Vienna, Computer, and Furthermore
by Barry Bauer
I started reading the Lansing State Journal’s writer, Louise Knott Ahern’s four-part series on the sad death of a St. Johns girl, Vienna Parker. When I got to the part where she describes the condition of the girl’s decomposed body and I quit reading. It’s too much information for me and shows no respect for the deceased.
That information was included for its shock value which will result in what? Attract more readers? Stop this from ever happening again? Nothing’s going to change and these things will keep on happening and will not stop because of “shock journalism.”
I came from the system we called the “do-gooders” and no matter what their intentions were they failed half the time. Somebody other than her mother probably knew what was happening to Vienna and failed to step forward to help her.
Will that ever change? Nope.
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I’m still having computer problems but as of yet I haven’t taken it into the repair shop. I’m trying to fix it myself. The internet is a great source of fix-it-yourself information.
My computer, seemingly overnight, slowed way down. It took at least ten minutes to get on a site if I got on at all. The first program I purchased online cost just under ten dollars but didn’t do a damned thing for me.
The second one cost thirty-five dollars but it worked. Along with that program came a driver (software to run hardware) updater. It ran and I ended up with no sound, the driver had been corrupted. I had to read David Letterman’s lips. Do you realize how hard that is?
With information off the internet I finally got the sound card to work again by removing its driver and then reinstalling it from the internet. Now I can’t put my computer to sleep. It wakes back up within ten seconds; I’m still working on that.
I’m not ruling out taking it in to the repair shop in the end but first I gotta try.
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Our elected officials in Washington D. C. need to take a time out. They’ve got this country all riled up over things like “Obamacare,” the “Fiscal Cliff,” the “Debt Limit Crisis,” the “Sequestration,” the “Gun Control Issue,” “Illegal Immigration,” and now they’re arguing about drone strikes on civilians in this country. I think we’ve all had enough of “Government Excitement,” and we need a break. Give us six months to collect our senses and catch our wind. Somebody needs to tell Obama that the American people are not the enemy and to quit trying to punish us.
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And Furthermore:
We’ve gained one-hour and two-minutes of daylight in February and Daylight Savings Time is right around the corner. Who decides that anyway?
Tom Izzo will not take this basketball team into the Final Four. I’m afraid he doesn’t have the talent.
Baby carrots from the store are processed from odd shaped carrots which go through a peeler and rounded at the ends. They are treated with chlorine to keep them from spoiling early because their protective skin is gone. I can’t stand nor do I buy them because of the chlorine after taste.
Some of our so-called elected “leaders” are using the Constitution like it’s toilet paper. Somebody ought to rap their knuckles with a ruler because they’re flunking the course.
Until the next time . . .