Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Conficker, April Fools and Ramps

You all do know, by now that today is April Fool's Day?
Does anyone know how it all got started or why?
I didn’t either, but trying to be an informational Blog as well as learning for my own selfish reasons I took the initiative to do a little research, very little so I went to my recent and what I consider reliable number one research site: Wikipedia.com
And they say that you can go there too and look it up!
Oh, all right…April Fool!
I will give you the un petite version, OK?
“The origin of April Fools' Day is obscure. One likely theory is that the modern holiday was first celebrated soon after the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar ; the term referred to someone still adhering to the Julian Calendar, which it replaced. In many pre-Christian cultures May Day (May 1) was celebrated as the first day of summer, and signaled the start of the spring planting season. An April Fool was someone who did this prematurely.” For more history of this day, which by the way is not considered in any shape way or form a holiday go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fool's_Day

Now on to that nasty worm we have been all hearing about the, “Conficker Worm” it seems to only be a problem for us PC users, Macs users are OK.
The best thing to do is to make sure that your anti-virus is working and then try going to microsoft.com if you can do that then you’re all right.
If not there are many sites to help you, just do a general search, but first I can’t stress it enough to do an entire systems’ anti-virus scan.
Fortunately, so far no problem here since I did follow those logical steps.

Any-who today we went on somewhat of an outing, which took us hither and yon in search of the reasonable paint for our freebie fence, which is now becoming an extremely expensive project with the advent of needing to buy extra treated wood for the new configuration, two large containers of screws to make it more hurricane proof.
Already going through two gallons of white paint and now two more large economy size, NOT, five gallon containers one each of primer and exterior, ten gallons more in total. This project is taking on a life of itself, and it still isn’t complete!
Although, as I try to rationalize all these additional expenses, my current mantra is… ‘cheaper than a vinyl fence that I had wanted, cheaper than the vinyl fence that I had wanted,’ over and over again.
We did try to get free or recycled paint at our county recycling center, yes it is free there, but alas it was all interior, and then we went on to Habitat for Humanity, thinking helping them would also help ourselves, for only $5 a gallon, but same problem, oh well we ended up helping the economy by going back to the home warehouse store.

And yes my hubby and I did plan on going there eventually anyway due to my need for an indoor ramp for our tiny five and quarter inch step into our sunroom, which used to be our screen room or Lanai. Yep, my numbies have begun again leg and arm wise, frightening, and just a few steps causes those hips to howl.
Between numb legs and painful hips I wanted the option to ride my scooter around inside or even just hopefully to take her for a ride outside without getting stuck, I hope.
You see with the drought our backyard lawn has turned to dust and is more like a sandbox than the lush lawn we have during raining season. Yes, we have the rain barrel full from the Sunday’s rain, but that is used only for the veggie garden and stressed out plantings in the yard, we are on water restrictions and have been for years!

On all these hopefully interesting and sort of helpful notes I will bid you all good night and to all count those blessings and I will too!

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