Photo Friday - Orange

hawk mountain leaves, originally uploaded by gfiorillo.

I've been slacking lately and not keeping up with my photo friday entries. Here's to getting back on track.

This was taken last fall on one of our camping trips. I like this picture alot.

Data Hell

I am losing my mind. I consider myself a pretty computer literate person. I am self taught, so I am far from knowing all, but most of the time I can figure it all out - therefore I am the IT person in my office.

I have spent the past two days trying to figure out ONE DAMN THING and I am about to have a breakdown. I don't think I could even explain the base part of the problem involving multiple data sources all providing different numbers for what should be the same thing, but lets just say I get past that and move onto running queries in Access. Well, I keep trying to do an update query (which I need to do otherwise the past 5 hours of work will go to waste) and it tells me I have an invalid argument.

Now, I often have invalid arguments - with Jack, my parents and even friends sometimes, but NEVER in queries. So I looked up in the Help section what the *&$^# that means and it turns out

In Windows Control Panel, the Regional Settings property is set to a region that uses a character other than a period (.) as a decimal separator. The settings for properties in data access pages require that the decimal separator be a period for all languages.

Well my setting is to English and has always been set to English so I don't know what the %^&($ #$@&*& %&%#@(* it's talking about.

I hate computers.

Help me get married Vegas Style

We're getting married. But as much as I am looking forward to all the planning, and taking our time and making it personal, I think I might enjoy a chance to get married by the Food Network in Vegas. So I'm asking for help on the video portion of the application. My creativity seems to run dry whenever I am trying to win things, and especially when cameras are around so all help welcome.

My love hate relationship

I love camping.

I hate mosquitoes!

Happy Father's Day...

An old Italian man lived alone in the country. He wanted to dig his tomato garden, but it was very hard work as the ground was hard. His only son, Vincent, who used to help him, was in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and described his predicament.

Dear Vincent,
I am feeling pretty bad because it looks like I won't be able to plant my tomato garden this year. I'm just getting too old to be digging up a garden plot. If you were here my troubles would be over. I know you would dig the plot for me.
Love Dad

A few days later he received a letter from his son.

Dear Dad,
Not for nothing, but don't dig up that garden. That's where I buried the BODIES.
Love Vinnie

At 4 a.m. the next morning, FBI agents and local police arrived and dug up the entire area without finding any bodies. They apologized to the old man and left.That same day the old man received another letter from his son.

Dear Dad,
Go ahead and plant the tomatoes now. That's the best I could do under the circumstances.
Love Vinnie