Monthly Archives: May 2011

Pauline’s Daily Tweets

  • Shocking photo created a hero, but not to his family – http://bit.ly/mmZHNj #cnn #
  • Take away taxpayer subsidies for Big Oil! Sign the petition. http://t.co/ktobrpL #
  • Getting ready to take off for the gym, got some sunshine out….hoping that it lasts….we can use it. =) #
  • Got an ok workout today, now attacking the rest of contractor payroll…it is a Monday. =) #
  • CBS Newsman Who Fought Joe McCarthy Dies http://huff.to/kfj93r #
  • @mdcbrat It is payday. #
  • @mdcbrat I had a lot of work to do. #
  • Finally got the contractor payroll all done and the company books, need to attack all my emails. #
  • Gingrich can't stay out of gutter racial politics http://t.co/6sbn0wK #
  • Freddie Mercury too Gay for Wasilla http://t.co/zg166N1 ggeezzz #
  • Maggie Gallagher and Anti-Gay Bigotry in the Lexington, MA Public Schools http://t.co/bijrcNW #
  • 'Enable Dislike Button' scam spreading on Facebook http://t.co/KsaStVZ #
  • The Danger of Outing Alleged Rape Victims Through Reporting – The Atlantic http://t.co/RtkrXoY #
  • Finally got all my emails done, now working on all the support stuff. #
  • How to stop cats pissing on your car, The best cat video ever! – Craig T… http://t.co/qVh1G7t LOL #
  • Finally got my work done for the day. Hoping for an easier day tomorrow. #
  • The Man Behind Citizens United Is Just Getting Started http://t.co/SxAkEkX #
  • Solved: The Congressional Staffer Behind "WTF 44" http://t.co/POMg5yV #
  • Fareed Zakaria: How to beat bribery – http://t.co/4GJ9mLr Interesting thought. #
  • Newt Gingrich’s clever race-mongering – http://wapo.st/j9j6fg #

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Spring Colors

I really should be doing some work, but it is the weekend and I try to take time for my own things.  I’ll do it later.  =)

We actually got a few dry days this last week and some sunny days and we totally enjoyed them.  Got our 1st 74 degree day this year…..LOVED that.  Now if we can finally get to the 80s I would be totally stoked.

On a dry day two weeks ago, we went out and picked up 5 tomato plants and dirt.  So looking forward to when they start producing.

We don’t have much of back yard, if you can call it.  The things we really like about it makes it hard to grow things.  It is a deck with some dirt and bushes.  We love that on the other side of the fence there are trees, that once the leaves are on it that it gives us privacy from the surrounding buildings and keeps the house cooler on the really, really hot days (no a/c).  BUT that also prevents us from growing things in the ground, due to lack of sunlight and on even a mid-70 day, it feels like 50/60 in the house….bbrrrr

So when we do tomatoes we use pots and have one topsy-turvy….our 2nd year on trying that one.  But we are always moving them around to get the best sunlight.

Tomatoes 2011

Hanging Tomato 2011 & Fuschia

We really did enjoy our 74 sunny day, went and sat on the deck for a time….just getting as much sun and warmth that we could…watching the birds.

Fuschias are so colorful and awesome on attracting humming birds. =)

When it is winter, the gray, damp and cold, even if annoying, is not a big deal.  It is winter, you expect it and you are happy that it is actually much milder then some places you’ve lived and without the snow.  But come Mar/Apr/May it gets on your nerves and you are so ready for a change of weather and color.

We have all these pots from our house plants that we no longer have due to lack of indoor sunlight and plant eating/digging cats so I decided that we should get some flowers for outside.  Just to get some color and my planting bug out of me.  I really have a LOT to learn about judging root systems…..lol  I thought I would be able to plant 2 of them per pot, nope…didn’t happen.  I thought I would only use 4 pots, nope…..9….good thing we had all those extras….lol  Good thing I had hubby helping me, I would taken all day to do them…..grin

Now we have some color leading up to our front door and we have some on our bedroom balcony.  They smell so good when the door is open.

Just watered flowers =)

 

Up the stairs, covering the gas meter. =)

A few flowers on the balcony.

They aren’t much, but it feels so good to have some bright colors and spring smells.  =)  I’m waiting for strawberries to start showing up at our local fruit stands that open for the summer.  We get some of the juiciest and sweetest here in Oregon….mmmm

We even heard and saw a set of Anna’s Humming birds mate.  That was cool and boy, they are noisy…..lol  We’ve had humming bird feeders up for about 3yrs plus the fuschias, so they know where to come for food.  Some of our birds are back for the season, the Golden American Finch, House Sparrow and Black-headed Grosbeaks….including our noisy Scrub Jays…lol  We even saw a Falcon get chased off by a couple of Ravens…that was neat.

Ah….but I had a fun time last week…..lol  Last Sunday my mac was constantly backing up……well, the external that it went to was full.  It is suppose to delete the oldest back ups once it filled up.  Instead of doing that, totally locked up and damaged it.  So I had to hook up to our main external, the Drobo, and try and put over 300 GBs of music, files and pictures on to it from the locked up one.  You could still copy things off of it, but not delete or add.  So that took a few days, I got a few more WD externals, one a MyBook…didn’t meant to, meant to get a MyPassport and a few MyPassports.  Finally got everything moved, took a bit, but was able to reformat my old 500 GB external MyPassport and that is now nothing BUT mac back ups.

What was so frustrating is that the new MyPassports don’t let you use it like a simple flash drive, they were locked…I couldn’t write on them.  The old ones were so simple and nice. I had to learn how to partition them.  I didn’t want them all to be formatted for mac, because it wouldn’t be recognized by a pc.  We need at least one that was writable for both mac and pc.  So we can transfer files from pc and mac to the other…..more for music files.  It was driving me nuts, because I know it could be done.  And when I know that it can be done, I will keep working at it…..I hate giving up when I know the solution is there.  But I did it….grin  Very happy about that.

Thought I was in the free and clear…nope.  Issues with getting my itunes music to line up with the new location.  When we brought my mac I didn’t up the hard drive like I should’ve, so my music/movies will not fit.  That will change next time.  So it was saying that there where about 3000 missing files out of over 15,000…icks.  Took a long while, but it got down to 300 files missing.  Then I had to go searching for them, most was due to me editing them.  Had to rip about 4 cds, get files off of hubby’s mac, in the end only lost about 50 of my songs.  But those were Kid Rock from my MI sister.  So I’ll get them eventually to re-rip.  So much happier that I got that fixed.  And have already backed up my music, other then what we’ve purchased today.  Going to do that a bit more often.  =)

I started this post hours ago, but between chatting, surfing and playing in itunes….lol….so going to watch the evening news and start some work.

 

Pauline’s Daily Tweets

  • Spent the day trying to fix my music in itunes, lost about 50….not bad out of over 15k. 40 of them Kid Rock that I'll get from my MI sis #
  • I guess I should start on my contractor payroll prep….fun, fun….just don't like doing it on weekends….lol #
  • A Big Whine From Big Oil – http://nyti.ms/jZIMte #
  • Figured out why we haven't heard Drew in awhile, he got into our closet when I was doing laundry about 6hrs ago and couldn't get out. #
  • At least his sister had a good day, hasn't been picked on by him since this morning…hubby heard him meowing loudly…..lol #
  • My late Aurora use to pry open the dresser drawers (they are totally scratched due to her…lol) and curl up to sleep. #
  • We'd close them and discover her a day later still sleeping…..lol #
  • Drew just meowed (he is a talker) and hubby is like, how did we miss that? lol #
  • Rush Limbaugh Scrambles to Un-Man Obama After Osama bin Laden killing http://huff.to/kX1Sku They are so sad and twisted. #
  • Michelle Obama gives hope to young black women http://t.co/agtmSBD #

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  • Hilarious video of ABC reporter getting his lunch stolen by a cocky squirrel http://huff.to/kt4Yde LOL #
  • Where the Roads End in Water: The Lake That Won't Stop Rising – The Atlantic http://t.co/UD57YSn This is both odd and interesting. #
  • There use to be a time when our cats use to meet us at the door after the gym….now they don't even open an eye from sleeping. =( lol #
  • This was the best workout week in a long while….I've had better weeks, but after the last few months….this is good. #
  • So happy that I figured out how to format a WD MyPass to be write able for both mac and pc….hate it when I can't figure it out. #
  • Now getting ready to attack company, client and our books. #
  • Warmest day of the year so far. Feels great. Really want more. =} http://twitpic.com/4x7wxh #
  • I think we just saw a set of humming birds mate….they are noisy! LOL So cool. =) #
  • We just had a really, really good dinner….perfect on this beautiful day of weather. =) #
  • wtf? RT @peterdaou: Indiana Supreme Court: Hoosiers have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes. http://bit.ly/iCfH2B #
  • More details..got to love it…..not! RT @nwi Court: No right to resist illegal cop entry into home http://bit.ly/m92DBP #
  • Hubby : This is such a "What was you wearing when you got raped" argument… BULLSHIT! http://bit.ly/m92DBP #
  • The Drug War is a Failure – Bring it to an End: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/533/048/052/ #
  • Watching a Ron White show…..laughing so hard I've been crying…..LOL #
  • Federal appeals court hears fake veteran case – The Denver Post http://t.co/C5LvEyi #
  • Justice Clarence Thomas and the Wounds That Don't Heal – The Atlantic http://t.co/85adrOh #
  • SCOTUS needs an ethical code – seattlepi.com http://bit.ly/lhhobh #
  • Major Bank Appears To Have Retaliated Against Foreclosure Fraud Expert By… http://huff.to/ldiM7o This is just twisted….ggeezz #
  • I'm finally done moving files….I've been at it since Sunday when my external went bad when it got too full and messed it up. #

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