My, you are lucky. The Sgt. Major and I visited the North Coast of Minnesota a couple of years ago. We traveled from Duluth to Grand Portage, and also up to near Ely or Eli, I can't remember. Absolutely gorgeous country! I saw my first wolf in the wild, including a trip to Yellowstone, & possibly a moose...although I did see a moose in Yellowstone on a previous vacation years earlier. Loved the lighthouses along the shores of Lake Superior.

It snowed in Duluth upon our arrival at the Black Bear (?) casino in the middle of May. I thought I was there for a summer vacation. It was in the upper 30s at night, as I remember, but the days were wonderful. I ate my first walleye at the Lemon Wolf Cafe in some small port town along the coast. Drank a Moose Drool beer just for the experience of drinking a "Moose Drool" beer.

Had a great time in NE Minnesota. I envy you...except I fear the winters must be tough.

I forget this thread is about PC trouble.

It's not a new world order - it is the same old liberal policies moving us along the scale towards socialism - with more and more government control by more and more numberous and powerful members of the 4th Branch of government - bureaucrats.

As these folks make it more and more difficult to economically produce in America, while structuring everyting from the tax code to regulations of virtually every aspect of production to further their power at the expense of the producers, the only intelligent response by business is to offshore.


The left isn't really bothered by offshoring - while they use it politically to complain, they offer the solution as giving them more power - until ultimately the only option left will be full out socialism and its resultant move from sharing the wealth to sharing the poverty.

I have a refurbished HP/Compaq store demonstration model desktop PC running Windows 7. Ever so often I have trouble turning the machine on or waking it up from sleep mode because it tries to boot from something other than the hard drive. It does this even when I have nothing in the CD drive and nothing plugged into the USB ports. And no matter how many times I do F9 and tell it to boot from the hard drive the machine eventually overrides my settings and gives me an input not supported error message. Does anybody know what this thing is doing and how I can fix it permanently?

Including most World War II Vets who can only know their small part of it.

I took German from grades 8 through my high school graduation. But I had bad teachers the whole time. The first was a Hungarian (who served in the Wehrmacht on the Russian front) D. Lit. We took the whole school year to cover the first 69 pages of the textbook. The next teacher (U.S. Army brat) covered everything too fast for us to really learn it trying to get us caught up. We had just finished the 2nd textbook at the mid-point of my 11th grade year (the two books should have taken just 3 years to complete) when she left to take a job in another state. The last teacher was a German immigrant by way of Ohio. The only thing we were graded on for the last year and a half was a weekly composition. I wish now I had spent the time studying something else.

My college degree is in biology, but I took 40 credit hours in history. I have studied history on my own for as long as I have been able to read.