Twenty Million

Powerball was 20 million bucks, so of course I bought a
ticket, in fact I bought TWO, but like everyone else I was
disappointed not to win, not even a minor prize. Maybe
with luck I'll be the winner of the 30 million!!!

I could do with that money. Not just to pay my bills but
to buy houses for the family.

The developers have finally got that housing project in
McMillan St going. I don't know why they bought George's
old house as they have demolished it but there is no road
there or on the plan and there does not seem to be any plan
to use it as a road as all traffic comes in and out of the
same roundabout in the street.

It has 50 blocks and they are all house and land blocks.
Starting at about $220, 000 and going to $295,000. There
are 11 styles of houses but not a two storey among them so
it is possible that they won't permit a two storey house.

The brochure shows that there will be street plants and red
brick paved driveways as well as the old fashioned green
street lighting. I had hoped that it would be under ground
power lines but I don't know about that as it was not
mentioned.

But then it is a dream. Standing talking to the lady about
the estate I saw Dick and Helga's son but he did not seem to
notice me but then I saw Dick and he saw me and stopped and
spoke. We talked about the new estate which is virtually
right behind his house. He said that he had paid off his
mortage years ago and he doubts if he could get money from
the bank as his stage in life. I know what he means!

Euchre (Again)

Though I was still upset over Ted eating in front of me
two weeks ago, I went to cards on Monday 12th May.

Luckily I did not partner Ted, otherwise I would have left.
Also there was a table of only two and if it had of been
three I would have gone home then as well.

Cliff was still having pain from the lesion that the Doctor
removed from his nose on Thursday, 8th May, so he did not go.

I had a good night with a final score of 115. The same as
Ted. We ended up being equal fourth.

In the last game I was at the two table with June and as
Harry had annoyed me by NOT calling and I had to get two
thirds of the points we got, I enabled June to surge past
him and win the night by one point, with 127.

Two other people came equal third on 120.

I was also in luck as I won the trivia for the night and the
$10 covered the cost of the night as I only bought one
Lemon Ruski.

Driveway Fun

Well I left Cliff's just after 4 p.m. on Monday afternoon
and went to the Doctor's and paid his bill. Then I dropped
off the two DVD's at Video Ezy. As I was doubled park I
did not take the keys out of the car but remembering that
the key system is playing up I left the door opened as I
ran up and put the DVD's in the overnight box.

On to the Shell Service Station near Breed St, on the
Princes' H'way. It was 4.40 p.m. by this time and I quickly
threw the boot and petrol levers and jumped out of the car
and slammed the door and ran around to the boot and took out
the petrol container and emptied it into the car and then
filled it. I filled the car and topped off the container.
Put the hose up and the container in the boot, slammed the
boot and went to get my purse to pay, only to find the auto
key locking service HAD LOCKED ME OUT!!!

So there I was in the driveway of the service station with
no means to move my car! I had to wait in the LONG line
of paying customers to explain to the young bloke behind
the counter, who just SMILED and gave me the phone and phone
book. I rang the RACV and they said it could be an HOUR
before they got anyone there.

When I went out to the diveway there were about SIX male
drivers and they were ALL smirking at me. So I explained
that NO I HAD NOT locked my keys in the car, the automatic
service has a fault and locked me out.

I washed the windows of my car and directed traffic away
from that pump. But after 15 minutes I went in and took a
puzzle magazine, the young man lent me a pen and I started
doing the puzzles leaning against the back of my car.

At 5.10 p.m. the RACV man turned up and it took him less
than a minute to get my car door open. (All the times it
has been opened is showing!).

Well with the cost of the magazine and the dicount on the
petrol, it worked out 20 cents cheaper for the petrol. Boy
did I get out of there as quick as I could.

Cards.

I didn't go to cards on Monday night as I still had the
shits up from the week before. I couldn't eat anything
because of the diverticulitis so it was terrible sitting
there at supper with everyone eating and my stomach
knotting up (which was VERY painful) ans I was SO hungrey
as I had not had anything since Friday night.

So of course there was food left over and the waiter
brought the plate around for a second helping and I said
"Please nobody have anything at this table because I swear
I'll kill you if you do." Cliff and other bloke said no
but Ted took a pie well my stomach started knotting at
the smell and I got up and said "That's it I'm not playing
anymore and left the table."

Ted's response was "It was OK for you to pig out last week
and it's not OK for me to pig out this week." But that
wasn't the point. I didn't pig out in front of someone
in pain and hungry! Typically of a man to twist everything
to his way.

Bugs and Other Pests

Well I finally got my Norton downloaded, but now it won't
install till I have Windows XP Service Pack 2 installed.
What gets me is I had Norton 360 last year and the same
version of Windows, so why do I have to upgrade Windows now?
Is that why is has not worked in the last year because I
did not have the 'right version of Windows'???

Got in contact with HP and for over an hour (Cost me $30!)
spoke to a lovely lady called Sandra who walked me through
getting the discs downloaded for my printer and scanner.
It took abot ten minutes to download the printer and
according to the first read out on the scanner it was going
to take 3 and 1/2 hours to downlaod the scanner disc. It
is 65% done as I write this. I started downloading at
1.30 p.m. and it is now 3.15 p.m. so that is nearly 2 hours.

Beryl came as promised and we did her Slippery When Wet
Competition. After she left I did mine and now I have to
post both entreies away. Hopefully later this evening.

Email Rubbish

Well finally got My computer on the net again and opened my
e mail. I had 95 waiting to be read, but after deleting the
ones that would sell me a larger penis, ( A NEAT JOB
CONSIDERING I'M FEMALE)cheap 'drugs' and Rolex watches plus
two that said my bank accounts were being 'attacked'
(another neat trick as I don't bank with either of those
banks!) I was left with 44 emails.

I opened the one about my Norton up date. This was 7 hours
ago and it said it would automatically up date my Norton 360
and it still either hasn't done it or is still doing it I
think that is a long ...long time for this to take place.

Still haven't got to the HP site to upload the discs to
reinstall my scanner and printer.

Worms and other Attacks

As I have gotten older the red rosy tinted glasses of innocence
have become somewhat askewed. In other words I have become a
cynic. I no longer believe in coincidences. At the beginning
of last month I received a survey from Your Voice on computers
and how much I'd be willing to spent to rid my computer of a
virsus or other damaging attacks.

Witin 24 hours I was having trouble with my computer and within
a week it was so corrupted I had to take it to a dealer and have
the hard drive wiped.

But in that intervening week I received a message saying that
my computer was being attacked and I needed spyware protection
and as my Norton 360 seemed to be doing nothing! I bought the
package ($60) but of course it did nothing as well.

Now if that survey had a hidden virsus on it and it was sent
out to 1,000 respondenets that means a tidy amount of $60,000
to the company of that spyware package.

I was lucky that 95% of my files were backed up and all I lost
were my games.

But another annoying thing is reinstalling all my other hard
ware items e.g. scanner and printer as I can't find the CD's
that originally came with them. Luckily I was able to locate
my internet CD after a week's search. I have also found my
digital camera CD and palm CD. But I also asked the man to
install a fast USB port and now the computer is asking me to
install the CD related to that but the service man did not
give me a CD when I picked up the computer! So I'll have to
go back and ask about that. It never rains but it pours.
(He say it was with the CD's of my backed up files but I don't
know what I did with those. They are here some place!!!)

The above reasons are the excuses why I have not done my blog
in nearly three weeks. The computer was in the shop for TEN
days! But now I should be able to do it again, provided that
nothing else happens.

I cetainly am not a happy camper.

Of course in the wipe clean I also lost the spyware package
and the Norton 360, which as I said did SFA.