Guy Stuff at Guys Clubhouse

Yikes! Well, I went to my computer a few days ago and found it had rebooted and was waiting for me to sign in. I thought that was odd as the power hadn’t gone out but, what ever,I signed in, only to find my computer was now fd. I mean big time Fd!! The worst I have ever seen! I unplugged it from the Internet right away and am quite pissed off right now. What ever I have will not even let me install the programs to be rid of this thing. I’ve even renamed the programs but this thing is smart! So, what to do? First, thanks to Steph for this old IBM “ThinkPad”!  I actually use it all the time and right now it’s a life saver! My main machine is not dead, but it will take 5 to 10 minutes to open a file or program. I need to back everything up asap. I usualy do back up stuff to a disk, but at this point what’s backed up and what isn’t is a good question.  I figure I should backup everything from scratch. Time for an external hard drive.  Now, let me say I do not like shopping at Staples because I find the one up here doesn’t usually have what I’m looking for.  For some reason, if  they do not have what’s in the sales flier, they are happy to order it in for yea, as long as you pay up front. What? I know. I was like, “Dude, it’s your sales flier, why do I have to pay up front?” I just left that day. Today friends, was a door crasher! I was ready! I pounded my elbows against wooden beams for 3 days to toughen them up. I did the Steven Segal acupuncture with the incense burning on the ends of the needles! I even refused to make love to my wife in case it made me a tad weeker!  My goal was the HP 2 TB “Simple Save” hard drive for $99.00!! I know, I knew it would be a battle but I trained hard that week! I figured they open at ten, so I’ll get there at 8! After waking up at 9:45  and racing to the mall, I was happy there were only 200 people ahead of me. Strangely, it was ok though, it wasn’t like Walmart. When I got there they gave me a coupon for the HP “Simple Save”, then I got in line and sure enough, received the “Simple save”! I even got the 16 gig usb for 12 bucks! My point here is that I didn’t need any elbows, everything was quite organized, and for the first time I actually enjoyed shopping at Staples. BTW, as I type this, the hard drive is 44% done backing up my files. Hope I’ll have things running again in a couple of days! K see ya

JJ

Yes it’s time. Clearly we all need to wear helmets no matter what we are doing now! If you are playing in the snow, you need a helmet. To allow your child to feel the wind in his or her hair is now irresponsible.  I experienced a scary situation myself a week ago.  We went tobogganing and must have been flying down the hill at 20 km without helmets! We hit a snowy bump and flew off the toboggan! Well you can just imagine how scary that was! The boy and I had to actually stand up after, and whisk the snow off ourselves with our mittens!

No one should know what the wind in your hair feels like anymore.  Children clearly should never feel this. It has become to dangerous too run, have snowball fights and climb trees.  I’ve told my mom that she needs to wear one while doing laps around the mall now. In our lifetime,  I’m sure we’ll all be wearing them when driving or walking fast! Lets not teach kids to be careful. Lets just put helmets on them and say “way ya go”. Yup, your a good parent. Your kids will never know they could be hurt.

Hey, all you people that like killing other  Canadians, feel free to enjoy your hobby! This countries justice system is a disgrace and has been since I can remember. What a Joke. Here yea go everyone, your judges and justice system working hard for the average Canadian… Nothing like killing a young lady, and getting a 25 year sentance right! Oh, not to worry, after a few years you can get a UNESCORTED DAY PASS!  http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2011/02/22/ottawa-crawford-arrested.html

Yup, we know you were  convicted, but it’s ok, you can still get out and hit the bars. You know, meet some women that have no idea who you are.  Fannnntastic!! Man, who’s the bad guy eh, you the killer or the Canadian justice system? That’s a tough one! Guess I need to think about that for a few years. Probably longer than you’ll be in jail!

Well an old friend contacted me a week or so ago, and asked for my help with his crappy site. He didn’t want his site to look crappy, it happened when he lost a database that was stored locally and it wasn’t backed up to a disk. Someone he knew threw something together and thats what he ended up with. He was good and said I could use his “Dreamweaver”  program to make him the site he needs. Like we all don’t have Dreamweaver yea know. I explained and he understood that he would need to study or get some schoolin if he intended to maintain the site, even though Dreamweaver is not that hard, web stuff is not his bag. So, as I have no intention of maintaining it for him. I recommended Wordpress. He thought that would be fine so away we went searching templates which I love to do. Thing about that is you can search for a couple of weeks there are so many! So, long story longer, he found quite a nice template. It has a few issues we’ll work around but it looks good! I’ve put some of his content on it and got the galleries started for him and he’ll learn to maintain it shortly. Anyway, we’re working on it and having fun so check it out. www.freetimefighters.com

Yes it’s 2011 and I’m back from a little holiday from GCH. Was it good to step back for a bit? You bet. Do I have big plans for GCH this year? Absolutely not. Do I have any plans for Guys Clubhouse? Uh, nope. ” Oh but John, ( you say in a soft, whispering, concerned voice ) how can you not? All blogy type people have plans for their site at the start of  a new year”. Yea, I don’t really give a rats ass. Listen, I’m doing a great job here just like I have for the last 10 years! This site is the most consistent thing on the planet. What is Guys clubhouse? Beats me! 10 years and I still don’t know. My readers are holding tough at 2! That’s great! I doubled my readership last year! Can you say that? I doubt it! I plan on making money on the computer this year. I’ve actually got a plan, and it doesn’t involve pictures of your ex GF! Yup, Johnny’s doing a great job already. I’m planning a trip to Ottawa where I’ll take a plethora of pictures to share with you and you’ll say, ” oh John, your doing a great job as always”!. Well thanks! And this year, I’m going to talk a lot more about how fantastic I am!!

Well that was a nice break. I know I’m running late posting here, I’m working on a couple of other projects right now. I’ll have an update next week for this page. Keep an eye on the “my blog” page if you’d like to know what I’m up to. I should have that updated in a day or two.