FReeper Canteen~Scuttlebutt~3 Sept 09

Canteen Crew

[AZamericonnie]

 

 

At the FReeper Canteen!

C'mon and take a break ! Walk on over to the water cooler and lets chat. Post your thoughts, opinions, news of the day, rantings, ravings, pontificates, hypothesis, hyperboles, your soap box cause, your mantra, your baggage, your garbage, your blogging, your secrets, whatever you feel would make talk around the water cooler real interesting!

Please remember that The Canteen is here to support
and entertain our troops and veterans and their families,
and is family friendly.  

 

 

A little humor....

MOUSE CALIBRATION FOR SUMMER 2009

You should actually do this every year. Even more often if you spend a lot of time on the computer. This is recommended by Kim Komando (the computer guru) in one of her recent emails.

I was shocked to see how well this works, and how far off mine was!

To re-calibrate your mouse, click and hold on the capital G below, then drag it toward the small g.

If it doesn't work immediately, you might want to clean your mouse, as the calibration is off.

Good heavens!! You'll believe anything

I'M SURE YOU WILL ALSO RECOMMEND THIS TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS ONCE YOU SEE HOW MUCH SMOOTHER AND BETTER THE MOUSE WORKS AFTER BEING CALIBRATED! AMAZING!

 

First ATM opens for business
 

On this day in 1969, America's first automatic teller machine (ATM) makes its public debut, dispensing cash to customers at Chemical Bank in Rockville Center, New York. ATMs went on to revolutionize the banking industry, eliminating the need to visit a bank to conduct basic financial transactions. By the 1980s, these money machines had become widely popular and handled many of the functions previously performed by human tellers, such as check deposits and money transfers between accounts. Today, ATMs are as indispensable to most people as cell phones and e-mail.

 

Freedom and Jeff Freedom and I have been together 10 years this summer. She came in as a baby in 1998 with two broken wings. Her left wing doesn't open all the way even after surgery, it was broken in 4 places. She's my baby. When Freedom came in she could not stand and both wings were broken. She was emaciated and covered in lice. We made the decision to give her a chance at life, so I took her to the vets office. From then on, I was always around her. We had her in a huge dog carrier with the top off, and it was loaded up with shredded newspaper for her to lay in. I used to sit and talk to her, urging her to live, to fight; and she would lay there looking at me with those big brown eyes. We also had to tube feed her for weeks. This went on for 4-6 weeks, and by then she still couldn't stand. It got to the point where the decision was made to euthanize her if she couldn't stand in a week. You know you don't want to cross that line between torture and rehab, and it looked like death was winning. She was going to be put down that Friday, and I was supposed to come in on that Thursday afternoon. I didn't want to go to the center that Thursday, because I couldn't bear the thought of her being euthanized; but I went anyway, and when I walked in everyone was grinning from ear to ear. I went immediately back to her cage; and there she was, standing on her own, a big beautiful eagle. She was ready to live. I was just about in tears by then. That was a very good day. We knew she could never fly, so the director asked me to glove train her. I got her used to the glove, and then to jesses, and we started doing education programs for schools in western Washington . We wound up in the newspapers, radio (believe it or not) and some TV. Miracle Pets even did a show about us. In the spring of 2000, I was diagnosed with non-hodgkins lymphoma. I had stage 3, which is not good (one major organ plus everywhere), so I wound up doing 8 months of chemo. Lost the hair - the whole bit. I missed a lot of work. When I felt good enough, I would go to Sarvey and take Freedom out for walks.. Freedom would also come to me in my dreams and help me fight the cancer. This happened time and time again. Fast forward to November 2000, the day after Thanksgiving. I went in for my last checkup. I was told that if the cancer was not all gone after 8 rounds of chemo, then my last option was a stem cell transplant. Anyway, they did the tests; and I had to come back Monday for the results. I went in Monday, and I was told that all the cancer was gone. So the first thing I did was get up to Sarvey and take the big girl out for a walk. It was misty and cold. I went to her flight and jessed her up, and we went out front to the top of the hill. I hadn't said a word to Freedom, but somehow she knew. She looked at me and wrapped both her wings around me to where I could feel them pressing in on my back (I was engulfed in eagle wings), and she touched my nose with her beak and stared into my eyes, and we just stood there like that for I don't know how long. That was a magic moment. We have been soul mates ever since she came in. This is a very special bird. On a side note: I have had people who were sick come up to us when we are out, and Freedom has some kind of hold on them. I once had a guy who was terminal come up to us and I let him hold her. His knees just about buckled and he swore he could feel her power coarse through his body. I have so many stories like that. I never forget the honor I have of being so close to such a magnificent spirit as Freedom.

 

 

 

[Tanniker Smith]

Morning, beachy and WOO-HOO!!

[ConorMacNessa]

Good morning, Beachy! *HUGS* How’s it going this morning?

[beachn4fun]

I just realized yesterday that I haven’t backed up anything lately. I’m getting ready to upgrade to OS X Snow Leopard and will need to back up everything....just in case......

[beachn4fun]

Good morning, Tanniker

((HUGS))

Whatz ya doing?

[beachn4fun]

Good morning, CMN ((HUGS))

Are you late or am I? LOL

Just got back from a walk. Another beautiful morn out there. Perfect walking weather.

Are you taking off work tomorrow?

[gimme1ibertee]

*HUGS* right back at cha!
The week has been just fine. The weather has been so sweet the past few days,making me long for apples and cider from Sperryville.Guess i’ll be heading that way before long! :)

[gimme1ibertee]

Sweet....:)

[gimme1ibertee]

The beauty and majesty of that bird never ceases to amaze me.Truly beautiful.Thanks for the pics!

[ConorMacNessa]

Not taking tomorrow off, but I will take Monday off - building is closed for the holiday.

[Arrowhead1952]

I usually back up late on Fridays, but haven’t for the past month or so. I know I lost several word documents I just created. I have hard copies, but will have to redo every one when I get a new computer.

[unique]

Just in case they are needed, here's a grandpa and grandma hug smiley.....

[Tanniker Smith]

I'm about to start cleaning up some more after yesterday's end-of-summer party featuring eight 12-13yo boys....

And there seems to be a problem with the drain.

Other than that, all is well.
We'll be going out to celebrate my daughter's 17th b'day tonight, as well as her driver's license, which she got yesterday.

[beachn4fun]

Oh boy

sounds like you might be in need of a stiff drink....

“.....party featuring eight 12-13yo boys.... daughter’s 17th b’day tonight, as well as her driver’s license, which she got yesterday....”

LOL

[beachn4fun]

Howdy U ((HUGS))

LOL Grandpa and Grandma smilies? cute!

[unique]

Subject: Is sex work?

A U.S. Navy captain was about to start the morning briefing to his staff.
While waiting for the coffee machine to finish its brewing, the captain
decided to pose a question to all assembled.

He explained that his wife had been a bit frisky the night before and he
failed to get his usual amount of sound sleep.

He posed the question of just how much of sex was “work” and how much of it
was “pleasure?”

A commander chimed in with 75-25% in favor of work.

A lieutenant said it was 50-50%.

An ensign responded with 25-75% in favor of pleasure, depending upon his
state of inebriation at the time.

There being no consensus, the captain turned to the seaman who was in charge
of making the coffee. What was HIS opinion?

Without any hesitation, the young seaman responded, “Sir, it has to be 100%
pleasure.”

The captain was surprised and, as you might guess, asked why?

“Well, sir, if there was any work involved, the officers would have me
doing it for them.”

The room fell silent.

God Bless the Navy sailor.

[beachn4fun]

LOL

[E.G.C.]

Here are the upcoming set of updates for the month of September from Microsoft for Windows.

Updates listed in the order of Bulletin ID, Maximum Severity Rating and Vulnerability Impact, Restart Requirement and Affected Software.

Bulletin 1 Critical Remote Code Execution May require restart Microsoft Windows

Bulletin 2 Critical Remote Code Execution Requires restart Microsoft Windows

Bulletin 3 Critical Remote Code Execution May require restart Microsoft Windows

Bulletin 4 Critical Remote Code Execution Requires restart Microsoft Windows

Bulletin 5 Critical Remote Code Execution May require restart Microsoft Windows

[Kathy in Alaska]

Have a good trip home, beachy...((HUGS))

Have a great evening, and guess what? Tomorrow is FRIDAY!!!

[blackie]

Thanks Kathy!

{{HUGS}}

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good afternoon, retired curmudgeon...((HUGS))...the sun is out today and it is beautiful outside. Have you been able to get a ride in yet?