Other reasons I'm feeling grumpy

Apparently, I wasn't mashing my trash flat enough?

Fallow up: Apparently, I must need my broken trash cans as well? Adding my unbroken cans next to the broken ones didn't seem to give anyone a clue! Just what do they think I need a can of mashed trash for? I guess, to take for a drive out to the dump, myself. Oh joy!

My websites

So am a cowering in fear from a punk?
No, not really. It's taken like two and half seconds to break my writing habits, and to fall back in to my normal unsocial modes of operation. Yeah, I know, I suck! Midwinter depression on top of it all.

Right now, I'm researching attorneys, as well as other hosts. Hoping not to have to use them.

Meanwhile;
RandySmiley.COM is still under attack, so it's parked.
Foxtail-Farms.COM no longer can host a live squirrel cam, or my conversations over the fence. Instead it tries to talk you into buying beer steins.
SmileyInteractive.NET is shut down. I really need a real job, anyway!


I will let my core know by word of mouth, what and were I'm working next. And because I need to focus on that- this is about all there at the moment.
I hope you all have a Happy New Year, with much joy, laughter, and no sorrow!

Merry Christmas

Nobody there, again?

(pinup poster deleted)
Followers: 0
Now that just so encouraging, isn't it? They couldn't have included yourself, and made that 1? Zero, nice!

While I was running 3 websites at once, there was always something to say. Being dyslexic, my writing skills aren't the greatest ever. (Yeah, like you never noticed) And sometimes, there are critical and annoying words totally left out, to my embarrassment. So at times this annoying habit would even reverse the meaning of what I was conveying. So, in an effort to improve my writing, I started making a point of writing a full article everyday. Now, that I'm unplugged (see hacker story), I'm feeling like a fish out of water.

Every Christmas or so it seems, the girls come knocking on my Yahoo account. Inviting me to buddy up with them on Yahoo 360. Why would a twenty something want anything to do with a fat guy over 40? Maybe it's the fact that I was born yesterday, I don't know? And they always have the cutest little picture of themselves, and no blog page at all? Very strange!

So, I stopped by my 360 account, and was very much surprised that it was still there. Which showed me all the people I was trying to buddy up with once upon a time, thinking that some social networking might be good for me too, that never developed. So, I went to some those blogs, and not one had been updated in two years! Not a one! Which tells me exactly what you remember, is actually true: You see 360 there on the menu and you go, what is that? You click on it, and it has you sign up for a blog space, and a social network. You pick a theme, and start an article about yourself. And nobody on earth ever finds you but for service girls(?)! I would say that 360 is a total failure.

See, WAY WAY BACK IN THE DAY, I had a Geocities account, before Yahoo bought and wrecked them. And there the communal idea, actually worked. You picked a spot like real estate to park your webpage in. It had an address on a block, in a themed neighborhood. Really cool loose organizational structure. There was Area 51 where all sci-fi's hanged out, and Soho, for the artcy fartcies, etc. And in that mess, I actually met people. Nice people, with no axe to grind, helpful and friendly, just a whole lot of fun. Then they added these block managers to try and encuourage people to develop their website even more, and work bugs out. It was everything you expected a social network to be, because people were able to find eachother almost at random, by exploring, not so much by search-engine keywords. Then Yahoo came a long, and totally messed it all up.

So here I am, starting another blog, with no way to ever be found. Great, with followers of zero! Which I'll feed just for my need to write something to nobody. It's what I do best...

My instant beef strogie

I started out to make Broccoli and Beef stir fry, as a quick dinner for the tribe. But to my horror, the old veges had another idea about that. So what else could I fix in a half hour, with all this sliced beef that I now had on my hands? Suddenly, I thought Stroganoff! Only one problem with that, I've never made a Stroganoff before, and hadn't a clue how it's done! So I popped open Betty' and Southern Heritage, and starting comparing recipes (that's what programmer's do, we rarely read just one), and between the two, and my own imagination, I came up with something my family was quite pleased with, that they requested I keep.

However, I recently lost a hard drive, and this recipe with it, once it never got posted to my old blog, I've been emailing my group to try and recover it, with no luck. But suddenly it surfaced on my desk. See, I'm a stacker, and every once in a while, the heap gets shuffled, and lost things get found. I couldn't be happier.

Rule #1 from a guy who been working with computers for 30 years: Print EVERYTHING, and just throw it in the heap! Hard copy might be flooded or burnt, but it's less vulnerable than digital. Biggest danger to hard copy, is a fit of neatness. But your hungry, lets get on with this already! I hear ya...

• 1 1/2 lbs of sliced stake/roast beef cut to bite size pieces, just about big enough to choke on. I used a tritip roast.
• 1 clove garlic (sliced and diced)
• 2 C egg noodles (al dente)
• 3 T extra virgin olive oil (separated)
• 2 t granulated garlic (yes that too, but not salt)
• pinch of Savory (this can be hard to find. It's a lot like oregano lite. Which is great in sausages, breads (including noodles))
• 10 oz, can of beef broth
• (optional) sm can of mushroom (bits and pieces)
• 1 C sour cream
• 1/4 C flour
• Dry Mustard
• Kosher Salt
  

There's your shopping list. Mind you, I'm reading what was going to be my old blog posting, and trying to improve it as I go. I hear you laughing!

Now this is kind of classic Randy Style cooking; I like to use two bowls with wet and dry ingredients.

Dry bowl:
1/4 C flour
1 t dry mustard
1 t Kosher salt
stir well together

Wet bowl:
2 T butter (softened)
2 T Catsup
1 T Worcestershire sauce
Mix

Set bowls aside, and start by boiling up the 2 C of egg noodles, let simmer on the side.

Brown the beef in an a large skillet or wok, with high heat, to really get it browned on the outside, with a few splashes of the olive oil. Once 80% of the meat is well browned, toss in the Wet bowl, and stir. Now add the diced fresh garlic. This will create a wonderful beef stew, right off the bat!

Take noodles off the heat, and just let sit on the side, in the undrained pot.

Reduce the heat on the meat to medium. I had no time to dredge the fried meat, as one recipe called for, so instead I just started spooning it in, a little at a time, to get it all coated. Wow where did my soup go? Pour in the can of beef broth, a little at a time, to restore this to being a gravy. Which makes the whole idea of a breading kind of silly in my opinion. Now add those mushrooms (drained or fresh if you got um), and let simmer...

Drain the noodles now. Grab one of those leftover bowls, and mix with a dash of extra virgin olive oil. Sprinkle the top with the granulated garlic. Toss, and repeat. Then just a tiny pinch of Savory, toss again. I like to spice up the noodles and serve them on the side, so they can stand on their own, should we run out of the good stuff, we're topping them with. But it has yet to happen in this house!

Back to the beef. Stir in the Cup of sour cream, and let that simmer for a short while longer.

I use this time to make a salad or fruit dish to go with it.

Within 10 to 12 minutes of letting it simmer, I had it in bowl, and served to yummy sounds, and complements to the chef. Actually very quick and easy, other than that research part. Most things I cook take 2 hours or more, so this seems turbo charged to me.

For this meal, I'm going to recommend a Shiraz.
Enjoy!

Hack me once, shame on you! Hack me twice, **** you!

Can you tell what started this?
I'm just your ordinary guy, trying to make a living. Who's health had other ideas! So, I started a blog, to share my experiences with family and others, and collect and give as good advice and motivation as best we can. Sounded like a good idea at the time. Then along come the forum spammers, who abused the whole system. So in a fit of rage, I blew up the blog, and replaced it with a page that chewed some ***. Well, that just made me a moving target! Next thing I know, I'm getting defaced. Then they start planting Trojans in my code. And all because I wanted to talk about being sick, rather than online boner pills! I think?

I say; I think, because of these events. However, somebody did scan all my domains registrations. And the next thing you know, they were all under attack. Which just kept escalating.

So rather than writing my own code, and doing my own thing. I decided to let them, try and hack the good folks at Google this time around. This should be entertaining at least.

So, here we begin again. I'm no longer so sick- thank you. Except now we're in a recession, and I haven't worked in a few years. Ah, that's just not good on a man's resume! That, and I'm totally tired of my career, and the hackers that like crack it. So I just don't know what to do now?