Douglas E. Berry

Accomplished everything I set out to do, and more.

• Extension paperwork filed with the medical secretaries


• Picked up my thyroid medication, Levothyroxine 25MCG.


• Nearly had a heart attack at the cost.


• Went to the DMV and picked up my temporary disabled parking placard. DMV was hellish as usual, but I had a cute baby to watch.

Then came the real fun of the day. Helping my mom with her computer. At first I was just going over to show her how to use Flickr. But then two things quickly became apparent. Nothing on this machine had been updated in years, and my mom was agreeing to any installation option given to her. IE had about 5 toolbars, and when I opened the ancient version of Firefox, there were at least eight. So a'program-deleting we went! Cleared about 2gig of crap from the hard drive. Then downloaded a clean, current version of Firefox and set it up for her needs.

Had one final errand. For decades I've had a dollar bill that was printed when war fears with the Japanese were growing. The Treasury printed a raftload of money with HAWAII printed on the back. The idea was that if the islands were successfully invaded, the US could simply declare all such bills to be worthless. There's no family history attached to it, so I called a coin store to see if I could bring it in. The best part was that on Lincoln Avenue in Willow Glen I got a parking space right in front of the place I was going. (Highly recommended, they were great people.) The appraiser looked over the bill and offered five dollars. Since that's more than the face value, I easily accepted. Sure, in the back of my mind, I was hoping for a "1935 Series A? My God, there are only five known to exist!" but knew that wasn't likely. Still looking out for a wandering 1933 Gold Double Eagle, though.

Finally, I came home and made two new icons. One for Madden football, and the one I've needed for a while, seen on this post.

Kirsten bought us new EMTEC flash drives yesterday. Mine's a cute little penguin. With 4gb of storage. I can remember when we were stunned by a friend's desktop with its massive 30mb hard drive. Now I can hang over 130 times the storage space on my key chain. Now I just need to get Mr. Bigglesworth back from his upgrade.