Saturday 19

Saturday 19- I did my stretches.
Today’s Weather was: Temps of around 62 and 93 degrees, winds out of the NW/SW at 8 to 16 MPH, humidity around 11 percent, clear skies.
According to the National Weather Service: “Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 95. Light wind becoming southwest between 15 and 18 mph. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph. Sunday Night: Clear, with a low around 62. West wind 17 to 20 mph decreasing to between 7 and 10 mph. Winds could gust as high as 28 mph.”
I watered my thirsty plants and then went inside and removed the 32Gig SSD hard drive from my HP Mini Note and replaced it with the old 8Gig that used to be in it. The sound has had a crackling noise and I wanted to see if it was Win 7 on the 32Gig. There was no crackling noise on the 8Gig so it is a software/driver problem with Win 7. While I had the 8Gig in there I loaded up Ubuntu 10.3 to see how it’d run. Everything worked except the wireless and HP Mini doesn’t have an RJ45 receptor, so I’m out of luck until I can download the driver on another system. This is a very difficult transfer between the 8Gig and the 32Gig and not as easy as the Dell Mini 9 where you just pop out one and replace it with another. On the HP you have to remove the keyboard among other things. I took back out the 8Gig with Ubuntu and replace the 32Gig with Win 7 on it. This kept me busy all day!
I called a few Family and Friends throughout the day.
A neighbor’s wife called needing me to tow her car that was just up the road from me. She said to come on over and pick up her husband who would help. He was drinking beer when I arrived. We got to her car; we hooked it up with chain to my truck. I was ready to start towing when her husband jumped into the passenger side of my truck and said he’d ride with me! I asked him who was going to steer his wife’s car and apply the brakes when needed. Oh Sh*T he said, jumped out and got behind the wheel of the other car. I thought that was kind of funny :)
I did my stretches. I practiced my guitar, wrote to my journal, posted it to the web, and called it a night.

Sunday 20

Sunday 20- I did my stretches.
Today’s Weather was: Temps of around 62 and 93 degrees, winds out of the NW/SW at 8 to 15 MPH, humidity around 10 percent, clear skies.
According to the National Weather Service: “Monday: Sunny, with a high near 93. Calm wind becoming south between 7 and 10 mph. Monday Night: Clear, with a low around 63. West southwest wind 14 to 17 mph decreasing to between 5 and 8 mph. Winds could gust as high as 24 mph.”
Ron Dehart came over to pay me a visit. We sat around jawing about this and that and other things of great importance. I showed him all the work I’ve been doing on the house especially the patio roof. It was nice to have someone come over to yap!
I called Family and Friends throughout the day.
I spent some time looking online for an E-reader. I looked at several including the Kindle, Sony, and many others. I think Barns and Nobel’s Nook is one of the best I’ve seen so far. I believe that the market for e-readers is going to get very hot in the coming months with new devices with more functions. My idea of an e-reader would be to use it online to get my email and surf webpages, read books of course, use E-ink, have an open architecture, be able to read different formats, listen to music, have 3G and Wifi, be able to use a SD drive, and it seems that the Nook comes very close to this if not all. I’m still going to wait to see what comes out in the following months; this is very exciting!
I watched a movie called “Farewell to the King” (1989) about an American soldier in WWII who escapes the Japanese Army on Borneo only to become lost in the jungle, captured by a tribe of headhunters, and becomes their king. Very interesting movie!!!!
I did my stretches. I practiced my guitar, wrote to my journal, posted it to the web, and called it a night.