What Happened this Spring 2007
We're in a big drought! Here's some tips on how to fight it.


   
someone's building a 'real' log cabin on Brushy mtn.   microwave/cell tower on Spruce.


"Give me enough steel pipe, plywood, and levers, and I'll move the earth", to paraphrase Archimedes. This had been in my basement for 2 billion years.
How far the stars? Suppose the sun was the size of an orange. Walk 200 feet (80 steps), you'd be at the location of he earth,a  grain of sand. The nearest stars? Keep walking, they're 6,000 miles further, roughly the distance between Arizona and London, England.
We gave away our chickens, getting 6 more. Lisa and Toby's (see previous hoods) 5 year old Ezra made a trampoline for their baby chicks,
one bounced right into their dog Kozmos's mouth, oops!
  
Ants, worms, snake

Playing Battlefield 2 with the 16 bot patch, getting 8 frames per second on my 1.5 GHZ machine. Downside is you can't change/remove it
unless you uninstall the game. Next install I'll go for 10 bots at 50 percent smart, at 100 they kill you immediately. It takes HOURS to install the game and
the 1.3 patch, BTW. update:  after I wiped that HD, it installed much faster.

 
Gave away our old chickens, they weren't producing many eggs, got 7 more.
My computer has serious issues; 'svchost.exe' is broken, usually the  blaster worm virus, not found by antivirus or Microsoft
worm blaster. My usual solution is to back it up (200 GB will take a while at 4 GB a disk) and format the boot drive. I always have a dual boot computer, a copy of win me or win 98, because win 2000 won't install from a floppy, only from win me or 98. Invariably, the me/98 never runs again after I use it to install win 2000. I have a 8 GB C: drive just for operating systems, but win 2000 wants to go on the 114 GB D:\ drive, so it gets formatted also,
actually might be faster to format it and copy everything back than to defragment. Downside to all this is you have to reinstall all your programs, thanks to the cursed Windows Registry.The things to remember are make a text file with all your PASSWORDS, LOGINS, SECRET QUESTIONS/ANSWERS, print it out, also burn DVD's at 8x maximum. CD's (especially music) should be burned at 16x maximum.
I have a win xp machine to test 'other' luser software on, but it's inferior to win 2000. Except it will run Ultima 9, and some other games win 2000 gags on.
Later: I'm back up and running, Dungeon Hack works now, really why I had to format and reinstall. I'm pretty sure it's
Ulead Video Studio 10 that locks up my computer at boot, if I hit CTRL-ALT-Delete and load task manager, it continues
to boot. 1 thing about video capture, you have to go /desktop/right-click/properties/troubleshooting (there's 2 troubleshooting
tabs), hardware acceleration should be on '1' (1 notch next to 'none') instead of 'full' or Ulead doesn't load.


I decided to protest my taxes after the valuation went up 33 percent in 1 year. Something is only valuable if someone offers you money for it. I heard in
another state the tax only changes when the property is sold. I looked up a dozen or so neighbors, their property values varied wildly, there was even
on guy who had a house on his land (many properties here are vacant) and his taxes were the same as last year's! I used him as a comparision. I just read that you actually need the 'circled c' symbol on any page or it's not really copyrighted. In NVU or Kompozer, I typed
© copyright Terry Morgan 2007 at the bottom in source view.

Dud products of 2005: the $80 (with coupon) Lite-On 5115 DVD recorder, I brought back 2 of these to Costco in 10 months, it only works
if you go on the internet and download a patch, then burn it on a CD. ("REQUIRES INTERNET CONNECTION AND CD BURNER, NOT INCLUDED"). I got a $150 Philips, works great, only trashes about 3 percent of the DVD's.  I also bought a
Pioneer DVD burner for the computer, it died after a few months, then got a Samsung for $28 somewhere, it's working fine.
A cubic kilometer of sea water has 10 tons of copper in it, just can't get at it. In the Economist, my favorite magazine.
they're trying to use remotely operated vehicles to dig up the sea bottom and pump it through a tube, something like 20 tons an hour.
Nvu isn't letting me single space. I just looked at Forbes' '400 Richest People in America', which is pretty boring to the rest of us. I wonder who the 400
poorest people in America are. Should we count newborn babies? Unless they have some instant endowment, they don't own the clothes on their backs, or the diapers on their butts.
May 1- I just went looking for 'Jim Sullivan wind sculpture' on Google, he's a guy www.livingmetalofsedona.com I worked on to get him better known,
it's #3 and #4. Then I looked for 'Terry Morgan', I'm #2, what a coincidence, Angela thinks I'm #2 sometimes also. We got a decent rain, rare for May.


My, what big ears you have, Grandma.

Such good listeners!

 
'71 Ford Ranger, parked in one of the top 30                              WITH A CLUB?
safest cities in the US.

'Gliese 581 the first exoplanet (a planet orbiting a star other than our own Sun) that is anything like our Earth'. It orbits at 6 million miles from its sun (Earth is 93 million away), but its sun
is 50 times cooler.'

And only 20 light years away, let's go!

An earthworm pees the equivalent of  a 150-lb. human 11 gallons per day.

There's a book called 'the People's Chronology' by James Trager, a history of the world, which is useful as a 'You think you've had a bad day' therapy.
1914-250,000 Frenchmen are killed between August 11-25 at the Battle of the Frontiers.  250,000 in 11 days!  There were only 500,000 Americans killed in
World War 2 in 4 years. Put another way, that's like 80 straight days of 9-11 losses, and remember France only had about 40 million people then, while the US has 300 million.
BTW, the Frontiers losses weren't reported until after the war.

1918- 'Spanish Flu' outbreak kills 21 million, one out of every 100 people then living. 500,000 Americans die.
1907- The average American worker works 57 hours a week for $15.



Steve Teegarden's, all plastic and metal.

                              



                             Turn over a rock, you might get lucky! A skink, a newt, a salamander?     Doug and Cindy Crater's house, it's from another century (and for sale).

"If you had more than $2,261(measured by official exchange rates) in 2000, you belonged to the wealthier half of the human race. If you had more than $515,000, you'd
be in the top 1 percent, along with 37 million other people. More than half of wealth is held by just 2 percent of the world's adults. This distribution is equivalent to a world of ten people, in which one had $1,000 and the other nine had $1 each."

-Economist magazine, December 9, 2006
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