Farmwithjunk,
I can see that Mrs. FMJ has her hands full with you.
Just as Dougster's GF has her hands full with him.
hugs, Brandi
40 years of marriage and it's still NEVER boring around here! 
Help Dougster help!What I am really trying to say Al, is that I sold my cow, so I don't need your bull.Now, tomorrow, I will be thinking about y'all up there as I dig in the dirt with the Big RED Beast while y'all comtemplate how to stop the rust under y'alls cars caused by all the road salt y'all use to melt all the snow and ice y'all live for up there. .....and I am sure somehow, Dougster was in on this nonsense.
JunkSo you will have to build your log house here in the Great Northeast. Dougster will plow your driveway and drinkall day.
You will become an honorary New Englander.
Junk will loose a Southerner.
waiting Oh brother!!!
Why can't I ever win???Help Dougster help!
Jump right in any time. I think I may be a little trouble here.
It's time to come to the defense of the New Englanders. Any time, any time.
Brandi
INCOMING!!!!!!!! It's every man for himself Al!!!Junk I'm in real deep here. Making apologies to everyone I can think of.
Run for the hills!!! 
Dougster & Al,Oh brother!!!
It's every man for himself Al!!!
Dougster
so I was not checking in. What an amazing and amusing thread 
. It covers just about everything sacred. I think I saw that 
walking around in NoHo (Northampton, MA) the other day. He would not last long up in some of the hilltowns around here; in some other areas he would probably become a "nice" houseboy . As a Yankee who has tasted and enjoyed some real fine real Southern Cookin' I can honestly state that I have, can, and do smoke a mean rib throughout the year; weather is just the weather when it comes to serious smokin' and BBQ'in
. Like a lot of you old farts since I got sick I have become increasingly limited by doctors' orders as to what I should be doing and to a good degree I follow the doctors' orders pretty well (have to ). I have drawn a line in the sand when it comes to , a predinner martini (gin), and I still will 
within my "calorie count". I will admit that sometimes I have been influenced by 30 years of exposure to those bleeding heart, overzealous tree hugging, huggy, new age colleagues of mine , but where I came from (Williamsport, PA) we did talk and think funny (and strangely) and I tasted some pretty potent "shine" down there. As to "greatness"- every night before I go to sleep I tell myself "They always mocked and laughed at the "great ones" . Jay 
Junk
I'm in real deep here. Making apologies to everyone I can think of.
Waiting for Dougster to come to the rescue.
No sign of him yet. Waiting
Ol Dougster's sorta like a visit from an IRS agent. You KNOW it's coming eventually, but so long as he ain't here, LET'S ALL HAVE A GOOD TIME
Now I know that some of you think that I live on this computer except for those quick trip to Starbucks lately... but the fact is that I do have a real life, such as it is, and a real business or two to run... even if neither wants to show a profit. In fact, much of my time, this week and last, is being taken up with endless accounting, tax preparation, advertising buys, equipment plans and a couple new "strategic business relationships" under consideration for the coming digging season. Also had some computer repair calls this week, although one constituted my first ever failure to fix a home networking problem and the notion of that first failure has been driving me up the damn wall.Dougster has weekend plans with GF. He's probably too preoccupied withto deal with the likes of us
Am I getting even older and fuzzier... or did Bill Gates make networking a Vista machine to an XP machine printer dang near imposssible???
Now I know that some of you think that I live on this computer except for those quick trip to Starbucks lately... but the fact is that I do have a real life, such as it is, and a real business or two to run... even if neither wants to show a profit. In fact, much of my time, this week and last, is being taken up with endless accounting, tax preparation, advertising buys, equipment plans and a couple new "strategic business relationships" under consideration for the coming digging season. Also had some computer repair calls this week, although one constituted my first ever failure to fix a home networking problem and the notion of that first failure has been driving me up the damn wall.
Other than that, I made a new batch of gruel last night, got some new welding books as a gift from NTT Kansas Delegation member Nicahawk and life overall is pretty good!
Dougster
It wouldn't accept 2000, muchless XP. Hadda put it out to pasture 6 months ago.From the casual end user's perspective, there really isn't all that much difference between XP and Vista. Everything you know and love is still there... more or less. Mr. Gates & Company just decided to move things around a bit and make things more fancy & pretty. Some things became more logical and some things a little less logical. The real problem comes from: a) The truly massive computing power necessary to run Vista effectively and, b) The changing of certain key default settings. There are the usual new bugs & teething issues, but that's common to all such upgrades.Not that I know much about the subject, but I'm hearing all sorts of horror stories relating to Vista. Several PC's at work had it installed a few months ago only to have it "un-installed" shortly after. Users couldn't quite master it.
I'm still mourning the fact that my old computer is no longer compatable with my home DSL service 'cause of Windows 95 being obsolete.
From the casual end user's perspective, there really isn't all that much difference between XP and Vista. Everything you know and love is still there... more or less. Mr. Gates & Company just decided to move things around a bit and make things more fancy & pretty. Some things became more logical and some things a little less logical. The real problem comes from: a) The truly massive computing power necessary to run Vista effectively and, b) The changing of certain key default settings. There are the usual new bugs & teething issues, but that's common to all such upgrades.
As a computer repair guy, I am a bit torn. On the one hand, XP is a decent OS and I see little, if any, practical reason to upgrade. On the other hand, I need to stay "cutting edge" current and there is a lot of money to be made off people who did upgrade to Vista. With the latter point in mind, I will probably buy a new Vista machine soon just so I can duplicate in the shop problems that folks are experiencing out in the field... particularly with respect to cross-OS wireless networking.
Just to convince myself that I hadn't lost it, I set-up a new wireless XP home network for someone today in 4-1/2 minutes, including appropriate security and printer sharing. I had worked on that XP/Vista cross-OS home wireless network for 4-1/2 HOURS last week and got nowhere.
But I can't blame Bill Gates for everything. In that latter case, the problem including a machine that should never have been running Vista in the first place... and hideous 3rd party "comprehensive" PC security systems that should never be placed on any sane person's machine.
Dougster
Sorry...Um.. did you say something?
...but that "first ever failure" on the computer repair side of my strange little independent business world has taken over my brain and shaken my self-confidence to the core. Evidence of that fact is gonna come out in odd spurts and rants until I manage to get over it. Unfortunately, getting over it is gonna mean spending money (that is badly needed elsewhere) on a Vista machine for the shop so that this kind of failure never happens again.
Jeremy,Um.. did you say something?
However, I sure hope he finds some good land deals up on his walk about.More like talking "Geek" again... but I'm sure you would feel the same way if you were assigned and accepted a simple aircraft repair task that you'd done a hundred times before... and then found out that for some inexplicable reason you couldn't pull it off.Jeremy, I think the Dougster 'tis talking Greek again.
hugs, Brandi
It kinda shakes your self-confidence. Then THANK GOD I've got all them nifty StarbucksA lot of
Coffee Gift cards!!! Coffee to console myself after my "first ever" failure. It helped... but I still couldn't eat my gruel or sleep. Thanks Jay!We'll talk
I was good. Land sucked, but I was good. BP is under control and no extra salt in the gruel tonight! 