MikePod Update/Pamela Harriman

Latest adds to the MikePod:

1) Albert King: Blues From The Road Great Live Album

2) Elmore James: The Sky Is Crying Great Collection from on eof the post WWII Masters

3) Johnny Winter: Blues In A Box Great Collection from a master guitarist

Coming Soon: Beatles @The Hollywood Bowl

We watched a PBS documentary about Pamela Harriman, a native Brit whose dick garage ways led her to become a large influence in the Democartic Party

Crash!

Hard Drive Crash that is. I came home last Saturday, 4/12 after work and my desktop would not boot up. After trying a safe mode boot, I had to reformat. I picked an option that creates a data file back up and was able to get my almost 2 years old XP Gateway to reboot. The only problem was that the back up file was 85 gig, leaving me just 6.25 gig. XP does not let you delete these files so using my Simplex portable HD I was able to restore everything with no apparent data loss. To get rid of the back up file, I nuked the HD today, 4/19.

That's why I do my back ups each Sunday. I now have over 110 gig of free space and things run better now. I may do a spring cleaning each year and nuke the HD on purpose each spring in the future.

Medical Emergency on the train

I was on the UP West line on Saturday afternoon and we were stranded in Maywood for 20 minutes due to a medical emergency. Thanks to my cellphone camera, here is the Mike report action. The ambulance came up the platform instead of the street. I never did hear what happened, I did see the conductor escorting people to ambulance via our car.

More Blues

Bessie Smith "Empress Of The Blues"

Son Seals "Living in The Danger Zone"

James Cotton "V8 Ford Blues"