Tips and Tricks

Do you guys see my template looking funny, every now and again, I can only see the birds flying around up there without the background....let me know. Thanks

I read Lifehacker.com everyday and he has some really good tips.


You got to try this

Windows only: Free image utility VJPEG is a tool that could be a serious time saver for anyone who regularly views or compares digital images from their desktop. The tiny application installs itself as the default handler for JPG, BMP, and other common image files so when a file is double-clicked, it opens super-fast in a frame-less desktop windows. There are shortcuts to resize, rotate, and even email a picture, but the concept is quickly checking out photos without waiting for Windows' viewer, or even something as light as IrfanView to load. My recommendation? Set up VJPEG as a send to item menu, and feed batches of pictures to it for quick selection. VJPEG is a free download for Windows systems only.

VJPEG [Stereopsis via FreewareGenius.com]

I love using it. I don't use send to item menu, I like it just the way it is. Fantastic way to view your pictures.

I'm always perusing food sites too. I got a good tip last week that really works. I always set a pot on the stove with something in it that invariably boils over.... it never ever fails. This blogger suggested on putting a wooden spoon across the pot and it would never boil over..... and it worked! I was boiling some eggs the other day and I could hear the pot starting to run over, so I got a wooden spoon and set it across the top....and whaaalaaaa it quit going over the top. The spoon must redirect the energy somehow, but it WORKS.

I bet you thought cornstarch was only for thickening up your gravy. Wrong. Put it in your shoes if you have sweaty feet, and they will feel as smooth as a babies butt.

I thought this was cute: Turn you old Nintendo into a lunchbox.

How-to web site Instructables has a step-by-step guide detailing how to repurpose your classic (but broken) NES as a lunchbox. All you've got to do is gut your Nintendo's innards and add hinges (though a handle would be nice). You'll also need a Sasquatch action figure if the guide is to be believed, but I'm guessing you can get away without it.

Nintendo Lunchbox [Instructables]

Okay, that is creative as I get today.

I have one more day off, and I have saved all the shit I have to do for last. So tomorrow I will be busy catching up. Normally on a vacation week I schedule in stuff I'm not able to during my normal work week, but this time I decided I would just chill out and see what happens. What happened ... is that I am more than bored. It seems I miss the pressure of doing stuff. Yard work doesn't appeal to me... I need to do more. Retirement is looking grim, I don't know what I would do with myself. I have slept in to the point of nausea...and don't even want to be in bed anymore. I'm not hungry when I get up because I haven't done shit all. I have a cup of coffee, some toast, and wait for supper.

I guess you have to adjust. But, for me right now I am actually missing going to work and all the interaction with my fellow workers and the phones etc. Funny eh...never thought that would be a problem.

I got pissed off today with my plants in the garden....some stinking bug has eaten all the leaves off all the flowering plants I planted this spring....that's about $100.00 up my ass!

So, today I went to Dollarama and bought 20 phony plants for $20.00 real dollars...the cost of my farking garden just went up twenty bucks. But these guys will be around for next year...even though I seen the bees getting a little pissed off when they landed on a piece of plastic. Poor little critters. Buzz Buzz ...yuck..

Made homemade spaghetti tonite, it was especially good with the new recipe I found. Plus salad, and I made another loaf of banana bread which we had for dessert with some low cal cool whip. I am just eating another piece of it with butter on it....dang it is good. it has walnuts in it...which are my favorite. Hi Leslie, if you are reading...we both liked walnuts...especially walnut icecream.

Lastly, this is a pic of my rabbit ear plant...or whatever it is called...it soft and furry and looks like a rabbits ear. And it grows in a circle...all by itself...except in this one where a raspberry plant has taken hold in the centre...the bees like this much better than plastic.

Next week I will hold a contest to see if you can spot the phony plants in the garden from the real ones, once I get them all in place. Gardeners all of over the world....don't judge me.