Random Ideas, Comments & Thoughts, Sometimes Political, Sometimes Adult… Hope you don't choke.
A Friend sent me a list of these. I thought it would be fun to share them.
Paraprosdokians are phrases or sentences that lead us down the garden path to an unexpected ending.
A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip.
I’ve picked up what I suppose is a cold. Whatever it is… It’s really unwelcome right now.
Last night I think I slept a maximum of 2 hours at a shot.
Today, I got my first cup of coffee then got the bright idea to kick it at a Starbucks before I had to get to my class.
WTF???
It used to be that you could find a Starbucks on every freaking street corner in Orange County.
Now it was like Where the fuck is Waldo?
I found one that was really close to where I need to be, and the parking lot was full of cars… most of them in the drive ways. It was a drive through and the drive through was so poorly designed that if you had scored a parking place to actually go inside, you’d never get the hell out.
It was like the Hotel California of Starbucks.
I figured no problem I’d just drive to the next one. That one was inside a Ralphs and I the those, they’re not what I pay top dollar for in my coffee. I want to sit, relax, and enjoy the ambiance.
NOT listen to PRICE CHECK ON AISLE 6
So with certain trepidation I tried the Starbucks application on my phone. After locking up my phone requiring that I pull the battery to regain control. I asked the GPS in the car.
Wrong! The data is terrible and after the car taking me to one Starbucks that was closed and after that the GPS in the car started taking me to any coffee shop instead of what I asked it for.
SO I’m heading out to class from a parking lot in Tustin and I never did get my cafe mocha.
I feel a lot like the Bruce Willis Hudson Hawk The poor man had to rob the Vatican and the Louvre just to be able to sit down for a Latte.
I’m actually in a pretty good mood… I just thought I’d share modern problems…
I hope that your day is a winner.
From a very nice get together.
I scared the hell out of the dogs because I set the alarm off accidentally. Poor babies were no doubt sleeping on their cushions and out of the blue the Alarm starts going off, sounding very much like the fire alarm.
They don’t like those noises any more than I do, It’s going to be a major number of bones tomorrow. Tonight will require endless cuddling before I’m forgiven
I screwed up using the remote disarm, but in the process discovered that the system is not programmed as I thought it was.
Guess I need to contact the alarm company tomorrow. This will test if they’re really there 24 / 7… If I wasn’t so dang tired I’d call them tonight but I’m really looking forward to hitting the hay.
I’m still keying down from the trip home. so my head is a bit random.
Oh! The party… Nice people, great food, fun conversation even comparisons between earthquakes and hurricanes. East Coast people will in general take a hurricane or tornado without batting an eye but put them somewhere where the ground shakes and well… “Katy bar the door”!
Oddly, the West Coast folks will take an Earthquake over a Hurricane or Tornado. I guess it’s just about what you’re used to.
Since I grew up in the East and moved out to the West… I’m a bit of a strange duck. I’d rather not have to deal with any of the dang things at all. But… I prefer Hurricanes and tornadoes. You can usually see them coming and get the heck out of the way earthquakes sneak up on you. I don’t like being snuck up on at all.
Random click in my brain…
I’ve been fighting with my Time Machine backup utility for the past few days. I was just about to turn the dang backups off when I stumbled across the fact that my “Exclusions” file had been somehow deleted.
I have no need to back up my music files to the Time Capsule, and I have no need to back up imap mail, Nor do I need to backup my virtual machines. The estimated backup size was 270 GB.
I reset the exclusions to omit the files listed above.
The reason is this, IMAP email files are already on the server, the music is backed up on my media server, andthe virtual machines are backed up on another drive.
That reduced the overall backup size to about 14 GB, that’s still too big given the changes that I’ve actually made to the system. But it’s way better than 270 GB every time the machine tries to backup.
We’ll see if this fixes the problem. I’d love to know why the exclusion list suddenly was missing.
I’d also like to know why the backup utility doesn’t count the backup file size properly when no files are excluded but when files are excluded all the sudden the count is correct.
Seems like the Time Machine bigs that have been plaguing Apple since Lion are still alive and well. Sad too, I’d really become completely dependent on having the Time Machine backup working in Snow Leopard it was so dang reliable I honestly never thought about it.
This most recent version is … well annoying would be an understatement since I was fully planning to disable 
the system and find something else that worked.
That’s why I’m now using Outlook on my Mac instead of the built in application. I simply got tired of the new version of Mail doing things that made no sense. For example leaving ports open to IMAP servers when Mail was finished checking for mail. Or not using the account that I’d received an email on when I hit reply.
Easier to use a program that works as expected even if it wasn’t written in 64 bit code, and occasionally crashed.
At least it works consistently.
Off to training on Monday, don’t know how much blogging time I’m going to have. So It’s possible that there won’t be any posts until Friday.
If that’s the way it works out. I hope everyone has a great week.