HP Pavilion Elite m9400f Desktop
1. experience genuine Windowns Vista Home Premion 64-bit editon with Service Pack 1.
2. 2.4 Hz AMD Phenom X4 9750 Quad-Core Processor and AMD Live
3. Edit, orgainize, share and store photos and videos
4. Watch and burn movies on the SuperMulti DVD burner
5. Collect songs, organize your music collection, and create playlist for every occasion with Apple iTunes
6. Play games and enhance viewing with high-capacity 750GB 7200 rpm hard drive.
7. Integrated ATI Radeon HD 3650 graphics card (512 dedicated), DVI, HDMI, and VGA, and support for Microsoft DirectX10 (up to 2303MB graphics memory as allocated my Windows Vista)
8. 10/100Base-T netwrk interface
9. Eight-speaker configurable sound card
10. Label discs with LightScribe
11. Burn DVDs and CDs with the SuperMulti DVD+_R/RW drive
12. Store more with the 750GB 7200rpm Serial ATA hard drive
13. 15-in-1 digital media card reader
14. Make videos with muvee autoProducer



HP w2207 22-inch Widescreen Flat-Lanel Monitor
1. Manimum resolution of 1680 x 1050
2. Digital photograhy and video editing
3. Rotate from regular mode to portrait mode to view long documents web pages from your PC. Adjust to just the right height with double-hinge base.
4. This model is ENERGY STAR and MPRII qualified, plus recyclable.

I also got a new printer, copier, scanner combo with this. It is also a HP. What I like about is that can put your digital camera memory card into the copier and just print out the pictures you want without having to go to the computer.

So, tell me what you think of my choice?

Well, by the time most of you read this it will be wednesday, but at the moment it is tuesday night for me. I had a very long day. Went to the doctor again...why I do not know. I got a letter saying that I needed to go to the clinic so I went. Sat there all afternoon. Finally saw a doctor and he did not know why they sent for me. The most I got out of it was a flu shot. Now I am not feeling good from it...

So I am sitting here, past being tired, but too stubborn to get up and go to bed. Ever get like that? I know I should be in bed, but I just do not want to go....

and it has nothing to do with the election.

I have been waiting for the longest time to see Celtic Thunder live. They finally book a concert in Baton Rouge. I get great tickets for it. It is at the end of this month. So what happens? They cancel the show! ! !

Why? Because not enough people in this area bought tickets! They would rather watch monster trucks crush cars, see Hannah Montana, or Sesame Street Live than an well known international singing group! I mean, good goddess, they might learn some culture or something!

Samhain

Other Names:

Hallloween, Hallowe'en, Celtic "Feast of the Dead"

Christian Equivalent:

All Saint's Day, Allhallows, Hallowmas

History:

Samhain (pronounced 'Sow-ew' is the cross-quarter festival that marks the start of the winter quarter of the year and the end of the autumn quarter. By Samhain, threadbare dress and colder nights make it clear that winter is near. To the Celts, this was the Feast of the Dead and the Night of the Wild Hunt. Samhain marked the Cellic New Year and was the Most improtant of the festivals. As with other festivals, Samhain is not constrained by the artifical midnight to midnight divisions of modern conception, and it is usually considered as starting as sundown on October 31st and ending at sundown on November 1st. Thus much of the celebration of Samhain does occur at the most appropriate time: Halloween.

Other Facts:

To celebrate this final harvest of Samhain, meat is put up, root crops, nuts, and apples are stored; and the year's activites draw to a close. Debts are paid, old things are clearned, or discarded. The house is swept clean and the old brooms are thrown out to make sure no bad luck follows the household into the New Year. Spirits are easily contacted, and debts to those who have passed over are paid in food offerings left at crossroads. The different realms are more accessed now. Samhain is a time for divination and honoring the dead, for the veil that divides the mundane and subtle realms is considered to be paricularly insubstantial on this day. Samhain is a time to lookback to the past and forward to the future. It is beneficial to reflect on those you have known and the experiences you have shared, as well as to take the time to view the possibitilies ahead of you. Samhain is a profound time of the year, offering the opportuinty of understanding.

Interestings facts that come down to us today:

Jack-o-lantern. Originally a turnip, this carved vegetable with a candle inside was used by a poor Irish soul named Jack to light his way as he wandered for eternity, denied entrance to both Heaven and Hell - Heaven because of his habitual stinginess and Hell because he had, while still alive, forced the devil into a pact that would spare Jack from ever going to Hell. Boy, did he live (or rather die) to regret it! The Irish brought this custom to the US in the 1840s but found it more convenient to use pumpkins than their traditional turnip, rutabaga or gourd.

Trick or Treaking:. This resembles the All Soul's Day practice called "going a-souling" in which poor people would beg door-to-door. In exchange for a gift of soulcakes, the soulers would promise to say a prayer for the dead. It's possible, though, that the practice developed independently in the US in the 20th century, especially the part where children threaten a trick if they don't get a treat. (This may have been around the time manufacturers came up with fun-sized candy bars.)

Costumes. The Celts wore disguises, usually made of animal skins, during their Samhain celebrations, possibly to conceal themselves from the spirits who were afoot at the time. So those Catwoman and Spider-man outfits may be most true to the ancient roots of the practice.

Ghost stories. The Celts believed that during Samhain, the boundaries between this world and the otherworld became blurred and the spirits of those who had departed walked the earth. Those beliefs survive to this day in the form of ghost stories and divinations: asking for helpful hints or guides to the future from those who have second sight.

If you keep time you know that it is one week away from the election for the president for the United States. I have been wondering how long it would be before the fools would come out...it happened.

If you watch the news or read the Internet stories then you know about it. It seems that two young neo-Nazi skinheads decided they were going to kill 88 black people and at the end kill Barack Obama. Apparently the Feds got wind of it first and arrested them.

I have been thinking...it is likely that Obama will be elected. Will the Feds and the CIA have to watch him just like Kennedy? And why? Because he is half black? Because of his policies?

What is even worse, I wonder what sort of talk did he and his wife have with their two little girls about this??? It is still bad enough to deal with being a black person in this country. So what did they tell them? If daddy is elected to be president, you will have special people following you all the time? But why daddy?...Well, sometimes, bad people want to hurt the president and may want to hurt you?

But why daddy,

Because you are black?

Because you are trying to help people?

Because people don't like you?

Because grandma is white?

Yes, yes, yes, and countless other reasons....

We tend to forget that the people who are running for office have families. I hope his two little girls will be able to handle it if he gets in office.