I made sure to turn off the windows update.  A few months ago while I was volunteering at a youth camp I was using my laptop to do some work for them. They had a wireless signal however it was very prone to outages. For whatever reason windows update attempted to update itself eventhouhg the updater was turned off. I was unable to stop the update and i guess halfway through the updated I lost signal and the file was then corrupetd. I tried to update the computer a few days later once I was back home and on a more stable connection.  It would not let me update it nor roll back to an earlier date with windows restore.  So i just let it do its thing turned off the auto updater again.

A few  weeks ago guess what it did AGAIN turned on the auto updater downloaded and then rebooted on me mid project. Thank goodness I did not loose anything.  After it said it could not install the updates and then rolled itself back and then rebooted.

Once rebooted I tried to login that is where the fun begins.  It attempted to login and then promptly told me the shell32.dll file was either missing or corrupt do i want to continue? I clicked yes, a  few more prompts later I found myself logged out. By this point I was so pissed off I just left the darn thing sit for two weeks.

Now any computer geek would then reboot into safe mode with networking download a copy of a shell32.dll file reboot and bam we aer back in business. O NO vista will not allow this.  I tried to reboot the darn thing into  safe mode.  So i jump on my trusty desktop open up google. To my suprise I find that in order to use the safe mode feature you must activate it in windows. WHAT THE ……. This would have been nice to know when I had a computer up and running so i could turn it on.

PLAN B.  Now i get the oppertunity to go to my local computer geek store buy a converter that will allow me to plug my laptop hard drive into my desktop. I will then promptly scan for viruses and spyware.  The only problem with this plan is finding a shell32dll file for windows vista

CURSE YOU MICROSOFT I VOW TO BUY A MAC AS MY NEXT MACHINE.  I was actually planning on getting one this just give me more of an excuse and reason to do it I will keep you all updated.

Seriously what kind of people do toy makers employ they are starting to get as bad as Disney.

In all seriousness I don’t think I would have wanted to play with this as a kid. O wait I lied how cool would it have been to shoot a giant snot rocket at your friends from a few feet away. Gotta love it.

Corprate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common except for their terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to leave it and do all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die according to their bucket list. In the process, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find the joy in life.

IMDB Bucket List

• Jet Skiis
• Bungee Jumping
• Rock Climbing
• Tackle Football
• Sky Diving

Now the next few items are ones I found particularly interesting.

Total Pollution now how is that different from partial pollution and when did this ever get sanctioned as any kind of athletic sport or activity fit for children?

Nuclear Energy Me: “O come on mom why cant we go play at the power plant today” Mom: “Because son Nuclear Energy just isn’t in our insurance coverage this year.”

Any Stunt Activity I consider driving down I-35 every morning and evening on my commute to work and back to be a “STUNT” Does that mean that my driving is not covered?

Terrorism Now I want to know who did what in order to get this on the list. O Jimmy that little terrorist always blowing stuff up, accidentally blew off his arm while trying to send the Jenson’s Cat flying across the pond in his make shift rocket launcher. Boys will be boys…

In all seriousness has the world come to an agreement that the insurance companies have to spell everything out and have to tell them we will cover you if you wreck your car but if you get sick while eating the lead paint chips off your wall at home we wont cover you? I MEAN COME ON show a little self control and stop eating the paint chips. A little common sense might not hurt either.

On that note its time to go read through my on health benefits and find out what I am not covered for. Who knows I might not be covered for mad cow disease or for trying to walk the dog while playing a guitar and skydiving all at the same time

That is all …………..

I mean seriously do milk companies especially BELFONTE not send their product labels and designs through a quality assurance system?

Enough Said.

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**********UPDATE********
since I wrote this original posting I have seen 3 more of these trucks. The local International dealer must have gotten in their new shipments.

I was headed to lunch the other day with a coworker and we happened to be talking about how some of the vehicles around here are just very impractical and we saw one that just blew us away. One would think with the gas prices around $2.15 to $2.40 that people would be driving vehicles that get a very high number of miles per gallon. I would assume however, in this day and age the larger the tuck the higher you are in status in society, but that’s a rant for another day.

Anyway back to my story.

With all of my worldly travels I have seen some weird and strange cars and trucks through all of my travels. However this one still takes the cake. It is the International CXT. I had read internet gossip and eventually saw pictures of this huge truck. A few days ago I finally saw in up close and personal. When I say personal I say we were almost driven over. This tuck is huge it is as tall as a semi truck and in order to get in you have to have two steps to get there. The bed is very small and at max can hold a 4 wheeler. I just don’t understand why you would want to drive this in stop and go traffic around here.

Here is what the truck looks like in its native habitat however it will never get there living in Kansas City.

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