Tresa's Blog

OK, I’m getting dsl from my cousins wireless connection right?  I’m on xp on a desktop and using a wireless adapter hung by the back door on a nail in line with her router.  (highly sophisticated systems we run here don’t you worry)  Her house is probably not 300 yards away.   I also had to cut cedar tree branches that were hanging down and in the way but not it works when it rains or the wind blows…. LOL

Phone tech guy that ho0ked up the dsl said we couldn’t do it get the dsl wireless router to go to my house up the hill.  My house was too far away. ( Linksys wireless b 2.4 adapter $16 on ebay works like a charm, she had my satellite down there previously but she paid for it, long story)  HERE is the rub.  It meaning my wireless little tv screen in the system tray has a red x on it.  NOT CONNECTED right.  But here I am.  It says not connected @ the top of the wireless network box like where you check for wireless networks, then IN the box it says network requires a key and you are connected and the button @ the bottom says disconnect?!!  The 1394 connection is connected, I used to used my laptop as a wireless access point which may be why it’s connected?

So what’s the deal?  It works and works, if I don’t do anything for awhile it disconnects, then it shows automatic, and a weak signal and connect, I go change the wep number, well I really don’t change it just paste it again and voila…….

I can teach my husband how to reconnect etc. but I would really like to know why I’m not connected and have no status… I feel like a non person……if I don’t comment on your blog I’m not here….firefox just crashed 2 times, this could get interesting….

I like those….did ya notice?

BUT my mouse is working like a charm, watch and I will hit publish….

This is probably way old but 100 things to do in an elevator. I like the horse one, are you Ok in there, and bad touch in particular.  Read it, you’ll know of which I speak.

I’m think you should go read this article about Todd and Sarah Palin.  Just saying……

Blatant Sales Pitch: My husband only wears 501’s, he’s 60 and still looks great if you ignore the belly pretty good.  Just saying….  Also there’s a link down @ the bottom of the page on the right side.  Not sure how much I can say but if you like me click on one of my links to Amazon either her or on one of my other blogs.   If you need to look for something on Amazon  that is and I will make money if you buy and it won’t cost you any extra.  I will also get to continue blogging.  The world is sort of insisting I become like productive again.

If we continue home I’m sure my day won’t be so boring, we had snow there all day yesterday.  Unplowed driveway, getting in the first hump is bad enough, my father had the little hill blacktopped, now it’s slicker than gravel.  There’s another hill down by the real farmstead…….my husband named off the buildings and cars we were sliding toward last week when we came back up it, if it was in the mountains and longer they wouldn’t let trucks on it.

Never again will I say I’m bored, the water pump started leaking as I was writing that.  I won’t bore you with details but we are limping home and God Bless the motel staff @ the motel north of Savanna, OK.  They let us walk through their extremely clean motel and fill up all the milk and water jugs miss obsessive compulsive had hoarded.  Also if you can ever buy a Cummins motor do it.  Their warranties are outstanding.  You don’t know the feeling of helplessness you get when the truck stops and you are in the middle of no where with no water, it stops a long time before the water level gets so low as to get hot.  Yes we just put in a new water pump, that’s why cummins warrantied it!

Oh and my mouse problems?  75% were due to the mouse shorting out DUHHHHH on my part.  Using the other mouse, life is grand.

So how is your weekend going?

Let’s get this straight, I’m like pretty sure I’m not sick so this is just a post OK?  The song thing and the rest I sort of came up with to torture my kids because I managed to raise some strait laced children?  I can hear the older one say “oh Mother” cuz she knows I hate to be called Mother for various reasons.  If you can’t take black humor, don’t read anymore, you have been warned.

I’ve sort of been holding back on you all, I thought if you knew how shall we say strange I really was you would maybe run screaming.

Now I’ve decided I must reveal the truth.

I’ve sort of planned my funeral.

Don’t get all morbid on me, OK?  I say that OK as a question quite a bit don’t I?

First of all some members of my family have been cremated.  Me? Not so much.  For some reason it just doesn’t seem right.  Now you will be really surprised @ my thought.  I would make good fertilizer.  Like ground up and sort of scattered over the garden?  Think of the pilgrims and the fish.   Same thing.

I don’t want to be embalmed.  But they need to make sure I’m really dead, especially if we go through with the fertilizer thing.  (you do know you can’t even start a family graveyard anymore don’t you?)  And if they do bury me take my wedding ring off and take all my organs, anything useful GET IT.

Any flowers wreaths etc. in fact the whole funeral thing leaves me cold.  NOPE, I wouldn’t mind a party though, a last hoo rah, I wouldn’t be there but we could have like pictures, not taken of me but of me alive (sicko, although my family does do the dead people picture thing, it’s stopping with THIS generation I tell ya).   I would prefer people feel free to celebrate as they want.  I pictured a cauldron in the garden behind the house that had been fertilized by me and maybe some wild dancing by moonlight and moonshine, but that’s just me.  (I am kidding about that last part, it was a bad dream I had)  But a really wild party with nothing actually burning or being wrecked would be appropriate.

Regarding the funeral music because they have all told me I will be dead and they will do what they durn well please so I suppose I will have a funeral so I might as well have the music I want?  Right? Right!

1. I can’t get no satisfaction, Rolling Stones, my daughters would dance to this when they were toddlers
2. Take it Easy, Eagles, my mantra, that and lusting after the Eagles
3. House of the Rising Sun, Animals, mostly because I can play it
4. And last but not least…… Sympathy for the Devil, Rolling Stones.  The title says it all.

I get into the last song and people (my nosy interfering dear family) are usually telling me I’m NOT getting my way, blah blah blah, they will tell the grandkids because they are the ones who will end up taking car of me.  That’s when I stop and plug my fingers in my ears and start singing loudly because I AM a grown up you know?  AND you know what I sing don’t you?

No Silly, not my funeral songs, Chantilly Lace, it’s a good drown out annoying brats my family song!

I am sitting in the truck in Laredo TX and there are other trucks here waiting to unload in the morning. One is staring @ me.  A man not the truck, I don’t know if trucks can stare.  WHY is he staring?

1. Because he can’t see too well.

2. He wants to ask for instructions as to how this place works like the 4 did last week.  If I set and work on the computer in front I must have a neon sign that says, directions, instructions, free!!!

3. There is nothing else to stare @ except buildings and a gravel lot on one side and Mexico on the other.

4. He thinks I’m ravishingly beautiful because @ 30 feet you can’t see the grey roots or creases, we won’t call them wrinkles, OK?

Husband is asleep in the back. Anyway could someone please make that guy quit staring. I’ll do the finger cross thing in a minute and start hissing.

15 minutes have passed in your lives now.  And in mine…….

If you’ve managed to stay with me all the way my husband knew the guy staring.  Male Half  just took the great and wonderful Dis for a walk.  Big man and a little fluffy dog.  Sort of like fat man in a little coat?

Let me begin by saying I’m much better with a mousepad than I used to be.  I admit I had a serious learning disability when it came to the mousepad?  WHY would they put usb ports on laptops and make cute little mice if you were supposed to used that stupid mousepad?

So after my fun times with laptop, I decided part of my complete dysfunction could be alleviated by using the mousepad.  (Also I am in the front seat, husband is SPRAWLED out in the back with the mac playing mahjong, and you guessed it, mouse keeps falling off the seat) So I’m using the mousepad.  I do discover though that it wasn’t entirely the fault of the mouse when I posted things I didn’t want to, commented with partly finished sentences(might as well cover all internet mistakes here), or switched between tabs on firefox.  It’s also fun when it decides it’s time to leave the page you’ve been typing on for half an hour and for some reason wordpress or blogger DIDN’T SAVE IT! Well I’ve discovered it’s not entirely the “real” mouse’s fault, it’s the touchpad or mousepad, I like wave my hand over it and we are switching around, doing fun things, next it will be signing me up for nigerian bank accounts or something?  So therefore my wrists must be heavy and pushing against the case and the mousepad says I feel  SOMETHING?  Let me change windows and perhaps turn on task manager about 50 times, that’s always good for a laugh.

Have I told you about the J key that kept falling off?  It won’t fall off again since I sort of jammed it on there for like the 6th time,  but it isn’t really something you can hit with a glancing blow with one finger, it’s more like you stick your finger down straight and push with two hands.  Perhaps I exaggerate but if you see some words that are supposed to have j’s ust ignore it, OK?

Anyway that’s what is going on exciting in my life, it’s COLD and snowy where we are and I have a HORRIBLE sore throat.  It’s also my anniversary but we had to spend beaucoup bucks on MORE truck repairs (it will be new soon, just kidding, and oil change is $250) so we aren’t even eating out, but then we eat out like 5 or 6 days a week so……I guess I won’t complain.  (But I just did didn’t I?)  But if I would ever get enough from adsense I could justify this to my husband and …………..

Remember me calling my husband a grumpy old buzzard?  Remember me complaining about my laptop.  Actually it isn’t all the laptops fault, if I would use the mousepad it would alleviate part of it. Well let me tell you what he did that made me feel REALLY bad.

We went shopping for groceries @ that big retailer that employs half the free world only they aren’t really free if they work there.  JUST KIDDING, I used to work there.  Anyway we have been keeping our eye out for a new tv for the truck, the old one sort of fell on the floor and we have other small ones but he just didn’t put one back in here.  So we are in the electronics dept, (the dog just took off with the mouse I swear) and we start down the computer aisle. (a bit of background is required here, I once bought 3 laptops and my big desktop I have now in 3 months time.  We  had a business but STILL).  I tell my husband I am not allowed in the laptop aisle or computer aisle ever.  He says why?  I say you know why, BAD things happen when I go here.  I said remember when I bought all of our computers in a few months and you told me NEVER to go to a computer store again?

We didn’t buy one but he was seriously looking.  We really don’t have the money to spare, try $2000 for license and stick a few more on there for another bill and we just got through paying that much for the last repair.  But that was SO sweet of him to go look for one.  And here I was thinking he was the root of all evil.  BTW that was the FIRST time we had ever looked  buying @ a computer together in 18 years of marriage.

And now I feel like a durned idiot  for cursing him in the previous post but not enough to waste a perfectly good post!

I know how to tether them silly, with usb, it’s the connecting to the internet I’m having problems with.

The reason is here. The reason is  also I ‘ve had the black screen 2 times and weird things are highligted on this page.  I know the demons that posess this laptop are getting stronger.

Seriously the mac is an i book, has os X on it.  This will be gibberish for anyone who hasn’t tried something like this.  I got to the part where it used the phone  to dial up the internet, it connect, tries to authorize, disconnnects.

I did call at&t with this.  The guy told me to use the isp name .com somewhere.   I haven’t tried since then. (I know how to network on a mac but haven’t had nearly the experience on one that I have a windows box. On windows you use a program from at&t to connect to the internet) He admitted it could be done.  At&t doesn’t offer support for  mac.  I asked him if I figured it out should I call back so they could tell other people how to do it.  He said At&t doesn’t support this phone with mac and will not since the phone is a whole 6 MONTHS old and I’m sure is like obsolete.

I belong to a couple geek boards but didn’t find anything there and decided I might find out something by asking here,  nicely.  I really am curious, I’m so close and yet so far.

Sorry for the complete seriousness of this post, we’ve had like 5 blackouts, it changed to another page, make that 6 blackouts……tried to publish this half way though.

I yelled @ my husband today.  I know unjustly and more than once.  In my defense he was taking his grumpy old buzzard pills yesterday (green tea), why do I say they make him grumpy?  I couldn’t read his mind correctly yesterday.  I’ll leave it up to you to decide whether I”m kidding or not.  Right now I’m typing and looking @ scenery (if your new here I ‘m riding with him in his truck) because he is insisting I’m missing bunches of NEW things.  We are taking a back road for once.

The main reason for me getting impatient with him was the laptop and UPS.  The laptop was going slowly and UPS lost a very important package.  They didn’t lose it, it went out for delivery a week ago and was never delivered.  My husband is now teasing the dog and making him get tangled up in the laptop cord.  He’d just as soon I not be on here though.  Not saying he’s needy but today I think his REAL pills make him fidgety, OK I know they do.  So when I’m in the middle of figuring out what’s going on with UPS and other business stuff  he’s getting antsy for me to get on another website to find out about something else.  I lost it then.

He just decided I should be taking pictures?

But mainly this is about the laptop.  First of all I love my laptop.  We’ve had 4 new ones and innumerable thinkpads.  This is an emachine, I know ewwwww but I do have an ibook if you want some class, I can’t get the mac to hook to the internet with my phone though.  They don’t support mac, at&t that is.  The laptop got taken to FL once with husband and son when they were doing hurricane stuff down there.  At that point the keyboard quit working and it looked as if weak acid had been spilled around the edges.  I believe it was son watching movies going down the road, he had NO idea how it happened of course.  I got the keyboard to work again after a few months of using a usb one when I wanted to use this laptop.  So the laptop has a right to be the way it is.  The usb ports are getting worn out I think.  Did I mention the laptop screen goes black when I’m typing on it.  Just on the internet and it’s always come back on.  Did I mention if I lay my hand in the NORMAL typing position and we hit a bump it thinks I either want to go to the bottom of the page and stay there or go back.

We are now reading almost every sign we see in the back Texas country. (that would be my husband is, I’m answering in grunts)

So this is how it went this afternoon.  You have to remember almost every time it’s like standing up on a tossing ship if the truck is going around a curve or hits a bumpy road.  So I think I’ll get the laptop from the bunk and work up here.  I get the laptop, drop the phone that’s tethered to it, that’s ok, it’s only like $100s to replace or used to be.  The dog gets tangled up in the mouse cord, I can’t connect to the internet so I redo the usb and other connection, my battery is getting low, (sometimes I have to take the phone battery out to get it to come back on, only started doing it since I was using it for internet) I drop the mouse, I’m finally connected to the internet, my battery has the red x on it.  The dog gets tangled in the mouse cord.  The dog manages to CLIMB up in the seat and wants to sit on the laptop.  I get the cord to plug in the laptop and push the dog off the seat.  The dog gets tangled in the power cord.  By this time I’ve lost my internet………this is a daily thing and sometimes it all happens and I have to charge the phone, get it all hooked up and we are in an area with no internet all of a sudden!!!!!

My husband asked me if Halletsville or something was on the interstate and I lost it, like as in “how am I supposed to &@#   #@%%$# know, can’t you see I’m BUSY, HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO WORK??“  I was using the excuse by then that I had to look @ an email to see about fuel tax.  (I really did have to look @ an email but was looking @ blogs).  He’s still smiling and being nice to me.  Sometimes he blows too…..I think I’m getting a headache, have to go look and see if UPS found my package that means we MAY get paid this MONTH.

We didn’t even go into how  how the mouse takes on a life of it’s own and I swear it’s shorting out going across the bedspread in the back, it will open up drop down boxes and click on everything on a page all by it’s little self as it vibrates across the bed.

I am going to have to get a new laptop though, this screen going black and scrolling back is getting a bit old. The dog got tangled up again….  It migrated by itself again, I dropped the mouse this time.  Did I mention that typing random keys will cause it to not be in the box you were typing in  sometimes. Oh and if the internet connection isn’t good I’ll have to click on a comment box like three times while typing to keep typing in it.  AND if I lay my hand on the bottom of the laptop it switches windows, being as I’ve never learned to use a laptop mouse…….

Did you know my husband is quiet when I’m OFF the computer?  I’m sure he doesn’t realize this but I should be grateful he is here and talking I know.

I know how I get behind.  I open gmail and figure out I haven’t read it for days and am really like months behind.  I read all letters from like my kids (they have the addresses I need for the facebook message I started out to answer in the first place)  in my regular mail which is tcscarlet at yahoo dot  com if you so desire to email me and have it read maybe.  I can’t get email off of my blogs because it made me come up with some long weird password and they are written on a tablet that resides somewhere in my computer case which resides under the bed which requires lifting to get to things underneath (who said I just rode around with my husband, I do weight lifting like 10 times a day! LOL).  Anyway I’m on Facebook (email me if you want to be my friend on facebook and I’ll tell you my REAL name which isn’t my REAL name but people know me by it but anyway, like you care @ this point) I’m on Facebook, did I say that?  on my Great Nieces’ photos which she has 112 new ones from Christmas that I missed (I was an Aunt @ 6, that’s how THAT happened).  I skip over to twitter because in my addled condition I might as well be there too (how many tabs can YOU open on firefox) and I see I’ve gone from being on 4 lists to being on 14 overnight so I must figure out if it’s a legit list and I want to be on it. Off limit lists in my book are  blatant money making schemes, deviant sex or any sex lists I guess (includes stripper lists although I don’t know if they have any),  satanic or like Nazi or KKK……have I covered most of the bases?  Anyway all of the new lists I’m a member of are all animals lists (BTW I’m TCblogger on Twitter and I follow who follows me) so all is cool.

In the meantime I’m trying to figure out why one of my blogs has

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To Ret

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@ the bottom of the post (http://animalsthatgivepause.com/).  I can’t find any reason for it to be there so I hope it’s a glitch and go on.  (it’s a glitch, it disappeared, yes everything in html is logical)

In the meantime (did I say that) I’m trying to get addresses for my daughter in law to be and I erase the message on facebook because this laptop does weird things so I have to get addresses and phone number ALL over again……..  and I answer comments on one blog, fix misspelled words on another……. my husband calls this PLAYING on the computer.

So has anyone an answer for all of this, I KNOW some of you all do the same thing and get sidetracked……don’t you?  Lie to me and say it happens to you if you must………

You all know Jeff Foxworthy and think he is hilarious.  Well we live in a place that makes his stories look sophisticated and cosmopolitan.  Anyway various members of the family have succumbed to the local dialect @ times.  My brother and my husband somehow developed southern drawl/western drawl out of it.  My mother was an English Teacher so she doesn’t count.  My daughter worked @ a grocery story that was closer to the lake and thus the true hill people and managed to pick up some of the dialect, even more than she had gotten @ school.

Said daughter came home one day  and we were discussing this and that.  After about 3 prawleys….as in: “It will prawley snow tomorrow,” I asked her to define prawley as I only knew prawn to be something related to a fish maybe.  She said it’s probably but easier to say.  I said like yunt2? for Do you want to?  She said YES, I said NO.  But it’s become a part of family lore.

I will tell one on myself, I thought the written epitome and the spoken were two different things.  I mean I said it ep I tome, which rhymes with hep I home.   Someone did point that out to me though.

I do know people who say pneumony fever for pneumonia though.  And they are serious.