Windows to Russia
Comments came under a huge attack from a site based in Washington DC!
Cool, because it gave me an excuse to shut down the old and install a third party system and now it is on automatic. I have much better things to do than to spend hours trying to hold off attacks by zealous USA governmental issues…
I saved almost 5000 comments and they are importing into the new system as I wrote this…
Have a nice day…
Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…
I talked about how Sveta a month or more ago, wanted to learn to ride horses. Well she found a place nearby our home in Moscow and she rode for the first time since a little girl on a horse. She loves horses and I see a future in the village of raising and breeding horses…
I encourage Sveta to do anything and everything she desires…
Yes that is my girl on that huge horse and she is one happy girl…
Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…
About a week ago, Vova went on a date! With a woman! Yes an actual date…
It was set up by his friends and family. Vova had no idea they were doing such a thing, but I saw it coming and Vova was invited into a bigger village, where some of his family lives and since he thought that he was going to drink and party with family, he took the bus. Remember do not drink and drive…
I found Vova the next morning as I was going to the Big Village to do some shopping, staggering up the hill to his home. He was drunk, but happy…
So happy that he tried to tell me what happened, but he was slurring his words too much from being inebriated. But I got the jest and Vova was in love. Now I will not explain all that he said, but lets just say, she likes to kiss and he is happy with her curves and she is rich…
I let him go home to sleep it off and later after he sobered up, he came down and we sat and talked. Or I should say, Vova talked and I listened. An hour later he went home to sleep some more, but he had to tell someone about his girl and that he did many times and I was so happy to listen to him and see the smiles on his face…
With my poor command of the Russian language, everyone including Sveta sometimes wonder how I am able to communicate with Vova (Vova has a rough form of Russian to understand. Deep and guttural at times!) I told Sveta what was happening with Vova and she believes me, but is not positive that I understand all that is happening. Well Vova talked to Sveta and she found out that I know what Vova is saying. Vova and I have a connection and even in the most difficult issues of language, we can communicate and understand what is going on. We are guys and understand each other…
Sveta said that I was right, Vova is in love and wants to get married!
I said, “Vova slow down!”
I wish him the best, but I worry he will get hurt, for it has been a long time since a woman has looked at him as being worthy of glancing at. He is just a small village boy, with very little money… 😐
Vova is in love and this is how you can tell; Vova went fishing last night, he is catching fresh fish for his new love. He is going to take it to her today and present fresh caught fish, by a mighty warrior, named Vova…
I hope she does not hurt Vova, for he is a good guy and my buddy. He has been hurt in the past by women and he told me, never again. Well until the next one comes along. We will wait and see, for he lives with his heart on his sleeve…
Vova dreams of a better world for all and right now his world is perfect. That makes it all good…
Vova was serious last night, before he went fishing. First he said, he had collected 14 liters of honey from his beehives and 12 liters from a wild bee hive! 26 liters of honey in all, now that is some serious money honey. Second he said, that I was his bestes buddy and never worry about a woman getting in the way of him and I! 😉
If he had said only not to worry and nothing else, I would ignore him, but when he used it in conjunction with something as important to Russians as honey is. Then I knew he was serious, for Russians take honey serious, I mean serious…
But Vova is in love and we shall see what comes and goes…
Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…
I have been busy the last few days and now it is time to rest. The temperature is getting hot for a few days and nothing better than resting when it is too warm to work hard. I have been painting the trim on the house and all my buddies have given their opinion and thumbs up on the way the place is looking. I also have painted anything that can rust and one thing I painted is my two wheeler and the wheelbarrow has been painted also. The ladder was made by Sveta’s Father in-law many many years ago. I strengthened it and use it all the time. It is a great ladder. I also could not resist taking a snap shot of the swallows all over our power lines. They also filled our trees up and had a regular pow wow before they started their day to catch bugs…
They are good birds… 🙂
Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…
This morning as I sip a cup of coffee, we have not walked yet. It is not my fault that it is 6:30 a.m. and we still have not walked. Boza does not like the rain and he refuses to go out, well actually I gave him a choice and he politely ran back under the bed. He stuck his nose out the door and looked at me and I said yes or no? He said no…
But nature calls and after this post, we will go and walk in the rain…
Boza and I walked with the camera yesterday and gathered a few images. I decided to post a few here and you can see what Boza and I saw…
Boza found a friend first thing as we walked up the hill, whereas Boza was happy, happy, happy, his friend was hiss, hiss, hiss, so they did not party and hug each other. But as you see in the next Boza image, Boza was happy…
Everywhere are the Mountain Ash trees. The forests are full of them and the Russians do not use them for anything. They grow wild and are considered bad. I realize that there are several types of these trees, so I use the judgment of the locals and leave them alone. These seem to be extra poisonous, but back home in the Ozarks, we made jellies and jams from them…
A grumble issue of mine is the fact that we only have two working cisterns and I have found five total available in the village. One is legend to be poisoned by a disputing family/locals issue, another is buried deep in no mans land, the one shown is not working and that leaves two that still are able to be filled, most of the time…
The cisterns are a source of issues many times, as city people steal water from ours to wash their cars and many other such stupid things, as filling their kids inflatable swimming pools. 🙁 They emptied theirs up top the hill and then steal our water. I wash my car at the river, so can they and their kids can swim in the river or the lake for that matter… (I am just a grouchy bear!)
They are digging out the walls of the monastery, or at least the walls that they can still find. The wall use to go all the way around the whole monastery…
I snapped a image of a small bee that would not leave me alone. He sat on my camera as I took pictures, then flew hovering right in front of my lens. I finally snapped an image and then he left. Just like that, he left after I took his picture, “What a Ham!”
The as Boza and I walked down the hill from the tower, we saw Sasha wandering around and Olga, coming up the hill to help with an injured man at his home. She is an old lady and her daughter is way up the hill waiting and yelling at her! Some people are clueless about life. More power to Olga…
The last image is a place that I want to play. I would have when little and this image holds many memories of what I ran around as a little tyke. Everyone should have a small work barn to play around. Young or old, my grandpa and I had one…
Well that is it for today. Boza has to walk and I have to walk, even if it is raining…
Have a nice day…
Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…
Yesterday after a long walk with Boza, I came home and found a cute little window open on my computer, it gave me words of wisdom about how Windows 10 was already downloaded and ready to install???
3 gigs of my precious data used up without my permission. Interesting, who said Windows could do this?
My computer did…
The laptop that I bought last year was a version of Russian laptop that had no OS installed when I bought it. It had a version of Windows 8.1 that was not official. To keep that version, I had to buy it. Well I installed my Windows 7 and was happy about what I had to work with. Then yesterday, Microsoft decided to install Windows 10 and it was perfectly legal because my computer has a special spot in the boot sector that tells MS to go ahead…
It said, “Hey this guy needs a free OS and MS is the one to do it!”
Lucky for me it did not install, but just downloaded. Now with all that data wasted, I decided to install it and see what the hoopla is all about. But first, I backed everything up and saved all files to my external hard drive, then I burned a ISO of my original OS so that when everything crashes and dies, I still have my photos and such and I can reinstall back to original and be happy. Plus as the holy grail of protection, I have a flash drive with Windows 7 to start fresh if need be…
I did some more reading about the Windows 10, which I have been reading about for many months. For you see I am a developer with the Windows programs and have been for many years, but I never saw the collaboration at this level between a Russian/Chinese made laptop and a future MS OS release before and just now, I am seeing issues about this. Sneaky little crappolas if you ask me…
Nevertheless, I am game for any and all comeuppance and I jumped on the bandwagon, with keyboard in one hand and mouse in the other…
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Hours later: I had tamed Windows 10 and changed everything to suit my needs. I turned off all the obvious privacy issues and all the hidden privacy issues that I know about, due to Insider Developer status. But obvious after what happened earlier, we in the Insider Program are not told everything!
Therefore, I am reasonably happy with what I see; anyone who worked with the beta versions of Windows 10, are seeing some changes with the final issuance of the OS. The one complaint that I had was the color white and no options to get rid of 95% white screen, on everything, white, white and more white, or light grey at times. Going blind white… (It can be changed, to black, but that is beyond most peoples realm. I changed mine…)
I was ready for this ignored suggestion of mine (give us some color) and I have a hacked theme that overrides the original themes and tells Windows 10 to become purple borders and other whatnot’s, with a flare of the basic Aero design…
Then I hacked the start menu and told it to be good and get rid of all the Metro crap. I brought back the Windows 7 menu and became happy at that point. Not ecstatic, but happy…
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I am on my second cup of coffee as I think about Windows 10. As you see I am functioning and everything is working good. I still have a few things to work the bugs out of, such as the Windows 10 Explorer File manager. The new one just sucks. I will have the old one in its original format back and I had to hack the calculator to even get a link to use it. Now that is sad when the simple wonderful, used everyday calculator is removed and a trashy piece of huge junk Metro Style is implemented in place of it… Uggggrrrr!
MS gives us 30 days to think about how much we love Windows 10, if we fall out of love within 30 days of installation, there is a simple click button to revert. After 30 days, Sorry Charley…
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Will I keep it?
Most likely, since I already spent many hours working with a virtual version of the same OS. I like it, but it has to be tamed. It will tell on you, it will invade your privacy and it will try to do everything for you. Now that part I do not like, but, 95% of people installing this new Windows 10 will love it to death till they part. It is taking the work out of computing and allowing the humans to go brain dead, as everything is being set up to make decisions based on your past excursions on the web and within your own computer system. Soon you will just become a data blip in the masses who are online. No thinking and no imagination. You will be told what to do and you will do it…
Now that is the serious issue at hand…
Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…
PS: I told Sveta not to install it! I told her to leave updates turned off at home. What works works and at home she is happy. If this is allowed to install at our home in Moscow, Sveta will be a grouchy girl…
That I do not want…
Sveta is going to be grouchy with me over this, but we do what we have to do and that I will do…
I told no one and fought it with no one! That is the only way to break addictions for me and sometimes, it gets lonely when you break them. For if you do not do it for yourself, then you will never break the addiction…
For 12 years I have taken beta-blockers for my heart. It has caused weight gain, sluggishness and many other issues. Including dizziness, tiredness, blurred vision, cold hands and feet, slow heartbeat, diarrhea and nausea and that is not all the effects…
I took them and never complained, I took them, then I kept reading about them and I read about what is now being said and found out about the beta-blockers. I broke them and walked away; regardless of right and wrong…
The village helped me in all this. The village I live in is a healing village and I am going to take full advantage of that fact…
I can attest for withdrawal symptoms, such as sweating, shaking and mood alteration. I also found a peaking of anxiety and it even entered dreams at night. Such as dreams of death and dying. I will tell you that with my past, dreams of death are common, but not of your own death and that is what I dealt with for weeks…
I was taking two pills a day and I went to one pill a day at night. That alleviated the dreams and most symptoms during the first week. Then after one week of one pill, I dropped them completely and spent two weeks struggling. The fourth week I am in now, is going good and I am done…
I kicked beta-blockers out of my life and the side effects are gone…
Have a nice day…
Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…
It is like a roller coaster, we go from 3 hours of darkness to 8 hours in just a few weeks. The tilt of the earth does that and for us summer is done. There will still be a few days of warmer weather, but with the night galloping upon us at a furious pace; cold will settle soon and its icy grip is already starting to enter into the nights…
Last night I had to actually use a blanket and I saw that the temperature reach down to 10 degrees Celsius above zero. I also see that we have a few days of about 30 plus coming, though in Russia, they joke about how the weather man is the only person who can keep his job and be wrong all the time… 🙂
I am going to talk to Sveta about me getting a weather station to install at the village home. They are not that expensive from China and I know that they work good, I have used them before. Accuracy is not perfect, but for basics they work very good. I want to be able to keep tabs on the weather fluctuations, even if the internet stops working…
Sveta surprised me yesterday; she called me and told me that, “I need to pick red or black!”
“Red or black what?”, I asked..
Then she said that she is buying a camera for me. A compact Olympus with 24X optical zoom. It is small enough to fit in my pocket and it cost less than $80 American money, or 5000 rubles. She bought the camera I wanted for almost three times less (12900 rubles) than what I can buy it for in the Big Village. Cameras are expensive down here; that proves my point…
I answered, “Black please!”
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The above news also means something else for me! It means Sveta is coming to see me soon! Yippy and yippy yea. I miss my girl…
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Time to go! I am going to the Big Village and see what is up!
Have a nice day…
Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…
Paris transferred over 1.1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) to a Russian bank as compensation for terminating the deal to deliver two Mistral-class helicopter carriers to the Russian Navy…
Glad that is done and if you remember correctly, I expressed dissatisfaction about the deal back in 2010. They are total junk and worthless for Russian needs…
Junk, I say, Junk…
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The Russian Navy will receive 17 warships and cutters, as well as 52 support vessels by the end of 2015, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Monday… (Sputnik)
Now for fact that I have said a dozen times. Russia just verified that they are building warships as fast as they can. Every shipyard is working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year. Between submarines and warships, Russia is building its naval fleet big time. Russia and China are getting ready for war and they are going to take it to the west, when the west starts its shenanigans…
Do not say, “But you never told us!”
Have a nice day…
Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…
I was gonna go to town, I was gonna rest and goof off, I was gonna cut the grass and I was gonna clear some more brush. Instead, I am gonna putty and paint the windows today. That is what I am gonna do…
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This is a new crop duster to the valley. It is one noisy little thing and it gets the job done. But at 5 a.m., I think a few neighbors are going to be grouchy today. I took pictures, a neighbor who is 76 years old; jump up and down for joy at the little craft and my other neighbor stood mesmerized as the craft went back and forth weaving a pattern over the local field. I decided to grab the camera and take some images before it disappeared and a hundred shots later, he left…
I was jumping up and down also, for flying is to be a bird in the sky and that my friend, is freedom…
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Introducing, Momma Eagle:
Boza and I had the extreme pleasure of meeting Momma Eagle this morning. We walked to our favorite spot to sit and we came within 5 meters of Momma Eagle. She saw us and we saw her at the same time, we all froze and no one moved. Boza who delights in chasing ravens and smaller birds, just froze…
She did not move and run, but she expanded her wings and I swear to all that I have sworn to before. She has at least a 7 foot wingspan. This is a monstrous bird and we stood there looking at each other, for we have seen each other all summer long and we know each other, just not so close, until now…
I wish I could record what I was seeing and the day we can have an implant to record exactly what we see is here, I will think seriously about such a implant. As it was, I was able to get the camera going fast enough, when she decided to leave, and got two images…
Mamma Eagle just stared at us, as if curious and we the same back, then after what seemed like an eternity that lasted seconds and I could see into her golden eyes with tiny black centers pinpointed as she looked into the sun at us. She let out a skrill noise as I call it. That was when Boza answered back…
Boza barks very little and in this case he barked once and only once, as Momma Eagle skrilled at us, Boza let out the biggest bark he has ever done. He told Momma Eagle that him and his daddy are no push overs. 🙂
He stood on the hill behind me looking down at her and had a perfect point at the eagle. She skrilled again and in an effortless movement of her wings, she lifted up and out over the lake. I was hitting the on button on the camera and all I got was two images of an encounter that was originally 5 meters, images at 100 meters, but I know Boza and I will never forget Momma Eagle as she talked to us at our favorite sitting spot…
Boza then came to me after she left and wiggled and wiggled and wiggled, as I told him what a good boy he is…
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Well that is our morning here in the village. It simply is as good as it gets and now I am going to paint…
Have a nice day…
Post by Kyle Keeton
Windows to Russia…