Friday My Day, Woodrow & the Supreme Court

Friday...my day...the one day of the week that I set aside just for myself. No appointments, no schedules, no activities unless it suits me. Supposed to be relaxing, but it was anything but this morning. Got up this morning, turned on the computer and - page cannot be displayed - or some such message no matter what website I tried to go to. Spent two - three hours investigating and trying different thing and I had come to the conclusion that the problem was with Internet Explorer (since the laptop computer worked ok - internet and all) on my main PC. Then for reasons I have yet to fathom I disabled my Norton Internet Security program and viola! problem solved. Further researched revealed that the Norton Firewall was blocking my access (and still is...sigh), so I turned the Norton Firewall off completely/permanently and turned on the Windows XP firewall, then ran a Security Check (from the Symantec website) and I passed. The first time without any firewall enabled I failed. So now I have the Windows Firewall activated and Norton Internet Security - without their firewall. At least I have access now and can take my time figuring out the problem. And the computer remains protected and so forth.

There has been some activity at the old shed...possible Woodrow has reaered his ugly head, then quite possible gravity or nature just cause my makeshift wall blocking an entrance to the shed to crumble. So I have reinforced it and restored it's function and we'll see if anything changes. So far though I haven't seen any sign of Woodrow. If I do...then I'll flood the burrow again...actually I should go out and clean up inside the shed, fill in the hole etc and see what happens. Hmmm maybe lay some chicken wire down on the floor and cinder blocks to hold it down around the entrance...not today though...maybe tomorrow.

My garden continues to grow...and grow...and grow...just isn't yet producing anything other then lettuce. I pulled two sections of peas out - they were not really producing and they are a pain - and replaced them with pole beans...regular pole beans and flat italian pole beans. The other pole beans in the garden are outgrowing the trellis's...they are 16 - 18 feet high and need to be 20- 25 feet I guess...but that isn't going to happen. At least I have blossums on the cukes, bush beans, zucchini, and tomatoes of course...I have little green tomatoes and at least one green pepper.

It will be sad to see Sandra Day O'Conner leave the Supreme Court - just heard a few minutes ago that she announced she was retiring. Actually I would have liked to see her become the Chief Justice, as she in my opinion was one of the few Justices on the bench who used common sense in deciding the cases. Now we'll have to wait and see if there is a battle over the next nominee, especially if there is more than one...the Chief Justice could still retire and some of the other Justices are getting up there in years. Unfortunately what we need - more moderate/centertrist judges we probably won't get - we don't need ultra conservatives nor ultra liberals on the bench...we need people who will take a common sense approach to cases before the bench. Sigh, it is going to be a long summer...