Monday Morning Cuteness

A fun way to start the week...reminds me I need to tell you of my cute dog & horse story from when I was much younger...but that will have to wait as the "real" job beckons...

'Til we meet again, go check out the latest updates to Xander's story over on The Orange Menace

Leon - the Snowpocalypse...

...and other random observations. So, I don't know when we started naming snow storms. Seriously. It's weird. And who decided this one should be "Leon"???

 It's pretty rare for us to get snow here in eastern NC...this system put down about 1-1.5 inches of snow down on top of about 1.5-2 inches of packed ice. Pretty treacherous. Needless to say, there's nothing important enough for me to risk life and limb by going out on the roads. It's nice to have a few snow days...

The only kind of cat that should be out in this weather

 Fortunately, Solana is well cared-for even when I can't get out there.

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Had a productive day today internet-wise...updated The Orange Menace and also set up The Orange Menace Facebook page. Go check 'em out.

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Also found this...a clip from this coming-up Superbowl's Budweiser commercial. Already I declare it to be THE. BEST. COMMERCIAL. EVER. REALLY. See for youself:

 



Xander Corp.

Finally had time to add the latest page to Xander's website: Xander Corp. shows the corporate structure and players involved...just to help those of you following along at home! :D

Water Boy the Video Evidence

Well, after much technological grief, consultation, and voodoo...I am pleased to present to you the video evidence which I've been teasing you about:


I want to thank my tech support team consisting of my sis' and my SIL (sis'n'law) who guided me and gave me useful info so I could sort out some issues. One interesting note is that my sis' told me about this website: www.speedtest.net It will test your download and upload speeds. Turns out, I had a couple of issues...one of which is that my "old" computer...a custom-made gaming laptop that I use as a desktop has LOTS of issues. It's several years old and has been through the metaphorical wars. It's one we put together for LoML to be able to game on after a total knee replacement years ago but that he quit using after he got better. Recently I took the battery out and leave it plugged in all the time...a neat little trick I learned while chatting up one of the Staples tech guys a while back. But sometimes it's just snarky and locks up when you suggest it do things it doesn't want to do. Truthfully, about all I use it for now is to download my pictures, edit them and then save them to my external hard drive. My bestest ever technojoy that I can't go anywhere without is my Lenovo ThinkPad Twist that I got on Black Friday (did I tell you about it already 'coz I don't remember). I LOVE it. It rocks! Which is why I was shocked and appalled that it wouldn't let me upload my video. Anywhere. So, after my sis' got me thinking about upload speeds (refer to website mentioned above), I got to wondering...because I frequently use a public wifi hotspot at my job to "play" on my twist at lunchtime and/or a public one at the public library, I run a program that creates a personal vpn to secure my system. One of the things it does is hide your ip address. Even though my home wireless network is secure, it's easier to just leave the setting to automatically secure any network through this program (which I've been impressed with...it's called Hotspot Shield). So, I'd never had cause to look before, but it reaaaalllly slows down your upload speed because of all the bouncing around of signals it does (at least, that's my explanation of it!). Once I temporarily disabled it, I had no problem uploading my video to YouTube (Blogger still didn't want to do it, but that's okay...).

Which leads me to one final point for tonight: Xander now has two different email addresses and his own YouTube account. Just sayin'.