Stijn!!

[RKDinOKC]

Do I type a lot or what?

[Rick V]

Morning Y'all
I know we just flipped the clocks back and my body thinks I got to sleep in an extra hour but monday still blows

[Jim Richards]

...or sucks. I can never tell in advance.

[Rick V]

True

[RKDinOKC]

Even though it is Monday, Wish you all a Good Morning!

Noticed while dragging trash to curb this morning...Foggy outside here. Man, those new vampire lights are Bright!

[GH85Carrera]

Good Foggy morning folks.

It was as foggy as I have ever seen it around here. 100 to 200 foot visibility in patches. I was glad it was after sunrise that I was driving. Of course I washed the Elky yesterday afternoon.

Back when I lived in Hawaii we would drive around the island in a day shoot pictures in the different locations. On place required a military ID because it was a Army base on the far north west tip of the island. It was a winding mountain road with almost no traffic. On occasion the clouds came in and we would literally be driving through the clouds. That was some THICK fog and scary. Sheer drop offs the side of a mountain, poor guard rails and fog that was so thick it was hard to see the bumper on a Mustang I was riding inside!.

[Outback Porsche]

The pooch reckons there's an electrical storm coming. I think he may be correct




The storm front has woken us all up. I think I'll need to take a look at the roof tomorrow and see what's making all the racket.

[Outback Porsche]

Hmmm what be this wet stuff falling from the heavens?

[Outback Porsche]

The dog be right, there be rumbling noises in the distance. Not close enough for a light show yet.

[RKDinOKC]

Back in my 20's went on a ski trip to Taos NM with some guys from work for the weekend. I were the youngest...

It started snowing when it was my turn to drive, AND I had to drive up the mountain passes into the Taos area. The snow was coming down so heavy you could only see about 100 ft. AND there was a little over 1 ft of fresh snow on the ground/road. We were on the mountain pass twisty turny climbing road late at night and before the snow plows. The only way I could tell where the road was is the mountain wall on my right side, and there was a bump in the snow where the guard rail was on my left side.

We were not sober. The other three kept encouraging me telling me I was doing great and to keep going. After I made it up the mountain to where the roads were plowed and much better they said I did so well in such an extreme situation I didn't have to drive the rest of the trip and replaced me as driver. It was some of the scariest driving I've ever done. Skiing with all the fresh snow was fantastic.

[RKDinOKC]

Dropping Pepper off at boot camp at 8:30 this evening. She will be there for 2 weeks.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

I have two spam filters running on my email server. One bounces a LOT of spam and the others it marks as SPAM in the subject and delivers. I have a rule on the server that puts marked messages in the users Junk E-mail folder. The other is spam assassin and learns what is spam by what you move in and out of the Junk E-mail folder.

My account that that I've had since 1991 receives 20,000 messages a day. 2 to 4 spam messages come to my inbox, and from 3 to 20 in my Junk E-mail folder with about half what makes it to my junk email folder marked by the hosted service.

The hosted service is called Mail Foundry. I got in early and only pay $0.99 per month per user. In July Mail Foundry was purchased by Barracuda. That's when the spam increased AND I started getting false positives. Before the ownership change I had gotten ZERO false positives in 7 years, ZERO! I noticed on their main page that they are now charging between $5 and $6 per user per month, Ouch.

Looks like I am going to be searching for another anti spam service!

I host the company Glen works for's email. Looked at their mail foundry statistics this morning. Of around 10,000 messages their company of 8 users received this month 10 total emails were classified as not spam. 99% of their email traffic is spam!

So sorry. We used them for years with great luck, but the last several months I have had to specifically go in an block ranges of IP addresses. The unit broke and we did not purchase another. We have a firewall that does well. It has some learning to do and there are a few false positives I have had to release but that is pretty easy.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Morning, and it should be good.

**** **** ****. Mother ****ing son of a *****. Oh for ****s sake.

Channeling your inner Samuel L Jackson?

[GH85Carrera]

I had over 350 spams in my spam box after the weekend. That does not count a few dozen I killed from my iPhone.

[flipper35]

Oh, the movie had far less f-bombs than the book. I was surprised the movie was PG-13 based on the book. My daughter enjoyed the movie and hears worse on the bus than what was in the movie, sad to say.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by flipper35

Oh, the movie had far less f-bombs than the book. I was surprised the movie was PG-13 based on the book. My daughter enjoyed the movie and hears worse on the bus than what was in the movie, sad to say.

I guess as an old geezer I did not even notice any profanity in the Martian. I have to assume it was all used in the appropriate setting and nit just superfluous thrown in for shock value.

My maternal side grandfather just never used any profanity. Dadgum or dagnabbit was about as rough as he would get. My dad's dad was a bit more colorful with adults but was pretty careful around the grandkids.

[flipper35]

Very few on either side of the family uses much language. I guess both sets of grandparents didn't see much use in it so I tend to notice it more. It doesn't bother me a whole lot but I appreciate when people use restraint around our 6 year old.

Richard, you going to hire Rick and Joe to enforce the anti-spam rules?

[ckelly78z]

I've always had the saying "cursing is a tool of the un-educated" when people use it in everyday conversation....generally no need for it when casually talking.

[RKDinOKC]

My nephews were raised in a strict language environment. My brother does not curse in any fashion even replacing curse words with acceptable words like dagnabit. He considers that unacceptable replacement cursing. I laugh at my nephews when they exclaim "Oh Bother" like Winnie the Pooh when they are upset at something.

[GH85Carrera]

Does he ever say "What the Heck?"

Heck is just a substitute for hell originally.