Kirk M on November 23rd, 2007

About this time up here in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, the annual tradition of putting up the plastic on the windows takes place. Through storm windows and sashes, the cold of the northern winter will find it’s way through without fail, chilling the bones and upping the fuel bill to amounts unbelievable.
So with [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on November 22nd, 2007

Happy Thanksgiving to all from the Northeast Kingdom!
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Kirk M on November 21st, 2007

Okay, I’ve loaded up all the essentials: The browser, the email client, all the stuff I need for blogging and tools thereof, all four .Net Frameworks, plugins, Java, various players and all the updates needed…pant-pant-pant…
Can I read the news now? Huh…can I? Okay! Good!
So far it’s running like I just installed a fresh, updated OS [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on November 21st, 2007

My PC gets slammed by a “virus bomb” and had to rebuild the OS from scratch including all my mail. Read more »

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Kirk M on November 19th, 2007

My computer has just been wiped out by a rather severe virus attack rendering the darn thing unusable. All documents, mail etc are gone.
It is my hope that I can reload the OS but it’s only a fifty-fifty chance at best. Because of this, I won’t be able to post to this blog for a [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on November 19th, 2007

Back on November 3rd I put up a small post about abandoned Cold War missile silos referencing an original article at WebUrbanist. And after the post had been published, Laurie and I began wondering if there were any of these early Cold War Missile silos had ever planted here in Vermont or anywhere within [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on November 18th, 2007

Life for me has drastically changed since my disabilities took me out of the workforce altogether and it certainly has reflected here at Just Thinkin. Unfortunately at this point in time I’m rather hung up in limbo while I wait for several words from the VA, one of which whether or not they increase my [...] Read more »

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Kirk M on November 18th, 2007

I have to say that picture in my previous post is very annoying but not enough for me to remove it. And no–that isn’t me. I also have a few more teeth than that but still nothing to crow about.
I’ll be back later on with something more substantial but that’s the beauty of personal blog [...] Read more »

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