That is indeed a cute story
Perhaps on the next upgrade we will get to hear the pagoda story. As far as the iPad that is a generous gift and I am sure it is great for music, pictures, email, reading and web surfing. You sound like you have quite a few toys to enjoy and I am sure the iPad has its place
JP
JP --
Just in case somebody asks you, there are 122 updates to WinXP Pro after SP3! Probably nobody will ask, but a little useless knowledge is always handy to have.
It's raining here, so I'm in my shop setting up a new Windows 8 system for Ladyfriend. Since she will soon be getting the Surface Pro, I decided it's time she abandon her XP machine at home and run something comparable to the Pro. That will put her "high on the learning curve," but she's a smart Lady. Because she has a ton of messages in Outlook Express on that system, I was looking for a way to preserve them. Best solution seems to be to use Hyper-V to create a Virtual XP machine on her new Win8 system, then use XP's "Files & Settings Transfer Wizard" to transfer just the Outlook Express stuff from old machine to the new virtual one. I just did a test run on my Win8 system here in the shop, using an old XP drive I keep around, and it works! Wonders never cease!
Toys? Yeah, I have a few. I'm a gadget guy, and a lot of years in electronics manufacturing seems to point me in that direction. I try to offload a few of them sometimes. My older daughter will soon be the owner of the iPad, and somebody in Ladyfriend's company is about to become the owner of a nice Core-2 system after I make that exchange.
I have now installed the XP virtual machine on her new system, and am running the 122 updates, so will tell you the "pagoda story."
[Note: I am not making fun of her English skills, but it's a lot cuter when I tell it the way she said it.]
Two points: I was creating an Oriental Garden here, and, there is a restaurant in Atlanta that we frequent, called "Golden Buddha," that has a prox 6-foot, stacked, pagoda style temple next to a lovely pond.
Well, she was in China, and she called me. I could hear the excitement in her voice.
She said, "I buy you something! For your garden."
I said something like, "That's nice, Honey, what is it?"
Still excited, she said, "I buy you a temple for your garden!"
Ok, the mind goes where it wants, so I immediately pictured a "miniature" pagoda-style temple, and I said, "That's really nice, Honey, it will look good there."
Then she said, "Like the one at Golden Buddha!"
Ok, so my mind formed a picture of a miniature temple that
looks like the one at Golden Buddha.
Then she said, almost breathlessly, "But bigger!"
Now, I'm thinking, "Holy Sh-t! This crazy woman is ten thousand miles away, and she just bought me a six-foot stone temple!" I was wrong -- it is an 8-foot stone temple, but it does look nice in my garden:
The Temple
Don't remember what I said when I finally recovered enough to say anything. In case you're wondering how she got it here, she brings in well over a hundred containers a year from China alone, so she had it delivered to one of her manufacturers to put in the next container -- along with a couple of stone "lions" that she said would protect me from "Evil Spirits." (They seem to be working -- I haven't been attacked by any Evil Spirits since then):
Stone "Lions"
Did I mention that she is "impulsively generous?" Yeah, I think I did.
Well, the 122 updates are done, so back to work.
Take care,
Russ
