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Carol H Tucker
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Today is the 6th day of the 5th week, the 2nd day of the 2nd month, the 33rd day of 2018 [with 325 shopping days until Christmas], and:
- Bubble Gum Day
- California Kiwifruit Day
- Candlemas -- [AKA the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord Jesus and the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary] commemorating the presentation of Jesus at the Temple. This is the day some folks historically take down their Christmas decorations [others take them down on Epiphany]
- Crepe Day
- Give Kids a Smile Day
- Groundhog Day [AKA Groundhog Job Shadow Day] – hard to believe that we have been listening to that rodent for 131 years….
- Heavenly Hash Day -- Vanilla marshmallow swirled into chocolate batterr, topped off with real chopped almonds and rich chocolatey chips.
- Marmot Day -- became an official holiday in Alaska on April 18, 2009 and is a celebration of marmots, a group of large squirrel-like animals that includes groundhogs, woodchucks and ground squirrels.
- National Wear Red Day -- intended to help raise awareness of heart disease, in particular among women.
- Self Renewal Day
- Sled Dog Day – celebrating the sled run to Nome
- Tater Tot Day - first invented in 1953 at the Ore-Ida Labs Tater Tots literally mean "baby potatoes"
- Working Naked Day ((which is difficult to do if you are already celebrating Wear Red day, neh?))
- World Play Your Ukulele Day
- World Wetlands Day -- the international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran in 1971.
On this day in ...
1536 - The Argentine city of Buenos Aires was founded by Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza .
1653 - New Amsterdam - now New York City - was incorporated.
1876 - The National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs was formed in New York.
1887 - In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed as a result of a Pennsylvania Dutch superstition
1922 - The James Joyce novel "Ulysses" was published in Paris on the author's 40th birthday.
1925 – Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
1935 – Leonarde Keeler administers polygraph tests to two murder suspects, the first time polygraph evidence was admitted in U.S. courts.
1942 - Minister of National Defence James Ralston proclaims western British Columbia a 'protected area' under wartime regulations, and classifies all Japanese nationals resident in Canada as Enemy Aliens; orders that every male between ages eighteen and forty-five, born in Japan, be removed 100 miles from the Coast by April 1, 1942; on February 25, the government will include second and third generation Canadians of Japanese origin under the edict; they will be treated as aliens and deprived of their property.
2000 – First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
I rather pride myself on being relatively tech savvy, especially for my age bracket. I have convinced the IT departments in different organizations to allow me to be the administrator of my own machine and even help others for one simple reason – I know what I do not know. What that means is when I am genuinely at a loss, I holler for help and simply stop doing “stuff”. The IT gurus tell me that the willingness to understand when to stop poking on things is vital to keep things on an even keel.
That said, I am not as knowledgeable about the ins and outs of how a computer actually works any more than I am about the inner workings of my car. Just as I expect the car to start when I turn the key, when I hook up a computer that is brand new out of the box, I expect it to RUN. My new monster machine, the Acer Predator, started up and runs just fine. However Windows 10 has a persistent, continuing, debilitating problem – with depressing frequency I get the blue screen of death and told I have a BAD POOL CALLER error. Needless to say I have rummaged about online to figure out what that is, and I have to admit that I am not quite sure what causes this software glitch – it seems to involve WIN10 looking for resources that are not actually there [if I understand the issue well enough to verbalize it] and it is ubiquitous judging by the number of inquiries on how to fix it I have found. So far I have:
- Downloaded and installed all the WINDOW updates – that took overnight. The computer informed me that I could do stuff online while updates were downloading but after crashing a couple of times, I stopped and just let WINDOWS do its thing. Getting all the updates and doing a hard reboot made no difference
- Disabled the “fast start” option in settings – well that didn’t work – it crashed as soon as I tried to type something
- Purchased Drive Easy and updated 19 different drivers
So none of these things has helped. When the problem started, which it did almost immediately, it was before I had downloaded and installed Google CHROME [despite some pretty snotty messages from EDGE], Nod32, and Carbonite.so I don’t think it is an issue with an application/program. So the next suggestions are getting pretty technical, having me go into BIOS and make sure I am not overclocking, examine all attachments to verify compatibility, check the hard drive for corruption. And at some point I am simply going to throw up my hands and call Tech Support
Wish me luck!
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