USMB Coffee Shop IV

[Foxfyre]

Welp they finally got back to us so it's back up to Gallup for a face to face interview on Tues. We'll head up Monday so we're not completely exhausted for the interview and since the interview is mid afternoon will most likely come back Wednesday.

Well my prayer for you will be for the best thing for you two to happen. Do you have a laptop to take along?

Yeah, we have our Lenovo and the wife takes her Dell.

I have been travelling with a laptop for many years now, but Hombre never wanted one. I liked my new Asus so well, when I saw one for a really attractive price in Amazon's daily deals, I got him one for Christmas this immediate Christmas past along with a lap desk and wireless mouse so he could use it in his lounge chair. I loaded on his e-mail access, Facebook, his favorite games, etc. before I gave it to him.

He was pretty tentative with it at first--there is something of a learning curve when you go from PC to laptop--but he is now comfortable with it and I doubt he'll want to go anywhere out of town without it.

The wife doesn't use the desktop any longer so I converted her desktop into my Linux machine. Now I bounce from my Dell laptop to my Windows gaming desktop to my Linux desktop........ Call me obsessive.........
The Lenovo we use specifically when on the road.

I still use my desktop for most things I do on the computer. For instance I don't do any banking, credit card ordering, or work with any sensitive information on the laptop so we won't be so vulnerable when we are traveling and using unsecure wifi systems. That's probably being over cautious, but oh well.

And my PC is somewhat more powerful than the laptops, has more storage, and I love my 26" monitor for multi-tasking, researching, and/ or playing favorite games, etc.

Plus the window just beyond the monitor allows me to see the front porch area and front door and garage door so I know who is coming and going, and the other window in the corner gives me a full view of the front walk, gate, mailbox, and a lot of the driveway. That is especially important when Carly is with us and sits at the front gate a lot watching the world go by or waiting for Hombre to get home. I can be sure nobody let her out.

 

[CeeCee]

I'm an iPad and iPhone person...don't even turn on my computer, at this point I'm afraid to.

 

[Ringel05]

Welp they finally got back to us so it's back up to Gallup for a face to face interview on Tues. We'll head up Monday so we're not completely exhausted for the interview and since the interview is mid afternoon will most likely come back Wednesday.

Well my prayer for you will be for the best thing for you two to happen. Do you have a laptop to take along?

Yeah, we have our Lenovo and the wife takes her Dell.

I have been travelling with a laptop for many years now, but Hombre never wanted one. I liked my new Asus so well, when I saw one for a really attractive price in Amazon's daily deals, I got him one for Christmas this immediate Christmas past along with a lap desk and wireless mouse so he could use it in his lounge chair. I loaded on his e-mail access, Facebook, his favorite games, etc. before I gave it to him.

He was pretty tentative with it at first--there is something of a learning curve when you go from PC to laptop--but he is now comfortable with it and I doubt he'll want to go anywhere out of town without it.

The wife doesn't use the desktop any longer so I converted her desktop into my Linux machine. Now I bounce from my Dell laptop to my Windows gaming desktop to my Linux desktop........ Call me obsessive.........
The Lenovo we use specifically when on the road.

I still use my desktop for most things I do on the computer. For instance I don't do any banking, credit card ordering, or work with any sensitive information on the laptop so we won't be so vulnerable when we are traveling and using unsecure wifi systems. That's probably being over cautious, but oh well.

And my PC is somewhat more powerful than the laptops, has more storage, and I love my 26" monitor for multi-tasking, researching, and/ or playing favorite games, etc.

Plus the window just beyond the monitor allows me to see the front porch area and front door and garage door so I know who is coming and going, and the other window in the corner gives me a full view of the front walk, gate, mailbox, and a lot of the driveway. That is especially important when Carly is with us and sits at the front gate a lot watching the world go by or waiting for Hombre to get home. I can be sure nobody let her out.

Opera browser has a built in VPN (Virtual Private Network) and ad blocker, I use it when I'm on the road and when doing any online banking. Like everything else it's not a 100% failsafe system but it's 1000 times safer than using an open network and 100 times safer than using your own ISP (Internet Service Provider) network. VPNs hide your location even from your ISP so nothing can be traced back to you.

 

[Pogo]

Well my prayer for you will be for the best thing for you two to happen. Do you have a laptop to take along?

Yeah, we have our Lenovo and the wife takes her Dell.

I have been travelling with a laptop for many years now, but Hombre never wanted one. I liked my new Asus so well, when I saw one for a really attractive price in Amazon's daily deals, I got him one for Christmas this immediate Christmas past along with a lap desk and wireless mouse so he could use it in his lounge chair. I loaded on his e-mail access, Facebook, his favorite games, etc. before I gave it to him.

He was pretty tentative with it at first--there is something of a learning curve when you go from PC to laptop--but he is now comfortable with it and I doubt he'll want to go anywhere out of town without it.

The wife doesn't use the desktop any longer so I converted her desktop into my Linux machine. Now I bounce from my Dell laptop to my Windows gaming desktop to my Linux desktop........ Call me obsessive.........
The Lenovo we use specifically when on the road.

I still use my desktop for most things I do on the computer. For instance I don't do any banking, credit card ordering, or work with any sensitive information on the laptop so we won't be so vulnerable when we are traveling and using unsecure wifi systems. That's probably being over cautious, but oh well.

And my PC is somewhat more powerful than the laptops, has more storage, and I love my 26" monitor for multi-tasking, researching, and/ or playing favorite games, etc.

Plus the window just beyond the monitor allows me to see the front porch area and front door and garage door so I know who is coming and going, and the other window in the corner gives me a full view of the front walk, gate, mailbox, and a lot of the driveway. That is especially important when Carly is with us and sits at the front gate a lot watching the world go by or waiting for Hombre to get home. I can be sure nobody let her out.

Opera browser has a built in VPN (Virtual Private Network) and ad blocker, I use it when I'm on the road and when doing any online banking. Like everything else it's not a 100% failsafe system but it's 1000 times safer than using an open network and 100 times safer than using your own ISP (Internet Service Provider) network. VPNs hide your location even from your ISP so nothing can be traced back to you.

That's surprising, since I have Opera on the other laptop and it's crawling with ads.

I never bothered putting an ad blocker on because I don't use it for internet much at all, but it's infested. Is it something I would have to switch on ---- like a swamp?

 

[Montrovant]

Yeah, we have our Lenovo and the wife takes her Dell.

I have been travelling with a laptop for many years now, but Hombre never wanted one. I liked my new Asus so well, when I saw one for a really attractive price in Amazon's daily deals, I got him one for Christmas this immediate Christmas past along with a lap desk and wireless mouse so he could use it in his lounge chair. I loaded on his e-mail access, Facebook, his favorite games, etc. before I gave it to him.

He was pretty tentative with it at first--there is something of a learning curve when you go from PC to laptop--but he is now comfortable with it and I doubt he'll want to go anywhere out of town without it.

The wife doesn't use the desktop any longer so I converted her desktop into my Linux machine. Now I bounce from my Dell laptop to my Windows gaming desktop to my Linux desktop........ Call me obsessive.........
The Lenovo we use specifically when on the road.

I still use my desktop for most things I do on the computer. For instance I don't do any banking, credit card ordering, or work with any sensitive information on the laptop so we won't be so vulnerable when we are traveling and using unsecure wifi systems. That's probably being over cautious, but oh well.

And my PC is somewhat more powerful than the laptops, has more storage, and I love my 26" monitor for multi-tasking, researching, and/ or playing favorite games, etc.

Plus the window just beyond the monitor allows me to see the front porch area and front door and garage door so I know who is coming and going, and the other window in the corner gives me a full view of the front walk, gate, mailbox, and a lot of the driveway. That is especially important when Carly is with us and sits at the front gate a lot watching the world go by or waiting for Hombre to get home. I can be sure nobody let her out.

Opera browser has a built in VPN (Virtual Private Network) and ad blocker, I use it when I'm on the road and when doing any online banking. Like everything else it's not a 100% failsafe system but it's 1000 times safer than using an open network and 100 times safer than using your own ISP (Internet Service Provider) network. VPNs hide your location even from your ISP so nothing can be traced back to you.

That's surprising, since I have Opera on the other laptop and it's crawling with ads.

I never bothered putting an ad blocker on because I don't use it for internet much at all, but it's infested. Is it something I would have to switch on ---- like a swamp?

The ad-block and VPN in Opera both get turned on in settings.

 

[Ringel05]

I have been travelling with a laptop for many years now, but Hombre never wanted one. I liked my new Asus so well, when I saw one for a really attractive price in Amazon's daily deals, I got him one for Christmas this immediate Christmas past along with a lap desk and wireless mouse so he could use it in his lounge chair. I loaded on his e-mail access, Facebook, his favorite games, etc. before I gave it to him.

He was pretty tentative with it at first--there is something of a learning curve when you go from PC to laptop--but he is now comfortable with it and I doubt he'll want to go anywhere out of town without it.

The wife doesn't use the desktop any longer so I converted her desktop into my Linux machine. Now I bounce from my Dell laptop to my Windows gaming desktop to my Linux desktop........ Call me obsessive.........
The Lenovo we use specifically when on the road.

I still use my desktop for most things I do on the computer. For instance I don't do any banking, credit card ordering, or work with any sensitive information on the laptop so we won't be so vulnerable when we are traveling and using unsecure wifi systems. That's probably being over cautious, but oh well.

And my PC is somewhat more powerful than the laptops, has more storage, and I love my 26" monitor for multi-tasking, researching, and/ or playing favorite games, etc.

Plus the window just beyond the monitor allows me to see the front porch area and front door and garage door so I know who is coming and going, and the other window in the corner gives me a full view of the front walk, gate, mailbox, and a lot of the driveway. That is especially important when Carly is with us and sits at the front gate a lot watching the world go by or waiting for Hombre to get home. I can be sure nobody let her out.

Opera browser has a built in VPN (Virtual Private Network) and ad blocker, I use it when I'm on the road and when doing any online banking. Like everything else it's not a 100% failsafe system but it's 1000 times safer than using an open network and 100 times safer than using your own ISP (Internet Service Provider) network. VPNs hide your location even from your ISP so nothing can be traced back to you.

That's surprising, since I have Opera on the other laptop and it's crawling with ads.

I never bothered putting an ad blocker on because I don't use it for internet much at all, but it's infested. Is it something I would have to switch on ---- like a swamp?

The ad-block and VPN in Opera both get turned on in settings.

So do I........

 

[Montrovant]

The wife doesn't use the desktop any longer so I converted her desktop into my Linux machine. Now I bounce from my Dell laptop to my Windows gaming desktop to my Linux desktop........ Call me obsessive.........
The Lenovo we use specifically when on the road.

I still use my desktop for most things I do on the computer. For instance I don't do any banking, credit card ordering, or work with any sensitive information on the laptop so we won't be so vulnerable when we are traveling and using unsecure wifi systems. That's probably being over cautious, but oh well.

And my PC is somewhat more powerful than the laptops, has more storage, and I love my 26" monitor for multi-tasking, researching, and/ or playing favorite games, etc.

Plus the window just beyond the monitor allows me to see the front porch area and front door and garage door so I know who is coming and going, and the other window in the corner gives me a full view of the front walk, gate, mailbox, and a lot of the driveway. That is especially important when Carly is with us and sits at the front gate a lot watching the world go by or waiting for Hombre to get home. I can be sure nobody let her out.

Opera browser has a built in VPN (Virtual Private Network) and ad blocker, I use it when I'm on the road and when doing any online banking. Like everything else it's not a 100% failsafe system but it's 1000 times safer than using an open network and 100 times safer than using your own ISP (Internet Service Provider) network. VPNs hide your location even from your ISP so nothing can be traced back to you.

That's surprising, since I have Opera on the other laptop and it's crawling with ads.

I never bothered putting an ad blocker on because I don't use it for internet much at all, but it's infested. Is it something I would have to switch on ---- like a swamp?

The ad-block and VPN in Opera both get turned on in settings.

So do I........

 

[Ridgerunner]

Call me obsessive.........

obsessive!

 

[Kat]

I need to get Opera. Been a long time since i used it. I have been using Chrome and FF. FF is sucking big time. Thinking of dumping it.

 

[Kat]

Been just pouring rain. Good lazy day. Only thing is I need to be busy packing. bleh

 

[Ringel05]

Been just pouring rain. Good lazy day. Only thing is I need to be busy packing. bleh

We're still packing a little at a time so when the time actually comes to move our packing chores will be minimal. The not so fun part will be moving everything.......

 

[Ringel05]

I need to get Opera. Been a long time since i used it. I have been using Chrome and FF. FF is sucking big time. Thinking of dumping it.

My primary is still FF, Chrome for video/movie streaming, all those porn sit........ oh wait I wasn't supposed to tell ya that!!!!!! Opera I use for more sensitive security applications.

 

[Sarah G]

I need to get Opera. Been a long time since i used it. I have been using Chrome and FF. FF is sucking big time. Thinking of dumping it.

My primary is still FF, Chrome for video/movie streaming, all those porn sit........ oh wait I wasn't supposed to tell ya that!!!!!! Opera I use for more sensitive security applications.

Have you tried ad block on an Android tablet? I can't get it to work right with chrome.

 

[Ringel05]

I need to get Opera. Been a long time since i used it. I have been using Chrome and FF. FF is sucking big time. Thinking of dumping it.

My primary is still FF, Chrome for video/movie streaming, all those porn sit........ oh wait I wasn't supposed to tell ya that!!!!!! Opera I use for more sensitive security applications.

Have you tried ad block on an Android tablet? I can't get it to work right with chrome.

This is the only tablet I have or ever will use........

 

[Montrovant]

I need to get Opera. Been a long time since i used it. I have been using Chrome and FF. FF is sucking big time. Thinking of dumping it.

Opera doesn't have a home button. WTF is up with that?

 

[Ringel05]

I need to get Opera. Been a long time since i used it. I have been using Chrome and FF. FF is sucking big time. Thinking of dumping it.

Opera doesn't have a home button. WTF is up with that?

1. Right-click (or Ctrl-click) the toolbar and select "Customize".
2. Select "Appearance". The toolbar is highlighted by a yellow border.
3. Select the Buttons tab in the resulting dialog and drag the Home button to the highlighted toolbar.

 

[Ringel05]

I need to get Opera. Been a long time since i used it. I have been using Chrome and FF. FF is sucking big time. Thinking of dumping it.

Opera doesn't have a home button. WTF is up with that?

1. Right-click (or Ctrl-click) the toolbar and select "Customize".
2. Select "Appearance". The toolbar is highlighted by a yellow border.
3. Select the Buttons tab in the resulting dialog and drag the Home button to the highlighted toolbar.

My mistake, that's from over 10 years ago, the home button has been replaced with the speed dial button, the "box" made up of 8 little boxes with the lower right little box missing. You can also disable the speed dial suggestions.
I did read that Chrome extensions could be downloaded for Opera and there are home button extensions there.

 

[Montrovant]

I need to get Opera. Been a long time since i used it. I have been using Chrome and FF. FF is sucking big time. Thinking of dumping it.

Opera doesn't have a home button. WTF is up with that?

1. Right-click (or Ctrl-click) the toolbar and select "Customize".
2. Select "Appearance". The toolbar is highlighted by a yellow border.
3. Select the Buttons tab in the resulting dialog and drag the Home button to the highlighted toolbar.

I've no idea what you are talking about. I don't have a toolbar in my version of Opera (44). There is no option for Appearance anywhere that I can find. The best I can do is go to the speed dial start page and put my preferred home page as the only link.

 

[Montrovant]

I need to get Opera. Been a long time since i used it. I have been using Chrome and FF. FF is sucking big time. Thinking of dumping it.

Opera doesn't have a home button. WTF is up with that?

1. Right-click (or Ctrl-click) the toolbar and select "Customize".
2. Select "Appearance". The toolbar is highlighted by a yellow border.
3. Select the Buttons tab in the resulting dialog and drag the Home button to the highlighted toolbar.

My mistake, that's from over 10 years ago, the home button has been replaced with the speed dial button, the "box" made up of 8 little boxes with the lower right little box missing. You can also disable the speed dial suggestions.
I did read that Chrome extensions could be downloaded for Opera and there are home button extensions there.

Yeah, I'm not sure why they are so insistent on the speed dial page. It's just an extra click for me.

 

[007]

Just hauled all of my tax stuff down to the accountant's office. It's that time of the year again. Did I mention that I hate tax time? My accountant was in a jolly mood. He always is. Says he will give me the verdict one day next week.

I kinda like tax time. I usually have H&R Block do mine and they're filed usually the first day they can be. Thing is as a 100% service connected disabled veteran, I get all my property taxes back, and surprisingly they went down $330, thanks to Gov. Walker. Gotta love that. They were still $862 on 1.3 acres and two permanent structures.

Hey 007. You haven't been here in awhile. Glad you popped in.

Now I'm wondering where the term 'popped in' came from.

Yeah, for some reason I just decided to completely quit drinking after new years. Didn't make a big deal of it, just quit, and my life just got busy. Life is good and I'm having a blast. Even did some more work on the hotrod truck. I was going to just take the trim off the front bumper, but then that turned into blacking it out, and that turned into welding 18 assorted holes shut and smoothing it, and that turned into it needed the grill painted, a new GMC emblem, new OEM GM headlights, new OEM GM side marker lights, and of course new LED parking lights... OF COURSE... I like it, but, it's still not done... it's never DONE. It's a work in progress. Sent in the money to put the collector plates on it today... it's 20 years old this year...

It's beautiful. I wonder if my neighbor across the street is your twin brother maybe separated at birth. He's one of these guys that has every kind of tool and can do anything. He bought a long bed truck awhile back but wanted a short bed for whatever reason. So he cut the thing down himself in his garage shop and made a short bed out of it.

And if you needed to stop drinking or just felt you should and did, congratulations. Sometimes we all need a change of something like that in our life.

Yeah I've always been more or less a binge drinker, even when I was younger. People I knew would drink a lot more often than I would, but when I did drink, I'd stay up pretty late and drink until I couldn't keep my eyes open, then I'd be hung over for two days. Well, the last ten years or so that program has just been dwindling down to not drinking much at all, just lost it appeal, not to mention going on 62 the ole bod was saying hey, enough of that crap... so I quit.

I'd probably get along pretty good with your neighbor. Sounds like my kinda people. I helped a guy do a long bed to short bed mod quite a few years ago. It's not that hard actually, and fun to do.