http://scofield.freeshell.org/journal.php Ernie Scofield | Journal en-US Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:38:11 -0500 1440 http://scofield.freeshell.org/journal.php When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains And the women come out to cut up what remains Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains An' go to your Gawd like a soldier. [...] http://scofield.freeshell.org/journal.php This entry crought to you by Vim!! [...] http://scofield.freeshell.org/journal.php Habitat 67, Expo 67, Montreal, Canada. I was there with my Grandfather all those may years ago. I toured one of these apartments and my question is why is why has no one ever built any others?[...] http://scofield.freeshell.org/journal.php So yesterday I sat though an all day pre retirement seminar. All city employees must attend the seminar within five years of their retirement date. Yes, I'm that old. I will be retiring early and will have to use savings to bridge the gap until social security starts. Now the only question is do I take the benefits at 62 or wait for full benefits at 66? I have a CPA that will help me with that. I'm inclined to take it as early as I can. What if I wait and due to net worth, they reduce it anyway? Let's go[...] http://scofield.freeshell.org/journal.php “Seats in Congress, seats in the state legislature, that big seat in the White House itself, can be purchased by those who have the greatest campaign resources … That, I submit to you, is no democracy. It is an oligarchy of the already powerful.” - Walter Cronkite 1916 - 2009[...] http://scofield.freeshell.org/journal.php So things here seem to be getting along fine now that I found a splendid service Feedage. What they do is scrape HTML and create RSS feeds. One of the only reasons I was fooling around with moving to a different software package for the journal was I had to code the RSS feeds by hand. This service does it for free. It will get me by until I can write something myself which produces RSS feeds automatically. I looked long and hard for Feedage. Everything I could find did it the other way RSS > HTML. I'm[...] http://scofield.freeshell.org/journal.php On the way home tonight, minding my own business, I hear on the radio about the proposed new healthcare system. The guy says "everyone will be required to participate" or something to that effect. How 'bout we go into that just a little further? Exactly how are they going to go about finding everybody and then how do they propose to enforce that everyone participates? To the first question. How are they going to find all the "undocumented workers"(illegal aliens)? If they could find al[...] http://scofield.freeshell.org/journal.php So the astronomers figure June 21 is the first day of summer. I figure the first day of summer is the first day over ninety degres. That was last Saturday the 20th. Ninety three to be exact. Smokin' smolderin' or whatever. I holed up in the house with my new AC which preformed flawlessly. [...] http://scofield.freeshell.org/journal.php Yesterday the cruise to Bermuda came to an end. I managed to finish two books, murder mysteries of course, and gain five pounds in six days! There will be penance in the form of strict calorie intake until I return to my pre cruise weight.[...] http://scofield.freeshell.org/journal.php Mortality. As much as we don't want to admit it, someday something bad will happen to all of us. Today I am off to me attorney's to execute a will, living will (medical power of attorney), and power of attorney. Don't get me wrong, I'm not in a hurry to leave this earth but that's not what worries me. What worries me is what has happened to several folks I know. Either they lost their mind through dementia or had a stroke.  I don't want to linger or be kept alive by artificial means. I don't care what[...] http://scofield.freeshell.org/journal.php Backfire! So I just picked up this over at WikiLeaks. So you think it has anything to do with Virginia outsourcing their IT? I do. WikiLeak's servers were blasted this mourning so you might have to wait a while or try back later. It all has to do with a hacker stealing a health and perscription database and holding it for ransom. SQL injection? What are to odds we'll ever find out?[...] http://scofield.freeshell.org/journal.php Finally, Summer's here. Saturday and Sunday night I walked home from a neighbor's house in a tee shirt. Warm at nine o'clock. [...] http://scofield.freeshell.org/journal.php Is it Spring or just a tease? When I get to this part of the drive home, I know I'm almost there. The shame of it is all is that these flowering pear trees tend to break apart in storms. Almost every year we lose one or two, and they aren't replanted. One day they will all be gone and the drive will be much more ordinary. [...] http://scofield.freeshell.org/journal.php And the answer is...[...] http://scofield.freeshell.org/journal.php Going, going, Gone[...] http://scofield.freeshell.org/journal.php 34 Months[...] http://scofield.freeshell.org/journal.php Turn of the wheel[...] http://scofield.freeshell.org/journal.php So I seem to have found the editor for Os X that I really fancy. It's called SEEdit and they give you a liberal trial period. The documentation leaves a bit to be desired as the author is Swedish. I still think you might want to give it a try and if you figure out the whole sites thing drop me a line.[...] http://scofield.freeshell.org/journal.php ernie scofield journal Navigation Home Beekeeping Personal Journal Reading Photos Linux Rants :-) Downloads Permit Calculators vi Reference BSD Mail Reference Decendents of William H Bishop RSS Feed 2009.09.14 When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains And the women come out to cut up what remains Just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains An' go to your Gawd like a soldier. Rudyard Kipling 2009.07.27 This entry crought to you by Vim!! 2009.07.24 Habitat 67, Expo 67, Montreal, Canada. I was[...] http://scofield.freeshell.org/journal.php Just in from my yearly physical and for the most part, good news. The not so good news is my thyroid is slowing down and I'm borderline anemic. Checked the trusty internet and now I know why I'm off to bed early and don't seem to get much done after noon. Good news is my cholesterol, both good and bad is stellar. That fish pill she told me to take every evening must be working. Also the Doc says to begin a daily multivitamin to increase my iron levels which is supposed to help with the anemia. In a few[...] http://scofield.freeshell.org/journal.php Well today is Inauguration Day and the old Geezer's birthday. Do you feel the "Change" yet? I guess we'll have to give it awhile and our new President the benefit of the doubt. I hate to sound so cynical but I've heard promises before and they turned out to be just that, promises. I wish our new Commander and Chief good luck. Only a megalomaniac would want that job.[...] http://scofield.freeshell.org/journal.php This post is coming to you courtesy of Windows 7 running on a Mac in VMware Fusion.The setup was dead simple and it looks very good. Quite responsive and unless they muck it up horribly, I will most likely buy it for my Toshiba laptop. Don't get me wrong, I still like my Macs better but this release is to Vista what Xp was to Millennium.[...] http://www.feedage.com/html2rss This RSS Feed was generated using the Free HTML 2 RSS conversion tool from Feedage.com