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About My Dad

I remembered my Dad. We had a manual water pump in the house that he used as an exercise tool to keep fit. He also filled the steel tank with water which supplied the house. I also remember that he keeps a vegetable garden in the backyard. He plants kamoteng kahoy and banana. My dad was a doctor and he kept clinic hours until the evening. He died at 76. His first stroke happened at 52. I was in high school. He recovered then. He died May 10 2003 a year after suffering another stroke. A school mate mentioned and he uniquely remembered that his brothers were circumcised by one Dr Delfin M Roque. I'm sure they were. My father served the community well. We would miss him every Media Noche (New Year's Eve Meal) because that's when all the fireworks casualties come in. When I invited him to be a medical resource person for a symposium on drug abuse at school, he went. He was in the roster of Filipino World War II veterans. He was 15 when the war broke out. They have water buffalo...

About Mozilla Firefox

After upgrading Ubuntu LTS 20.04 to 22.04, the only issue that persists is Mozilla Firefox refusing to unstuck itself from troubleshooting mode. I don't know what's bothering this trusty old browser but I have not encounter this problem since i started using Linux. I downloaded a fresh Firefox off the Mozilla Website itself. It's a 237 mb download and I extracted it on a folder in my home directory so it would not be mistaken for the Ubuntu supplied firefox. I found the file to run the extracted files. Firefox runs magnificently. All my add-ons works including keepassxc-browser. Keepassxc-browser did not completely work with Firefox before. If someone can explain this and I have a feeling that somehow I sold my soul to the devil to get it to work.  So I understand that this personally downloaded version of Firefox won't be updated by apt/apt-get/dpkg and since its binary is in a unique location, I would be responsible for its maintenance and updating. BUT IT WORKS!!!