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UltraMom
Oriko Leaderboard:
(oriko means good kid)
Johnny
95.5
Its this big guy's turn for the spotlight. Just finished chatting with him on Skype and was struck, as always, by his insight and humor. Get well, Baby. Don't let that cold get the best of you. Take some Zicam.
UltraGirl
95.4
This girl has been lately leaving insightful comments on my posts, a move likely to ensure her a good ranking on the Oriko Leaderboard. Thanks, UltraGirl. I too am glad my camera returned from the Center of the Earth. And do give those cranberries another try.
UltraBob
95.3
k Has been a little busy, but hopefully that's good news for Akatombo Media. We keep missing each other on Skype, but we'll figure it out one of these days. Thanks for the comments. Someday I may finish writing about the trip!
Jim
95.2
Am a little disappointed cause I thought I was going to get to see this guy next weekend at Aunt Debi's wedding. Now he's not coming after all, which is probably a wise choice and all, but still drops him a bit in the Leaderboard ratings til I get over it. Give me another day or two. And he DID make me and UltraDad a super-awesome Anniversary Card with a fun guessing game. We're still waiting to hear....who won?
Heather
95.1
Hasn't been leaving comments, and refuses to share her taco dip recipe, but she did send UltraDad and me an absolutely gorgeous Anniversary card and cash for a dinner out, which we have already made use of. Thanks, Honey.
Polly
88.0
I'm going to leave this kitty up here ahead of the dogs for now. They are still barking at her at every juncture, and as far as I can see, the only thing she does to instigate it is to exist.
Murphy the Wonderdog
87.9
Doesn't bark at Polly as much as his little demon-brother, but does bark at said brother way too much. Murphy, you are the (relatively speaking) "Big Dog". If you want the chewbone Rowdy has, don't bark at him; take it away from him!
Rowdy
75.0
Still too much barking, and a little too much pooping and peeing in the house. Is starting to learn a few tricks, but is not as clever as Murphy in that way.
What I'm Playing:
Bookworm Deluxe
In My CD Player:
I'm Reading:
I need to get into a really good book. Ideas anyone?
Links
The Onion
To be announced...
on April 17, 2005 02:10 PM The Cook said:
Yah! You're back!
on April 21, 2005 08:09 PM booker said:
I have been thinking about you, ultrabob, on and off for many years now and I finally decided to look for you on the web. It took 15 min.. Please email me, thanks.
on April 25, 2005 11:40 PM UltraMom said:
Hi Bob
I'm in Nevada on Aunt Pat's computer; my oomputer is temporarily (I hope) crashed. I don't have your e-mail address. Just haven't been able to communicate with you and hope you are well. I may have to think about moving here soon if we can find a place to live; Dad really wants me to, and I think he needs help managing his diet and health! I tried to reload Windows 2000 cause my computer told me that I need to; that some files were corrupted. It came to a part where it wanted the windows disk (it was in) to find some catalog file, and I was to click on a default path or type in one of my own. It wouldn't let me browse and it didn't like any of the default paths. If I clicked cancel, it told me there was am error, and when I restarted my computer, it did the same thing all over again. So, I'm stuck in an endless loop! I know a guy in Arco I can bring my tower to next week when I get home, so hopefully he can fix it. You can delete this comment after you read it; I didn't know any other way to talk to you! Dad and i (and Murphy) spent the night in Twin Falls on Saturday. It has been raining pretty steadily. By the way, who is Booker?
Love, Mom
on April 26, 2005 08:47 AM UltraBob said:
Hi Mom,
Jim told me, and I have left two messages on your machine. Since I don't work on Windows machines anymore if I can help it, because of exactly the kinds of things you are dealing with now, I recommend an alternate course of action. I have transferred $300 into our joint account with another $200 on the way.(Keep it on the down low but $400 is to help you with your computer problem). I recommend that you go to the Apple store online.
You'll be buying two things from the Apple store. The First is a mac mini. This tiny machine will use your existing mouse and display, and contains a cd drive that reads dvds. Click Here then click the buy now button on the top right just under the menu, after reading all about it choose which basic model you would like (either is fine, one is slightly faster and has 40Gb more hard drive space) click to purchase it and look at the options for the product (the two things that you may consider from the purchase menu for the mac mini are: upgrading the combo drive to a superdrive, do this if you want to be able to burn your own dvds and the AppleCare Protection Plan, I have put it on every mac I've ever had, and have not used it yet). The second thing you probably will want is Virtual PC, this will allow you to play bookworm deluxe and any other programs you have for the PC that aren't available or have better alternatives for the mac (this is probably a fairly small amount of stuff). Click buy now next to the Virtual PC 7 option unless you would like it to come with an operating system preinstalled for you (if so go with Windows XP Home Edition) otherwise we'll have to install windows 2000 inside virtual PC before you can use it. Once you have these two things you'll be good to go with most of the stuff you do with your computer. I'll still try to help you resurrect your old pc at some point, and then there is a utility available for $50 that will copy all your music, photos, etc over from your old puter to the appropriate places on the new one. The most beautiful thing about the new puter is that it won't break down nearly as much as the windows machines you have experienced, and often I will be able to log into your machine from afar to check it out when it is having problems. Also you'll be using a system that I am familiar with, and I can send you software that I have that you need.
The final thing that you do on your computer that we'll need to figure out is bookkeeping. I can't remember which program you use to do that so I haven't been able to make any recommendations. You will, of course, be able to continue doing your bookkeeping in the virtual pc on your mac, but if you use quicken (and others, it just depends on what you have) there is a mac version available, and we can import your files into the mac.
on April 26, 2005 09:08 AM UltraBob said:
Quicken is available for $70 for the mac. Quickbooks Pro is $299. Now that Dad is working for someone rather than rtunning his own business, I'd quesss that pretty much and bookkeeping program would do the job.
on April 26, 2005 12:58 PM ultramom said:
Well, I use microsoft money (and have used for a long time) for our personal finances, and I use quicken for the church. Can they be imported into the mac program?