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My DSL is repaired but will only work if I'm hooked up to the modem via an ethernet cable.

I've tried, for an hour this morning and another hour tonight, to configure the Linksys wireless router (which I installed and have previously reconfigured a couple times). It comes up as configured and connected but won't let me go anywhere - everything times out.

I think the problem is internet security settings... that I have them configured, somewhere, for the wireless router too. I've checked, disabled, and/or reset everything I can think of but still can't get internet access via my wireless router.

Yes, it is making me insane.

Blew the audition....

Tricky

Shouldn't have told 'em I was a one trick pony....

Yep,  my prescription.  800mg each.

Pills

Here is an Ohio Scientific Challenger 4P (C4P).  It used the faster version of the 6502 processor (Apple and Commodore used the standard version) had lots of RAM (for the time) and all sorts of ports built in.  Nevertheless,  it had no expansion slots.  Hence no 3rd party add in cards.  It was released in the Fall of 1979 and the Apple II+ was released a few months earlier in the Spring.  It never could catch up.

This one was a friends first computer (he also had the Black Apple).  He had used it for years before upgrading to the Apple.  I would imagine the upgrade was actually the diskette system of the Apple and RAM as the specs on the C4P were better otherwise.  But the C4P did have the nifty wood sides.

Unfortunately while in good cosmetic condition,  BASIC will not come up.  It did last time I had it powered up.  I guess time for troubleshooting.

C4p front

C4p rear

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it is possible I'd seen stand-up before watching Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip, but if so, Richard made me forget about it.  RPLotSS was one of the first shows that incorporated performance into stand-up

Richard covered a lot of ground in 80 minutes. a meditation on love, loss and the difference between men and women:

NOTE:  I feel silly even mentioning this, but just in case.  This is RICHARD FUCKING PRYOR peoples.  offensive language is a given.  do not listen at work or at grandma's house.

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Him in recovery, crystals have been removed from his bladder, he'll probably get to come home tomorrow afternoon with drugs and the cone of shame.

Thanks for the thoughts.

HRTortie had a great night yesterday, being on FDaddy's lap all evening, sleeping on Mommy's electric blanket, and cuddling with me early this morning. I was under the covers with her, thinking about all the stuff I needed to do and worrying about TK, till I realized that I couldn't do anything about any of those things at that time, so the best cause of action was to go back to sleep petting the warm floofy purring tortie. The Zen of Floof got me another 4 hours' sleep.

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Dad was at church this morning after seniors choir practice, and another man fell and knocked him over. He fell on his hip that was replaced eight years ago. They're at the hospital, and it appears the bone may be cracked, so he may have to have surgery again tomorrow.

Dad's a lot frailer than he was back in 2001 after his first hip surgery.

Please say a prayer for him and think good thoughts.

Thanks.

Update: Just talked to my sister, and they're waiting for the surgeon (busy day, I guess) to determine if surgery will be necessary. But he's not in too much pain, and he actually got into the hospital bed under his own steam, which is a good sign.

He actually answered the phone when I called the room, and he sounded pretty good. So here's hoping...

I'm putting it out here now...even though it's only November...
I mean if you can listen to Christmas music in Walmart in October...you will LOVE this!

Silent Monks "sing" the Hallelujah Chorus....

Rhode Island legislators learned yesterday that Gov. Carcieri vetoed the gay funeral rights bill that passed in October.

The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Rhoda Perry and state Rep. David Segal, would have added “domestic partners” to the list of people legally authorized to make funeral, cremation or burial arrangements for their deceased partners. Heterosexual married couples already have these rights.

The Providence Journal reported that the bill was proposed after one man was unable to retrieve the body of his late partner from the state medical examiner for weeks because they weren’t married or next-of-kin.

Gov Carcieri’s veto message, said:

“This bill represents a disturbing trend over the past few years of the incremental erosion of the principles surrounding traditional marriage, which is not the preferred way to approach this issue.

“If the General Assembly believes it would like to address the issue of domestic partnerships, it should place the issue on the ballot and let the people of the state of Rhode Island decide.”

The bill defined a domestic partner as someone who was in an “exclusive, intimate and committed relationship” with the deceased person and had lived with them for at least a year. The bill also said the couple had to be financially “interdependent” by joint mortgage, shared credit card or domestic partnership contract.

Gov. Carcieri said the bill would allow the decisions of a “partner” of a year to take precedence over “traditional family members.” He said a “one year time period is not a sufficient duration to establish a serious bond between two individuals.”

Rep. Segal said Carcieri took his opposition to same-sex marriage too far. He and Sen. Perry plan to override the veto.

Segal also said, “‘I think the man is heartless and this has become a bad joke that has carried on for far too long.”

Even in death we get NOTHING!

I think that gay people should leave their spouses in the morgue and let the state pay for the burials until it is Bankrupt.

Look! NumNuts! I mean YumNuts!

For the record, my father's favorite expression while driving when I was a kid: Get the fuck out of the way, NumNuts!

(I love the package design though.)