The end for is very near..

Video drivers and other malfunctions are starting to signal the end for this computer.. The likely end for this computer will also be the end of this and every blog I do entries on as well as Facebook and YouTube.. I have no prediction when the end will be but if I had a guess..  Tomorrow.. Just joking, but it could be any time now.. The computer locks, goes black screen then comes back with a blue screen with a message about a dump or something to that nature.. Anyway last time this started happening regularly I reinstalled windows 7 and then a week or so later gave windows 10 a shot..  That almost lasted a month and that would have meant my computer would be a dead computer because there was almost no returning back.. Would I try to go back to 10 now.. Highly unlikely..

The other day I was messing with the music on the computer and I wasn't sure if editing was better with i-tunes or a windows program so I started with itunes and then switched to windows media player.. That worked really well, I know I had double and triple songs and so deleting the doubles and triples was what I was after.. Got it down by quite a ways and then.. Well itunes would be the main player, and itunes doesn't automatically delete what isn't there.. So I started to do the long task of deleting tracks but.. As is the case with me I wanted a quick fix.. So I'll delete the program, that should fix things..  Trouble is you can't delete itunes, it is nearly impossible to do..  I tried to delete it in the control panel, that didn't work.. So I did the next best thing, I got into where the program was and deleted from there.. This is.. Well to call it  huge mistake is putting it mildly..  It might be the cause of the crashing the computer is doing now.. That is how much this program is attached to your computers goings on..  I found a program to delete in the right order the different things that need to be deleted..  Now I got rid of everything.. I found an earlier version of i-tunes.. In fact I found the very earliest version of itunes, the very first run.. Why get it??  Well my feeling is with this as well as every program I use is if it goes to shit, get the earliest version... Quite possibly there was some code or a dll. that is needed that went sideways with the latest version and it will work better this way.. The earliest version of itunes won't work with the newer version of windows.. It might work only in windows '98..   The latest version seemed out, so I went with itunes ten, it had the windows 64 framework and that seemed very important to get it to not just install correctly but to run.. Got it installed correctly right up until the restart the computer to finish the install process.  After the restart it wouldn't finish the final step in the install..  Guess there is now itunes for me.. but just to try it, let's get rid of everything, so I started that program to get rid of the itunes garb in the order it says to.. So five or so steps later, itunes is GONE.. Redownload it again this time the latest version, will it work this time??  Highly unlikely, why would it.. Well it did, works just like before which isn't saying much.. But it was like brand new right??  No.. It's like four hours after the fact that same day.. Doesn't have the songs that I deleted off of there.. So now what.. Well it might seem easy to fix that. There are programs that will clean itunes for you, but why isn't this built into itunes??  It is easy to keep itunes clean when you get rid of two or three songs here and there, but when you do a hundred or two it becomes a pain in the ass... So today I deleted all the music.  Every song. GONE... Oh that's drastic, you will have to reload all the songs again..You haven't been paying attention, I have a flashdrive full of the songs that will be reloaded onto the computer..   The exact reason I did the flashdrive this way is just in case the computer took another shit, I would have that backed up.. In fact there is nearly nothing on this computer of importance..  Every program is backed up on  a external drive.. Every picture, every video, every scrap of important shit of any kind is backed up on an external drive.. It's not cloud drive.. it's MY DRIVE..    My way, ever since the windows XP took a dump, I have been doing it this way..  MY WAY..


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Wait a minute... hold on there...

We were just sitting outside on the deck watching nothing in particular and i'm watching the clouds to the south there.. What was that??  Seriously clouds form and dissipate like this all the time.. sort of.. This looked like a jet trail so it wasn't that unusual...  But this was strange in that is formed, then was there for a minute then disappeared, and I watched it..  Was that a freaking ufo???  More than likely not but it sure seemed ufolike.. not that I see them regularly..  But I do have a tendency to look at the sky, watch things that appear and then disappear just like that...    Was that a straight line cloud??  Do they make such a thing???


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A forth of July Tale

I seem to say the same story every year about the forth of july and a friend that would take the money from watching the place while we were gone on vacation and blow it all on firecrackers..  He was the firecracker kid, but strangely if no one else had any it was only fun to have some for a short while.. I remember him lighting one at a  time and then shooting the rest of a package.. Was he bored or what?? Well anyway, yesterday I heard firecrackers being shot off and I thought of the old days.. We would go into the drugstore and that's where they were sold, fireworks I mean.. How smart is this.. Back when i was in grade school they had fire works for sale, they had a no smoking sign there by the sales rack.. Then there were booths where my dad and his friends would sit, drink coffee and smoke cigarettes...   Strangely enough it wasn't until the nineties before they stopped this and made her move the fireworks out of the store.. You can't have smoking in the same building as fireworks.. But anyway back when I was little we would bother dad for a quarter for some fireworks.. that's right 25 whole cents would buy you the same size package as $1.40 will now... And also get you a punk.. You had to buy two punks because they were half a penny each..  Me and my older brother and his friend would have firecracker wars.. We had this old greyhound bus (kids ask your parents what that is) and it was an old cast iron thing, we'd light the fuse and then try to time it out to where the cracker would blow up as it arrived next to the target, less there be a return trip from whence it went..  Those were good times..  Good and dangerous, to a certain extent..  Then the time down at the post office, there seemed to be an open dare for that one kid who did stupid shit like this, putting a smoke bomb in the outgoing mail box outside the post office.. And it never seemed like anyone would be dumb enough to do such a thing.. Then one year it happened.. The kid that likely did it was the post masters son...  but it could have been someone else.. I wasn't there when it happened...    Old fireworks are always fun.. My mom had some old ones and my older brother got to shoot them off.. They were called rat chasers and they chased anything even when they were brand new.. These went everywhere..  Well this year we have a box of old fireworks that I got last year for my nephew to shoot off on the forth of July at night.. But the neighbors were shooting off fireworks and they started around three in the afternoon and even the night ones were being shot in the afternoon.. I thought, well they must be gonna go elsewhere later so they were shooting these off when they were so they could leave.. But as day turned to night they kept on firing them off and I got the box ready for my nephew to shoot them off but we were enjoying the neighbors show that I put ours back in the closet.. We'll shoot them later.. Or maybe new years eve..  Which didn't happen.. So this box might get shot off this 4th. Or they won't...  depends... On what??   I dunno..


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When boobs attack

 So it seems it could be construed as an us against them type of attack..  or more to the point a me versus them type of thing, or more to the point, me, being right, against the, being with their opinion being not right, nor wrong but more not right...    I'm talking mostly about my uncle and his he is right and I'm likely off the rails wrong in his book.. And he might very well have a point but here's the thing.. Obama's presidency is all but over as you can nearly count the days until he is out of office.. And I am glad to see him go mostly for the shitty way he has been treated from day one.. He has gotten a lot done but could have done more if the congress he was saddled with had any balls or desire to govern..

 You have so many memes against Obama and a few for him... Truth is I voted for the lesser of two evils in the last election, an election Obama won in a landslide...  My vote might not have counted, I have no true idea but when you live in a backwards state that has not voted progressively in... Oh I don't know.. EVER..  It was more for my peace of mind than knowing my vote mattered anyway..  But here is the kicker.. The ticker...  The thing that gets me is while he puts anti-Obama things on, he wants him impeached NOW and for him to be gone now.. He can't wait until January...  He puts shit that makes sense to him on Facebook, and I counter with positives about Obama and he really doesn't like it, and the thing is I really don't care..  When Hillary takes over and gets progressive thinking judges in the supreme court, the shit is going to hit the fan and then you will see a very vast difference in the way people think about Obama, the man who took everyones guns away from them,  only in their nightmares...

I'm all for the second amendment, I just think they should get some laws passed and make it to where if you want to buy a gun that it takes more than a fortnight to get one.. I think it should take background checks, education like the old gun safety courses they used to have...  Take some time, get to know what the gun you want can do.. Is it a gun that is offensive or defensive.. There's a difference??  

You don't need a gun.. The last time I thought "I sure could use a gun right about now" was last week and it was because a bluebird was bothering our cat.. I wasn't after a cannon but rather something that would bring the bird down for a cat to meal on it...

And so my feeling about the Brexit situation is they bought it, they should own it.. Instead most of the people who voted for it are claiming ignorance.. "We didn't know what we were voting for..""  What??  Really???  You people there in Britain don't know how to read??  Can't work a computer.. HAVE NEVER HEARD OF GOOGLE???   This makes them on equal with as stupid and ignorant as republicans  most Americans??   Seriously and then Sarah Palin makes the comment well we need to pull something like a brexit thing here in America...  Alrighty then, what are we supposed to exit from, the EU??  Britain???   Um..  Read the declaration of Independence ...  We've already been there.. WE'VE ALREADY DONE THAT...    Go figure...


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(P.S.  Mostly what I mean on the memes that I post on FB is to rile up the republican love affair people.. (Our way do or die)  and that includes guns because they can just not see a full on guns guns GUNS  society..  We're going to have to try another way and it's going to have to be sooner than later.. I've said it before and I will repeat myself here, if the gun loving second amendment thumping gun lovers don't get ahead of this shortly the second amendment will be dicked with by the government and you won't even be able to recognize it when they are done with it..  Background checks are the least of the things they could try now.. If it were up to me you would have to invest a full year of hoop jumping before you could buy that gun you have a hardon for..  And that is nothing.. Some people want your ability to get a gun be something you have to aply for while literally in the womb..


I poke fun at these people and will step up my game over the last few weeks, i was going to chill, but I think rubbing these people is what they need..  )

A Stab at reality ... Failure..

Here's another one for you, found this one on a certain GOP lovin relatives facebook page...  Basically they are making fun of Obama's statement of this is not who we are..  Well in this case I can only imagine Obama was talking about the gut violence that seems almost predictable anymore.. In fact the week that Orlando shootings happened I woke up Monday morning feeling something was going to happen by the end of that week.. I didn't know what or where it would happen but something was going to happen.. It should be an easy prediction that it will be a shooting of some sort.. That's almost the easiest thing to predict anymore...  This meme about "you are so far away from who we are you don't have a single clue."  And the sad truth is he is far away from who we as a nation are, because he sees a decent country full of good people, but that is quickly becoming not to be the case.. He sees us as a very decent people for the most part, willing to help our neighbors in a crisis...  But as far as being good to each other it really seems to be going away from us.. When I am at a train crossing and there is a train crossing and it take a long time to get the train across, I don't get to bumper to bumper to keep anyone from a side street in, I generally am trying to keep a car length open so I can wave someone into the flow of traffic.. It seems like a decent thing to do.. Why do this??  Even when I was working I could see people needing into the flow and would let them in.. There is nothing more helpless of a feeling than to look at a fifty car line and think you might have to invoke asshole privileges to get into the flow..   People need to be nicer, just a little..  Help your neighbor even if you don't know if they are from your town or your state...  They are your neighbor...


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Mass message to

For those who read this blog and watch videos on the other blog, and are thinking what video is a song I've heard before.. Or demo of a song... Well.. SORRRRRY   but I am trying to think of the right video material to use.. the song is quite short and sappy but I can't find the subject matter to use..   I'll Google sappy pictures today and get it put together and upload it and put a message "see this is the sappy song demo..."  And you will all say so what...  Like you always do..   Oh and what about that X rated video, bet that was a farce??  Well... It's uploaded to that video site where all the music videos are, and I changed my mind, it will be seen by the end of this month..  So sometime between now and midnight on the final day of the month you will get to see it... All three (two.. two versions.. The third is identical to the first but has a small adjustment to the credit sequence therein making it not needing to be seen...  )    So like I said fair warning.. It is seriously cool to me but that isn't to say it won't offend people who will watch it..   Dismemberment is never looked upon in the humour for which it is intended.. Unless it is real life then I agree, that's just nasty shit right there...


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31 days.. give or take

So it has taken about a month to get the music from various places, discs from all over the place, my bedroom, the basement...  And those spools of dvd full of music and the repeats that are likely there.. Actually I know they are there..  A 32 (29) GB flashdrive that is nearly full and backed with a SD card that isn't full but has music that needs to be run through.. Then there is that question looming, if it all won't fit at 128kbps why not take it down to the next setting??  Truth is that would be fine but there is a part of me that wants this to be quite listenable and not be shitty.. So this needs to be the cutoff.. Also a lot of the music I was getting from the dvd discs is stuff that I already have.. Just cleaned up because it is from disc and gotten from a place where you used to could get music fairly easily.. (wink wink)  The music that will eventually be on the 32GB drive will be everything that I want to have on the computer.. There likely will be more but this is to be the "A"  rating stuff, the no shit this is the best of what I got on here.. You want to share??  Here's my  F drive and this really is me.. There is nearly nothing from American music from the last ten years..   What blows me away is the music I have.. I haven't listened to compact disc in quite a while..  I set the roku to whatever radio app (channel) and enjoy it that way.. If I get a mp3 player it will have to be able to handle the 32GB that I currently have.. And the number of songs on that??  Good question..  It is many.. Found all four Wrabit albums... Seven GUN albums..   Have had some of that on tape.. What blew me away the most.. Most of the compact discs I made with that old Pioneer disc recorder are still usable..  blew me away.. The lifespan of burned discs from a computer is about five years, some last longer.. These discs.. The Gun double set and Wrabit were the first three I did and all three are in excellent shape.. All done in 2001...  Think where you were in February of that year.. i was recording my record collection to disc, and most of the time these sessions were done at a bright and early two in the morning to keep the front door closing downstairs from making the arm and needle on my turntable from jumping out of the tracks being played..  yeah, it was that important..    And now they are pretty much all available to be listened to..  Took about a month to load the music and still there is some that needs evaluated as to weather I want all that or not..  Changing the files to 128kbps sample rate.. Went through updating to windows 10 and return from that abyss, and continued on..  Then I will load the music to computer to do full evaluation and check of the tracks that are doubled up.. Which will be kept, which will be deleted.. This is the first time I included live tracks en mass..  Last time it was all studio no matter what.. This time live was taken and decided to double the tracks, get the studio and the live where it seemed like a good idea.. Started from Z and went to A... Zevon To Abba..   Took longer than I thought   And then check the