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Good Sleepy Eyed Morning To Y'all!
I literally had just put the phone in its 'spot' and turned to set my water on the night stand when the phone rang. Looked at the time and said to myself, "WHO would call at this hour?" It really was only 8:45, but still...
And it said Jack...meaning DS1 who I'd just seen an hour an a half ago...??? and as all of this was filtering thru my tired brain, the weather alarm started beeping...WHAAAAA???
Jack called to make sure I was aware of the Tornado Warning in my neighborhood....Instant awakeness happened! So packed phone and iPad to the windowless, interior, bathroom and spent half an hour waiting out the Tornado Warning. The Warning area was really, really close to my house, (the 'hook' as they call it, so I was glad on two fronts, Jack called, and I spent some time 'being safe'
Which trumps Sorry....(no pun intended) maybe......
So, later start this morning than anticipated, which is ok, since there isn't much on my list that HAS to be done, and not even much on my list that would be nice to get done before the weekend!
Made my almond milk this morning for my house warming,oven running, scalloped potato casserole...I have sweetened soy, almond and rice milks...all in convenient single serve (1 cup) aseptic packs....why? because they don't sell the unsweetened single serves anywhere I routinely shop.
Remind me to add that to my next Whole Foods shopping list, ok?
Loved y'all's takes on grocery lists. I've made lists pretty consistently for at least 40 years. #2 used to be my downfall. But I would remember everything on the list because I'd written it on a list and engaged another area of my brain. Then came kids, and other distractions like work and therefore being in a hurry, etc.
Now, I tried putting everything on an app that I have that makes multiple lists, so I can make a list for Kroger, Publix, etc....problem with that is, I have on several occasions DELETED the KITTEN list unintentionally while pushing my grocery cart around, or slipping it into a pocket, etc...and then I am totally lost, because I cannot remember what was on the now missing list!!!
So am back to paper........ funny how things circle around in a lifetime!
Hope the vet visit shows good results for Ariel.... I know you're anxious about that. Fingers crossed for Ariel!
Roger, I got the giggles over several cartoons, and one 'How dumb can humans be' reaction to the 2 people on the backs of a bull moose. Oh, well...Darwinism at work.... I guess.
Its already raining here this morning...was supposed to wait til noonish, but .....
Roger, since you asked, the family gymnast had a great night! She learned a new skill on the parallel bars. I think she must have been really scared, cause as she stood on the lower bar, fell forward to catch the higher bar she didn't even squeak!!! (which is her usual YIKES! noise) She repeated it several times. Very happy and proud of our little 'bouncing, flipping kid'! (there was 'Grammie pride' spread everywhere!! LOL!!
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The Scalloped Potatoes were a success on both fronts...warmed the house, and is tasty!
Saw the tornado damage at Hartsfield, our airport! And as the news rolled on, there were trees down in this watch box. Happy my trees stayed put!
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Howdy y'all. It's sensational Saturday! 46 out there now with an expected high of 71. 40 percent chance of afternoon/evening showers, with some thunder possible.
I have already cleared the sink. Lilo and I have eaten and Ariel is likely wondering at what point in the morning I will pounce on her to give her a pill. Actually a pill and a quarter this morning as she gets a Prednisone and a quarter tab of mirtazapine. As today is the day after her treatment, the "every three day" timing on the mirtazapine likely worked out well, since today and tomorrow are the likely worst appetite days for this treatment. The mirtazapine should help with that. And, of course, finding out what she likes today...
I need to get out to the store as well, to get some snacks and drinks for the Orchid society meeting on Monday.
We have a memorial service to attend tomorrow. Not sure how long that will be.
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I was out walking this morning and did 8800 steps. The temperature this morning is warmer than Thursdays at 60/62 degrees. Currently it is a darkish, dreary day outside. There was a light Rain around 6:20 according to my brother I slept late and missed it 
Not.
While I was out I stopped for 2 Eggs and Whole Wheat Toast as breakfast and brought the Home-fries back since my brother will use them later today with his dinner or Sunday morning as a part of Sunday's breakfast.
Have a Great Saturday
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I have a Type of container that the NJ lottery gave out to hold the Scanner cards that can be used if You play the same numbers every day that I put coupons in and then I stick that in my pocket when I have any coupons that I might use.parityanimal wrote: »Our Kroger stores do print coupons at the register, on a separate tape AND there are pre-printed ones on the back of the register tape too, rather like the ones you get in the weekly junk mail flyers.
As with your place, sometimes the coupon is useful and sometimes not useful. Even if it's useful I have to remember to actually bring it with me to use it! That can be a chore too. LOL
Sorry to hear that You have a memorial service to go to.parityanimal wrote: »Howdy y'all. It's sensational Saturday! 46 out there now with an expected high of 71. 40 percent chance of afternoon/evening showers, with some thunder possible.
I have already cleared the sink. Lilo and I have eaten and Ariel is likely wondering at what point in the morning I will pounce on her to give her a pill. Actually a pill and a quarter this morning as she gets a Prednisone and a quarter tab of mirtazapine. As today is the day after her treatment, the "every three day" timing on the mirtazapine likely worked out well, since today and tomorrow are the likely worst appetite days for this treatment. The mirtazapine should help with that. And, of course, finding out what she likes today...
I need to get out to the store as well, to get some snacks and drinks for the Orchid society meeting on Monday.
We have a memorial service to attend tomorrow. Not sure how long that will be.
The Phone just rang with a number that I looked and and did not answer. The number is 862-210-2406, A quick Google search shows it has been used for several types of scams. I never answer as there is always a possibility that I might slip up and say "Yes" or something else in the affirmative that could be recorded and used as proof I purchased something.
I did not look at the Dangerous toys yet, However I have a suspicion that Lawn Darts is in it?
Yesterday we had a little over an inch of rain, further east in NJ I saw reports of over three inches so We were lucky here. They forecast a 50% to 60% chance of rain today since it rained at 6:20AM I'm going with 100% for today.
Have a Good Day
Roger
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Hi ValerieGardenKatGardens wrote: »Good Sleepy Eyed Morning To Y'all!
I literally had just put the phone in its 'spot' and turned to set my water on the night stand when the phone rang. Looked at the time and said to myself, "WHO would call at this hour?" It really was only 8:45, but still...
And it said Jack...meaning DS1 who I'd just seen an hour an a half ago...??? and as all of this was filtering thru my tired brain, the weather alarm started beeping...WHAAAAA???
Jack called to make sure I was aware of the Tornado Warning in my neighborhood....Instant awakeness happened! So packed phone and iPad to the windowless, interior, bathroom and spent half an hour waiting out the Tornado Warning. The Warning area was really, really close to my house, (the 'hook' as they call it, so I was glad on two fronts, Jack called, and I spent some time 'being safe' Which trumps Sorry....(no pun intended) maybe......
So, later start this morning than anticipated, which is ok, since there isn't much on my list that HAS to be done, and not even much on my list that would be nice to get done before the weekend!
Made my almond milk this morning for my house warming,oven running, scalloped potato casserole...I have sweetened soy, almond and rice milks...all in convenient single serve (1 cup) aseptic packs....why? because they don't sell the unsweetened single serves anywhere I routinely shop.
Remind me to add that to my next Whole Foods shopping list, ok?
I saw the news regarding the Atlanta area and was wondering how both You and Ed made out. I'm happy that there were no problems for either of You.
There is a Whole Foods going in semi nearby on Route 22 in Bridgewater. I can see their name on a banner hanging on a retaining wall along the highway and partially finished buildings showing on top.
People have also pocket dialed smart phones with sometimes embarrassing results. One more thing I do not need to worry about with a flip phoneLoved y'all's takes on grocery lists. I've made lists pretty consistently for at least 40 years. #2 used to be my downfall. But I would remember everything on the list because I'd written it on a list and engaged another area of my brain. Then came kids, and other distractions like work and therefore being in a hurry, etc.
Now, I tried putting everything on an app that I have that makes multiple lists, so I can make a list for Kroger, Publix, etc....problem with that is, I have on several occasions DELETED the KITTEN list unintentionally while pushing my grocery cart around, or slipping it into a pocket, etc...and then I am totally lost, because I cannot remember what was on the now missing list!!!
So am back to paper........ funny how things circle around in a lifetime!
Hope the vet visit shows good results for Ariel.... I know you're anxious about that. Fingers crossed for Ariel!
Roger, I got the giggles over several cartoons, and one 'How dumb can humans be' reaction to the 2 people on the backs of a bull moose. Oh, well...Darwinism at work.... I guess.
Its already raining here this morning...was supposed to wait til noonish, but .....
That's GreatRoger, since you asked, the family gymnast had a great night! She learned a new skill on the parallel bars. I think she must have been really scared, cause as she stood on the lower bar, fell forward to catch the higher bar she didn't even squeak!!! (which is her usual YIKES! noise) She repeated it several times. Very happy and proud of our little 'bouncing, flipping kid'! (there was 'Grammie pride' spread everywhere!! LOL!!
Later...the kitchen is calling......GardenKatGardens wrote: »The Scalloped Potatoes were a success on both fronts...warmed the house, and is tasty!
Saw the tornado damage at Hartsfield, our airport! And as the news rolled on, there were trees down in this watch box. Happy my trees stayed put!
See you in the morning.
The airport showed up in the news yesterday here too, they had a shot showing a funnel cloud approaching near the ground. Bad flooding in some areas here in the NJ, NY, Conn. Metro area.
Enjoy the day
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Woohoo! My iMac is BACK! It's been down for a while since the hard drive was finally failing.
I ordered a new, bigger, faster drive and we got it in about a week ago, but J has been REALLY busy with work stuff and we didn't have time to install it until today, so most of the evening has been doing things (as I have been for a couple weeks) on my phone and my little Dell portable, and watching TV, while waiting for the iMac to finish restoring from my backup.
All done now. Went from a 750 gb 5400 rpm drive to a hybrid SSHD 2 tb 7200 rpm drive and it's much faster, not to mention more room for stuff! I was getting pretty full before it finally failed.
We got our money's worth from that 750 gb drive. This iMac was the THIRD computer it was used in, so it was, I guess, finally time for it to wear out.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some, only once...
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Not much use a a traffic light TBH
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I was out walking this morning and did 7600 steps. The temperature this morning is cooler than Saturdays at 51/51 degrees. Currently it is a bit dark outside. That is in contrast to when I left the house and the Sun was shining and the warmth from it felt good. On the return leg after the clouds moved in and the breeze picked up it was a bit chilly.
Have a Great Sunday
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Hi Edparityanimal wrote: »Woohoo! My iMac is BACK! It's been down for a while since the hard drive was finally failing.
I ordered a new, bigger, faster drive and we got it in about a week ago, but J has been REALLY busy with work stuff and we didn't have time to install it until today, so most of the evening has been doing things (as I have been for a couple weeks) on my phone and my little Dell portable, and watching TV, while waiting for the iMac to finish restoring from my backup.
All done now. Went from a 750 gb 5400 rpm drive to a hybrid SSHD 2 tb 7200 rpm drive and it's much faster, not to mention more room for stuff! I was getting pretty full before it finally failed.
We got our money's worth from that 750 gb drive. This iMac was the THIRD computer it was used in, so it was, I guess, finally time for it to wear out.
I am guessing that You did a fresh install and restore of data. In the windows world when I was still working I had a lot of luck cloning the failing drive to a new one and Voila back to where it was and a happy customer. Then I would tell them to put the failing drive on the shelf as a spare backup, Just in case.
I skipped over the SSHDs and went directly to SSD drives. Currently this All-In-One has a 1Tb SSD and the basement Desktop i7 computer also has a 1Tb boot drive as well as a 1Tb SSD data drive... Call me a spendthrift, Using one as a data drive and another as a boot drive makes a big difference in working with large video files. It works faster using one drive to edit and output the edited video than prior experience using to 7200 RPM drives reading from one and writing to the other. I can also take the edited video and Author to the same drive prior to Burning to a Blue Ray Blank and DVD.
I would say that You indeed got Your money's worth out of that drive. Considering that they are a electronic and mechanical device combined they are pretty robust. Especially compared to the earliest drives I used. The Seagate 20Mb did not even have autopark and failing to park the heads could cause data loss and for sure moving it after power off and no parking software having been run led to having to low level and then partition and format. Don't Ask how I know. My first CDrom drives were 1x devices and for that time they were great.
Have a Nice Sunday
Roger
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Howdy y'all. It's scintillating Sunday!
I'd have gone straight to SSD but there's this thing called money and a certain cat is eating a lot of it right now. I found the 2 tb hybrid drive for just $99.95 plus tax, ordered it, and then the box sat in the spare bedroom for a week until we could get to it.
After a quick format of the new disk, I did a full restore, system and data files, all in one process. Time machine backups on an iMac (or any Mac, for that matter) are wondrous things as long as you keep them complete and consistent. I made sure I backed up at least every day or two, sometimes more than once a day, and I'm glad I did (and do) as it made restore easy and relatively painless.
After restore, all I had to do was log in to the Apple store to resume automatic update checks, rebuild the mail boxes (always seems to want to do that, sometimes after a system update too) and catch up the mail from several weeks of missing mail downloads. I was quite pleased with the ease of the whole transition.
I've eaten, both cats have been offered food. Lilo was, as usual, interested in hanging around the kitchen to make sure that whatever I was having wasn't more interesting and whether it might be shared. It might have been more interesting but it wasn't being shared so i presume she went to check out her own food. Ariel had at least a snack and I could tell that overnight she had some food.
Got my Windows 10 virtual machine all updated last night, after my restore, and now updating an Ubuntu virtual machine, that hasn't been updated since February so this might take a while.
Guess I'll go fold laundry in the interval.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some, only once...
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Good Sunday Morning!
Been up awhile...have had my coffee and then a cup of green tea with a banana. Need to go find something more...maybe a piece of toast with mashed, possibly seasoned avocado?
Have not really planned anything for this day. Several things I'd like to get to...we'll see....
At least its sunny today. Yesterday was weird. Windy, not terribly warm, sometimes spitting a bit of rain, etc.
Had a good time in town, Ted and I totally toured Cooks Warehouse, the scent shop was closed by the time we got there, but that's ok....next time. Dinner was take out from Med. Grill, as Ted had already prepped Tabouli, and his tabouli is far above what I've ever eaten out. So, we ate at his house...I got my usual falafel, and Ted got enough humus for us to share. I love dinners like that. (We ate and watched a soccer match, and just relaxed chatter) Then I began the journey home!!! Oh My! I did go right past the diligently working men who are repairing 85, what I didn't know was that they have 4 of the 6 lanes North of the collapse also CLOSED to repave. So traffic was a bit heavy??? Yep it was!!! But, at least it didn't pour rain...it did do a good job of heavy misting and some buffeting wind bursts! But that was do-able.
Today, ???
Glad to know Ariel ate a bit last night, and snacked this morning...Poor kitty. Hate it when animals are 'off their feed'.... Glad you got your computer hard drive installed, backed up, etc. I can't even fathom 2 tb. I think the hard drive in my first computer was measured in mega bites!!!
Roger you two (you and Ed) kill me....computer issues are far far over my head. And I read what you're doing or have done and just shake my head and wonder what you're talking about.
I have always loved my Mac's for their simplicity, and if I do have a problem....poor Ted gets a call!!! I think I had a pretty good handle on early computers, but like cars...they've become complicated. I used to be my own shade tree mechanic, and then came A/C's and Emissions, etc, etc.... I don't work on cars anymore either!!!
Ok, off to get dressed,...while typing I got a message from Marietta about Jack and the kids coming over to install the new water filter cartridges, and new wireless doorbell, etc (chores), and for the life of me I don't recall him saying they were coming by after church, but since I watched church already, and have been here, went thru a handful of emails...I think I'd better get dressed. Or Grammie will be opening the door in her jammies and robe!!! LOL!!
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When I was younger and used that OTHER brand/compatible PC, I used to build my own, or J and I would build them together. I agree that they have become much more complicated, and more difficult to work on.
Apple is doing their level best to make them IMPOSSIBLE to work on and disposable, putting some of the new ones out as sealed units where basically once it becomes insufficient for you, your choice is to replace it. That's it. No upgrading memory, no upgrading CPU, no installing a larger internal drive...disposable computers.
This does not make me happy, as they are ALSO getting into even more proprietary parts for the ones that aren't sealed units, and even if you would like to install it yourself, you will have to buy the parts from them, at least until the third party manufacturers can figure out how to make new parts, or buy licenses from Apple. Of course all along they have preferred that we take them in to their store for repairs/replacement parts, as clearly we nerds can't POSSIBLY do this as well as their nerds can. I sometimes think they are just a bunch of KITTENS.
I seem to remember that the first hard drive I ever had was only 10 megabytes and cost several hundred dollars. Of course this was in the days when Bill Gates told us that no one would EVER need a drive that big or fill one up...
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I was out walking this morning and did 6500 steps. The temperature this morning is cooler than Sundays at 45/45 degrees. Currently the Sun is shining and the warmth from it feels good.
Have a Great Monday
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Hi Edparityanimal wrote: »Howdy y'all. It's scintillating Sunday!
I'd have gone straight to SSD but there's this thing called money and a certain cat is eating a lot of it right now. I found the 2 tb hybrid drive for just $99.95 plus tax, ordered it, and then the box sat in the spare bedroom for a week until we could get to it.
After a quick format of the new disk, I did a full restore, system and data files, all in one process. Time machine backups on an iMac (or any Mac, for that matter) are wondrous things as long as you keep them complete and consistent. I made sure I backed up at least every day or two, sometimes more than once a day, and I'm glad I did (and do) as it made restore easy and relatively painless.
After restore, all I had to do was log in to the Apple store to resume automatic update checks, rebuild the mail boxes (always seems to want to do that, sometimes after a system update too) and catch up the mail from several weeks of missing mail downloads. I was quite pleased with the ease of the whole transition.
I've eaten, both cats have been offered food. Lilo was, as usual, interested in hanging around the kitchen to make sure that whatever I was having wasn't more interesting and whether it might be shared. It might have been more interesting but it wasn't being shared so i presume she went to check out her own food. Ariel had at least a snack and I could tell that overnight she had some food.
Got my Windows 10 virtual machine all updated last night, after my restore, and now updating an Ubuntu virtual machine, that hasn't been updated since February so this might take a while.
Guess I'll go fold laundry in the interval.
That is a much better price compared to a 2Tb SSD, I was curious so I did a quick Amazon search found 2Tb SSDs running from $550 at $1070 for the Samsung 850 PRO - 2TB - 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD. The Samsung 850 EVO was cheaper at $697 with less longevity and performance due to the type of memory chips used.
That sounds relatively painless as long as the backups are safe. Do You store them locally on a backup drive or?
I remember many, many years ago when I was at a Video Rental store the girl was backing up the system to floppies. We got to talking and I found out that She was using the same backup disks every day so there was only one backup that could be damaged if the backup had a problem. I told her I would have three sets FWIW. I used to backup a BBS to floppies many years ago back in the DOS days and I rotated three sets.
Just Curious as I have only dabbled in Linux. What updates get done with a Ubuntu installation? I ask as I have installed Linux Puppy on a old Laptop that I did update to its max of 2GB memory and a smallish IDE SSD drive. It is set to dual boot between Windows 7 and Puppyparityanimal wrote: »When I was younger and used that OTHER brand/compatible PC, I used to build my own, or J and I would build them together. I agree that they have become much more complicated, and more difficult to work on.
Apple is doing their level best to make them IMPOSSIBLE to work on and disposable, putting some of the new ones out as sealed units where basically once it becomes insufficient for you, your choice is to replace it. That's it. No upgrading memory, no upgrading CPU, no installing a larger internal drive...disposable computers.
This does not make me happy, as they are ALSO getting into even more proprietary parts for the ones that aren't sealed units, and even if you would like to install it yourself, you will have to buy the parts from them, at least until the third party manufacturers can figure out how to make new parts, or buy licenses from Apple. Of course all along they have preferred that we take them in to their store for repairs/replacement parts, as clearly we nerds can't POSSIBLY do this as well as their nerds can. I sometimes think they are just a bunch of KITTENS.
I seem to remember that the first hard drive I ever had was only 10 megabytes and cost several hundred dollars. Of course this was in the days when Bill Gates told us that no one would EVER need a drive that big or fill one up...
The Apple proprietary architecture is one reason I started with IBM clones back in the XT Clone days and of course price as even a Apple II was not that inexpensive.
I recall having Full Height 5.25" hard drives that were a whopping 5Mb that I installed in a computer for my sister. My first drive was a Seagate ST225 20Mb drive. Info here
http://www.redhill.net.au/d/2.php
I remember that famous or is it infamous pronouncement ?
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Hi ValerieGardenKatGardens wrote: »Good Sunday Morning!
Been up awhile...have had my coffee and then a cup of green tea with a banana. Need to go find something more...maybe a piece of toast with mashed, possibly seasoned avocado?
Have not really planned anything for this day. Several things I'd like to get to...we'll see....
At least its sunny today. Yesterday was weird. Windy, not terribly warm, sometimes spitting a bit of rain, etc.
Had a good time in town, Ted and I totally toured Cooks Warehouse, the scent shop was closed by the time we got there, but that's ok....next time. Dinner was take out from Med. Grill, as Ted had already prepped Tabouli, and his tabouli is far above what I've ever eaten out. So, we ate at his house...I got my usual falafel, and Ted got enough humus for us to share. I love dinners like that. (We ate and watched a soccer match, and just relaxed chatter) Then I began the journey home!!! Oh My! I did go right past the diligently working men who are repairing 85, what I didn't know was that they have 4 of the 6 lanes North of the collapse also CLOSED to repave. So traffic was a bit heavy??? Yep it was!!! But, at least it didn't pour rain...it did do a good job of heavy misting and some buffeting wind bursts! But that was do-able.
Your Post reminded me I had not eaten my Banana yet and I was feeling a little hungry as a result so I went and had that before I post this reply. I cut off a end of it for later to go on my cereal I will be having for breakfast. Today is a large bowl, 28g 100 calories and 50 calories of 1% milk and the rest of the Banana sliced into it probably around 10AM since I just at the Banana at 8:30
The weekend weather was weird here. Last nights forecast showed temperatures below normal through next SundayToday, ???
Glad to know Ariel ate a bit last night, and snacked this morning...Poor kitty. Hate it when animals are 'off their feed'.... Glad you got your computer hard drive installed, backed up, etc. I can't even fathom 2 tb. I think the hard drive in my first computer was measured in mega bites!!!
Roger you two (you and Ed) kill me....computer issues are far far over my head. And I read what you're doing or have done and just shake my head and wonder what you're talking about.
I have always loved my Mac's for their simplicity, and if I do have a problem....poor Ted gets a call!!! I think I had a pretty good handle on early computers, but like cars...they've become complicated. I used to be my own shade tree mechanic, and then came A/C's and Emissions, etc, etc.... I don't work on cars anymore either!!!
Ok, off to get dressed,...while typing I got a message from Marietta about Jack and the kids coming over to install the new water filter cartridges, and new wireless doorbell, etc (chores), and for the life of me I don't recall him saying they were coming by after church, but since I watched church already, and have been here, went thru a handful of emails...I think I'd better get dressed. Or Grammie will be opening the door in her jammies and robe!!! LOL!!
Later...
I used to do my own car work too. I even rebuilt engines, No more to much clutter under the hood. The last repair I did was change the Alternator on my 1988 Sunbird. And that was not to bad as it was on top of the engine and that made it accessible.
I wonder how long the batteries last in those wireless doorbells ? I suspect that they alert You in some manner when it is time to change the battery. Sort of like I get a email from FitBit when it is time to change the battery in my FitBit Zip. Of course that requires me to see a new email from them. I also have External Raid drives that have a place to set them to send a email if there is a problem too.
I ma sure You had a Nice Visit with the Family.
Enjoy the Day
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Hi Again
You might find this interesting or maybe not? I was poking in the small junk room in the basement and ran across a 1.2mb 5.25" floppy drive and since I still have disks I wan to look at in that format I ordered a cable to allow it and a 1.44Mb drive to connect to the computer. Since they use different connectors I had no cable for the 1.2Mb drive. Everything came Saturday. Power cable Y adapter as they also have different power connectors and the Floppy cable and installed everything Saturday. I thing my 1.44Mb drive is No good, Back to Amazon for a replacement if testing proves that to be the case. That is my suspicion as I could read disks in the USB external and not it it. Why use the internal? The USB one was introducing a lag everytime I brought up the Windows 10 This PC to access drives
Cheers
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Howdy y'all. It's marvelous Monday!
56 out there now with an expected sunny high of 77.
Sounds like a nice day.
Need to get the rest of the laundry folded, and get out to the store for a few items.
Which reminds me, I need to add an item to my list.
When Linux updates, it can check pretty much all the installed software, and the system, and update everything at once, much like a Mac.
If you have installed anything from a third party, that isn't in one of the Ubuntu software repositories, you may have to update that manually, but as long as you have all the necessary repositories in your list to check, the ones from there will be checked periodically, or you can manually trigger a check of all of them. Most developers prefer to put their software into one of the repositories so that it's more readily available and can be easily searched, as if one were browsing in the Google Playstore or the like.
It's very much like the underlying Unix system on a Mac.
I think we used to (and may still) have one 1.2 MB floppy drive in one of our servers and probably a 1.44 MB "hard" floppy drive too. Not that we have a lot of stuff on that type of disk that we can guarantee we could still read...but we did copy most all of those disks onto to CD optical quite a few years ago, and have loads of old software and junk data files, most of the software totally incompatible with any modern systems. There are emulation software programs that one can still run to use some of that old stuff, just for fun.
Need to clear the sink into the dishwasher and get my *kitten* off to the store to buy a few groceries.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
All mushrooms are edible. Some, only once...
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Hi, news is on, must be after 12p
I've spent at least an hour with this opened....read a little, do a chore, read a little, eat, wash rinse and repeat! Most of the computer talk went WAAAAY over my gray little head, but Floppy Disks....long long ago, in a hospital basement, it was my 'job' (along with cross matching blood, running to the ER, Labor and Delivery, etc, etc) to go downstairs and remove a thingy, like a cake bell jar, with these disks in it, set it into another container, sorta like a cabinet, and take the 'other one' and and put it into the emptied space.....that was the backup system. And it needed to be done at 2 a.m....why? who knows why at 2 a.m. Why not 7 a.m or 8 or noon or any other time when there were people who could have done it??? That hospital had 350 beds and an active ER...and two weary overnight techs.. I lasted a little under 5 years. No benefits, 2 weeks vacation, no IRA's or other retirement, etc. Oh, if you were sick....you went to work...sick leave didn't pay unless you were out 3 days, and went to the Doc and got an excuse?????
I digressed.... and I get a headache just remembering....
Today is chore day...I need for the car gasoline, for me a script that HAS to be filled...its my thyroid tablet...a trip to the bank to cash $40 of insurance rebates, return an item to Aldi's, and a stop by the gym....
closer to home, the dishwasher is running, and the laundry is sorted, to be washed later tonite..
I'm gonna be tired!
The cartoons were a hit again today....am making the kitten in a box who showed up for Tuesday as my desktop for tomorrow! (when I have a chiro appointment) and need to take knives to Cooks Warehouse to be sharpened, and I'll have to pass Whole Foods TWICE, I'm guessing I'll stop there too...I need some light Miso, which I can't find at Kroger, and Publix has no idea what 'miso' is!!!! I know I can get it at Whole Foods...
By Wednesday, should I be able to get out of bed from post exhaustion ( LOL ), will be groceries, Thursday cooking, Friday? oh, return to Cooks Warehouse to get my scissors and knives, Saturday is one of the kids spring concerts, followed by an early Mothers Day Dinner.
Mother's Day may be spent lolling in bed!!!
Later...
oh Ed, that 'found' underground bunker is creepy!!! Also needs to be 'organized and cleaned'
Looks like someplace teenagers would live LOL!
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Valerie, the cake bell jars contained multi-platter disk packs and the "sorta like a cabinet" container was likely the disk drive unit, as they were quite large and very easy to crash.
Depending on what sort of system these were attached to, they could have been, as you said, backup disks, or they could also contain an operating system and/or other types of data files.
We used similar packs for the manual data entry systems for tax returns for many, many years at the IRS, but that did, of course, eventually move to a much more efficient, and more compact, system.
On the old systems, each "node" had about two dozen data entry terminals attached to it, and operators would sit there and speedily enter the relevant data from paper tax forms all day long and well into the night during filing season. At the end of the day, or in the wee hours of the morning, my cronies and I would "drain" the data from each node and make a tape to be passed on to the mainframe operators for batch processing a little further into the morning, that had to be done before the workday started at 7:00 a.m. and people wanted the mainframe available for realtime processing.
The timing could get a little tight and realtime was not always available on time. LOL.
It was much more streamlined and efficient by the time I retired and it was no longer necessary for it to even be done at all 10 service centers, but only maybe half of them, especially as more and more people were filing electronically.
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Howdy y'all. I'm the first poster today! Because I turned into a pumpkin a few minutes ago...
We got back from the Orchid Society meeting about 11:40, and then I had to clean out the coffee urns, put away leftovers from the late night Chinese restaurant where we usually eat after meetings, and put away the leftover salsa and cheese dip (I made the cheese dip) from the meeting. There were no leftover tortilla chips. But there are some Fritos Scoops here that J can use to make a snack on the leftover dips.
After putting away leftovers, had to prepare the nightly food for the sugar gliders, and then give the cats their nightly treats. Ariel ate some of hers. Tomorrow she gets another appetite booster quarter tablet, which should help her appetite. She hasn't eaten a LOT for the last couple of days but she has eaten some so we're feeling OK about that. Normal for this period after the Vincristine treatment...
Well, I'm going to finish my diet soft drink and go to bed.
G'nite all.
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