AllThingsMike Blog Diary

Saturday, June 18, 2005

New post

Saturday, June 19, 2004

I believe this link will most probably be to the New Xanga Blog.
I like the interface better, and so far I have created a pretty neat "site" in far less time than I ever could here at Blogspot. So for now the link to here will end with this entry, and all further entries will be created in Xanga for a while.

Xanga Site LINK HERE.

¶ 3:09 PM Michael Nyiri

Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Should be in bed. It's 10:30pm California time. And I'm blogging. Drank(quite a few, 4) beers tonight, and I'm still not sleepy. Insomnia again? I hope not.
Going crazy on Yahoo groups lately. My own, ElectricPoetry, has about 25 members and over 100 posts a week. I have to keep on top, and I'm answering every post in depth. I'm also rather active on PoetCircle and Ticket2Write. And the always amazing "friendship group" Over the Hill2, which has so many members I take two hours just reading, and three when I decide to post my novel sized replies. The poetry groups is all cut/paste/admire and I go off on lots of tangents with the gang at Over the Hill 2.
The reason why I am blogging "instantaneously" is because Joel went in for his third chemotherapy, and he began feeling the "numbness" in his fingers and arms, and when he went to the refrigerator, the cold affected him. Both these symptoms were related to him by the doctors, but since they are only now happening, it is a bit of a shock to him, I can tell.
He didn't drink too much tonight. (I did) Because of the coldness of the drink in his mouth. I told him it's too bad I don't know where to get the old maryhooney. I understand that's good for the nausea, although Joel only has felt a tinge of a stomachache, but that's what started the whole thing in the first place. I wrote the first entry of my poem series "The Cancerboy Diaries"

¶ 10:31 PM Michael Nyiri

Friday, June 11, 2004

Here it is June 11, and I have been forgetting the Journal entries because I have been so active in groups. I have joined a "friends" group called "Over the Hill" and have made lots of friends, and driven a lot of folks from there over to AllThingsMike and ElectricPoetry. My roommate has gone through his second chemotherapy, and still isn't "sick" yet, but he is noticing his mortality somewhat these days, but hasn't stopped drinking. He drinks more, simply because he's home all the time.
I don't even know if I've mentioned his cancer on the blog, I seem to be writing up a storm these days, but all on my various groups.
The latest news at AllthingsMike remains the Webshots Gallery portion of the site, where I am posting about 100 photos a week. Last week was the Arboretum and my old homestead, El Monte and Rosemead, including shots of the now abandoned and up for sale El Monte Theater, and Rosemead High.
Joel, my room-mate was diagnosed with cancer about the same time my computer got that nasty virus. It is colon cancer, and he had to have most of his large intestine removed. He actually stopped drinking and smoking for a short while, about a month, beginning with his week long hospital stay, but he didn't listen too well to the doctor, and thought his chemotherapy would only be six treatments over six months. Of course it's a treatment a week for six months, sprinkled with "off" weeks, and he will be out of work for that time.
I usually keep in my media room with the puter or watching DVDs.
Ronald Reagan died last Saturday, and Ray Charles yesterday. The news didn't even mention "The Genius" until late in the newscast, and then showed him singing at a benefit with Reagan.
The Reaganizing of the country and the media was alright for two days of so, but after a week, it's a bit much. He gets buried tomorrow. I do agree that he was an excellent speaker, although I never liked the man's policies much, and think he did more to harm the country during his presidency than save it, but I do respect him as a human being and he is now the most popular President in many polls.
I've been staying healthy, although when I "hang with Joel" in order to give him some friendship because of his illness, I tend to drink, and have gained a little of the weight back, not too much, but enough. It's Friday, and I'm not drinking tonight, and usually reserve the weekends for what little alcohol I do drink. I cannot believe I used to put away seven beers a night.

¶ 7:53 PM Michael Nyiri

Sunday, May 02, 2004

Yesterday, Mayday, was my birthday. The first day of the second half century of my life, of course, if I live to see the end of the centennial of my existence. I am writing this missive from my old Windows 98 computer, on which I recently installed my DSL modem, and connected to the internet from here, because the newer XP machine was afflicted with a virus worm about a month and a half ago, and it has taken me that long to find, and eradicate the worm. I still cannot access virus programs from the other machine, except for a DOS scanning tool, and when I reboot the computer, the taskbar, clock, and shortcut icons show up, flicker a bit, and then disappear.
As a "renewal" of sorts now that my birthday has past, and I feel, as I always do on birthdays, refreshed and ready to start fresh, I believe I shall have to reformat my "C" drive on the infected machine, which erases it, and reinstall Windows XP in what is called a "clean install". The has bothered me because I remember I had quite a few problems installing some of the programs on the drive from my Win 98 machine when I got the XP, specifically Macromedia Dreamweaver, which I use to design my website, but I have gathered the resolve to accomplish this. And hopefully by the end of the day, I'll be back "working" on my XP machine, virus free, and maybe with a faster and more efficient machine.
One thing I learn, as I maneuver the waters of the computer seas, is that I don't need half of what I thought I needed when I put the programs on the computer in the first place. Most programs are duplicates of other programs with a different logo and program owner.
The VirusScan program, the most important security device, cannot be accessed still, even though I got rid of the virus. I didn't just run the scan, and delete files, I ran a DOS scan, read up on the particular virus and followed the steps taken to completely remove it, inspected the registry, and by all accounts I am clean. I received the virus through a program called "Limewire" which is one of those file sharing programs like the old Napster, and I thought I had removed it a while back, but undoubtedly it is still there causing a threat to the security of the machine.
The virus got in through the "back door" of this program, and McAffee VirusScan, my online service, caught the little bugger, and suggested a scan. That's how it all started. The scan found two files infected, and I quarantined them. This was a new strain of a ws32 worm and the Virus program hadn't been able to "fix" the problem. I didn't know that I should be looking in the registry, and deleting the virus there, however. McAffee's site didn't give me specific instructions.
Actually, I received more information from Symantec's website, and I have Norton Antivirus at work,and like it better than the McAffee program, of which my credit card bills tell me I just resubscribed to.
So now I have internet access on this older machine, and am about to go "tackle" the massive task of reformatting and reinstalling programs on my XP.
As the words fly out of my fingers, though, the more I now want to just take a drive and forget about the whole thing.
Ain't technology wonderful?

¶ 5:49 AM Michael Nyiri