Monthly Archives: June 2016

Doing Our Part . . .

For those of you trying to avoid having Windows 10 crammed down your throat . . . er computer, there;s a new scam going around from Microsoft. And unless you know how to respond, you’ll get Windows 10 no matter what you do.

I even saw this Tuesday night when I was cleaning out Barbara’s laptop. After running CCleaner and rebooting, I got a MS pop-up telling me I could install Win10 right now or put it off until tonight. No option to turn it down. Just the two choices, now or later.

Of  course, there is that little ‘X’ in the upper right corner. That’ll kill it, right?

Well, No!

Clicking the ‘X’ does make the window go away, or course, but it also does the same thing as clicking the “Install Later” button. So if you leave your computer on tonight, tomorrow morning when you wake up, you’ll be running Win10 whether you want to or not.

After you see the pop-up, you only have two options, both of which I’ve mentioned before.

First, you can let it install and then click “I Don’t Agree” at the Terms & Conditions prompt. This will cause Windows 10 to uninstall itself back to Win7, 8, or 8.1, where ever you started from. Then download and run Never10 so it won’t happen again. Because if you don’t, it will.

Or second, you can tell the pop-up to install Win10 later tonight, and then immediately run Never10.

I again spent the morning and afternoon working on client website stuff, actually on two different sites at the same time. But hey, it keeps me off the streets and out of trouble.

Well, maybe just off the streets.

About 4:30 Jan and I drove into Columbus to have dinner at Whataburger, our first visit since we were here at Lake Conroe the last time. And that’s way too long.

And even better, they got the order exactly right. Regular readers will remember my trials and tribulations with the Whataburger in Carthage, TX while we were gate guarding last year. But this time I got the young lady to start with a plain #6 with cheese, and then had her add the things we wanted.

What they normally try to do is to subtract mentally what you don’t want from their standard condiments, and then add back the other stuff you do want. So you just know something’s going to go wrong. And it usually does.

But tonight it was perfect. And delicious.

Before heading home, we drove across the street to pick up a few things at the HEB, and then made a fuel stop on our way back to the rig.

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Wrapping for the night, I came across an article recently that talk about what seniors regretted the most in their life. Turns out to be not traveling enough.

Biggest Regrets For Seniors

All I can say is that Jan and I are doing our part.  How about you?


Thought for the Day:

When I’m bored, I send a text to a random number saying, “I hid the body. Now what?”

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Noodles and Watermelons . . .

Well, it was another sunny, rainy, clear, cloudy, dry, flooding day with the weather flip-flopping back and forth, actually pretty typical for summer south Texas weather.

Of course we really don’t need any more rain, since the creeks, rivers, lakes and levee’s are all overflowing, and southwest of Houston they’re apparently evacuating any one any where near the Brazos River.

And there’s more rain to come. Yikes!

On the plus side, it appears things are picking up in the oil fields, with more and more requests for gate guards being posted, especially as the last of the snowbird guards are heading north. So that bodes well if we decide to gate guard later this year. But whatever we do, we don’t want to do south Texas again. Our last two years in east Texas have really spoiled us for actual trees and grass, and not scrub brush and caliche mud.

I spent most of the day working on a new client’s website, getting the initial concept laid down and then approved by the client. Now I can start expanding on the pages and adding content.

Here’s what I’ve got so far. Right now it’s located at a temporary subdomain, but when it’s done it’ll be on its own domain.

http://occr.gregwhite.name/home.html

For dinner tonight, we had the last of the French Fry Chili Cheese Hot Dog Casserole from a couple of nights ago. Still great.

And once again, to start it off, Jan whipped up another batch of her salad dressing.

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Since she makes it to order in a small batch, it’s always fresh and delicious. You can find the recipe here. Jan’s Version of Lynn Cross’ Salad Dressing

And to add a little extra crunch to the salad she made to go with the dressing, this time she added some Chinese Noodles to go with the Texas Toast Croutons.

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Tomorrow night for dinner – Whataburger!

Nuff’ said.

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Thought for the Day:

Math: The only place someone can buy 64 watermelons, and no one wonders why.

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