My computer died. Or rather, my keyboard died. Specifically the "D" key. I attempte to write emails without using the "D" key but it was rather ifficult. Really screwe with spell check.
Of course, I could not just go buy a new laptop. Instead I found a 2015 MacBook pro (13") with the optional g7 processor and 16 gig of ram soldered on a the factory. Then, I got mixed up with the operating system and specified Catalina instead of High Sierra because I am an idiot.
Even worse I didn't figure out my error until I tried to install QuickBooks Pro 2015. It won't run on Catalina. I got the weird Mac OS naming system all mixed up.
I was figuring this will be my computer for the next decade so I started going through backups and loaded it with pictures and all my old music. This was a mistake...
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| Better days on the farm. We did double the acres and prices were better. |
To fix this I have to boot off the internet/recovery deal, then hope it starts up with original OS and that the original OS is actually High Sierra. Catalina is also a dead OS but for some reason High Sierra actually works. The last great OS in 32 bit vs the usual Apple first generation crap.
I found out what happened to George's Grouse.
I sold 200 gallons of molasses and then forgot to shut off the valve when filling a bucket and dumped 75 gallons on the driveway so I just quit.
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| I turned on the valve while took a bucket to dump in the mix/grinder. Things went wrong with the pellets and I forgot about the bucket for two hours... Of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most... |
In other commentary which I know at least one out of five subscribers will read and disagree...
The Iran baloney is pretty depressing. I doubt they had nukes. Obviously we didn't really care that they were slaughtering their citizens. The left only cares when lefties are killed. Of course they Iranian opposition was funded by Israel and the US operatives. Of course we were going to wait until the leadership were slaughtered before we did anything. That is just how we roll...
I remember watching Iran fall apart the first time. I was 15 or 16 and listened to NPR while feeding calves every morning and evening. It was such a shame. I remember sitting on the living room floor and reading the Sunday Oregonian which devoted a huge section to the revolution.
Of course NPR had already pointed out that the Shaw was a nasty puppet installed by the CIA because his democratically elected predecessor wanted to nationalize the oil. But, even at 16 I knew that substituting crazy Muslims because the Shaw didn't like commies was a bad idea.
It was a defining moment in my politics. I had a lot of respect for Jimmy Carter because he really tried to live his faith. Later in life I would meet a lot of liberal christians and realize that when they say, "Jesus was a Socialist," they actually mean, "I am a commie bastard and want to send you to a re-education camp." I mean, you can't just go around saying that, you have to have a code, and IACBWSYRE just doesn't roll off the tongue like a good slogan.
Jimmy Carter sold them out and the world got to hear Death To America for the next fifty years. Music to most democrats but it got a little old.
I have felt the Revolution in Iran was a good lesson to us all. When you let corruption in government continue and the people want reform. Things can get extreme. The educational establishment hated the Shaw because he put commies in jail (and tortured them) but Islam has always gotten a free pass. Probably due to the educational elite's proclivity for young boys, so the Shaw has always been hated.
I keep thinking back to the time at my old job when a Hispanic coworker spoke of his admiration for Pinochet and perhaps the solution to the school's problems was just to invite to key members of the College of Arts and Sciences to the soccer field to see what right wing extremism was all about.
We all see the usual old boomers in their weird shoes and ancient anger and a lot of people really hate them for ruining the world. Just had to push the free love until we got AIDS and insane feminism and now a polite guy can't get a date and if he does get one he probably won't enjoy it. Just had to change our unjust belief system so we could open it up for truly crazy beliefs to be accepted. Just had to push politically correct beliefs on us all and import people of color from the most insane cultures on earth just to have diversity.
Did every boomer hate their parents so much they had to devote their lives to the destruction of everything Dad believed in?
But, I digress...
I hate to see the war on Iran. Liberation is a great idea but the US will screw it up. Iran is heading deeper into the dark ages. Why will it turn out differently than Iraq, Egypt, Libya, or any other country we have "helped." (Including Israel and Ukraine)
Never trust the USA
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