Say What I Think

I have to say I am not at all happy with Window Vista right now. I think Windows creators are really trying to miss things up in people computers, at least I was able to keep my computer from crashing today. I am not sure if I am the only one with this problem but it seems like one of the security updates causes the computer to go to a black screen, I had to restore my computer to a earlier date, thankfully I didn’t lose anything. Well you know how Vista is if you don’t download their updates it might not work right, now it takes my computer forever to start up.
This is the 2nd time I have had troubles with vista after updating my computer. The last one corrupted the files so badly in the desktop, I couldn’t even get it to restore to a earlier date and lost everything that was not backup. Last night I had it update it does it automatically but then my laptop did not want to start up correctly so I had to force it to shutdown because you can’t do nothing with a black screen.
Finally I got it up and running and now it takes forever for this thing to start up, no viruses or anything, and it only happens when I allow windows to update vista. I think I will go to W7 and see what that’s like. I will probably first do it on the laptop and then to the desktop depending if it works good and doesn’t have a lot of trouble. I wonder if I can get a free life insurance quote on the laptop before vista kills it.

Okay I am not happy with Vista. My computer crashed and it didn’t help find the problem. Something in Windows got corrupted, and I lost everything on my desktop. Thank goodness I had most of it backup and I do not have to worry about lose data, just the pain in the backside of reinstalling everything and falling behind in school. I got my laptop back from Best Buy Geek squad.
My laptop had a virus when it came back and thank goodness my virus detector found it and cleaned it out. I am a little annoyed, had I lost this stuff it would have been bad, because I would have so much more downloading to do. I am going to be installing Windows 7 I think to at least one of my computers and hopefully it works better then Vista. I am not upset with Best Buy but I just do not understand how the laptop got a virus in it when it was with them. Maybe who they sent it to for repairs caused the trouble and not them.
I should look at getting insurance quote for covering just my computers and hubby. Hubby recently lost 2 hard drives since witching over to Vista. I am not saying Vista is horrible but there are some problems there, which I don’t think Word did a good job of fixing.
I was told I would have my laptop in 2 to 3 weeks, and got it on the inside part of 2 to 3 weeks, so that makes me happy. The laptop doesn’t seem to be running to hot but still is running a little on the slow side.

This week has really sucked. The highlights of my week this week was a chili dinner last night and a wedding today. Now I am back home wanting to throw my computer out the window as far as I can throw it. Last night my computer did the Oh by the way forget me working correctly for you. I have to many errors. ANd to be a real pain in your Butt I am not going to let you restart the normal way. You know that homework assignment and blog posting you want to do FORGET IT. I am NOT working for you, haha haha. I think if my computer was talking to me that’s about what it would say, and when asked why you doing this it probably would have told me. Because you don’t use me enough, you always have that laptop on your lap. You just use me when that’s not available. Then when you do use me, you don’t treat me the same way as the laptop. Dummy don’t turn the virus detector off, I’ll tell you what, if you do it won’t keep me safe. oh and by the way I expect a vacation at Outer Banks rentals
Okay now I know some of my Church friends are sitting there rebuking me for calling myself stupid, but I am not calling myself that, I just thinking about what the computer would say if it could actually talk to me.
Anyways, my husband give me his System Mechanics disk, thank goodness for him having it. It found a bunch of errors and my computer was 34% defrag, that’s not good when a computer which has 250 Gigs of hard drive and only using 45 gigs of space, that can causes a lot of trouble. My system registry had over 370 errors, that is not good. I hope this work, tech support from school wants to call me to help me further but LOL I am not sure I want to, but I do need them to fix the SSL error of theirs. Anyways System mechanics got my computer running for me, and it running faster again. I have not froze at all and been able to pretty much move freely on the internet.
I would recommend this program for a person with a little computer knowledge. I knew something was wrong with my computer, and tried several things, my husband and I are fairly computer literate. Hubby told me not to download the virus detector given in the program.

Well normally I do not write about things I do not own. My husband owns the Acer computer, I have used it a couple of time and at first they seemed like a great brand for a cheaper computer. I was impressed with how well it worked at first. Well Hubby has owned it for 9 months now, and the beginning of this month the hard drive stopped working.
My husband got a 2 yr extended warranty. Okay what’s the point of a extended warranty when it doesn’t cover anything. The geek squad at Best Buy told hubby that his recover disk was not working, and he would need to contact Acer. They had to replace the hard drive because it stop working, which is why it shut down on it own. Okay no big deal we thought, shouldn’t be to hard to handle calling them and giving them the information they need.
Ha, they wasted over a hour of my (our) Cell phone minutes, and hung up on hubby at least twice. Okay finally we get a rep who helping him, and at the end of the call she informs my hubby there’s a charge for the disk because they only warranty software for 30 days. Wait a minute, the hard drive stopped working the software would have been fine had that not stop working. By the time shipping and handling was covered hubby spent close to 33.00$. I do not feel it is right for ACER to charge my hubby for a replacement software CD, because it is their fault the hard drive failed. There was no virus in the computer, the Hard drive stopped spinning correctly. Now that being said if someone loses the software because they have to replace the hard drive in under a year ACER should make good and send out the CD to hubby for free with an apology that he lost everything including his book he was working on.
We are hoping our Rabbi who knowledgeable in computers can help hubby get his novel out of the computer. I hope they can get his work out, hubby worked very hard on that novel. Hopefully he will learn to back up his data, speaking of that my Toshiba needs to be backed up for the data again….. Been a couple of months. It’s amazing I have had my laptop for 4 years now and never once has it crashed, to the point of needing a new hard drive. Something tells me when I give it to hubby it will die on him.. Hubby seems to kill computers, he owns then and they just want to die.
Now I know my husband didn’t do anything to his desktop because he got a good virus scanner, one I am hoping to get the internet security version of, for my two computer. It would give us 3 copies so we could put it on this computer also for hubby.
I was thinking about making my next computer possibly a Acer if I decided building my own would be to expensive but now with what happened this past week, no thanks I wouldn’t recommend them to anyone. If they aren’t going to stand behind their hard drive and make things right when it crashes they don’t deserve to be recommended to people.

I have been with T-mobile since 2004, and recently renewed my contract with them for a new phone I wanted this summer. Dad asked if, I could get him a cell phone and I told him yes I can simply add you on to my phone with a family plan. Today we stop at T-Mobile on our way home from service, and spoke with one of their guys. My husband was looking at the Cell phone but for the last year or so he been against a family plan because of a 2 year contract. I don’t care about contracts, I figure T-mobile been very good to me over the last few years so what harm will 2 years do us. I didn’t think my husband would listen to me about getting him on the same service.

I knew a few years ago I was approved for 2 lines, and was approved tonight for 2 lines or have a deposit of 250$. I told the guy that’s to much and isn’t fair, since I been with you all, since like 2004 or maybe 2003. The guy was already calling the number for approval, I got the 3rd line, which was my husband line. No matter what dad would have walked out with his phone tonight, even if that meant hubby didn’t get his phone. I made a promise to dad, he deserves promises kept, so I am glad I got the 3 lines because hubby now doesn’t have to spend more money. He actually saves money. Grant it I ended up spending more money, but I think it’s 10 bucks at most.

My Hubby got a phone which is a MP3 player, am/fm radio, and phone, he really liked the phone and had decided it was better then what he already had. He got the Nokia one, can’t remember the number of the model, just the brand.
Dad was able to get a phone he likes to we got him the Samsung T639, I believe is the number it a nice little flip phone with big enough keys for dad to use. Dad is 86 Years Old, so it’s important to keep it easy. Grant it there’s a camera on the phone, like he going to use that or figure out how to do it.
What we ended up getting was the family plan with 1000 minutes, T-mobile to Mobile, My Fav, and unlimited texting for families. My husband loves getting a bunch of text messages, and well frankly I don’t wanna pay a bunch for texting, so unlimited with him is the wisest choice we had.

It was nice of the guy to call and get a 3rd line approved for the services I am getting, now we are all together, which I like. I didn’t even have to say much to him to get him to do it. I believe they value their long time customers. Hubby no longer has the excuse he out of cell phone minutes, so he can’t talk.. I guess neither do I. Plus we don’t have to worry when we call dad because those minutes don’t take minutes away. I got the cell phone I like this summer with a 2 year contract. I love this phone, although I’ve notice the paint pretty much is wearing off on some of the keys, but I still can tell which keys. I will keep that in mind next time I get a phone. I have my eye on a type I like but hey in close to 2 years they will have more phones to pick from. We found out transferring the number of a Pre-paid phone could take up to over a day, so hubby decided it would be best to just get a new phone number . Hubby is very happy with his new phone.

It is interesting having my fav now, I didn’t know you could pick icons for each of your fav people. Now the problem is I have only 3 people in my favorite list. So I have room for 2 more people. The problem is if we didn’t get the my fav, 1000 minutes wouldn’t have been enough. I will have to decide 2 other people I talk to most often. Most of my friends seem to be on T-mobile. Now maybe with school, I have a few people to add on to that list or a couple of people. I have a couple friends from school but I haven’t been calling them all that much.

At both of the Stores, we went to the one in St. Paul on Ford, and the One here in Edina, on Lyndale and American all did a great job. They answered our question. The one in St. Paul spent time answering my husband question even though at this time hubby wasn’t sure he wanted a family plan. Now, maybe the guy their had something to do with my husband changing his mind. I just hope that it works to our benefit having dad on a cell phone, considering he is living with us it’s probably a good idea this way he can call for help if needed.

So overall T-mobile this week has done a great job with customer service. I called a couple of times to customer service 800 number having a brain fart. After my brain fart they where able to suggest a couple of phone which would work great for dad. Now we will see how well his phone works for him. I know Samsung is a good brand. Nokia I personally don’t care for but they are a good brand too. Just a personal preference. I guess we will get dad used to some modern furniture now that he is up here with us. Dad seems happier living with my husband and I, we will keep taking good care of him.

Last week I wasn’t have a good week. I have a PSP slim which is great, or maybe I should say was great. The same people made the PS3, there products are great. Never had a problem until recently. My husband and I got me a new PSP this summer, and it started having troubles. I didn’t think much of it because normally it was just a minor thing. Well I went to use the bathroom and put it on top of my towel, next thing I knew the stupid thing was falling down. Great, It landed on my foot, and went to the flower. Well now it don’t work at all. I called the PSP people after taking it into where we purchased the thing, and was told they would need to deal with it. Well, I spoke to the gentle man from the PSP place, honest I was surprised they where opened, because it was last monday on Labor day. Well maybe it wasn’t a US person who answered, now since globalization makes things nice. hmmm it just got darker out, must be a storm. I spoke with him for a few minutes explained to him the problems I had before it dropped, and then told him now it’s not working at all. He asked a few questions and then asked if it was drop, I answered yes, but before it was dropped it was having issues. Well just great, my warranty is now no good, that just cute, I only had the thing for 2 months. Well the best thing he could give me was, we can take that one and sale you a new one for 89$ plus what ever the taxes, that would be great if I was made out of money. I will probably go for that route, since trading this in to the other place will give me 50 trade in credit and still have a 150 to go, depending on how many trade in credits hubby and I have saved. Okay, not happy, so I told him, we just had a death in the family, what is my cut of time, how long do I have to get this back to you. He gave me a work order number and told me do it at my earliest convence, I wonder if it takes me 6 months if they will still honor it. I am not seeing any way to do it any sooner then that since I got laid of but hey if I get a new job then it could be sooner then later, after I get my laptop. What I would have found very helpful since I only had it for 2 months for them to simply honor the warranty, and say next time it happens we won’t cover it.

A couple months ago I got a Sony Microvault, it’s a 2 gig flash drive. Vista can use it as additional memory or you can store files on it. I had forgotten, I had it. I bought it with the intention of see if I could back up a couple of files.
I started classes last month, I am in my last week of the first class. The office sure does get hot, and I didn’t want to stay in there to long. I found the flash drive and decided I would see if it would work with my Vista computer and let me read on my XP computer, it did. Vista asked if I wanted to use it as memory, I decided not to because I need it for school right now more.
What I like about the flash drive is that the little USB port thing, goes inside of it’s self. This is great because I can’t some how manage to bend it in my bag for college, like I did with the one the school gave me. This pretty much keeps that from happening unless I forget about it in the computer and lay the computer on it.
I haven’t found anything I do not like about this product, I like everything. It’s small and convenient and easy to carry around with out having to worry about damaging it by accident. I am not saying it’s indusructable because like everything it can be broken. It was on sale, so it ended up being cheap. I knew Sony to be a good brand for electronics, so knowing this help me decide to buy it. Like trying to pick out the best acne treatments, it’s wise to go with something you know is a good brand to begin with.

Last night my husband and I decided to try Umbria Gourmet Pizza here in Bloomington. We had never been there but had seen it little store a few times. The thing I would like to know is how they came up with Umbria, and what does it mean. It reminds both myself and hubby of a Umbrella, I wonder if that what’s behind the name.
They advertised that they sold pizza by the slice, more like one type of pizza by the slice. Last night it was Sausage, which isn’t going to happen for my husband or myself. We decided to go with their 8 inch personal pizza each. Their crust is fairly thick but it was good, although I do prefer another brand of crust. I older the Pineapple and my husband order the roast beef. Both of the pizza looked appealing to the eyes. I honestly can’t tell you what they smelt like because I can’t smell anything right now. The joys of late summer allergies.
The pineapples where huge and very nice looking. It tasted good to, my husband told me I could have more then pineapple but that’s all I wanted was a nice and sweet pizzza. The pizza tasted nice, they served it to us hot, but by the time it got home it wasn’t so hot. It still tasted good but what pizza can’t you just take right out of the freg and eat it.
My husband pizza looked like it had a fair amount of beef, no need to ask where’s the beef.
The customer service could have been improved a little but not to much. I guess since it was our first time they didn’t want to rush us but when we were asking question to each other, it would have been nice if they would have answered. When we went up to the counter they answer our question, and where polite. So maybe they just did not want to interrupt us.
I like Pizza so much better then massage therapy, comfort by food is the best.

Well, I decided it be nice to talk about my mechanic in St. Paul Mn. He is wonderful. My husband and I have known him for a year or maybe 2, I am not sure to be honest. I was having some care troubles and my mechanic at the time, wasn’t returning my car or my husband car in a timely manor. This got to be frustrating because my husband and I don’t always work close enough to each other to be down a car for a long period. Right now we are down a car. It been kind of frustrating because lets face it, I am the one with the Van. City driving I get somewhere between 17 to 18 miles per gallon, hwy driving a lot better at least somewhere between 20 and 22 miles, which still isn’t great. We live a good half hour from Steve’s, sometimes we don’t go straight to him, but I think we should stop going to others.
When my husband car first broke down he got it to a mechanic here in our city, although, I had told my husband get it towed to Steve. He chose to try someone a neighbor told us. The garage my husband was referred to wanted close to 750. Then we talked to Steve about the troubles. Yesterday I called Steve to talk to him about what I owe him. Normally he don’t give people credit but he decided to help me out of a rough spot. While talking to Steve, he told me, my husband car could be fixed for under 530$. So being that Steve labor isn’t that much different then this other garage and well who knows about parts at the other place. But I know Steve doesn’t mark up a huge amount on the parts, the mark up is so insignificant that I don’t remember what he told me. I have no problem paying a little extra. I know when I get my van or my husband car back it will be done right, and if something goes wrong it will be taken care of with no additional charge.
During the fall I needed a fuel regulator put into the van, I had just replaced it with another mechanic. Driving home one night I started smelling a strong smell of gas and it worried me. I got home and I couldn’t figure out what was wrong or at least where the gas smell came from. Well, I ended up needing later that day to run to a store a mile away. I got into the parking lot and the engine was steaming, I opened the hood and there was gas leaking all over the place, the top of my van hood was soaked in gas. I got upset, because I had just fixed it. I got the van home and called Steve Auto. He was there and told me to bring it in to him. I did, and he put in a new regulator. I think a few days went by and all the sudden I was leaking gas from the regulator. Now I am ticked because it two mechanic same job and same thing broken. I called Steve, he told me bring it back and he was warrantying the regulator and not to worry about it. Well I got it back to him and he fixed the problem.
I think I have found some trophies in Steve Auto’s. He is honest, sincere and nows how to treat his customers. He admits to things also which is important it shows a great amount of integrity.
There isn’t anything I dislike about him. But I will say like all garages sometimes it does take a little time to get back the car. I will say he likes to talk a lot, he is a talker but he does a great job on getting the job done right the first time. He also will not take advantage of people who do not have car knowledge, or woman. I have been to plenty before Steve who try to take advantage of me because I am a woman which isn’t good because I have car knowledge, so it a little harder to miss lead me. Need your car fix and your in the Twin city area of MN might want to give Steve Auto a try.

I have a Creative Live Cam, Video IM Pro. it specs says I should get 30 frames a minute. Lets see my husband computers gets about maybe 3 frames a second, my laptop which is 3 years older gets between 8 and 15 frames per second. Now I like to know how that is possible, my laptop is older then my husband computer by close to 3 years. I will probably eventually either need to think about getting a new Laptop, but I love this one so much, or I will need to get more laptop memory. Wow, my memory according to the computer shouldn’t be running it it’s just slightly lower. Maybe I do need to put a little bit more memory in here. It a good laptop but old it’s 3 years old, but honestly if I got another 7 to 8 years from this computer it wouldn’t shock me. Well back to the camera.
The system requirements are Intel Celeron 1.7GHz or Equivalent Processor, Windows, XP but is made for Vista, 256 MB of Ram, I got plenty of that, 500MB of HDD, CD-Rom, and a USB Port. If your system meets these requirements then you should be able to get the 30 frames a minutes, at least that how I see it. I will have to look at my desktop which crashed each time I tried to install it but that was with my old harddrive which was crashing alot.
This camera has smart face tracking well personally I don’t think it did a very good job of tracking my face nor my husband, but that problem may be caused by lighting. With out the right lighting it’s probably hard for the camera to follow the face. The Still image capture works pretty well, that is how I did my first video blog, was by using still images because I don’t like hearing my voice. I never used the mic other then to test it, it worked okay. This is a good camera for the price that I have paid for it. I would recommend it for people who don’t mind not having the professional looking stuff.