[quote user="Groomlakearea51"] A strange "post"...... [/quote] Obviously that pic was taken in boulder, Colorado Tom

[quote user="seti"] Dyna Spudnik This is from a vintage comic book. [/quote] I'm assuming that's a combination lock for the box, yes?? Tom

Couple of those pics of your house sure brings back memories. Tom

LOL.......... This happened to my wife a couple years back when her son called and asked her how to change a tire. After 30 frustrating minutes on the phone with an impatient and sometimes ungrateful son, she left work and changed the thing herself. Oh - and he was 20 years old. Tom

Thanks guys. I've had some experience in the past with GeForce/nVidia cards in machines I built and was leaning in that direction. However, I wanted to keep an open mind. BTW - man-oh-man have graphics cards changed. I was floored at some of the higher-end cards. I'm not sure some of them would fit in my case!! Tom

+1 to Coytee's comments and a public thank you to him as well. When my mom's health started going downhill last year (in nursing home now) and with my Dad getting close to 90, I became concerned that I'd have a devil of a time figuring out what they had and where it was and what they wanted done, etc., etc. So I called Coytee and got some great advice which led to "The Conversation" with my Dad. Fortunately, my Dad (being the pragmatic person he is) started speaking to folks

Wrong again! The coldest place on earth is my Ex's heart. It is thought by some that that's where Fridgedaire got it's cold for their refrigerators. Tom

It's been a while since I've looked at graphics cards for PC's so I was a bit surprised at the offerings out there when I started looking the other day. I bought a new 22" monitor with excellent resolution and after hooking it up it became apparent that the motherboard integrated graphics processor ain't cutting it. I'm not into gaming and the PC is never used for DVD movies & such. I just need a solid, reliable graphics card. Any recommendations?? TIA Tom

My Dad is 88 now and will soon be 89. He was a flight engineer on B-29's during WWII in the pacific. To be sure, he wasn't in harms way any where near what the ground forces were and he readily admits it almost in an apologetic manner. It's as if he feels guilty that others suffered more than he did. To me that's an interesting thread that seems to have run through many soldiers. I mean, most of them after being wounded would do whatever they could to get back to the"front line"

Was down at the Music & Movies forum and saw a post about the upcoming HBO series The Pacific and thought I'd pass along a book my Dad gave me recently. It's called Forgotten Heroes of World War II: Personal Accounts Of Ordinary Soldiers . It's an easy read (which is good for me since I tend to lean towards publications that have pictures ) and is one of those books I had trouble putting down. While reading it, I couldn't help but wonder what stories of WWII my Dad had decided