Sunday 28 August 2016

scoot, scoot, scootin....

The scooter continues to be the apple of my eye. (but Rip is still my true love)

I've decided to stick with the pcx150 and not press my luck with something bigger and faster. But like I said before, it only takes one moment of weakness to do something foolish. Never underestimate the power of a slick commissioned salesman.

The new helmet arrived and it's a big thick clunky thing. When I first put it on I thought; son of bitch, this thing's too tight. But reading the little two bit manual told me that it was supposed to be tight and would mold to the shape of my head. The manual was correct, it's slowly adapting to my square head and if it was any larger the wind would push it up while riding.

A few days ago it was so hot and sunny that I used an umbrella while walking Rip in the afternoon but today it's turned cold and it started to drizzle as I was scooting back from the bakery. The summer fun will soon be over. So it goes.

The new computer is working well but it seems getting windows 10 just swapped one problem for a different problem. Windows 7 often disconnected from the net and I had to run the wizard to resolve the problem, "restore local gateway connection".  Now windows 10 is giving me the "blue screen of death" with the message "THREAD STUCK IN DEVICE DRIVER".  Sonny will be dropping by to check it out and re-install some drivers.

One good thing about windows 10 is the ESPN baseball box scores always come up right away. For some funny reason I always had to refresh the baseball home page before the box scores would come up when using windows 7. I love the box scores. If the games on TV are crappy, I'll spend more time monitoring box scores than watching tv.

One of the best baseball songs:

Billy says he loves you sons of bitches.

21 comments:

  1. A stuck driver thread is tough luck, Mr. Rosewater. You'll need to disassemble all of the fans, including the one inside the power supply, and find out where that thread is stuck. Once removed, reassemble and for god's sake keep your unit off the shag carpet. Good luck. If you want to set up a skype session on the old machine I can walk you through the disassembly so I can record it and post it up on BoingBoing.

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    1. it looks like i have some dog hair in one of the fans. i'm heading out to buy a can of compressed air.

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    1. What do you know about those weird clown sightings in your woods, Thimscool?

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    2. http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/09/machete-wielding_man_chases_aw.html#incart_river_mobile_home

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  3. I keep trying to picture a pond turtle on a scooter. It's not easy, but I persist.

    Tell Billy that I used to like him well enough, but then I met you and only then did I discover what true love looked like.

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    1. Worry not Mr Snow, soon I will merge the scooter with a turtle.

      Billy's strapped to a yellow Barcalounger but I'll break the news to him next time our paths cross at the asylmum.

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    2. I couldn’t sleep last night for thinking about you and Billy. First, I found myself worrying that—given the depth of his mental problems—Billy (the poor deluded fool) might have taken my flippant comment about not worshiping the ground that he walks on seriously because, god knows, I love him twice a much as I love you (I hope it won’t hurt your feelings for me to say that because I don’t mean it, but am only saying it to make Billy feel better, so when you read my comment to him, don’t read this sentence, and everything should be fine).

      Then, I started wishing that you guys were in a better institution. I mean, really, gruel every morning, and un-spiced dried beans and white rice every night tells one a lot about what the administration values, and it certainly isn’t spending money to help screwed-up people like yourselves. Then, there’s their transparent effort to deal with overcrowding by issuing machetes to all you paranoid schizophrenics, and and claiming that they’re simply doing it for recreation and that no one need get hurt while pretending to be pirates with cutlasses. While I’m on the subject, I just want to say that I have been desperately hoping that you weren’t too badly hurt during that last “battle” with Her Majesty’s ship the Fart. Maybe if you claimed to be a chaplain, you wouldn’t have to run about defending your life with a machete. As for Billy, he could accomplish the same end by dressing like a woman. Of course, he would no doubt be raped, but at least he would be alive.

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    3. Don't worry about us. I drift off to Tralfamdore on a regular basis and the senator bails Eliot out every few months. He''ll find a volunteer fire department in need of new equipment and they'll treat him like royalty for a few weeks after the foundation re-equips them.

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    4. I don't give a fuck what anyone thinks of me so I got that going for me also.

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    1. I didn't plant tomatoes this year because freshly turned dirt attracts the Rip almost as much as a slab of beef.

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  5. I've never understood why you have to install drivers to make computer software work. Why don't they install all that crap with the software? Isn't Windows 10 meant for touch-screen computers? I wouldn't want to live my fingerprints on a screen.

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    1. The drivers are a real racket. This morning whilst searching for a solution microsoft generously offered keep them up to date for a mere $2.50 per month.

      Windows 10 just seems to be a stairway to the cloud where Microsoft is kind enough to pamper and make all things wonderful for any and all pilgrims with a credit card.

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  6. Yes, I too grow weary of the money they try to wring out of you with updates, protection, etc. I sometimes think back to what is was like prior to home computers and think.... Perhaps it was easier and better then. But it is perhaps too difficult to forgoe as well.

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  7. Poor old Eliot. He wouldn't agree to some new stuff from google and now the dirty sons of bitches won't let him comment. Microsoft gave him the blue screen of death again this morning and now google's giving it to him up the arse.

    I think it's time to go fishin and spin some tunes.

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  8. Would be wise to stick with the 150.

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    1. being wise and having fun aren't the same thing.

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  9. I'm going to miss the summer fun as well. It seems to have gone by way too fast this year. Take care Mr. Rosewater.

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    1. thank you for your continued support mr shife.

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