Summer Salads

July 28, 2011 // Posted in Good Food, Life (Tags: , , , , ) |  Comments Off

There are so many delicious summer salads that make an excellent side dish – especially if you are grilling out. There is nothing like a big bowl of potato salad to go along with a fresh grilled hamburger. Or a wonderful pasta salad to go along with grilled salmon. Or how about a nice macaroni salad to go with those barbecued ribs?

I’m going to head for the kitchen right now and make some kind of pasta salad. I don’t know what all I will put in it until I see what fresh veggies are still in the refrigerator. But I can guarantee at least some chopped Vidalia onion and black olives!

How to Fix a Computer

July 17, 2011 // Posted in Blog, Internet, Life (Tags: , , , ) |  Comments Off

tech support

I would like to have just one week – ONE WEEK – with no computer problems. Is that really too much to ask? Really? Evidently, it is.

Music and Trivia

July 8, 2011 // Posted in Internet, Music (Tags: , , , ) |  Comments Off

One of my favorite web sites – in the Top 10, for sure – is the Pandora.com free music site. This is like a personal jukebox on your laptop or PC. I love the way you can select a type of music and then discover a variety of similar artists and bands.

You also get to read little bits of trivia, easily click through to the lyrics and can download any of the songs played from iTunes, usually for only 99 cents. I love this site  and you can listen for free to 30 hours, or pay a very small fee and get unlimited hours of music to calm you, motivate you or inspire you.

Bad Modem

June 9, 2011 // Posted in Home, Internet, Money (Tags: , , , ) |  Comments Off

So much about computers is a simple one time installation and then you can forget about it. We expect our monitors to work for years with no maintenance other than wiping down the screen once in a while. We expect the hard drive to work for years and get lazy about backing up our data, then we are devastated when the PC crashes and we lose everything.

My latest electronic tragedy was my modem. I bought the modem about 3 years ago and have a home network with 3 computers and 2 printers connected to it. I like to be able to connect to the internet from any room in the house. But yesterday the modem quit – just like THAT – and I had to deal with shelling out $60 at Sam’s Club for a new one.

And now I find out that the laptop with Windows VISTA will not get online anymore since I got the new modem. ARRRGH!

More Seafood

June 3, 2011 // Posted in Good Food, Life, Nature (Tags: , , , , ) |  Comments Off

This year I want to try more seafood. I just realized that I have not had much of any seafood for a long time. I used to love to eat blue crab and oysters. Lobsters were for special occasions. And shrimp was something you could splurge on once a month or so. But it makes a difference if you live on a coast where fresh seafood is plentiful. Around here, you have to buy most of it previously frozen or just go out of town for fresh seafood.