Yours Truly

Yours Truly
Janet Fauble at home

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Computer Problems

I have not been writing anything for sometime due to security on my computer. I had to purchase a netbook due to this computer having been hacked into so often and so wary of viruses and problems. I am frankly tired of windows computers having so many security problems. As a result, I am going to try to become proficient enough at horses to be able to buy a new computer which will be assured to be safe for me to use. Someone actually ordered me a security program which a week earlier I had already told same company I would not renew since it had not protected my system properly. The bank called me to notify me of the order and asked if I had authorized it. I had not and had to go through all kinds of problems to get that situation straightened out. As it was both bank and company were good about it and helped me to get through it but it cost me dearly and taught me a lesson, one of which is get a new computer but make certain that it is not a windows system.

So I will be purchasing a macintosh before too very long.

And it will be secure.

Lesson learned.

I have been using cellphone computer which is only a photograph of the stuff that is on original computer so a salesman told me when I asked.

I am contemplating writing new blogs...am investigating that as much as possible. Blogging is really helpful if you know how to do it right. I am already considering ideas for a blog to earn money.

all for now.

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Toying with new blog ideas

I read a very interesting blog on making money with a blog and how to do it and again it uses google ads as the means for making a sizeable income after apparently a year's time in which one has developed ones blog. I doubt that it is as easy as this man purports it to be for him, but I am sure that it has possibilities. One must set up the money management section of google to undergo this experience of placing ads on your blogsite so that you will reap rewards and income from it.

I have worked on the lottery games for years and I will probably return to playing the lottery asap, since my horse racing stints are pretty meagre. I did rather badly this afternoon deciding to play only Delta Downs millionaire game. I did a rather good job picking them, but I always have a problem when finally placing the bet, reverting back to old habits which are hard to break...always sucked in by the favorite who by rights should win the race.

The most fantastic thing happened in Churchill Downs that absolutely blew my mind. A while back I had written a formula for playing the superfecta which is a cool formula and today it worked at churchill Downs...Previously it had also worked in an Australian race I saw streamed in to our local t.v.s

My problem is that I prefer to bet where nobody can get an idea of how much I am playing or what horses I am choosing.

I am extremely superstitious about the quality of my voice and a horse if I am talking to someone. I am also superstitious about people who yell out the names or numbers of horses in my presence. I had noticed that problem in Florida when I was there, and sure enough Cannonade won that year at the Derby and some guy was screaming out the horse's name and number...It still goes on and today once again, the same thing happened and the horse again did the same thing...it is a very weird thing so that on the next two races of that year at Preakness and Belmont I would not go near the sports bar so as not to be in the hearing of those yelling so we got Little Current.

My voice also weakens very much when a horse I discuss is a loser...it happened again today as it had done at Churchill with Snow Chief. I knew then that Snow Chief could not win just as today I knew that Doug's Buddy could not win besides the fact that he shook his head so I could see that he was saying no.

I had picked Sabrecat as a possibility believe it or not myself but when it came time to play I stayed with the favorite using longshots only in the trifecta which I did try to play.

But the 8 horse had been picked in a facebook note and sure enough, the guy who was talking to me won with it and was kind enough to have placed a bet for me which I accepted so I won because of him. He was a really nice guy to do that and as that has happened so seldom in my life I was in shock about it...I really like him for that.

On that note, sounding off and leaving the premises....gotta be careful til December.

Friday, November 18, 2011

Sounding Off

In a few minutes I am going to attend a party being given for the former manager, Nancy, who has been retired from her job. She is 63 and the new bosses, the son and daughter of the owner, have taken over, and are giving her a good bye party. I finally saw Nancy earlier this week in the clubhouse when we were both using the wifi for our computer needs. So I decided to say good bye to her as manager at this party tonight and to meet the other apartment guests who may show up to get some free grub.

I cooked potato pancakes today...Sandra Kuolt had given me three bags of potatos a while back so I had to finally boil all of them and so today shredded eight to make potato pancakes, Southern Living recipe.

Since I am on for only a short time without Norton's security this will be written quickly to avoid problems.

I am on a very tight budget, limited income, since the government insists upon being stupd in its processing social security programs and I have yet to return to attempt to get needed benefts...hoping always to find a way not to need them.

Verizon did help me through this month by sending rebate in a timely fashion...notice that it is a part of the xfactor system and that I noted also last night...as I am very pleased with Verizon right now.

I needed the $50 bucks.

I wrote a piece about my health for those who demonstrate that they care about me at a facebook note section. It was late at night so probably few saw it. I got to sleep finally about 3 o'clock this morning and slept til ten when I got a phone call from who knows who and no identifying clue except number as to who called. Hope not someone for Capital One as I would gladly sue the daylights out of them.

I am angry about a lot of wrongdoing in this nation. I usually take action. People who would know the truth about my situation would understand why. I am tired of the politics, the unfairness towards the needy, and the rich getting by with outrageous conduct and behaviour because they are either in government or have high paid attornies who know how to manipulate the laws to suit themselves. Juries are often a joke especially with celebrities, always letting celebrities get by with murder.

Funny thing about the Natalie Wood case right now...exposing the fact that many people find Robert Wagner guilty, and a few who actually remember when and how all this happened off Catalina Island back in 1981 on November 29.

I remember well where I was as I had just painted my own self portrait in Davison Michigan. Never have forgotten that untimely drowning as it reminded me of my students at Center Intermediate once again and a kid by the name of Tom A. Also made me think of a girl named Debbie L. So life is strange when Hollywood imitates real life so often in many ways.

I had a schoolgirl crush on Robert Wagner as his birthday is the day before mine and I fell in love with him in my adolescence. I actually saw him once at Santa Anita. I feel that the drowning was a bit like a movie that Natalie starred in called This Property Is Condemned with Robert Redford. Redford is one hunk of a guy and Natalie was one gorgeous girl whose best work was in West Side Story imho.

I liked her a lot.

Robert Wagner went on to marry Jill St. John, a hot honey of a red head whose fame was well known in my younger years. I am still in love with RJ.

He always reminded me of my first boyfriend in first grade, Jay Bergman, who I dearly love to this day too. I had loved Bobby Driscoll then also. He was wonderful in So Dear to my Heart, a Disney movie. I have always loved Walt Disney Studios also. They are basically good people and very kind to me personally. I remember when I went to a dance there and Les Brown was playing...when I walked in, he struck up the band to play Hello Dolly. I know I belong at Disneyland and Disneyworld...I am a real Mickey Mouse person.

That's all for now...sounding off.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

New blog

I will continue using this blog but am about to embark upon creating a new blog...not exactly sure where or how...this has all been a trial and error situation. Many problems in learning how to write blogs, how to insert photos and videos, and how to make them focused on a single subject or topic. I do not like to be too narrow but a friend who writes her novels on blogs has convinced me that it may be possible to write short novels or stories which I may attempt.

The real reason that I am often careless and indifferent to using great care in writing a blog is that I am too aware of how easy it is to go to a page and lift it. I am rather particular about being able to capitalize on my own works rather than having some other person take it from me and run with it getting credit as if it had been theirs.

So for that reason, I often allow grammatical erros, spelling erros, and typos to stay on a page rather than removing them, thinking that if a person is going to just take my page and pass it off as his that it will bear those errors...he can be punished for those as well. The method in my madness as the saying goes is to protect myself at all costs.

I realized a long time ago that nobody is going to be able to afford a court case on plagiarism, and frankly, many of us will never know if our stuff is lifted or not. I can't beat the bushes trying to find out who is imitating and copying me so much.

The simple truth is that people should realize that I talk back and forth to people in the television media quite frequently and they quite frenquently respond and talk back to me as well.

Will close now...am concerned about the verizon signal tonight as well as Norton.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Writing novels on a blog

Do people actually follow blogs that are written as novels? That would be interesting to try, wouldn't it? Thinking about it...but how do you protect your own work? I just don't trust it.

Blogging

Thanks to Mme. Guillotine I have learned that writing a novel on a blogspot is a way to attract agents. On that note, I am considering trying that as a way of testing the waters. I am usually as protective of my ideas as a major auto company is of their supersecret models.

Now the problem is knowing which blogger group to use as this one has often advertised that your blog could be published and sold..That means creating another account, and probably doing as google does by selling ads. I did learn through create space though that one has to get all the business side accomplished before one even begins...first thing first when it comes to marketing.

Friday, November 11, 2011

Verans Day and 11/11/11

So far this day has not been any different from any other, and I often think that today's media are making too much of the Mayan Calendar and other natural events...it is a bit gray here in the Valley, but warm, and I did finally get out of the apartment to go to the grocer's and drugstore, stopped at the hardware store to see that they are conducting a food drive, and even toured the last ten minutes of the Thrift Store which was about to close its doors.

I did not know how much shelves cost or I would have my shelf brought from the other apartment to this one but I foolishly said, oh leave it...now I find that they cost a fortune to buy at a hardware store but bet I can find some thrown out in the alley's somewhere.

I wrote a chapter on Alexander earlier this past summer about sexual abuse to children and so the Joe Paterno story prompted me to react to that on a discussion group. I fortunately was able to delete my outburst.

Jerry Sandusky deserves to serve time in jail for his misconduct. I am as opposed as anyone to the problem of child abuse, whether it is boys or girls.

Because the gay world has latched onto Alexander as some kind of gay icon, I am taking the exact opposite approach in my book since I believe from stories that I have read and of course, my own intimate knowledge, that he was opposed to gay behaviour. He was a very masculine oriented man who disliked anything slightly effeminate displayed in a man. In fact, my premise is that his father admonished him when he was criticizing the Sacred Band for their lifestyles. I wish I had kept notes on all the books I read and all the authors but one author in particular pointed out that he had critized them to have Philip turn and admonish him for it. In fact, Philip more or less brought about his own demise by putting a curse on those who found anything wrong with the Sacred Band which was intended for Alexander. Philip is a strange man, full of both love and hate for his own son.

I do not believe that Alexander ever engaged in homosexual practices as he has made it known loud and clear that his interest is in his own divinity, not depravities which they were considered in that time as well as this time.

So I wrote a chapter where the young boys discuss an incident of child abuse and physical abuse amongst themselves...when I read the Grand Jury report,I thought uhoh, it sounds a lot like my chapter...bothered me a lot that way...proving what? that universal truths then are the same now...


My book has a lot of rewriting to do, and I am not doing a NaNoWriMo stint this time round. I am still too absorbed in my own novel, but thanks to my computer problems have put it on hold til I get a computer that won't be infiltrated. I have Norton right now but it is about to expire and I intend to try to keep it as it has protected me so far.

Monday, November 7, 2011

Breeders Cup

Strange things happen that are for real. I am a very keen observer of minutiae that means nothing to anyone but myself. However, I learned years ago that for some reason or other at Christmas time when I lived in Michigan my ss numbers would come up in the lottery so that I could win on them. I notice these kinds of things as birthday combinations also work in lotteries. Sadly, I have missed most of them, being a little short on the up and at em department in betting on such things. My mother would always get so mad at me for not betting on horses that I felt or knew would come in. I did at least bet on two this year to also win on them but that was a rough one for me to do at that time too.

But at the time I was watching Michigan State playing Minnesota at the Upper Deck, a bar that I decided to watch the Breeders Cup races from due to its proximity to my home, in other words, closest one to me, I had a rough time of it in one way...so noisy and the atmosphere not really one that lends itself to making sound bets. But I watch the horses intensely to see which horse is actually wanting to win the race and how he shows it to me, but depending upon directors and cameraman is a bit iffy at times although a few horses did communicate well.

One was Amazombie. I could tell that horse was going to win and so I put a small wager on it, having talked myself out of playing anything substantial as the previous day had been very rough at the exotics games that I played.

I had started out with a small amount and so made certain that I did not do anything stupid so I was prudent to a fault. I had become aware of Force Freeze through some analyst or handicapper's comments but I singled the Amazombie horse(7) and Force F(6)came in with him...Michigan State was playing a football game then, and came out in front of Minnesota at about the same time that Amazombie came in...My MSU student number has 76 as the last two numbers which I use yet today, and so there I was, watching 7 and 6 come intogether, and ironically 5 also came in third....

It finally dawned on me as I had been pulling for Game On Dude all along and due to a man asking me a question I learned that Ruler On Ice would be in the money...I have a special gift that few know about but which I have learned to listen to especially at racetracks, as Strike the Gold came to me the same way for the Kentucky Derby and a horse at Hollywood Park one year ridden by Cash Asmussen...other people know about this and trust me enough to bet on it when I let them know about it...Joyce,a photographer, anyway, again, the little voice came out to let me know about Ruler On Ice so I knew that 4 would be in the money...Now do I pay attention to all these things and make hay on them? Sometimes, not always...as I do get emotional and tend to make mistakes too like not paying attention to myself when I should...so another guy asked me for longshots and I gave him Game On Dude and Ruler On Ice as I knew that ROI would be in the money but I did not know where...

I should have won that high 5 but I missed out on Drosselmeyer despite its being mentioned at a video in which handicappers did admit to who they thought would be the longshot to win...Drosselmeyer was mentioned so I should have heeded that and my own inclinations...I did ask how much the high 5 would cost...a dollar a bet...so I was tempted but did not have it figur3ed.

3/8 could have made me rich had I bet the exacta...but I didn't but 38 is a personal number of mine that I should have realized if I had been thinking...dang it...half of 76...where was I? well, I did win on Amazombie and because I had seen Hansen in his two earlier races, I knew how good he is, and so took a chance on him but bet win only.

Naturally, I am muttering to myself about all of this...what a day!

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Breeders Cup

My big failing in life is that I am honest to a fault. Whether people like it or not, I tell the truth about most things...naturally there are times when I can lie, but if and when I do lie, it is with a purpose as I have always said that my breath is too valuable to waste it on a lie.

So it is with the Breeder's Cup which I gave a lot of time to develop so that I could run right in and make a great play and win tons of money...I failed to do that miserably...everything that could go wrong has gone wrong but I need the money so much that I sat myself down and worked out a plan to win a superfecta race and while it has weaknesses it has strengths as well...but I did not attempt it yet.

I had to go with my usual win, place, and show bet or win only. I could not win with any exotics when I tried them...had a rough time this week on those but I can always win on singles so I stick to the singles.

I have won a superfecta and a trifecta and exactas in the past but for some reason I could not get them together right the past two days.

I had a great time though as the races themselves were fantastic and surprising...I knew that they would be but some really got past me. I tried not to get emotional but I could not help it, as I am a sucker for all kinds of sob stories and I did get emotionally involved with a couple of horses.

I have mixed feelings about the Classic as Game On Dude was so close when he got caught at the wire...it did break my heart to see that.

Oh well, I will put this on now and probably sooner or later, put a video on. But right now, I can't take it and don't want to see if youtube has it yet.