Book Commercials & Misanthropic Observations

I don’t know what to do with this

Emotionally, I mean. Should I laugh? Should I cry? But I had to post it. Be sure to catch the “breakdown” at 2 minutes.

It’s official

I’ve passed the Uniform Public BookKeeper Exam! I’m a CPB!

Taking test 3 today, God willing.

It’s time to get back on track with one of my goals for 2008: Qualifying for a public bookkeeping license. I passed the first 2 of 3 tests in the spring, about 6 weeks apart. Then my wonderful cousins (they are not cousins to each other- let me be clear) got married and I had the honor of being the photographer. My life was swallowed into processing the 1300 photos I took and after that, well, I couldn’t see for the last month. So now, today, I have submitted for access to the 3rd exam.

This one is for Porter

When you get your new Dell XT and you try to use it in portrait mode you may get an error. Go to Microsoft updates, > optional updates > hardware-and download a new driver for your graphics Card. Works like a charm.

How Long, Oh LORD?

I am reading Mao: The Unknown Story, per Jeff Burton’s review. I had it on audiobook, but found myself not listening well enough to follow the story. So now I have the book. And I am struck by an overwhelming “How Long, Oh LORD?”. Why does this man continue to breathe? Why is he allowed to continue being so wicked? Year in, year out, scheming, killing, backstabbing. Why does he have such success at utter manipulation?

Testing -123

My first blog post written on a tablet PC. Randy Zimmerman is a genius! But I suspect Jeff Burton is originally behind this idea …I played with Randy’s PC about a year ago and never forgot how great it was.

Outlook 2007 slow?

Lately at work we have been very frustrated at the slow startup speeds for outlook- I came across this today and it significantly improved the start up.

In Outlook: tools/trust center/addins. then click on “go…” at the bottom.  Uncheck any outlookaddins you don’t need.

Bubble wand fix

The air pump in Schrody’s tank was too powerful and the water was roiling from the bubble wand, even though I had bought the smallest air pump I could find. So I first poked pins in the air tube to cut down on the pressure- that hardly made a dent. I then took my sewing scissors (little and very sharp) and cut a slice: better, but when I cut a tiny triangle out of the tube, it slowed the wand to about 5 streams of bubbles- perfect.

Schrody is calm, but he gets some extra oxygen in his water. He even swims through the streams now instead of banishing himself to the front half of the tank to escape the torrent of movement.