I’m Tired of Firefox

I’m so freaking tired of clicking the Firefox icon and waiting… and waiting…. and waiting… until I get so tired I launch Chrome or IE. Then, when FireFox finally DOES load, I get notice after notice that I should do this core upgrade or that plugin update. I understand that this is in direct proportion to the plugins I have installed but, with just 3-4, the load time is laughable.

So what’s it going to be? Chrome or IE?

Powdercoated CTS-V Wheels

Oh boy, I got the extra set of wheels I have for the CTS-V powdercoated up in Pompton Lakes at a place called Hypercoat. Great stuff. Take a look at the results! I have Goodyear Eagle F1s to put on them. Should I totally waste the Hankooks that are on there now before putting these on?

Post Holiday Update

Family has come and gone with everyone doing well. Upstairs bathroom is redone and looks great!

Thanksgiving at home

Back from traveling down south for a visit, we’re back at home and enjoying Thanksgiving food and football today. I’ve got to get some Zerobased stuff together today but, other than that, no plans.

Now these are the sorts of posts blogging is all about… *L* (sarcasm)

 

More substantial thoughts of late (from too much time driving) are mostly paranoid/fearful about the future of the country.

  • women being told not to self-examine… (to eliminate resulting unnecessary doctor visits)
  • acceptable levels of annual deaths if we change a recommendation on early detection of cervical cancer…
  • evidence that some global warming “evidence” was manufactured through “the Nature (Magazine) trick

60 Minutes had a segment on Sunday night where one of the experts was outraged that the US would allow its citizens to pay for statistically disadvantageous health care (you know, things like cancer screenings…) particularly when faced with 46 million Americans without health care. First, is that 46 million stat true? Next, this is the lowest common denominator approach – we not only have to make sure that the uninsured get covered, we have to change our expectation of care as well. This is not about health care. If it were, they’d just take this social health care money and buy policies for those uninsured. (I bet the math works better.) This is about you and I being told that we should not trust ourselves, our local doctors or the free market to help. We must obey the state. (You will take soma and be happy. You will be healthy… but the definition of healthy is now less healthy than before.)

Like carbon emission restrictions, it acts without acknowledging that that extra medical effort… those extra emissions (from productivity) are a symptom of what makes the US special, not the low productivity, employment and standards of care held in some/many? socialist states.

The Netherlands, New Zealand or Australia are looking like good options.