Gloomy weather, but my mood is good, so that's something :-)

Every one taken to town, stores & library have been stopped at, and now we're home. Awesome!

Happy Winter Solstice Every One!

Bigger, better, bottle-tree

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More of our 2010 Christmas lights

I added the last strand of lights that we have/had :)

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Our 2010 outside Christmas lights

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Background color and Christmas lights

For some unknown reason, the background to new blog posts start as gray while using my blogwriter. It didn't used to be. A few to several months ago I was messing like I always do, trying to cleanup "unneeded' files so that my system would hopefully run faster. I was trying to compensate for the low RAM in my computer. Perhaps I was compacting folders, like the program folder. I honestly don't remember. All I know is that one day I noticed the background and tried to change it back to white, which remains an unresolved issue. What's weird, at least to me, is that once it's published to my blog site, it's white again. About that RAM I was trying to compensate for... it's no longer an issue because we saved our pennies for a while and finally purchased a 1Gb stick of it from a computer store.

Now that it's time to put up those outside holiday lights on the front of the house, it's been too cold. Of course not technically. LOL. It's just that it hasn't felt like a major priority. My first priority you ask? Is to stay warm whenever possible, except in those rare cases of an emergency, or something that absolutely has to be done. As the day of winter parties worldwide approaches, it's working it's way up the to-do list. I procrastinate for a few reasons. 1) We live very rural and have very little traffic, so 2) Not many people to impress, Er, cheer-up I mean. lol 3) Christmas lights haven't become a tradition (2nd year), yet, because I'm a new convert to getting into the holiday spirit. Yep, I used to be somewhat of a curmudgeon. lol

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Winterized windows

It's "that" time of year again. But we're ready, for the most part (I.E. physically:)

If you click you can open a new tab/window and see the pictures in their original sizes:)

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Ozark sunset picture-video

Our dog, Annabelle is very comfortable :)

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Happiest Days of Thanks, everyone

Let it not be said that I cannot be 'holiday-ish' when I wish you all a very

Happy Thanksgiving! 2010

Love is all you need.

[Solved. See Comments] Please Help Me get rid of Panda Cloud icon

The "Panda Cloud Antivirus" icon in my Control Panel. I done every kind of search imaginable to myself looking for the file name. I've searched the registry, online for help, and find NOTHING. Help :-( I do NOT have that program installed.

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A plane flew over @ The Veteran's Day Parade

Beginning of the Buffalo, MO Veteran's Day Parade

4th (last) round: Veteran's Day Parade pictures

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Veteran's Day Parade 2010
Buffalo, MO, U.S.A.

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The First Round

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P.S. Check back for short videos, please

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3rd (of 4) round of pictures
Veteran's Day Parade 2010
Buffalo, MO, U.S.A.

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2nd round: Veteran's Day parade pictures

2nd (of 4) round of pictures
Veteran's Day Parade 2010
Buffalo, MO, U.S.A.

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First round (of 4) pictures Veteran's Day Parade 2010

First (of 4) round of pictures
Veteran's Day Parade 2010
Buffalo, MO, U.S.A.

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2nd round: Miniature vehicles and a mini donkey

3rd round: Normal size, older cars

4th round: Mini U.S. flag

P.S. I'll be uploading at least one very short video. later

T, R, A, and E halloween 2010

Didn't do a lot, but we did get turned into zombies, so we went into the local town. A collegue of my daughter invited us to the parking lot of the 1st Baptist church in Buffalo so see other people's costumes. Oddly enough, we were the only zombies there. Go figure. lol.

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Next to the church, in the YMCA's parking lot

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My wife and daughter

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My son, who was NOT happy we insisted he go with us.

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More of my daughter

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Antivirus software

Have you tried the free antivirus software from Panda Cloud? And/or another free program from AVG? What I'm trying to figure is if one is better than the other. I need one that uses fewer CPU resources since I only have 512 MB of RAM. Opinions/reviews please. Thanks.

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Internet connectivity and speed

As I was saying just two days ago, our internet connection has become very flaky indeed. Yesterday a technician went to the main connection hub for the area and did "something" and we had a really good connection for a little while. Maybe an hour, hour and half. Of course I called customer support (Centurylink) to tell them that once again our speed sucked (not in those words). He put in another work order for yesterday afternoon but more than likely it wouldn't be tended to til this morning. Probably some time between 8 AM and Noon. Overnight though, the outside temperature dropped to the mid 20's. Now ordinarily, or more like "normally" (?) that shouldn't affect our connection, but it did and is. Two days when the problem started it was completely overcast and cooler than it had been for a while. Happens every year! That's where we're at... waiting for help and hoping we can at least send and receive email, which is how I'm writing to my blog.
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As for accurately checking our connection speed online, we had previously been led to one for our state at http://bransonspeedtest.net, but when I was talking to customer support on Wednesday she asked me to go to http://speedtest.net cause they feel it's more accurate. While talking to the repair tech on the phone yesterday I checked the speed at bransonspeedtest and got about 1.3 megabits/sec, but each time I redid it, got slower and slower results, even slower at speedtest.net. So now I don't know which one to believe. The customer support, on the phone, told me yesterday that our "Margin (db)" should be a minimum of 8.0. This morning, as of 15 seconds ago it's at * 4.9* - whatever that means. Yesterday it was around 5.3. *shrug* Yes, they reminded me a few times that "you're right at the end of the DSL connectivity range". I was, "Yeah, we have been for a few years now and our speed has been mostly stable at 1.5 MBps". *sigh* Quite frankly I'm still baffled that NASA can communicate with a robot on Mars wirelessly, but for DSL 18K feet is the "limit"? Makes no sense to me!
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Anyway, today is my DD's 18th birthday. She got birthday pie for breakfast before heading off to work. It was pumpkin pie in case you're wondering.
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RE: No Internet connection, but

RIGHT after I posted about no E but M connection, the Internet came back.... for about 30 secs, if that :-(

"It would appear as though at least I have email connection. Ideas?"

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No Internet connection, but

It would appear as though at least I have email connection. Ideas?

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Glasses for Todd

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Clicking the picture above will take you to the page on Facebook where you can support the cause. $10 is JUST a suggestion. Clicking (at Facebook) the little arrow on the right gets you a drop-down menu for amounts to donate. ANY help will be VERY appreciated.

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