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Jul. 11th, 2009
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Jul. 11th, 2009 12:01 am
Today's Humour
Jul. 11th, 2009 04:30 pmLETTER FROM AN INDIANA FARM KID AT MARINE CORPS RECRUIT TRAINING, OCEANSIDE, CA.
Dear Ma and Pa:
I am well. Hope you are. Tell Brother Walt and Brother Elmer the Marine Corps beats working for old man Milch by a mile. Tell them to join up quick before all of the places are filled.
I was restless at first because you got to stay in bed till nearly 6 a.m. but I am getting so I like to sleep late. Tell Walt and Elmer all you do before breakfast is smooth your cot, and shine some things. No hogs to slop, feed to pitch, mash to mix, wood to split, fire to lay. Practically nothing.
Shaving isn't too bad, there's warm water. Breakfast is strong on trimmings like fruit juice, cereal, eggs, bacon, etc., but kind of weak on chops, potatoes, ham, steak, fried eggplant, pie and other regular food, but tell Walt and Elmer you can always sit by the two city boys that live on coffee. Their food, plus yours, holds you until noon when you get fed again. It's no wonder these city boys can't walk much.
We go on 'route marches,' which the platoon sergeant says are long walks to harden us. If he thinks so, it's not my place to tell him different. A 'route march' is about as far as to our mailbox at home. Then the city guys get sore feet and we all ride back in trucks.
The country is nice but awful flat. The sergeant is like a school teacher. He nags a lot. The captain is like the school board. Majors and colonels just ride around and frown. They don't bother you none.
This next will kill Walt and Elmer with laughing. I keep getting medals for shooting. I don't know why. The bulls-eye is near as big as a chipmunk head and don't move, and it ain't shooting at you like the Higgett boys at home. All you got to do is lie there all comfortable and hit it. You don't even load your own cartridges. They come in boxes.
Then we have what they call hand-to-hand combat training. You get to wrestle with them city boys. I have to be real careful though, they break real easy It ain't like fighting with that ole bull at home. I'm about the best they got in this except for that Tug Jordan from over in Silver Lake. I only beat him once. He joined up the same time as me, but I'm only 5'6' and 130 pounds and he's 6'8' and near 300 pounds dry.
Be sure to tell Walt and Elmer to hurry and join before other fellers get onto this setup and come stampeding in.
Your loving daughter,
Alice
Dear Ma and Pa:
I am well. Hope you are. Tell Brother Walt and Brother Elmer the Marine Corps beats working for old man Milch by a mile. Tell them to join up quick before all of the places are filled.
I was restless at first because you got to stay in bed till nearly 6 a.m. but I am getting so I like to sleep late. Tell Walt and Elmer all you do before breakfast is smooth your cot, and shine some things. No hogs to slop, feed to pitch, mash to mix, wood to split, fire to lay. Practically nothing.
Shaving isn't too bad, there's warm water. Breakfast is strong on trimmings like fruit juice, cereal, eggs, bacon, etc., but kind of weak on chops, potatoes, ham, steak, fried eggplant, pie and other regular food, but tell Walt and Elmer you can always sit by the two city boys that live on coffee. Their food, plus yours, holds you until noon when you get fed again. It's no wonder these city boys can't walk much.
We go on 'route marches,' which the platoon sergeant says are long walks to harden us. If he thinks so, it's not my place to tell him different. A 'route march' is about as far as to our mailbox at home. Then the city guys get sore feet and we all ride back in trucks.
The country is nice but awful flat. The sergeant is like a school teacher. He nags a lot. The captain is like the school board. Majors and colonels just ride around and frown. They don't bother you none.
This next will kill Walt and Elmer with laughing. I keep getting medals for shooting. I don't know why. The bulls-eye is near as big as a chipmunk head and don't move, and it ain't shooting at you like the Higgett boys at home. All you got to do is lie there all comfortable and hit it. You don't even load your own cartridges. They come in boxes.
Then we have what they call hand-to-hand combat training. You get to wrestle with them city boys. I have to be real careful though, they break real easy It ain't like fighting with that ole bull at home. I'm about the best they got in this except for that Tug Jordan from over in Silver Lake. I only beat him once. He joined up the same time as me, but I'm only 5'6' and 130 pounds and he's 6'8' and near 300 pounds dry.
Be sure to tell Walt and Elmer to hurry and join before other fellers get onto this setup and come stampeding in.
Your loving daughter,
Alice
This week and welcome to it
Jul. 11th, 2009 07:36 pmWell, the week's almost over. It's been a bit annoying as my foot is still weeping. I'm off to Kings on Wednesday for another look at it. I really need to get them focused on getting it to heal up. I'm tired of changing dressings, having wet socks from the fluid that's leaking out of it, and so on and so forth.
Monday I did basically nothing...always delightful these days.
Tuesday I had lunch with Brian, one of the organisers of the Singaporean lesbian and gay film showing last Friday. He works around Goodge Street, and his building is really neat. It's two buildings, one behind the other, and they have closed off the alley between the buildings and made it into a kind of atrium. As you might expect, it's a design/architecture place. We discussed London, Singapore, and film over chicken Caesar salad in their canteen. It's always lovely to make new friends and I hope that HWMBO and I will see more of Brian and his bf in the future. Brian is off to Singapore today.
Tuesday night was Diocesan Synod, the last meeting of this term. We discussed a report on childhood from the Children's Society—it was presented by a Lord Someone-or-other who is or had been a professor. However, even with a microphone he was inaudible to most of us because he mumbles. Waste of our time. We also discussed the financial situation of the diocese. It looks like layoffs are imminent (of lay staff) and parishes will be consolidated as they become vacant. I spoke on the fact that people here in England are very loath to talk about money or giving; that is one of the reasons why giving levels are so pathetic in the Church of England. Lots of people think that since the Church is established, the government funds it. Of course, it doesn't. The bishop was kind of dismissive of my plea to study how other provinces (especially the US) do stewardship. Typical Brit.
Wednesday we had the Diocesan Audit Committee meeting. Lots of discussion about our investments and investment policy. You might think "ho hum" but the only reason we can survive is that the investments bring in much-needed income—not as much of the much-needed income as before, but some.
Thursdy and Friday were mostly free. I decided that I wanted to connect the old iMac upstairs to the router down here by means of my Ethernet Bridge. I will discuss that in a separate post.
Today was very restful. I made sausages and muchroom risotto which HWMBO really likes. Always nice to cook something that your husband loves, as June Cleaver might have said.
Monday I did basically nothing...always delightful these days.
Tuesday I had lunch with Brian, one of the organisers of the Singaporean lesbian and gay film showing last Friday. He works around Goodge Street, and his building is really neat. It's two buildings, one behind the other, and they have closed off the alley between the buildings and made it into a kind of atrium. As you might expect, it's a design/architecture place. We discussed London, Singapore, and film over chicken Caesar salad in their canteen. It's always lovely to make new friends and I hope that HWMBO and I will see more of Brian and his bf in the future. Brian is off to Singapore today.
Tuesday night was Diocesan Synod, the last meeting of this term. We discussed a report on childhood from the Children's Society—it was presented by a Lord Someone-or-other who is or had been a professor. However, even with a microphone he was inaudible to most of us because he mumbles. Waste of our time. We also discussed the financial situation of the diocese. It looks like layoffs are imminent (of lay staff) and parishes will be consolidated as they become vacant. I spoke on the fact that people here in England are very loath to talk about money or giving; that is one of the reasons why giving levels are so pathetic in the Church of England. Lots of people think that since the Church is established, the government funds it. Of course, it doesn't. The bishop was kind of dismissive of my plea to study how other provinces (especially the US) do stewardship. Typical Brit.
Wednesday we had the Diocesan Audit Committee meeting. Lots of discussion about our investments and investment policy. You might think "ho hum" but the only reason we can survive is that the investments bring in much-needed income—not as much of the much-needed income as before, but some.
Thursdy and Friday were mostly free. I decided that I wanted to connect the old iMac upstairs to the router down here by means of my Ethernet Bridge. I will discuss that in a separate post.
Today was very restful. I made sausages and muchroom risotto which HWMBO really likes. Always nice to cook something that your husband loves, as June Cleaver might have said.
Linksys Ethernet Bridge
Jul. 11th, 2009 07:45 pmWell, I'm having difficulty with the ethernet bridge again. It's a Linksys WET54G. For those who don't know what it does, here's the scoop. It has an antenna which picks up the WiFi signal from my router down here, then converts it into wired Ethernet so that you can plug a computer's Ethernet port into it as though it were a port in the wall. The theory is simple. However, the execution is pretty grim.
It worked with the BT router. However, when I got my O2 broadband service (and router with it) it seems to have stopped working. While it can see the WiFi router, when you plug something into it the bridge doesn't seem to be able to get an IP address and connect to the Internet through the router. The DHCP service seems to be at the route of the trouble.
I have tried everything under the sun to get it to work. Neither the iMac (which has a very unhelpful helpless Help Assistant for such things) nor the Asus EE can connect. I bought a Belkin Wireless N access point but then found out that it was not designed to work with an iMac. So I got the drivers from someone who specialises in such things, and installed it. The access point can see the WiFi but, again, cannot connect.
My conclusion is that it's the router that is failing me here. I need to buy a new one.
Rats.
I will do research to try to find the best WiFi ADSL modem/router and buy that. There are instructions for placing non-O2 routers on the linel. Boy, do I hope that works.
It worked with the BT router. However, when I got my O2 broadband service (and router with it) it seems to have stopped working. While it can see the WiFi router, when you plug something into it the bridge doesn't seem to be able to get an IP address and connect to the Internet through the router. The DHCP service seems to be at the route of the trouble.
I have tried everything under the sun to get it to work. Neither the iMac (which has a very unhelpful helpless Help Assistant for such things) nor the Asus EE can connect. I bought a Belkin Wireless N access point but then found out that it was not designed to work with an iMac. So I got the drivers from someone who specialises in such things, and installed it. The access point can see the WiFi but, again, cannot connect.
My conclusion is that it's the router that is failing me here. I need to buy a new one.
Rats.
I will do research to try to find the best WiFi ADSL modem/router and buy that. There are instructions for placing non-O2 routers on the linel. Boy, do I hope that works.