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General Category => In General => Topic started by: ProDeo on February 01, 2024, 05:17:38 AM
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On one of hard disks I rediscovered a game I played ~12 years ago and also became popular by my grandchildren. It's a nice shooting game, good graphics, fun story and I started to play it again.
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Chickens. For centuries we have oppressed them, grilling, roasting, stewing, and stuffing them in buns. We should have known the time would come for us to pay. And it did.
Intergalactic chickens invaded Earth, seeking revenge for the oppression of their earthly brethren. They came out of nowhere, and everywhere. It was only you who managed to repel the invasion, and saved humanity from an eternity of servitude.
Then, things got serious. The intergalactic chickens assaulted the solar system and tried make sure that every planet was inhabited exclusively by chickens. Yet again, it was you who took the world's fate in your ketchup-stained hands and saved the day.
But it isn't over yet. Once more, it's time to don your non-stick egg-repulsing helmet and fight for our ancestral right to omelettes. Only you can make a difference. Will you succeed? Will the future of chicken burgers be secure? Or will you end up as part of the menu in a galactic chicken restaurant?
http://www.interactionstudios.com/ci3/careertable.php
After all these years I am still at place 6 as "opi", the pet name of my grandchildren.
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Ha, that reminds me of the time I resurrected an old computer so I could play Grand Theft Auto on it again. I honestly have no idea whether it would run on my current computer. I used to run it under Windows 98. It was kinda fun driving a tank around the town - it doesn't matter if the traffic ahead stopped when you're driving a tank, and if the police come out with a road block that doesn't matter either.
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In the late 80's through the mid-90's, I was a fan of the King's Quest and Space Quest games. I had the entire series of Roger Wilco adventures, and it was quite a transition from the cheesy graphics of Space Quest 1 and 2 to the more sophisticated versions (by 90's standards). Nostalgic stuff.
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I played the games on my first computer: a Tandy 3000 NL that Radio Shack foisted on me. That baby had a massive 40 Mb hard drive and a 286 processor that screamed along at a blazing 12 MHz. In that pre-Windows era, I learned to get things done using MS-DOS commands. The technology then seems comical by today's standards.
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I played the games on my first computer: a Tandy 3000 NL that Radio Shack foisted on me. That baby had a massive 40 Mb hard drive and a 286 processor that screamed along at a blazing 12 MHz. In that pre-Windows era, I learned to get things done using MS-DOS commands. The technology then seems comical by today's standards.
40MB hard drive? Newfangled nonsense....
It seems comical to compare technology then to now but back then if you wrote software you had to do it properly. You couldn't just assume you could take up as much disk space as you wanted, you couldn't assume there would be enough memory, and you had to contain bloated code or it wouldn't run.
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Waiting for the mechanics to finish with my car.
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On the topic of hard drives I added another dead one to my collection. It was a 250GB parallel ATA drive that was once hosted in a simple NAS. Now most of it is in the trash, the magnets are stuck to an old water pipe and the platters are mixed up with the platters from some other drives. I keep thinking there's some scope to do something cool with a bunch of old hard drive platters but I'm not sure quite what.
Having passed the strong magnets over the platters several times and then mixed them all up I'm confident the data is mangled.
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In a few years, such platters will be little more than relics of the past. I've always been fascinated by computer technology, and am amazed by the pace at which it's advancing. The computational power of CPU's and the capacity of hard drives has proliferated exponentially to bring us to the era of the supercomputer, and the crown jewel known as the Frontier. On the cusp of futuristic quantum, nano, and biological computing, what now seems like science fiction will soon become reality. Combined with AI, what is not even conceivable right now will become achievable. And that potential is at once both exhilarating and unsettling--and I believe, a harbinger of the time of the end.
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In a few years, such platters will be little more than relics of the past. I've always been fascinated by computer technology, and am amazed by the pace at which it's advancing. The computational power of CPU's and the capacity of hard drives has proliferated exponentially to bring us to the era of the supercomputer, and the crown jewel known as the Frontier. On the cusp of futuristic quantum, nano, and biological computing, what now seems like science fiction will soon become reality. Combined with AI, what is not even conceivable right now will become achievable. And that potential is at once both exhilarating and unsettling--and I believe, a harbinger of the time of the end.
Even now it seems like it's getting harder to get a regular magnetic hard drive unless you want an enormous great thing. I remember holding off on an SSD because they topped out at 1TB and even one that size was hugely expensive. A couple of years ago I put a 4TB SSD in my laptop for something like $400.
The way technology is advancing is unsettling. My concern is that so many people seem to sleepwalk into a dystopian nightmare. In 1984 people were forced to have telescreens, in 2024 it seems people can't get enough of the technology that listens to them and watches them, and relays what it sees and hears to some unknown server to be processed by persons unknown and stored in locations unknown.
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In the late 80's through the mid-90's, I was a fan of the King's Quest and Space Quest games. I had the entire series of Roger Wilco adventures, and it was quite a transition from the cheesy graphics of Space Quest 1 and 2 to the more sophisticated versions (by 90's standards). Nostalgic stuff.
Ah, yes, King's Quest and Space Quest, I liked Space Quest better, those were the days.
My first home computer was the TRS-80 from Tandy (1980), just 16Kb memory, with cassette tape to store information. It took 5-10 minutes to load a (chess) program. All of that for 2600 dutch guilders, about $7000 nowadays.
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Ah, yes, King's Quest and Space Quest, I liked Space Quest better, those were the days.
I was partial to Space Quest as well, and ended up getting the entire series. Only thing with SQ was, you had to save your game frequently in case you got killed, so you didn't have to start over. But yeah, I miss those days too. (There are websites available to play most of the original games online for free, but I haven't checked it out).
My first home computer was the TRS-80 from Tandy (1980), just 16Kb memory, with cassette tape to store information. It took 5-10 minutes to load a (chess) program. All of that for 2600 dutch guilders, about $7000 nowadays.
As I said, my first was a Tandy 3000 NL, which I bought on credit at Radio Shack (and probably paid 3 times more than it was actually worth). I was a complete newbie, but learned on my own quickly. I was thrilled when I finally got Windows, and was able to point and click to get things done instead of typing all those DOS commands. Yeah, that was a simpler time I look back on with fond remembrance.
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The early days of Windows made it easy to use point-and-click but you still needed to fiddle with all the DOS startup files to configure stuff. Then came Plug-and-Pray, and things went downhill from there....
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Nothing quite like booting into Win 3.1 from DOS
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It was definitely a long road getting to where we are now. I still remember the sounds of my dial up modem booting up, and connecting to a BBS for the first time. It's laughable compared to the speed and capabilities we have today.
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Will be going to Drama Ministry rehearsal soon. We will be doing an Alice in Wonderland tea. I'm playing The March Hare.
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Will be going to Drama Ministry rehearsal soon. We will be doing an Alice in Wonderland tea. I'm playing The March Hare.
Hope you're checking that watch often, hare, so you won't be late. ;D
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Nothing quite like booting into Win 3.1 from DOS
Windows 3.1? Newfangled nonsense.
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Took a walk in the woods with my wife. One of the less rocky trails, it still had a good chunk of climbing but in the form of rolling hills rather than miles of relentless uphill.
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Nothing quite like booting into Win 3.1 from DOS
Windows 3.1? Newfangled nonsense.
Listen here, Stallman!
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Will be going to Drama Ministry rehearsal soon. We will be doing an Alice in Wonderland tea. I'm playing The March Hare.
Hope you're checking that watch often, hare, so you won't be late. ;D
I'm not the one running late. That's the white rabbit. My watch is stopped. The butter we used in the works didn't work.
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Oh yeah, that's right. The March Hare was mainly concerned with time as it related to the tea party. Everything go as planned?
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A somewhat warm day today, warm enough to run some speed repeats. So I did 10k worth of them, and now my legs hate me. Which is a good thing, if my legs didn't hate me it would mean I hadn't worked hard enough.
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A somewhat warm day today, warm enough to run some speed repeats. So I did 10k worth of them, and now my legs hate me. Which is a good thing, if my legs didn't hate me it would mean I hadn't worked hard enough.
I will drive a total of 79miles today
I’ll need. Nap when I get home…
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If the forecast is right we're due a few days of dry weather that isn't also freezing cold. Hopefully that will mean I can get some wood to replace some floor, and press on with that project.
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On the topic of hard drives I added another dead one to my collection. It was a 250GB parallel ATA drive that was once hosted in a simple NAS. Now most of it is in the trash, the magnets are stuck to an old water pipe and the platters are mixed up with the platters from some other drives. I keep thinking there's some scope to do something cool with a bunch of old hard drive platters but I'm not sure quite what.
Having passed the strong magnets over the platters several times and then mixed them all up I'm confident the data is mangled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEzfhclKO8Q
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Took the vehicle off an icy country road in Montana. No phone service, getting dark, and below zero F. Got emergency call to local sheriff, who contacted wrecker service. They pulled me out of a deep, snow-filled hole. Totaled lift-gate on vehicle - a sickening sound. Completely wrecked a young pine tree.
Dealer immediately took vehicle (2014 Jeep Trailhawk) as trade-in and I now drive a new 23 Grand Cherokee.
I don't reminisce about the event as it scares the daylights out of me, but things could have been much, much worse. I now avoid Bear Canyon for obvious reasons.
God abundantly answered desperate prayers and got me back on the road in beautiful fashion.
Thank The Lord!
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Wow!
Praise God!
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Amen [!]
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A somewhat warm day today, warm enough to run some speed repeats. So I did 10k worth of them, and now my legs hate me. Which is a good thing, if my legs didn't hate me it would mean I hadn't worked hard enough.
My legs still hate me. So it was a walk today rather than another run. Maybe I can run tomorrow.
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Fighting with the government of Ontario.
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Okay, final phase of moving to Bay Area, Cal. Contractor tools are now history. Utility trailer, chainsaws & firewood equipment to brother in law. Cargo trailer to nephew. Readying final trip. Moving: an ordeal.
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I received my Cefaly migraine treatment device from the VA today, and I'm trying it out now. It's a TENS type device that attaches to the forehead and stimulates the trigeminal nerve. You can set it to treat an active migraine or else to prevent one, which I'm using now. I've tried several different types of injections and half a dozen medications over the years, but only had moderate success. Hopefully, I'll have better luck with this treatment.
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Hope and prayers in this.
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My legs still don't like me much but I went for a moderately gentle run this morning anyway. Hoping to do a long gentle run tomorrow.
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My legs still don't like me much but I went for a moderately gentle run this morning anyway. Hoping to do a long gentle run tomorrow.
In reading this post, I have to laugh. Earlier tonight, during prayer, I mentioned to God for the wisdom to not overdue my bike riding once the temps reach 45+ degrees. At my age, I know the ligaments and tendons need to get used to the mileage before I begin pushing out beyond 10 miles.
I miss the days when a 25 mile ride on a bicycle was a, "nice" ride.
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My legs still don't like me much but I went for a moderately gentle run this morning anyway. Hoping to do a long gentle run tomorrow.
In reading this post, I have to laugh. Earlier tonight, during prayer, I mentioned to God for the wisdom to not overdue my bike riding once the temps reach 45+ degrees. At my age, I know the ligaments and tendons need to get used to the mileage before I begin pushing out beyond 10 miles.
I miss the days when a 25 mile ride on a bicycle was a, "nice" ride.
When I lived in flatter areas 25 miles was the kind of ride it barely felt worth getting the bike out for. Where I live now it's very hilly and I haven't ridden my bike at all in years. Seeing people driving around paying almost no attention to their surroundings doesn't fill me with much confidence either.
It's the usual thing about easing back into something after taking a break. I'd rather not be taking a break but when there's snow and ice everywhere I don't feel like running in it, and a gym membership is only so much use because when it's icy I won't necessarily feel like driving to get to the gym. I fall somewhere in the middle of the gym options - I want to go often enough that a day pass isn't a good way to do it, but not often enough that a monthly membership is worth it.
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If someone ever sees me running please catch whoever is chasing me. ;D
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I got my long gentle run in this morning. It was reasonably gentle, my goal was to keep my heart rate within an easyish band and for the most part I stayed in or close to the band. Going up steady hills invariably pushes me a bit over, and then it takes a little while to get back into my target zone.
Later this afternoon I need to write some code for a project I'm working on.
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It's the usual thing about easing back into something after taking a break. I'd rather not be taking a break but when there's snow and ice everywhere I don't feel like running in it, and a gym membership is only so much use because when it's icy I won't necessarily feel like driving to get to the gym. I fall somewhere in the middle of the gym options - I want to go often enough that a day pass isn't a good way to do it, but not often enough that a monthly membership is worth it.
Even though I'm pushing 70, I try to make myself get some kind of regular exercise. I had purchased a Planet Fitness membership a few years ago, but rarely used it, so I canceled it. About a year ago, I started acquiring a collection of weights which is now complete, and do strength training at home 3 days a week. I need to do some cardio, but I get out of breath so easily--even a brisk walk gets me wheezing. (I have an aortic valve replacement with 10 years of wear and tear on it). Anyway, I push myself to do the best I can.
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It's the usual thing about easing back into something after taking a break. I'd rather not be taking a break but when there's snow and ice everywhere I don't feel like running in it, and a gym membership is only so much use because when it's icy I won't necessarily feel like driving to get to the gym. I fall somewhere in the middle of the gym options - I want to go often enough that a day pass isn't a good way to do it, but not often enough that a monthly membership is worth it.
Even though I'm pushing 70, I try to make myself get some kind of regular exercise. I had purchased a Planet Fitness membership a few years ago, but rarely used it, so I canceled it. About a year ago, I started acquiring a collection of weights which is now complete, and do strength training at home 3 days a week. I need to do some cardio, but I get out of breath so easily--even a brisk walk gets me wheezing. (I have an aortic valve replacement with 10 years of wear and tear on it). Anyway, I push myself to do the best I can.
I started out with regular walking and then starting jogging parts of it, then jogging more parts and longer parts, and went from there. When I look at the stats from my runs these days and compare them to my runs from 2-3 years ago the differences are encouraging - I'm clocking a faster pace with less impact on my heart rate, and if I push my heart rate hard I'm clocking much faster paces.
Sadly once you're older than maybe 40-45 time isn't your friend and you have to fight to preserve fitness.
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Got a real haircut today, Lol. For the past two years I've just been lopping off 4-5 inches about every 8 months or so :o
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These days I get a haircut once a year in December. I have it cut to make look more like Santa
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Someone observed recently that the achievements of the software industry over the last 30 years have been astonishing. They've managed to entirely negate several orders of magnitude of performance improvements provided by the hardware industry.
"I bought the whole CPU and I'm going to use the whole CPU".
"Unused RAM is wasted RAM".
Etc.
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Someone observed recently that the achievements of the software industry over the last 30 years have been astonishing. They've managed to entirely negate several orders of magnitude of performance improvements provided by the hardware industry.
"I bought the whole CPU and I'm going to use the whole CPU".
"Unused RAM is wasted RAM".
Etc.
It doesn't feel like such a big gap between a certain Mr William Gates being quoted as saying "640k (of RAM) should be enough for anyone" and now needing 4GB of RAM just to look at the pretty desktop.
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It doesn't feel like such a big gap between a certain Mr William Gates being quoted as saying "640k (of RAM) should be enough for anyone" and now needing 4GB of RAM just to look at the pretty desktop.
I remember creating a custom boot disk just to free up more RAM for gaming purposes. Ah, the memories.
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Memories???
RAM?
Really guys……
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It doesn't feel like such a big gap between a certain Mr William Gates being quoted as saying "640k (of RAM) should be enough for anyone" and now needing 4GB of RAM just to look at the pretty desktop.
I remember creating a custom boot disk just to free up more RAM for gaming purposes. Ah, the memories.
I remember the seemingly endless requirement to check something would work before trying it - check there's enough memory before allocating it, check there's enough disk space before writing a cache file. Then there was an expectation that an error message would tell the user something useful about what had happened, whereas now an error just says something like "an error has occurred" or "something went wrong" with no indication of whether the problem is with the user input, the connection, the server. Sometimes the user is helpfully told that they might like to "try again later" but again with no indication of whether it's a temporary glitch that will resolve itself if you try again in 30 seconds, or a major server failure that's going to take down the entire system for a week.
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Memories???
RAM?
Really guys……
Don't make me recant the story of Abraham and Isaac and their first computer....
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Once saw a ram take on a front-end loader.
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It's too cold to run so I went for a walk. The wind gusts weren't supposed to start until after lunch but obviously didn't read the weather forecast.
Once I warmed up I got to writing some code. I still need to figure out how to turn the long planks I have sitting around into flooring. Before I get started I need to temporarily remove a door so I can get at the floor underneath the frame. In theory it should be easy, I just need to figure out how to keep the cat from exploring if the door is removed. I don't know if I can start and finish the flooring job fast enough that I can just take the door out, do the work, and put the door back before the cat notices there's a new space to explore. It may be I need to fall back on something more primitive, like a board screwed into place, so I can take a break from the work without having to put the door back on.
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I remember the seemingly endless requirement to check something would work before trying it
Today's kids like to make fun of the "old school" types, but we're much batter at getting programs to run/install/what have you then they are. If it isn't plug and play they don't know what to do. Even the IT types are sometimes baffled.
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Trying to decide if I need to bring my body armor with me when I visit Chicago in a couple of months.
Anyone know? I'm thinking a bullet-proof vest at minimum
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Trying to decide if I need to bring my body armor with me when I visit Chicago in a couple of months.
Anyone know? I'm thinking a bullet-proof vest at minimum
Go ahead and shoot yourself and get a head start….
Dangerous place
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But...but...Chicago has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation. Shouldn't that make it one of the safest cities?
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Awesome city, Chicago. Stick to the itinerary.
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Trying to decide if I need to bring my body armor with me when I visit Chicago in a couple of months.
Anyone know? I'm thinking a bullet-proof vest at minimum
Hard or soft armor?
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Trying to decide if I need to bring my body armor with me when I visit Chicago in a couple of months.
Anyone know? I'm thinking a bullet-proof vest at minimum
Hard or soft armor?
Soft probably, but steel plate somethings are always interesting.
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If you carry your illegally purchased handgun sideways you will look like a native...
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If you carry your illegally purchased handgun sideways you will look like a native...
I dunno, I was hoping to look a bit more John Wickish with a TTI/Glock 34
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You would stick out like a sore thumb if you could actually put rounds on target…
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You would stick out like a sore thumb if you could actually put rounds on target…
That's why law-abiding gun owners only need 10 rounds. It's only the criminals who spray bullets indiscriminately figuring they'll hit something sooner or later. So people say anyway.
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You would stick out like a sore thumb if you could actually put rounds on target…
I'm pretty skilled with rifles and shotguns. I have never shot a handgun, though.
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You would stick out like a sore thumb if you could actually put rounds on target…
That's why law-abiding gun owners only need 10 rounds. It's only the criminals who spray bullets indiscriminately figuring they'll hit something sooner or later. So people say anyway.
I'd rather EDC two 15 round mags for my G19, than three 10 round mags.
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Trying to decide if I need to bring my body armor with me when I visit Chicago in a couple of months.
Anyone know? I'm thinking a bullet-proof vest at minimum
Hard or soft armor?
Soft probably, but steel plate somethings are always interesting.
Steel, while guaranteed to stop even most (even multiple hit, all hits) rifle rounds, will be heavy and without any standard layering to catch spalling (as the round shatters), can be dangerous.
Soft armors are great due to consealability but limits protection to high powered pistol rounds and less.
Visiting a city, the soft armor would be great for this time of year. If you can carry a backpack, a steel plate is more easier managed and spalling will damage contents in the bag, not flesh. Just have to be quick to shift the pack to the front if facing incoming fire.
Any Polyethylene type armor is great for a backpack (much lighter too) because deformation will not be of any negative affect while it can stop multiple rifle rounds. In a plate carrier, great until deformation begins to break ribs. Ceramic is best for plate carriers but can be limited on multiple hits.
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You would stick out like a sore thumb if you could actually put rounds on target…
That's why law-abiding gun owners only need 10 rounds. It's only the criminals who spray bullets indiscriminately figuring they'll hit something sooner or later. So people say anyway.
I'd rather EDC two 15 round mags for my G19, than three 10 round mags.
Only 15 rounds? I thought they'd be slightly bigger than that.
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Alternating time between writing some code for a project I've been putting off for a while now, and laying some new floor. Before I can lay the floor I need to cut the existing floor and then cut the new floor how I want it. My local lumber yard sells wood in a range of finishes, so I usually go for the cheapest that works for me. I can cut it to length and width myself, as long as the faces are good. I have a planer but prefer not to run too much through it as it makes a huge noise and it's just another heavy tool to lug around to where I have space to feed stuff in and then feed it out again.
Some day I need to set up a router sled so I can surface big stuff without the need for lots of space to feed stuff in and out. Maybe I can rig up something like a small blade on an angle grinder to create something like a table saw but where the saw moves rather than the material. That would save me a lot of space. I'd just need to figure out a way to make sure it would work without cutting fingers off with the surplus wood.
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I'm pretty skilled with rifles and shotguns. I have never shot a handgun, though.
I'm the opposite. All my training and experience is with handguns.
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I'm pretty skilled with rifles and shotguns. I have never shot a handgun, though.
I'm the opposite. All my training and experience is with handguns.
two related but entirely different skill sets
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two related but entirely different skill sets
Are the skills transferrable in any way? Or would I be a complete newbie with long guns?
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two related but entirely different skill sets
Are the skills transferrable in any way? Or would I be a complete newbie with long guns?
Very transferable
Acquisition of sight picture is a little different because of focal length of sights
Ballistics is more impacted because if longer distance muzzle to target
Breathing control more at issue
Everything is simply magnified because of longer distances
But the, longer barrel length tends to improve accuracy
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Very transferable
I'm going to have to do this sometime.
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You would stick out like a sore thumb if you could actually put rounds on target…
I'm pretty skilled with rifles and shotguns. I have never shot a handgun, though.
You are wise.
Legal to carry where I live. And 90% of currently armed individuals would get themselves killed if push came to shove, because they have little training, and are not prepared to immediately shoot. They assume having or showing the piece is sufficient. Complete familiarity with the weapon and target practice until proficiency is achieved are essential. If one needs to pull it one needs to be prepared to use it without hesitation.
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You would stick out like a sore thumb if you could actually put rounds on target…
That's why law-abiding gun owners only need 10 rounds. It's only the criminals who spray bullets indiscriminately figuring they'll hit something sooner or later. So people say anyway.
I'd rather EDC two 15 round mags for my G19, than three 10 round mags.
Only 15 rounds? I thought they'd be slightly bigger than that.
15 rounds is standard capacity for the G19, cept in most blue states maxed at 10 rounds. Extenders (illegal in most blue states) can add 1-3 rounds but printing under the shirt increases when concealed. Or, get G17 mags and then the choice can be 17, 19, 24, and even 33 rounds.
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You would stick out like a sore thumb if you could actually put rounds on target…
That's why law-abiding gun owners only need 10 rounds. It's only the criminals who spray bullets indiscriminately figuring they'll hit something sooner or later. So people say anyway.
I'd rather EDC two 15 round mags for my G19, than three 10 round mags.
Only 15 rounds? I thought they'd be slightly bigger than that.
15 rounds is standard capacity for the G19, cept in most blue states maxed at 10 rounds. Extenders (illegal in most blue states) can add 1-3 rounds but printing under the shirt increases when concealed. Or, get G17 mags and then the choice can be 17, 19, 24, and even 33 rounds.
Interesting - my M&P 9mm has a standard 17-round magazine. I thought the G19 was the same.
I'd be curious to see a 33 round magazine in a handgun. That must be a beast.
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You would stick out like a sore thumb if you could actually put rounds on target…
That's why law-abiding gun owners only need 10 rounds. It's only the criminals who spray bullets indiscriminately figuring they'll hit something sooner or later. So people say anyway.
I'd rather EDC two 15 round mags for my G19, than three 10 round mags.
Only 15 rounds? I thought they'd be slightly bigger than that.
15 rounds is standard capacity for the G19, cept in most blue states maxed at 10 rounds. Extenders (illegal in most blue states) can add 1-3 rounds but printing under the shirt increases when concealed. Or, get G17 mags and then the choice can be 17, 19, 24, and even 33 rounds.
Interesting - my M&P 9mm has a standard 17-round magazine. I thought the G19 was the same.
I'd be curious to see a 33 round magazine in a handgun. That must be a beast.
The G17 and G19X have standard 17 round mags.
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I get tired after the 2nd magazine and have to take a break for a snack and a nap.
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Okay. Beloved cargo trailer now history (gone to nephew).
Trip to landfill will finish things up.
End of an era, it seems - miss my tools & equipment already. Final relocation to Bay Area imminent.
Have learned to be content in whatever "State" I am currently in.
EDIT: Sig and all other weapons will be transferred to family.
EDIT: Surviving the Bay Area is not highly probable anyhow.
God knows.
Okay Bye.
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I get tired after the 2nd magazine and have to take a break for a snack and a nap.
;D
I usually carried nine 30 round mags of 5.56 and six 15 round mags of 9mm while deployed and in the back of my mind, prayed I had enough ammo.
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I get tired after the 2nd magazine and have to take a break for a snack and a nap.
;D
I usually carried nine 30 round mags of 5.56 and six 15 round mags of 9mm while deployed and in the back of my mind, prayed I had enough ammo.
Hopefully a walk on the streets of Chicago hasn't yet deteriorated to the point you'd need more ammo than that.
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I get tired after the 2nd magazine and have to take a break for a snack and a nap.
;D
I usually carried nine 30 round mags of 5.56 and six 15 round mags of 9mm while deployed and in the back of my mind, prayed I had enough ammo.
Hopefully a walk on the streets of Chicago hasn't yet deteriorated to the point you'd need more ammo than that.
"If" states honored constitutional carry and responsible American's carried concealed weapons while out and about and maintained defensive weapon posture in their homes, crime would come to a halt real quick like.
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An hour of speed repeats, followed by ripping some boards I plan to lay as a new section of flooring. Now my legs don't like me very much.
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Last night was our first playing of our Alice in Wonderland Tea. We do it again tonight. I have a picture of me as The March Hare but can't figure out how to post it.
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Lone Mountain. Big Sky, Montana.
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Recovering from my trip down the rabbit hole to Wonderland. Getting ready for our next production. The Living Last Supper. We did this last year and I am again playing James. Since I have a copy of the original script I am reviewing my lines. This year we're doing it twice. On Maundy Thursday we will be doing just the Supper. On Good Friday we will be adding The Via Dolorosa. And on March 17 I'll be singing He Looked Beyond My Fault and Saw My Need. The director has me singing the first verse of Danny Boy, which is the melody for the other song. I've written a 2nd verse that I'll be singing. I hope I can get through it as the verse I wrote does have some personal touches.
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Lazy day yesterday. It's warmer today so I'm debating whether to follow my fitness tracker's advice and do a gentle workout, or do something a bit harder given we're due some rain later this week. My tracker only gives me one day's suggestion at a time (newer models go out to a week, I think), and it has an uncanny habit of suggesting than on the nice sunny days I take the day off, and then suggests I go for a long fast run when it's below zero with rain and 40mph wind gusts.
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Did the first honey harvest over the weekend. Normally you wouldn’t harvest until mid summer, but the two hives we bought were full from last fall
Only did a partial harvest to leave the bees some food until the spring nectar flow really kicks off here in about 2-3 weeks
Collected, strained, and bottled 54 pounds of beautiful yummy honey! Oh bother!
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Lazy day yesterday. It's warmer today so I'm debating whether to follow my fitness tracker's advice and do a gentle workout, or do something a bit harder given we're due some rain later this week. My tracker only gives me one day's suggestion at a time (newer models go out to a week, I think), and it has an uncanny habit of suggesting than on the nice sunny days I take the day off, and then suggests I go for a long fast run when it's below zero with rain and 40mph wind gusts.
I decided to do a longer run but relatively gently. I have my watch beep at me if my pulse goes even moderately high and if it does I walk until it's back to my target level. It gets tedious stopping to walk but means I can build a stronger aerobic base.
I considered doing speed repeats again today because I felt pretty strong but since it was less than 24 hours since I power-walked the route I decided to go a little easier on myself. My lower legs ached in the last couple of miles or so.
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Did the first honey harvest over the weekend. Normally you wouldn’t harvest until mid summer, but the two hives we bought were full from last fall
Only did a partial harvest to leave the bees some food until the spring nectar flow really kicks off here in about 2-3 weeks
Collected, strained, and bottled 54 pounds of beautiful yummy honey! Oh bother!
Does your honey tend to be dark or light? I really like dark honey, a couple of friends of ours keep bees and I always get dark honeycomb from them when they have it.
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Fun With Electrics.
Got a couple of new smart doodads for the house. One is a power strip that's easy to work with - just plug it in and connect it. The other is a smart outlet, which was a bit of a drag to set up because I had to move a piece of furniture and replace an existing outlet with the new one. The new one is bigger and only just fit in the backbox, but with a bit of persuasion it all went in. Now I can control a couple of lamps from my phone, set up automatic schedules and other fun stuff.
So far I'm liking these devices. I might get some more for around the house.
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Did the first honey harvest over the weekend. Normally you wouldn’t harvest until mid summer, but the two hives we bought were full from last fall
Only did a partial harvest to leave the bees some food until the spring nectar flow really kicks off here in about 2-3 weeks
Collected, strained, and bottled 54 pounds of beautiful yummy honey! Oh bother!
Does your honey tend to be dark or light? I really like dark honey, a couple of friends of ours keep bees and I always get dark honeycomb from them when they have it.
Fairly dark. I like the complexity of the flavors...that really light stuff sometimes just tastes like sugar water.
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Did the first honey harvest over the weekend. Normally you wouldn’t harvest until mid summer, but the two hives we bought were full from last fall
Only did a partial harvest to leave the bees some food until the spring nectar flow really kicks off here in about 2-3 weeks
Collected, strained, and bottled 54 pounds of beautiful yummy honey! Oh bother!
Does your honey tend to be dark or light? I really like dark honey, a couple of friends of ours keep bees and I always get dark honeycomb from them when they have it.
Fairly dark. I like the complexity of the flavors...that really light stuff sometimes just tastes like sugar water.
Sometimes light honey can have a really pleasant floral flavor to it. Other times, as you say, it tastes like sugar and not much else.
I guess a lot depends on what the bees found.
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Did the first honey harvest over the weekend. Normally you wouldn’t harvest until mid summer, but the two hives we bought were full from last fall
Only did a partial harvest to leave the bees some food until the spring nectar flow really kicks off here in about 2-3 weeks
Collected, strained, and bottled 54 pounds of beautiful yummy honey! Oh bother!
Does your honey tend to be dark or light? I really like dark honey, a couple of friends of ours keep bees and I always get dark honeycomb from them when they have it.
Fairly dark. I like the complexity of the flavors...that really light stuff sometimes just tastes like sugar water.
Sometimes light honey can have a really pleasant floral flavor to it. Other times, as you say, it tastes like sugar and not much else.
I guess a lot depends on what the bees found.
Mine will have a hint of beekeeper flavor…
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Just got back from a 20-hour round trip to London. Did I mention I have a severe lung infection? Flying wasn't fun. (Was for a medical appointment I had booked a year ago.)
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Just got back from a 20-hour round trip to London. Did I mention I have a severe lung infection? Flying wasn't fun. (Was for a medical appointment I had booked a year ago.)
Ouch
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Just got back from a 20-hour round trip to London. Did I mention I have a severe lung infection? Flying wasn't fun. (Was for a medical appointment I had booked a year ago.)
Not good! Will be praying.
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Thanks. :) I'm on antibiotics, and then... the search for an asthmatic condition starts.
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Just got back from a 20-hour round trip to London. Did I mention I have a severe lung infection? Flying wasn't fun. (Was for a medical appointment I had booked a year ago.)
Flying isn't fun at the best of times. Hope you can get your infection sorted!
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Thanks. :) I'm on antibiotics, and then... the search for an asthmatic condition starts.
Just as I suspected.
Cooties.
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Thanks. :) I'm on antibiotics, and then... the search for an asthmatic condition starts.
Just as I suspected.
Cooties.
Oh no, that's no good!
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I think some of you know that one of my hobbies is computer chess, actually my main hobby since 1980. In 1997 I with others created a computer chess forum hosted by a commercial chess shop who offered to write the software for that. In those days there was no decent forum software.
Long story short, in the last 5 years the forum became under heavy DDoS attacks and the site became an unbearable place to be, many members left. Expensive measures were taken by the shop but did not really help. About 9 months ago the shop informed me they wanted to get rid of the forum.
In an ultimate try I started a crowdfunding (http://www.talkchess.com/viewtopic.php?t=82146) among the members to buy the domain name from the shop and move the forum to our own VPS server.
Longer story even shorter, yesterday we managed, the forum now runs smoothly. This after a long period of crowdfunding, the negotiations with the shop (they got $2600), a contract with a new reliable partner to ensure stability for decades and the final touch by 2 qualified people to get the forum software running without any data loss.
Pffffff............
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I think some of you know that one of my hobbies is computer chess, actually my main hobby since 1980. In 1997 I with others created a computer chess forum hosted by a commercial chess shop who offered to write the software for that. In those days there was no decent forum software.
Long story short, in the last 5 years the forum became under heavy DDoS attacks and the site became an unbearable place to be, many members left. Expensive measures were taken by the shop but did not really help. About 9 months ago the shop informed me they wanted to get rid of the forum.
In an ultimate try I started a crowdfunding (http://www.talkchess.com/viewtopic.php?t=82146) among the members to buy the domain name from the shop and move the forum to our own VPS server.
Longer story even shorter, yesterday we managed, the forum now runs smoothly. This after a long period of crowdfunding, the negotiations with the shop (they got $2600), a contract with a new reliable partner to ensure stability for decades and the final touch by 2 qualified people to get the forum software running without any data loss.
Pffffff............
That's awesome to hear!
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I think some of you know that one of my hobbies is computer chess, actually my main hobby since 1980. In 1997 I with others created a computer chess forum hosted by a commercial chess shop who offered to write the software for that. In those days there was no decent forum software.
Long story short, in the last 5 years the forum became under heavy DDoS attacks and the site became an unbearable place to be, many members left. Expensive measures were taken by the shop but did not really help. About 9 months ago the shop informed me they wanted to get rid of the forum.
In an ultimate try I started a crowdfunding (http://www.talkchess.com/viewtopic.php?t=82146) among the members to buy the domain name from the shop and move the forum to our own VPS server.
Longer story even shorter, yesterday we managed, the forum now runs smoothly. This after a long period of crowdfunding, the negotiations with the shop (they got $2600), a contract with a new reliable partner to ensure stability for decades and the final touch by 2 qualified people to get the forum software running without any data loss.
Pffffff............
Sounds more reliable than a queens gambit…
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Everybody goin out & hav'n fun.
(https://i.ibb.co/Gtv5yzJ/Big-Sky1-2000x1200.jpg) (https://ibb.co/qWMrKTn)
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No
Too cold
Too far off the ground
Too great a temptation to start pushing people to see if they can fly
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I think some of you know that one of my hobbies is computer chess, actually my main hobby since 1980. In 1997 I with others created a computer chess forum hosted by a commercial chess shop who offered to write the software for that. In those days there was no decent forum software.
Long story short, in the last 5 years the forum became under heavy DDoS attacks and the site became an unbearable place to be, many members left. Expensive measures were taken by the shop but did not really help. About 9 months ago the shop informed me they wanted to get rid of the forum.
In an ultimate try I started a crowdfunding (http://www.talkchess.com/viewtopic.php?t=82146) among the members to buy the domain name from the shop and move the forum to our own VPS server.
Longer story even shorter, yesterday we managed, the forum now runs smoothly. This after a long period of crowdfunding, the negotiations with the shop (they got $2600), a contract with a new reliable partner to ensure stability for decades and the final touch by 2 qualified people to get the forum software running without any data loss.
Pffffff............
Sounds more reliable than a queens gambit…
(https://i76.servimg.com/u/f76/19/97/74/51/quuens10.jpg) (https://servimg.com/view/19977451/82)
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Drove 2,075 (round trip) miles to see my father last week. Always a blessing to be "with" family!
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My son is engaged to be married. The wedding will be in Jerusalem this June.
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Well... latest girl-type friend drives a Saturn AWD (V6) and claims to be a "woman of faith." She is waiting for some kind of financial bonanza based on said faith and is into all kinds of dark conspiratorial, pseudo-faith circles and relies heavily on smoking whatever substance (likely pot).
Was very concerned that she was out of food etc, and have been led to help and earnestly pray for her.
Curious to see who is the spider and who is the fly here.
Shall see.
Ah. An adventure!
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My son is engaged to be married. The wedding will be in Jerusalem this June.
Ah! An adventure!!!!
😳
Mazel tov!
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Mazel tov!
Thank you!
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Found out that my flooring project is a little more complex than I first thought. I figured out how to cut the floor and laying new floor isn't all that hard, but the strip I want to lay perpendicular to create a cleaner transition from one area to another isn't quite so clean. Because it needs to align nicely with the door I need to figure where the door is going to go, which I can't do because that wall isn't framed. Framing the wall is awkward because the ceiling joist doesn't quite align with the floor joist - it's further across and not quite angled the same. That means that I need to either secure the top beam of the wall to the ceiling joist and put the bottom beam between floor joists, or screw some kind of struts between the ceiling joists so I can screw the top beam into it. Then I can cut the floor, secure whatever I need underneath to support the perpendicular piece of floor, cut and position the perpendicular piece of floor, and then lay the rest of the floor.
Along the way I need to consider the implications of cutting away the floor in the bathroom. It's not in great condition, it will be covered with some kind of vinyl flooring so can be replaced with plywood or OSB just as easily as nicer flooring, but if the stud wall between the bedroom and bathroom isn't over the floor joists I'll need to make sure cutting the floor doesn't suddenly create a section of floor that isn't supported any more.
So what I hoped would be a simple job has, once again, proved to be more complex. I need to frame the walls anyway, I just hadn't expected that part of the work to shuffle its way to the top of the line.
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Be praying, especially for our churches drama ministry's director. Things are moving fast. The Pastor is doing a series on The Sermon On The Mount and he is arranging for eye witness accounts. We just finished The Alice In Wonderland Tea. And we are about to start rehearsals on a redo of our Living Last Supper from last year. Fortunately most of the cast is coming back so it will go easier. I'm playing James in this. On top of that our choir director has asked me to sing He's Alive on Easter Sunday. Fortunately I sing with cd accompaniment and that is one of my songs that I, basically, already have ready. So all I have to do is pull it out and brush it off. Which will mean putting aside the series of audiobooks I'm listening to for a while. Easter is almost as busy a time for performers as Christmas.
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A gentle-ish 8 mile run today. Trying a new approach to build a low-level aerobic base, which is essentially running until my heart rate rises very far into my zone 3. Then I walk until it's back to the middle of zone 2, and resume running. The idea is to build how long I can run at a slightly harder pace before my heart rate goes high enough for my watch to beep at me. So far it seems to be working, my watch is indicating higher levels of performance based on whatever secret algorithm it's using. I'm just not sure whether it's because my fitness is objectively improving, or if I've found a quirk in the algorithm.
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I just remembered I am also singing on March 17th. Will definitely need prayers. I am singing He Looked Beyond My Fault And Saw My Need. It is sung to the tune Danny Boy. What is going to make it harder to sing is the 2nd verse. I wrote it and I sometimes have trouble getting through it without choking up.
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I begin taking Ham Radio classes this month and will test out in May for my license... excited to finally do this.
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Nasty day today, rain all day, so exercise had to be indoors. Now fiddling with updating a piece of code. I couldn't figure out why the appearance was all wrong but then noticed I'd set it to a different application style, which explained everything.
It's always good when a single setting change shakes out a whole bunch of cosmetic issues at once.
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Glimpsing briefly some of the depths of QAnon. A cult of dizzying, unbridled momentum.
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Got a walk in after church but my wife came to rescue me from the heavy snow that appeared. Then after lunch I tried again, and the snow stayed sufficiently away to get a good walk in.
I hope I can do some running tomorrow but we're due 40-50mph winds so that might not happen.
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After ~5 months of struggling with neural nets I finally am happy with the results and released my new version REBEL version 16.3
https://rebel7775.wixsite.com/rebel
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Neural nets????
Will this require an implant???!!!!
😳
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Would make you world champion chess instantly :)
And make you a millionaire....
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One of my (crazy) musings : The gift of life
We were blessed with 3 children, all 3 became from the same womb, the same sperm, got the same upbringing and yet they are 3 total different personalities. Nothing new here.
Thinking about my own birth with the above in mind, from science we know an average ejaculation is about 100-200 million sperm cells and they all rush the womb and the one that gets first will lead to a fertilization. So it means the chance I exist is one in 100 million. Else I would not be here, I would not exist. It's like winning the lottery.... A second place doesn't count, no fertilization, no life.
We are all winners..........
Thank you Lord for the gift of life.
Feel free to delete if you think this is crossing a line.
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I think it is perfect
I once heard Tony Campolo say almost the exact same thing at a dinner in Chicago
He also said that hot dogs are proof of God’s love. God could have made us to exist in dirt and rocks.
Instead, Ahe made taste buds and hot dogs.
QED
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Hot dogs are strange. Meat paste stuffed into an animal intestine. So when you eat a hot dog it simply changes form and you arguably become a hot dog yourself.
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Had an unusual experience yesterday. Yesterday, at about 8 PM, I curled up in my chair for a bit of a nap, like normal, and the next thing I knew it was 1 AM. Normally I have a couple of alarms that ring at 10 and 10:30. Somehow they had gotten turned off. I'm hoping it hasn't screwed up my schedule. I got up like normal this morning.
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Got a good run in this afternoon. The first few miles were fairly easy and I felt strong but then turned into the headwinds. It wasn't so much fun trying to run into 20mph headwinds that didn't give me much respite. But I got a few more miles in, which is what counts.
I also got a piece of lumber - I rather lost momentum with framing my new wall so figured what I was going to need to make the next stage happen. Now I just need to actually make the next stage happen. A single piece is easy because it fits inside my car. When I need to fully frame the wall I'm going to need a dozen 2x4s, so they stack on the roof bars with clamps and ropes to make sure they are still on the roof bars when I get home.
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Just got back from the dentist. I found out my insurance has approved my new, permanent, dentures. They just took some scans today. In 3 weeks I go back for them to take some molds. No idea when the new dentures arrive.
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George Washington :o
is jealous…
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A gentle run today. Slower intervals, stopping to walk when my pulse went over about the middle of zone 3. Didn't feel particularly good today, hopefully tomorrow I can put down some more power. Friday it's supposed to rain, so it's unlikely I'll get to do much of interest then.
Today I ticked off a badge from my tracker, marking 300km (186 miles) of running so far this year.
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Got a couple more gentle runs in this week. Today looked like it could be the last chance to get a harder run in before it gets cold again, so I did an hour of speed repeats. Instead of going all-out on the hills I tried to temper the speed a little, with a view to holding the speed for longer - I'd set a target and try to reach that point before I had to significantly drop the pace.
I wasn't feeling hugely strong today but got through the repeats OK, even if my overall pace was slightly slower than the last time I did them.
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This morning I sang He Looked Beyond My Fault and Saw My Need, including the verse I wrote for it. And tomorrow the drama team starts rehearsal on The Living Last Supper. This is, basically, the same show we did last year. A number of the cast are recreating our roles from last year. Me for one. However, we do have a few new people joining the team. It's going to be a great deal of work. But it is worth it. I may also be singing He's Alive on Easter Sunday.
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Curious day today. Preaching at church, and then taking the youth out for a mystery lunch. The mystery lunch was interesting - good food even if it didn't come out quite in the way one might expect.
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Last night we had the first rehearsal for this year's The Living Last Supper. It went well and I found myself feeling again the feelings that last year's production instilled in me. Still have some problems and a lot of work. For one, our Simon the Zealot didn't show. It looks like we have to replace him. And this year we're adding a movement piece to Via Dolorosa. A lot of work and very little time.
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Lazy day today, aside from a run this afternoon. It wasn't a hard run, it just got some miles and some time in.
Then this evening chilling out with a friend over a couple of beers. Not a lot of beers, because I had to drive home afterwards.
So today could perhaps best be summed up as "moderate".
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Too cold to be running today - one of those awkward temperature days where the sun was warm and the wind was horribly cold. Sufficiently different that running in the sun would make me sweat, and then the wind would sap my body heat mercilessly. So I went for a walk instead. Then my wife and I had lunch at our local cafe/coffee shop. They do some good coffee and some good sandwiches for lunch.
And I finally made some more progress on my wall. I'd been pondering the best way to do it for a while and today I decided what I was going to do. So now the first sections of the wall are in place, and before long I can mark out the floor and take a saw to it. I also figured out what I think is the way forward to take down a couple of original concrete block walls, while making sure upstairs doesn't become downstairs and the roof doesn't collapse and direct rainwater neatly into the kitchen.
Relatively speaking making sure nothing collapses is a minor concern - as far as I can tell everything is supported in multiple ways except in one small area where it should be easy enough to put a fresh beam in (and the wall downstairs has absolutely nothing correlating to it upstairs). I'm more concerned with how to do it without making an apocalyptic mess in the areas we're using. I don't really want clouds of concrete dust floating through the kitchen, and I need to make sure that whatever happens I don't end up with gaps that allow the cat to explore the demolition site.
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Just relaxing and taking it easy. Will be working out very soon.
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Gentle run yesterday. The suggested workout was "rest" but since the forecast for today was rain I figured I could take it easy today. So having not technically rested yesterday I expected today's suggestion to be a rest, but instead it's a gentle base run. And it's raining, as forecast. But the rain is supposed to stop mid afternoon so maybe I can get a run in. For reasons best known to itself my watch has decided that I've progressed from needing a 42 minute run to a 46 minute run. At least that's a length I can fit in around my regular routes - last fall it would periodically throw something like a 92 minute base run at me, which is long enough that even my longest loop is only just long enough to take me that long.
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Celebrating Purim today. Reading the book of Esther and hearing about the downfall of a genocidal lunatic who wanted to murder all the Jews raises my spirits. A shame the world hasn't changed much in last 2400 years unfortunately.
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Celebrating Purim today. Reading the book of Esther and hearing about the downfall of a genocidal lunatic who wanted to murder all the Jews raises my spirits. A shame the world hasn't changed much in last 2400 years unfortunately.
And Haman (booo spit booo boooo hisssss) got his comeuppance.
If you guys get to do a little actual Purim purging of your enemies some day, can I convert just for that weekend???
Prayers for all my Jewish friends as they face worse than Esther and the righteous Morsecai faced.
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If you guys get to do a little actual Purim purging of your enemies some day, can I convert just for that weekend???
I believe that the IDF is hard at work doing just that. I think we're too old to serve though.
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If you guys get to do a little actual Purim purging of your enemies some day, can I convert just for that weekend???
I believe that the IDF is hard at work doing just that. I think we're too old to serve though.
Just find me a nice comfy chair in the shade about 750 meters out with my 7mm magnum and some nice young Jewish boy to get me iced tea and knishes between shots. A win-win. Just don’t me carry heavy stuff…
😳
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COVID again. Oh joy!
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Oh no!
That terrible
Praying for you
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And I have an alibi for the bridge in Baltimore…
Just sayin’
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A round of speed repeats. Some of them hurt, sprinting up hills gets tiring after a while.
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And I have an alibi for the bridge in Baltimore…
Just sayin’
Seeing as how there is no protocol in place for the potential loss of a ship's power - vessels are piloted rather than "tugged" through the gates, so nothing to steer the enormous weight to safety. The vulnerabilities of this technologically advanced society can be found on paper.
Just watched the NTSB and local authorities congratulate themselves in a press conference. No real facts, of course.
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Tonight is the last rehearsal for The Living Last Supper and Via Dolorosa. Dress rehearsal. Tomorrow is opening night.
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Fun With Taxes. A few new forms to figure out this year. Lots of reading of instructions and scratching of head. But I think I've got the federal forms sorted out now so from here the state forms should be easy enough.
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Wishing everyone a Happy Easter! That's watchi doin.
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Forum is back, yippee...
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Winter in Mt starts to fade - treacherous roads clearing somewhat. Almost everything finished in prep for return to Bay Area, Cal. Gave everything away, including trailers, and closed all storage units. Soon: no more back & forth.
Looking forward to staying put in a terrible region.
Will be profitable in an eternal sense, Lord Willing!
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Still looking after my troubled gal-friend. I would run & hide cept I love her so much.
Her, a dog and 2 cats in a small Saturn suv.
I got 20 years on her but she's altogether lovely.
Need to replace her back windshield soon as possible.
Independent, but I watch out daily for her.
(Did I mention "crazy?")
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Decided it's about time I got back to my wall project, so started measuring everything to make sure things are properly perpendicular. And it seems they are. It would appear I've managed to start with three bare stone walls and one void, and create four wall bases (walls yet to be fully built on the bottom beams) that are within less than 5 degrees of being perpendicular in all four corners.
I'm feeling pretty pleased with that. Now I just need to bite the bullet and actually cut the floorboards away to make room for the new boards that are still sitting waiting for me to do something useful with them.
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Sunday April 28 I will be singing The Lord's Prayer at our 8:15 service.
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Sunday April 28 I will be singing The Lord's Prayer at our 8:15 service.
The Malotte arrangement?
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Sunday April 28 I will be singing The Lord's Prayer at our 8:15 service.
The Malotte arrangement?
Absolutely. Is there another? ;D
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Sister Jane Mead’s folk rock version fr 1974 is pretty good!
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Speed repeats in 20mph winds today wasn't fun. My legs hated me.
In unrelated news I cut the first floorboard to length and found the edges aren't quite straight in one particular spot. It's really close but when butted up against the adjacent boards they don't quite match. The gap is small, maybe small enough to just stain it and accept that something very narrow landing on just the right (wrong?) spot might slip through the gap. Alternatively I can fuss with putting tongue-and-groove edges on the boards, but I'd really rather not have to deal with the hassle.
I can only assume I twisted the board ever so slightly on the table saw, which is frustrating because now I'm not sure the best way to fix the issue. Maybe I can just hide it and figure it won't matter. In a house that's over 100 years old I'm sure few people will be surprised at a tiny gap between some floorboards.
The bigger issue is trying to level all the joists. This part is where the house was extended and the quality of workmanship is visibly lower than the rest of the house. I fear I may need buddy joists to present a suitably straight surface so the boards don't undulate when I secure them down. That in turn means I'm going to need a bunch of extra 2x4s to screw into the joists, which is a hassle all of its own.But at least there's some progress, and I really do like the look of red oak.
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Sawdust and glue paste makes a great small gap filler
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Sawdust and glue paste makes a great small gap filler
Sister's meatloaf :-\
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Sawdust and glue paste makes a great small gap filler
That's a good point, I'm going to need to do that in a couple of other places so hopefully I'll be able to pull it off here too. I just hope what curvature there is won't kick all the adjacent boards out of position. I suppose if I need to I can trim the surplus off one side and fill the other side with goop.
I can find a couple of small offcuts of red oak so I can make sawdust that should match pretty nicely. As long as stain and lacquer won't make it look awful we should be good to go.
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Okay. Bout time to start a thread or two, stir up some controversy or at least some jealous passions, if possible.
Working on it 8)
It's what I do best(?)
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Okay. Bout time to start a thread or two, stir up some controversy or at least some jealous passions, if possible.
Working on it 8)
It's what I do best(?)
We will see... :)
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Politics? Nope; let that one pass :-\
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Sawdust and glue paste makes a great small gap filler
That's a good point, I'm going to need to do that in a couple of other places so hopefully I'll be able to pull it off here too. I just hope what curvature there is won't kick all the adjacent boards out of position. I suppose if I need to I can trim the surplus off one side and fill the other side with goop.
I can find a couple of small offcuts of red oak so I can make sawdust that should match pretty nicely. As long as stain and lacquer won't make it look awful we should be good to go.
I laid the board out against the two boards that will be adjacent and I think it's all close enough that I won't need to do much of anything with it. The lines aren't dead straight but they are pretty close, close enough that they don't really show unless you're staring at the floor. And in a house that's over 100 years old I think that's OK - if I live to be 100 I'll probably be a bit wavy in places too.
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Sawdust and glue paste makes a great small gap filler
That's a good point, I'm going to need to do that in a couple of other places so hopefully I'll be able to pull it off here too. I just hope what curvature there is won't kick all the adjacent boards out of position. I suppose if I need to I can trim the surplus off one side and fill the other side with goop.
I can find a couple of small offcuts of red oak so I can make sawdust that should match pretty nicely. As long as stain and lacquer won't make it look awful we should be good to go.
I laid the board out against the two boards that will be adjacent and I think it's all close enough that I won't need to do much of anything with it. The lines aren't dead straight but they are pretty close, close enough that they don't really show unless you're staring at the floor. And in a house that's over 100 years old I think that's OK - if I live to be 100 I'll probably be a bit wavy in places too.
I'm not 100 and I'm plenty wavy already.
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Big Sky Montana. May 1st am.
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"Brrrrr," chattered Nanook of the North as he exited his igloo.
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Jon Rushford (late nephew) Beaters Wth Heaters annual poker run today. Townsend, Mt.
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A few slow days thanks to a nasty tummy bug. But I got some more floor removed, so now I've got as much lifted as I can without removing another section of wall.
Now it's a question of whether to remove the wall first, or lay the new flooring. I think I might use the old flooring rested in place to catch anything that falls when I take out the wall, rather than risk heavy pointy things falling on the nice new floor.
I guess I'll need some more wall studs to replace the wall that comes out.
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Beginning to plot areas of my land and set in game cams.
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An hour of speed repeats today. My legs weren't liking me much towards the tops of a few of the hills I sprinted. But with speed repeats I figure if my legs don't stop working near the top of at least some hills I'm not running hard enough.
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Just what we needed: to be drug through yet another salacious sex trial which is not a sex trial (of course).
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Just what we needed: to be drug through yet another salacious sex trial which is not a sex trial (of course).
As a trial lawyer, I can tell you.
This judge has made the appeal both easy and hard.
Easy because the irrelevance, immateriality, and prejudicial nature of the testimony and the foolish bootstrapping legal theory are something a first year law student would destroy.
Hard because there is so much error from which to choose.
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Learning my youngest grandson chess. He has talent.
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Learning my youngest grandson chess. He has talent.
I mean, anyone playing h4 to threaten any impending castling!
(And a new set?)
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Got a load more wall pulled down yesterday. In the morning I stuck to pulling down some drywall and smashing it up for bagging, because I met a friend for lunch. Nothing fancy, just a local coffee shop, so I didn't have to be immaculate but didn't want to be covered in plaster dust. Then in the afternoon I pulled down the plaster walls and a bunch of the laths. I don't need the whole lot down, but figured I'd pull down the rest of the plaster while the space is at least mostly contained.
So now I have three bags of drywall scraps, another bag mostly full, and a total of eight bags of plaster that a neighbor is going to take away. I'm still not entirely sure what he does with the plaster but he obviously has some use for it, which saves me having to get rid of it myself.
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Learning my youngest grandson chess. He has talent.
I mean, anyone playing h4 to threaten any impending castling!
(And a new set?)
New set indeed, and if you look well the king and queen are wrongly placed, I let him...
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Learning my youngest grandson chess. He has talent.
Good for you. But grammar lesson. You don't "learn your grandson" you TEACH your grandson. He learns.
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An hour of speed repeats today, so now my legs don't like me very much.
Then I took a look at the wall I want to remove in my work space. One stud came out easily enough, it was fastened to the floor with some nails that were tricky to access but a bit of thinking and a bit of brute force combined to get that stud out. The next one goes high up into the cavity above, and checking from above indicates it rises several inches above the top of the joist in the attic. I'm not sure why. I suspect this one is going to experience a visit from Mr Saw to cut it off at a manageable height so I can do the work I need on the floor below, then I can figure out the best way to remove the stub later. As long as the bottom is well above head height I'll be OK.
I'm also most likely going to have to take out a light fitting. Easy enough to do electrically speaking, just a pain having to crawl around upstairs and downstairs making sure everything is disconnected, then working on a ladder in a tight space, crawling back into the attic to pull the cables through, and only then pulling down the ceiling. Lots of fun ahead....
So far I've got everything removed that I need, except for this one stud. Once this stud is out I can lift the last part of the floor, then lay the new floor, then finish framing the bedroom. Hopefully I can get the work finished before I run out of motivation again....
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Learning my youngest grandson chess. He has talent.
I mean, anyone playing h4 to threaten any impending castling!
(And a new set?)
New set indeed, and if you look well the king and queen are wrongly placed, I let him...
Ah! I couldn't quite tell
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The last time I thought seriously about chess was in The Chestnut Tree Cafe…
I expect the next time I think seriously about chess will be in The Chestnut Tree Cafe…
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I'm willing to beat anyone here at chess on Chess.com or Lichess, except ProDeo, who I'd expect is quite strong.
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Not any longer, doing computer chess programming is bad for your elo, you start to play like a computer while you are not :)
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Learning my youngest grandson chess. He has talent.
Good for you. But grammar lesson. You don't "learn your grandson" you TEACH your grandson. He learns.
Yes Sir !
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Fun With Floors.
I got a bunch of the stuff I've been pulling down cleaned up, and another sack of trash out ready to be taken away. I've got the next sack of trash slowly filling up, and it's surprisingly heavy given the size of what's in there. Sucking up plaster dust and the general detritus that results from pulling down walls does end up being very heavy. My separator has saved me another couple of HEPA bags in this section of work alone.
Next up was cutting some wood to screw to the joists where I'm replacing flooring. Because I'm putting a section in perpendicular to the floorboards so the join is less obvious, I need to add some support in the space below so I don't have cut ends unsupported by anything. So far I've added some support in the place I could access it easy from above, and tomorrow I get to haul stuff downstairs to screw things into place from below. Then I can press on with laying the new floor, finishing framing the walls and then I can fit the last couple of electrical back boxes and run cables, and then get busy ripping through my remaining insulation panels to finish the thermal insulation in the room. Then comes the sound insulation, which I hope won't be too much trouble.
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Day trip to London. Now a day to recover from the migraine.
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I got a couple of sections of floor support installed. It was a fiddly process, I needed my wife to be in the room helping me adjust some wood blocks into position and then press on a board to stop them rising too high while I screwed them in, then stand on a slightly loose board end to give me a reference for the full-width support. But it's there and ready to roll.
Before I started figuring the next step I figured a cleanup of the work space was in order, so got rid of another sack of trash and ripped out some more disconnected knob and tube wiring. I hope I can fit all my scrap metal into the car at the same time when I finally take it all in to the recycling merchant. I've got a growing pile of copper cable, a bunch of aluminum scraps, a big bag of crushed cans, a fair amount of copper pipe, and a big pile of cast iron pipe. I'm suspecting the cast iron pipe is more or less worthless, so it's quite possible I'll just give that to the local thrift shop so they can get whatever value they can from it. That would also save me having to haul lots of heavy things with sharp edges in my car - they can go in the back of the thrift shop's pickup instead.
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I can't wait to see the photos of either when you finish the house or it finishes you.
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Waiting in the lobby for my 3rd doctor appointment of the day. I had a telephone appointment with my Primary Care provider's office this morning. Followed by a dental appointment (a fitting for my new dentures. Next appointment I get them.) And now I'm waiting to see my new GI doctor. The first and last of these were prompted by a trip to the emergency room on Monday. Nothing too serious, but uncomfortable. I got something stuck in my throat. It was below the windpipe. So I could breathe. I just couldn't swallow. I suspect I'll have to have another EGD (esophageal gastric dilation.) If I do it will be my 11th, though the last one was in 2019. Still, a pain in the neck, literally.
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I can't wait to see the photos of either when you finish the house or it finishes you.
Right now the latter seems more likely, in which case getting pictures could be tricky. If it should be the former I'll see what I can do.
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Waiting in the lobby for my 3rd doctor appointment of the day. I had a telephone appointment with my Primary Care provider's office this morning. Followed by a dental appointment (a fitting for my new dentures. Next appointment I get them.) And now I'm waiting to see my new GI doctor. The first and last of these were prompted by a trip to the emergency room on Monday. Nothing too serious, but uncomfortable. I got something stuck in my throat. It was below the windpipe. So I could breathe. I just couldn't swallow. I suspect I'll have to have another EGD (esophageal gastric dilation.) If I do it will be my 11th, though the last one was in 2019. Still, a pain in the neck, literally.
Ugh........
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Waiting in the lobby for my 3rd doctor appointment of the day. I had a telephone appointment with my Primary Care provider's office this morning. Followed by a dental appointment (a fitting for my new dentures. Next appointment I get them.) And now I'm waiting to see my new GI doctor. The first and last of these were prompted by a trip to the emergency room on Monday. Nothing too serious, but uncomfortable. I got something stuck in my throat. It was below the windpipe.
Wow! Bringing this before the Lord - asking and hoping for resolution and comfort.
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Long run yesterday, and it was more humid than I expected so I got home soaked in sweat and my wife said I looked pale (probably from being dehydrated). So I drank a load of water, and didn't make any progress at all on much of anything for most of the rest of the afternoon. But before getting in the shower I decided I needed to make some progress, so performed the enormous task of measuring a support strut to level off the floor, so the last joist isn't significantly lower than the general line of the others. It took more than I hoped, and involved taking a jigsaw to the top edge of an adjacent joist to trim a whisker off the top of it. Now everything is more or less level, and the support is in place. Hopefully motivation will last until I can make some more visible progress on this thing.
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Turned on the news today. Same mistake as yesterday.
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I now have power in the workspace. New wall studs are added, a backbox is on one of the wall studs, and wired to a receptacle. When it's all finished it will be replaced with a GFCI but for now a basic receptacle will do the job. Now I can get rid of the honking great 20A extension cord that trails all over the place, usually tripping me up when I least expect it. That alone is progress.
I thought I was facing a problem because the cable I ran months ago didn't give me quite as much reach as I hoped. I really didn't want to have to run another 60-odd feet of cable for the sake of adding 12 inches to the end but the alternative was putting a power socket behind where the door will open, which didn't seem like a good plan. Thankfully I had a bit of extra wiggle room on the cable and managed to get it to reach without pulling it horribly tight, so for now we're good.
I also got the threshold floorboard cut and screwed down, and another landing floorboard cut to length and put more or less in place. Soon I need to figure how I'm going to stain the boards in a way that lets me wipe away the stain without staining myself too badly in the process. "Old Americana" is a great color for floorboard but not so great for knees and feet.
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My suggested workout today wasn't what I hoped. After the last couple of days I hoped for an easy day but the suggestion was a 90 minute base workout. I decided to do a 90 minute open run instead, so I didn't have my watch constantly beeping at me telling me I was doing it wrong. It was warm and humid so it ended up being harder than I originally planned.
Then came a quick trip to the local lumber yard, so I now have a nice stack of 2x4s ready to frame some more walls. I need to fit the top bar, which will involve cutting some cross braces and screwing them into place in a very confined attic crawl space above the room but, once that is done, I can get on with the top bar and framing the last wall should be straightforward. The trickiest part is probably going to be setting the top bar perpendicular to the adjacent bar. It's not a difficult process in principle but trying to hold everything in place at ceiling height, then screwing the 2x4 into the ceiling, all without letting the angle shift even as the torque of driving screws tries to turn it, can be tricky. At least when I'm screwing beams into the floor I can stand on them to stop them moving.
Once the last wall is built I can fit electrical back boxes to that section, then run a cable between all the back boxes.
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Got a text from the director of our drama ministry yesterday. He's putting together another production. It will be reader's theater, so no lines to memorize and little movement. Rehearsals are Tuesday and Thursday evenings with the performance being next Sunday at both services. Naturally, I told him I'm in. No Idea what part I'll be playing. All he said was most of us will be playing kids and it's about Paul's conversion.
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Took the kids at church out for pizza. The original plan was bowling but we got to the bowling alley to find it was closed so we went for pizza instead. After eating pizza my suggested workout of sprint repeats wasn't happening so I went for a walk. It was hot, I was glad I didn't do sprint repeats. Maybe I'll do them tomorrow.
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Sprint repeats, which were fine until I found myself overheating and then strained a muscle. So I took a long break half way, and then cut the workout short because sprint repeats were turning into fairly fast repeats because that was about all I could muster.
It's mostly OK now, but pulls a little if I walk too fast. Tomorrow's workout is going to have to be a lot tamer. Probably a base level run, whatever my tracker suggests.
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Nasty sweaty job securing some struts between joists in the crawl space behind my attic. It was a warm day and it was very warm in a confined space under a metal roof. But I got the boards moved around, fiberglass moved out of the way, and the struts I needed are now in place. That means I can secure the top beam for my new wall into place, which is progress. Although now I'm realising I will need to use two pieces of 2x4 so I might need to get another strut in place. If needs be I can go and buy a longer piece, or just cut two pieces such that they meet under a strut rather than meeting in the air. The struts are wide enough to easily carry two ends, and the offcuts can become the sections that sit in the middle of a door frame or something.
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Gentle run made too difficult by heat and humidity.
Then I decided to attack the job of fitting the top bar for my new wall. With one hand I hold a large square to make sure it's perpendicular. With another hand I hold the end of the beam to make sure it's positioned correctly. With another hand I support the weight of the beam and with another I drive screws through the beam into the struts I secured in place yesterday.
The observant reader will spot the issues with the described process and regular human anatomical limitations. Thankfully my wife was on hand to provide two of the hands. Once the first piece was in place it was easy enough to fly solo and fit the extension piece to go from the end of the first piece to the other end of the room. Then I got the first several wall studs cut and secured into position.
I need to figure out what size and shape I want to make a small closet, and whether I want it to have a drawer at the bottom and doors opening to a space to hang clothes, or something more like a walk-in closet. The only difference at this stage is whether I put the bottom bar across the bottom of it. If needs be I can use an oscillating tool to cut off that piece of the base bar, but I'd really rather not have to do that.
Crucially for now, I've got enough wall in place that I can run cable to join all the electrical back boxes together. I'll need to fit new back boxes to the section of wall I just framed today, then I can fit the insulation panels between the studs and run sound proofing across the front of it all. That will be an interesting process, although probably easier than running it across the ceiling. Trying to fit a sheet that's 48 inches wide, 13 feet long, and weighs 52lb, into position so I can screw upwards through it into the ceiling joists, while trying to maintain its position against one edge of the room, when nothing is quite straight, and without letting too much weight hang so it doesn't pull free of the screws already in place, took a bit of thinking about how best to solve it. At least with the walls all I have to do is hang something vertically and what I'm hanging it against is mostly straight. I'll be working with sheets roughly 4 feet by 8 feet that weigh 32lb.
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Looking forward to tonight's rehearsal. Picture 5 adults portraying rambunctious kids and 1 adult trying to tell the story of Paul on the road to Damascus. Tonight is the last rehearsal. A lot of work, but fun. We will be doing it at both services Sunday. If you're interested in seeing it hunt up the church's website and watch one of the services. It is St Cloud First United Methodist Church in St Cloud, FL. I've been told that it will eventually be posted on YouTube.
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Threshold level workout suggested today, and I decided to give it a shot despite the heat and possibility of rain. And it was hard, harder than I had hoped it would be. I had to ease off the pace a couple of times because the workout gives no consideration for hills - it sets a suggested pace so it's easy to hold it running down a gentle hill and then impossibly hard to sustain it going up the hill at the end. And then the heat made it harder to do much of anything, but I got to the end of it even if I did need to take a couple more walk breaks than I hoped, and didn't manage to meet the goal pace for as much of it as I hoped.
Along the way I clocked a new lactate threshold which, curiously, was the target pace I was trying to hit and sustain and four seconds per mile faster than the previously clocked threshold. It helps explain why I was finding it hard sustaining the pace it in the heat.
Now I'm pondering what to do next in my work room. I'm not sure whether to run more cables or look to frame out the closet space. My wife and I talked about the design of that and decided a huge drawer at the bottom wouldn't be useful so it's going to be a "step-in closet" (like a walk-in closet but without a whole lot of space to walk around in it). I may yet put a smaller set of drawers that only take up the back half, but I can decide that later.
ETA: I drilled some more holes and ran cable all the way around the room so far. There are going to be two more back boxes installed that I didn't put in yet but that's an easy enough thing to do. I got sidetracked because I went downstairs to retrieve a tool for marking where I needed to drill and ran into my wife who was just getting back from shopping, and helping her bring everything in and put it all away disrupted the process, as did an afternoon coffee.
Now the holes are drilled it was mostly easy to run cables between everything. The one tricky part was in a corner, where I have two wall studs touching each other, enclosing a small space in the very corner of the room. With hindsight a small gap between them would have made things easier, but I could feed a fine wire through one way, hook it to the end of my cable reel, and then pull cable back through it. Slightly tricky, it took a couple of tries to get all the angles just so, but I got there in the end. I'll probably drill a few small holes in the corners and fill the cavity with spray foam so I don't have a nasty gap in my insulation.
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I just finished my latest online course with Hillsdale College. This was my 8th certificate. This one was on C.S. Lewis and Christianity.
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Easy workout today because I ran yesterday and then went bowling in the evening, so I have muscles that are a little tight that I forgot even existed. Today's suggested workout was a 30-minute recovery run, but I decided to go for a long walk instead. So things were at a slightly lower intensity but for longer. I'm glad I wasn't running, my legs felt like dead weights for most of my walk.
Then I got busy with a little more work in my workspace. I got a couple more back boxes fitted, and got cables run from each box to the next one and all joined up. Now I just need to connect the chain to the first socket, the one with the power, so I can get power elsewhere around the room. Trying to figure how to frame the closet I want to put in is a little tricky, I want to widen it a little from what it was before but need to figure what to do with the existing floor before I can do that. The adjacent room is a bathroom so the floor will be under a layer of plywood, so it doesn't matter if that part isn't pretty, but I would prefer to avoid nasty joins in the flooring in the closet spcae.
I'm also trying to figure the best way to get a load of old wall studs out of there and stored somewhere else. They are worth keeping - the chances are they are chestnut and probably 90+ years old - but there are a few of them and they take up quite a lot of space. Once this room is finished I'm probably going to claim it as an office/study, and my plan is to build a desk using the chestnut to make a worktop. It will be a bit of work to take a load of rough cut studs and get everything smooth and even but I think it will be worth it. At some point I need to move things out of there so I can clean up the entire space, and I'll need to clear space before I can get drywalling people in there because they'll probably have silly ideas about being able to actually get at the spaces I want them to drywall.
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I have another story for my "war stories." I have learned that anyone who spends any time performing has a few stories of the type of "if the audience knew what went on backstage they would wonder how we got through." This morning I ended up in one. But this one happened in plain view. The "girl" behind me had my arm behind my back, planned. Just as we were just about in place somehow I fell. The others reacted so perfectly that everyone in the audience thought it was planned. I wasn't hurt, and the rest of the show went on like it was supposed to. Every show has a few of those.
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Went for a walk in the woods after church. For the first time ever I passed a cyclist while walking. It was on a big long hill, about three miles of mostly steep gradients. I walked up about a mile of it but she would probably have cycled more than a mile before she passed the point where the trail crossed the gravel road. I wasn't sure if I was gaining on her for a while but sure enough I was, and eventually passed her. I was pushing quite hard on the hill, and she was struggling with the gradient. At the top of the hill I saw a guy in cycling gear holding a helmet asking if I'd seen another cyclist - presumably he was her riding buddy.
All in I got about 7.5 miles and sweat a lot in the process. It was a good walk.
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Tossed the winter boots today for lightweight techs. What joy!
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Didn't feel energetic today and my suggested workout was "recovery", so I decided to walk one of my longer routes. In the end I jogged for much of it but at a gentle pace and pausing to walk whenever I felt the urge. Curiously today I made a point of jogging into the wind when it blew in my face, because it was nice and cooling.
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I’m actually exercising some on purpose
1.5 miles in the hills around my house every night
So far , at least 6 days a week
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I’m actually exercising some on purpose
1.5 miles in the hills around my house every night
So far , at least 6 days a week
You'll be running ultramarathons before you know it :)
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I’m actually exercising some on purpose
1.5 miles in the hills around my house every night
So far , at least 6 days a week
You'll be running ultramarathons before you know it :)
If I’m running it means I’m being chased and I’m out of ammo…
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I’m actually exercising some on purpose
1.5 miles in the hills around my house every night
So far , at least 6 days a week
You'll be running ultramarathons before you know it :)
If I’m running it means I’m being chased and I’m out of ammo…
I think in many cases "running" an ultramarathon is a figure of speech. I know a guy who has done a couple of 100 mile races and the time limits are such that you only need to average about 3-4mph for the duration. In theory you could walk the entire route and still finish within time, assuming you didn't need time for any irritations like eating and sleeping. You can probably eat on the move, although sleeping on the move comes with its own set of challenges.
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Another run today, then a bit of enabling work. I need to lay a bottom beam to frame my closet but I couldn't do it because the floor was missing. Parts of the floor were cut away because they were under where a bath once sat, so I needed to fill the gaps. But filling the gaps was tricky because the ends of floorboard had no support.
In the end I cut them right back to the nearest joists, added a buddy section to the joist to support the ends of the floorboards, which allowed me to put a section of floor across the gap. Along the way I needed to replace a section of joist that some genius decided to cut away sometime over the years - apparently it was considered a good idea to just cut big chunks out of joists to accommodate pipework. So now there's a section of wood filling the gap, screwed to a section of 2x4 which is attached either end of the cut away section with structural grade screws. Probably lots of overkill but I'd rather know it's not going to fail on me. How what's left of the joists haven't failed over the years is a mystery.
Anyway, now I'm in a place where I can press on with a bit more wall framing so that will be tomorrow's job. Then I went out for dinner with my wife, at our favorite local brewpub. It's getting a bit spendy but it's a nice evening out.
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Still maintaining keto diet and type II diabetes reversal after a setback or two - any relapse into carb territory has resulted in spikes and endangers vision specifically. Pressure has caused eye floaters and even flashes.
Lesson learned.
The benefits of a careful, however difficult, regimine, are countless.
Wiil not give in to medical industry pushing BG lowering meds which do not actually address the issues of insulin
resistence.
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Still maintaining keto diet and type II diabetes reversal after a setback or two - any relapse into carb territory has resulted in spikes and endangers vision specifically. Pressure has caused eye floaters and even flashes.
Lesson learned.
The benefits of a careful, however difficult, regimine, are countless.
Wiil not give in to medical industry pushing BG lowering meds which do not actually address the issues of insulin
resistence.
Yep
I found out a month ago over got a bit of coronary artery disease and I refuse to take statins
So it is a whole food plant based diet… no meat, dairy, eggs, nuts…. And walking 30 minutes a day
I’m eating like a horse (literally), never hungry, great energy, and I’ve lost about 14 pounds in 30 days
God is t stupid even when we are
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Still maintaining keto diet and type II diabetes reversal after a setback or two - any relapse into carb territory has resulted in spikes and endangers vision specifically. Pressure has caused eye floaters and even flashes.
Lesson learned.
The benefits of a careful, however difficult, regimine, are countless.
Wiil not give in to medical industry pushing BG lowering meds which do not actually address the issues of insulin
resistence.
Yep
I found out a month ago over got a bit of coronary artery disease and I refuse to take statins
So it is a whole food plant based diet… no meat, dairy, eggs, nuts…. And walking 30 minutes a day
I’m eating like a horse (literally), never hungry, great energy, and I’ve lost about 14 pounds in 30 days
God is t stupid even when we are
Wise!
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Still maintaining keto diet and type II diabetes reversal after a setback or two - any relapse into carb territory has resulted in spikes and endangers vision specifically. Pressure has caused eye floaters and even flashes.
Lesson learned.
The benefits of a careful, however difficult, regimine, are countless.
Wiil not give in to medical industry pushing BG lowering meds which do not actually address the issues of insulin
resistence.
Yep
I found out a month ago over got a bit of coronary artery disease and I refuse to take statins
So it is a whole food plant based diet… no meat, dairy, eggs, nuts…. And walking 30 minutes a day
I’m eating like a horse (literally), never hungry, great energy, and I’ve lost about 14 pounds in 30 days
God is t stupid even when we are
No nuts? Aren't they plant-based?
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Still maintaining keto diet and type II diabetes reversal after a setback or two - any relapse into carb territory has resulted in spikes and endangers vision specifically. Pressure has caused eye floaters and even flashes.
Lesson learned.
The benefits of a careful, however difficult, regimine, are countless.
Wiil not give in to medical industry pushing BG lowering meds which do not actually address the issues of insulin
resistence.
Yep
I found out a month ago over got a bit of coronary artery disease and I refuse to take statins
So it is a whole food plant based diet… no meat, dairy, eggs, nuts…. And walking 30 minutes a day
I’m eating like a horse (literally), never hungry, great energy, and I’ve lost about 14 pounds in 30 days
God is t stupid even when we are
No nuts? Aren't they plant-based?
Yeah but as they metabolize they create a particularly nasty trans fatty acid that harms the endothelial cells that line the cardiac arteries. Part of the goal is to help heal the arteries themselves without pharmaceuticals
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I’m actually exercising some on purpose
1.5 miles in the hills around my house every night
So far , at least 6 days a week
I ran 6 km about each day, trying to run a new PR.
But that was more than half a century ago when I was in the army.
And I believe the about each day is an exaggeration :)
Nowadays a walk 15 of minutes is the limit, 30 minutes means paracetamol, no exaggeration.
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Still maintaining keto diet and type II diabetes reversal after a setback or two - any relapse into carb territory has resulted in spikes and endangers vision specifically. Pressure has caused eye floaters and even flashes.
Lesson learned.
The benefits of a careful, however difficult, regimine, are countless.
Wiil not give in to medical industry pushing BG lowering meds which do not actually address the issues of insulin
resistence.
Yep
I found out a month ago over got a bit of coronary artery disease and I refuse to take statins
So it is a whole food plant based diet… no meat, dairy, eggs, nuts…. And walking 30 minutes a day
I’m eating like a horse (literally), never hungry, great energy, and I’ve lost about 14 pounds in 30 days
God is t stupid even when we are
No nuts? Aren't they plant-based?
Yeah but as they metabolize they create a particularly nasty trans fatty acid that harms the endothelial cells that line the cardiac arteries. Part of the goal is to help heal the arteries themselves without pharmaceuticals
Interesting. Does that apply to all nuts - I've been eating brazil nuts lately as a source of selenium and magnesium, albeit in fairly small quantities.
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Still alive and doing relatively well 7 years after being told I had already had a heart attack and was on the brink of a disaster. Competent specialists refuted the misdiagnosis after a sonogram and other tests. (The faulted doc since resigned).
I went in for stitches awhile back and they got real heavy on me for not taking the statins he had prescribed. Etc, etc...
While folks on statins and diabetics are dying all around me.
Am without sufficient words for the medical establishment
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I’m right there with you…
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My cholesterol is elevated, so I've joined the club.
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Good company
I’ll give at update in six months!
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I have limited time for a for-profit system that makes more money keeping me slightly sick than fixing problems. I guess I'm fortunate that my doctor is more into holistic solutions than pushing pills at every opportunity.
I have no idea what my cholesterol might be as I haven't had bloodwork done for several years now. I should probably change that, even if only for the sake of information. Given how much exercise I take these days I'm expecting my HDL levels to be very high, hopefully enough to offset any issues with LDL.
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My legs hate me. I helped a couple from our church load their moving van this morning. It was easy enough but lots of trips up and down stairs because they live in an upstairs apartment. Then came the game of Tetris fitting boxes into a van, although that wasn't too much of a problem because there was more than enough space.
Then I got home and went for a long run and spent most of the second half of it wishing I hadn't bothered. I think I was still digesting lunch, and it was very hot, and I suspect my legs really wanted a break from running. But I slogged around it taking more walk breaks than I'd hoped, and now get to spend the evening sitting on my rear in my recliner. Depending on how energetic I'm feeling I might measure up some lumber for framing the rest of the closet, although based on current observations the chances of that happening appear to be somewhere between fat and slim.
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My cholesterol is elevated, so I've joined the club.
"Garlique" supplements. Amazing!
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My cholesterol is elevated, so I've joined the club.
"Garlique" supplements. Amazing!
I've heard conflicting things. But you're saying, it's been amazing for you?
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Read Essylstein
See also the documentary on Netflix “forks over knives”
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My cholesterol is elevated, so I've joined the club.
"Garlique" supplements. Amazing!
I've heard conflicting things. But you're saying, it's been amazing for you?
Yes. With full diet and regular usage, first the blood pressure came down and lipids stay within reason - I'm rarely concerned now about cholesterol as I address inflamation.
This supplement is coated and time released.
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Among all the health talk, neighbor's daughter had her graduation party yesterday so a little more liberal on the eating and drinking than usual. I had two fun-sized cans of sugary soda, which is about the same amount of sugary soda as I've had for the rest of the year so far. The amount of sugar in that stuff is terrifying but every once in a while (read: maybe every several months) I may be tempted by a can of it.
I bought a 12-pack of soda something like three years ago and still have 8 of them in the pantry.
Today's workout is sprint repeats, which will help offset the excesses of yesterday.
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I was reminded today that the election in November coincides with Guy Fawkes Day.
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I was reminded today that the election in November coincides with Guy Fawkes Day.
Interesting. It's said that Guy Fawkes was the only man to ever enter Parliament honest about his intentions.
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My sprint repeats were less fun than I expected. I got a fair few of them in but the heat isn't doing anything to help me. But I got a good hard workout in, pushed hard enough for it to rank "Anaerobic" as the primary benefit (which was the goal), and now I can hope my legs still work tomorrow.
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Struggling with running in the heat today, it seemed my pulse was running faster than it should have been and I was constantly feeling like I was overheating.
Then this afternoon I got some work done on soundproofing the last parts of my ceiling, cutting some existing floor so it's nice and flush (and removing the tongues from the tongue-and-groove edge, so it can butt up against the pieces I'm going to put in the space, and measuring and cutting the top and bottom bars that will frame the rest of the closet space. I figured I can extend my problematic stud the other way, meaning I won't lose any of the very limited space and making it more likely that my plan to fit a shower cubicle into the space will actually work.
This evening I went to help a friend with a bit of drywalling. Nothing fancy, he wanted to tidy up a small section in his garage but didn't have much in the way of useful drywall to use. But we cut some pieces, trimmed them, screwed them into place, and now it's just a question of applying some tape and mud. I think I'll let him do that bit.
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I walked my 1.5 miles in 24 minutes flat last night…. With the hills, I really don’t know if I can walk it any faster…
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I played my 17yr old son yesterday in one on one basketball. At 46yrs old, I know the day is coming that he'll beat me..."But it is not this day!"
Although, today my legs hate me...
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I played my 17yr old son yesterday in one on one basketball. At 46yrs old, I know the day is coming that he'll beat me..."But it is not this day!"
Although, today my legs hate me...
When that day comes, as he goes around you like your feet are cemented to the ground....
Clothesline him.
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I walked my 1.5 miles in 24 minutes flat last night…. With the hills, I really don’t know if I can walk it any faster…
When I started walking I just walked around a local loop that's a bit under 3 miles. Then I started to push the speed a little, then increased the distance, then started pushing the speed a bit more. My watch tells me my pace so I just aimed at the next goal and getting as close as I could to it, then gradually set faster goals. If you chip away at it slowly it's surprising how you can increase speed.
Depending on hills and your health condition you'll hit limits sooner or later, but you probably don't need me to tell you that :)
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I frequently shop at Walmart. And so, yes my legs hate me.
(Not to mention social anxiety).
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I played my 17yr old son yesterday in one on one basketball. At 46yrs old, I know the day is coming that he'll beat me..."But it is not this day!"
Although, today my legs hate me...
"My legs hate me" is becoming a recurring theme around here....
One of the teenagers at church plays for his school basketball team. I was shooting some hoops with him the other day, committing multiple and frequent fouls because it was the only way I could score anything at all. Even as he complained bitterly about yet another foul he was still winning. In the end I proposed a new scoring structure where we scored our age with each successful basket. He still won.
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I walked my 1.5 miles in 24 minutes flat last night…. With the hills, I really don’t know if I can walk it any faster…
When I started walking I just walked around a local loop that's a bit under 3 miles. Then I started to push the speed a little, then increased the distance, then started pushing the speed a bit more. My watch tells me my pace so I just aimed at the next goal and getting as close as I could to it, then gradually set faster goals. If you chip away at it slowly it's surprising how you can increase speed.
Depending on hills and your health condition you'll hit limits sooner or later, but you probably don't need me to tell you that :)
From a cardio/pulmonary analysis, I'm good. Yeah, heart rate is up and I'm winded at the top of the hills, but not gasping and I keep the pace and stride fairly consistent up and down. I'm walking about about 120 steps a minute, so I think there will be an outer limit just from a stride and tempo analysis.
When I started a month ago, I did the 1.5 in 30 minutes. Now down to 24. Not quite 4 miles an hour, and some of these hills have a pretty good incline and are about 400 yards long.
But, I've lost about 14 pounds so far...
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Before the mill closed I walked 10mi per shift and fetched firewood all year. Basically disabled since 4yrs of age (have not run since then) I really pushed things.
Walking far now is pretty much out of the question and the physical stuff is minimal anymore.
I make as much or more driving than a Tech lll at the limeplant on top of being retired.
I enjoy seeing folks running, hiking or walking.
A very wise lifestyle.
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I walked my 1.5 miles in 24 minutes flat last night…. With the hills, I really don’t know if I can walk it any faster…
When I started walking I just walked around a local loop that's a bit under 3 miles. Then I started to push the speed a little, then increased the distance, then started pushing the speed a bit more. My watch tells me my pace so I just aimed at the next goal and getting as close as I could to it, then gradually set faster goals. If you chip away at it slowly it's surprising how you can increase speed.
Depending on hills and your health condition you'll hit limits sooner or later, but you probably don't need me to tell you that :)
From a cardio/pulmonary analysis, I'm good. Yeah, heart rate is up and I'm winded at the top of the hills, but not gasping and I keep the pace and stride fairly consistent up and down. I'm walking about about 120 steps a minute, so I think there will be an outer limit just from a stride and tempo analysis.
When I started a month ago, I did the 1.5 in 30 minutes. Now down to 24. Not quite 4 miles an hour, and some of these hills have a pretty good incline and are about 400 yards long.
But, I've lost about 14 pounds so far...
If your heart rate isn't going dangerously high (whatever that means based on your circumstances) you've got space to speed it up if you want to. When I'm really pushing the pace walking my cadence can go to about 150 or so, although at a more comfortable pace it's usually around the mid-130s. Taking slightly shorter strides and more of them is a good way to increase the pace - if your stride length goes above a certain level it can actually slow you down.
Another thing I found was that at the top of a hill I naturally wanted to slow right down and catch my breath but what I took to doing was to back off on the power but increase the speed slightly. If you're shifting from going up a hill to flat or downhill you can go faster with less effort, rather than winding the effort way down.
And of course the ultimate question is how fast you want to go. If you want to push the pace faster and faster there are ways and means, if you're happy with the pace you're going now and want to get more gentle exercise in there's no need to try and push it harder.
Today's run left me soaked in sweat. It wasn't particularly fast, it was just very humid outside. I got home and wrung sweat out of my shirt before putting it in the laundry. Then I had to cool off fast because I was meeting a friend for lunch before he takes off on a long summer trip with his family. So now I'm cooled off, far more caffeinated than I need to be thanks to the coffee shop where I met my friend, and trying to get motivated to do some more work in the sweat box that is the other side of my house. Running a fan over there isn't ideal because it just blows the sawdust even further than natural airflow takes it.
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I hear you.
I 've found I have to intentionally pick up the pace after topping a hill lest I simply collapse on the road and get squished.
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I hear you.
I 've found I have to intentionally pick up the pace after topping a hill lest I simply collapse on the road and get squished.
Getting squished on the road is an outcome best avoided. So people tell me.
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Set-backs and delays but still prepping for relocation.
Flee MAGA stronghold for starters, if, when possible.
No looking back.
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I got a bunch more of my wall framed. I had to stop work because I ran out of 2x4s so as soon as it stops raining today I need to go and buy some more. I strap them to the roof of my car, which involves going round and round my car with the rope tying them down, then repeating the process in reverse to get them off again at home, so I prefer not to do it in the rain.
So far I've got the room and associated closet mostly framed, I just need to put the cross bar across the top of where the doors will go in place and the associated stubby bit between that and the ceiling. I have a few offcuts but not enough to finish. With some extra 2x4s I can frame the wall that will divide the landing and the batroom, so it seems I might as well do that while I'm on a roll.
It looks kinda weird not seeing a big stack of lumber on my temporary floor, and really weird seeing this big open space looking ever-more like a room.
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Stopped drinking 10 cups of coffee a day after headaches, heart palpitations, jittery feelings, sleep disruptions. Detoxification process as I read can take 2-9 days, I am now on decaf coffee.
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Stopped drinking 10 cups of coffee a day after headaches, heart palpitations, jittery feelings, sleep disruptions. Detoxification process as I read can take 2-9 days, I am now on decaf coffee.
10 cups a day is a lot. My wife and I drink enough we get a wholesale discount from my local roaster but we're nowhere near that level. I've felt kinda buzzed for a couple of hours after four cups at the local cafe, which is why I very seldom drink that much coffee. It's a good feeling at first but soon fades to something I'd really rather went away.
On an unrelated note, I now have a dozen nice new 2x4s sitting on my temporary floor, so it doesn't look forlorn any more. Maybe this afternoon I can get some of them cut up and put into position. I tried going for a run but it was one of those days when my legs just had nothing to give and I struggled to even run for two minutes. Needless to say the heat and humidity weren't helping, but even aside from that it just felt like there was no fuel in the tank at all.
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T(r)ipping point: on average, 400mg caffeine. (4cups daily)
Just gets me started ::)
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T(r)ipping point: on average, 400mg caffeine. (4cups daily)
Just gets me started ::)
I had an interesting encounter with the Black Rifle Coffee Company. A local discount store had a few of their canned drinks in stock so I tried one. It had 300mg of caffeine in it, which didn't register as a particularly high dose. Maybe slightly high but not high enough to cause concern. So I drank the can of coffee and found myself feeling agitated. Trying another can on another day I found that If I drink it slowly and I'm properly hydrated it works. If I drink it too fast, it's not so good.
Then I found the canned coffee also has a few other bits and pieces in it, so don't buy it any more.
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I got my two doorways fully framed with crossbars and struts in the middle of the crossbars. I started measuring up where the next section of wall is going to go and it looks like I need to correct the angle ever so slightly - I'm a little under half an inch off at one end of a wall that will be about seven feet long in total. It's ironic because I nudged the small section of wall very slightly out of square to correct another issue, and now it looks like I might have been better off leaving it square. It's a small enough issue, and with a door in the middle of the wall it should be easy enough to lose half an inch. I was going to cut a stud away and start framing but that will require me to line the ceiling with soundproofing material, which will require me to pull down some ceiling laths, which will rain cellulose down on me, and I didn't feel like starting that job late in the evening.
I also think I bought too many 2x4s. I figured I'd rather have one or two spares than find myself one short and having to go to the lumber mill to buy a single one, but I have 11 left and think I need 7. I'm not sure when I'll be needing more of them, because when I pull down the brick wall I'll probably replace it with 2x6s for a bit of extra strength.
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Just got back from my son's wedding in the Holy Land. It was a blessed and wonderful experience.
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Excellent!
Mazel tov!
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I just received one of those fall detection/emergency buttons that you wear. I don't need it now, but I may eventually. I discovered that I could get this one through my insurance company, at no charge to me, so I decided why not. There is a bit of a learning curve. When I was putting it into the charging device for the night it gave me a "fall detected" message. When I figured out what was happening I was able to cancel the call. I'm trying to get a second charging device so I can take it with me when I change my sleeping locations.
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I finally saw Disney's The Princess and the Frog. I don't know how I missed it when it was in the theater. But last night I bumped into it on TV. I was channel surfing and bumped into it just starting and decided to watch it. Worth watching. I'm not sure I would call it classic on par with Sleeping Beauty. but worth watching. I especially like the alligator.
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I went to see Inside Out 2 yesterday. Very good. If you liked the first one, you will like this one. They, very amusingly, examine adolescents. And add new characters, Anxiety, Embarrassment, and Anouie.
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Excellent!
Mazel tov!
The ceremony was very special.
The wedding took place at a site on the outskirts of Jerusalem, overlooking the hills of Judea.
There is a traditional Jewish wedding song that has been used for many hundreds of years.
It is based on the verses in Jeremiah 33
This is what the LORD says: In this place you say is a wasteland without man or beast, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted—inhabited by neither man nor beast—there will be heard again the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom...
and it is parsed out to
there will be heard again in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom
and the best part is that the wedding ceremony made this prophecy literally come true.
God is good and His words are true.
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Finally got around to shifting stuff around in one workspace so I can move a saw into the space and cut up some insulation panels. So far I have three complete strips and one half strip cut and installed in my upstairs workspace. Hauling a table saw that weighs slightly over 100lb up a flight of rickety stairs and through a doorway that's just a little bit too narrow to be easy was interesting. But now it's in place next to my pile of panels, so I can cut them up much more easily. Without doing that the only alternative would be to haul the panels downstairs, which would also be a logistic challenge since they are 8 feet by 4 feet.
The spaces between my wall studs aren't quite as even as I had hoped, it seems the wood has twisted ever so slightly, but it's pretty close. Much closer than anything else I've worked with so far, which is always a good thing. Tomorrow I can cut some more strips and see how much more progress I can make. It's good to finally get on with stuff again, for a time it seemed every little thing I tried to do hit an obstacle.
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I managed to recover a pair of old email addresses circa 2007 that I had completely forgotten existed, though I can't say the same for the other people who had still been emailing me there 😅
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The incredible Femke Bol, she starts as last one in the 4x400m relay at place 4 and starts catching up.
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I took my bicycle out for a spin, for the first time in quite a lot of years. I cleaned it off the other day and today I decided it was about time I took it out for a ride to see if it was still in rideable condition. My main concern was whether it would need new cables or tires, given it's been 8-9 years since I last rode it.
It felt good to be riding again, although my body obviously isn't used to being in the saddle. That might take a bit of getting used to.
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Well, my area largely dodged a bullet. Debbie came ashore in the Big Bend area. So all we are getting is some moderately heavy rain from time to time. Some potential for tornadoes.
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Well, my area largely dodged a bullet. Debbie came ashore in the Big Bend area. So all we are getting is some moderately heavy rain from time to time. Some potential for tornadoes.
My area got off light as well. While mostly rain and thunder around me, one close lightning strike killed my power for less than a minute last night. Today, it's just light but steady rain. Considering the damage done by Debby elsewhere, we were very fortunate.
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Went for a run today, and spent a lot of the time wishing I'd chosen something lighter on the effort. The heat was pretty intense, but overall the run was easier than it might have been. I'm looking forward to cooler weather when I can push a bit harder.
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Yesterday was a bundle of fun. I got to play with some boards and beams in a very confined space.
First of all I needed to get a piece of wiring work done, before I laid the new boards. So that meant lifting some fiberglass to find the wire, then pulling a new wire. The ends aren't connected up yet but that can wait, the key thing was getting the wire to run through the space. Then I needed to re-seat the fiberglass, and lay some 8x2 boards over the top of it all. (The boards are sold as 8x4 but I have them cut so I can handle them and get them into place).
Once I had four boards laid and secured to the joists I needed to add a couple of supports so I could lay more boards in the corners of my crawl space. At this point there's almost no head room, and it's nigh on impossible to get at anything because of the confined space. I needed to cut a piece of board to length, then use joist hangers to secure it to perpendicular joists, and screw the hangers into place because there isn't space to swing a hammer to drive nails. The second support needed to have one end cut at 45 degrees, which was tricky because it was too tall to stand up in my miter saw so I had to cut it as a bevel. Thankfully that one was easier to work with, as I could drill through the perpendicular joists and use structural grade screws to secure the new support into place. It's probably overkill but I'd rather over-engineer something than find I need to revisit it later. At some point I'd like what I'm laying to become a subfloor for what will effectively become a third floor patio space, so I'd rather do it right first time.
Today my arms ached, because of the weird efforts in wielding a drill and screwdriver in a very confined space while also supporting my weight and trying to hold things still for long enough to drive screws and nails into them.
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Long day. Up at 0400hrs, at the church at 0430hrs, began smoking 6 pork butts for our Free Community Dinner by 0500hrs.
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Long day. Up at 0400hrs, at the church at 0430hrs, began smoking 6 pork butts for our Free Community Dinner by 0500hrs.
Just don’t inhale…
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Long day. Up at 0400hrs, at the church at 0430hrs, began smoking 6 pork butts for our Free Community Dinner by 0500hrs.
Just don’t inhale…
LOL!!
Got an email from the church this morning. A total of 103 people were served, 47 take out and 56 dine ins. It is always a blessing to see so many smiling faces.
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Long day. Up at 0400hrs, at the church at 0430hrs, began smoking 6 pork butts for our Free Community Dinner by 0500hrs.
I only recognize 1 4 o'clock per day and it is NOT 4 AM.
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Quick run today. The cooler temperatures make it much easier, the difference in my pace for a comparable effort is remarkable. It's also nice to get home and not take half an hour or more to stop dripping sweat. This aftenoon I plan to play with some more boards, I'll get my circular saw up in the attic and cut some things to length. Hopefully I can fit all the rest of the boards in a single hit. That would be nice.
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Long day. Up at 0400hrs, at the church at 0430hrs, began smoking 6 pork butts for our Free Community Dinner by 0500hrs.
I only recognize 1 4 o'clock per day and it is NOT 4 AM.
I think 4am is a myth built into stories to scare small children into compliance.
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Long day. Up at 0400hrs, at the church at 0430hrs, began smoking 6 pork butts for our Free Community Dinner by 0500hrs.
I only recognize 1 4 o'clock per day and it is NOT 4 AM.
I think 4am is a myth built into stories to scare small children into compliance.
Hahaha, that's funny.
Second guessed myself today and lost a great photo.
Raining here today and rain makes great opportunity for interesting photos for my "Moment's Through a Dirty Windshield" photo project. Took several hipshots of people walking along the storefronts as I was slowly driving by. I decided to set my camera down and as I cleared past a parked car and looked off to the right, I lost a great photo.
A family was standing at the parking meter. The son, just a head taller than the meter and standing just to the left (my perspective), was look down at it. A daughter, was standing just to the right of the meter and was looking up at it. The mom, to the left of the son was looking at her husband/dad and he was to the right of the daughter and reaching over the daughter, was putting in the money with one hand and holding an umbrella with the other hand. They were all huddled under that umbrella.
Still mentally kicking myself for not waiting till I reached the end of the street before putting the camera down.
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Not looking forward to Friday 8/30/2024. Scheduled to have an endoscopy. Probably will turn into an EGD, which will be my 11th. The next day will not be pleasant. I usually spend the next day sleeping and vomiting. I suspect I'm sensitive to the anesthetic they were using. I have mentioned that to several people.
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Not looking forward to Friday 8/30/2024. Scheduled to have an endoscopy. Probably will turn into an EGD, which will be my 11th. The next day will not be pleasant. I usually spend the next day sleeping and vomiting. I suspect I'm sensitive to the anesthetic they were using. I have mentioned that to several people.
Will start lifting this in prayer tonight brother. My wife and I pray together nightly and this will be on my list.
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Not looking forward to Friday 8/30/2024. Scheduled to have an endoscopy. Probably will turn into an EGD, which will be my 11th. The next day will not be pleasant. I usually spend the next day sleeping and vomiting. I suspect I'm sensitive to the anesthetic they were using. I have mentioned that to several people.
Will start lifting this in prayer tonight brother. My wife and I pray together nightly and this will be on my list.
Thanks. I'm not overly concerned.as.this will be my 11th. Still, the usual aftermath is unpleasant. The last few times left me sleeping and vomiting the next day. The prayers are still appreciated.
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Not looking forward to Friday 8/30/2024. Scheduled to have an endoscopy. Probably will turn into an EGD, which will be my 11th. The next day will not be pleasant. I usually spend the next day sleeping and vomiting. I suspect I'm sensitive to the anesthetic they were using. I have mentioned that to several people.
Will start lifting this in prayer tonight brother. My wife and I pray together nightly and this will be on my list.
Thanks. I'm not overly concerned.as.this will be my 11th. Still, the usual aftermath is unpleasant. The last few times left me sleeping and vomiting the next day. The prayers are still appreciated.
Sounds ugly, even if it's a known ugly. I'll send one up for you as well :)
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Lots of fun with an encryption library I'm trying to figure out how to use. There's very little documentation and the sample code wouldn't compile. That's never a good start.
After much digging I found I was missing a key library. That seemed odd, given I used an automated installer. Further digging indicated I was using a "lite" version and what I had (what came with the installer built into my development platform) was out of date.
So all in all it took me the best part of 90 minutes to try and trace some documentation, fail to compile a simple demo program, figure out what the problem was, and get a very basic encryption implementation working. Now I need to build it into the rest of the code to make it do something more productive than turn text into gibberish and back into text.
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@tango, I am still have the source code of an old encryption util from 1998.
Syntax : zipper e|d infile outfile
e=encrypt
d=decrypt
It compiles.
I can upload if you think it's useful.
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@tango, I am still have the source code of an old encryption util from 1998.
Syntax : zipper e|d infile outfile
e=encrypt
d=decrypt
It compiles.
I can upload if you think it's useful.
I wrote a basic encryption library myself probably around that time. I codenamed it EZ-Crypt and used it in a couple of applications. Now it would need to be rewritten to force it to use standard 8-bit characters, because with string types now referring to Unicode strings it sometimes glitches and messes up the last character or two during an encrypt-decrypt verification cycle. With so much else out there I don't know that I can be bothered to update it, it's less effort to just plug in an existing unit that works.
At present I'm trying to figure the best way to maintain a local user file for a piece of software that isn't allowed network access, and so can't use anything like enterprise-grade database security, nor can it use an online database. Because everything has to be stored locally there's nothing to stop anyone from inspecting the file so all the useful data needs to be encrypted, while keeping as many keys as possible unencrypted to allow the use of at least basic SQL statements.
For good measure it also needs to incorporate at least some protection against a bad actor using a different version of the file containing compromised passwords before restoring the current version.
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A trick I used in the past, since folks tend to copy instead of buying, is to store crucial information (as copy protection) as a .dll in the Windows/system32 folder, encrypting the c:/Windows/system32 path and filename.dll in the code also. Everything can be hacked but it worked fine.
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A trick I used in the past, since folks tend to copy instead of buying, is to store crucial information (as copy protection) as a .dll in the Windows/system32 folder, encrypting the c:/Windows/system32 path and filename.dll in the code also. Everything can be hacked but it worked fine.
It's not about preventing people copying the software, that's secured with all sorts of fun other stuff (it's of limited use to copy the software anyway, since it interfaces with some very specialised hardware and is more or less useless without the hardware). The problem is that a bad actor could potentially tamper with the password file and create logs that appeared to be done by someone else. In most settings that wouldn't be an issue but this particular requirement relates to audit trails and being able to tell who did what. If the password file can be compromised there's the potential for audit trails to also become compromised, which is the problem.
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Maybe I misunderstood what you are doing, I assumed C++ programming but after rereading I noticed the word SQL which implies PHP programming? And if so can you not delete the local file immediately after it did what it is supposed to do?
Google -
javascript delete file
php delete file
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Maybe I misunderstood what you are doing, I assumed C++ programming but after rereading I noticed the word SQL which implies PHP programming? And if so can you not delete the local file immediately after it did what it is supposed to do?
Google -
javascript delete file
php delete file
Actually it's neither. The code is written in Delphi (think visual Pascal, if you don't know Delphi) and runs on a local machine. The database is also stored locally but because I can't use anything fancy it's a simple SQLite database. That's handy in that the drivers etc are free, but a liability because the drivers etc are free and anyone can write a simple database viewer/editor, so storing the data in an unencrypted format would lead to all sorts of issues.
The issue isn't deleting the file, but if a bad actor does manage to delete the file it potentially causes problems because it means audit trails go away. In theory a bad actor could take a copy of a file to give them chance to attempt to break a password, restoring files if/when accounts got locked out. If they had a compromised password they could restore a copy of the compromised file, use the compromised password and then restore the original file. I'm trying to figure a way to provide at least some warning that such a thing might have happened, given I can't necessarily control what happens to any given file.
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About to take a nap. Was up.at.6:15 this morning to go have.an endoscopy (in general I only recognize 1 6:15 per day and it.ISN’T AM.) So far things are going fine. I'm, now,.fairly steady on my legs. No vomiting which was a problem last time. And a bit of a sore throat, to be expected. A bit tired, also expected. So it's time for.a nap.
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Joined our church's handbell choir last night. I was a bit rusty but did fairly well. It was fun.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls…
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls…
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls…
Didn't expect to see that second song linked as a response. Metallica I could see. Haven't heard that Deliverance album mentioned in a while.
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More fun with insulation panels.
I cut two lengths from an 8x4 panel. The first was an easy enough fit, it just needed to go between two wall studs so didn't require a whole lot of trimming. The second was tricky - it had a wall stud on one side and a textured brick wall on the other - what was once the outer wall of the house but is now an interior wall. So I had to cut a 2" thick panel to match the curvature of the wall as best I could, while pressing it against the wall and working in a confined space.
In the end I settled for a cut that's fairly close, I can fill the gaps with expanding foam. It will still be incomparably better than what I had before, and now the space I've been working in is fully fitted with insulating panels. I have one full panel remaining, and about 18" of another panel. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them, I could really do with having them out of the way so I can continue working but I'm not sure where to put them. I need to open up some more wall cavity so I can fit them, it's just a question of where I can do that.
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Wisdom from one of my grandchildren at the age of 6 - What a bad luck day!
Meaning, tomorrow will be better.
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Went to see my GI doctor this morning. Mainly talked to the PA. The stricture in my throat was worse than was expected. He was able to stretch it to a large degree. But not as much as he would like. So I have to have another in October. That one Will be my 12th, and it's already scheduled. It's a little later in the morning than I would like but it's either then or wait until December. And this one was only available due to a cancelation so I jumped on it.
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls…
Didn't expect to see that second song linked as a response. Metallica I could see. Haven't heard that Deliverance album mentioned in a while.
I just managed to snag a 1989 copy of X-Sinner's "Get it", so I figured, since I'm posting Metallica anyway, why not also some Deliverance, which has nothing to do with X-Sinner.
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I just managed to snag a 1989 copy of X-Sinner's "Get it", so I figured, since I'm posting Metallica anyway, why not also some Deliverance, which has nothing to do with X-Sinner.
That's another blast from the past. I know I have that album somewhere, haven't listened to it in years though.
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I just managed to snag a 1989 copy of X-Sinner's "Get it", so I figured, since I'm posting Metallica anyway, why not also some Deliverance, which has nothing to do with X-Sinner.
That's another blast from the past. I know I have that album somewhere, haven't listened to it in years though.
The real trick is getting one's hands on Peace Treaty... But also, their first CD was always their best.
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I guess you're familiar with Vengeance - Human Sacrifice was their first album (the guitar solo on From The Dead rivals and possibly beat's Slayer's efforts in Angel of Death), then came Once Dead (nowhere near as good in my opinion) and then another one (I think Raegoul) that I haven't heard.
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I guess you're familiar with Vengeance - Human Sacrifice was their first album (the guitar solo on From The Dead rivals and possibly beat's Slayer's efforts in Angel of Death), then came Once Dead (nowhere near as good in my opinion) and then another one (I think Raegoul) that I haven't heard.
Yeah, that sounds about right
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The people in Central Florida are preparing for another hurricane. This one looks to be a repeat of Charlie. Making landfall in Tampa on Wednesday as a category 3.
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Fun With Soundproofing.
I hauled two more rolls of soundproofing from the garage up into my workroom. I wasn't sure whether a third roll was needed but since two rolls combined weigh almost as much as I do I decided to stick at two, and haul the third if I found I needed it.
Fitting the material at ground level is easy, I can more or less stand up a roll and unroll it, screwing it to the wall studs as I go. The next level up is trickier because it's heavy material and has to be held in a fairly precise location so I can screw it into place, but I can't let go of it or the weight will pull it off the screws. So I rigged up a bit of a botch on one of my ladders to hold it at the right height, and then my wife steadies the roll so it doesn't fall off the ladder while I climb the ladder and screw it into place.
It makes an enormous difference having her help me, even if all she is doing is steadying the material. In the course of a couple of hours we pretty much finished the workroom's soundproofing and got a chunk of the adjacent room done too. I have a few strips to fill in (the material is 48" wide and the ceiling varies from about 97" - 99"), and aside from that this room is all but ready for drywalling.
In other rooms I have a little more electrical work to do that I can press on with now, and I need to frame a section of wall and have a couple of windows replaced. But the way thing are going we might just have a chunk of space finished before the end of the year. That will be nice.
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At my sister's waiting for the hurricane to come through.
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At my sister's waiting for the hurricane to come through.
Hoping you're safe from it. Please let us know.
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We're fine. We didn't even loose power. Had something pull down the box and meter off the wall but no other damage. Lots of branches down.
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Can I get a "HALLUAJAH? A day that started out as a "day from hell," ended up great. To start with I had an EGD (esophageal gastric dilation) scheduled. Not fun but not really a big deal. I've had several of them and I thought I had everything set up. Or so I thought. I can't drive from the hospital, so I arranged transportation through my insurance. I need someone to wait with me, so I had a friend that would wait with me. Redone this before. Then the hurricane comes. I go up and shelter with my sister in Orlando. First snag. My house doesn't have power because the power pole that brings power to the power box has come off from the wall. After some work, I find an electrician to fix it. It takes longer than I had hoped. I drive down from Orlando to catch my ride and find out my had landed in the emergency room and he can't do it. So, after many calls I finally find someone to wait with me. The procedure goes fine. I go home and my electrician is there. He agrees to wait for the power crew so he can sign the waiver. And the crew gets my power back on. So I am now sitting here at home watching TV I have to clean out the refrigerator, which can wait for now. And I have to go back to my sister's to get the rest of my things. But the horrible day has been redeemed.
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Fun With Electrics.
A back box that was already a bit on the tight side is now even tighter, since I put a wifi-enabled relay in it. It took a bit of fiddling to get everything to go back into the box, but it's there now and I can control my lights (that will be a light/fan combo soon enough) from my phone from anywhere in the world that has internet access.
Now I know everything works as expected the next job is to take another overly tight back box and put two of these things in it. That job is going to involve pulling everything out and putting a bigger back box in place, as there's no way I can fit it all in there.
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My wifi relays are now due to arrive tomorrow, so I can press on with fitting them to a new box over the weekend.
Today my wife and I went out for dinner and discovered a very pleasing limited edition sour beer at one of our local(ish) breweries.
Then because I couldn't make enough progress on my lighting to make it worth bothering I decided to.... work on some lighting. I've got a lamp I bought because it didn't work. I'd previously taken the wiring apart and it was ugly, so I stripped most of it out and replaced it, and now it works very nicely. It's a pretty lamp, so it's good to have it working.
Getting it working was frustrating, because I had to not only feed more wires through the threaded rod down the middle than I've had to deal with before but I also found that a shield was positioned such that I couldn't get the key into the new lamp holder. Thankfully a tungsten carbide bit in my Dremel opened the hole up so I can get at it.
I still need to find a tap/die combination so I can make my own brass extenders. Some lampholders come with them and some don't, and it would be handy to be able to make them as needed.
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I picked up a great set of tap/die at an antique store a few years ago
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I picked up a great set of tap/die at an antique store a few years ago
I have a few sets but nothing that's quite the right size for this. I've got a metric and an imperial set for regular bolts, and a precision set for much smaller things, but none of them quite match what I need for lamp holders. Lamps themselves seem to be the kind of thing that live in antique stores too - the size I need is somewhere slightly bigger than my precision set but smaller than most other sets, and so far I haven't managed to find anything suitable anywhere.
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I got my two two-channel wifi relays installed. I needed to fit a bigger back box and it was still a big snug in there, but they are installed and they are working so that's good.
Lately I've been trying to figure out how to finish the soundproofing job in two rooms, while conflicting aims of minimising material wastage and minimising the number of joins in the material. It's awkward because nothing in the room is quite square, the ceiling height is slightly more than twice the width of the rolls of material, and the presence of windows and doors invites wastage and/or joins. So far I've got most of it done, and I'm slowly working my way around it all, and then I can make sure the ceiling is more or less level before getting the drywalling done.
My plan is to get one room finished, then drywall that room, then move stuff from the next room so I can get that room done. Trying to finish two rooms at once leaves me stuck dealing with a lack of space. Much of the stuff is easy enough to move but cast iron radiators are anything but trivial to transport. Two smaller ones are relatively easy but the larger one probably weighs about twice as much as I do, which makes moving it interesting.
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Shopping for upgrades to my home security camera system….
Ouch.
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Shopping for upgrades to my home security camera system….
Ouch.
Do you use wired cameras or wifi-enabled ones?
Wifi cameras seem pretty easy - you just stick them in place and replace the battery as needed - but I can't help thinking that something wired (preferably with PoE) is harder to circumvent.
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Wired.
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Wired.
Since I have some parts of my house pulled apart at the moment I'd be interested if you'd be willing to share some thoughts on different systems. I live in a rural area so no real concerns about crime - I don't want the kind of thing that looks like the house is bristling with cameras (and advertising to every criminal scumbag in the area that my house is worth raiding).
Obviously I understand if you don't want to post details in a public forum like this one....
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I worries.
My predecessor homeowner went all out . Five external cameras, one in the garage, and one in the basement.
Wiring is good
I’m replacing their old black and white cameras with Swann off the shelf color, night vision cameras with microphones
System includes a plug and play DVR
Nothing fancy but it allows me to monitor on my phone
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Was there a reason you chose Swann? I looked them up and their reviews seem mixed at best.
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Mostly availability and compatability with my existing system.
I'm not very good with tech so "plug and play" without programming is YUUUUUGE for me!
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Plus, I figure it's all obsolete in 5-7 years so no need to buy a Cadillac, which is what my house's former owner did.
I plugged in a new Swann night vision/ 4K camera into the existing system over the weekend and the difference in picture quality is remarkable, plus I can have audio recording as an addition.
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That's fair enough. I like things that work and continue to work long after they are notionally obsolete, and like things that connect easily so I don't have to run new wires any more often than absolutely necessary.
Where network cables are concerned I'd want to run them such that I could use an old cable to pull a new cable if they ever needed to be replaced. Electrical codes make it hard to do that with mains cable, although I never did work out why.
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In Athens. You'd never believe this place had any history if the historical monuments weren't around. It's a dump.
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I hear the same is true about most of Europe unless you start the day with 2 glasses or wine or beer.
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Fighting the tail end of some kind of cold or similar. The last couple of days have been mostly unproductive, although I've done a lot of sleeping.
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I had to have a total thyroidectomy about 6 months ago after a few nodules being monitored turned ugly. Fortunately, thyroid cancer is one of the easiest to treat when caught early. A few days ago, the results of an echocardiogram and labs showed no new activity in the area, so that's a good thing. I've been taking thyroid hormone for the last 10 years due to hypothyroidism, so the only day to day change is an increase in the dosage. Sure will be nice when we get our immortal bodies and don't have to worry about sickness or diseased organs.
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I hear the same is true about most of Europe unless you start the day with 2 glasses or wine or beer.
There's a lot of Europe that's quite nice. This is the first time I've been shocked at the state of things... especially considering it's a capital city.
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I hear the same is true about most of Europe unless you start the day with 2 glasses or wine or beer.
There's a lot of Europe that's quite nice. This is the first time I've been shocked at the state of things... especially considering it's a capital city.
Have you been to Paris?
Parts of it are lovely. When I was last there much of it was overrun with beggars. And not like the guys you see in London or New York who ask for change and maybe hustle a little to "earn" it, but people constantly in your face asking for more, more, more.
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I hear the same is true about most of Europe unless you start the day with 2 glasses or wine or beer.
There's a lot of Europe that's quite nice. This is the first time I've been shocked at the state of things... especially considering it's a capital city.
Have you been to Paris?
Parts of it are lovely. When I was last there much of it was overrun with beggars. And not like the guys you see in London or New York who ask for change and maybe hustle a little to "earn" it, but people constantly in your face asking for more, more, more.
Yeah, and probably the same "syndrome".
I was expecting Rome, and got Mogadishu.
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Finally got the soundproofing finished in another room. This one was tricky, I had an awkward corner and I couldn't find any way to get into the wall cavity because of the last wall stud. In the end I figured the only way to do what I needed was to take the wall stud out. So I took the stud out, got the soundproofing materal into place, screwed it all in, and then put the stud back. The last piece of work I need to do is cut through a wall and fit a temporary door. In the longer term we're going to have a doorway without a door, but for now I need to make sure the cat can't get at the building site, so a door it is. I have a spare door with a frame that I can put in, I'll just need a bunch of shims because the door opening is several inches wider than the frame I have. I considered making a door but since it's only temporary it seems like a lot of hassle and a fair chunk of wood for something that isn't going to stay around.
A long drawn out process to fit a strip of soundproofing barely 18" wide but now it's done. I think the ceiling in that room is level enough that I can get it drywalled more or less as is, which is a huge bonus. Next up is to figure out where to put all the stuff that's in the room so the nice drywalling people can actually move around and get at the walls.
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I hear the same is true about most of Europe unless you start the day with 2 glasses or wine or beer.
There's a lot of Europe that's quite nice. This is the first time I've been shocked at the state of things... especially considering it's a capital city.
Have you been to Paris?
Parts of it are lovely. When I was last there much of it was overrun with beggars. And not like the guys you see in London or New York who ask for change and maybe hustle a little to "earn" it, but people constantly in your face asking for more, more, more.
Yeah, and probably the same "syndrome".
I was expecting Rome, and got Mogadishu.
Paris has been like that for years. The last time I was there was in 1997 and the beggars were everywhere, aggressive as usual. Even in the early 80s you could barely move without someone thrusting a can in your face hoping for a few coins.
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Facebook suggested a friend. This was a person I hadn't seen since church youth group.
I expected to see an 18-year-old.
I saw a 40-year-old.
So that's what it feels like.
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I still get surprised sometimes when I realize that 1980 wasn't 20 years ago.
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I still get surprised sometimes when I realize that 1980 wasn't 20 years ago.
I still say "10 years ago" like I mean 1996.
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Welcome to my world.
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I have joined a new Bible forum, guess what, Hepzibah and Episkopos the 2 sinless preachers are still preaching an sinless life, else hell.
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I have joined a new Bible forum, guess what, Hepzibah and Episkopos the 2 sinless preachers are still preaching an sinless life, else hell.
If they're so desperate for hell, who are we to stop them?
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I have joined a new Bible forum, guess what, Hepzibah and Episkopos the 2 sinless preachers are still preaching an sinless life, else hell.
Don't remember Hepzibah, but do have vague memories of episkopos and his tactic of nominally agreeing while then disagreeing.
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Episkopos
Boy there a hemorrhoid name from the past…
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Not a gamer. But I remember Atari...oh, all those dink dinks where the tennis ball was concerned. I could play for hours. I hated all the 80's nightlife at the time because anything other than Gary Numan did not make sense.
Currently listening to music.
its my go to unwind.
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I miss some of the members of the old place.
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Episkopos
Boy there a hemorrhoid name from the past…
And there it will stay, if they ever make the poor decision to show up.
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I have joined a new Bible forum, guess what, Hepzibah and Episkopos the 2 sinless preachers are still preaching an sinless life, else hell.
Wow, Episkopos was quite the Moderator challenge no matter what thread he invaded and tried to dominate with his agenda.
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I have joined a new Bible forum, guess what, Hepzibah and Episkopos the 2 sinless preachers are still preaching an sinless life, else hell.
Wow, Episkopos was quite the Moderator challenge no matter what thread he invaded and tried to dominate with his agenda.
... and it often seemed like he knew the rules well enough that he wasn't technically violating anything with any individual post, but his posts put together indicated a teaching that was kooky.
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Even as a moderator I was sent to Banned Camp…
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Even as a moderator I was sent to Banned Camp…
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Happy Thanksgiving to all… USA style!
May we all be truly thankful for all of God’s incredible blessings to us all.
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The weather report/warning for our area is speculating 81 inches of snow over the next 3 days... wow!
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Please be praying for me tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon. Our churches music program is preforming a concert. I will be appearing as Santa and will be singing 2 solos. One with the choir, What's Going On At Bethlehem. and one by myself, Merry Christmas With Love.
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The weather report/warning for our area is speculating 81 inches of snow over the next 3 days... wow!
I don't know that I'd want to live in that, but I'd love to see it.
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Would appreciate your prayers for Mrs. RK’s mom. Mom (who finally moved in with us this summer) will be 92 in February. In great health and very active… was blowing leaves in the yard last week.
Well, she fell in her bedroom Saturday night and broke her hip. Surgery later today and then probably a week at a rehab facility which will be worse for her than going to jail
appreciate your prayers
Her name is Nancy .
Thanks
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appreciate your prayers
Her name is Nancy .
Thanks
May the Almighty grant Nancy a complete and total cure to all her ailments and bless her with health and blessings and long life.
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Would appreciate your prayers for Mrs. RK’s mom. Mom (who finally moved in with us this summer) will be 92 in February. In great health and very active… was blowing leaves in the yard last week.
Well, she fell in her bedroom Saturday night and broke her hip. Surgery later today and then probably a week at a rehab facility which will be worse for her than going to jail
appreciate your prayers
Her name is Nancy .
Thanks
Praying 🙏
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Yesterday afternoon went very well. Had fun afterwards. Stopped by a local convenience store for a drink. In full Santa suit, of course. Surprised a family with several kids. Picture resulted, of course. .
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Would appreciate your prayers for Mrs. RK’s mom. Mom (who finally moved in with us this summer) will be 92 in February. In great health and very active… was blowing leaves in the yard last week.
Well, she fell in her bedroom Saturday night and broke her hip. Surgery later today and then probably a week at a rehab facility which will be worse for her than going to jail
appreciate your prayers
Her name is Nancy .
Thanks
Hey brother, will be praying for your mom.
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Would appreciate your prayers for Mrs. RK’s mom. Mom (who finally moved in with us this summer) will be 92 in February. In great health and very active… was blowing leaves in the yard last week.
Well, she fell in her bedroom Saturday night and broke her hip. Surgery later today and then probably a week at a rehab facility which will be worse for her than going to jail
appreciate your prayers
Her name is Nancy .
Thanks
Can do.
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Spent some time yesterday rejigging my home network.
My laptop is elderly - it dates back to the time when having 802.11g on a laptop was considered bleeding edge, but the wireless router was in a distant part of the house so I sometimes got a bit of lag when video streaming. Now I have three routers, one of which is six inches from my laptop and connected with a wire. Although my laptop is old it supports gigabit ethernet (also bleeding edge for a laptop, when mine was new).
I ran a speed test and even through my VPN it was clocking 460Mbps download speed. I'll take it, given I pay for a 500M internet connection. I'd never really considered my laptop's wireless being such a choke point but I just uploaded a few dozen megabytes of files and didn't need to wait for it at all.
At some point I'm going to need a new computer but this one has done me well for so long I don't feel like buying something new that's built to fail.
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Update on mom’s surgery..
Surgery went great. Surgeon said everything was perfect
She’s back in the room and talking up a storm. Eating jello and chicken broth
No pain
Came out of the anesthesia perfectly.
Thanks for all the prayers and encouragement
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I spent the morning getting honked at, waving, and posing for pictures. Our choir had a concert at one of the local nursing homes. They wanted Santa there, my alter ego. Unfortunately my car is in the shop. Not a big deal. The church is within walking distance, we always carpool, and I don't mind using the busses. However, that had me walking around dressed as Santa. A situation geared to draw attention, and getting picture requests. We stopped at McDonald's afterwards and I ended up posing with most of the staff. If I minded I wouldn't go around dressed as Santa. And I love making a kids day when they encounter Santa unexpectedly.
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Update on mom’s surgery..
Surgery went great. Surgeon said everything was perfect
She’s back in the room and talking up a storm. Eating jello and chicken broth
No pain
Came out of the anesthesia perfectly.
Thanks for all the prayers and encouragement
And now she’s home… came home Wednesday and is doing great!!!!
God is really so very good.
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Thinking about counterfactual knowledge.
Say you were to pray for God to show you what your life would be like if you didn't struggle with A, B, C, or if X or Y didn't happen, or what have you. And, instead of being merely shown, you were dropped into that potential made actual. I think you'd find yourself to be a stranger, and would destroy the life you now have in search of the one you left behind, for all of its associated ills.
And that's just one set of counterfactuals. I think a person would go insane. But God knows all of the counterfactuals, and that seems to me to be a terrible burden.
I wasn't thinking of Picard while thinking about this, but that's a pretty solid example (TNG S6 E5, "Tapestry").
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Agreed
I think we seldom ponder the idea that choosing to create mankind has cause Gid unspeakable unfathomable pain, yet He did so knowing the love He would be able to demonstrate
Thankfully, God handles sanity better than we
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Greetings from the Prime Minister of Siam. Our drama ministry performed the Promenade of the Kings. Where the kings present their gifts to the child Jesus. This is the second year we have done this. And this is the second year I have played the same part.
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Just realised I inadvertently closed down my tab for this forum and haven't been here in what seems like forever.
Aside from Christmas it's been the usual clutch of running, walking (not enjoying the Arctic winds much), and breaking my house. I took down the rest of the chimney stack I started to remove some time ago - now it's all the way down to the base slightly below floor level downstairs. That meant another 300lb or so of drywall to smash up and put in bags, and something in the region of a ton of concrete blocks and scraps. The blocks are gone, the drywall is in bags slowly being fed out with the regular trash.
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I guess most here have experienced the effects of the "Siberian Express". Fortunately, its caboose is in sight, and I won't miss it when it's gone. I like cooler weather, but am not fond of temperatures that require me to remember to leave a fast drip on the faucets to avoid pipe freeze. The snow and ice brought on by precipitation and temps in the 20's and teens are rare here in SC -- even in the winter months. Like Florida, we don't normally have a discernible winter season, but more like a series of cold snaps before becoming moderate again. Looking forward to the "Goldilocks" temps of the mid 60's before summer brings back the typical 90's.
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I guess most here have experienced the effects of the "Siberian Express". Fortunately, its caboose is in sight, and I won't miss it when it's gone. I like cooler weather, but am not fond of temperatures that require me to remember to leave a fast drip on the faucets to avoid pipe freeze. The snow and ice brought on by precipitation and temps in the 20's and teens are rare here in SC -- even in the winter months. Like Florida, we don't normally have a discernible winter season, but more like a series of cold snaps before becoming moderate again. Looking forward to the "Goldilocks" temps of the mid 60's before summer brings back the typical 90's.
For a couple of days it got cold enough for me to wear long pants when out for my daily walk.
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Florida even got snow. Fortunately not in my neck of the woods. Keep in mind I like snow...in the mountains where it belongs. If I want to see it I will go see it. Thank you very much.
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Florida even got snow. Fortunately not in my neck of the woods. Keep in mind I like snow...in the mountains where it belongs. If I want to see it I will go see it. Thank you very much.
I live in SE Texas. We had 5" of snow at my house last Tuesday and the low got in the teens. The high for the day was 32! That's the most snow we've had since I've been alive. I have teenagers still in the house so we had fun with it. Snow ball wars...and hydro sliding behind my brother in laws 4 wheeler :)
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Florida even got snow. Fortunately not in my neck of the woods. Keep in mind I like snow...in the mountains where it belongs. If I want to see it I will go see it. Thank you very much.
I live in SE Texas. We had 5" of snow at my house last Tuesday and the low got in the teens. The high for the day was 32! That's the most snow we've had since I've been alive. I have teenagers still in the house so we had fun with it. Snow ball wars...and hydro sliding behind my brother in laws 4 wheeler :)
Sounds like fun. I grew up in Central Illinois and never got stuck on winter roads until I lived in Texas.
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Florida even got snow. Fortunately not in my neck of the woods. Keep in mind I like snow...in the mountains where it belongs. If I want to see it I will go see it. Thank you very much.
I live in SE Texas. We had 5" of snow at my house last Tuesday and the low got in the teens. The high for the day was 32! That's the most snow we've had since I've been alive. I have teenagers still in the house so we had fun with it. Snow ball wars...and hydro sliding behind my brother in laws 4 wheeler :)
Sounds like fun. I grew up in Central Illinois and never got stuck on winter roads until I lived in Texas.
SE Texas weather can be extreme. 100+ degrees in the summer with enough humidity that you need to wear a snorkel to breath.
In the Winter it can get to teen temps, snow and freezing weather. A local historian recorded that in 1960 Orange Texas (City near where I live) received 10" of snow. That's not the record. In 1895 there was 33" of snow and single digit temps. Sabine Lake froze to the point that recent Dutch immigrants in Nederland Texas near Sabine Lake took out their ice skates...that they thought they would no longer get to use. They were able to ice skate Sabine Lake and Sabine Pass!
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We got a few frozen patterns on the outside of our windows. Not much, they were confined to a very small area and were very small. I remember as a child, before double glazing was a thing, waking to see frozen leaf shapes all over the outside of the windows.
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A bunch of running lately. With the cold weather I haven't been able to get out as much as I wanted so when I got a few warm days I went out.
Now my calf muscles hate me. I hate my calf muscles. Tomorrow we're supposed to get a wintry mix so no running for me tomorrow, I'll probably just bundle up and walk.
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My suggested workout today was "rest". I can do that tomorrow when the weather is supposed to be nasty, so today I ran a little over 10k on a local route. Surprisingly my legs don't hate me at the moment, although that might change in the morning.
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Figuring out my "10 year to avoid statins" plan.
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Am wondering about PCIM. Is site not okay?
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Figuring out my "10 year to avoid statins" plan.
I'm 10 months in to my plan.
I'm vegan at this point. No meat, no dairy, no added oils, no eggs. Nothing with a face or a momma. Mostly whole plant based, keep processing to a minimum. Bread is mostly lentil bread and pastas are chickpea or lentil based.
Learned to cook and enjoy a lot of new dishes.
Cholesterol is down a bit, but I don't care about cholesterol. Your brain needs it, your body produces it, and very little change is brought about by diet.
Only metric for me is cardiac calcium score and health of coronary arteries.
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Am wondering about PCIM. Is site not okay?
I haven't heard from Tim in ages
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Had some fun breaking a kitchen. Having taken out the chimney stack I mentioned a few weeks back I got the kitchen units disassembled. I had hoped to preserve the countertop but it proved to be a piece of nasty chipboard that was water damaged, and it broke when I tried to move it around.
With the units pulled away from the wall I could rip the drywall out and remove the featherboards, and then I found a few more places that the cold air was coming in. Cue the deployment of another can of spray foam to fill the gaps. Then I figured where another draft must have been coming in, but to get at that required removing another baseboard, which was behind a cast iron radiator that weighs a lot more than I do. Moving something six feet wide that weighs somewhere around 3-400lb was an experience, but I got it far enough away from the wall that I could rip out everything behind it and find the hole, exactly as I expected to find it. It is now also filled with foam and the room is definitely warmer. There's still something not right and I'm not sure whether it's as simple as an old door that doesn't fill the door frame completely, or if there are still more surprises awaiting me.
But for now I have a bunch of gaps in the wall cemented up, a load of spray foam filling the holes that used to be there, less money going out in heating to fight the cold air rushing in, and hopefully I also closed the portal used by the occasional mouse that found its way into my pantry. I could never figure out how they got from outside to a space with no exterior walls but in pulling stuff apart I can see the route they may have taken. But now the entryways are sealed up and the route is sufficiently exposed it seems unlikely they'll be coming in any more. I'll leave the mousetraps in place for a while, because you never know with those things. Apparently the smell of cat in the house isn't enough to deter them.
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I had something unusual happen yesterday. I went into Walgreens to pick up a prescription and before I even walked up to the counter the lady at the counter greeted me by name and already had my prescription. I've been going in there too much. 😀
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Just belatedly dawned on me.
Recently turned 72 and my beautiful galfriend of similar age has waist-long white hair.
God is poetic and good!