Stijn!!

[Jim Richards]

Still working on getting her MacBook sorted out. I updated her OS so I can set it up to work with our printer/copier/scanner. That's done but the OS update has other ramifications that I'm working through. I wish I could retire from being her IT guy.

[RKDinOKC]

You didn't do El Capitan did you? That can cause a lot of problems with older or non-App Store programs. Something about being more secure.

I'm the IT guy at my house. Also the chief cook and bottle washer. The only thing I don't do is cut the grass. Let one of my nephew's HS aged kids do it to help him make some extra summer monies.

[Jim Richards]

Si, el Capitan.

[RKDinOKC]

Oh no senor, me no habla el capitan. Muchos aplicaciones crashomundo.

Some of the Apple, Adobe, and Microsoft programs I use aren't compatible because of the new security features.

[RKDinOKC]

It obvious my salt and pepper shakers or sugar bowl don't get used. Both the salt in the shaker and sugar in the bowl have solidified. And the salt shaker has some rice in it to keep that from happening?

[GH85Carrera]

I am the default IT geek in my family. My wife has finally gotten pretty good at making he iPad Pro work the way she wants with her iPhone 6s. I bought a Yamaha amp for the home stereo system a while back. It has a neat app for controlling it. She like it for many reasons, like if she want to listen to her Sirius satellite subscription that she has in her car she can stream that music through the stereo and listen to that is the house. We have an Apple TV as well and that allows her to show iPad photos or stream the music on her iPad. She almost never uses my home desktop computer that I built. I do my Quicken and email on my home built computer that is totally overbuilt crazy fast. Computers are just so cheap now days. I went crazy overboard but I will not need to upgrade for many many years.

[Outback Porsche]

Hello all.

Booked our next retirement training package today, woohoo!

We're gunna terrorize the sheep shaggers north island for a couple of weeks.

[GH85Carrera]

I am still trying to figure out a route for my vacation next month. I do know we are planning to stay at Paul's (Seahawk's) place and hopefully meet up with Rick and his wife there.

I need to figure out a way to avoid the major traffic, see some interesting sights and hit all the New England states and end up meeting up with Pete on the way to Jay Peak, VT. I am going to get some analog paper maps today and use a magic marker to plan some routes, then get those locations programmed into the GPS. One month from now I should be con the way to Maryland and Paul's place.

[Jim Richards]

Have fun playing retiree, Jeff. Like golf, you can never have enough practice!

[Jim Richards]

Glen, we took a New England road trip back when I had the '95 993. I'll try to come up with some suggestions for you.

[RKDinOKC]

You could make a video with sound of the Carrera blasting through one of those quant covered bridges. With the windows down of course. The boards rattling and the engine wailing with a bit of echo, it would be magnificent.

[Porsche-poor]

morning all. Might be a half day here at work. The brother-in-law will be showing up with some of the MIL's remaining stuff and will need help to unload.

[flipper35]

I would rather work. Actually, maybe not.

[RKDinOKC]

You can always do like my Dad suggested...

You have a limited amount of time to spend. Evaluate what you need done. If you can make enough money working to pay to have something done, then pay to have it done with the time spent working. Works with things you would rather do versus things you don't want to do most of the time too.

[Porsche-poor]

I think I just want to show up with a can of gas and a match.

[GH85Carrera]

I have mentioned my "private road" part of the commute before.



It is 2.5 miles of very rural type of road. No commercial operations except a farm or two and not many houses visible from the road. The speed limit is set at 50 and there is a stop sign every mile. Often there is no traffic at all for the 2.5 miles.

The other day on the morning commute I was going along at 50 and a black Mustang came flying up behind me. He pulled out and blew past me going 70 at least. Just as he got 1/4 mile in front of me I saw brake lights and he was HARD on the brakes. He just did avoid two deer walking across the road. I bet that got his heart pumping hard.

[Porsche-poor]

my cousin in Oregon has a Mustang. She will tell you that the damn deer are drawn to it. She has hit two on her way to work on a road much like that one.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

I think I just want to show up with a can of gas and a match.

That is definitely quick and easy work.

We are thick with deer here but I have only hit two with a vehicle. Dad hit one on his dirt bike but didn't even go down. They used to play a lot of soccer on bikes and his reflex was to kick the deer in the head and it moved it enough that it hit the back of the bike. There was a bunch of deer hair in the rear spring. I went through a mobile slalom course that was a heard of deer. I was driving mom and dad's car with mom, dad, sister and bil in the car. That was exciting as they came up from a low ditch and I slammed on the brakes. I was through them before I could get stopped.

Glen, I wasn't aware there were trees in OK other than in yards. Are they native there?

[GH85Carrera]

Yep, native trees! We even have indoor plumbing!

It is funny how many people think Oklahoma looks like the dusty western area from John Wayne movies. Up in the panhandle are there are a LOT less trees. Down in southeastern Oklahoma is a national forest, and the world's highest hill!

[RKDinOKC]

Knew a guy that ran drugs. He had a really cool Z28. Looked like a normal Z28. It was NOT. It was a tubular steel framed car built like a tank. He even had the steel frame/roll cage hidden behind the upholstery so you couldn't tell unless you really knew what you were looking for. The glovebox was full of police scanners. The personalize license was FLASH.

He did his runs on roads like that and told me the main reason he did all the tubular steel stuff was to protect him from deer....and horses and cows. We used to go drinking a drive the back roads.

Ran around with him before I went of too college. Lost touch while I was in college and found out later that he was running drugs. I just thought he had a fast car. Even later when my nephew was in college I was invited to a party he and his coworkers at a Chi-Chi restaurant had. One of the guys at the party told me how he got his drugs from the main guy in OKC and called him "The Flash." Told me all about Flash's cool Z28.