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Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) - (Traditional Jamaican folk song) - Harry Belafonte

I was in a restaurant and after dinner this little packet was presented to me. Instructions: Open envelope by tearing across the dotted line Remove moist, scented towelette Unfold moist, scented towelette And use. The last line got me. Notes ♫

Signs - Five Man Electrical Band

How clever, a garage and a car wash combination!

Car Pool?

I wanted the https to be in my name, not the web host's. That way if I want to change web hosts, I can take my SSL with me. Same for shopping cart, which is independent from my web host. I don't like being locked it, that way if the service gets crappy, I can change hosts with a minimum of problems. Notes ♫

Money (That's What I Want) - Barrett Strong (the original) Lyrics: All those lean greens, Yeah I got that, uh, that's what I mean

When I started writing aftermarket products for Band-in-a-Box, it was mail order, and they were on 5.25" and 3.5" floppies. I remember going to the post office with a pile of cardboard mailers containing the disks, and paying for postage. When it turned into a software instead of mail-order business, I offered the option to download with no shipping and handling charges, and after about a year, people no longer wanted them shipped via the mail, so I removed that option. Thanks for the heads-up User 905133, I thought I had put that pesky little s everywhere it needed to be. I did a search, page by page for http://www.nortonmusic.com, and replaced with https://www.nortonmusic.com Hmm, that one goes to my cart - so another search and replace is needed. I code the site by hand, as the site got huge, missing a few things is just the nature of the beast. I learned from a book, "HTML In Plain English" and supplemented it with things I discovered on the Internet as the ability to write better pages evolved. Many years ago, when this was still mail-order, a gal who ordered a lot of style disks, used to call on the phone and call me Peter. After a few times of correcting her, I gave up and just went with the flow. I never knew if she thought I was Peter Norton or Peter Gannon of PG Music (Band-in-a-Box) but she liked my work, came back for more, and it was all good. Notes ♫

Close To The Edge - Yes

Did they go by the Norton name back then? My first Mac was a Classic II and never heard of Antivirus software back then. My first Windows was a DOS5/Win3.1 and didn't know about Norton Utilities until a friend turned me on to them. My first serious computer was an Atari/ST with built in MIDI ports (I had a TI99 before that). I started writing styles for Band-in-a-Box, and Peter Gannon, owner of PG Music (BiaB) called one day, asked me to send him an Atari disk, and he would convert it to the IBM (PC) format so I could sell to his biggest market. I was running it as Mail-Order with ads in Keyboard and Music & Computers magazines. So I bought the IBM Compatible DOS5/Win3.1 machine, and later the Mac. I first got on the Internet with an AOL gateway. Then when real Internet came around, I jumped on that. I don't remember when I bought my first AV program, or which brand it was. I'm a Windows user now. I like both, but the StyleMaker for Band-in-a-Box allows me to write better styles on Windows than the StyleMaker in Mac does. The better styles are compatible on both formats. This is no fault of the OS, but PG Music is very Windows-centric. I let the software I need most determine which OS I use. My last Mac was a Power-PC eMac. At that time I still needed a Mac to convert the PC styles to Mac format, but then PG Music standardized the style files and I no longer needed both. Notes ♫

Free Fallin' - Tom Petty

Two for the price of one!!!

I hope you heal quickly and completely (short Covid)

Dead Flowers - Rolling Stones

Further On Up The Road - Bobby "Blue" Bland

I still use pencil and paper, have a landline, own a saxophone built in 1925, and read books made out of paper. (in creaky voice): These kids with their new-fangled gadgets, we had to walk to school and live without Air Conditioning - these kids are spoiled, let me tell you. Notes ♫

No, wrong Norton - he stole my name to ride on the shoulders of my greatness and popularity Actually, Norton Utilities - same Norton later to become Norton AV was around since the DOS days. Notes ♫

I didn't want to hijack Bitflipper's thread, so here is my latest adventure... I've had my website since the Windows 3.1 days and was mail order before that (1990), I've been in business selling Band-in-a-Box aftermarket products since the very early 1990s, and my shopping cart services have always been https, although my website wasn't. When I started selling BiaB aftermarket disks, they were on 5.25" and 3.5" floppy disks. I sold them formatted for Atari/ST, Mac (Motorola CPU), PC (called IBM Compatible, in both Windows and DOS formats). In other words, I've been doing this little moonlighting business longer than the Internet has been available to us mere mortals. I just did an 8 e-disk release after two years work, and my customers tell me they are getting warnings from browsers and malware apps warning people my site is insecure. Many of my customers knew to click-through, and they gave me the FYI, and I figured I might be losing business. You can check out the release at https://www.nortonmusic.com - and my S is showing now. So I decided to get that extra little s at the end of my http. (I needed a little S on the side). I called my webhost, they quoted a price, it wasn't so steep that I would lose my own S, so I said OK. They said it will probably happen same-day and no more than 24-48 hours. Little did I know what a pain in the S this was going to be. It took six days. Hours and hours per day. In those six days, I spent countless hours on chat sessions and phone calls to people with foreign (to me) accents. I was feeling like a ping-pong ball between my webhost and DigiCert, the certification company. ||: Hosting company says you need to contact DigiCert --- DigiCert says contact the hosting company :|| (repeat ad infinitum). --- Please hold while I investigate - please hold while I look up your records - please hold while I __________ (fill in the blank with whatever) sorry, you need to call the other company. <<Rewind<< At first, my web host said, all I needed to do was click "acknowledge" on the form my webhost directed me to. Easy-Peasy. A day later, DigiCert says they need some proof I'm a business. I sent them what they asked for. After a Win11 upgrade, my scanner quit scanning (probably needs new drivers, but that's another issue to take care of) so I'm taking pictures with my phone, e-mailing to myself, attaching to an e-mail to Digicert. Every time I submitted a proof, they said it doesn't fit their required proof that I am really a business. During the 6 days, I sent them documented proof of my: * Local county business license * State of Florida sales tax forms * Website with shopping cart service * Business bank account * Business phone line * Visa/MC merchant's account * Visa/Mc online authorization service Paperwork proof I've been in business longer that both DigiCert and my webhost have been in business. ||: I send them one proof, they ask for another :|| I asked for supervisors who promised to fix it but never did. I chat or texted with over 20 people, I was on so much I got a couple of the same people again. Not good enough?????????? Not proof I'm a legitimate business????????? On the 6th day of this, I was frazzled. That's when I lost my temper and yelled at the rep for a minute or so. Then I immediately apologized, explaining I wasn't mad at him but frustrated with the entire process. So the rep says I have every reason to be frustrated and adds, "let me see if there is something I can do to help". Here's the funny part, after biz license, sales tax, website/shopping cart, biz bank account, biz phone, V/MC merchant's account, V/MC authorization service, my copy of receipts sent to customers and other paperwork didn't solve the requirements to prove to DigiCert that I'm a legitimate business, what worked? The rep did a Google search and found me, called me on the Biz Phone listed and said, "That's it, we can certify you now." I guess in this Internet age, a Google search is worth more than all the other actual physical proofs I am indeed in business. Go figure. As they say, all's well that ends well. I'm no longer insecure. Insights, incites and a combination minor rant/lame humor attempt by Notes ♫

Tentative town.

'Round Midnight - Thelonious Monk From back when the whole world was monochrome, before they invented color. I think that happened when Disney did the Oz movie.

It's about 10 o'clock

Me And You And A Dog Named Boo - Lobo (I don't care for the song, so I'm not going to post a video. If you like, paste that into utube)

The best part about having a short memory is enjoying the same joke twice. Same goes for not paying full attention. Is this one a repeat? Scientists got together to study the effects of alcohol on a person’s walk, and the result was staggering.

We Got The Beat - Go-Go's