Dave Nicholson

So to turn off the log in with a password thing in Windows 10 you hit the search box by the Windows logo and type netplwiz and click the app that shows up in the search results. Then you unclick the box that says "user must enter a username and password to use this computer". Well I have done that and now and then it still makes me log on. Almost every time it does it's when I turn it on and go for mail thinking it will be at the desktop ready to use when I get back. I wonder if this bit of buggy code is by the same programmer(s) that ended up making Windows 10 randomly reset for literally no reason? Then again it resets for updates even after I told it to ask me first and gave it hours to do it that I would never be using the computer - just ignores all that and resets anyways. Don't be telling me how to fix this, because not one of the many "fixes" I have seen out there work. My fave of all time (cough CLICK TRAP) was to delete the video card driver and...

Yup did very well this week, the week before starting this month however was a +11.6 lbs and kind of an atrocity. This upcoming Friday will be another Oh Dang moment I'm sure as I have eaten 8 chocolate bars, 6 boxes of pop-tarts and a big bag of candy. To top it off in the next 2 days I'm kind of sure that I'll have finished 2 more boxes of Pop-tarts for a total of 48 of the dang things and at 200 calories each that is 9,600 calories. The bars and the candy is maybe another 4K - so ya know... Not to mention eating a vast amount of sugar makes you hold water weight - so it's a double hit. I don't know if I will extend the bean purge another month and try hard to not mess it all up or not. Maybe next month it's back to the chicken and bean thing I been doing for 2 years. It is not as good as the bean purge vegetarian thing, but it still kind of works when I don't mess up on it. Yeah - that's 3 blogs in a row mentioning how I messed it all up - ...

So here I am ordering my Hemp Oil and I want some stuff to go with it. Well, I looked and found some coupon codes that where going to expire the next day (3 of them). It allowed you to get the 3 snack foods about for $1 each. Normally they are $2 or $3 each. So I got 6 boxes of Pop-Tarts (3 kinds - box boxes of each kind), 2 4 packs of Coffee Crisp Bars (normal sized - not small ones) and Reese's Pieces bits. Well I have to say Coffee Crisp is my fave kind of candy bar of all time. The bits are just there because I wanted to try them and the Pop-Tarts, well they just rock. So I say to myself "this will last the rest of the month". I guess I forgot somehow that I literally CAN'T be trusted with sugar. 4 days later there are 2 boxes of Pop-Tarts left and the rest is a distant memory. I mean I sat there and eat till my tummy hated me. I'm such a weak willed person if I don't eliminate the temptation you see. So I got this plan to never get more of th...

  Strawberry was the first one I tied into. I used to love this as a kid and as it was Mom's fave it was the only one we got most of the time. (3/5)   Cookies and Creme. Well this is my new fave pop-tart of all time. This was amazingly good. In fact it's the best thing other than coffee I've put in my mouth in almost a year. (5/5)   Chocolate Chip. Well this was Dad's fave back in the day. We did not have it that often though as some how Mom thought that Strawberry was better for us LOL. (4/5)  Well I got 6 8 pack of these things and thought to myself "this will last me the rest of the month". Sigh. My fat ass has 2 boxes left out of 6 and this is 4 days in. So YUP I eat a box a day. So much for "a treat now and then" - more like "lets shove all these in our mouth and then wonder why we don't feel well". But I've learned I can't be trusted with sugar and NOT get get any more. Next Friday the weigh in will suck I...

 Day 1 Italian Tomato Bean Soup (Monday)  Day 2 Italian Mushroom Bean Soup (Tuesday)  Day 3 Chili Tomato Bean Soup (Wednesday) Top to bottom Day 1 to 3 (Small containers used for day 3 are a bit hard to see). My cold packs are on the lowest shelf. After eating black beans for days I've decided I dislike them kind of a lot and may never get them again. Most of the rest of the month will be either Chick Peas or 5 Bean Mix. Oh at the very top is tonight's eats - I literally just had it 1/2 an hour ago. I stay up late and thus eat late (It's 11:10 pm right now).

So in Chrome I will snag songs people have posted from YouTube into a folder called Listen2. If you click the link and drag it to the folder and drop it in there, it only save the URL and NOT the name of the song from the post. I then wait 2 or 3 days and go back to the list one at a time and get a Mystery playlist to listen to. Normally I go 10 or 12 at a time like this.

I ran into some good music documentaries on Cable one of them seemed interesting from the description "Searching For Sugar Man". Well I recorded it and 2 days later I watched it in awe. Like all music docs it has some of the music playing threw the movie. Well I fell in love with the sound. Here is the story. Rodriguez was all they knew the guy by. He had cut the album in the USA and it was a flop for some reason (listening to it I literally can't understand why it did not take off). It made it's way to South Africa and ended up copied on tape many times and finally somehow got pressed as an LP in the South African market. Even with the fact that it was a banned for airplay album it managed to sell 1/2 a million copies or more. The bootleg copies well outnumbering the store purchased ones of course. Many people there had heard of him and decades later someone went looking to see who this man was. There where rumors of his death in several manners and all thoug...

I once sat here and wondered what the hell twist of fate caused this all to happen and why is it happening to me. Other days I am so lucky to be alive and have the things and people I have in my life that I can’t express it in words. Most of the time however, I sit here passing the time with anything that will distract me long enough to keep me from wanting to just crawl back in bed and sleep till my body hurts from being in bed to long. Honest to God if I have the strength to go on if I need it, but the strange thing is I spend more of it making others feel better. Somehow this gives me more of a will to keep on keeping on than if I just spent all that energy on myself. If it was not for the darkness I don’t think I would know the daylight even existed, so it too is a blessing. Life is a struggle when you have little money. But my needs are met and somehow when I had a lot more money – when I worked – I was a lot less happy. In the past I did sit and wonder about it all. ...