Ohh, More Dutch

So today I had some time to cruise back to the library. I checked out the rest of that place. It was quite nice, the cafe at the top is a cafeteria complete with a bar. Now altogether, I would say that this place is a little less a library than most libraries. At any rate, it is a nice place to hang out. This particular day about half of the computers were not working. Also, I was unable to figure out the Dutch way of organizing their books. And their English search page returns Dutch entries, some help. However, I do feel better to at least know that they have books. I had a nice relaxing time there after getting over the broken computers and confusing cataloging system.

Weather, Time and Fish

Well, spring is here, kind of. It does seem that we have sprung forward in time at least. But that only come through effort. After all these years of technology, the auto time shift has been achieved on clocks and computers. So now, the time change date has been altered and back into chaos we go. I have to change the time manually. No big deal right? Well, in a week or two when the normal time for time changing comes, my auto time changing will kick in. Then I will have to set time manually again; which means that I have set the time twice as opposed to once when we had less technology. Much fun!

Back to springtime fun. I got a chance to go fishing this weekend. I was blessed with enough money for a fishing license, which is quite a lot of dough in this state. I cannot get over it costing a whole lot less to get an out-of-country license in Netherlands though. But anyway, like they say, nothing is free.

I had a great time just being outdoors in the almost 90 degree weather. Of course the requisite sunburn was achieved. Only caught one small fish that I tossed back. I also had to drive around the lake to find a spot that did not cost to fish at. Which is another point of contention but I will let that one slide for now because most, if not all lakes in Texas at least have one free area.

I posted some pics from my outing this weekend.

Back in Time

I feel as though I am gone back in time; well, kind of. Back in the day, I spent hours at my computer waiting for things to happen. As the years flowed by I spent more and more time doing stuff at the computer. But now, both are occurring. One would expect to spend less time waiting for stuff to happen. But that is just not the case. Windows startup times of 5-minutes or more are back. Waiting minutes to get on the internet is once again prevalent. But now, it is more frustrating than back in the day. Back then you knew why. The computer had a processor speed of less than 100 MHz. Also, the modem was less than 1200 bauds so it was perceivably slow. But now with super fast processors superfluous internet connections, why the wait???

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