The Quiet One

Rainy day and new leaves

It always amazes me, how fast the leaves all suddenly fill in the empty spaces. I woke up this morning and wow! The trees have colors again which was more dramatic with grey sky and falling rain.Yes, I should have taken a picture but it was one those morning where I could slept for another hour. At these the new leaves will have some much needed rain to help them fill in some more. Might be a rainy week and I'm in the  mood for that.

Still waiting for the hummingbird to show up, last year they came today. Not this year. There has been a report from one the library's patrons of a fawn already. Poor thing, it must cold today with the chilly day. I'm hoping for this one doe to leave her fawn in the side yard. Got some cute pictures and yes, when the mother is gone. I do keep an eye on the fawn for her.

Back on the Gateway computer

Well, it wasn't my Gateway's fault that it couldn"t handle the internet. It was Verizon DSL up here that was having a problem. It's clearly fix now, hopefully it stays that way. There's a small part of me who doesn't want to go to the cable internet route just now. So tonight typing on the Gateway to do this post. Do I miss the iMac, Oh yes! However, this computer needs some attention too.  I think the reason why I was doing so good on the iMac with the slowdown, was I was running both the ethernet and wireless coonecton at the same time.  So why everybody was complaining about the slowness, I was watching youtube.

Yes I didn't score any brownie points with a few more coworker who use the same Dsl.

Another wondeful warm day, which brought out the wretched mayflies too. Still no hummingbirds either. Another week or two I have think about moving the desk away from the window. Just get too many bugs by the windows and they always manage to find their way back in too!

Now there's a chill in the air right now, think I have shut the fan off now. Later I'll type up some poems.

Is it Wednesday yet?

Is it Wednesday it? The temperatures are suppose be in the 70 that day. Oh yea!! that rocks, just don't get too warm. Still have to clean off the ceiling fan, yea dust city up there.

However I did have a good weekend. Only glitch was on Saturday at work, computers problems. For all the rain they talk about, it really didn't happened, so a few walks were taken. Work on a few poems and wrote a good one for Sharon's prompts. Any photos that were taken are still on the camera. Did a great artwork on Friday, post it tomorrow.

My DSL decided it doesn't like my Gateway computer anymore. My speed on it is down to dial-up mode or worse. Run on the iMac using the wireless connection, it's back to it's normal self. It does go slower if I use the ethernet cable to run it. My co worker is having the same problem with her Gateway and it''s about the same age too. She has already talk to Verizon and got no where with them. Was planning to give the tech people a call on Wed but it's running great on the iMac. So instead, I'm planning to switch the computer around on the computer table.  Might get the Apple wireless keyboard and mouse. Depends how the cords go.

I'm still trying to figure out why this construction worker thought by burying a Red Sox jersey in the new Yankee stadium, under two feet of concrete. Would jinks it the team. Well they got out the jackhammer, after a couple hours, they dig the shirt out. LOL!! It will be put to good use, they are going to clean up and give to a charity to auction off.

It's so wonderful!!!

I was standing by the kitchen window, it was going for quarter to 7 and there was plenty of sunlight out there.  Now if we can just get rid of the word snow from the forecast. Yes that word still hanging around. Grrr!!! Well it's only 11 day till Spring!

I never really got around to typing the poems, I did another poetry related thing. I have a speedsheet where I keep track of the poems I've finished. Well that never got transfered over to the iMac using the Numbers program from iWorks. Well it was a mixed success on transfering it. There so many varibles on who causing the mixed results, so no finger will be pointed. I'm just going make a new template and start new.

Sorry for the lack of photos, really nothing photograph right now.

Poems should aged for a bit

Yes I have new poems to post but they need to sit in the hardrive for awhile. Then I'll post here. It amazes me how many poems I still have to type up. Hopefully I can type them up on Sun. I've rediscover how wonderfully it's to type poems, since I don't get annoyed with iMac for being noisy like the Gateway. Can think better too! Yet, I do wish wish I had a laptop when I'm at the desk, working on poems. Now I'm leaning towards on getting a refurbished Macbook instead a windows one but that won't happend for awhile.

For the 24 hours, heavy rain have move through the area. Part of me wishes it was snow, yes it would be a lot. And yes I'm sick of winter. However, this past week another batch of heavy rain came through earlier, then add all the melted snow. Needless to say, all the streams and rivers espeacially the Deleware, are at about or at flood stage. Some people don't need flooding right now, for soem of them are still recovering from the '06 flood. The rain has stopped but the runoff will go for the next day or two.

What I really need now is some good weather and no colds on my days off! Would love to just take a walk. But between those two evil things, I have been batting a big ZERO! The clocks  will be push ahead tonight. So maybe a I can resume my after supper walks. I miss them, there was something magically about walking around the block in the dusk light.

Back on track now.

It's so nice not to have deal with a cold now. It really goofs your plans for the week. Also having no DSL last goofs up my plans to post last night too.

Finally got around to working with Shades and iMac to get this LCD screen a little more perfect for working with photography. I'm happy to say, it does help. I'm sure with the next iMac, they won't be as bright. BUT, I do love the glossy screen! It does make the photos sharper, so the goofs show up better. I know a lot people would prefer a matte screen instead, however I'm coming from a CRT monitor. The glossy screen is the closes you can get to a CRT to me. I've read a few  photographers who have brought a couple CRT moniters and stored then for future use. I can't afford that route. I know with my old moniter, I'm going rig it to the iMac when the Gateway dies. Use it for Photoshop for the extra menus.

Did almost have a major goof with the printer on Sat night, I did download the new Leopard driver and at first it didn't work right. Slightly panic, wishing that I had gotten an Epson instead. But I think it was ink, yellow was pretty much empty. Once I change that, the printer behave itself again. 

Winter around here has been showing its fun side. Last Friday,we got 8 inches of snow. For today, it was a mix bag of snow, sleet, freezing rain and maybe now, just plain rain. The library closed at 3 due to the weather. It was dead by 2:30 pm and the was concern what was going happen tonight. So called the main office and told them we closing down. This winter has been wild with closing earlier and just shutting down for the day. Luckly for us, the patron haven't complain too much. The schools around here, have use up all their snow days. So it's looking like Easter vacation will shorten this year.

The photo above, the colors have been played around with .

Felt like Spring was tugging me

Ah it felt like  a spring day despite the grey clouds during my walk. It wasn't until I got home that sun peak out for a bit. Neverless it was a good walk. Then after I made my tea, settled down for the afternoon and work on some poems. Spent two hours working on them, revising and typing them up. They still on the iMac, I'll wait couple days to post them. When I transfer the poetry files from the Gateway to the iMac. I forgot to transfer the workbook files too. So the stack of poems I found needed to be type has to wait until I transfer them over. I honestly I can't remember what I do on the computer. That's why I'm done with a poem I rip everything up and put big Xs in the notebooks.

Finally got around to install Shades for the iMac. I don't really mind the bright screen, just wanted to take the edge off of it. Plus, the screen on both computer was always too bright for word processing. Now if I can only my printer and Photoshop to agree with printing everything. With Photoshop Elements, I didn't have all these choices to make on who handles what and what settings I use. Plus I'm using a Mac, which throws in a new set of things to work out. Oh course it would help if I could find my printer manual. Yes that's gone missing, again. It's thin, so it's tuck or between something. Might be on the disk too. Nows where's that ?

I'll post a new poems tomorrow.

   

Yea got out at 3!

First day back at work and it was a short one!

Most the swelling went down, now just have get this huge bruise to go away. Lucky, none of the patrons said anything, especially the kids. For them, I was going tell them I had an accident. If I told them was because of a dentist's visit and the parents would never get them into the dentist's chair.

The snow started just before noon but didn't really get heavy until around 1:30. The roads were staring to get cover by the time I left. It was nice to come home, have a cup of tea and work on the plot puzzle at Neopets.

Chilly day and chilly night.

Winter has come back with a blast of artic air. Right now this room has a chill to it. Yes I can turn up the heat, it's only on 64. But other people  can't, so why should I ?

Well, I did manage to type up a few poems yesterday on the Mac using iWork's Pages. It's pretty good program. I set up a templete for doing poem. And yes, I still want a Wordperfect for a Mac. Was hoping to do more but landed up not feeling for most the day. I'll post one the new ones tomorrow. Still questioning a few lines.

Also finally got around using my camera a video camera. I could never do it because Quicktime does not like my Gateway. Almost crash it twice. So today I pulled out my direction book and figured out how to do it. Videos came out good, work (of course) great on the Mac. So I'll tried again with shooting some video this weekend. As posting it on the blog.

No because I don't know how to do it. lol!

Well there's is Youtube to host it. Which by the way is a great way to find old musical videos I haven't seen in a very long time. Another thing I want to tried is iTunes. There's a few songs I would like to have for my music collection. All I need to do is find my Apple password and I'm going on a buying spee!

First post on the iMac

I realize something tonight, i never set up my bookmarks on the iMac via Foxfire. I don't think i can import them from the windows verison. Then again, those bookmarks on the Gateway need to be clean up. So I typing up this post and so far everything going well. Does make it easier when I have post pictures here.

The picture above was snap last night. It's not a black and white picture, just turn out that way. I used flash, so I think that gave it's unworldly looks  Was hoping for a little more snow but happy what I got. Wish I brought the camera to work. It was beautiful out with the snow attached to everything.

Yet I was restless today, one thing I was hoping for didn't turn out as well as I hope.I want closure to this crazy business with my teeth.Nope another roadblock has been thrown up. Just tired of the whole thing.  Oh well that's my life