Category: Scotties Rants / Blog Information

Where has Scottie been, what has this week devolved into

Hello All you grand and wonderful people.   I think I am mostly back, except I may drop out for a while this afternoon while Ron puts up new shelves over my computer spot in the living room.  My desk is far too crowded and it started to cause things to get knocked over and off the desk.  It got really annoying after the second soda spill.   

Using the time machine lets go back to Wednesday when all of the commotion and destruction started.   We won’t need the way back machine Mr. Peabody as it is only last Wednesday even though it seems a lifetime ago.   

Last Wednesday started out really well, I got up early because I couldn’t sleep, and started right in on some computer work.    When Ron got up and had coffee we went for a walk.   That was when the first part of the trouble started.   It was a nice walk but we cut it short and went home.  My heart rate during the walk started spiking then just stayed up.  I was running on average about 118 BPM.  The spikes were higher.   I used to have a heart rate problem where I ran between 120 and 130 all the time with spikes into the 140s to 150s.  Seriously not good.  I was very short of breath a lot.   They put me on some medications that brought my pulse and blood pressure down and normally I run about 72 at rest.   I run high when I exercise but normally it goes back down and was over time lowering as I keep up the daily walks.  But I had to stop for a time due to pain.  Well that Wednesday it only went down to 95 and kept hovering around 101.   Ron was getting upset because he said I was white / very pale with no color in my face.  I was really not feeling well, so I went to bed for most of the day.   I got up at about 4PM.   That was the start of the rest of the trouble that hit.  

I had ordered two 500 GB Solid State Drives, one SSD for each computer.   I had upgraded the video cards in both computers and the one computer had a small SSD that made it faster and not get bogged down when a lot of stuff was running as the operating system was on the SSD and the data / programs on a 1 TB HD.  The problem was the SSD in the newer computer that I call my blogging computer was small, it is only a 128, and windows took up a large portion of the drive by itself and even though I shifted as many programs as possible to the other hard drive the fact was that with the ones that cannot be shifted the drive was almost full which was limiting the page filing and other systems.   Plus I was worried it was slowing down the operation of the security systems to have it running on a separate drive from the OS.   I ordered the SSDs, cables, and one carrier / cage / tray holder for the SSD that I wanted to put in the video computer.  The video computer did not come with an SSD drive so it had no place to put one or cables set up.  So I had everything to do the improvements.  

I wanted to dive right in.  Ron was worried I had not felt well all day and even though my heart rate was back to a more normal rate and my color had returned, he figured it had a lot to do with the fact I spent the day in bed, and he did not want me getting all deep and excited over the new parts and computer issues.   I assured him it was a simple matter and I would let him carry the computers and help me.   I should have let him also unhook the wires but that also makes him nervous so I got down on the floor and crawled under the table desk (much easier than a normal desk, it is higher and more open) to unhook the cables / wires.  Then crawled out while Ron put the computer on the counter.   

I started with the video computer as I figured it would be the hardest as it needed the new case / tray for the SSD to sit in and new data wire plugged into the board to the new drive.   After I opened it up Ron took the opportunity to again clean any speck of dust or cat fur from the computer, he is seriously good at cleaning and I hate to do it so he cleans the computers but I have to open them up and remove the things he wants to clean.   Division of labor in a good marriage / relationship.     While most of the computer was really clean already the input ports needed a little work according to Mr. Clean.   I had to try put the new SSD in the tray several ways to see what worked best for the plugs and for setting it in the hardware.   I got it all done, plugged in, everything went great.  I had to remove the graphics card and the memory to get to the motherboard plug spots, but all seemed good when I put everything back in.    Ron carried it over to the desk, and I got under it to plug it in.   So far so good.   I went under the other side of the desk and got the other computer unhooked for Ron, then while he set it on the counter, I started the video computer we just added the drive to and set Windows to installing on the new drive, wiping out the old windows on the now second hard drive that used to be the only drive.   

That was the mistake I made that cost me three days of trouble and another $200 dollars.  I started the install on the video computer, then went to work putting the new SSD drive in the blogging computer that already had a smaller SSD.  I figured that would be easier, and it was but it still took time.   I had forgotten how much faster the new SSD was than the old platter hard drive and the video computer finished the first part of the install before I even got the second case fully open.  No problem I thought, I have done this install thing and seen that green next step screen so many times I figured I had lots of time to respond, the computer couldn’t move forward until I clicked somethings and set the settings for it.   

Ron and I ignored it and kept working on the blogging computer and when we got done, as I was putting the case together and the side cover on I noticed the screen on the video computer had gone dark.   I told Ron that was unusual as I never seen it time out on this part of the install but then I never let it wait this long.  First clue I screwed up.   But I figured I could just get the screen back.   Nope, second clue I screwed up.   Ron put the blogging computer under the desk and I crawled under to hook it up.   At this point I had done a lot of bending, crawling, and standing.  All things on the try not to do list with my destroyed spine.   (yes the MRIs showed the problem areas in the lower spine have progressed / worsened but no more than mild damage to the upper / neck area spine.  I need to have the middle spine done someday) So I needed extra pain medication.   It all gets worse.   

I only have the one newer Windows install USB.  I have about 4 more older ones, and each computer keeps its own Windows key code so I can use the few years older Windows stick to install it and then it will update and install the active key code from the hardboard / bios.   So I figured I better finish the install of the video computer.   Only I couldn’t get the screen back.   Even on restart none of the bio checks (yes I run full bios checks with on screen display) did not display and even though the computer showed starting there was no screen display.  Ok.  This seems as a graphics problem so I take the HDMI cable from the graphics card and move it to the onboard intel HD graphics port.   The screen comes to life.   Oh shit.  I had just paid earlier in the year $220 Plus for these two cards.   They were working great.   I went into trouble shooting mode.   First thing is to see if I hooked everything up correctly inside the case and if I seated the card correctly.   I went under the desk, unhooked everything and Ron carried it to the counter.   I took the case apart to open it and took the graphics card out to check it.  It was warm.  So it was getting power.   It must have been inserted in the slot correctly.   I checked all the motherboard connections and everything was tight and good.   I put it together and closed the case up, Ron carried it to the desk and I again went under to hook it up.   It was getting harder each time, and I was starting to really hurt.   I started the computer and still no display on the card from the HDMI port but the motherboard graphics HDMI worked.   So the next step is to check the other display port types from the card.  The card has a 1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a. So I tried the DisplayPort.   No good.   At this point there is not reason to check the DVI output even though I have the cables.

I had a choice at this point.  It was getting late, about 11 o’clock.  Ron wanted me to go to bed, but when I have a computer issue I cannot stop or rest, so I took more pain pills and made a choice.  See at this point I could switch the video cards between the computers as they are the same card, then I could install the Windows OS on the computers using the video computers motherboard display and hope the windows updating the graphics drivers would trip the card to working again.  I decided to do that.  

I got windows installed and updated on both computers.  I kept going under the desk to change the video cable to the monitor to see if the video card had started working on the video computer.   Finally at 2:30 AM Thursday morning I went to bed, very upset and full of pain medication.  I got up 3 hours later and went back to work.  The blogging computer was working fine, it was updating and I was ready to start installing programs on it, so I decided to concentrate on the video computer and the not working video card.   I started up in the bios and went through it line by line, changing things I felt would help, but it made no difference no matter how I tried to force the bios to see the card it failed.  I cleaned up the installations I had made, dumped the computer and installed Windows OS again.   For the 5th time I think.

When Ron got up I explained that the only option left was to unhook both computers and take the working graphics card out of the blogging computer and try it in the video computer and put the bad card in the blogging computer.   If it worked it would tell us it was the card that had gone bad, if not it would be the motherboard slot or other motherboard issue.    I again much slower and much more painfully crawled under the desk and unhooked the connections from both computers.    Ron put them on the counter and I opened them up and swapped the video card from one to the other and closed them up.   Ron replaced them and I crawled under the desk again to hook them up.   This time the bad card was in the blogging computer and when I turned it on the graphics came up with the strangest matrix style green lines of crap, then settled into the normal screens but totally messed up.  Looked like a snowstorm of dots all over the screen.   The other computer came up on the graphic card and once I installed the driver and programs it worked perfectly.  (later I learned after installing a heat recording program that the motherboard heat sensor was not working either) When I removed the bad graphics card from the blogging computer (see the steps detailed above and repeat them with a lot more stiffness and pain) the card was very hot, which it shouldn’t normally have been for that short period of time, not working, and it has dual fans.   

So now I had my answers.   It seems that when I left the video computer setting on the first windows install screen it let the computer / video card overheat.   It had not done that before because I never let it sit there at that point for any length of time.   Either that or two different things died at the same time, the video card and the motherboard heat sensor.  But it makes no difference, I am left with two working computers and only one working graphics card.   I left it in the video computer as that needs the dedicated graphics more.     I do need good graphics on the blogging computer as I really need a clear crisp screen for my eyes.  

Ron and I talked about it.   Right now I am running the blogging computer off the motherboard graphics and it is causing a few problems but I can deal with them if need be for a while.   At this time of year funds are short with gifts and end of year donations to the things we feel are important causes to help with, such as food banks and doctors without borders to name a couple.   But the good news is that for some reason Amazon has the same graphics card I bought before on sale for $175 dollars, about a $50 dollars savings from when I bought them.   I had to think did I want to try to get a more powerful or more featured card for more money or get one I know worked well for my systems that I had no issues with.   I decided to go with the same card that will cost less.  The rest of the day was spent downloading and installing programs and updates, and doing tweaks as needed.  As for the card, it was doing what I needed before, why not stay with it?

I went to bed early Thursday late afternoon.   I was beyond tired and very sore almost sick, my stomach starting to revolt from the pain medication.  I slept hard until I got up with Ron late Friday morning for me.   I was in so much pain I could hardly walk.  I was in trouble pain wise.   Even though the computers were ready to use I couldn’t sit in my chair for long.  I couldn’t think due to pain brain fog taking more and more medication to handle the pain.   I finally gave up.  Friday was a wash, I went to bed and stayed there.   I got up later in the day and tried to do some stuff, only to return to bed.  

Which brings us to now, today Saturday now afternoon.   I woke up at 3 AM but Ron was not having a good night so I stayed in bed until 5 AM.   I started watching stuff on the video computer and trying to catch up on news.   I did some posting and then started writing this.   It has been interrupted many times, oh crap like dozens of times to do other things.   I found out from Ron about 10 AM we have a neighborhood Christmas get together between 3 and 6 PM.   I really don’t feel like it, Ron says I don’t have to go.   But he went to the last one at Thanksgiving and I stayed home.  I don’t want people to think I just don’t like them, yet I will most likely bored out of my mind.   I really want to stay here now that the computers are working and catch up on news / videos and comments / things I want to post.    I have gotten weird about get togethers.   I just don’t want to go to them much anymore.  I would rather be with the computers and you all.   Anyway that is why I have been gone and done little posting the last 4 days.   I am going to go lay down, and this evening do some comment answering.   Hugs, loves, and best wishes.   

I just talked to ron as he was getting ready to go over.   I explained how I felt.   He says I don’t need to go, he feels I should stay home.  I reminded him he has gone to many events here in the past decades that I wanted him to go to when I was VP of the homeowners board.  Ron says that was different.   I offered to go and after introductions and small talk leave, but he thinks it will be better if I just stay home.   Sadly this bothers me but I want to do this.    Hugs

 

Schools Are Forcing Poor Students Into ROTC Classes

Schools Are Forcing Poor Students Into ROTC Classes

Sorry just got up at 4:30 PM.    I slept most of the day.   No I am not sure why I am so tired again.  Ron is going to get me the B+ complex the endocrinologist said I need that I stopped taking.  My next labs with him will check those levels.   Just took my blood sugar to have supper, 283.   No that is not good.  yes it could explain why I was so sleepy.  No it was not that high this morning.   No I did not eat anything to do that (donuts, cakes, pies, sweets of any kinds are off limits to Scottie) Just had a small supper, but the insulin is surging through me and I want to go back to bed.   And I am sweating.   When the insulin and blood sugar are surging to battle in my body I sweat, and sweat, and sweat … regardless of the temp in the house.  I am so sleepy again.   Hugs

On to the story, why are the poor black kids being shoved into the J.R.O.T.C. programs?  Really asking why poor kids, and black kids are being shoved without being asked or even allowed to get out of these military programs?  Something really is wrong in the US.   Hugs

The New York Times reports:

J.R.O.T.C. programs, taught by military veterans at some 3,500 high schools across the country, are supposed to be elective, and the Pentagon has said that requiring students to take them goes against its guidelines. But The New York Times found that thousands of public school students were being funneled into the classes without ever having chosen them, either as an explicit requirement or by being automatically enrolled.

A review of J.R.O.T.C. enrollment data collected from more than 200 public records requests showed that dozens of schools have made the program mandatory or steered more than 75 percent of students in a single grade into the classes. A vast majority of the schools with those high enrollment numbers were attended by a large proportion of nonwhite students and those from low-income households, The Times found.

Read the full article.

Bert_Bauer • 7 hours ago

The unofficial poverty draft is now confirmed as official.

Tomcat • 7 hours ago

INDOCTRINATION and GROOMING.

DevilDog • 7 hours ago • edited

So according to the right wing, it’s illegal for schools to teach Critical Race Theory (whatever that is), and universities may not use race as a criterion, not even to ensure a ethnically diverse student body.

But this shit is legal???

Smith_90125 • 7 hours ago

And most of those kids are the ones that MOST need to learn Critical Race Theory. Forced military indoctrination is intended to prevent that.

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Coloring the posts

Hello all you grand people.   I recently asked how people felt about the colors I use on the different paragraphs on things I post.   And I enjoyed all the feedback I got, learned some things, and realized something about why I do the coloring.   

First is the fact that when I write my own thoughts before the subject post or like this, I use bold and the color blue.   Why do I do that?   Because I love the color blue and the bold helps me read it.    As I thought about why I do that I figured out that the coloring started because of my trouble reading the articles on the screen.   I have better vison the last couple years as my eye doctor figured out that I needed prisms in my glasses, but my vision still is not great.    I use 34 inch screens and rarely use my phone for anything I can do on the computers.   That is why I did not know that the phone / tablet WordPress app changed how the posts looked.  I started the coloring of paragraphs because the theme I was using had a light grey for the main type and I struggled to read it, so I changed the colors.   Then I found that when I would read an article I wanted to share I would get more out of each paragraph as I went through the article and colored each different paragraph with different colors.  The information made more of an impression as I went over it again to add the colors.   

As I read the replies it was Barry’s reply that gave me the key I needed.  See I want people to read / watch what I share but I also realize that my many interests are not shared by everyone else weird as that may seem, and people will read different posts based on their own interests or opinions on subjects.   Barry pointed out that those that don’t like the colored versions of my posts can read them in both the WP reader and the WP app on phones and tablets.  I did check and if you use a browser to open my blog you still get the colors.   That also helped me decide.   

I have decided to keep using colors in my posts.  Not only do they help me to read the posts and some people liked them such as Jill and Ali, but as I mentioned those that don’t like the colors have ways to read the posts without them.   But most importantly, as those who responded reminded me, it is my blog and it is an expression of my own creativity not just on content but how the content is displayed.  I like the colors.   I like the one queer news blog I go to that when you highlight the text the paragraphs change colors similar to when I do it.  I think it sets my blog apart from a sea of other ones.   

I really want to thank everyone that replied to my questions on both colors and other things on my blog.  If no one read it, I doubt I would put so much work into it.   Really I can read and watch stuff a lot faster if I was not trying to share so much of it, but I really enjoy the sharing of things.   Got to run, I have a saved bunch of stories to read and maybe post.   Best wishes and Hugs to all.   Scottie

OT but important.   Some people for their own reasons struggle with the idea of hugs at the end of my posts and comments.   Please understand these are not sexual hugs but emotional virtual hugs to express support and caring for others.   It is like the family hugs at holiday get together.   Those who know me understand that growing up I rarely received non-sexual positive touch and as an adult I realize how it affected me and much I missed out on not having it.   After I became an adult and got used to being touched nicely and non-sexually, I realized how positive, how great it made me feel.    I really enjoy the touch on the arm, the pat on the back, the simple nice contact with others who don’t require or demand something from me.  I think there is a reason many cultures have these kinds of contact between people socially.   That said if it upsets you when I reply to your comments by ending with these types of hugs, please let me know.   I will try to remember and not to use the virtual hugs, but instead simply give best wishes.   I may sometimes goof and still give hugs but please forgive that it is not a deliberate attempt to disregard your feelings.  People and their feelings are important to me.    Best wishes / Hugs

 

An update on my day yesterday

Hello Wonderful people.   For those like Nan who keep telling me to step back from the news and the blog, today you got your way.   During the night last night (that would have been Thursday night to Friday morning) as I laid awake from before 2 AM I thought about the plans Ron had to go to 6 stores to get the soda I love and drink all day.

Side point I got used to drinking non-caffeine diet soda and Ron demanded it not have aspartame in it.   He found an RC cola named Diet Rite that had Splenda instead and for years he bought me that.   Then it got really hard to get, so he also looked into other store brands, and he found that Publix store brand caffeine free diet soda also had no aspartame and to me it tasted just like the RC diet rite soda.  See I cannot stand most diet sodas, they have a horrible after taste to them, take a sip and after it goes past the tongue and you swallow it comes back with a huge bitter taste.  I won’t drink them.  

But just like the RC Diet Rite the Public soda has suddenly become hard to get.   We are not sure why as all the other public soda is on the shelves.   Because it has become so hard to get, anytime people find it they take all of it on the shelves.   I don’t blame them as I do the same thing.  It has to be something to production of just that one kind, maybe it is made by the same company that makes the RC cola.  I am sure it is not just the universe watching which soda I like then tightening the supply to drive me crazier than normal.  

New day got up seriously late at 8 AM.   

Let me finish with my day yesterday.   I decided I would go with Ron to the stores.   That took until noon.   When we got home neither of us diabetics had eaten and since we bought hamburger, I made up some tacos.  I love tacos and like anything I cook I dash it up with my own additives.  Family seems to love it.    Then we went for a nap.  Only I did not get up until five o’clock.   I started to do some computer stuff but then the subject of supper came up.  Ron said he did not want to cook and reminded me he had asked me to make a tomato red sauce for spaghetti and other pastas for a few days.  So I did.   I have a thing about tomato red sauce, I feel it doesn’t have to taste the same every time.  In fact I don’t want it to.   This time I did not want a sweet basil taste so I went very light on the basil, a tad heavier on the oregano, lighter on the garlic even though we all love garlic here, sage as I did not want sausage in the sauce, more of the secondary seasonings.   I wanted a very smooth sauce so I used less hamburger and cooked it in the tomato base and chopped the vegetables very fine, making a very smooth light sauce.   I did not put in tomato paste which I normally do as we like a thicker sauce normally and it adds a deeper tomato flavor.  I added black pepper but no salt, again slight changes that make a large taste difference.   Then I let it cool and put the entire pot in the refrigerator for the night.  Then Ron made homemade meatballs but while I normally cook them in the tomato sauce instead this time I had him bake them first to drain any oils off so I wouldn’t need any tomato paste.   By the time I was done it was very late for me and I had taken extra medications all day to keep going all day.   That is why I slept so late.   

 Ron loved having me engaged in tasks with him instead of being on the computers reading / watching news and dealing with my blog.   However again it put me another day behind on comments.  And I might need to sleep a lot today for all the extra activity and extra medications.   Going out with Ron to the stores was a way to break the rut I had gotten into about not leaving the house.  Like the tomato red sauce life it best when it is not always the same.   It needs to have different flavors by changing up the amounts of each ingredient.    Hugs

 

Another blog question

I think I asked this question before but I can not find the post to see the comments.  Sorry I am buried with things I need to do, you should see my white board there is very little white space left.   

My question is about the paragraphs and my changing their colors to make them stand out.    I started that because the old theme was so pale it was hard for me to read.   I see this done on other blogs and I like the look, so I do it for most posts.   What do you think, does the colors make it easier to read or harder?   Should I continue to do it or just leave the quoted parts the color they are?  This time I will remember to check this for comments.   Thanks.   Hugs

Good news / bad news

Good morning everyone, all you grand people who come to my playtime.    I slept last night, the entire night.  Yes!  That is great news because it has been three days of sleepless nights.    Bad news is I have MRIs on my spine this morning.   Now I don’t mind MRIs, the machines don’t bother me.  However I have gotten to where I don’t like to leave the house.   The drive to get to the MRI place is miserable first thing in the morning this time of year.   There are people going to work and that has swelled during season.  The MRI place is just above on the other side of the road from a school and hospital outpatient center.  I will have to leave a lot early just to get there.  It is driving my anxiety over the top.  I never used to be this way I would jump in the truck and drive anywhere without even looking at a map.   But now I get upset to simply go anywhere.   As I told Ron everything I want is right here at / in my home.   But I have to go this morning so I will.   I will see everyone when I get back.   Hugs

OT.  The last time I had an MRI I had private insurance from Ron’s employer.    Then it cost me out of pocket either 600 or 800 I forget.   But it was very costly, and I was having them every two years.  So I have been putting off having them because of cost.   This time I have to have it, so I was willing to bite the bullet and pay the costs.   Yet when I found out the out of pocket cost for a person on Medicare I was stunned.   For two MRIs my entire out of pocket cost will be … $84 dollars.   Yes only $84 dollars.   We need Medicare for all now!    Hugs

Weird messages.

This is what I am trying to understand and fix.   The other day it said What are you wearing.    I dumped and cleaned both computers, I turned on two step verification and instead of fixing the issue I managed to lock out a 1TB hard drive and lose the recovery partition on the main blogging computer’s SSD.  So far I am losing the war here with this.   I have wrote to WordPress to see what they can find out for me.    Hugs

weird wordpress message.

 

Question about categories on the blog

I am interested in the viewers’ opinion of the categories I use to sort posts.   I got into a big mess with my first blog where I had such a long list of categories / subjects I was frustrated having to go through such an awfully extensive list of categories.    When I started this blog at first I was not going to have categories and then decided to bunch them up to make the list of choices short.   But that has led to categories that have two or more different subjects such as Animals / Children / Food being used for only one of those subjects leading people to wonder where the other two are in the post.    Is this confusing for you the wonderful readers of the posts?   Would it be better to expand the categories to single issues / subjects or just stop using them at all?  Let me know.   Hugs

Let me explain. Or why I got to bed early.

Yesterday … was a good day really.   I hope everyone had a great holiday if you celebrate it, and a great day generally if you don’t.  I woke up at around 1 AM and dosed on and off in short bursts which Ron was doing also.  We kept telling each other that we were going to get up then drift off to sleep for a short bit only to wake up and watch the clock for the next 45 minutes.    But I did get up at 6.  

I got Ron up at 8 and I got showered and headed out for my blood work.   Everything came back good except my triglycerides are high, as are most peoples.   That is because I eat a lot of bread and pasta and always have.  Yes I am diabetic, yes all my doctors tell me to eat other things.   Here is a secret I learned in childhood.  Fruits and vegetables are only safe to eat if covered in frosting, chocolate, or other super sweet substances.   Otherwise fruits and vegetables are toxic to the human body.   I will eat a couple vegetables like corn (never creamed) and lettuce, I love mushrooms, and I love tomato based red sauce, which is a fruit, right! Anyway I have a narrow set of foods I like and one of my favorites is pasta and tomato sauce.   

I ate spaghetti & sauce at noon, got tired and at 1 PM went to lay down for a nap.  Ron joined me for a couple hour nap.   Got up at 3 PM and puttered around until about 6:30, when I helped Ron make a new batch of spaghetti (yes three meals in a row but Ron did not feel like getting groceries yesterday and our choices were limited, plus for me as I said I love tomato sauce and pastas in different configurations such as baked ziti or lasagna.  The great thing about tomato sauce is it doesn’t have to be the same each time, you can season it differently and it still tastes great.  We make it in big batches of like around 5 quarts at a time) I recently had trigger point injections which help me greatly but mess my blood sugar up badly, makes them go very high.  So I had to take a larger than normal amount of insulin and ate the pasta, the two chemicals fought each other in my body.   I got really tired.

And now we get to the point of all the words taking up space above.  By 7 or 8 at night I normally cannot stay awake.  I have found that if I go lay down for an hour or more and get back up I am OK, but most days I did what I did last night.   I went to bed after helping Ron pick up, around 7:30 PM.  I slept great until 2 AM and laid there tossing and turning basically awake until I got up at 5 AM

The point is that one of the reasons I don’t seem to get much done on the blog / computer these days is I am spending a lot of my time in bed.  I take strong medications that cause sleepiness and being tired, often I have to lay down due to pain levels, add to that the blood sugar issues and you get someone who spends a lot of time napping or laying down.   I need to start getting up at 2 Am which is when I normal seem to wake up.   That would give me more time to get things done.    Anyway just wanted everyone to know.   Hugs