Around noon yesterday, my computer decided it needed a break. Nothing I did would correct the problem. After stressing for several hours, I called the cable company. They could do nothing because the modem was not responding.
Scheduled an appointment for 1:00 - 3:00 today. My future grandson-in-law called this morning and walked me through the problem. These were things I had already tried but with his assistant it worked. i am on line again.
My favorite sound must be his voice on the phone or the sound of the computer connecting.
Amazing how much we depend on the computer. I even had to get the phonebook out yesterday.
I totally agree. Once you get used to it, you find that it can take the place of so many real-life items. You can find almost anything using one and the capacity to store things in them is almost endless. Sometimes I think that my memory problems stem from having everything in the computer and I therefore subconsciously feel that I don't need to remember those things any more. I can just look them up when I need to!
Yeah, me too, that's why I don't remember anything. Only it started in grade school when I figured out I could look up anything I needed in the library. (That's my story & I'm sticking to it.)
My favorite sound is birds singing in the morning while I'm having coffee.
My husband's breathing.
A baby sleeping.
My mother talking.
I could go on and on and on.
The sound of my own words. LOL
children playing
snowfall
the breeze in the trees
Really, Janet, "my mother talking"? What are you wanting?
My favorite sound:
daughters singing
piano music
all the little sounds that mean things are working all right.
not a favorite sound: telephone ringing
Echoes resounding across a small town in the autumn.
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This brought back memories of sleeping with the windows open while being lulled to sleep with the sound of pumping oil rigs in the background. Very calming . We did not own the rigs. :'(
In the late summer, the locusts.
The sound of the board bouncing at the pool and the children's laughter.
When I pick up the phone, and hear, "Hi, Mom"
Organ music played as a prelude at church
Birds chirping
Waking up to it raining
Old familiar songs from my youth that immediately take me back to where I was the first time I heard them.
The sounds of my home.
church bells across the fields on a sunday morning
I like Susan's "the sounds of my home", as long as they are sounding right.
Birds waking up.
Rain, birds, especially when the wrens first come back in May. The kids playing at the pool at the bottom of our hill. The train blowing at the crossing. The U. of Del. carillon. The marching band practicing.
STAN kemton
Speaking of marching bands, my daughter was really wrapped up in hers, eventually becoming the head field conductor. They have a tradition of going to the houses of the high school VIPs one night a year, after midnight, and playing the fight song. They could usually get about 80 of the 120 kids in the band to go. I lived next door to the high school principal, who was just the greatest guy in the world.
But across the street was the snippiest, nastiest woman in the solar system. She came over the first time it happened in our neighborhood and said, with a huge frown on her face, "Did you hear those damned kids last night..." and I cut her off with a big smile and, "Yeah, weren't they GREAT!"
She never talked to me again. For that reason, the sound of a marching band is one of my favorite sounds, too, even at one in the morning.
;D
My granddaughter Hannah caught in the midst of an uncontrollable spontaneous giggle (Ethan too, but Hannah is more prone to them). Don't you remember those from being a kid? I do, and how can a person NOT grin at hearing that sound.
One of my favorite sounds in the summer is the "ping" of a canning jar sealing .
I also love the sound of babies cooing in church....LOL.....it makes a boring sermon go quicker...LOL
I think the sounds of tree frogs and crickets and whatever loves to sing me to sleep.
Dad whistling as he worked around the house.........he still does that, but for some reason he stays on the same song.......that gets a little old...Mom always tries to distract him and he lets her get away with it........But, then will forget and here we go again. God bless Fathers and mothers..!!!
I also love walking in the cafe and each and everyone looks around and says, "Hi, Judy" feels like home.
The quiet after a snowfall............is wonderfull......don't care if it is a blizzard or the middle of the night.......Course after that one snow fall, it can stop..LOL
The quiet at church when someone is testifing and all get into it.
Thank God for the ears to hear.
The sound of a pre-1955 Chevy, six cylinder engine with split manifold and dual Hollywood pipes.
Just hearing that baby slowly pull away from a stop sign was a sound to behold!
Rudy, I had plumb forgotten that one.
Car sounds probably don't work for the ladies among us, but they almost certainly do for all us guys. There were wonderful sounds (Rudy's exhaust sound, for example) and horrible sounds (like a clacking lifter, for example) that most of us remember. I'm not going to dwell on it, cuz I could probably fill most of a book with some combination of the two.
;)
Quote from: Kermit on July 23, 2007, 01:26:18 PM
Rudy, I had plumb forgotten that one.
Car sounds probably don't work for the ladies among us, but they almost certainly do for all us guys. There were wonderful sounds (Rudy's exhaust sound, for example) and horrible sounds (like a clacking lifter, for example) that most of us remember. I'm not going to dwell on it, cuz I could probably fill most of a book with some combination of the two.
;)
Guys
I beg to differ...........except he kept getting in trouble with it, (tickets, etc) I loved hearing the glass packs?that my youngest son use to have on one of his trucks.
I also like to hear the JAKE-breaks (is that how to spell it) that the semi's use.........not sure what they are doing, slowing down I think.......but it makes my heart go pitter-patt.
Also I love the air horns of the big boys........I always wished I had stayed healthy, I would have loved being an overthe road driver......I can enjoy them from the "peanut gallery"
Oh, I also love to here the low notes being sung..........bass singers or bass guitars are always fun to listen too.
The couple that lived across Nevada Street from me in Moss Beach were both high school teachers (math and phys ed) plus he was the baseball coach. I heard a bunch of racket out in front of my house one day, and there they were, each with a shiny new blue cabover Peterbilt. His had a phony license plate in the back window that said "Coach" and she had a matching one that said "Crash."
Turns out they had both gotten tired of teaching, and principals, and paperwork. They had taken out loans and gotten the two trucks, after going to trucking school nights and weekends. I don't think they ever regretted it.
That's Jake Brake....I'll match a Chevy 409 against our 800 gal. Seagrave diesel pumper starting up any day.
For those who are curious:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_brake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_brake)
I'll try to find a sound file to add to this.
There is a typical jake brake sound at the end of this sound file, after all the yakking is over.
http://www.timesfreepress.com/MEDIA/audio/metro/2007/april/JakeBraking04 01.mp3 (http://www.timesfreepress.com/MEDIA/audio/metro/2007/april/JakeBraking04%2001.mp3)
This isn't a favorite sound but it has a good story to it. We had a 1964 Galaxie 500 that had dual mufflers. I think that is what they were called. They could roar if you wanted them to. Janet drove this car quite often and this is what she told me. She could roar those mufflers and challenge anyone and never have to prove it. She also pretended to have lost a contact one day in class and had everybody looking for it when she didn't even wear glasses.
Mercy Maude! Janet, arrest this man. Nobody should get by with Jake Brakes like that!
Egads, scofflaw!
Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
I had a friend in high school that had an old Volkswagon (that's the only kind of Volkswagon there was when I was in high school) that had a gas heater. If you worked it just right, you could make it backfire very loudly and shoot a flame out the side, underneath the car.
It was a riot at stop lights.
;D
I was hoping to hear the Jake Brakes, but my computer won't load up the address thingy, so I will wait till you can post a sound thingy.....Yep, I am not all that savvy with computer language.......it is all I can do to speak and spell English....
Really enjoying this thread............Judy
I often refer to myself as mono-lingually challenged, Jane. That is why I have a lot of respect for people that can speak a lot of languages. I knew a Russian fellow once whose parents had been diplomats. He had lived all over the world as a child and spoke 9 languages fluently. He could even hold conversations in several of them at the same time. He just amazed me.
But, you know, you get something, you have to give something. I think the price he paid for all that language skill was his name, which was George Horni. His girlfriend would not marry him because she refused to be Tammy Horni. In the end, everything comes out even.
;D
Ya gots ta have HILLS to even need a Jake Brake. Around Howard? ha,ha
Quote from: Diane Amberg on July 23, 2007, 06:32:16 PM
Ya gots ta have HILLS to even need a Jake Brake. Around Howard? ha,ha
Thats where I hear them.. When the trucks are coming off the hill to Longton's east (It is called Zollar's I believe) and they have to slow down going through Longton........Ok, they are suppose to.......some don't seem to be able to read........(drivers, Janet, not trucks...LOL) I can just see her react to that phrasing...but, I still think the sound is sweet.
I enjoy going to auto shows and seeing the "old hoopies"
The sound of the announcer of the home football game and you are standing outside your home and can here him plain as day. Especially if it is the first home game. Something special to me about that. I don't know why. Maybe it's because it reminds me that the kids are growing.
I also like the sound of the marching band when they are practicing for a parade and are marching around a few streets in Howard. We don't see much of that anymore.
I'm going to have to trim down some of the tape of my daughter and the marching band. When Kjell and Teresa get the video / slideshow function installed and running, I'll be able to put some up on the forum.
I love night sounds - sitting on a creek bank, fishing with night crawlers and waiting for that first tug on your bait. But my favorite of all is children laughing and playing. What a wonderful happy sound that is. I have many favorite sounds - and they all revolve around sounds made by our girls and our grandchildren.
My favorite sound is water. I love the sound of rain, waterfalls, waves, fountains... I love it all.
Quote from: Jo McDonald on July 23, 2007, 09:15:31 PM
I love night sounds - sitting on a creek bank, fishing with night crawlers and waiting for that first tug on your bait.
I love these words. I read them and I was instantly on a creek bank at night fishing. I could just hear everything. Thanks, Jo, for making me remember.
The instant I read those words, I thought of the Tom. T. Hall song Mama's Got the Catfish Blues.
I ain't had a bite cause the moon's too bright
I wish I had a big one or two
My trotline's set and my hooks're all wet
And mama's got the catfish blues.
Don't like to see her unhappy, she treats me like a water tree
I hate to see mama with the catfish blues
And the catfish're laying in the river asleep
There's a bottle of wine laying easy on my mind
I dug enough bait to catch a few
My reel is wet but I cannot forget
Mama's got the catfish blues.
There's a turtle on the stump and the toadfrog jump
And I guess I could gig me a few
In settlin' fog I caught a big water dog
Mama's got the catfish blues.
Don't like to see her unhappy, she treats me like a water tree
I hate to see mama with the catfish blues
And the catfish're laying in the river asleep
There's a bottle of wine laying easy on my mind
I dug enough bait to catch a few
My reeling's wet but I cannot forget
Mama's got the catfish blues...
;D
I like the sound of fibbing for the sake of love.
THE BIRD ON NELLIE'S HAT
"I'll be your little honey and I'll promise that,"
said Nellie as she rolled her dreamy eyes.
"Well it's a shame to take the money," said the
bird on Nellie's hat. "Last night she said the same
to Johnny Wise."
Then to Nellie Willie whispered as they fondly kissed.
"I'll bet that you were never kissed like that!"
"Well, you don't know Nellie like I do,"
said the saucy little bird on Nellie's hat!"
LOL! That's cute, Rudy!
Wait a minute, I think I knew her...
I think when the clock chimes 10 you two come out on the back porch and do your howlin' at the moon. hahahahahah what a fun day, I have had --- and for someone my age a fun day is an All Right Day !!!
I used to have a dog named BJ, who was mainly an Australian herding dog. If I got down at his level, which just meant sitting on the floor, and tilted my head back and started to howl, BJ would howl with me all night long. It was especially fun from the balcony when the moon was full. It drove the neighbors crazy.
;D
I have lots of favorite sounds..
but top on the list is when my grown boys, Danny & Derek call and I hear," Hi Mama..what cha' doin".
Ashley wrapping her arms around my neck and saying," I love you Mee Maw"
Mason.. when he looks at me and smiles and laughs..
The sound of my own mama and daddy's voice..
and my Grandma Workman's voice, which I miss hearing..
(She would call me every single day and always start out with" Hi sweet angel")
Those are my first best favorite sounds.. :)
For the next few months my favorite sound is going to be "Hi Mom its Neil" :)
He's on his way back overseas this week, supposedly they are only going on a 6 month cruise and not leaving the ship but the squadron web page shows them learning how to look for IED's before they deploy I doubt very much there are going to be any of them on deck so I am guessing they will be going ashore somewhere for something other than R&R
He went for a 6 month cruise in '04 and ended up in Afghanistan for 8 months. >:(
My prayers for his safety too.
May he be safe wherever he is and no matter what they have him doing, and may he come home soon and unharmed.
Amen to that!
I want to correct my reply. It seems that my eyes aren't any better than my typing. Stan Kenton is my favorite sound!
It's OK, Jody. All of us type faster than we think. And we understood your love for Stan Kenton --- what a beautiful sound he had.
Beth --- We all pray that your Neil will be safe and arrive back home to hug and kiss on his Mom.