Chains Are Everywhere

Today is Juneteenth. A great day in Texas history. A day when the wild west finally received the memo to unchain the slaves. Today is a great day to relearn America's history and applaud every immigrant that came to America in a do or die fashion and followed the laws of the land. They became American citizens
It's great to want to be an American, but we have to realize all houses have rules. You can't just decide you want to live in a house, break in through unguarded windows or doors and become a legal resident. You have to follow the law or be kicked out. Plain and simple. I don't agree with the full laws of Arizona  but I understand the concept.

The thing is when laws or embraced and ideals of another are blindly followed, we can end up in chaos. We must always step back and remember our histories. Racial and religious profiling start from small things. Sure its easy to decide a person is an immigrant by there color, but all immigrants aren't brown, black or yellow. Eventually it will be decided everyone has to carry some sort of card to prove we legally belong in America. Once that's settled the zealous will find another target. Oh, wait...the language accent is now the target. Teachers, (and Lord knows the public schools need great and willing teachers) are being threatened to be put out of their classes because of their accents. If Johnnie couldn't read in his first four grade levels, why is the fifth grade teacher the blame?

After language comes religion. What would be the first? How about Catholic? Aren't they full of pedophiles? No, what about those crazy Christians. Chasing some phantom in the sky.

Next will be the books we read, the foods we eat, the television shows we watch, our age, the people we vote for....
The chains aren't who we are or what we do, but what we believe.

Today is Juneteenth and I wonder, just where is the freedom?




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Sometimes Life is so Ridiculous....

You spill over with words and you have to either write a book or a country song.
Or its so sad you can't even get the words out.
Or its so amazing there aren't enough words to express yourself.
Or its so lonely and depressing you can't be bothered to find the words.

Does Your Laptop/Computer Push Your Buttons?

The invention of the computer...scratch that, the laptop has got to be the most valuable manifestation in life.

Don't get me wrong, I've lived through the favorite pen/pencil faze. The 'I can't write without my best pen' phenom. The one I use now I have had for ten years. A friend gave it to me for my first book signing. Isn't it lovely. I just buy refills and keep on going.

There have been times I thought I would cry when I missed placed it, but it all ways comes back to rest quietly in my right hand. I only put it down to tap the keys of my laptop.

Now my laptop, even though it has been replaced at least four times, has become a favorite, but a problem. Stupid little piece of junk often tries to stall my creative juices by malfunctioning at the most critical times. Last week it decided to show its ugly side and present the dreaded "bluescreen of death". Have you ever seen it? It is a sight to make a writer cry. It first shows its despicable control of my computer by restarting over and over and over....My desktop and two other laptops have died from this problem. Last week I refused to bury another. After calling a repair shop and being slapped with the ridiculous option of paying the minimum of $35 an hour (I'm barely making that a week) to have it 'looked at', I decided to do my usual and ask Jeeves for a solution. And I found it after hours of search and trial and error. There is a certain phrase that comes up when trying to start in safe mode or safe mode with networking "Loading SPDT , push escape to quit" or something to that nature. anyway I found that if you:

1. push escape you go into safe mode
2. agree this is what you want to do (not restore)
3. go into my computer, click on C drive and open windows folder to find system32
4. search for the SPDT watchamacallit and delete it--voila the computer will then start correctly.

Some say this is not a virus, but may cause some systems to not work. Well, whatever it was its gone. I have run virus scans like spybot,ad-aware,malawarebytes,and superantispyware to remove a few other small pests. Did the defrag and chkdsk and pretended I 'had this'. Thank God for knowing how to read, right. Things are back to normal.
Tomorrow I'll tell you the drama about AT&T and connecting back to the Internet.