Mundane encore...

At least today there was some sunshine - not real warm, but sun, nevertheless. Ever since I planted my little seeds, we have had overcast days. So, I took my little trays and sat them in the yard so they could get feel the sun on their faces! I swear, I think two or three might have broke ground because of it! Sure hope they'll all thrive.

Work -- usual - got almost all my self-appointed quota done, and will have before I go to bed. I got so sleepy at one point, I fell asleep in my chair. My cat Quincy kept waking me up last night. Sometimes he acts like he's worried that I'm in bed and he thinks I'm not supposed to be there. So, he's quite persistent until I get up. Then I'll carry him back to bed with me to hoping it will shut him up, pet him a little. That will settle him down, but not last night! Silly cat!

Anyway, I finally decided if I was going to nap, I'd do it right and went to lay down on the couch. No news of any consequence on weekends, and I didn't get interested in the Olympics this year at all. I put the TV on Discover Channel, and watched a show about the JFK Assassination Conspiracies. It was so interesting. These guys went all out to prove or disprove the 4th bullet, 2nd gunman theory, magic bullet theory. The efforts that they went to in order to recreate that day was amazing! Well, I won't describe it all here, but as far as I'm concerned, their recreations and studies pretty much satisfied me that the Warren Commission was correct, and there was not a 2nd gunman. I never did get my nap. One thing, though, in their studies, they had to build replicas of his form and John Connolly's to study the traversing of the bullet and mentioned that JFK was 6 feet, and 170 pounds and his chest was 37 inches. I always thought of him as a bit more robust than that.

I suppose if you were alive Nov. 22, 1963, at 1:00 p.m - I believe it was a Friday - you remember what you were doing and where you were. I was in 10th grade at South Park High, lunch period, and we were hearing that he had been shot. The bell rang, we went to class - my next period was Texas history, and our principal made the announcement on the loud speaker that he died. Gosh, students and teachers alike cried. It was such a shock, almost unbelieveable. What an innocent era times were then. They let out school, and we spent the next few days glued to the TV watching the coverage on all three channels - NBC, CBS, and ABC, black and white, and that was it. Indeed, the nation and I suppose the world did change that day.


I got an email tonight that is circulating around the web that I'll pass along here. Now, I've been on the computer since Apple IIe -- well, really, before that. We even had a little TI (Texas Instruments). I took some computer classes in college, learned some programming, recovered hard drives, manage to hold my own most of the time -- and this is so simple a tip and I have never heard it before. But what a gem it is. If you've known it as long as the control C copies and control V pastes commands -- well, good for you - but it was news to me.

When you're in your email and the print is too small, click the mouse somewhere inside the piece of mail, then hold down the control key and roll the wheel on your mouse and it increases/decreases the font sizes. And, it seems to stay the size you left it. So, how 'bout that! Well, if it works in mail, maybe it works in Internet Explorer, too -- of course, I had to experiment -- and lo and behold, it does! Looks like I can hold off on that new eyeglasses prescription now for a while!
It doesn't take much to impress me, does it!