What A Beautiful Morning

Even if it's a cold one, it is truly a beautiful land. I know I say that a lot but that is all I can say each morning I go outdoors.

This morning is a bit chilly here and we were out of wood. I got on the 4 wheeler and rode around the property in search of logs that would fit into the stove. I did find some wood. (It might be rotten wood which Doug would not put into the stove.) We did not stock up on wood for the winter. Looks like this winter we will be going out for a ride to bring home wood enough for two or so weeks at a time. I love it. It is a great outing for couples. I love it when Doug and I can do this together.

"This is the day that the LORD has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it."

My Mom is here. I love how she always has a verse from God's word to say throughout the day and something for every conversation. She sprinkles the days conversations with Truth. I love her faith in God and her fear (reverence) of God. We do not see that enough these days.

I set up my old computer for her to use for playing games. It is faster than the old computer that we had set up in the kitchen. I disconnected the old one then hauled my homebuilt down for her. She is enjoying it. She has an account at Pogo.com but whenever I see her playing her game she has Window XP's Spider Solitaire opened up. Then she wonders out loud, "How come the nice rain sounds are not playing?" :-) Mom doesn't just play games she also began reading one of Don Richardson's books, "Lords of the Earth."

Since 1974 Don Richardson has been authoring and promoting books, videos, and a DVD that demonstrate how the message of Jesus can be proclaimed with cross-cultural sensitivity to non-Christians worldwide. Go here to read more.

I plan to order his newest books which I have not read yet. "Secrets of the Koran" and "Stars, Sand, and Dust."

Mom has a pacemaker and has to have regular checkups for that. It was amazing to me to know that she can have this all taken care of over the phone! Medical technologies are amazing now. The medical clinic that tests to make sure she is pacing well called my brothers house and were looking for her. She has been going here and there, forgetting her equipment and this morning she has missed her check-up date.

Mom is considering making my home her home too. She is welcome here with us and I am trying to get her to believe that. She loves The Lake but she misses "home." Her home is not a safe place for her at times so she has to leave and go "visiting." I pray that soon she will settle in and call my home her home base. She is free to travel here and there but to make this house a comfort to her in her old age is my goal. I want to hear her say someday that she wanted to "come home." She helps me around the house too. Sometimes I see her dusting, sometimes watering my many plants. I love it when she is "home."

Did you watch the story on television news about the man I mentioned before, Eric Weihanmayer, the blind mountain climber, marathon runner, long-distance biker, and even a acrobatic skydiver, demonstrated how scientists are using computers and the tongue to help the blind to see? How incredible! Here is another story of the same thing. "Your Tongue Can See."

We have not had any snow on the ground yet but it is cold enough for snow now. The snow on the mountain tops is almost halfway down. The trees are about all bare. I took Mom on a 4 wheel ride yesterday and we saw bear tracks across the lake from home. :-)

Hope you have a beary happy day.

It's A Flaw-Flaw World

My son Kris had something horrible happen to his car while driving back from Anchorage and an evening class there. The car went up in smoke! What was left after he tried hard to save it was not something that could be fixed over the weekend. He needed to get to classes on Monday again so in order to fix that problem he had to use up his savings to make a purchase he was not planning on - a used truck.

Flawed engines.
Flawed relationships.
Flawed ideas of God.
Flawed goals in life.
Flawed bodies.
Flawed information.
Flawed computers!

It's just part of this ol' life to have to fix what this cursed world brings each day, week, month, year.

In spite of all that flaw-flaw, I have great news today. I figured out how to fix the problem I mentioned before. I have been using Firefox's browser since the trouble with IE. I downloaded IE 7, then removed the old IE and then reinstalled IE7. That did absolutely nothing to get rid of my troubles.

In frustration I refused to deal with it anymore. Until this morning - I ACCIDENTLY opened the internet with IE7 and there was the problem again - a fully loaded page that was blank. I thought, oh yes - this problem. As I sat there I saw that the Runonce page for IE was up again but blank. I saw the URL ended with .aspx

ASPX! I thought now there is a place to begin a study.

I went to Google and read then ended up learning that sometimes and for some reason that only a computer guru would know... dll's will get corrupted or they will need to be REregistered. All that I had to do was go to Start, Run and type in regsvr32 jscript.dll, click OK and after that type in regsvr32 vbscript.dll and click OK. Information was found at Microsoft.

The problems are fixed! Everything works. The webpage opens completely. System Restore opens completely. Search opens completely. Windows Media opens completely. Help opens completely. Dell Support opens completely. Windows Update opens completely. I am completely happy about this! I didn't even have to go so drastic as to wipe my hard drive. Thank goodness!

Here are pictures of the Camaro. :-(

Computer Glitches

Oh big tired sigh.

Computers can be such a challenge to someone that is not computer technology smart.

This trouble began with not being able to see the latest posts here at Blogger. Probably has nothing to do with the newest problem though. The new post trouble seemed to resolve itself. While online I got a message pop up on my screen, Click to begin Norton virus scanner trial download. I don't know where that came from but it hinted that I had a potential problem on my computer.

I'd been having problems so I was easily persuaded. I clicked OK, just because. It disappeared. Maybe that was just some kind of an ad? I don't know. I went to play at www.king.com and quite a while later another message appeared "Norton is now scanning your system." OH! Okay. Finally - Norton has found two trojans!

Trojans???

Where did I pick up trojans? They were found in the java folders and the trojan is called Trojan.ByteVerify. Two of them. I tried to do a scan with my own scanner and I got a message saying Windows Security detects that your virus scanner is out of date! Click here for recommendations.

Out of date???

I went online to try see what I could do about that. I could not figure out the virus scanner plan which I am eligible for through Doug's workplace. I called Doug at work and he said he would bring the file home on his Flash drive and that I could install it that way rather than take up more bandwidth downloading the new version. (We've been getting messages from our ISP that we are very close to going over our alloted bandwidth.) I don't know how long I've been without protection!

Meanwhile, I go to Trend Micro Housecall, a free online virus and spyware scanner. They scanned my whole system. Their scan didn't find any trojans.

I go to sign in at several places that require a profile id password. This does not work with IE. I cannot see drop down menus, I cannot completely load some websites.

Doug brought the new updated virus scanner to me. I began to install it. Network Enterprise which is owned by McAfee says, you need to remove your old antivirus completely. Oh dear! That is a problem because somewhere along the line that old program stopped working and would not even show up in my system tray anymore. I checked Add/Remove Programs, nothing! No Network Associates, but I can see the program files in folders, so it is still on my computer.

I decided to remove the files manually from the registry. I open the registry and began deleting files. Anything that said Network Associates in the line got deleted. Then I restarted. Installed the new updated scanner and ran it for the first time and it did find the two trojans!

I can't get some applications to load completely. For instance, if I go to Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, System Restore - the restore program begins to open and then just sits there blank. If I go to Start, Search, I see the little dog come over wagging his tail but there isn't any text, no boxes to enter a search, nothing. Just a cute dog sitting there wagging his tail. :-) He makes me smile.

This is what I have been dealing with.

Anyone have any ideas how I can possibly remedy this problem? I can't do a restore even though I had System Restore running because I can't get it to start.

I always said my computer seems to have a mind of it's own - maybe it will fix itself!

I read up on Trojan.ByteVerify. It is found in the Java directory. If you use Java's Virtual Machine to do whatever java needs to do, and don't use the Microsoft's Virtual Machine that comes with Windows, Sun Microsystems claims that you should not have a problem with it. If you do use Windows Virtual Machine, then this trojan will be detrimental to your system.

I don't understand people that create such nuisances, why do they do it? Wouldn't it be better if they used all their smarts to create some kind of program that people could benefit from and become famous for that? These hidden trojans and stuff they create and what do they accomplish? Nothing but having to hide in the shadows and quietly snicker to themselves for having done it? Strange. Maybe whatever they get out of it is worth it to them but for me, it has ruined several days of what could have been computer fun!

Anyway, I have been into my registry and that is someplace I am not really smart enough to be. I have also been playing games online and I am wondering if that is someplace I should not go. :-(

I do not want to do a complete wipe and reinstall of my Operating System. A computer tech told us that people should just figure to use their computers for two years then wipe it and reinstall the OS. He said our computers get full of stuff and will begin having all sorts of strange troubles. Maybe it's time for this computer to be flushed.

Meanwhile, Tucker had his seventh birthday.

And a new picture of my oldest granddaughter Alexis Dustene and my youngest Raegan Mae. :-)

SMILE!

Not sure how Bebo video will work here (please work). I wanted to show this video that makes me so happy. "Leah" singing her heart out!

Doug and I were talking and decided we want to spend Sunday nights singing with the family. (Our church does not have a Sunday evening service, our church has small groups.) Last night we started our singing time together! The only ones able to make it on such short notice was Karla and her four children and Klinton, besides Doug, Kris and myself.

So Doug, Kris and when Klint finally showed up played guitar and we sang. I loved it.

I hope someday to get video of our grandchildren singing their hearts out in praises to the Lord just like Leah! That makes my whole-self smile!

Oh give thanks to the LORD!
Call upon His name;
Make known His deeds among the peoples!
Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him;
Talk of all His wondrous works!
Glory in His holy name;
Let the hearts of those rejoice
who seek the LORD!
Seek the LORD and His strength;
Seek His face evermore!
Remember His marvelous
works which He has done,
His wonders, and the
judgments of His mouth,
O seed of Israel, His servant,
You children of Jacob,
His chosen ones!

He is the LORD our God-

This was part of King David's psalm of thanks to God when they brought the ark of God and set in the midst of the tabernacle that King David had built for it in Jerusalem. They all sang this praise to God. King David gave gifts to the all the people in Israel(!) and they all rejoiced. It must have been an exciting and happy day. Read the rest of this praise in 1 Chronicles 16.

Last night in our little corner of the world, up here in Alaska, we praised Jesus Christ for the wonderful Savior that He is to us.