Humpty Dumpty, Hmmm... finally I have a voice dictation system that actually works, well, kinda partly works, kinda is a pretty good word for what it seems to be doing. And I was saying a few days ago you cannot legislate morality... if you try to do that in a free system you'll find that the system is no longer free because morality has entered into the picture. The real problem is of course that the computers are not our slaves, it seems to work out the other way around. Anyways, the real problem, the real problem is that if you make laws and those laws are consistently ignored by large number of the population there is going to be a contempt for those laws and that contempt will eventually extend to all laws and you'll have a lawless nation... all for the hopeless cause that you want to legislate. Reality reminded us to of course the exact opposite bank this is pretty generally has he acknowledges that not a good thing neither for the people who want that particular morality or with the people who don't want that particular morality... everybody will suffer. So, you dummies out there the answer is really pretty simple... don't try to tell me what to do what to drink, what to smoke, what to think, who or what to worship if anything. Not me nor anybody else. I have been trying in vain since last night to install Red Hat Linux 7.3 which I downloaded a couple weeks ago and I don't seem to be able to get it to work. This time I'm persisting because I don't really want to have another slow windows system. I got a couple motherboards that I had ordered a couple of months ago and finally got those back, I had to send them back the first time, they just plain didn't work right out of the box. that kinda hacked me off, but the guy I was working with replaced them after a buncha hassle. There are a lot of traits I need to work on to get this dictation stuff working. I did do the training and it seemed to work pretty well out of the box, chuckle chuckle, it's never really been in a box, ho-ho. 15:12 on Sunday afternoon. Karen, Kim, and lacee are out shopping, their usual Sunday afternoon girl thing. I kinda wanted to go out with them, but that idea was vetoed. So, here I sit, playing with these infernal machines and getting more and more frustrated with the whole situation. Do they have schools for learning to pilot barges? Of course, Sunday morning would not be a good time to collapse a bridge if that's what you were trying to do, but then they aren't noted for having lots of smarts. Meanwhile, I'm trying for about 100th time to install Linux... why do I put up with this stuff anyway? I should be doing something interesting like paying bills hunh? On the other hand it's beautiful out I should be outside doing something... working probably. Love is a funny thing, it's really even harder to figure out than computers are. On the other hand, once you figure out computers, you know what you know. With love, you have to start all over again every damn day. Just thought I'd throw that in there. I stayed up really late last night, working on the Linux system, beating my head on the proverbial brick wall. I seem to be doing the same thing this afternoon, which strikes me as being rather stupid, and I should stop it. I am doing the same thing over and over and getting the same crummy results. I guess I will put Windows 2000 on the damn thing anyway. ... all right, I got the dots to work, so I won't have to edit them in. this is a pretty clumsy way of typing, but maybe, just maybe, I will be able to use it if I really work on getting it properly trained. It's actually working pretty well, but I have a tendency to run my words together, so I'll have a long string of words that are misspelled that I will need to fix.
My knee seems to be doing pretty well today, it's a little sore in the popliteal area. I don't know why that would be, probably just part of the healing process. It seems that I have tried this voice dictation thing before, and never really worked. I probably just gave up too soon on the thing, I have a tendency to that to. I'm never really had a machine that could handle it before, but this one seems to be doing pretty well with it.
The thing is, it would be a lot easier if I would think in a straight line, or in consistent circles or squares or, well, just *anything* consistent. This jumping back and forth is really hard to edit and hard for me to make sense of after the fact. Anyways. Normally, when we go to Enid, we forget something. This time the damn mange was pretty minor, I left my tooth brush and toothpaste in the downstairs bathroom. But we did get a nice surprise when we got home, mom had packed several pounds of pecan meats in a bag for us. Thanks, mom! 22:10...
Tornado watch tonight until about 01:00, I think that I'll be asleep when it hits, somebody'll tell me if I get blowed away, won't they?