Laundry Day

I entered my first video challenge today.  It was a 72 hour video project by the Art House Coop.  I view these as learning experiences more than serious endeavors, but I am getting better at video editing.  Anyway it's only 57 seconds long, so take a minute to view it.

For some reason, I am unable to upload the video to this blog, but you can follow the link below to youtube to view it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPhBVccYuu0

55th Class Reunion

My West Pittston High School graduation class had 79 members. On September 4, 2010, 29 of us met to celebrate the 55th anniversary of our graduation.  Sadly, 21 had already passed away.  The remaining had other commitments that kept them from attending.  Several of my good friends from high school live in the area, but won't come to the reunions. I wonder why?  I would really like to see them.

 I'm always amazed, when meeting with a group of similarly aged people, how some seem either younger or older than me.  Of course, this is a subjective view.  And looks do not correlate well with how a person feels or what they can do.  Some of the youngest looking oldsters that I know are alcoholics and we know how that destroys your system.

The drawing above was done by Richie Irace.  He also wrote lyrics for the reunion songs.  Who would have know, when we were kids,  that he had such talents.  I'm glad that he developed them.

Well, we plan on doing it again in five years.  I hope I'm still the youngest in the class. :)

Windows 7 Upgrade

A few days ago, I updated my wife's computer from Vista to Win 7 Home Premium.  Everything went fine, except I couldn't log into the internet with the wireless connection.  My wife was really ticked.  "Now why was this upgrade necessary?"  It's supposed to make life simpler.  Uh-huh.

After 3 days of discussions with the cable Internet provider, the router manufacturer, my computer savvy daughter and her computer savvy husband, and finally Microsoft, I was able to resolve the problem.  It seems the Norton Internet Security software thought I was under a virus attack and refused to let me use the wireless connection.

It took an hour and a half of Microsoft tech time to figure that out, so I don't feel too brain dead about it.

Anyway, I deleted the antivirus software, got the wireless router to work, and reinstalled the antivirus software.  Everybody seems happy now.  I know I am.

The whole process was very educational and I have a better understanding of the operating system now. 

Not that I expect to do it again, anytime soon.