Search This Blog

Yesteryear

Thursday, September 25, 2008

September 25, 2008

           With each drop in daily temperature, I ride my bicycle just that little bit faster. Now I’m eyeing that massive but often mostly empty parking lot at the casino next door. [Author's note: for clarity, I am considering placing my advertising on the cars in that location.] Don’t get me wrong, it is really a nice place and all fixed up. I just don’t gamble. Wallace was somewhat jolted by seeing penny slots for the first time. Yes, they are for broke old people to get totally addicted to, to gouge pennies out of senior citizens. You don’t realize what a trance it puts them into until you see it first hand.
           Well, I figure what gamblers need is a place to email home for more money. That is why I have the lowest prices in Florida. The blank spot on my sign is for the price, but I haven’t figured out a way to make it easily changeable. I will. Both sides of the sign are different, I rotate them daily. This is a small sign, somewhat less then two feet tall.
           Interesting news. My old credit union is now the 17th largest private bank in the west. I am all for private (non-government-regulated) banking. For those unfamiliar with FDIC, remember that it is insurance, not a real financial backing of your deposit. A private bank can opt not to have that insurance if they have the resources to guarantee your deposit—and only the finest banks have such resources. Mine does.
           We may be in luck with the ceiling fan. Wallace found that the switch had been disconnected. That jives with the way the previous owners ran things. They would turn off the A/C if leaving the room for just a minute. Soon as we get a cool morning, I’ll do my bit by trimming back Forest Wally. It is again starting to inch out over the public roadway. Eric and the previous owners did go on about watering but we have not watered the area in all the time we’ve been here. It grows just fine by itself.
           I do have a booking Saturday, and it is the Island theme I likely mentioned. I’ve got the disk ready to master. My main computer is still in the shop, so I have to go in there all day Friday to take care of the mixing. The shop is where the interruptions are. We are not a help desk, but you would get a laugh out of the things people call us for. “No ma’am, a fatal error does not mean your sister in New Jersey has died.”
           For the record, I downloaded most of the music and found almost every second tune was laced with viruses and spyware. Unless you have an incredible firewall and software protection, don’t visit these sites. (P2P or peer-to-peer music sharing sites where you download unlicensed music.) Worst offender is Zlob “downloader” virus. It says it is spyware, but it is worse than that. I wonder if there is any truth to the saying that music producers hire or intentionally place viruses in the share programs to combat pirating.