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firefox crash fix

Been having a few issues with my laptop lately which required me to force a hard reboot. When I have Firefox 3 running, something gets wiped out and I have to set up all of my extensions again. Pain in the butt. But I figured out what file is getting wiped out. Tiny litte file called prefs.js. Make sure you back that sucker up in case you have to go through a system crash. It's located in this folder --

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\yourprofile.default\

Tonite I came home and decided to finally restack our firewood. Annette's stepfather sells us firewood every year. He brought a pickup load of wood this year for us. He's got a bad heart and I had every intention of unloading it myself but he insisted on helping. I had him fill the metal stack holder while I stacked the rest of the wood next to it. He finished, his face was flush and I could tell he was feeling really winded. So the other day I was cutting the grass in the backyard and noticed that stupid stacker fell over and all of his hardwork was laying across the yard. I realized what happened is the poles had dug into the yard and leaned forward and tipped over. So I put some boards under the feet and restacked the wood. I also cut up all the 2x4's that came out the bedroom project last spring when we tore down the wall between bedrooms 2 and 3 to give Kenzie a bigger bedroom. In a moment when I was rushing one of the boards smacked on the side of head. Still stings. There were all kinds of nails sticking out them, I was lucky one didn't puncture me. I'm such an idiot sometimes. 

It's 10:00 pm and I'm starving. I had a late lunch and then came home and got involved with the firewood project. Showered and cooled down and relaxed. Always happens. I had some bran granola cereal this morning and man did I pay today for it. I had to go outside and one point and just out gas for a good 15 minutes. Geez, what do they put in that stuff anyway?! 

Talked to my sister today. Since mom is doing much better we are now reconsidering having her move into a senior apartment instead of assisted living. It's such a struggle to remind mom to exercise her legs, to encourage her to socialize with people, just to enjoy life. If we could get her to improve in those areas she'd be fine for a long time I think. She just winds herself down into such a funk that it's so hard to pull her out of. I tell her over and over about the importance of getting out the house, walking, talking, moving around. She just wants to be left alone in her hobbit hole. There are times when I just don't want to think about it anymore and then I feel bad for not caring. Mein Kampf indeed...

The last lecture

Annette is watching a fad video right now called The Last Lecture. A college professor diagnosed with terminal cancer decides to make his final lecture something memorable. Mostly it's the same thing most people say who have a limited amount of time left, live for the moment, carpe diem, pursue your passions, etc. I hear it, I agree with it, but I can never convince myself to give up my comfortable lifestyle and experience the "now". 

I finally got back to the gym today after a couple of weeks off. Felt good to push myself to sweat again. Need to keep it up. Feeling fat lately but I just weighed myself and I'm still sitting at 201 lbs. If I went on a low carb diet I could easily lose 20 lbs. Once a month I fast for 24 hours. That time is coming soon. I've read that it allows your digestive system to take a day off and reset itself. Makes sense to me.

I installed another tv tuner card in my pvr awhile ago so I could pick up HDTV over the air with an antenna. I can recieve HD just fine now but my cable tv reception is kind of fuzzy using the pvr. Probaby just have the signal split too many times ( 4 to be exact). I bought a splitter with an amplifier and ran brand new RG-6 cable to my box but it's only marginally better. Good enough for viewing. I'm waiting for the day when the cable company will move all of their channels to the digital band, then my wonderful pvr experience will end. I don't see any cable cards or variant of in the future. 

Summer in the city

Last 2 days have been quite hot. Over 100 F yesterday. Took my mom to sign up at the Cardinal Ritter senior daycare yesterday in all of this heat. I was concerned that she would get heat exhaustion even though we weren't outside much. She did well though. She's getting much better. She can walk much better, bends her knees, has balance. She said she could not recall being in the hospital though. Very strange. She mentioned to me today that she's had episodes like that in the past year. I'm wondering if she's suffering silent strokes during these times. Takes her about a week to recover and then she's fine. I suggested that we monitor her condition in the coming months. My theory is that she wasn't taking her blood pressure pills and the hypertension is causing these strokes. Well I set up her pills in one of those daily pill dispensers so she would take her pills on time and every day. 

Funny thing with mom yesterday. At the senior daycare center while we signing her up one of the seniors was playing the piano, old time tunes. Some of the people were dancing along. I like those old songs from the 40s and 50s. They were basic melodies with a little edge. Laying the groundwork for the rock n roll explosion. Anyway after we finished up I told mom to hang out there while I go get car and drive it down and I'll pick her up at the door. That way she can avoid the heat. So I bring the car up front and she's not there. I get out to go get her and she's got two older men trying to get her dance with them. Man, I can't leave her alone for a minute! :)

We are finally getting our high speed internet line at work. Ever since I've worked there I swear we've all been sharing a 56K modem connection to the internet. Not sure what was going on there. But since we are adding more web sites and getting more traffic they decided to get more bandwidth. Took almost a year to get the vendor to bring the line in. Not sure why it took so long. The IT crew at work are good people, just a little under qualifiedfor the tasks they are now in charge of. I'm waiting to see how badly they mess this up when I go into work tomorrow. The new line is suppose to come online tonight. Chris called them the "Kama Sutra IT group". Meaning they will really f*ck it up good...haha.