Once again, another year has gone by and we are celebrating another Father's Day. I am all for celebrating it with lots of gusto. I am not saying this just because I am a father, I'm saying this because I like living life with lots of gusto.
I would not complain about this, because nobody would listen to my complaining anyway, but fathers really do not get their due share of praise and recognition. Father's Day is not quite like Mother's Day where people go out and spend billions of dollars for mothers, usually out of Dad’s pocketbook. By the time Father's Day comes around that pocketbook has been picked bare.
If we are going to be fair about this business of celebrating Mother's Day and Father's Day the two events should be separated by more than 30 days. My recommendation is, one year we celebrate Father's Day and the next year we celebrate Mother's Day. That would be fair.
Nobody has ever put into practice any suggestion of mine in the past so I am confident nobody will pay attention to this wonderful plan that I have. But it does have merit.
In looking forward to Mother's Day, I could not help but think about the mess our country is in right now. Not that messes remind me of mothers in particular, but honesty compels me to admit they are good at cleaning up messes. And, the messes they cleanup are not their doing. That is what makes it so terrific.
Somebody needs to clean up the mess we are in.
Anybody who steps outside their house knows that the country is in a terrific mess these days. It would be impossible to blame one political party over another. In this area, everybody is equal. The truth is, politicians make messes. Furthermore, they leave these messes for other people to clean up. Many politicians have dirty mouths and minds but none have dirty hands from cleaning up messes.
There are two kinds of politicians in our country. Those who make messes and those who allow those messes to be made. Wouldn't it be nice to find a politician who actually would clean up a mess?
Our country is in the soup, and not the kind of soup your mother used to make. Politicians make soup out of circumstances that nobody can stomach while mothers have a marvelous way of making soup out of almost anything, and it tastes heavenly, plus it is good for you.
Every year about this time, a friend of mine always says, "If March comes in like a lion it will go out like a lamb." I would not mind it so much if I knew what in the world he was talking about.
That is the thing about friendship. We allow people to go on and on about something without the slightest notion of what they are talking about and yet, we most heartily agree with their opinion. I suppose that is why we are still friends. We put up with their eccentricities in hopes that they will reciprocate.
Friendship like this is the perfect example of Ying and Yang, and I'm not even Chinese, although Egg Foo Yong is not so bad and I can play chopsticks on the piano. To put it in language I can understand, there is a little bit of me in thee and a little bit of thee in me, so it hardly behooves me to speak ill of thee.
I suppose when we think of the lion and the lamb we are thinking about opposites. The lion is facing one way and the lamb is facing another way. Then somebody will say, "Well, opposites attract." I suppose they do, but what in the world do they attract? And why should I be interested in it?
+ I've been asked a number of times how it is that the Cybersalt Twitter updates are automatically appearing as status updates on my Facebook Account. It is very easy to do. Log in to your Facebook account and add the Twitter App to your Facebook. After that, all you need to do is set up the app with your Twitter account info and follow directions. The next time you update your Twitter status your Facebook Status will update too!
AVG Antivirus Won't Automatically Update
Recently all of my computers have been runnning into problems running the automatic anti-virus definitions updates from AVG. I've used AVG's free antivirus program for a number years right after Norton Antivirus became such a hog of resources and bogged my computers down. I liked AVG because it was a simple, lightweight program that scanned for viruses. Then they added all kinds of other options that I didn't want and that I could not turn off. But, they still had my confidence so I stuck with them.
However, with this update problem arising I decided to give a different, free anti-virus program a try. I had been hearing about it for some time now from the technical support department of my web host (www.islandnet.com). They are excellent at helping their clients find practical, solid, and economical solutions to their internet needs and I know them well from the years they have been hosting my Cybersalt stuff as well as other sites that Cybersaltines have hosted through me (contact me if you are interested in web hosting).
The program is called Antivir and it is put out by Avira. If you are looking to try a different, free, and lightweight antivirus program, check them out.
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Recently all of my computers have been runnning into problems running the automatic anti-virus definitions updates from AVG. I've used AVG's free antivirus program for a number years right after Norton Antivirus became such a hog of resources and bogged my computers down. I liked AVG because it was a simple, lightweight program that scanned for viruses. Then they added all kinds of other options that I didn't want and that I could not turn off. But, they still had my confidence so I stuck with them.