' Nothing at All ...."

' Making love out of nothing at all '     Air Supply

The Grey Cup happened and Saskatchewan won.

Reality bites.  To-morrow , I will attend a memorial for a football pal who passed at 64. A diabetic . I believe he succumbed to conditions associated w/ the diabetes. this death is the second of former football friends , all from our high school days. Its tough when life hits you in the face w/ a cold fish. thats not my line , its from the book that I'm re-reading , ' Surrender to the Will of the Night ' by Glen Cook. However , it seems appropriate , kind of , considering my biggest hobby ( only hobby ?? ).

Winter is settling in , white on the ground , icicles on the downspout extensions. I really should take a photo so that you can see. How about that ... visual evidence.

segue....  I mentioned the switch-over to a laptop from a dedicated PCU tower and monitor. The advantages really aren't many except saving money considering this laptop was sitting in a case and taken out every three days to charge and / or update the security and Windows.
However , in reading the Owners Guide to the laptop ( for the first time, I'm thinking ) I discovered a direct input slot for memory cards from cameras etc. I uploaded some 83 photos from our spare camera. I thought there were a few left in the camera - duh , yeah.

BTW to all followers. Back up your data especially pictures. In the Torstar , a ipad user reported that her hard drive crashed. At the Apple store they offered to replace the ipad , when asked they said for the data retrieval go to a specialist. The cost  ( not covered by Apple ) was $600 to 700. So copying and storing your data makes sense. although , your PCU and / or laptop is less likely to fail - anything is possible.
Apparently , the ipad uses a memory stick inside that can hold more bytes ( hence the small size and thinness ) but when it fails there is no real hard drive to access. A little more costly to access.

FYI - I bought a auxiliary hard drive for $ 80 and its rated at 1 Terabyte. and they come even cheaper , just don't look as nice.
I saved almost all the data on the PCU hard drive.
This procedure was before I switched over to the laptop.

BTW - haven't used anything from  that transfer.
I mean bookmarks etc. , everyone said it was important. I guess those bookmarks weren't that crucial.

Toronto was voted  ' Most Youthful city ' by some youth forum. 16 categories and Berlin was 2 nd. Mention was made that updates to transit are needed ( do tell - lets fight some more over transit ).