Sorry about the title; to the Beatles as to the world at large, my mantra; Apologies Where Needed…:-)

How many days left at my age (53)? NO MR. BILL – DON’T SAY!

Ever look back and think “how ridiculous I was back when I was only 18 / 30 / 40″, etc, et al? My question is: Does this go on FOREVER? Will I one day at age 90 think ‘thank goodness I grew out of all that crap I use to pull at age 85…what an idiot back then”?!?

Decided, I’m gonna make this ‘being 53 year old geezer thing work for me’…sure…:-)

So; woke up, got out of bed – but no combs across my head. Do they even still make those cheapie plastic 15 cent combs you could only find at ‘package stores’? At any rate, a day in my life has consisted of exercising…as if!

Charles Atlas I’m not…more a Woody Allen body type ( try to control yourselves ladies)…figure I’m never going to get any healthier, only less so at age 53. Thus, around 6 months back I became one with the Village People anthem, ‘Macho Man’. Well, if there was a song called ‘Not So Macho Man’ that would be the obvious choice.

And here I sit, achy / beaky and in need of a ‘lil lie down’… Never mind health and vitality – when do I feel at least like a 52 year old? (Or at least stop quoting Billy Ray Cyrus song titles?)

I guess the answer is being born all over again, and living another 52 years…oh that’s right! I want to ‘come back’ in a position of perpetual ease and luxury with my every desire instantly met: I wanna come back – AS ONE OF MY CATS!

4- 5to6 oz. portions grouper fillet (towel dry)
3 whole eggs (well mixed)
1/2 cup prepared horseradish
1 4oz. pkg panko bread crumbs (found in Asian groceries, Steve says you can get it at Kroger)
pinch of salt and white pepper

Preheat oven to 375

Mix together the eggs, horseradish, salt and pepper. Dredge the fish fillets first in the horseradish mixture, then carefully move the fish to the container of your panko bread crumbs and carefully coat both sides of the fish, (being careful to keep some of the horseradish mixture on the fish.) Remove to a platter or something and refrigerate for 30 min. (this helps the mixture adhere to the fish) Now, in an ovenproof fry pan, heat 3 Tbs. veg. oil and heat to almost the smoking point. Carefully place the fish in the pan and add a walnut sized piece of butter and brown on one side for a couple of minutes. Carefully turn the fish over in the pan and place in oven for 5 or 6 min..
We serve this dish with garlic mashed potatoes and fresh sauteed asparagus.

Crab and Scallion Melt

serves 4
preheat broiler

2 English muffins, split and lightly toasted
crab salad:
8 oz. jumbo lump crab meat
3 or 4 green onions (thinly sliced)
1 small shallots (finely chopped)
1 Tbs red bell pepper (finely chopped)
1 Tbs grn. bell pepper (finely chopped)
1/4 cup mayo
1 Tbs. honey
1 Tbs. whole grain mustard (optional)
1 cup grated Monterrey jack cheese (in all)
salt and pepper to taste
optional ingredients:
alfalfa sprouts
sliced avocado

Mix all the ingredients, and half of the cheese together for the crab salad, and make 4 small piles of the salad on a foil lined cookie sheet. Add the remaining cheese to the top of the piles and place in the broiler.Cook until thoroughly heated and browned on top.
Place some of the sprouts and the sliced avocado (if using) on the muffins. Using a spatula, place the hot crab mixture on top of the avocado and serve with fresh fruit.

Enjoy!
Chef Rick Farmer
Jarrett’s Restaurant

the time and date will be 04:05:06 07/08/09.
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this will never happen again.

In early March, security researchers identified a new version of the Conficker virus, called Conficker.C. This third variant of the virus, like its predecessors, exploits the vulnerability patched by Microsoft’s security bulletin MS08-067, released in October 2008. While not currently released, it has been confirmed that this virus will become active and malicious on April 1, 2009.
Conficker.C is a major revision of the original virus. This variant includes new functionality that ranges from new infection methods to disabling security tools. The Conficker.C virus will scan and kill processes for security products including disabling: firewalls, patch deployment, and antivirus software.

WHAT TO DO BEFORE APRIL 1ST:
The best defense is to apply Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-067 to eliminate the vulnerability. Administrators should ensure every system on their network, internal and external, physical and virtual, has the MS08-067 patch applied. Before trying to clean or detect any systems that may be infected with the Conficker virus, administrators must first apply the patch. Attempting to clean systems without first protecting them will only present a never-ending process of Virus removal. By applying MS08-067, administrators will then be able to start the task of scanning for infected devices and restoring them back to their desired state.

WHAT TO DO AFTER APRIL 1ST:
If you have not installed the MS08-067 patch on all systems before April 1st, and systems are infected, researchers claim that you will not be able to apply the patch to the infected systems. You will have to manually remove the virus and then apply the patch. This can leave your system open for re-attack in the timeframe between removing the virus and applying the patch.

Potential New Methods of Attack:
In addition to using internal networks as the means of attack, Conficker.C is believed to use P2P (Peer-to-Peer) networking to infect other vulnerable systems.

In an event that hits the computer world only once every few years, security experts are racing against time to mitigate the impact of a bit of malware which is set to wreak havoc on a hard-coded date. As is often the case, that date is April 1.

Malware creators love to target April Fool’s Day with their wares, and the latest worm, called Conficker C, could be one of the most damaging attacks we’ve seen in years.

Conficker first bubbled up in late 2008 and began making headlines in January as known infections topped 9 million computers. Now in its third variant, Conficker C, the worm has grown incredibly complicated, powerful, and virulent… though no one is quite sure exactly what it will do when D-Day arrives.

Thanks in part to a quarter-million-dollar bounty on the head of the writer of the worm, offered by Microsoft, security researchers are aggressively digging into the worm’s code as they attempt to engineer a cure or find the writer before the deadline. What’s known so far is that on April 1, all infected computers will come under the control of a master machine located somewhere across the web, at which point anything’s possible. Will the zombie machines become denial of service attack pawns, steal personal information, wipe hard drives, or simply manifest more traditional malware pop-ups and extortion-like come-ons designed to sell you phony security software? No one knows.

Conficker is clever in the way it hides its tracks because it uses an enormous number of URLs to communicate with HQ. The first version of Conficker used just 250 addresses each day — which security researchers and ICANN simply bought and/or disabled — but Conficker C will up the ante to 50,000 addresses a day when it goes active, a number which simply can’t be tracked and disabled by hand.

At this point, you should be extra vigilant about protecting your PC: Patch Windows completely through Windows Update and update your anti-malware software as well. Make sure your antivirus software is actually running too, as Conficker may have disabled it.

Microsoft also offers a free online safety scan here, which should be able to detect all Conficker versions