On a scale of one to ten, about a seven today. No wind, no rain, no flies, no smoke, and no bullets. Also no bikinis, no tall cool ones, or short snappy ones. Coffee, anyone?Helpful Hint: If you want to help keep your computer in the pink, here's a little trick that may help:- make a shortcut to each of the folders (in Windows) called 'Temp' and 'Prefetch', and then every three or four days, click on those to open their folders, then 'Select All' and 'Delete' - clean them right out of there. The stuff in Prefetch is automatically renewed on a reboot, and the stuff in Temp is there because it's strictly temporary, and you don't have to preserve any of it for posterity. If that were necessary, it has already been done by the time you read this. So away it goes! This will help to keep your computer running well, because it isn't sorting through a long list of junk looking for something useful every time it starts up or does a reboot. Please Note: Mighty Microsoft, bless their concerned hearts, will tell you that you don't need to do this, because it simply isn't necessary. So two things: (1.) They are in the business to sell you something new when your old stuff clogs up and slows to a crawl; (2.) If it doesn't do any good, why does it seem to work for me? What have you got to lose besides your unnecessary files and folders? Would I lie to you?
I'd love to drop in for a coffee.
ReplyDeleteWeatherwise we're enjoying a beautiful late summer (not an "indian summer", because the beautiful autumnal colours are still missing).
And thanks for useful tips on temp and Co.
Have a good day, sir.
I thought you were going to say "this isn't an 'Indian Summer' because I'm not an Indian..."
ReplyDeleteHey! Lots of our Indians aren't real Indians either - they're only three-fifths of five-eighths buckskin, and the rest is bastardized paleface :)
The last real 100% Indians died off with The Lone Ranger and his faithful companion Tonto, and the latest crop got their dancing skills from Elvis The Pelvis. Would I lie to you?
Why is it named "Indian Summer" after all? I´ve forgotten the story behind it. Oh, I could google, or wiki, yes.
ReplyDeleteweren´t the Inuits the original inhabitants of the "North"?
Indians might be a generalization for the early natives of the whole continent, if I´m right.
Let me take a stab at this- I think our North American Indians were so called because the earliest explorers thought they had actually found their way to China and India,
ReplyDeleteand if this was India then the inhabitants must be 'Indians'....
Obviously, they'd never seen the real thing. Asked what they called this land before the white man came, one chief replied "Ours!" Another said, "In the beginning, we had the land and you had the Bibles. Now we have the Bibles and you have the land."