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Mouse Battery Power

 

Did you know that if you leave your wireless mouse alone
for more than eight minutes, it will be sleeping when you
come back. The reason they go into the sleep mode is to
save some battery life, which is of course, very helpful.

 

Well, there are a couple other things you can do to save
the battery life of your wireless mouse as well. There is
one practice that may not be too practical for everyone,
but if you're able, you can always try it. I'm talking
about using your mouse as little as possible. If you know
several keyboard shortcuts, you should use them! (Or at
least use as many as you can). The less you click your
mouse, the more battery life you will save.

 

I know keyboard shortcuts are hard to learn and it's even
harder to remember all of them, so another thing you can do
is keep your mouse on a white piece of paper or a highly
reflective surface when it is resting. This will help
conserve some of the battery power too.

 

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"Who can imagine Moses, Jesus, or Ghandhi armed with the
money-bags ofCarnegie?"   

 

 - Albert Einstein#
  
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My Christmas Revelation

 

I was married to my second husband for eighteen years. Now,
I'm a widower, but don't consider this any of kind of
downer, especially considering statistics suggest many
newly-married folks don't even get eighteen months of
togetherness!

 

During the first few years after 'being alone'  my parents
decided to spend the months of November through January
with me. At the time, they lived in California; I in
Georgia.  I was fine, but have you ever tried to tell that
to yourparents, no matter how old you happen to be?

 

But here's the beautiful thing that came of it.  It was
then I realized just how much my father loved Christmas.

 

During their extended visit, I guess I didn't do enough
decorating around the house to satisfy them.  In earlier
years when we first moved here my husband and I did do the
big decorating thing. 

 

After a few years we stopped.  It didn't bother me in the
least.  So long as I had some pretty poinsetta and other
niceholiday trinkets that was fine.  My daughters were
grown and lived out of state.  The only time I made a big
dealwas when and if they were able to visit. Well, that may
have been fine enough for me, but my folks are die-hard
traditionalists.  When they didn't see the Christmas
ornaments going up all over, it bothered them. 

 

I tried to assure them it really was okay; I just didn't go
in for all that sort of thing anymore.

 

Either they didn't believe me, or they didn't care.   In
all likelihood, they didn't care.  Struggle as it might
havebeen with a large family, they made our childhood
Christmases special - always.  And they weren't stopping
now.

 

My mom is gonna have her Christmas one way or the other,
and that means major decorating.  When I saw her "at it" I
chuckled to myself and said,Well, that's Mom."

 

But, it was my father who really surprised me.

 

There wasn't a trip to any store that he wasn't coming back
from with yet another poinsetta or two, or a lovely
decoration for the doors or the house.  He'd always been
famous for picking the most beautiful birthday or holiday
cards, butthe wreaths he chose were stunning.   

 

I never realized how fussy my dad was!  If he didn't think
the wreath had just the right "look", back out he went to
exchange t.  I have to admit, I both amazed and impressed
with this attention to detail.

 

Finally, my dad got around to asking me about a Christmas
tree to which I nonchalantly replied, "Oh, don't worry
about that. It's too much".  Besides, they'd already turned
my home into a mini-showplace.  He turned to me and asked,
"Notree? 

 

Not even for Daddy?" 

 

Daddy???  I'm well over 50 years old!  Hadn't I out-grown
that 'daddy's girl' syndrome?  Didn't he see that?  What
was hetalking about? 

 

At that moment it dawned on me, crystal clear, how much he
truly loved Christmas.   How was I supposed to resist that
question?I tried to play it off with "Oh, come on, Dad." 

 

Ten minutes later I was in my car.  Had to buy a tree.  

 

Isn't it funny?  My dad was a policeman.  There were six of
us to make a Happy Christmas for.  It could not have been
easy; in fact, it wasn't. It's tough satisfying that many
kids on Christmas morning and even now I wonder how they
did it. 

 

You hear so many comments about policemen.  Fortunately, my
dad was popular and many merchants were generous.  Morethan
generous!  Some gave him sleds, toy soldiers, dolls. I even
remember a couple of bikes they 'donated'.  That's how much
they thought of him!   So, somehow, my folks always managed
to pull off Christmas.

 

 

And now, here he was.  Still thinking Christmas was
something pretty special. I love Christmas, too, but I
don't think Iever truly

 

saw it through his eyes before.  Between the poinsettias,
wreaths, decorations and the tree I realized for the first
time in my life how much the traditions and the good-will
of Christmas meant to my father, and why he made such a big
deal of teaching us to be so compassionate and decent to
others.

 

It was and will always remain a tender moment of
revelation.

 

My dad was my hero and  I'm will be forever thankful to be
given the opportunity to see for myself something I'll
never forget. That I'm the daughter of a man who saw
Christmas for exactlywhat's it is supposed to be about -
loving the ones most important toyou and showing it with my
mom supporting it.    

 

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