked over my startup set list and knows “70% of the material”.
A bad mark for the Brother [brand] printer division. The entire printer shuts down if any one of the color ink cartridges is low or empty. You cannot fax or scan which are functions that use no ink. After a refill, the cycle wastes a noticeable amount of ink priming the new cartridge. There is a handy display that shows how much is left in the cartridges, but it shows full until there is around 10% left, then drops rapidly. Three Italian cheers for Brother. (“Pizonia! Pizonia! Pizonia!” for those of you who have never heard it.)
Trivia for the day, let’s see, what I can come up with. Okay, all you country fans will remember Boxcar Willie, who borrowed his excellent sense of timing from Johnny Cash. His memorable hits include “Rolling In My Sweet Baby’s Arms”. Willie is the first cousin of Tommy Lee Jones. Could the link be “Men in Black”, duh?
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