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This is pathetic, but with my wife out of town for a few more days out dinner menu for tonight was to be Mac n Cheese with tuna fish. You guys almost have me motivated to make real food...

Thanks Nate.

Thanks!

Still not sure where you guys are finding this to watch.

Hmm, it's now $3.99

The "saving post" bandit got me... DP

Thanks for the advice. I signed up for a 14 day free trial at ancestry.com and even knowing her dad's full name, date of birth, and birth location, and names of both of his parents I can only find two records out of 200,000 records that are about him in particular - one is a brief one-line record of his birth and parents names, and the other one is his residence address that he took up in 1990. They list thousands of unrelated records if only one search criteria is met, like last name. They offer no help pointing to records of his parents, so that we can find his grandparents, etc. You'd think that for the $13-20/month fee that they would have a little more automated or helpful approach.

Thanks. My daughter took the news okay - she did a bit of crying and then some laughing later with her sister when they were goofing off. I'm going to pick her up Saturday and return her to camp on Sunday after the funeral. My wife is still planning to head out on the river with our son Monday, and they'll return just a day before the funeral. The cat escaped from father-in-law's house today while family was there to find insurance documents and stuff, and the neighbor said they will try to catch and return the cat and feed it for the next week. But I may have to go up sooner to get it - we don't want to lose his cat too. My wife wants me to run a genealogy search on his side of the family, and I was wondering if anyone here can recommend a reputable website to get that done, and let me know how detailed of information they need to do an accurate search? I have his full name, birthdate and birthplace, and the names of his parents but not their birthplaces.

Really shitty day today : My brother-in-law had called me about half an hour before I was told father-in-law died, and he was concerned about their dad's health and needing advice about what to do - he'd been sick for a week and although we all told him on Thursday to see the doctor they gave him an appointment for next week. So when my brother-in-law called to check on him today he found that their dad had slurred speech, altered mental status and incontinence. I told him to call 911 for an ambulance since he was at least 45 minutes away, but when the paramedics arrived he was already down for the count and CPR was no help. At first my son was okay with staying with the rest of the boy scouts while my wife returned early, after my wife encouraged him to stay with them (I guess she thought it would help distract him from the death, and there were no refunds for the trip which he needed to advance in the scouts). But once my wife made it to Denver the severity of what happened sinks in and he starts freaking out and wanting his mother. He was anxious and scared and decided that he was not going to canoe without his mom, and we'd have to come pick him up if she doesn't go with him. By that time she's been driving for 11 hours and it's too late in the day to turn around and go back for him. Meanwhile they are scheduled to paddle down the river at 8AM, with or without him. I wouldn't have left him there if it were me, but I can't say this to SWMBO if I want to live. He is young and immature, but trying to put on a brave face; and the fact that he lasted as long as he did surprised me. So I volunteered to drive up tonight and get there by 4AM, but I've been up since 7AM myself and my wife was sure I'd end up dead on the side of the road. I have just enough portable oxygen for 16 hours in the high mountains, and I'd only need oxygen for 3/4 of the 16 hour round-trip. I can fill my tanks at home, but it wouldn't really work on the road without a hotel room for a few hours. If I turn down the oxygen to stretch it out longer my O2 sats stay okay, but I start having pulmonary edema and coughing up blood. (I should sell the WES for a portable oxygen concentrator that plugs into the cigarette lighter and runs on battery - I should also lose 60 lbs). Instead of driving I spent all evening on the phone with my son, the scoutmasters and my wife with my piece of shit iPhone 4 that dropped at least 25 of my 40 phone calls today, so that I could get them to put my son in the second group that paddles out Monday. This gives my wife time to drive back to Moab Sunday to calm him down, and maybe they will both canoe with the second group and still return next Saturday, the day before the funeral. They could skip the canoe part and return Monday AM - but she doesn't want to pull him out of the trip if the rest of us can pitch in and help with the final arrangements. I suspect that she wants to just get away from everything and try to forget about this for a few days, but I don't know how well that's gonna go. Again, still not sure I should contradict her orders. Meanwhile, my almost 18 year old daughter has been working the past 3 weeks at a summer camp, and we had RSVP'd for the church service and brunch this Sunday before the new set of campers arrive. So my 16 yr old daughter and I have to drive up to camp and break the news to her, while she still has to work 2 more weeks away from home. I'm worried how she'll handle it when we have to leave after just 3 hours, but we'll make arrangements to pick her up in a week for the funeral and then return her for the last week. If she doesn't stay then the camp will be shorthanded, and she's not as likely to freak out as her younger brother. We also get to inherit grandaddy's cat, which doesn't like people, but there is no way we'd let it be sent to the animal shelter. It's an outside cat, and might not last long with the coyotes and mountain lions around here, so we have to see how that goes with locking him up in the house with the other cat that just doesn't like boys (girls are okay). Sorry for the rambling post, but I don't have anyone to talk about this with right now, being up by myself and can't sleep.

I just bought a pair of Salomon XA Comp 4, and really like them. I think they are last year's model, and so they usually go for half price. I got them mostly for comfort as summer shoes when I don't want to or can't wear sandals. My wife and son both use an XA Pro with Gortex for hiking which seem to be better built than these, but my son actually has a pair of these too and says these breath better in hot weather.

Back in the old days I had a ZeroStat and a Rotel gooey roller, and can attest that they did work very well. I didn't know anyone made a gooey roller these days, and Zero Stat prices went sky high vs in the 80's when I last owned as vinyl rig. I did pick up a cheap $60 SpinCleaner which is a manual wet disc cleaner, but the rollers break easily and need to be glued back together. I've read that the best way to get quiet records is to get a $500 VPI vacuum LP washer, and I tried the shortcut with the manual cleaner which isn't so great.

Now my hot rodded KGSS.

Boring today - got the oil changed and tires rotated on my car and my daughter's car. Received my KGSS but had family over tonight and didn't get to unpack it.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

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Raced up to Denver to pick up my daughter from the 1st Aid Station at Elitch Gardens amusement park, where she fainted in the 102 degree heat and split her chin open. Sitting in the Urgent Care clinic waiting room now. Poor thing is sore and upset, and needs stitches for a 2" gash.

Yeah, it did take me 6 hours to sort it out, but it was an interesting challenge to occupy my time on a weekend.

I use backgrounder so some of my streaming apps that don't run in the background will work that way, and SBSettings to quickly access things with gestures, and My3G so I can update or download large apps over 3G, and PDAnet for occasional tethering my MacBook to ATT.

Well, if they total it I hope you can find a car with the insurance money that you like just as much as the one you had. That's sometimes the hard part. I once had a car totaled that was worth less than I owed, so they paid the higher amount to pay it off but then I had nothing left to drive (POS AMC Hornet). I could only afford a motorcycle to replace it while in college.

Well, we have two jail-broken iPhone 4 and three jail-broken 3GS that have been jail-broken for a year and half, and the iPad1 has been jail-broken for almost a year, and we've never had an issue like this. I am usually very conservative with what Cydia store apps I install, and only had 4 installed when this happened. I think the jail-break was contaminated a couple of weeks ago when I installed "Snappy" on day 1 (which had crashed and screwed up the display in a different way and was removed right away). Removing SBSettings and Activator today seems to be what was needed to kill all the remaining code from Snappy that was messed up and not cleared out. Snappy works great on my iPhone 4 to launch the camera from the lock screen by pressing and holding on the status bar clock. On the iPad2 the Snappy screen was on the top right quarter of the screen, and it had also reset the springboard to only hold 12 icons instead of 16, and moved the password entry box to the top left of the screen. It never did anything like this to the screen though. It's not doing it anymore either.

No. I heard that being chipped is like accepting the sign of the antichrist.

Crap - it just occurred to me that if they replace the iPad then I wont be able to jailbreak it if it comes with 4.3.4 on it. And if the replacement comes with 4.3.3 on it then I'd still have to find that special app out there that can strip the SHSH blob out of it, so that if I wanted to re-install 4.3.3 then I could. That would still be preferable. However, the Genius Bar is booked full until tomorrow. UPDATE - I found that it wasn't my squeezing the case and screen together that was causing the screen to fritz out, it was a gentle prolonged press and hold on the upper left screen that was doing it, i.e. software. I removed all the jailbreak stuff and re-booted and it's all better now. It might have been related to SBSettings.

So, what could make the iPad2 screen go nuts today, seemingly on it's own after working fine this morning? A reboot into safe mode made no difference, and a power off or a home-sleep button re-boot had no effect either. After 30 minutes of this I was going to back it up, and remove the three jailbreak apps I have (SBSettings, backgrounder and My3G), and possibly restore it to factory - but I hadn't changed anything since the iPad2 jailbreak came out a few weeks ago when I installed these. Then, as I typed this, after 30 minutes of funny shimmering-pixelated altered-colors on the screen, it slowly morphed back into a normal appearance. Now I can't make it act up again. WAIT!!! Yes I can, if press on the back gently then the screen get's all screwed up, and after a while it reverts back to normal. I'm going to show this to the Apple Store now.

Don't forget, some people (like me) have their pets microchipped in case their collar comes off and they become lost. The local shelter or a vet can usually read the chips if they have one.