Here and Now...What's Happening?

[Carmody]

Posted by meeradas (here)
Couldn't sleep, watched Spy Game. Slept.
Got up, turned the pc on - "bad cmos checksum".
All bios settings gone, incl. boot settings. "NTLDR" missing - no wonder then.
...
Settings done. Still, no booting. Disk affected...
Just now: One hour of restoring from a backup did... nothing. This... sucks.
[am writing from the "music machine" at the moment]

How long has it been since you changed the CMOS backup battery on the MoBo? Or, how old is the Mobo? batteries these days, come from china (CR2032, the most common). Old batteries came from Japan,and might last 4-5-6-7 years. New batteries from china tend to die in about 3 years. When they die, you get a zero for start up. Not even a blue screen.

As the battery dies, the system goes - intermittent. Fine one time, gone the next. Then back again.

Bad checksum and zero'd bios settings are a good indicator of a bad CMOS battery.

It can be viral, but sometimes it's just the CMOS battery finally dying.

[Nat_Lee]

In my back yard with my man !
Just ate a bowl of mashed potatoes and cheese ....
The baby is making is after noon nap...
Sweet weather ...
I'm feeling great ...

[ulli]

More deaths...my aunt Annelie, R.I.P.
She was married to my mother's only brother, and we were close when I was little.



The other news is of the passing of Mick Farren of the Deviants...he died on stage on July 27th.
We used to hang out, many years ago, as we lived quite close in London, when I was still at art school.
I remember his room full of model airplanes hanging everywhere.
R.I.P. Mick.

This is how I remember him:

[ulli]

Here is a special request.
Would all who read this please send peace and love and healing to Marianne's father
who suffered a stroke a few hours ago.

The same goes for Marianne's mother, and of course, Marianne herself.

May you find strength in this difficult time, dearest.

[Marianne]

Thanks to Ulli and All,

Just back with my mom from the hospital. Pop will stay there at least a couple of days. The good news is, it was not a stroke as originally thought, but a serious infection that caused him to spike a very high fever that affected his reasoning, function, behavior, etc. So there should not be any lasting effects, for which we are grateful.

Many thanks for your thoughts and good intentions.

I'm sorry for the loss of your friend, Ulli.

[ulli]

Posted by Marianne (here)
Thanks to Ulli and All,

Just back with my mom from the hospital. Pop will stay there at least a couple of days. The good news is, it was not a stroke as originally thought, but a serious infection that caused him to spike a very high fever that affected his reasoning, function, behavior, etc. So there should not be any lasting effects, for which we are grateful.

Many thanks for your thoughts and good intentions.

What a relief for you Marianne. Will still keep sending healing to your dad.

[Sierra]

I'm so glad no lasting effects Marianne.

Joining the village intending wholeness and health for your father.

Love, love, love, Sierra

[donk]

I got a kick outa this:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FQMbXvn2RNI

[Wind]

Sending lots of love to Ulli and Marianne.

This is interesting, but what does it mean to put it simply?
This Is The Big One We've All Been Waiting For : The Grand Sextile

Also I thought that I should share this amazing video here!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=aKsfuHt1EXg

[Carmody]

Posted by Marianne (here)

Posted by Ernie Nemeth (here)
Urr, umm, I meant Astrid. Duh...sorry

I know a woman -- she's one of my favorite people actually -- her name is Joyce. I slip into calling her Joanne sometimes, don't know why I do that. She used to get upset at me because it seems like I don't care about remembering her name. It's not that. She came to understand it's some kind of block in my brain. Like switching words or letters as you type. Nothing personal, odd as it sounds.

Here's a group hug for Ernie, and thanks for reminding us about the Pele report. I got the link to Tom's website; Astrid would want us to have it. My work blocks YouTube, so I can't post the actual video.

I see the latest video is July 17 ... that's why Astrid hasn't posted the one for this week!
http://newparadigmastrology.com/tag/pele-report

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wp5O0EDa-a0

A different version, tom seems to be fooling around a bit (trying different things, re his videos), has some of his normal Pele stuff mixed in. (starts at about 6 minutes in)

Take a look at this, which is pretty darned spectacular:

http://galacticspacebook.com/profile...-grand-sextile

[Dennis Leahy]

Posted by ulli (here)
Good Morning.

Here is a two minute video..
a Jungian analyst with a strong central European accent mentions telepathic dreams..
(for those who are interested).

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RPgnzY_63Tw

Ah, the dream connection!

Dennis

[Dennis Leahy]

Posted by Marianne (here)
Thanks to Ulli and All,

Just back with my mom from the hospital. Pop will stay there at least a couple of days. The good news is, it was not a stroke as originally thought, but a serious infection that caused him to spike a very high fever that affected his reasoning, function, behavior, etc. So there should not be any lasting effects, for which we are grateful.

Many thanks for your thoughts and good intentions.

I'm sorry for the loss of your friend, Ulli.

This is wonderful news! My dad (93) had a second knee replacement a couple of years ago - and was really loopy and wacky for days. We thought the worst (dementia, brought on by surgical/anesthesia trauma), but he shook it off after a while and is as lucid as ever. Yay for your pop!

Dennis

[meeradas]

Posted by Carmody (here)
... sometimes it's just the CMOS battery finally dying.

Thanks.
That must be it. Only logical thing.
Am buying some CR2032, 3V.

[Carmody]

Posted by meeradas (here)

Posted by Carmody (here)
... sometimes it's just the CMOS battery finally dying.

Thanks.
That must be it. Only logical thing.
Am buying some CR2032, 3V.

It it works and holds the bios settings..but is till 'glitchy' in operation, it can be bad Mobo capacitors as well.

for a while (up to about 2010), quite a few (no-name, new companies, etc) mobos came out with bad or cheap mobo capacitors. The good mobos, Asus and the like, they went with better capacitors, or solid polymer capacitors. which almost all new mobos use these days, even the lower priced ones.

[1inMany]

Good morning.

Because I have been asked a few times how I found this thread but not PA, I thought I would share. Put this in the other thread, sharing here too...

"I think I may well be the only member who found PA after I was accepted here.

I had been feeling a terrible gnawing inside, a feeling of "hurry-up" (quickening?), and I could not understand the origin of the sensation of the walls closing in on me. Things had changed, I felt near implosion. I understood absolutely nothing about this. It was not tangible, not logical, not explainable.

So I sat at the computer one day and started googling. I think I ended up searching something like "what the hell is going on?" which led to "what's happening?"

And there it was, a thread on a forum. "Here and Now...What's Happening?" When I started to post there, I started to regain my equilibrium. I needed desperately to stay grounded, not that I even understood at the time what that meant. And, I needed to find those friends, and all of you actually.

I felt such relief at being accepted here, it felt as if my life depended on it. Literally.

That's how I got here. Staying here...because it is a gift, and one I find myself clinging to at times because I can't find anyone else (yet) in real life that has these interests.

Thanks for the thread, jagman. It's fun to read, but more it allows me to see how much we all have it common. Even if I don't come out of my shell often."

Have a great day...going out to mow (wondering how that's going to go....) Much Love,

[eaglespirit]

Wonderful Sharing/Insight on the Medicine Wheel...a very personal significance for me : )

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cQ32re5c-AI

[ulli]

[Ernie Nemeth]

Ya this place is pretty special, 1.

I get what you mean, from back a while, about the hazards of going to the rock and gem store. I almost got away without too much expense but then I saw this piece of tourmaline I just had to have. I'm embarrassed to say what I payed for it. But it is magnificent! With a significance only I know of - uh, it's special to me. And a little piece of amythest, my birthstone. I will be going back for some massage crystals, rose quartz. Bought a book on rocks and minerals so I can classify specimens I might run across, too. I took a class in geology in college so I have a bit of background.

Back when I got divorced, way, way back, I went through a mystical period where I was collecting rocks from the great lakes region. I would drive to the lake and go for a walk along the beach, looking for rocks. I ended up with a rock for every planet (it was an offshoot of my interest in astrology that also developed during my divorce). I don't know what happened to those rocks, except for the Pluto rock. That one I threw back into the lake, on a separate, purposeful journey to where I found it. I don't know, it was about the rock would serve me from a distance in subtle ways - and I have drawn on that source a few times since. Rocks are cool.

edit: I had not read the bit about Pluto in your other thread, Ulli. That's a little coincidence. Been a lot of them lately...

[ulli]

Here is another gem from the Bahai teachings...
which when performed right really works.

5 Steps of Prayer for Solving Problems

1st Step: Pray and meditate about it. Use the prayers of the Manifestations*
as they have the greatest power. Then remain in the silence of contemplation
for a few minutes.

2nd Step: Arrive at a decision and hold this. This decision is usually born
during the contemplation. It may seem almost impossible of accomplishment
but if it seems to be as answer to a prayer or a way of solving the problem,
then immediately take the next step.

3rd Step: Have determination to carry the decision through. Many fail here.
The decision, budding into determination, is blighted and instead becomes a wish or a vague longing. When determination is born, immediately take the next step.

4th Step: Have faith and confidence that the power will flow through you,
the right way will appear, the door will open, the right thought, the right
message, the right principle, or the right book will be given to you. Have
confidence and the right thing will come to your need. Then, as you rise
from prayer, take at once the 5th step.

5th Step: Act as though it had all been answered. Then act with tireless,
ceaseless energy. And as you act, you, yourself, will become a magnet, which
will attract more power to your being, until you become an unobstructed
channel for the Divine power to flow through you.

* by "Manifestations* are meant the founders of the world's religions.

Many pray but do not remain for the last half of the first step.
Some who meditate arrive at a decision, but fail to hold it.
Few have the determination to carry the decision through,
still fewer have the confidence that the right thing will come to their need.
But how many remember to act as though it had all been answered?

How true are these words “Greater than the prayer is the spirit in which it is uttered”
and greater than the way it is uttered is the spirit in which it is carried out.

Shoghi Effendi, Principles of Bahá’í Administration, p. 91.

[eaglespirit]

The last few years of my life are testimony to that Bahai process, Ulli...Thanks : )
It is as real as each of Us brings it to full fruition!