August 9, 2023 a thought for today, He that won't listen, must feel. German Proverb

One of my uploads for yesterday was “my choice”. This image was generated when I was volunteering at the humane society taking photos of the pets ready for adoption. There was a specific way, format, the facility managers wanted for the photos that would go on their web site. I had a different way of viewing the animals. I took the photos they wanted along with some of my own. This is one of my own. I hope this little girl got adopted quickly...she was a sweety.  

After Bob’s doctor appointment Lowell called and asked if I would like to meet them for brunch at TeeJays so, of course, I closed down the computer and off I rushed. It was a nice meet with family and good food too. 

Since the bulletin has been finished on Monday all I had left to do to get ready for printing for tomorrow was the shut-in envelopes and birthday cards and envelops. I was working on that when Lowell called so I put that all on hold and got back to it as soon as I got home.

The second photo for yesterday was “empty’. I shot this image as I was passing through the shopping center. The cart gate was empty as well as the sidewalks. 

Yesterday was a day of more house work than computer work for a change. So today I am on the computer more trying to catch up on a short list of things once started that needed finished. Also, a little more work on the new computer. I need to get a printer set up on it. Yesterday, I spent some time educating myself more on the use of the OneDrive feature. OneDrive is a cloud for use of storage and, in my case, moving files from one place to another. It’s a little different for me on the other computer because there are two of us using that computer both with separate OneDrives.   

We are still having some decent summer time weather. It’s warm but not hot and the sun is showing off all the pretty things summer has to offer.....flowers, green leaves, shade umbrellas and privacy fences. 

My first photo today was “four things”. I had taken some photos of other things in a four-item pattern but I like this one the best when I got them into Photoshop. 

A word for today is chance. Chance favors the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur. Gambling is the child of avarice, the   brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief, George Washington.  Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides. Euripides.  Chance is a word devoid of sense, nothing can exist without a cause, Voltaire. A wise man turns chance into good fortune, Thomas Fuller. Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent, Euripides.  Chance is the providence of   adventurers, Napoleon Bonaparte.  Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish, Ovid. Chance never helps those who do not help themselves, Sophocles.  To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect, Hosea Ballou.  I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all,  Ecclesiastes 9:11.  Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day, Sophocles.  One must never ask of fortune more than she can grant,  Napoléon Bonaparte.  Life is governed by chance, not wisdom, Robert Burton.   

My second photo upload today was another of “my choice”. When some of the ladies I worked with a few year ago and I took our lunch break a little further into downtown than our office was this is one of the places we stopped. 

This is an interesting subject since it has taken over our world. The title “What exactly is the internet?....”. One explanation of the internet to an Ohio 8 year old who asked was “the internet is a global collection of computers that know how to send messages to one another”. Everything connected to the internet is a computer of some sort and size. In its beginning, in th 1960s, computers were used only for special purposes and connected through telephones. They were huge, enough to fill a full room, and have become smaller and smaller. Eventually the government wanted computers to “communicate automatically and even if some telephone lines were cut off”. Methods of connection were tested until one that was found to be the most reliable stuck. In the beginning it was called the Hot Potato network due to the way it worked. One of the “designer/engineers” described it as a broken up potato. He wrote about it and called it  “hot potato networking......a message would be broken up into lots of little pieces – the potatoes”.  Some of the “potatoes” would be sent to another computer, that computer would pass it on. You wanted the message passed quickly so they “treated” it like it was hot. The messages were a sequence of numbers, when they arrived at the destination they were put in the “proper order”. This system was called “ARPANET” and was the “immediate predecessor to today’s internet”. Then the system was called  “packet switched networking” instead of Hot Potato. How the systems sent and received messages was constantly improving. In 1990 there was a scientist who created a way for links to “specify any computer – the concept of the URL, or Uniform Resource Locator”. He called it the World Wide Web. As the years have passed, computers have become more powerful and inexpensive. As the costs lowered millions more devices connected to the internet. Computers now operate thermostats, security cameras, phones, refrigerator operations and, as the article ended: “Just about everything is connected to the internet now.”

I think we will have beer battered fish and fries for dinner. It has been a while since I used the air fryer (except for grilled cheese sandwiches ). 

Joy

           we were trying to see if cigarette smoke would freeze in the winter at below 32 degrees