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18 June, 2009
I admit that once again I was hitting a roll and got stuck with to much to do. Maybe the first day or two it was because I was being a little lazy, but then I had a crazy schedule both at work, after hours, and especially over the weekend. I realize that some of that schedule is my own fault – as I know I have hard time keeping a narrow focus. After all variety is the spice of life or something like that. Crazy last weekend is past though. I am feeling like a pin cushion that is being used for an assault rifle target practice – for an entire regiment no less – at the office. Next thing I know a full ten days have passed since my last post.
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08 June, 2009
Over the weekend I had the opportunity to see a concert that I had been trying to catch for sometime and the stars finally alligned in heavens correctly for it to occur. Willie Nelson played a show at the summer outdoor concert series at Horseshoe Casino and Resort over in Indiana just across the river from Louisville. It was a perfect ending to a good early summer day that had started with the afternoon at Churchill Downs, later watching the Belmont and realizing I had the winner and the trifecta, and then the playing and singing to one hit song after another of Willie in the outside air as the sun slowly set behind the hills to our west.
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02 June, 2009
Readers may recall a couple of weeks ago, I complained about a suspected update to Explorer causing a bunch of crashing in my browser of choice, Mozilla Firefox. I had quipped that it would not surprise me if something was amiss there, based on the timing of that last updates from which source and when things starting to go wrong. Since then, through some various methods I had reduced the number of hangup and lockups to a substantially less number, but they, the lockups in particular, were still happening enough to be concerned. Thanks to a friend on Facebook, kudos to you Drew, I have been vindicated somewhat in my original thought on the matter.
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Politics | Posted by:
rcornish | Comments:
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01 June, 2009
What I got here is a prime example of great government intelligence. What I am about to say is unbelievable in the best of times but given that this is a stretch of road that is maintained by the Commonwealth of Kentucky it becomes even more appalling. The fine commonwealth has recently been discussing just how budget shortfalls are going to met, debating cuts to services, increases in fees (another way of saying tax in a very thinly disguised wording), and even looking at the possibility of a looming special session to figure it out. Granted there has been some trickle of money starting to come in from the federal aid packages and maybe that explains the following:
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31 May, 2009
For the few of you that were reading this a LONG time ago you may recall my confusion and questioning of airline mathematical principals way back when. Basically, they had leg A to B to C cheaper then just leg B to C by itself, on the same plane. Apparently I need to expand that theory to cover the entire travel based industry though based on my recent experience with hotels. I continue to be baffled, but read on and maybe someone else can explain this basic math to me that I can not seem to grasp.
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25 May, 2009
This is a total rant – so be warned – sometimes I just got to rant about something that is bugging me. What the heck has happened to customer service of late? Take a step further, when was the last time the customer actually was right according to the establishment. So I am going to share a couple of experiences of late and see if what you all think.
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21 May, 2009
Of several things that I have noticed of late is the seeming price creep and amount of expense that I have had recently on my lunch dining experience. Combine that with a similar creep in my weight again and I decided I have to get motivated and do something about it. A quick observation that came about with some conversation from a friend is how I really do not mind that $2.00 – $4.00 lunch that you can get around at various places, especially if you watch just a little bit and are willing to be flexible on given days.
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20 May, 2009
In the last week or so I have started having a lot of crashes, lockups, and blue screens of death on my system. I had been trying to figure things out and had looked at several things. The error reporting kept suggesting it was a problem with an out of date USB device driver, but that was not the case. Everything was up to date, which was another it suggested might be the problem. I was grasping at seeming straws to find a solution.
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