Prognosticating

the weather.

If you check the entry for yesterday , I included the American Thanksgiving Week forecast. Looks good.
To - day feels good but the temperature will drop some 15 degrees by late afternoon.
Did a check of the gutters. We have a sour cherry tree adjacent that drops all kinds of crap on the roof and it ends up in the gutters.
I cleaned out the dross.

Health wise , XXXXXXX maybe I've beaten the cold.
I was expecting sore throat , fever , body ache - yes , symptoms of the flu but my symptoms when I'm sick.

Hope U R Feeling Better

............ goes out to Norton , OH

Me , here in the s GWN , on the mend. Head is clear , -ish , stuff is still coming out of my nose

Got it ! too much information , there

Day looks bright but windy , the forecast says rain due
mild temperatures

And Amazon came through again.
The story. My heart monitor belt , somehow made it into the dryer and made almost 10 minutes in heat cycle. The readings have been slightly irregular.
Pricing out the battery change and the suggested chest strap replacement ( 2 batteries from Polar , the company itself ) $ 55 incl postage.
instead , I ordered a Timex , heart rate monitor = del to the door 
$ 66. Obviously , maybe not the same standard BUT I don't need much. It is just a rough check to make sure that I don't do stupid things. I do lose the max VO2 test but that was pretty simplistic anyway.
What is bad , is the slide into disposible consumerism - I mean what happens to the watch and chest strap thingy - see !

Oh well. I 'll try to think of something

In ' Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ' Frogstar World B , falls prey to the ' shoe event horizon ' , when shoes become the bellweather for industrial success  - make shoes , consume shoes leads to more shoes etc

According to AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Brett Anderson, "We expect another large storm to roll from the Pacific and expand toward the central Rockies during the week of Thanksgiving

Follow Up to symptoms

Much better , stuffy but re - bounding in health

The weather is less beautiful than yesterday , cooler and breezier
41 F on the back deck

I'm trying to be normal but its hard ... still a little loggy , overall

Riverton the book is getting better ... things are moving along quite
well

I'm watching a re - play of the latest episode of ' Partners in Crime ' an Agatha Christie series featuring Tommy and Tuppence , married couple , playing at being spies.

Always the Way

........ is it a cold , is it the flu
NO
Me being me. I've checked the lists of symptoms   Cold  /  Flu
Me , I get them all

Saturday night , went to sleep w/ Neocitran or the fake kind from Shoppers Drug Mart. For you southerners , Neocitran is Nyquil dressed up w/ lemon flavour and put in hot water.
Knock out drops for a cold.

Did it Sunday night as well and spent the day ( Mon ) in bed , reading. Funny when your captive , I think you'll read anything ... and I did
First , a Rizzoli and Isles thriller about Chinese revenge... not bad
The corker is ' Riverton' ...its a girls book , I think
The recollections of a maid that went from understairs to above stairs ( English class , sort of terminlogy ) and a college education and professorship.  Goodness.
I'm reading the Kindle that M gave up. I've read most of the detective ones and won't start the American ones.

Hopefully , I've beat the illness.
Cross my fingers XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Cuz when I get sick .... the works

The day was pleasant form the window view - sunny and a little breeze.... looked good

Here goes : Ten Things that Canada is good at

1. reputation - according to  an international poll 
2. Donuts - we eat lots
3. personal freedom - we polled highest among G20 countries
4. Kraft dinner - we eat lots 
5. Hockey - M  / W both , by international interest groups
6. OECD - says college education is high here
7. Lakes , we got lots
8. Banks - some of the solidest in the world
9. Maple syrup as of the last ten years
10 Coastline - yep , lots of coastline

Sunday , here

Temperature 48 F , there is a breeze but reportedly the wind is going to ramp up turning quite brisk. The sun is out making things look pretty good.Temperatures will rise to 50 +  ,this mid - week but will come w/ rain.
This time of year , w/ the leaves gone , we can see the back of Cedarbrae Plaza approx 3/4 of a mile away.

Alright , here. Breakfast in front of the TV. One topic , attacks in Paris. We are watching the news feed from the CP 24 , news show.
Coffee and toast , and someone is having cereal. Of course , I'm typing , on the emachine. 
? was it faster this morning. In light of the new protocol for start up. Maybe , the one change that is noticeable is that loading the Google , gmail program ( my main choice for email ) seems to finish faster. I usually would get a window pop up " something's not right " and the program icon spins away. That part seems to be faster.

Paris .........

........... are they going to talk about 11/13 w/ sadness. 
Imagine the relatives dealing w/ this tragedy

Weather : hovering around 48F , wind is still here and its grey outside.

Following up from yesterday , and the reset for start up of the baby laptop. I did the same deleting for start up on the big laptop ( using it now ). Figured that it doesn't hurt esp. since some of those ' apps ' were games or game sites

Re - inventing the Wheel

............I use this expression all the time ( at least in my head )
mostly as a frustration but quite often as an explanation for the state of affairs.
I mean , of course , that it seems that duplication or re - doing of something seems the norm.
Here we go. The baby laptop was xtra slow this morning.
Recall , that this e machine , 10 " screen , small laptop has had a memory upgrade and a solid state drive installed. All this effort to increase the speed of the computer. The initial cost $ 130 after bonus points BUT $100 to get a full Windows program , $40 for a 2 GB memory chip and $110 for a solid state drive. Thus , I have a $380 laptop. 

I've explored the possibility of buying a new laptop or i - Pad , etc. The problem is plug in ports. I still need an USB port for my video glasses and it is handy to have xtra ports for attaching devices.

As mentioned , this AM , really slow.

I went to YouTube ( where else , would I go ) and watched two videos , essentially , titled , " make your computer faster'.
After 18 minutes , I got the feeling that for me and my emachine , only one item really applied.
The suggestion was to go to the ' start - up menu ' and delete any programs not needed at start up b/c you could manually bring those programs into service as you needed them.

BTW , some suggestions involved using CNET a website for computer programs and upgrades. I'm leery of using CNET b/c in the past , along w/ what you want CNET sends a bunch of programs attached for search engines etc.

I trimmed the start - up list and re - started. And , yes , the emachine is slightly faster.
Google is our main program and loading gmail seems to take a long time. After the tweaks to start - up , there was an obvious change in the response time. Now , we'll see if this performance continues over time.

Weather : is all about the wind. The wind has been gusting for at least 36 h and I estimate leaf cover is in the 10 % range. In fact , only 2 trees out of the 40 that we can see have more than a few leaves left.
Temperature is 46 F on the back deck.