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Maybe, he has been visiting here this week!

You may recall from my blog, that my Mom has been battling cancer. The medications that were used to treat it were messing with her mental and physical abilities. She would experience what appeared to be strokes, but all testing showed otherwise. Two years ago this month, she was totally incapacitated. She could not do anything for herself physically and mentally she was somewhere in the past. She was experiencing severe Tardive Dyskinesia (TD) even though she wasn't on any medication that causes that side effect. Once we put her in hospice, and all meds were removed, she came back to us. She has been doing fairly well; back to walking, able to hold logical conversations, and the TD is gone. Who knew that being in hospice would be what has saved her. My life is all about work and my grandson. Since he is an athlete, he does keep me quite busy getting him to all his practices and games. The only break I get is when he is injured. Today he got injured so I have a week reprieve from carting him everywhere. ROFL

I'm doing pretty good. In March I left my job of 15 years and now work for a local charter school. My mom has been in hospice for 2 years and is doing well, considering. My teenage grandson keeps me busy with all his sports activities. We just finished cross country running season. He was just selected to be on the basketball team. Next week we head to Florida for a National Baseball Tournament. How are those girls of yours?

I'm always late to the party! I think my invitation got lost in the mail. lol

Glad I could bring a smile to your face. I'm doing okay. Too much going on in my life. I hope you and your family are doing well. Those girls must be all grown up!

Update: Mom has not had a very good 2021. Since April she has been have many cognitive and physical issues. The worst episode happened two weeks ago. At that time, the family sadly started hospice. She continues to have good days and bad days. The bad days are outnumbering the good. Please keep her and my family in your thoughts and prayers.

1) "anyone" noticed 2) I'm not much of a blogger.

I am not a judge of music, but I listened all the way through. Then I went searching for more things that you may have posted there. That says a lot right there. Is Warm Sand Blue Horizon your work, as well?

When do you have time for all those sites???!!!

Hi Parabellum!! I stop in now and again. Then life takes over and I end up drowning in work. That old saying about all work and no play.... What have you been up to? @ Cpl, I used to have WK's phone number, but lost it during some phone upgrade, I'm sure.

Hi die7 This is my personal computer. The RAM issue was happening before I installed Webroot. I was running AVG at the time, and when that expired I turned to WebRoot. I am actually quite satisfied with WebRoot; have used it professionally for years. When our company was hit with a cryptovirus, we didn't lose a thing due to webroot being able to neutralize and restore our files. That was the only program that identified the virus. Thank you for your advice.

I work for a regional medical society. What are your concerns?

@Dannik, that is what did the trick. Thank you for that suggestion! So I now have it turned off. If the RAM maxes out again, I will be able to actually do a real reboot!

I never heard of hybrid shutdown! In reading about it, changing this would definitely clear the memory upon shutting down. However, when I go to my settings, I am not given the option to change it. grrr Will look into it some more. Thanks, Alex!

Thanks, Wombat. I will try to reseat and/or move the RAM to different slots. I'm not getting any beep codes.

I'm running a Windows 10 64-bit OS, Intel Core i5-6600K, 3.50GHz processor with 16 GB RAM. Periodically my system will run extremely slow. In checking task manager, I would find that the RAM will be maxed out (98%), but the CPU and disk drive will be less than 10%. I will not have any programs open. The process that is using the most memory would be display fusion at 47 MB. The total of usage comes nowhere close to 16 GB. The only way I can get the system back to normal is to turn it off for about 2 days. This is problematic when trying to work remotely. In the research I've done it could be a virus or drive incompatibility. I'm running webroot anti-virus and have done all updates on my system. Any ideas why this is happening and what I can do to prevent it from happening? Could it be a sign that RAM is failing? I can post images the next time it happens, if that may be helpful.

Hey all My 11 year old grandson has picked up playing Ghost Recon on the Xbox and really enjoying it. Can you remind me if there is an option to play in first person? If I recall correctly, it is only first person when you zoom in. I did a search but came up with a "million" results. lol

If you put a cup in the middle of one of the plates in the microwave, you can stack another plate on top of the glass to help heat things up quicker. Just make sure everything you use is microwave safe! ♣♣

Why mess with a good thing? LOL

Harelip! Man, you just dropped off the face of the earth! Glad you are still kicking. Zebb! Another blast from the past. So good to see more familiar faces. Stay safe, guys!

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When traveling, and you need a toothbrush holder, flip a paper cup upside down and poke a hole through the middle!

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