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Thank you. Problem solved. Actually I found my "WIndows Update" daemon (aka: service) not progressing past the "Starting" state. After moving the date back to December 1, 2016 I manually stopped the daemon and then restarted it and it progressed to the "Started" state. Then I let all updates happen (rebooting a couple of times in the process). Then moved the date forward and all seems OK now.
Complaint: Windows did another update...without my OK...I came back from supper and the computer was running...I had put it to sleep! It's disturbing when the computer is running, but the peripherals do not respond. The keyboard wasn't even lit up. The mouse didn't do anything. I had to press the restart button.
Dana
Ball-peen hammer. If that won't fix it nothing will.
Yeah, I lost an overnight batch run of renders to that
...why I turned auto updating off and had Windows prompt me there were updates to be installed. That way I could do them without having a process interrupted and go through them to check if they had bugs or were something didn't need to bother with (like MS issued Nvidia driver updates which usually resulted in multiple BSODs until I rolled back to the driver that worked).
r we there yet?
ehh whaz up doc
Where?
savoir faire is everywhere
red velvet cake
yuck, apple with mushy spots
Oops I forgot I had bananas discovery and eek
it is so hard to post on a iPhone as I cannot really see what I am typing ugggh
Serious migraine at work. Trying hard to stay focused.
Complaint: Arghhhh.... Just got the estimate for car's exhaust repair.
Need new catalytic converter. 
Also yesterday I got the bill from the hospital for recent surgery. 
Insurance took care of most of it, but piled on top of the car repair bill, it blows my budget again for another two months. 
I can handle an unexpected $300 expense each month a few times a year, and I'd been really frugal for the last month and had actually caught up with my pre-Christmas budget woes, but we never win. 
PS: I was browsing YouTube a few days ago and stumbled on a clip from a used car guy who extolled the virtues of old Buicks for people on limited budgets. Being comfortable, well-built, relatively economical, well cared for by conciencious ancient previous owners, plentiful and cheap. So, despite my apparent distress with fixing my big luxurious 2003 LeSabre, I think keeping it running will be better for me than moving up to a newer expensive, tiny plastic tin can with oodles of gizmos that die. I'm having enough trouble with the computer board in my windshield wiper thank you.
I have a friend who swears by Buicks when he's not swearing at his.
heard dust in the wind, in spanish. instead of violins, was flutes. very pretty.
...now if it was this era of old Buicks, I'd be in.
...no computer or other fancy electronics to break down, simple, basic, and reliable and I can do most of the servicing myself (had one decades ago).
As to big expenses on a tight budget. yeah on SS it can be like a punch to the gut. Already shelling out about 145$ a month in utilities on top of rent that is 50% of my monthly benefit.
My father was a Buick man. But our first new car was a 1956 Pontiac Catalina (Trip to Florida). Then in '65 we replaced it with a new Buick Sportwagon (and another trip to Florida). Then I went away to college (in Florida) in '66 but for the next 40 years dad always had a Buick. And for the last 14 years I'd been gifted his last two Buicks, a 1998 LeSabre and the 2003 LeSabre.
But dad always spoke fondly and got dreamy eyed when he told of his love affair with his first car as a teenager. A late '30s Lincoln Zephyr 12 cylinder monster
...the Lincoln and Pontiac, now that's classy.
I always had it prompt me and wait for me. It doesn't wait anymore.
Dana
...W10?
Yes. Pro.
Dana
..interesting, I'm still on W7 and never had it install an update without my intervention.
I am on Windows 7 pro with this computer.
Aye, and that's a good reason for sticking with Win 7
Probably has it set up right. Right now my computer is keep bugging me about doing updates. So far not doing them but just bugging me.
I bought a new Buick Regal in '79. Worst car I ever had. Nice elegant look and comfort but completely rusted out in 2 years. But the late '70s were really bad years for American cars in general. Best new car of my own was a '92 plum colored 4-door Saturn SL2. Loved that little thing. Kept it for 14 years. I've also toyed with Nisson trucks, sports cars & luxury sedans none of them lasted me more than 4 years. I actually preferred stick shift instead of automatic and ordered the Nissons that way. But one gets lazy when driving a big comfy American roadboat.
Things are not going well at home.
leftovers meatloaf
red velvet cake coming with next grocery delivery
weather predicting mucho rain. think it calls for a stay home day!! has to put away christmas tree. but i want to keep lights out. mebbe around the book shelf
Non-complaint: Despite arrival of recent bills, I'm feelin' good tonight. Since my car is in for service tonight the landlord had enough room to maneuver and could plow the whole parking lot in back of the house so I no longer have to wade through a wall of snow to get into my car door. Yea. Celebrated by poking through my music collection again for listening to while doing dishes, and pounced on to what I consider to be one of the very best piano concertos ever. Full of melody, emotion, speed, quiet, complexity, simplicity. Never boring. A roller coaster of music. What makes great music classic is that it's always going somewhere, isn't completely predictable, takes you into dark corners and up to great heights. Rachmaninoff's 2nd piano concerto. Grab onto a melody and hang on for dear life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3c8Vj87JDc
1st movement: 1:30
2nd movement: 11:50
3rd movement 23:37
...do they use road sale in the winter where you live? I remember 70s cars in Wisconsin turning into rust buckets in a couple years because of the salt and poor undercoating.
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'Nother non-complaint: A few years ago I raved here, and to anyone who would listen, about hearing the then relatively unknown pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk (Gav-rill-yuck) playing Rachmaninoff's 3rd piano concerto at my local venue (Chautauqua Institution Amphitheater). It was the best performance I'd ever heard (of anything). People that I told about it thought I was being overly enthusiastic, but you had to be there. It was the concert of my lifetime. The entire audience of 3500+ was instantly on their feet at the end with long applause and stamping of feet for an encore (he gave us 5). Incredible performance. But it was just a local thing, no big news. Although he does perform in major venues around the world he has come back to Chautauqua annually for over a decade. I had looked for Gavrylyuk performances on YouTube but they were few and far between. Now there are many more of them. And, to my delight, tonight I stumbled across a YouTube of him playing the Rachmaninoff 3rd piano concerto at "The Proms" last year. The same venue (Royal Albert Hall) as the video I linked to in my post above.
Here's the Rachmaninoff piano concerto #3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC6cY4J5c1I An amazingly intense performance of one of the most difficult piano pieces ever. If anything, he's improved it since I heard it several years ago. Read the YouTube comments!
1st movement 0:00
2nd movement 19:22 (long recovery break between end of 1st and beginning of 2nd)
3rd movement 29:28 (very little break between end of 2nd and beginning of 3rd)
And checkiing the schedule for events at Chautauqua this coming summer I see he's returning again in his new role as Artistic Advisor and also for at least two different performances. http://chq.org/calendar/eventdetail/16430/an-evening-piano-recital-with-alexander-gavrylyuk So excited!