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Now time for another run of this popular past-time.
Simple rules:
= Post in this thread, anything with legible words (ie one word posts don't count)
= Stay within the message board rules
= Empty posts are invalid towards winning
= You must wait for someone else to post before you can post again, any and all multiple posts are invalid towards winning
= Have FUN
Rules Subject to change at moderators discretion without notice.
The winner will be the last person that posted, when I have time to check the thread, after one of these events:
= A specific date and/or time occurs
= A specific number of posts have been made
= I get tired of ya'll nagging me who is the winner :)
= An event I have chosen occurs (doesn't occur)
Sorry there are no physical prizes, only the satisfaction you played and won and your name added into the winners list. :)
Scorecard Recap of WINNERS of previous games:
= 1 for Daniel Michel
= 4 for swiftmallard
= 8 for Krunchin-Keith
= 2 for Bymark
= 7 for John Clark
= 1 for Dune Finkleberry
= 8 for Mikey
= 1 for Ageless
= 7 for RandyC
= 1 for Alijay
= 2 for GasGiant
= 1 for DogBytes aka DP (RIP) < Honorary Win
= 1 for Cori
Play on...
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So, here we go again, and another brief win for me.
Kongratz Keith, and many more after your busy busy session for you, dad and your brothers. When I get back it will all be settled.
I find, after talks with Nottingham City Hospital, that the isolation ward I am heading for tomorrow has no Hospitadea facility (TV, phone and Internet - crude Internet). I have plenty of semi technical magazines (PCPro, Diesel Car,Advanced Driving, etc) to read and a 5 terrestial channel TV and my mobile. So, Internet wise, I will be out of touch with you guys for the next 3 to 4 weeks, as I get my immune system destroyed and rebuilt using my own stem cells. This is a procedure called stem cell transplant.
See you all on the other side, and I can then see the winner of the next Competition thread?
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Go away, I was asleep
Said a Russell, 3 Shih-Tzus & a Bischeon Frize
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So, here we go again, and another brief win for me.
Kongratz Keith, and many more after your busy busy session for you, dad and your brothers. When I get back it will all be settled.
I find, after talks with Nottingham City Hospital, that the isolation ward I am heading for tomorrow has no Hospitadea facility (TV, phone and Internet - crude Internet). I have plenty of semi technical magazines (PCPro, Diesel Car,Advanced Driving, etc) to read and a 5 terrestial channel TV and my mobile. So, Internet wise, I will be out of touch with you guys for the next 3 to 4 weeks, as I get my immune system destroyed and rebuilt using my own stem cells. This is a procedure called stem cell transplant.
See you all on the other side, and I can then see the winner of the next Competition thread?
John, these games typically last longer than three weeks, so you have a good chance of coming back and...
WINNING!!!
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So, here we go again, and another brief win for me.
Kongratz Keith, and many more after your busy busy session for you, dad and your brothers. When I get back it will all be settled.
I find, after talks with Nottingham City Hospital, that the isolation ward I am heading for tomorrow has no Hospitadea facility (TV, phone and Internet - crude Internet). I have plenty of semi technical magazines (PCPro, Diesel Car,Advanced Driving, etc) to read and a 5 terrestial channel TV and my mobile. So, Internet wise, I will be out of touch with you guys for the next 3 to 4 weeks, as I get my immune system destroyed and rebuilt using my own stem cells. This is a procedure called stem cell transplant.
See you all on the other side, and I can then see the winner of the next Competition thread?
I wish you the best and hope to hear from you again.
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I decided I should turn on my new ipad 3 with retina display. I think that means it has a sharper picture and is easier on the eyes. Lets hope it does not burn an image into my retina.
So I turned on my old ipad for reference and installed all my apps on the new. You can in some way do this automatically [sync] or restore from a backup, but i wanted to do the one at a time. Didn't take that long, they download quickly.
Next part was a little scarrier. I have to transfer my 4 games. This involves installing a fresh copy on the new ipad, then in the old one your transfer using an id and password (which a while ago i had the reset because i forgot it), it goes through thier game servers. So using my id and the new assigned password I did the first transfer on the old, started the game on the new which you have to go through the turtorial first, no way around that silly part. Then went to receive transfer [holds breath] and it went through ok. Repeat for other 3 games. I did find 1 thing in the game that does not transfer, oh well. It's probally somewhat messed up on the other games too, i'll see when i get to them. No biggie but i lost the attacks on the current monster, os if i had to hit it 25 times, and had 1 to go, it's reset back to no hits yet. Bummer.
I did add mobile cellular access. I started with the 300MB plan for about 17 bucks with taxes good for 1 month. There is an option to turn off the access which i switched it off until i need it, so it won't burn up any of my usage. I can now travel to dad's with my ipad3 and play my games. I switch on when i get there and want to play. After I get back home though i'll proballly cancel service as i don't think i really need it all the time since i have wifi at home and office and that's mostly where i use it. It will tell me usage so i'll see how long 300MB lasts. I plan only to do the gaming stuff which comunicats back and forth but hopefully it's small data packets and theres some parts of the game i'll not play as i know that consumes more. And i'll only be playing twice a day maybe. At least i won't fall to far behind. At least it's all set up and ready to go.
Got packed. I'm traveling very light. I got one shoulder bag with 3 sets of clothing, shirts, pants, socks, toothbrush and room to spare. Nice spot for ipads, chargers, mobile phone and maybe my netbook and earbuds. Point is i didn't need to rolling luggage behind me.
After all, this is really not a vacation, there's a lot of work to do.
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So, here we go again, and another brief win for me.
Kongratz Keith, and many more after your busy busy session for you, dad and your brothers. When I get back it will all be settled.
I find, after talks with Nottingham City Hospital, that the isolation ward I am heading for tomorrow has no Hospitadea facility (TV, phone and Internet - crude Internet). I have plenty of semi technical magazines (PCPro, Diesel Car,Advanced Driving, etc) to read and a 5 terrestial channel TV and my mobile. So, Internet wise, I will be out of touch with you guys for the next 3 to 4 weeks, as I get my immune system destroyed and rebuilt using my own stem cells. This is a procedure called stem cell transplant.
See you all on the other side, and I can then see the winner of the next Competition thread?
I wish you the best and hope to hear from you again.
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I decided I should turn on my new ipad 3 with retina display. I think that means it has a sharper picture and is easier on the eyes. Lets hope it does not burn an image into my retina.
So I turned on my old ipad for reference and installed all my apps on the new. You can in some way do this automatically [sync] or restore from a backup, but i wanted to do the one at a time. Didn't take that long, they download quickly.
Next part was a little scarrier. I have to transfer my 4 games. This involves installing a fresh copy on the new ipad, then in the old one your transfer using an id and password (which a while ago i had the reset because i forgot it), it goes through thier game servers. So using my id and the new assigned password I did the first transfer on the old, started the game on the new which you have to go through the turtorial first, no way around that silly part. Then went to receive transfer [holds breath] and it went through ok. Repeat for other 3 games. I did find 1 thing in the game that does not transfer, oh well. It's probally somewhat messed up on the other games too, i'll see when i get to them. No biggie but i lost the attacks on the current monster, os if i had to hit it 25 times, and had 1 to go, it's reset back to no hits yet. Bummer.
I did add mobile cellular access. I started with the 300MB plan for about 17 bucks with taxes good for 1 month. There is an option to turn off the access which i switched it off until i need it, so it won't burn up any of my usage. I can now travel to dad's with my ipad3 and play my games. I switch on when i get there and want to play. After I get back home though i'll proballly cancel service as i don't think i really need it all the time since i have wifi at home and office and that's mostly where i use it. It will tell me usage so i'll see how long 300MB lasts. I plan only to do the gaming stuff which comunicats back and forth but hopefully it's small data packets and theres some parts of the game i'll not play as i know that consumes more. And i'll only be playing twice a day maybe. At least i won't fall to far behind. At least it's all set up and ready to go.
Got packed. I'm traveling very light. I got one shoulder bag with 3 sets of clothing, shirts, pants, socks, toothbrush and room to spare. Nice spot for ipads, chargers, mobile phone and maybe my netbook and earbuds. Point is i didn't need to rolling luggage behind me.
After all, this is really not a vacation, there's a lot of work to do.
Keith you have been much better at this then I ever would have been, keep your chin up and I think your dad may just follow your lead. It sounds like he knew it was coming some day and since he was hiding stuff, he had to know deep down that it was coming sooner rather than later. When you are at the house in Florida be sure to grab all the Genealogical stuff while you can, you don't want it to come up missing later on because someone cleaned up. One suggestion, which I am sure you have already thought of, give him purpose, not orders. He is still your dad and can fight you every step of the way if he chooses too. Unfortunately I have seen that way to often as a firefighter and people were being forced to move. If you get him to go thru and say this is for you, this for the one brother, this is for the other brother, etc, etc he might be more involved and not just walking away from everything he has put time and effort into. Remember everything in the house has a memory attached to it, good or bad, small or large, it once meant something to him! Some things he kept JUST for you and your brothers, try and get him to find those, and label them, and it may keep his mind off what the whole point of your visit is.
John if you can still read this STAY STRONG MY FRIEND, and we will see you on the flip side!! BTW NO chasing the Nurses or Nurse Ratchett will pay you a visit!!!
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Well the worst part of this week is waiting for Saturday to come. I'm sure everything will be fine then and work out ok when we get there, but the wait for it to come.
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Well the worst part of this week is waiting for Saturday to come. I'm sure everything will be fine then and work out ok when we get there, but the wait for it to come.
Is the house already sold? Or are you doing that TOO? Is your dad going thru his MUST KEEP stuff already, or are you going to help him when you get there. Sooo many questions as my dad too is getting to that point in his life! He IS still taking care of my mom but has troubles remembering things he said not two months ago!
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Well the worst part of this week is waiting for Saturday to come. I'm sure everything will be fine then and work out ok when we get there, but the wait for it to come.
Is the house already sold? Or are you doing that TOO? Is your dad going thru his MUST KEEP stuff already, or are you going to help him when you get there. Sooo many questions as my dad too is getting to that point in his life! He IS still taking care of my mom but has troubles remembering things he said not two months ago!
WINNING!!!
Well dad had already planned ahead some on this and made certain decisions.
No most of the packing will be done when we get there, he has been in the hospital and rehab center last 2-3 weeks. He already has some stuff sorted out but we boys will do most of that when we get there, otherwise he'd be there another 6 months at his speed. He already has an idea of what he wants to have with him. My other Brother and his son will be packing up a van to take some or all of the rest with them back to PA. He has 4 children and between them should be able to "use" most of it somewhere. My other brother and myself already have overly full houses, we don't really need more kr@p, so we're fine with that.
As far as the house, we have to talk to the managers there first. Dad owns the house but they own the land. Dad pays rent on the land. We are planning on siging the house over to them, ie abbandoning it. It depends on what we can negiciate with them and also avoid any legal issues. It would be a lot of trouble to keep it, pay rent, maintenance, the park it is in has rules for appearance, and whateever else waiting for it to sell or try to move it to where ? It's not that valuable anyway as it's a 25-30 year old double wide mobile style home. Better to to accept some loss now instead of all the hastle trying to attend to things remotely waiting for it to sell, if it sells, you could end up in the hole if it takes too long. Dad had already talked about just walking away with what he could carry in the car.
Like I said some plans were already discussed over the past few years.
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Oh goody! The forecast is calling for lows tonight and tomorrow night near 0F! Won't THAT be fun??? NOT!
WINNING???
p.s. Keith, keep your spirits up...your dad is gonna be just fine and things will work out for the best.
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Oh goody! The forecast is calling for lows tonight and tomorrow night near 0F! Won't THAT be fun??? NOT!
WINNING???
p.s. Keith, keep your spirits up...your dad is gonna be just fine and things will work out for the best.
Randy your temps WILL be cold, PLEASE stop sending it my way!!! I will not break freezing, 32F, for the next THREE DAYS!!! I might have to close some windows to keep some of the heat IN for a change!!
Keith it sounds like you have it all sorted out and as long as your dad can travel okay you should be good to go! I like that you guys have made plans for a long time on this, it gives me an idea of how to handle my own dad!
I have been in my own house for 25 years now and it is FULL of kr@p too!!! I almost envy the military families around me as they quickly learn how to throw things out, as they CAN'T take it with them to their new place!! I saw ALMOST because I was a military brat and have NO life long friends from when I was a kid!! We moved every 3 years or so and boom old friends are gone and you make new ones at the new place. And it's not like the places were close either! I was born in Detroit, less than a week later I went to Libya, then Maine, Japan, Georgia, Alaska and finally Virginia where my dad retired! 3 years each makes 15 years old when I came to Virginia, at 18 I joined the Navy for 6 years. Then I settled down, got married and moved, to a bigger house, before the oldest was 3 years old, we have NOT moved since!
WINNING!!!
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I have been in my own house for 25 years now and it is FULL of kr@p too!!! I almost envy the military families around me as they quickly learn how to throw things out, as they CAN'T take it with them to their new place!! I saw ALMOST because I was a military brat and have NO life long friends from when I was a kid!! We moved every 3 years or so and boom old friends are gone and you make new ones at the new place. And it's not like the places were close either! I was born in Detroit, less than a week later I went to Libya, then Maine, Japan, Georgia, Alaska and finally Virginia where my dad retired! 3 years each makes 15 years old when I came to Virginia, at 18 I joined the Navy for 6 years. Then I settled down, got married and moved, to a bigger house, before the oldest was 3 years old, we have NOT moved since!
WINNING!!!
Hey Mikey...sounds somewhat similar to my upbringing. Dad was AF. I was born in SC and stayed there 13 months...oldest sister was born 2 wks shy of a year after I was, so she stayed in SC for just about a month after she was born. Then it was off to Guam (#1), a year in KS, then six in Nebraska. After that it was a year in DE followed by two years+ for Guam (#2). Then it was back to DE where he retired as a Major with 21 years service.
I've done a moderate amount of moving since I left home...VA (8 yr), LA (8 mo.), TX (8 yr), and finally MI, where I've been for almost 20 years now.
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Kind of the same but i was the one that didn't move. My dad was in his final place by the time I came along. Parents were 40 when that happened. But the area was near an air force base. I had lots of short-term friends, they all kept moving away. Then when i switched from elementary to junior high, it was almost all new friends. There was some different (geographical) division and most of the mil-brats went somewhere else, so more friends vanished. That lasted 3 years then on to high school, more different firends from other areas for 3 years. Then on to technical school for a year then i finally moved out and away and so on. I've always had very few friends at one time and they don't ever seem to last. When people moved on or i moved away, it was well don't look back and any of us never kept in touch. Of course the internet didn't exist then so it was not as easy as it might be today. Same for this area, it has a high rate of turnover. Lots of people come in the spring-summer and a lot only live here 1/2 the year, then they move on never to return.
I do have 1 friend from here that moved away and keep in touch with. We visited each other for some years after that but haven't seen each other for about 3 now. We still kept in touch by telephone every month or so.
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Kind of the same but i was the one that didn't move. My dad was in his final place by the time I came along. Parents were 40 when that happened. But the area was near an air force base. I had lots of short-term friends, they all kept moving away. Then when i switched from elementary to junior high, it was almost all new friends. There was some different (geographical) division and most of the mil-brats went somewhere else, so more friends vanished. That lasted 3 years then on to high school, more different firends from other areas for 3 years. Then on to technical school for a year then i finally moved out and away and so on. I've always had very few friends at one time and they don't ever seem to last. When people moved on or i moved away, it was well don't look back and any of us never kept in touch. Of course the internet didn't exist then so it was not as easy as it might be today. Same for this area, it has a high rate of turnover. Lots of people come in the spring-summer and a lot only live here 1/2 the year, then they move on never to return.
I do have 1 friend from here that moved away and keep in touch with. We visited each other for some years after that but haven't seen each other for about 3 now. We still kept in touch by telephone every month or so.
Randy and Keith that is pretty cool to get both a similar and the opposite perspective on things, thanks! The one thing I like to think I learned was that others have perspectives too and they aren't ALL like mine! When I was overseas, both in Japan with my parents and when cruising around the Mediterranean while in the Navy myself, other people think their place is the best place on Earth too! They don't see things thru 'America is Great' glasses, and sometimes what we think we know just isn't right at all!!
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When I was at home, not long ago I was playing with my iPads.
I found a use for my old iPad, I can watch streaming videos on it. Had the thing a year, just got a 1 year bonus in one of my games and that was about the first thing I did with it. In that year i never did much else, never even tried to watch a video on it or play any music. I did watch some while sitting at my desk, where i can keep it jacked into wall power. But i could carry it to the kitchen in i wanted to watch while kooking. My rommate does that with his iphone and watches while his food kooks and he waits and eats.
The point is i now have portable video I can carry from room to room. Even kooler is touch screen can be easier to operate than ol' pane in the windows trying to catch that mouse running 'round the desk. Still kooler is I can browse on my komputer the website and flag videos into my watchlist, which then is instantly avaialble on the ipads for me to pick one. Some things are easier still on the ol' system. Yeah I can watch on eaither one.
I wont be watch videos while traveling though as i dont have any stored and i'm sure the streaming woudl eat up my cellular limit quickly. But when at home i'm on wifi so no problemo.
So then I thunk'd, I got this new iPad with my games and an extra 53GB free. Hummmm, what to use all dis space for. Well why not try to dump part of my audio collection into it, I got like 68GB so it all won't fit. But if I could at least get my audiobooks into it, then when i travel i have those avaialble for listening while off the grid. I got one done easily but had to leave for [here] so it should not be much to transfer the others. I like to listen to those on earbuds when before i fall asleep. I sure i won't listen to them all, but i like to have choices.
Heck, I may even leave the slighly larger netbook at home dis trip.
The more you play with these new gadgets, the easier and useful they turn out to be. I'm kind of thinking in the future when my 7000 bucks komputers ware out that i'll not replace them which so much expensive bulk. I've already kind of decided not to fix the older ones that have kind of fallen asleep. [sorry boinc] Heck why even have a 47 inch HDTV anymore too.
There are a couple thing i do, i haven't looked for apps yet to see if i can replace, but it might be getting close to the end of the PC era.
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When I was at home, not long ago I was playing with my iPads.
I found a use for my old iPad, I can watch streaming videos on it. Had the thing a year, just got a 1 year bonus in one of my games and that was about the first thing I did with it. In that year i never did much else, never even tried to watch a video on it or play any music. I did watch some while sitting at my desk, where i can keep it jacked into wall power. But i could carry it to the kitchen in i wanted to watch while kooking. My rommate does that with his iphone and watches while his food kooks and he waits and eats.
The point is i now have portable video I can carry from room to room. Even kooler is touch screen can be easier to operate than ol' pane in the windows trying to catch that mouse running 'round the desk. Still kooler is I can browse on my komputer the website and flag videos into my watchlist, which then is instantly avaialble on the ipads for me to pick one. Some things are easier still on the ol' system. Yeah I can watch on eaither one.
I wont be watch videos while traveling though as i dont have any stored and i'm sure the streaming woudl eat up my cellular limit quickly. But when at home i'm on wifi so no problemo.
So then I thunk'd, I got this new iPad with my games and an extra 53GB free. Hummmm, what to use all dis space for. Well why not try to dump part of my audio collection into it, I got like 68GB so it all won't fit. But if I could at least get my audiobooks into it, then when i travel i have those avaialble for listening while off the grid. I got one done easily but had to leave for [here] so it should not be much to transfer the others. I like to listen to those on earbuds when before i fall asleep. I sure i won't listen to them all, but i like to have choices.
Heck, I may even leave the slighly larger netbook at home dis trip.
The more you play with these new gadgets, the easier and useful they turn out to be. I'm kind of thinking in the future when my 7000 bucks komputers ware out that i'll not replace them which so much expensive bulk. I've already kind of decided not to fix the older ones that have kind of fallen asleep. [sorry boinc] Heck why even have a 47 inch HDTV anymore too.
There are a couple thing i do, i haven't looked for apps yet to see if i can replace, but it might be getting close to the end of the PC era.
Speaking of Ipads you said you have a grocery store app, can give me the name of it please?
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Speaking of Ipads you said you have a grocery store app, can give me the name of it please?
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Well if I tell you, promise not to tell anyone else.
Actually it's an android app on my smartphone, then I got the website access activated and synced to it, you use same email address to login and it takes care of the rest. I could not find an ipad app. Oh wait, they have an iphone app, which can run on ipad but it does not fill the screen, it runs like it was on the small screen on your iphone. it's called "out of milk". try outofmilk.com
Oh and I found my checkbook "moneydance" has an ipad app that syncs to my computer over wifi or dropbox. I chose wifi so it syncs when i'm at home, but if i'm out or traveling I can take my finances with me, make changes and sync when i return. KooL. So I still gots to have a big computer to run moneydance. There might be some other checkbooks that run on ipad only, but i don't want to redo it again at this time.
used itunes to transfer all my audiobooks, 15GB+, still got 35GB free. It took less than 15 minutes to transfer. I still have room to add some music, not all as i've got about 70GB of that. Maybe i'll just leave romm for more future audiobooks, i'd rather listen to those while traveling. I can listen to music from other sources.
Oh yeah, new ipad3 is dual cpu and faster than fast. I tried updating an app on old one. While it was updating I updated same app and two more on new ipad.
I got old ipad streaming video now. I can hear it better (at less than full volume) than speakers on pc monitor at full. I got it propped on my desk between me and main monitor so i can watch while i work.
I'm all set to travel. I think with my ipads and smartphone i've got my needs covered, i'll not need to take my small netbook and charger with me. Jsut the ipads, a couple cables and i got a 4 port usb adapter so i can charge both ipads and phone at same time from one wall socket. I'll be traveling really lite. I hope i have time to play with my toys and its not all "work" getting dad ready and moved.
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Speaking of Ipads you said you have a grocery store app, can give me the name of it please?
WINNING!!!
Well if I tell you, promise not to tell anyone else.
Actually it's an android app on my smartphone, then I got the website access activated and synced to it, you use same email address to login and it takes care of the rest. I could not find an ipad app. Oh wait, they have an iphone app, which can run on ipad but it does not fill the screen, it runs like it was on the small screen on your iphone. it's called "out of milk". try outofmilk.com
Oh and I found my checkbook "moneydance" has an ipad app that syncs to my computer over wifi or dropbox. I chose wifi so it syncs when i'm at home, but if i'm out or traveling I can take my finances with me, make changes and sync when i return. KooL. So I still gots to have a big computer to run moneydance. There might be some other checkbooks that run on ipad only, but i don't want to redo it again at this time.
used itunes to transfer all my audiobooks, 15GB+, still got 35GB free. It took less than 15 minutes to transfer. I still have room to add some music, not all as i've got about 70GB of that. Maybe i'll just leave romm for more future audiobooks, i'd rather listen to those while traveling. I can listen to music from other sources.
Oh yeah, new ipad3 is dual cpu and faster than fast. I tried updating an app on old one. While it was updating I updated same app and two more on new ipad.
I got old ipad streaming video now. I can hear it better (at less than full volume) than speakers on pc monitor at full. I got it propped on my desk between me and main monitor so i can watch while i work.
I'm all set to travel. I think with my ipads and smartphone i've got my needs covered, i'll not need to take my small netbook and charger with me. Jsut the ipads, a couple cables and i got a 4 port usb adapter so i can charge both ipads and phone at same time from one wall socket. I'll be traveling really lite. I hope i have time to play with my toys and its not all "work" getting dad ready and moved.
Thanks Keith!!
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I've had some problems come up getting the loan for my daughter's house. Seems that the Feds have some very stringent rules on how a house assessment is done. Apparently only above ground rooms are counted in the assessment. So, even though the house has a finished walk-out basement with two rooms and a bath, the house is only counted as 2 BR 1 bath house. And based on that, the purchase price of the house is too much vs the value of the property.
The mortgage agents are working on ways to move forward anyway.
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I've had some problems come up getting the loan for my daughter's house. Seems that the Feds have some very stringent rules on how a house assessment is done. Apparently only above ground rooms are counted in the assessment. So, even though the house has a finished walk-out basement with two rooms and a bath, the house is only counted as 2 BR 1 bath house. And based on that, the purchase price of the house is too much vs the value of the property.
The mortgage agents are working on ways to move forward anyway.
:-(
But, but, BUT...since it is a walk out basement, just like my house, it IS above ground level!! I am actually refinancing my house and am supposed to settle next week, seems a prior refi didn't clear a few loans that they should have. It seems to me someone is misreading the rules somewhere as there are a TON of homes built like mine and your daughters!!
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No kidding, it's flaking here. We saw about 1 minute's worth of flakes, but I think it is over for the day.
It is warmer today though above freezin' at 34F (1C for those on the other system). Yesterday however it started out around 25F (-9C) and warmed up to 31F (-1C) during the day and 34F by sunset. Well, we have an average of 2 days of winter here, i think we've just used them up.
I ready to head south, leaving Saturday.
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I've had some problems come up getting the loan for my daughter's house. Seems that the Feds have some very stringent rules on how a house assessment is done. Apparently only above ground rooms are counted in the assessment. So, even though the house has a finished walk-out basement with two rooms and a bath, the house is only counted as 2 BR 1 bath house. And based on that, the purchase price of the house is too much vs the value of the property.
The mortgage agents are working on ways to move forward anyway.
:-(
But, but, BUT...since it is a walk out basement, just like my house, it IS above ground level!! I am actually refinancing my house and am supposed to settle next week, seems a prior refi didn't clear a few loans that they should have. It seems to me someone is misreading the rules somewhere as there are a TON of homes built like mine and your daughters!!
Here is the text from the Realtor. He uses the phrase 'below grade' instead of 'below ground level'...maybe that makes a difference???
Appraisal guidelines will not count rooms below grade as bedrooms so even though basement is walk out those two bedrooms do not count.
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Sounds to me like buy one [at tripple the price], get two free.
Good luck with that.
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Last night i was looking for new apps. I found one that counts days unitl event and you can put in multiple events. So I put in my Birthday and Christmas. It also will show you days gone by one an event has passed, so I put in my last drink, now 286 days ago. Trying to think of other upcoming fun events, I tried retirment age, only 6,233 days to go, that's not w*&k days, it includes weekends and holidays and i may retire early [i hope].
Next on the list is to replace my smartphone. It self resets once and a while now, which is a few more than one to many. I tried switching back to my standard battery but it still did it, I feel it's going to go belly up soon. It's 2 plus years old and my contract is up so I can upgrade cheap. So I can get a new $550 phone for $99 bucks upgrade with another 2 year contract. It's time to upgrade and go from 512MB RAM/1GB ROM to 1GB RAM/16GM ROM, bigger standard battery, single to dual core and a little bigger screen all weighing less. Heck a new extended battery would cost me another 60 bucks, so why not just go for the upgrade. I could get an iphone for more, but I like my android so i'm going with the newer of the same model which also can use the same extra 32GB sd card and all the same charger cables. Then i'll install only my most important apps. A lot i installed i never used or rarely use and a lot i have the same things on the ipads now. Some i used at first but the bigger ipad replaced that usage. I only had them on the phone before because that was all i had in the beginnng. There's one app though which can't port [the data] from android to ios, so that is the main reason i'm staying with an android. Oh and the latest android os is called Jelly Bean. I like those too.
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Oh and the latest android os is called Jelly Bean. I like those too.
Me too. That's what my Samsung Tablet is running after the last update.
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Oh and the latest android os is called Jelly Bean. I like those too.
Me too. That's what my Samsung Tablet is running after the last update.
WINNING!!!
Randy I will ask at my own settlement next week, but the 'grade level' in the back of the house is where the bedrooms are. I think you are being scre@ed by the appraiser as mine said nothing about that, but I WILL ask. What you COULD do is call a local real estate office and ask them about it.
Keith I didn't like the droid because it has no security and is susceptible to viruses, which the Iphone is not. Also some of my apps just didn't work on the droid, they were VERY poorly written and EVERYONE had problems. BUT I too like the Jelly Bean name! I have had 2 droids and 1 Iphone and like the Iphone more, but didn't dislike the Droids. I gave one droid to my oldest son on to use while on vacation, he tried both my wifes Iphone and the droid, and he liked the droid better. I gave another droid to my youngest son and he does not want to go to an Iphone either. I will get the 2nd droid back as it is a World Wide phone, meaning it will work anywhere in the World, so it is good for vacations, that will happen when my youngest upgrades to something else.
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Mikey, when you say Droids, is that the droid model or are you just abbreviating android.
I have an android os phone, but its not the droid model.
Virsus, I think that is a myth so that people who write virus software can make money for nothing.
android is a form of (or adapted from) linux which as far as I know is pretty virus free and secure or at least more than some other o/s.
Any phone can become insecure if you hack it. for ios phones you need to jailbreak them and for android phones you need to root it. All that really means is you bypass (tamper with) security opening up admin prividledges, thus leaving it open to other hackers. Mine is NOT modified.
I've had 0 phone viruses in 3 years. I've only had 1 computer virus in 16 years and that on swiss cheese products and you know that has a lot of loopholes.
I've known people who've had more, well becasue they don't know any better and are duped I guess.
We had a virus attack(s) at work which got into several computers, but never my computer attached to the same network and not our file server also controled by me. After this other guy had left, we never had an attack again, it only ever happened while he was employed there, not before and not after. No futher comments on that, read between the lines.
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Yeah Jelly Bean 4.1 is better than Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0. My old android though is Gingerbread 2.X, which is kind of kool. Think of the gingerbread man kookie but picutre it's a gingerbread android shape.
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Mikey, when you say Droids, is that the droid model or are you just abbreviating android.
I have an android os phone, but its not the droid model.
Virsus, I think that is a myth so that people who write virus software can make money for nothing.
android is a form of (or adapted from) linux which as far as I know is pretty virus free and secure or at least more than some other o/s.
Any phone can become insecure if you hack it. for ios phones you need to jailbreak them and for android phones you need to root it. All that really means is you bypass (tamper with) security opening up admin prividledges, thus leaving it open to other hackers. Mine is NOT modified.
I've had 0 phone viruses in 3 years. I've only had 1 computer virus in 16 years and that on swiss cheese products and you know that has a lot of loopholes.
I've known people who've had more, well becasue they don't know any better and are duped I guess.
We had a virus attack(s) at work which got into several computers, but never my computer attached to the same network and not our file server also controled by me. After this other guy had left, we never had an attack again, it only ever happened while he was employed there, not before and not after. No futher comments on that, read between the lines.
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Yeah Jelly Bean 4.1 is better than Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0. My old android though is Gingerbread 2.X, which is kind of kool. Think of the gingerbread man kookie but picutre it's a gingerbread android shape.
I used droid to be short for android, sorry! As for viruses on android type phones the experts say it is common and well documented, I will look for a link for you. I put AVG a/v on my android phones, it is free and scans every time you turn it on. It updates all the time though.
As for viruses on pc's that is my MAIN money maker, people bring me their pc's because they got by this or that virus and I either go to them or they bring their pc to me, and then they pay me afterwards! They usually come in thru the user clicking on bad links or from the user clicking on emails from people they don't know. BUT my wife does the same thing and when I scan my pc's monthly, they occasionally find something in a file she has downloaded. I am trying to move her off of my pc's and onto hers, it is a long and slow process. She has a mac laptop, an ipad, an iphone and an ipod! I was the one who originally suggested she go mac BECAUSE of her activities that can bring in viruses.
Speaking of money makers the laptop I was working on with the bad harddrive the guy came and took it back unfinished. I suggested he go to the local mom and pop computer store and price a new harddrive versus a tablet he was thinking about. It had stayed at 30% for 4 days and he wasn't willing to just let it run until it was done. I was unable to tell him if it would take 1 day, 10 days or 100 days to fix and he didn't want to wait anymore. The software was guessing 15 MORE days at the current rate when we turned it off. He gave me $50.00 for the electricity, that is basically all it did, sit there and consume electricity. So we were both happy, he suggested the $50 not me. It gave me $50 spending money!!
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We got snow here in NC. Yuk. Hope I can fly tomorrow without problems. My brother and his son are flying from philadelphia and meeting me in fl, hope they can too. I think i'll be off the air mostly for tomorrow although after that i drop a short note via android. C-Ya.
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We got snow here in NC. Yuk. Hope I can fly tomorrow without problems. My brother and his son are flying from philadelphia and meeting me in fl, hope they can too. I think i'll be off the air mostly for tomorrow although after that i drop a short note via android. C-Ya.
Have a good trip.
Yesterday morning I must have had a power flicker or something... The clock on the oven was blinking, and one of my systems was locked up. A reboot fixed that...
I'm a little groggy this morning...The alarm went off right in the middle of a dream and that ALWAYS messes me up. I get up early on Saturdays (actually sleep-in ONLY 1.5 hrs) so wife and I can go to business hours at Sams Club--beat the crowds.
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We got snow here in NC. Yuk. Hope I can fly tomorrow without problems. My brother and his son are flying from philadelphia and meeting me in fl, hope they can too. I think i'll be off the air mostly for tomorrow although after that i drop a short note via android. C-Ya.
Have a good trip.
Yesterday morning I must have had a power flicker or something... The clock on the oven was blinking, and one of my systems was locked up. A reboot fixed that...
I'm a little groggy this morning...The alarm went off right in the middle of a dream and that ALWAYS messes me up. I get up early on Saturdays (actually sleep-in ONLY 1.5 hrs) so wife and I can go to business hours at Sams Club--beat the crowds.
WINNING!!!
Oh how I WISH I could get my wife moving in the mornings!!!
Keith I hope you have a safe trip and enjoy the 'winter' weather in Florida!!
WINNING!!!
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Oh how I WISH I could get my wife moving in the mornings!!!
Keith I hope you have a safe trip and enjoy the 'winter' weather in Florida!!
WINNING!!!
Sitting here with the fireplace running...all warm and toasty and...
WINNING!!!
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Oh how I WISH I could get my wife moving in the mornings!!!
Keith I hope you have a safe trip and enjoy the 'winter' weather in Florida!!
WINNING!!!
Sitting here with the fireplace running...all warm and toasty and...
WINNING!!!
I don't do that anymore, use the fireplace I mean.
WINNING!!! Now THAT I still do!!
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Oh how I WISH I could get my wife moving in the mornings!!!
Keith I hope you have a safe trip and enjoy the 'winter' weather in Florida!!
WINNING!!!
Sitting here with the fireplace running...all warm and toasty and...
WINNING!!!
I don't do that anymore, use the fireplace I mean.
WINNING!!! Now THAT I still do!!
Moanday mourning...now comes the fun part: it snowed last evening, then turned to freezing rain and now it's raining. So roads are slushy/icy/flooded.
But today's high will be in upper 40sF and tomorrow near 60F!!!
WINNING!!!
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Oh how I WISH I could get my wife moving in the mornings!!!
Keith I hope you have a safe trip and enjoy the 'winter' weather in Florida!!
WINNING!!!
Sitting here with the fireplace running...all warm and toasty and...
WINNING!!!
I don't do that anymore, use the fireplace I mean.
WINNING!!! Now THAT I still do!!
Moanday mourning...now comes the fun part: it snowed last evening, then turned to freezing rain and now it's raining. So roads are slushy/icy/flooded.
But today's high will be in upper 40sF and tomorrow near 60F!!!
WINNING!!!
Randy my son called me, from Detroit, on Saturday and he complained about the cold!! This is the first time he has been in a place that gets cold in December and then gets warm again in March, and he complained that EVERYTHING is C-O-L-D!!! He said he likes his work, he is doing something with spray foam insulation in commercial applications, and said that when he travels the places he goes to are MUCH warmer!! It was funny and I did a lot of laughing at him as I lived in Bangor Maine as a kid for 5 years!! Now THAT is C-O-L-D!!
We have some freezing rain so those going to w*&k are all delayed for at least 2 hours, the Feds for 3 hours. They are trying to stagger the openings so everyone isn't on the roads or mass transit at once. They did the same thing the other day for the closings, some got out 1 hour early, some 2 hours early, etc. They have a group of the whole area making the decisions and have said they will rotate the different groups so one isn't always at the 3 hour mark. Although if they find one that really works they have said they may stick with it for awhile. This is mostly the local governments, but some private companies are doing it too. Mostly the 'beltway bandits', the local government contractors, but other companies too.
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Randy my son called me, from Detroit, on Saturday and he complained about the cold!! This is the first time he has been in a place that gets cold in December and then gets warm again in March, and he complained that EVERYTHING is C-O-L-D!!! He said he likes his work, he is doing something with spray foam insulation in commercial applications, and said that when he travels the places he goes to are MUCH warmer!! It was funny and I did a lot of laughing at him as I lived in Bangor Maine as a kid for 5 years!! Now THAT is C-O-L-D!!
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Well, to be honest about it, this Dec/Jan has been the coldest of the last three years (the prev. two were abnormally warm). However, the winter of '93/'94 just after I moved up here, we had a record setting -20F overnight low. He should be glad he wasn't here then!
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Randy my son called me, from Detroit, on Saturday and he complained about the cold!! This is the first time he has been in a place that gets cold in December and then gets warm again in March, and he complained that EVERYTHING is C-O-L-D!!! He said he likes his work, he is doing something with spray foam insulation in commercial applications, and said that when he travels the places he goes to are MUCH warmer!! It was funny and I did a lot of laughing at him as I lived in Bangor Maine as a kid for 5 years!! Now THAT is C-O-L-D!!
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Well, to be honest about it, this Dec/Jan has been the coldest of the last three years (the prev. two were abnormally warm). However, the winter of '93/'94 just after I moved up here, we had a record setting -20F overnight low. He should be glad he wasn't here then!
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Yeah it sounds like it, he should be gone before next Winter, he is on a 9 month rotation.
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Yeah it sounds like it, he should be gone before next Winter, he is on a 9 month rotation.
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Well, now THAT brings back memories of childhood: rotation.
Fairly heavy rains this morning should wash away most of the sn*w. It better, 'cause tomorrow starts out mild and then plummets into the low 30sF, and then on Thursday our high will be in mid-20sF.
But that can wait...today will be approaching the record high of 58F!
WINNING!!!
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Yeah it sounds like it, he should be gone before next Winter, he is on a 9 month rotation.
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Well, now THAT brings back memories of childhood: rotation.
Fairly heavy rains this morning should wash away most of the sn*w. It better, 'cause tomorrow starts out mild and then plummets into the low 30sF, and then on Thursday our high will be in mid-20sF.
But that can wait...today will be approaching the record high of 58F!
WINNING!!!
Sounds like cold and flu season is back for you today! For me it will be tomorrow that we hit similar temps, then back down to the 30's the rest of the week for me.
WINNING!!!
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The primary ESA drive (Extended Storage Architecture) on our mainframe died about mid-morning today. ...think 3 TB drive vs 250GB, only mainframe size...
They shut the system down just before noon to attempt to recover the VTOC (think NTFS indexes)...it failed. IS is currently restoring the drive from nightly backup. Not a very productive day...
WINNING--NOT!!!
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@Mikey, I'm seriously considering converting two of my systems to run Linux. These are the dedicated systems located in the sewing room and the spare bedroom. Do you know if Milkyway has gpu support on Linux? I've got one machine running 3 MW WUs simultaneously on the gpu and MCN on the cpu. The other system runs MCN on cpu and the E@H BRP WUs on the gpu.
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The primary ESA drive (Extended Storage Architecture) on our mainframe died about mid-morning today. ...think 3 TB drive vs 250GB, only mainframe size...
They shut the system down just before noon to attempt to recover the VTOC (think NTFS indexes)...it failed. IS is currently restoring the drive from nightly backup. Not a very productive day...
WINNING--NOT!!!
I can only imagine! I hope the backup restore goes well!! Several years ago I switched from Comcast to Verizon and lost access to all my backups on my own machine! The backups were in a local machine but because of the WHS did its thing under Comcast I could NOT access them under Verizon!! I had accidently selected the wrong option and lost EVERYTHING on my non OS drive so was trying to recover it. I tried for over two months, even calling this person and that person and finally I just gave up and moved on. I lost over 700GB of saved stuff I wanted to keep!!
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@Mikey, I'm seriously considering converting two of my systems to run Linux. These are the dedicated systems located in the sewing room and the spare bedroom. Do you know if Milkyway has gpu support on Linux? I've got one machine running 3 MW WUs simultaneously on the gpu and MCN on the cpu. The other system runs MCN on cpu and the E@H BRP WUs on the gpu.
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According to MW they have these applications:
Linux running on an AMD x86_64 or Intel EM64T CPU 1.02 (opencl_amd_ati)
Linux running on an AMD x86_64 or Intel EM64T CPU 1.02 (opencl_nvidia)
So yes I think they do support Linux. Now supporting and having units available may be a different story! So I pulled up the top computers over there and saw this:
Rade 646,617.49 11,387,025 7.0.27 GenuineIntel
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10]
(4 processors) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 (134214527MB) Linux 3.5.0-17-generic
BUT he has not returned a valid unit since this one:
4 Jan 2013 | 9:03:51 UTC Completed and validated 404.05 155.22 213.76 MilkyWay@Home v1.02 (opencl_nvidia).
What version of Linux will you be running, in the past some supported gpu crunching and some didn't, but I don't remember which is which.
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They shut the system down just before noon to attempt to recover the VTOC (think NTFS indexes)...it failed. IS is currently restoring the drive from nightly backup. Not a very productive day...
WINNING--NOT!!!
I can only imagine! I hope the backup restore goes well!! Several years ago I switched from Comcast to Verizon and lost access to all my backups on my own machine! The backups were in a local machine but because of the WHS did its thing under Comcast I could NOT access them under Verizon!! I had accidently selected the wrong option and lost EVERYTHING on my non OS drive so was trying to recover it. I tried for over two months, even calling this person and that person and finally I just gave up and moved on. I lost over 700GB of saved stuff I wanted to keep!!
Yes, it's very important that any backup method you use is portable. I use Ghost and make full drive images. Unfortunately, that means I don't do it as often as I should, and makes individual file recovery VERY difficult. My critical files (Quicken mainly) are backed up immediately after use to a flash drive.
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@Mikey, I'm seriously considering converting two of my systems to run Linux. These are the dedicated systems located in the sewing room and the spare bedroom. Do you know if Milkyway has gpu support on Linux? I've got one machine running 3 MW WUs simultaneously on the gpu and MCN on the cpu. The other system runs MCN on cpu and the E@H BRP WUs on the gpu.
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According to MW they have these applications:
Linux running on an AMD x86_64 or Intel EM64T CPU 1.02 (opencl_amd_ati)
Linux running on an AMD x86_64 or Intel EM64T CPU 1.02 (opencl_nvidia)
So yes I think they do support Linux. Now supporting and having units available may be a different story! So I pulled up the top computers over there and saw this:
Rade 646,617.49 11,387,025 7.0.27 GenuineIntel
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10]
(4 processors) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 (134214527MB) Linux 3.5.0-17-generic
BUT he has not returned a valid unit since this one:
4 Jan 2013 | 9:03:51 UTC Completed and validated 404.05 155.22 213.76 MilkyWay@Home v1.02 (opencl_nvidia).
What version of Linux will you be running, in the past some supported gpu crunching and some didn't, but I don't remember which is which.
WINNING!!!
I plan on installing Ubuntu. I've run it before, but not using gpu. I'll need a lot of 'refresh' on it!
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Home again.
Don't think I have slept for 4 days.
Very tired from sitting driving for 12 plus total of 1 hour in stops. My you know what hurts and legs are cramped.
Dad is safely dilivered at brothers' house. [And i make a getaway with dad's car, chekcbook and loose change, all 800 pounds of it...]
May check in tomorrow but first i need a good nights sleep in my own bed.
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Home again.
Don't think I have slept for 4 days.
Very tired from sitting driving for 12 plus total of 1 hour in stops. My you know what hurts and legs are cramped.
Dad is safely dilivered at brothers' house. [And i make a getaway with dad's car, chekcbook and loose change, all 800 pounds of it...]
May check in tomorrow but first i need a good nights sleep in my own bed.
zzzzzz [to be continued]
Welcome Back!!!!
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Home again.
Don't think I have slept for 4 days.
Very tired from sitting driving for 12 plus total of 1 hour in stops. My you know what hurts and legs are cramped.
Dad is safely dilivered at brothers' house. [And i make a getaway with dad's car, chekcbook and loose change, all 800 pounds of it...]
May check in tomorrow but first i need a good nights sleep in my own bed.
zzzzzz [to be continued]
Yeah WELCOME BACK!! I am glad everyone is safe and sound! Keith talk to your local bank abut the loose change, SOME will take it as is and count and deposit it for you. One bank, Burke and Herbert, does it so the kids will bring in their wagon loads of money, and I even saw that once a kid pulled his wagon full of loose change into the bank, the bank took it into the back and came back out with a count and a deposit ticket.
Randy Ubuntu is one of those that MAY not work with the gpu on every project. I personally LOVE Ubuntu, I have installed it, and then taken it back off, over a dozen machines. I like to sit at one machine and view all the others and with Linux that is harder for me.
It got HOT yesterday, up into the low 70's!! My dinging roon, which now has a pc with a gpu in it AND my thermostat, got up to 76F, I just opened some windows, and even some doors too, to try and get the heat out and the house nearer the outside temp of 50F. I don't really want the house at 50, in the mid to upper 60 would be fine. It is already 7 degrees warmer then it was supposed to be today, BUT the wind is blowing and that means it should get cooler from here on.
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Today was encouraging.
Dad's condition has been improving a little every day. We've gotten him to eat a little more each meal. He can get up mostly by himself and walk with his walker without me holding on to him. Well today we got him to go up 6 stairs without me holding of pushing him any, but i was close behind. Later we got him to go down the 6 stairs but then he needed a 5 minute break, then he went down 6 more stairs amazingly he walked from there to the outside and out to the car, without the alker or me holding him, again i was close behind. That was like a 60 foot walk.
We've got him a room at assisted living but it will be another week before he can move in. Next we need to find a doctor and get him an checkup and i've got a lot of paperwork to fill out. But that gives us like another week to work on his improvement. He is actually excited to get there and making great effort to imporve his strength/health condition and eat better.
Tonight he was a little off balance but i think that was he was tired, it was along day. I'm looking for a better day tomorrow and maybe i can get him to do a couple laps around the table.
Not to mention, i've had plenty of time to talk to him, or have him talk to me. I've gotten him to tell me his life story again. And most of it he can remember quite clearly, date and months too. It matches up to what i remember he told me 2 years ago and i've gotten a little more details or some more interesting life history. Mentally he's still pretty sharp. When he told me 2 years ago, part of it was of his navy duty and where the ship went, i was able to find online the ships log, and it matched up perfectly then and still now. Other things he can remember i know the parents had told me over the years and he still has them correct.
I'm encouraged by his recovery and willingness to improve.
Dad is WINNING !!!
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Today was encouraging.
Dad's condition has been improving a little every day. We've gotten him to eat a little more each meal. He can get up mostly by himself and walk with his walker without me holding on to him. Well today we got him to go up 6 stairs without me holding of pushing him any, but i was close behind. Later we got him to go down the 6 stairs but then he needed a 5 minute break, then he went down 6 more stairs amazingly he walked from there to the outside and out to the car, without the alker or me holding him, again i was close behind. That was like a 60 foot walk.
We've got him a room at assisted living but it will be another week before he can move in. Next we need to find a doctor and get him an checkup and i've got a lot of paperwork to fill out. But that gives us like another week to work on his improvement. He is actually excited to get there and making great effort to imporve his strength/health condition and eat better.
Tonight he was a little off balance but i think that was he was tired, it was along day. I'm looking for a better day tomorrow and maybe i can get him to do a couple laps around the table.
Not to mention, i've had plenty of time to talk to him, or have him talk to me. I've gotten him to tell me his life story again. And most of it he can remember quite clearly, date and months too. It matches up to what i remember he told me 2 years ago and i've gotten a little more details or some more interesting life history. Mentally he's still pretty sharp. When he told me 2 years ago, part of it was of his navy duty and where the ship went, i was able to find online the ships log, and it matched up perfectly then and still now. Other things he can remember i know the parents had told me over the years and he still has them correct.
I'm encouraged by his recovery and willingness to improve.
Dad is WINNING !!!
Keith I would bet there is a local veterans association that might come by, or go to the nursing home, to visit him and reminisce with him. That might cheer him up too, they might also have some idea of some resources you haven't thought of yet, such as maybe even the VA Hospital. I am very glad to hear he is doing better AND TRYING to improve.
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Today was encouraging.
I'm encouraged by his recovery and willingness to improve.
Dad is WINNING !!!
Keith, that's great news. Hope the improvements keep coming!
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Today was encouraging.
I'm encouraged by his recovery and willingness to improve.
Dad is WINNING !!!
Keith, that's great news. Hope the improvements keep coming!
WINNING!!!
Randy it snowed here this morning but it only stuck on the grass!
WINNING!!!
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Today was encouraging.
I'm encouraged by his recovery and willingness to improve.
Dad is WINNING !!!
Keith, that's great news. Hope the improvements keep coming!
WINNING!!!
Randy it snowed here this morning but it only stuck on the grass!
WINNING!!!
Fun, fun...
This morning I found about .5" of the white stuff on the driveway. Forecast is calling for accumulation of up to 1" during the day...not sure if that includes what I already got or is in addition to it.
The past two winters have been very mild for Michigan. Just back to normal for here. Oh well, I knew Global Warming wouldn't save us...
WINNING!!!
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Today was encouraging.
I'm encouraged by his recovery and willingness to improve.
Dad is WINNING !!!
Keith, that's great news. Hope the improvements keep coming!
WINNING!!!
Randy it snowed here this morning but it only stuck on the grass!
WINNING!!!
Fun, fun...
This morning I found about .5" of the white stuff on the driveway. Forecast is calling for accumulation of up to 1" during the day...not sure if that includes what I already got or is in addition to it.
The past two winters have been very mild for Michigan. Just back to normal for here. Oh well, I knew Global Warming wouldn't save us...
WINNING!!!
Naw Al Gore sold his tv station to Al Jezera and his global warming credibility went with it!
It is in the 20's here this morning and we might some flurries tonight and tomorrow night and then again on Monday morning just in time for rush hour. Some places are ALREADY making plans for delayed openings on Monday!!
Since I am retired and don't have to w*&k anymore I am WINNING!!!
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Today was encouraging.
I'm encouraged by his recovery and willingness to improve.
Dad is WINNING !!!
Keith, that's great news. Hope the improvements keep coming!
WINNING!!!
Randy it snowed here this morning but it only stuck on the grass!
WINNING!!!
Fun, fun...
This morning I found about .5" of the white stuff on the driveway. Forecast is calling for accumulation of up to 1" during the day...not sure if that includes what I already got or is in addition to it.
The past two winters have been very mild for Michigan. Just back to normal for here. Oh well, I knew Global Warming wouldn't save us...
WINNING!!!
Naw Al Gore sold his tv station to Al Jezera and his global warming credibility went with it!
It is in the 20's here this morning and we might some flurries tonight and tomorrow night and then again on Monday morning just in time for rush hour. Some places are ALREADY making plans for delayed openings on Monday!!
Since I am retired and don't have to w*&k anymore I am WINNING!!!
It flurried overnight, there is a dusting on the deck this morning and it is 22F outside right now. The same is expected for the next few days then a warmup to the freezing level for the lows and the mid 40's for the highs.
STILL WINNING!!!
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It flurried overnight, there is a dusting on the deck this morning and it is 22F outside right now. The same is expected for the next few days then a warmup to the freezing level for the lows and the mid 40's for the highs.
STILL WINNING!!!
We're won't get to near-freezing until Tuesday. :(
We got close to two inches yesterday, plus whatever it did overnight (haven't looked). But it's Michigan and it's winter and I'm...
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Dad is improving way better/faster than I thought. last Sunday he was in a wheelchair. By yesterday we had him walking with a cane. he can stand up on his own. Some things are still difficult but he gets a little better every day.
I on the other hand am going down in flames from excessive paperwork. I',ve been appointed as his personal manager, well more like drafted. Actually I did finally get some sleep last night on my own, the night before I sleep good but that was because I took some NyQuil. But before that I don't think I had slept for 4 nights. It all see,s to be working itself out. My brother and his girlfriend are here helping with errands, meals and some with dad which takes some off me too help dad and fill out paperwork and straighten out any problems.
Still have to go to w&@k and catchup some, maybe today for a couple hours, then I get another week off from that. We move dad into assisted living on this upcoming Friday and then everyone can try to get back to more normal schedules.
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Dad is improving way better/faster than I thought. last Sunday he was in a wheelchair. By yesterday we had him walking with a cane. he can stand up on his own. Some things are still difficult but he gets a little better every day.
I on the other hand am going down in flames from excessive paperwork. I',ve been appointed as his personal manager, well more like drafted. Actually I did finally get some sleep last night on my own, the night before I sleep good but that was because I took some NyQuil. But before that I don't think I had slept for 4 nights. It all see,s to be working itself out. My brother and his girlfriend are here helping with errands, meals and some with dad which takes some off me too help dad and fill out paperwork and straighten out any problems.
Still have to go to w&@k and catchup some, maybe today for a couple hours, then I get another week off from that. We move dad into assisted living on this upcoming Friday and then everyone can try to get back to more normal schedules.
Keith that is WONDERFUL news!!! I'll bet he is eating and getting around more because you guys are encouraging him. When my wife is out of town I tend to be REALLY lazy, but when she comes back I tend to do more.
I just went and picked up a friends pc that he is throwing away because it just won't work, he says. I took the side off and I was OVER RUN by dust bunnies, some of the fans wouldn't even spin with the new blower!! I took all the fans out and then blew it out and plugged it in and it came up, sort of. Seems he took the hard drive out and kept it, oh well I have plenty anyway. I brought up the bios screen and it was a MESS, very hard to read jumping all over the place. So I turned it off and swapped out the gpu, and lo and behold it works just fine!! His older gpu is apparently almost dead as the 16mb pci card I put in works just fine! Now the problem is it is an OLD Intel P4 single core pc with HT to make it a dual core. However it DOES have a pci-e slot in it, so I MAY have to figure out how to use it, as I do have 2 pc's without pc-e slots in them. I have an O-L-D quad core cpu that MAY work in the pc and if it works I will definitely find a place for it.
Randy it snowed most of the day today, big fluffy flakes that melted soon after they landed, so now accumulation. It is just cold outside!
WINNING!!!
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Randy it snowed most of the day today, big fluffy flakes that melted soon after they landed, so now accumulation. It is just cold outside!
WINNING!!!
Miracle of miracles, we had mostly sunny (high cloudiness) conditions this morning. Today's high was 21F, going down to 11F tonight. A little bit of light snow right now, but not more than a dusting to .5" accumulation...
WINNING!!!
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Randy it snowed most of the day today, big fluffy flakes that melted soon after they landed, so now accumulation. It is just cold outside!
WINNING!!!
Miracle of miracles, we had mostly sunny (high cloudiness) conditions this morning. Today's high was 21F, going down to 11F tonight. A little bit of light snow right now, but not more than a dusting to .5" accumulation...
WINNING!!!
ALL of mine is now gone and it is 27F this morning, going up above freezing AGAIN!!!
WINNING!!!
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Doctors visit went well but we have to go back because of a TB test required to get in the home. Did find out a problem with dad. He has trouble holding his head up which we thought was the problem with him falling when walking. Actually it turns out his eye lids hang down too far and block half his vision. We got him a wheelchair. We have an appointment next week to get the eye lids fixed by a plastic surgeon. tomorrow is a lawyer to revise the trust and living will, etc documents. Friday we hope to have him in the home. I've been doing more paperwork than at my job. and there is still address changes to report for insurance and stuff like that.
at least I've got some sleep the last few nights finally. Also fighting a cold. Slept really good last night from about 8pm til 6am.
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Doctors visit went well but we have to go back because of a TB test required to get in the home. Did find out a problem with dad. He has trouble holding his head up which we thought was the problem with him falling when walking. Actually it turns out his eye lids hang down too far and block half his vision. We got him a wheelchair. We have an appointment next week to get the eye lids fixed by a plastic surgeon. tomorrow is a lawyer to revise the trust and living will, etc documents. Friday we hope to have him in the home. I've been doing more paperwork than at my job. and there is still address changes to report for insurance and stuff like that.
at least I've got some sleep the last few nights finally. Also fighting a cold. Slept really good last night from about 8pm til 6am.
I can see it now, your dad will soon become the next Joan Rivers!!!!
WINNING!!!!
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The forecast threatened another 1-2" of white stuff today, but as of right now...nothing. Obviously I am...
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The forecast threatened another 1-2" of white stuff today, but as of right now...nothing. Obviously I am...
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Yeah mine didn't come today either, yet anyway!
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We're in the 50Fs next few days. Good as I've got several places to roll dad too. Used his new wheelchair at the lawyers yesterday. Good thing too we have a handicap permit leftover from mom.
Today is a quick visit to doctors office and get paperwork back we need for admission to the home. Tomorrow we go back to lawyer to sign the paperwork, will, poa and stuff then take all the forms I filled out plus the doctors report and legal stuff to the home for pre-checking. move in will be Friday.
All I can advise is for any of you seniors with children is get startted now. Dad made my job (mostly) a whole lot easier by having a will, trust already done. Well we had to revise the 20year old document. But he also had taken any insurance, bank, whatever papers and put them in files in one place. When we moved I just had to grab like 24 folders and that was all we needed. It's been some phone calls to change some addresses but I have everything I need. He organized it more for my mom if something happened to him first, but it turned out to be a big help now, even though he'/ not gone yet. I've added my name as authorized user on some stuff, changed his address to mine or am sending in a poa (power of attorney) to others. It's been a lot of phone calls but I just be patient and it slowly gets done. Will make my job easier some more in the end.
My job was complicated by moving his address and admission at the same time, but it is all working out.
I've only worked 3 hours at my regular job since the 26th of January. My boss is pretty understanding. Good thing too this turned out to happen in the middle of our slowest time and not e peak of summer. I've got to do some more catch-up this weekend, skip half of Monday then try to get back to my normal schedule. Also my boss leaves for 14+ days vacation on the 13th, so it will end up like us not seeing each other for over a month total. Kind of a needed break for both of us.
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We're in the 50Fs next few days. Good as I've got several places to roll dad too. Used his new wheelchair at the lawyers yesterday. Good thing too we have a handicap permit leftover from mom.
Today is a quick visit to doctors office and get paperwork back we need for admission to the home. Tomorrow we go back to lawyer to sign the paperwork, will, poa and stuff then take all the forms I filled out plus the doctors report and legal stuff to the home for pre-checking. move in will be Friday.
All I can advise is for any of you seniors with children is get startted now. Dad made my job (mostly) a whole lot easier by having a will, trust already done. Well we had to revise the 20year old document. But he also had taken any insurance, bank, whatever papers and put them in files in one place. When we moved I just had to grab like 24 folders and that was all we needed. It's been some phone calls to change some addresses but I have everything I need. He organized it more for my mom if something happened to him first, but it turned out to be a big help now, even though he'/ not gone yet. I've added my name as authorized user on some stuff, changed his address to mine or am sending in a poa (power of attorney) to others. It's been a lot of phone calls but I just be patient and it slowly gets done. Will make my job easier some more in the end.
My job was complicated by moving his address and admission at the same time, but it is all working out.
I've only worked 3 hours at my regular job since the 26th of January. My boss is pretty understanding. Good thing too this turned out to happen in the middle of our slowest time and not e peak of summer. I've got to do some more catch-up this weekend, skip half of Monday then try to get back to my normal schedule. Also my boss leaves for 14+ days vacation on the 13th, so it will end up like us not seeing each other for over a month total. Kind of a needed break for both of us.
Keith I can't even emagine what you are going thru, sounds like you ARE a GOOD SON!!!!
Hey Randy have you tried the Ubuntu yet? I am installing it right now on that new/old pc I got the other day. I have not changed the cpu yet but thought I would see if I could make the gpu, an AMD 5770, work on Moo, Collatz or Poem. I am almost done at Moo, I am quitting and moving elsewhere when I hit 1 billion credits for them, I have about 975 million now.
WINNING!!!
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Hey Randy have you tried the Ubuntu yet? I am installing it right now on that new/old pc I got the other day. I have not changed the cpu yet but thought I would see if I could make the gpu, an AMD 5770, work on Moo, Collatz or Poem. I am almost done at Moo, I am quitting and moving elsewhere when I hit 1 billion credits for them, I have about 975 million now.
WINNING!!!
Sorry, but not yet. I'm overloaded with other stuff I'm doing... I'll get to it someday.
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Hey Randy have you tried the Ubuntu yet? I am installing it right now on that new/old pc I got the other day. I have not changed the cpu yet but thought I would see if I could make the gpu, an AMD 5770, work on Moo, Collatz or Poem. I am almost done at Moo, I am quitting and moving elsewhere when I hit 1 billion credits for them, I have about 975 million now.
WINNING!!!
Sorry, but not yet. I'm overloaded with other stuff I'm doing... I'll get to it someday.
WINNING!!!
It DOESN'T work for me!! Either I am doing it wrong or it just won't work!! I have gone thru 3 different drivers, all suggested by Ubuntu itself, 1 is the default and 2 optional ones and Boinc will NOT find the gpu using any of them!! I am about to just give up for now. It also made my monitor NOT work, a message came up saying it was "out of frequency" and then it went blank! Fortunately I have another monitor here and it worked, the one I usually use is an older 17" Gateway crt. It sits on a shelf so I am not concerned with the size, and it usually works fine, this is in my basement at my 'w*&rk station'! I have flat panels everywhere else in the house. I have reverted to the default driver and no luck with Boinc finding the gpu!
WINNING but not with this 'new' pc!
Hey Randy I JUST looked at MicroCenter and they have a BUNCH of mb and cpu deals going on right now! I ALMOST bought a 6 core AMD cpu with 16gb of ram and an Asus mb WITH Raid for $240, but haven't yet.
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Hey Randy I JUST looked at MicroCenter and they have a BUNCH of mb and cpu deals going on right now! I ALMOST bought a 6 core AMD cpu with 16gb of ram and an Asus mb WITH Raid for $240, but haven't yet.
Sounds sweet! Too bad I'm up to you-know-where trying to get this house for my daughter.
We've given up on the original lender (Gold Star Mortgage--not!) and are now working with Quicken Loans...looks more likely to work, and a lower price to boot!
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Hey Randy I JUST looked at MicroCenter and they have a BUNCH of mb and cpu deals going on right now! I ALMOST bought a 6 core AMD cpu with 16gb of ram and an Asus mb WITH Raid for $240, but haven't yet.
Sounds sweet! Too bad I'm up to you-know-where trying to get this house for my daughter.
We've given up on the original lender (Gold Star Mortgage--not!) and are now working with Quicken Loans...looks more likely to work, and a lower price to boot!
WINNING!!!
That's GOOD news!!
My refi has been pushed back ANOTHER week as the credit union I am using 'forgot' to get all the paperwork on the loan I paid off the last time I refi'd, so the SAME credit union is trying to get the paperwork right so it properly shows I don't owe more then SOME paperwork says I do. They KNOW I paid it off, they just 'forgot' to get the paperwork from whoever the lien holder was to get them to sign off saying it was paid off. I got a copy of the paperwork saying it was paid off, the credit union has the paperwork, but the lien holder never returned the paperwork AGREEING that it was paid off. they are saying it is all a 'clerical error'. Any way they do it I am NOT paying it again, and the credit union agrees with me. The credit union has the paperwork trail to PROVE it was paid off, but the original lien holder just never sent back a piece of paper saying 'yes you paid it off'. The credit union is saying it is no big deal just paperwork but until they get a copy of it we can't refi. My interest rate IS locked in, so they won't raise it anymore. What this has done is make the credit union go thru ALL the loans with this place and see that LOTS of paperwork is juts like mine, in limbo! It ALSO means the credit union has, at least temporarily, stopped doing business with the place. They won't tell me the name of the place, it really doesn't matter to me, but apparently it is a B-I-G bank, as in a too big to fail bank!
Randy I turned the Ubuntu machine off and have pretty much just given up until I try the cpu exchange in it. Man has Ubuntu changed ALOT since the 10 versions, it took me a bit to find everything!! But Boinc just would NOT see the gpu at all! I must have rebooted 10 times and still no luck!
WINNING, I guess anyway!!!
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Randy I turned the Ubuntu machine off and have pretty much just given up until I try the cpu exchange in it. Man has Ubuntu changed ALOT since the 10 versions, it took me a bit to find everything!! But Boinc just would NOT see the gpu at all! I must have rebooted 10 times and still no luck!
WINNING, I guess anyway!!!
Check out the threads in MW Number Crunching. I think I remember something there about not being able to see gpu under Linux.
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Well good news.
Got all are papers signed today. Scheduled to start moving dad in tomorrow.
Got dad blueberry pie and coffee icecream for after lunch for a treat.
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Well good news.
Got all are papers signed today. Scheduled to start moving dad in tomorrow.
Got dad blueberry pie and coffee icecream for after lunch for a treat.
Hey pie and coffee, a perfect dessert!
Randy I think it MAY be able to make it work, but it also is definitely beyond my current knowledge level! I KNOW others have done it and continue to do it even today, so I KNOW it can be done!
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Well good news.
Got all are papers signed today. Scheduled to start moving dad in tomorrow.
Got dad blueberry pie and coffee icecream for after lunch for a treat.
Hey pie and coffee, a perfect dessert!
Randy I think it MAY be able to make it work, but it also is definitely beyond my current knowledge level! I KNOW others have done it and continue to do it even today, so I KNOW it can be done!
WINNING!!!
@Keith, glad to hear things are moving forward fairly smoothly!
@Mikey, it's been at least 3 years since I did any Linux and I've done several memory dumps since then. Need to learn it all over again. :(
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Hey pie and coffee, a perfect dessert!
Well one day that was his lunch. It was peach pie so the fruit was good for him. At least he wanted to eat something. I think he was able to eat more pie and ice cream though than regular food.
So now we're up to 3 meals plus 2 rounds of pie and ice cream. A week ago it was about 1/2 a meal a day would suffice and his portions are about 1/5th of average meals. Good to see he is improving and wanting more to eat.
Need sleeeeeep, ahve to pack and unpack a truck tommorow, but i'll have my brothers help and dad donesn't have much now. It's gonna be a bed, dresser, 2 chairs, card table, 19" lcd tv and then all the small things and clothing in the trunk of the car. He's only got one room at the "inn".
With todays paperwork we also filled out a menu so he starts lunch there tomorrow and then a menu for all next week. Each week they give them a menu with a few choices for lunch and dinner that the residents fill in. helps them prepare meals each day. there are some other choice they can pick if they are not liking any of the ones listed. Dad seemed to pick a few quite quickly and some sounded like his favorites. I think he'll do fine. The desert try looked very good, lots of pie on it.
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Greetings from denmark.
Just wnted to see if there was any activity in the forum. Saw the competition.
Well - that's it - for now
Welcome to the thread HaldCo...but for now, your 'win' is over.
@Mikey, Coming your way: Sn*w, sn*w and more sn*w! Woke up this morning to about 3" of that stuff with another 1-2" possible before it quits mid-morning. Commute to work was mostly thick slush, but I hear that north of me it was worse. Looks like all schools in the area are closed.
Made it in to w@^k safely and on-time so I must be...
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Just wnted to see if there was any activity in the forum. Saw the competition.
Well - that's it - for now
Welcome to the thread HaldCo...but for now, your 'win' is over.
@Mikey, Coming your way: Sn*w, sn*w and more sn*w! Woke up this morning to about 3" of that stuff with another 1-2" possible before it quits mid-morning. Commute to work was mostly thick slush, but I hear that north of me it was worse. Looks like all schools in the area are closed.
Made it in to w@^k safely and on-time so I must be...
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NO, NO, NOO!! No snow for me, just rain this time, although less than 50 miles North of me they are getting about what you have. I am no longer a snow lover as the kids are gone and I now HATE shoveling!! I should get some more rain today, then as long as the storm stays North of me that all I should get. The more South the storm is the more chance of snow for me, so I am blowing as hard as I can!!
Keith maybe you and your brother can make a weekly trip to see your dad and help him pick out his favorites for the following week? It sounds like he just needed some structure in his life and now that you and your brother are there for him, full time again, he is back on track again. Being closer should help that continue and who knows his next milestone could be getting named on the News by Willard Scott when he turns 100! My wife did that with her grandmother and she was VERY surprised to see herself on tv! She loved Willard Scott and thought it was cool to see all those people just a little bit older than her on tv, she had no idea that SHE was going to be on tv until she actually saw herself!! She was VERY excited and happy!! She got lots of phone calls and told EVERYONE in the 'inn' for several days!
HaldCo...welcome to the game, and sorry but it is now my turn to be WINNING!!!
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Well we got moved, despite it trying to rain here off and on. Actually the rain went by in the night and we only had 1 rain band go by before we loaded. However it was windy. Try holding on to a mattress sideways in the 20 knot winds. We started loading about 9am and had dad moved in and all set up before noon. Sun actually came out some.
A woman there had her 98th birthday today.
We left him at lunch time, so i guess he's in good hands now.
I've been doing assorted paperwork since and that 2 week pile of laundry. Tomorrow may be a more normal day for me, 1st one since i left on the 26th of last month. Sunday I will go visit dad but then i've got to go catch up a little a w..k as i have to take monday off too and take dad to the plastic surgeon for his eye lid fix. My brother will visit dad week some nights and most likely will just visit weekends, at least for a while. We may after a while combine visits or show up on the same day. Another brother is coming down from the north next weekend, the one that helped with all the moving from florida.
My job though is still not done, i've got to get all his financial stuff to straighten and make address changes. Not too much but he did not do any stuff online, so i have to try to set all this up as it's easier that way for me. Today i added his accounts to my checkbook program, i can't do them on paper. I can see better in advance upcoming payments due, yeah i'm the finance officer too. A lot is in the works, but i may take a break for the week while i catch up on some other stuff then retackle this.
Good thing too, the home has wireless "open" access. So i can get all these accounts set up, then when i visit dad, take my ipad and look up anything i need with him.
i think now though food and sleep are on top of the todo list.
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Posting a first win from the other side of the chemo nad stsm cell transplant ...
Welcome back John. Here's hoping for a full recovery!!!
However, I am the one who is now...
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poppin' inn between knapps.
I broke into the emergency supplies for dinner, since this is really my first night alone again for what seems like a long time. I had left the refrigerator pretty bare but there were three frozen pizzas in the freezer, for emergencies, like when i'm too lazy to go shopping.
Wonder what i can do tomorrow ?
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poppin' inn between knapps.
I broke into the emergency supplies for dinner, since this is really my first night alone again for what seems like a long time. I had left the refrigerator pretty bare but there were three frozen pizzas in the freezer, for emergencies, like when i'm too lazy to go shopping.
Wonder what i can do tomorrow ?
GRIDDLERS I ma guessing!! Either that or delivery! That's ALL good news about your dad, he may have even MORE fun now then he has in a long time, he will be 'the new guy' and EVERYONE will be wanting to talk to HIM!
WELCOME BACK JOHN!! What blood type are you now? I am guessing you are sleeping ALOT, laying in bed seems to make you even MORE tired!! How are the dogs?
NO snow for me, just windy, windy, WINDY! It blew all night long and is STILL blowing! Right now it is at freezing and it is supposed to get up into the mid 40's later on, then rain some overnight.
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Well no, today is more paperwork. I caught up some more on home stuff and a little for dad. It's been easier to just add seperate checkbook and credit card registers to my checkbook than to have two seperate ones. I did make specific seperate catagories for his so hopefully come end of year tax time and can print his out and make it easier. I'll let him do his this year on paperforms and then proof it. I alos started a spreadsheet to track some of the insurance stuff. It will all get done, but there really is a lot to remember and i'm not doing mine, his and then w..k stuff so it's like 3 seperate halves of the brain i have to use.
I made the mistake of coming to w..k on Saturday. Sunday is better as noone is here and noone usualyy comes in the door. I can lock the door but someone showed up as i was unlocking it and he turned out to be that special attention customer so i lost 20 minutes of time there. Got some billing done and if "I can get the next pile done that will help. I'll have another huge pile come Monday as a lot of stuff arrives in the weekend mail. Then there still is 3 more piles of not as urgent stuff to catch up on, post payments and record the cash ticket sales.
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Well no, today is more paperwork. I caught up some more on home stuff and a little for dad. It's been easier to just add seperate checkbook and credit card registers to my checkbook than to have two seperate ones. I did make specific seperate catagories for his so hopefully come end of year tax time and can print his out and make it easier. I'll let him do his this year on paperforms and then proof it. I alos started a spreadsheet to track some of the insurance stuff. It will all get done, but there really is a lot to remember and i'm not doing mine, his and then w..k stuff so it's like 3 seperate halves of the brain i have to use.
I made the mistake of coming to w..k on Saturday. Sunday is better as noone is here and noone usualyy comes in the door. I can lock the door but someone showed up as i was unlocking it and he turned out to be that special attention customer so i lost 20 minutes of time there. Got some billing done and if "I can get the next pile done that will help. I'll have another huge pile come Monday as a lot of stuff arrives in the weekend mail. Then there still is 3 more piles of not as urgent stuff to catch up on, post payments and record the cash ticket sales.
Yeah, catching up on the backlog after being out for a while can be a real PITA.
I still have 7 days + 5 hrs vacation to burn before the end of March--use it or lose it. I've scheduled every Friday off in March...that kills 5 days. Now what to do with the rest??? This is such a terrible problem there is no way I could be...
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Well no, today is more paperwork. I caught up some more on home stuff and a little for dad. It's been easier to just add seperate checkbook and credit card registers to my checkbook than to have two seperate ones. I did make specific seperate catagories for his so hopefully come end of year tax time and can print his out and make it easier. I'll let him do his this year on paperforms and then proof it. I alos started a spreadsheet to track some of the insurance stuff. It will all get done, but there really is a lot to remember and i'm not doing mine, his and then w..k stuff so it's like 3 seperate halves of the brain i have to use.
I made the mistake of coming to w..k on Saturday. Sunday is better as noone is here and noone usualyy comes in the door. I can lock the door but someone showed up as i was unlocking it and he turned out to be that special attention customer so i lost 20 minutes of time there. Got some billing done and if "I can get the next pile done that will help. I'll have another huge pile come Monday as a lot of stuff arrives in the weekend mail. Then there still is 3 more piles of not as urgent stuff to catch up on, post payments and record the cash ticket sales.
Yeah, catching up on the backlog after being out for a while can be a real PITA.
I still have 7 days + 5 hrs vacation to burn before the end of March--use it or lose it. I've scheduled every Friday off in March...that kills 5 days. Now what to do with the rest??? This is such a terrible problem there is no way I could be...
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Randy the 14th of THIS month is Valentines Day and it's a Thursday, sooo you could take Thursday, Friday and of course the weekend off and take a mini getaway. Orrr you could just a couple of Mondays into the Fridays and make it a full 4 day weekend!! Aren't you going to be pressed into service when your daughter settles and moves in too? At my old work we had that and they had a 'bank' people could donate too and give to those that are sick or needy or whatever, if you have one of those you do that too.
Twenty years ago the Swedes did a study on those who use all their vacation days in a year and those that don't....the ones who actually took their days off were MORE productive then those who didn't. Turns out SOME people need the decompression time and that takes more than just the usual days off.
Keith come August you will have slower Mondays but busier Tuesdays as the Post Office is stopping Saturday deliveries then. The Offices will still be open and those with post office boxes CAN still get their mail, but no more Saturday deliveries is the plan as of right now.
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Keith come August you will have slower Mondays but busier Tuesdays as the Post Office is stopping Saturday deliveries then. The Offices will still be open and those with post office boxes CAN still get their mail, but no more Saturday deliveries is the plan as of right now.
I don't think that will affect us. The mail I process on Moanday is Saturdays mail and then again later Moandays mail. We don't get delivery anyway, we have a poo box. So them stopping saturday delivery i don't think will have any affect on us getting a huge pile on moandays.
I'm part of the cause of that as i do all my stuff online and don't send or get much mail at home. I do sometimes get packages but it was my understaning it is only 1st class, so if i get a priority mail package it should still arrive, but it's not a big deal if it comes monday instead of saturday. Get over it and get on with other things.
I did get a lot done yesterday from about 11 til 2 then went home.
Bad thing, i think it happened while i was at work. I parked in not my normal spot but over closer to our door and where other people park. My windshied now has 2 large 1 foot long cracks in it. Something else to contend with. There is a windshiled fixin' guy that lives at the end of my street, he does mobile service anyway. Maybe i can get it fixed while i'm using dad's car, i got to take him to the doctors on munday.
Today i'm trying to get back to normal. I finally played some of my online game for the first time in two weeks. Didn't get clobbered as bad as i thought i might. IT will take me some time though to remember all i was doing in the 4 games and get back on schedule.
I did use the ipad cellular access while in florida, twice. I played the games for about 15-20 minutes 2 times. My bandwidth usage ended up being like 7MB. I had 300MB available for the $15 for 30 days. So i'm way under. Expensive experiment. But i've stopped that as around here i have wifi access at home,w..k,brothers house and dads room. I did think it was cool my games used so little. I can reactivate if i travel again.
Went grocery shopping this morning. That's done but now i have to go get a few things for dad and go over to the inn. I though i'd just get his stuff on the way. I'll probally end up doing that each week, but it's going to be a short list, only 3-4 items.
I did get a call this morning he fell last night in the middle of the night, no injury. He didn't use his call button to get help in advance. His care provides 24 hour anything service. If he needs help or even can't reach something he just has to push the button and the on duty nurse comes in for any assistance. There's two button, one on a wire for in the bed and one in the bathroom.
After that visit i'm gonna relax, no more paperwork for the day.
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Keith come August you will have slower Mondays but busier Tuesdays as the Post Office is stopping Saturday deliveries then. The Offices will still be open and those with post office boxes CAN still get their mail, but no more Saturday deliveries is the plan as of right now.
I don't think that will affect us. The mail I process on Moanday is Saturdays mail and then again later Moandays mail. We don't get delivery anyway, we have a poo box. So them stopping saturday delivery i don't think will have any affect on us getting a huge pile on moandays.
I'm part of the cause of that as i do all my stuff online and don't send or get much mail at home. I do sometimes get packages but it was my understaning it is only 1st class, so if i get a priority mail package it should still arrive, but it's not a big deal if it comes monday instead of saturday. Get over it and get on with other things.
I did get a lot done yesterday from about 11 til 2 then went home.
Bad thing, i think it happened while i was at work. I parked in not my normal spot but over closer to our door and where other people park. My windshied now has 2 large 1 foot long cracks in it. Something else to contend with. There is a windshiled fixin' guy that lives at the end of my street, he does mobile service anyway. Maybe i can get it fixed while i'm using dad's car, i got to take him to the doctors on munday.
Today i'm trying to get back to normal. I finally played some of my online game for the first time in two weeks. Didn't get clobbered as bad as i thought i might. IT will take me some time though to remember all i was doing in the 4 games and get back on schedule.
I did use the ipad cellular access while in florida, twice. I played the games for about 15-20 minutes 2 times. My bandwidth usage ended up being like 7MB. I had 300MB available for the $15 for 30 days. So i'm way under. Expensive experiment. But i've stopped that as around here i have wifi access at home,w..k,brothers house and dads room. I did think it was cool my games used so little. I can reactivate if i travel again.
Went grocery shopping this morning. That's done but now i have to go get a few things for dad and go over to the inn. I though i'd just get his stuff on the way. I'll probally end up doing that each week, but it's going to be a short list, only 3-4 items.
I did get a call this morning he fell last night in the middle of the night, no injury. He didn't use his call button to get help in advance. His care provides 24 hour anything service. If he needs help or even can't reach something he just has to push the button and the on duty nurse comes in for any assistance. There's two button, one on a wire for in the bed and one in the bathroom.
After that visit i'm gonna relax, no more paperwork for the day.
Your dad is going to have to learn to ASK for help or they will lock him down, but I am sure they are talking to him about it. He will probably be learning lots of new things as time goes.
I didn't know about the mail, oh well, status quo that is ALWAYS good! And only 7mb, that is very good too. Sorry to hear about the windshield!
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Jumping in for a win on this Moanday mourning. While Keith is out taking his dad to the doktor, I am...
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Well the saga continues.
Took dad to plastic surgen. This was for a preliminary exam. That went well but...
To get the procedure covered my medicare we first have to have a visual test by a eye doctor. So another appointment for that, which we scheduled in March and then a return to the plastic surgeon. This is a common procedure for senoirs. What happens is the muscle for the eye lid wears out, bassically. They go in and sort of shorten it which stengthens what is left. He was tired after sitting through that so i took him to his home.
I set up a new bank account locally for us. Have to go get tomorrow and drive him to tha bannk to sign his name. It has to be done in person. I did however find out how to deposit 300 pounds of coins. The gave me coin wrappers, good thing i didn't bust the ones open already wrapped. Then i've got boxes to put the wrapped coins in, the quarters go into $500 boxes and the others all have a smaller amount. They have a huge plastic wagon to use when i get there to roll them in, they deal a lot with local merchants, i guess restaurants depositing large amounts of coinage. It may take me a few days to wrap the unwrapped ones, which i can work on at night while watching streaming videos. I decided i should change banks as i can get free checking here with only a single monthly direct deposit, hwich he has, and his old bank is charging a $17 monthly maintenace fee. Got to cut corners where possible. Unfortunatley his income is about 250 bucks short each month, so i really need those coins deposited. Otherwise it comes out of my pockets for now.
Back to w..k, i got in afternoon today and got some more backlog cleared out, i'm about 1/2 done on the backlog. I broke it into 4 groups. I did the 1st group over the weekend and the 2nd today. I'll w..k on the other 2 groups over the next 2 or 3 days, i hope not more.
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Well the saga continues.
Took dad to plastic surgen. This was for a preliminary exam. That went well but...
To get the procedure covered my medicare we first have to have a visual test by a eye doctor. So another appointment for that, which we scheduled in March and then a return to the plastic surgeon. This is a common procedure for senoirs. What happens is the muscle for the eye lid wears out, bassically. They go in and sort of shorten it which stengthens what is left. He was tired after sitting through that so i took him to his home.
I set up a new bank account locally for us. Have to go get tomorrow and drive him to tha bannk to sign his name. It has to be done in person. I did however find out how to deposit 300 pounds of coins. The gave me coin wrappers, good thing i didn't bust the ones open already wrapped. Then i've got boxes to put the wrapped coins in, the quarters go into $500 boxes and the others all have a smaller amount. They have a huge plastic wagon to use when i get there to roll them in, they deal a lot with local merchants, i guess restaurants depositing large amounts of coinage. It may take me a few days to wrap the unwrapped ones, which i can work on at night while watching streaming videos. I decided i should change banks as i can get free checking here with only a single monthly direct deposit, hwich he has, and his old bank is charging a $17 monthly maintenace fee. Got to cut corners where possible. Unfortunatley his income is about 250 bucks short each month, so i really need those coins deposited. Otherwise it comes out of my pockets for now.
Back to w..k, i got in afternoon today and got some more backlog cleared out, i'm about 1/2 done on the backlog. I broke it into 4 groups. I did the 1st group over the weekend and the 2nd today. I'll w..k on the other 2 groups over the next 2 or 3 days, i hope not more.
Make sure the bank knows your dad is in a home, alot of banks waive the fees for certain groups of people, for instance they waived the minimum balance and continuing fees for my son as he is still a student. And I know my cousin got alot of the fees waived for her mom when she went into a home.
Also does he get disability or just regular SS, I don't KNOW that there is a difference but you might ask them. Several of my friends want me to go down and apply as I left the fire department on disability retirement, but I haven't yet.
Sounds like you have w*&k under control, have you sold many things or is that on hold for now?
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I got my new Maximum PC the other day and found this site to load FREE software that will check for any driver updates:
https://www.slimwareutilities.com/slimdrivers.php
It uses cloud sourcing, meaning like Linux, to find any potential new drivers for your pc. My brand new laptop needed 13, but after doing 6 it said the rest were already taken care of, so some were duplicates. You can chose to do them or not to do them, but it is NOT always right. For instance I am already using the AMD driver 13.1, on my desktops, and it wanted to roll them back to an earlier version. I obviously chose NOT to do that one. But it found things like pci drivers that needed updating, sound drivers, usb drivers, all kinds of stuff, even network and bluetooth drivers.
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I got my new Maximum PC the other day and found this site to load FREE software that will check for any driver updates:
https://www.slimwareutilities.com/slimdrivers.php
It uses cloud sourcing, meaning like Linux, to find any potential new drivers for your pc. My brand new laptop needed 13, but after doing 6 it said the rest were already taken care of, so some were duplicates. You can chose to do them or not to do them, but it is NOT always right. For instance I am already using the AMD driver 13.1, on my desktops, and it wanted to roll them back to an earlier version. I obviously chose NOT to do that one. But it found things like pci drivers that needed updating, sound drivers, usb drivers, all kinds of stuff, even network and bluetooth drivers.
Mikey, I get a BAD feeling about that one. how do you know they are above-board and not installing malware on your system...turning it into a bot?
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...by not biting on the Slimwareutilites.
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I got my new Maximum PC the other day and found this site to load FREE software that will check for any driver updates:
https://www.slimwareutilities.com/slimdrivers.php
It uses cloud sourcing, meaning like Linux, to find any potential new drivers for your pc. My brand new laptop needed 13, but after doing 6 it said the rest were already taken care of, so some were duplicates. You can chose to do them or not to do them, but it is NOT always right. For instance I am already using the AMD driver 13.1, on my desktops, and it wanted to roll them back to an earlier version. I obviously chose NOT to do that one. But it found things like pci drivers that needed updating, sound drivers, usb drivers, all kinds of stuff, even network and bluetooth drivers.
Mikey, I get a BAD feeling about that one. how do you know they are above-board and not installing malware on your system...turning it into a bot?
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...by not biting on the Slimwareutilites.
Because I TRUST the magazine Maximum PC, they have never steered me wrong so far. I DID set the options on it to NOT run at startup and to NOT periodically check for new drivers in the future either.
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Other than hiding your computer there is nothing you can do to make them go away. But they'll disappear in a few days, don't worry about them.
HEY, long time no see...how are you doing? How's the S-N-O-W? I am STILL relatively snow free, got almost an inch once and got a dusting a couple of other times, which is PERFECT for me!!
We are having a fairly normal winter, which is fine because we need the moisture even if it is in the form of snow.
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Got a new android phone today, LG brand, which is my 4th LG item. Love them all. First new trick my new phone taught me, it can recognize my face to unlock the phone. No hands on. Kool. Now to load it with apps and all my old stuff, another work in progress. It's pretty good on battery so far, but maybe thats becuase i don't have a gazillion apps running. i used it a lot on phone calls today. my old phone with the extended battery would be about dead, this one was like only down 10%. wow.
Took dad to the bank today, along with some change. It took two wagon trips to get it in as it was heavy. There was like 30,000 plus coins. Well there all gone now. It took me 3 hours last night to roll the loose ones, good thing about 90% of them were already rolled. Thats one thing off my list, but it added three more at least as now i've got to change over automatic deposits.
Had a talk with a physical theropist today that it seems the doctor we went to a week ago had ordered and i guess i forgot about it. My brother and I were discussing getting one last night, so timing was perfect.
Got a lot of my backlog w..k done along with new things. Not bad to catch up on two weeks of work in about 3 days. I had put in 2 half days on the weekends and the two this week. Now on to other things.
Mikey, no internet sales, i had turned those off before leaving as there would be no one to take care of that, i'm the only one with access. I'm thinking about restarting soon. I may wait a while as i need time to do some other paperwork and phone calls. Also the bossman is on vacation for 15 days starting tomorrow so that sort of puts more on me, i may wait until at least he gets back. Winter is slower anyway and i'm way down on certain items, on purpose as i knew winter was coming and also my possible moving dad, so i had planned ahead accordingly.
Gotta run, more mail to sift through and i've got to make some lists, my paer note list on the back of an envelope is getting a little confused.
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Got a new android phone today, LG brand, which is my 4th LG item. Love them all. First new trick my new phone taught me, it can recognize my face to unlock the phone. No hands on. Kool. Now to load it with apps and all my old stuff, another work in progress. It's pretty good on battery so far, but maybe thats becuase i don't have a gazillion apps running. i used it a lot on phone calls today. my old phone with the extended battery would be about dead, this one was like only down 10%. wow.
Took dad to the bank today, along with some change. It took two wagon trips to get it in as it was heavy. There was like 30,000 plus coins. Well there all gone now. It took me 3 hours last night to roll the loose ones, good thing about 90% of them were already rolled. Thats one thing off my list, but it added three more at least as now i've got to change over automatic deposits.
Had a talk with a physical theropist today that it seems the doctor we went to a week ago had ordered and i guess i forgot about it. My brother and I were discussing getting one last night, so timing was perfect.
Got a lot of my backlog w..k done along with new things. Not bad to catch up on two weeks of work in about 3 days. I had put in 2 half days on the weekends and the two this week. Now on to other things.
Mikey, no internet sales, i had turned those off before leaving as there would be no one to take care of that, i'm the only one with access. I'm thinking about restarting soon. I may wait a while as i need time to do some other paperwork and phone calls. Also the bossman is on vacation for 15 days starting tomorrow so that sort of puts more on me, i may wait until at least he gets back. Winter is slower anyway and i'm way down on certain items, on purpose as i knew winter was coming and also my possible moving dad, so i had planned ahead accordingly.
Gotta run, more mail to sift through and i've got to make some lists, my paer note list on the back of an envelope is getting a little confused.
Sounds ok!
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you got that right, limited that is !
Bad day. Raining. It's the thirteenth. Computer server had a hickup and needs rebooting. More paperw..k piled on my desk overnight.
So my new windshield is causing me problems. It's not coated with rain-x. I've used that since forever and it makes a difference. Also the repairs the windshield guy did on repalcing a big rust hole, well they look fine, but..., it leaks water again around the windshield seal. I need to rubber goo it up, next time things dry out.
Making progress on setting up my new smartphone. Some of the android improvents are way good. I've got my 6 emails boxes, but also have a new "combined" view of all-in-one or if i want one at a time still.
My screen is a little bigger. I got 4.7" instead of 4.5".
I've got more apps to add, but not all that were on the old phone. A lot of those are now on my ipads. I may not put them all on the phone to keep battery usage down, but there looks to be better management of apps and the quad-core porcessor on the new phone to save power.
I got my game transfered. Big difference there in performance. Well it's a faster cpu and quad core over single core (?I think) and way more memory avaialble where old phone was getting too full.
I have about 3 or 4 more important apps, maybe some ringtones to find and my contact list to redo leaving out all the old ones.
Also too i can use my old phone just as a smartassistant, it still runs apps and anything non-cell related as long as i have wifi access the internet related apps work. I've turned off email but can check it manually (backup device).
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you got that right, limited that is !
I agree!!!
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you got that right, limited that is !
I agree!!!
And now I am once again...
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you got that right, limited that is !
I agree!!!
And now I am once again...
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Only for a little bit!!
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you got that right, limited that is !
I agree!!!
And now I am once again...
WINNING!!!
Only for a little bit!!
But it's a new day (UTC) and I am...
WINNING!!!
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you got that right, limited that is !
I agree!!!
And now I am once again...
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Only for a little bit!!
But it's a new day (UTC) and I am...
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I feel like too little butter stretched across a piece of toast.
Been working on my new phone setup still. Yesterday I had not got to contacts yet and went to send an email. i knew the address but as i typed it after a few letters the rest of it showed up and i thought odd, how did my new phone know that. Sent the email. Later i went and all my contacts were there. Seems on my old phone, and i guess i didn't remember this, i had synced my contacts with my gmail account. So when i added my gmai lto my new phone, it imported all of them. Only thing i had to manually do was reassign a "group" and the group ringtones and then a couple of special people get thier own ringtone. These devices are pretty smart and i'm glad they remember stuff i don't.
Now to only add a bunch of new information for all the dad stuff like doctors.
i am liking my new LG phone better and better. it's gotten easier to do many things on it, user friendlier. i think i'm glad i switched brands and did not jsut upgrade my old phone to the newer model of the same one. It might have been ok but i really am enjoying this one and the ease and features built in.
i did have trouble with the face unlock, it only worked in the daytime, as it was daytime bright office when i did the initial face scan. then i found you can add additional scans, so i did one at one for low light conditions at night and it works most all the time now. if it doesen't i still have a pin code and then a pssword i can use to get in.
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I have my tablet for 99% of the Smart Phone type stuff I want to do; plus it has a 7" screen to save my poor failing eyes. Only bad thing is I need a WiFi connection to get online. Since I don't do much traveling, that's almost never an issue, and if I need it, any local Mickey D's has one for free.
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I have my tablet for 99% of the Smart Phone type stuff I want to do; plus it has a 7" screen to save my poor failing eyes. Only bad thing is I need a WiFi connection to get online. Since I don't do much traveling, that's almost never an issue, and if I need it, any local Mickey D's has one for free.
No, i'm the moderator, i can't win this game.
Hey, i like my new phone, I got a kool ringtone that goes, "who-hoo haha you got a text message" that sounds like a leprachaun.
This i great too, boss man out on business-vacation until the 28th. Were texting any questions-answers back and forth.
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Life's Good
But are you...
WINNING?!!!
I have my tablet for 99% of the Smart Phone type stuff I want to do; plus it has a 7" screen to save my poor failing eyes. Only bad thing is I need a WiFi connection to get online. Since I don't do much traveling, that's almost never an issue, and if I need it, any local Mickey D's has one for free.
No, i'm the moderator, i can't win this game.
Hey, i like my new phone, I got a kool ringtone that goes, "who-hoo haha you got a text message" that sounds like a leprachaun.
This i great too, boss man out on business-vacation until the 28th. Were texting any questions-answers back and forth.
You guys sound like kids in a candy store!
But...I am WINNING!!!
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Hey, i like my new phone, I got a kool ringtone that goes, "who-hoo haha you got a text message" that sounds like a leprachaun.
This i great too, boss man out on business-vacation until the 28th. Were texting any questions-answers back and forth.
You guys sound like kids in a candy store!
But...I am WINNING!!!
You were, but now you're not...
WINNING!!!
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Hey, i like my new phone, I got a kool ringtone that goes, "who-hoo haha you got a text message" that sounds like a leprachaun.
This i great too, boss man out on business-vacation until the 28th. Were texting any questions-answers back and forth.
You guys sound like kids in a candy store!
But...I am WINNING!!!
You were, but now you're not...
WINNING!!!
Ummm I am WINNING again!!!
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Hey, i like my new phone, I got a kool ringtone that goes, "who-hoo haha you got a text message" that sounds like a leprachaun.
This i great too, boss man out on business-vacation until the 28th. Were texting any questions-answers back and forth.
You guys sound like kids in a candy store!
But...I am WINNING!!!
You were, but now you're not...
WINNING!!!
Ummm I am WINNING again!!!
And now you're not...
WINNING!!!
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Hi all, found out that in this forum people know something about mobile phones. Well, a friend gave me a LG. It worked fine untill some days it doesn't work anymore. The phone is dead. The button to put it on doesn't do it. Sounds familiar?
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Hi all, found out that in this forum people know something about mobile phones. Well, a friend gave me a LG. It worked fine untill some days it doesn't work anymore. The phone is dead. The button to put it on doesn't do it. Sounds familiar?
Looks like a wired hair fox terrier there, used to own one MANY years ago!
Sounds like you need to take the phone back and get a new one as the button is broken.
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Hi all, found out that in this forum people know something about mobile phones. Well, a friend gave me a LG. It worked fine untill some days it doesn't work anymore. The phone is dead. The button to put it on doesn't do it. Sounds familiar?
Is it charged...dead battery?
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Today is the big 50, ouch.
I'm tired from visits with dad yesterday. His condition went downhill. We have been trying to visit during meals and make sure he eats. I went by at breakfast, then we did some paperwork. I ran out and got my lunch and some shopping and back to sit with him through lunch. I got him to to walk with his walker about 12 feet, turn around and back. He didn't quite make the last few steps. Later my brother from up north arrived so i took him over for a visit.
We'll all be by to see dad today throughout the day.
I still have paperwork to do, things to mail and then more to start on. I've got a lot of phone calls to start making during the week to get things straightened out. All the while i have to keep my affairs in order too.
My brothers are taking me out to dinner tonight.
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just looked outside this morning, we had snow. How kool. It's only a light dusting, i still see grass. I usually miss it because this is normally the week i would go to florida to visit the folks. Well it's kind of the same as a lot of the family is around here for the weekend.
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Today is the big 50, ouch.
I'm tired from visits with dad yesterday. His condition went downhill. We have been trying to visit during meals and make sure he eats. I went by at breakfast, then we did some paperwork. I ran out and got my lunch and some shopping and back to sit with him through lunch. I got him to to walk with his walker about 12 feet, turn around and back. He didn't quite make the last few steps. Later my brother from up north arrived so i took him over for a visit.
We'll all be by to see dad today throughout the day.
I still have paperwork to do, things to mail and then more to start on. I've got a lot of phone calls to start making during the week to get things straightened out. All the while i have to keep my affairs in order too.
My brothers are taking me out to dinner tonight.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KEITH!!!!!
HEY Keith you share your birthday AND birthdate with Michael Jordan!! Isn't that GOOD NEWS?!!! He is turning 50 today too!!! Oh and don't worry about the number, it really is JUST a number! Today you ALSO start your 6th decade of living, can you think back at all the changes just in YOUR life in those now over with decades?! AND what could be coming in the next few!!! When the guys at the fire department would get down I would tell them 'life is like a bowl of cherries, you can either be a cherry or the whip cream on top'! IOW life is what you make of it, you can either just go along with the flow, being like a cherry, or be someone special and be like the whip cream on top! I like to think we here are all in the whip cream area!!!
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Yes Keith...the big 5-0 just isn't what it's cracked up to be. Another year and 1/2 and I'll be at 6-0, and it's just another number. You're as old as you feel! (Too bad I feel like I'm 90 this morning).
We had about 1" of snow overnight here. Just a hiccup in the normal course of things.
Taking the wife out to a movie later this morning: Escape from Planet Earth!
Any way--Happy Birthday Keith!!!
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Yes Keith...the big 5-0 just isn't what it's cracked up to be. Another year and 1/2 and I'll be at 6-0, and it's just another number. You're as old as you feel! (Too bad I feel like I'm 90 this morning).
We had about 1" of snow overnight here. Just a hiccup in the normal course of things.
Taking the wife out to a movie later this morning: Escape from Planet Earth!
Any way--Happy Birthday Keith!!!
WINNING!!!
Randy I turned 60 this past December and it does NOT get easier!! My knees KILL me every morning and evening and I feel like I am 100 sometimes! Bending down is easy, getting back up is the hard part!!!
WINNING!!!
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Battery is fully charged.
I have been given the adress of a phone-wizard.
I'll take my phone to him.
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Battery is fully charged.
I have been given the adress of a phone-wizard.
I'll take my phone to him.
Sorry we couldn't help, but that's how it goes...
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Battery is fully charged.
I have been given the adress of a phone-wizard.
I'll take my phone to him.
Yup sometimes we all need a little outside help, goo luck!
I had a gpu fan quit on me last night, I am HOPING it is just full of dust but won't know until I take it out of the machine.
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Battery is fully charged.
I have been given the adress of a phone-wizard.
I'll take my phone to him.
Yup sometimes we all need a little outside help, goo luck!
I had a gpu fan quit on me last night, I am HOPING it is just full of dust but won't know until I take it out of the machine.
WINNING!!!
Get a long stick, and beat on the fan, then you'll have a fan club :)
I had to get extra sleep yesterday, i've been wearing myself out with all the stuff todo. Slowly getting bits 'n pieces off the list.
Sat with dad through lunch. I go over but don't eat, just sit with him nad make sure he eats more than a little. He was doing better than the day before. Then we went back to his room. I got him to walk the 12 feet and back. he did it much better, well except for not being able to see where he walks. At lunch he was reading fine print i can't see unless i have my glasses on. he does not wear glasses. then he read some box about 30 feet away, but it had big text on it. he can see that far when he holds his head up and eys open. but when he walks with the walker he needs both hands on the walker so he can't hold his head up and only has a view of his feet. Hopefully his operation in march will correct the problem and he'll be able to see better, then do better at eating and walking. I also got him a battery toothbrush to make that easier, he'll just have to hold it up and let it do the back 'n forth harder part.
Mikey, your refernce to feeling like 100 is hard to image, since i see my dada at 91 in bad shape but the other guy sitting at the table can walk, with a cane and do much better only at 89. Then there is the lady at 98 about the same as the other guy. there are people worse off and some better at different ages, so it's hard to picture what you feel.
All I know is I don't feel like 21 anymore.
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Mikey, your refernce to feeling like 100 is hard to image, since i see my dada at 91 in bad shape but the other guy sitting at the table can walk, with a cane and do much better only at 89. Then there is the lady at 98 about the same as the other guy. there are people worse off and some better at different ages, so it's hard to picture what you feel.
All I know is I don't feel like 21 anymore.
I just meant the aches and pains are worse now then 10 years ago and MORE things hurt now then did back then. I can only imagine what it will be like to be 100! No one in my family has made it past their mid 80's so far, we have a history of dieing from an accumulation of lots of teeny weeny heart attacks, 99% of which we never know happened. Good thing is they all died in their own bed while asleep, not with their passengers screaming their heads off as they drove off a cliff.
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I'm up and limping along @w@^k, so that means I'm still kicking around and...
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I'm up and limping along @w@^k, so that means I'm still kicking around and...
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Randy my settlement is tomorrow, seems all the paperwork is done except for me signing the papers. I WILL ask the lady about below grade bedrooms, I remember!
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I'm up and limping along @w@^k, so that means I'm still kicking around and...
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Randy my settlement is tomorrow, seems all the paperwork is done except for me signing the papers. I WILL ask the lady about below grade bedrooms, I remember!
WINNING!!!
My closing is tentatively scheduled for 2/25/13, but it's looking a little iffy for now. One of the sellers didn't initial everything on the purchase agreement (being resent to QL today), and the new appraisal won't be done until later this week. Crossing my fingers and...
WINNING!!!
[edit]My daughter and family need to get out of their appt by the end of the month or they have to pay ANOTHER $900 month's rent.[/edit]
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Dad has paperwork to sign here tonight for the transfer of the title on the mobile home. We made a deal with the park management. So we got out of there without having to spend money to have the mobile home moved out or demolished. I did have a quote of 3000 bucks to demolish it and haul away the debris. I've heard it can cost 10000 bucks to move it, undamaged, that is if you have some place to move it too. Plus then we no longer need insurance on it. Plus if we left it up for sale would still have to continue to pay rent, water and electricity plus insurance and taxes until sold. So this options gets rid of all those expenses too. Cut our losses and move on.
I've got many things to work through and have sent off a copy of the power of attorney so i can deal with the insurance documents on the home and the car, both of which run out anyway end of April.
I canceled one of his credit cards. He had a bunch of automatic payments and it began to get difficult to get them stopped, especially some of the charity ones. The phone numbers aren't good or they give you the run around. I had 6 phone calls in to cancel his life alert and the last 3 i had left messages with no call back. I checked the internet and saw lots of complaints filed that it was hard to get rid of. They are suppose to let you out of the contract if you go into assisted living. Not esy to do when no one answers the phone. So canceling the card gets rid of all those 4 or 5 difficulties. It was difficult to cancel the card too, we had to talk through 3 people at the bank. That was just as bad as trying to cancel the other things.
I still have a lot of address corrections to do and other things to correct and transfer. But i'm working on it a little here and there, hoping to have everything straight by the end of March.
Plus now I also get to prepare and file dad's taxes. Good thing is Florida has no state income tax so I only have to do federal. but then next year will have to do North Carolina's for him too.
Back to w..k, more paperw..k to do. I live and dream paperw..k, it's become an all waking moment thing, day and night.
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Dad has paperwork to sign here tonight for the transfer of the title on the mobile home. We made a deal with the park management. So we got out of there without having to spend money to have the mobile home moved out or demolished. I did have a quote of 3000 bucks to demolish it and haul away the debris. I've heard it can cost 10000 bucks to move it, undamaged, that is if you have some place to move it too. Plus then we no longer need insurance on it. Plus if we left it up for sale would still have to continue to pay rent, water and electricity plus insurance and taxes until sold. So this options gets rid of all those expenses too. Cut our losses and move on.
I've got many things to work through and have sent off a copy of the power of attorney so i can deal with the insurance documents on the home and the car, both of which run out anyway end of April.
I canceled one of his credit cards. He had a bunch of automatic payments and it began to get difficult to get them stopped, especially some of the charity ones. The phone numbers aren't good or they give you the run around. I had 6 phone calls in to cancel his life alert and the last 3 i had left messages with no call back. I checked the internet and saw lots of complaints filed that it was hard to get rid of. They are suppose to let you out of the contract if you go into assisted living. Not esy to do when no one answers the phone. So canceling the card gets rid of all those 4 or 5 difficulties. It was difficult to cancel the card too, we had to talk through 3 people at the bank. That was just as bad as trying to cancel the other things.
I still have a lot of address corrections to do and other things to correct and transfer. But i'm working on it a little here and there, hoping to have everything straight by the end of March.
Plus now I also get to prepare and file dad's taxes. Good thing is Florida has no state income tax so I only have to do federal. but then next year will have to do North Carolina's for him too.
Back to w..k, more paperw..k to do. I live and dream paperw..k, it's become an all waking moment thing, day and night.
Whew I had NOT even thought of that, but thinking on it made me wonder if just getting a new card, new numbers not a new account, would be worth it for all of his cards. Just report them stolen, as in lost wallet, and they will send you new cards with new numbers. Then you can set up the accounts you want for auto payment and to heck with the troublesome ones. I am just kinda thinking out loud and thinking of what I am going to have to help do when mine go!
What about the online games? Your villages are probably ALL wiped out and the villagers are either slaves or dead!!!
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Dad has paperwork to sign here tonight for the transfer of the title on the mobile home. We made a deal with the park management. So we got out of there without having to spend money to have the mobile home moved out or demolished. I did have a quote of 3000 bucks to demolish it and haul away the debris. I've heard it can cost 10000 bucks to move it, undamaged, that is if you have some place to move it too. Plus then we no longer need insurance on it. Plus if we left it up for sale would still have to continue to pay rent, water and electricity plus insurance and taxes until sold. So this options gets rid of all those expenses too. Cut our losses and move on.
I've got many things to work through and have sent off a copy of the power of attorney so i can deal with the insurance documents on the home and the car, both of which run out anyway end of April.
I canceled one of his credit cards. He had a bunch of automatic payments and it began to get difficult to get them stopped, especially some of the charity ones. The phone numbers aren't good or they give you the run around. I had 6 phone calls in to cancel his life alert and the last 3 i had left messages with no call back. I checked the internet and saw lots of complaints filed that it was hard to get rid of. They are suppose to let you out of the contract if you go into assisted living. Not esy to do when no one answers the phone. So canceling the card gets rid of all those 4 or 5 difficulties. It was difficult to cancel the card too, we had to talk through 3 people at the bank. That was just as bad as trying to cancel the other things.
I still have a lot of address corrections to do and other things to correct and transfer. But i'm working on it a little here and there, hoping to have everything straight by the end of March.
Plus now I also get to prepare and file dad's taxes. Good thing is Florida has no state income tax so I only have to do federal. but then next year will have to do North Carolina's for him too.
Back to w..k, more paperw..k to do. I live and dream paperw..k, it's become an all waking moment thing, day and night.
Whew I had NOT even thought of that, but thinking on it made me wonder if just getting a new card, new numbers not a new account, would be worth it for all of his cards. Just report them stolen, as in lost wallet, and they will send you new cards with new numbers. Then you can set up the accounts you want for auto payment and to heck with the troublesome ones. I am just kinda thinking out loud and thinking of what I am going to have to help do when mine go!
What about the online games? Your villages are probably ALL wiped out and the villagers are either slaves or dead!!!
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Oh my online gaming still goes on. I play now only once a day so i'm not suffering too bad. I loose some time and construction and upgrades go a little slower, but there is always some progress. I'll get over it. Heck the week I took off from it I didn't get clobbered as bad as when i played hourly. They can only steel so much before your coffers are empty and they don't automatically refill, only when you play, so you can only loose so much between playings.
As for dads cards, Yeah, but he does not need cards anymore really. All his needs are covered mostly in assisted living. My brother and I have been buying him a few small things and we pay for that. I still have one other card of his and we opened a bank account and have a debit card coming.
I may give him the card, but i'm keeping them safe and since he is about broke, he doesn't need to spend any more money anyway.
His condition at the moment he won't be going out dining or shopping for a while. If he goes anywhere someone else is driving him.
Medicare and Tricare pays for all doctors expenses.
The only bill left to pay really is the assisted living bill. That covers room, electricity, water, meals. There could be some co-pay on medicines but that goes through the assisted living and they will add that to the monthly bill. Cable is added to the bill. So only one bill a month.
There will be no more water, electrical or phone bills well unless we get him a cell phone, but he doesn't call many people so i may try to let him forgoet about that. I can call people for him when i visit and let him use my phone or my brother can do the same. We seem to be visiting enough that he doesn't really need to call us and we relay messages back and forth keeping each other up to date.
He has some magazines, but I think the subscriptions will outlast him, unfortunately.
Life gets simple, but expensive with an all in one package.
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Life gets simple, but expensive with an all in one package.
I am very glad he is doing okay!!!
Hey I wanted to tell you guys something, I made a NEW, for me, stat just now:
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Those are MY stats at Moo!!! I have now set Moo to not send me any mroe work, I am moving my gpu's elsewhere, I think 1 billion credits is plenty for any one project!
WINNING!!!
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Just finished and filed my 2012 taxes. Got a state refund, but owe Uncle $am. TurboTax lets me setup my Fed payment for automatic withdrawal any date up through 4/15/2013...guess what day I picked???
Well, at least *I* got to use the money up until 4/15/2013 instead of loaning it interest free to Uncle Sam.
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Just finished and filed my 2012 taxes. Got a state refund, but owe Uncle $am. TurboTax lets me setup my Fed payment for automatic withdrawal any date up through 4/15/2013...guess what day I picked???
Well, at least *I* got to use the money up until 4/15/2013 instead of loaning it interest free to Uncle Sam.
WINNING!!!
I like to go out shopping with the extra cash, so I AM one of those that gives an interest free loan to the Government.
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I usually payu them off early, so I don't forget. Besides 2 cents of interest on the extra money is not going to do me all that much.
I declare today no paperw...k day, but it's not being accepted.
Been researching some future events, like what taxes if any will be due on dad's estate (none as it is less than $5 million), inheritance taxes (we should have little since most of it is insurance annuities) and stock transfers.
Also tracking down a few more online sites i need to register dad on to make changes to address and information.
One kool thing i have to look at, but not now, is dad has a bunch of original documents from 1942 ish and foward from when he was in the navy. Most of these are on aged paper and many typed buy those machines that could not type straight lines. I also have a stack of old b&w photos, some are from the early 1900's of like grandpa.
Okay, so i visited him last night. He is doing a tad better. He ate more than half his dinner and was working on desert when i came in. We went back to the room. My brother had been there the day before and built a platform under his recliner to raise it up so he can get up out of it better, it was too low. My brother had previosuly raised the bed up. He's good with tools and wood. Dada and I went over the days events, thru his mail and his visit with the physical theropist whom comes on tuesday and thursdays. Then we chatted for a while. I also gave him a set of hand excersice balls. Go a set of three difference firmnesses for like 5 bucks. He can squeeze them some while he watches tv. that should help his hands and arms some. Gave him also a battery toothbrush to aid him in that task.
Dad is WINNING
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Dad is WINNING
Has he made a move on the ladies yet? OR have any ladies made a move on him yet?!
Randy the settlement lady came to the house today and it is all done! I now don't owe a mortgage payment until April AND get money back from some over payments here and there! I asked about the below grade bedroom and she said she hadn't seen it being a problem before, but wasn't an appraiser so wasn't sure. Almost EVERYONE in neighborhood has a below grade walkout basement. She said one thing that COULD be the issue as she walked out the door, does it have an exit window in it? If not she said maybe it can't be a bedroom because of that. Each bedroom requires two ways out, a window, of a certain size, and a door. IF that is true then perhaps you could help your daughter make a few thousand bucks positive improvements by adding one, when it is warmer of course. Your local building department MAY be able to help you with the laws. I GUESS you could even lower the interest rate because of the all of a sudden rise in house value!
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Has he made a move on the ladies yet? OR have any ladies made a move on him yet?!
Randy the settlement lady came to the house today and it is all done! I now don't owe a mortgage payment until April AND get money back from some over payments here and there! I asked about the below grade bedroom and she said she hadn't seen it being a problem before, but wasn't an appraiser so wasn't sure. Almost EVERYONE in neighborhood has a below grade walkout basement. She said one thing that COULD be the issue as she walked out the door, does it have an exit window in it? If not she said maybe it can't be a bedroom because of that. Each bedroom requires two ways out, a window, of a certain size, and a door. IF that is true then perhaps you could help your daughter make a few thousand bucks positive improvements by adding one, when it is warmer of course. Your local building department MAY be able to help you with the laws. I GUESS you could even lower the interest rate because of the all of a sudden rise in house value!
WINNING!!!
It is now Thursday morning and you guys are being pokey, pokey on posting in here so I decided to do it myself! I told you guys I hit 1 billion credits at Moo, well I have now moved all of the cpu's that were crunching for Moo over to 3 different projects--Einstein, MilkyWay and DistRTgen. The last one I won't be at too long as I promised my teammate, who is above me in the stats, that I would NOT pass him. I have 2 other gpu's at Poem right now.
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It is now Thursday morning and you guys are being pokey, pokey on posting in here so I decided to do it myself! I told you guys I hit 1 billion credits at Moo, well I have now moved all of the cpu's that were crunching for Moo over to 3 different projects--Einstein, MilkyWay and DistRTgen. The last one I won't be at too long as I promised my teammate, who is above me in the stats, that I would NOT pass him. I have 2 other gpu's at Poem right now.
WINNING!!!
Aw, quit yer complaining. Maybe we just don't have anything useful to say???
It looks like we might be in for a warming trend next week w/overnight lows in the upper 20sF. I'm really itching to put my batteries back in the car. Probably still too soon though.
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WINNING!!!
It is now Thursday morning and you guys are being pokey, pokey on posting in here so I decided to do it myself! I told you guys I hit 1 billion credits at Moo, well I have now moved all of the cpu's that were crunching for Moo over to 3 different projects--Einstein, MilkyWay and DistRTgen. The last one I won't be at too long as I promised my teammate, who is above me in the stats, that I would NOT pass him. I have 2 other gpu's at Poem right now.
WINNING!!!
Aw, quit yer complaining. Maybe we just don't have anything useful to say???
It looks like we might be in for a warming trend next week w/overnight lows in the upper 20sF. I'm really itching to put my batteries back in the car. Probably still too soon though.
WINNING!!!
Who said it had to be "useful", I don't remember that in the rules.
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This is a useless post...
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See it worked!
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Heres some not useless news, to break the trend.
Another visit with dad.
He's doing still a little better. Exercise his arms and has more movement in them. He walked about 30 feet and back using the walker with the therapist today. Still his drooping head and impared vision gives him trouble in that area. We just have to wait for our appointments and then I think once his vision is not hindered he will do even better.
Well a little progress in the positive direction every day is all I can hope for, as long as we move that way, all is good.
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Friday at last!!! In fact, this is my last Friday at w@^k until April. Seven days vacation left in the fiscal year and it's use-it-or-lose-it. Fiscal year ends on March 31, so it's every Friday off until then.
I'm saving two days for 'other'...with any luck it will be for closing on my daughter's house 2/28/13 and another day to help them move.
QL called last night and said the appraisal came in as acceptable, BUT(!) it was $900 less than the purchase amount. So we need to pony up that much more on the down-payment or else get the seller to drop the price. After all this BS, I'm not willing to restart negotiations and burn ANOTHER 6 weeks...we'll scrounge up the extra $900 somewhere. It's not as if we weren't going to pay that eventually anyway, just didn't plan on it up-front. Besides, if the kids stayed in the apartment for another 6 weeks the extra rent would be $1200!
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Friday at last!!! In fact, this is my last Friday at w@^k until April. Seven days vacation left in the fiscal year and it's use-it-or-lose-it. Fiscal year ends on March 31, so it's every Friday off until then.
I'm saving two days for 'other'...with any luck it will be for closing on my daughter's house 2/28/13 and another day to help them move.
QL called last night and said the appraisal came in as acceptable, BUT(!) it was $900 less than the purchase amount. So we need to pony up that much more on the down-payment or else get the seller to drop the price. After all this BS, I'm not willing to restart negotiations and burn ANOTHER 6 weeks...we'll scrounge up the extra $900 somewhere. It's not as if we weren't going to pay that eventually anyway, just didn't plan on it up-front. Besides, if the kids stayed in the apartment for another 6 weeks the extra rent would be $1200!
WINNING!!!
This sounds like one of those horror stories you read about, I hope all goes smoothly from here on!!
Keith are there other guys in the place that were also in WWII? Maybe your dad can make friends with some of them and that will give him an extra incentive to become more mobile. I used to play poker with a WWII vet and he wouldn't tell us 'youngsters' anything, but he would talk for hours with guys his own age that were also vets. My friend died a few years ago now though and we haven't played poker since!!
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Well I sleep pretty good for a change. Have had trouble since the beginning of the year. I was watching videos last night and usually i keep watching til I pass out. Last night I decided after one ended to not start another and around 11:30 rolled over, that's all I remember until I awoke at 5:59:59 whereas i had been getting up between 4am an 5am.
There are about 86 residents at dad's. There are only maybe 9 men, including dad. 2 sit at his table, i think it is 6 at the other table, maybe only 5. I haven't really counted. All the rest are not men. Yeah, baby, I'd like those odds.
I finished off my taxes the day before and e-filed them. I get a 240 refund from the feds and have to pay our state another 24 bucks. I guess this weekend i'll work on dad's, i think i have all but one document. We went over it and his fortunatelly will be pretty simple. Florida has no state to file so i've only got to do the fed. I'll do it online too like mine even though i could do the math in my head. I don't know what is going to happen though with the total. He was still withholding for as head of household, now he is only single. I'll also have to do an estimate for NC as i'll have to file him on that next year and will need to start having something withheld or pay estimates this year. This is not too complicated but this is how everything is going, too many changes all at once making what seems like double workload.
Things are slowly working out and every day i get closer to getting some done.
We did make some phone calls last night. I have to wait about 7 days to get something in the mail from one place to then be able to gain online access. Dad didn't do anything but maybe "friend" email with the computer. So some of the accounts set up by these places are locked out from inactivity. Good thing too I came along. I had noticed on some of the statements he was getting that 2013 will be the last year for any mailing, after that you MUST use electronic services to get any documents. Also any payments must be direct deposit, which he already had those going.
OK, now i've killed 16 minutes. I finished my w..k for the day before 9am. Now what to do the rest of the day ???
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OK, now i've killed 16 minutes. I finished my w..k for the day before 9am. Now what to do the rest of the day ???
Re-open the online store?
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OK, now i've killed 16 minutes. I finished my w..k for the day before 9am. Now what to do the rest of the day ???
Re-open the online store?
WINNING!!!
Oh, maybe I should have said something FUN to do.
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OK, now i've killed 16 minutes. I finished my w..k for the day before 9am. Now what to do the rest of the day ???
Re-open the online store?
WINNING!!!
Oh, maybe I should have said something FUN to do.
There's always surfing.
WINNING!!!
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OK, now i've killed 16 minutes. I finished my w..k for the day before 9am. Now what to do the rest of the day ???
Re-open the online store?
WINNING!!!
Oh, maybe I should have said something FUN to do.
There's always surfing.
WINNING!!!
Wear a wet suit and WOO HOO ride the waves!! Keith STAY AWAY from the Navy 'waves' though!
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OK, now i've killed 16 minutes. I finished my w..k for the day before 9am. Now what to do the rest of the day ???
Re-open the online store?
WINNING!!!
Oh, maybe I should have said something FUN to do.
There's always surfing.
WINNING!!!
Wear a wet suit and WOO HOO ride the waves!! Keith STAY AWAY from the Navy 'waves' though!
WINNING!!!
I have a wet suit but i'm not going surfing in 50F water with 42F air temps.
I like my women a little younger than me, I own't be chasing any Navy Waves.
I smell Pizza, I WIN the prize.
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OK, now i've killed 16 minutes. I finished my w..k for the day before 9am. Now what to do the rest of the day ???
Re-open the online store?
WINNING!!!
Oh, maybe I should have said something FUN to do.
There's always surfing.
WINNING!!!
Wear a wet suit and WOO HOO ride the waves!! Keith STAY AWAY from the Navy 'waves' though!
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I have a wet suit but i'm not going surfing in 50F water with 42F air temps.
I like my women a little younger than me, I own't be chasing any Navy Waves.
I smell Pizza, I WIN the prize.
Hey it can be fun to 'ride the waves' when it is nice!
Hey I have a question does anyone know of any newer gpu projects out there? I know the standard ones: Moo, Collatz, Poem, MilkyWay, Seti, PrimeGrid, DistRTgen, Einstein, GpuGrid, a couple within WCG but was wondering if anyone knew of any others. I am sorta being limited in my success by some not as capable teammates.
I smell dinner cooking too, guess my wife is back from the grocery store.
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By this time next week the ordeal with the house SHOULD be over. No guarantees, of course. If closing goes through on the 28th, we'll be moving stuff out of the apartment and into the house garage all the rest of that day and maybe into the next.
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Rain today.
Trying to get back on my normal schedule, well as best I can and still have time for dad.
Started on my dad list. There's maybe 24 things to list out and i thought at least all were started. had number 1 on the lsit and all seemed done. Got to number 2 and hadn't even done anything with it yet. Another one I have to request a code to be mailed to his address on file so more waiting.
Then I gave up and decided to head for first breakfast. Tried griddler kakes for breakfast. I make them smaller about 3-4 inches in diameter so i'm now kalling them griddler kakettes. Todays experimental flavor was vanilla, but the syrup seemed to override any flavor. Oh well I'll try again tomorrow and use MORE vanilla.
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Rain today.
Trying to get back on my normal schedule, well as best I can and still have time for dad.
Started on my dad list. There's maybe 24 things to list out and i thought at least all were started. had number 1 on the lsit and all seemed done. Got to number 2 and hadn't even done anything with it yet. Another one I have to request a code to be mailed to his address on file so more waiting.
Then I gave up and decided to head for first breakfast. Tried griddler kakes for breakfast. I make them smaller about 3-4 inches in diameter so i'm now kalling them griddler kakettes. Todays experimental flavor was vanilla, but the syrup seemed to override any flavor. Oh well I'll try again tomorrow and use MORE vanilla.
Back to paperwork.
Have you taken some 'kakettes' to your dad yet? He may eat them as snacks if you make enough of them. I do that when we make enough extra pancakes, they are delicious, I just pick up a couple and walk around eating them like cookies. The mini ones are much better if that is the plan though.
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Well, don't make this mistake. When your wife dies, don't forget to adjust your federal withholding. Dad owed a big chunk last year, I see on his previous return and he did not make any adjustments so this year his status drops to "single" meaning less deductions and more tax due.
He's broke too, So who has to pay this year's taxes for him plus the underpayment penalty ?
Sorry, no treats for dad. I'm eating his kakettes.
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Well, don't make this mistake. When your wife dies, don't forget to adjust your federal withholding. Dad owed a big chunk last year, I see on his previous return and he did not make any adjustments so this year his status drops to "single" meaning less deductions and more tax due.
He's broke too, So who has to pay this year's taxes for him plus the underpayment penalty ?
Sorry, no treats for dad. I'm eating his kakettes.
It might be worth a try... I don't know if there's an appeal process, but if you can plead your dad's physical and mental condition they may drop the penalty...but not the tax owed.
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Well, don't make this mistake. When your wife dies, don't forget to adjust your federal withholding. Dad owed a big chunk last year, I see on his previous return and he did not make any adjustments so this year his status drops to "single" meaning less deductions and more tax due.
He's broke too, So who has to pay this year's taxes for him plus the underpayment penalty ?
Sorry, no treats for dad. I'm eating his kakettes.
It might be worth a try... I don't know if there's an appeal process, but if you can plead your dad's physical and mental condition they may drop the penalty...but not the tax owed.
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ALL taxes, personal I am not sure about business, can be 'amended' up to 3 years AFTER they are filed! You just need the paperwork to support your changes. That SHOULD mean he can get money back from every year since your mom passed, as long as it is not more than 3 years ago. I have HEARD that you can go back up to 7 years but that is ONLY with detailed supporting paperwork.
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Well, don't make this mistake. When your wife dies, don't forget to adjust your federal withholding. Dad owed a big chunk last year, I see on his previous return and he did not make any adjustments so this year his status drops to "single" meaning less deductions and more tax due.
He's broke too, So who has to pay this year's taxes for him plus the underpayment penalty ?
Sorry, no treats for dad. I'm eating his kakettes.
It might be worth a try... I don't know if there's an appeal process, but if you can plead your dad's physical and mental condition they may drop the penalty...but not the tax owed.
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ALL taxes, personal I am not sure about business, can be 'amended' up to 3 years AFTER they are filed! You just need the paperwork to support your changes. That SHOULD mean he can get money back from every year since your mom passed, as long as it is not more than 3 years ago. I have HEARD that you can go back up to 7 years but that is ONLY with detailed supporting paperwork.
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Get money back for what ?
I think you are misunderstanding, the amount he had being withheld from his pension is not enough to cover the tax owed. He has to pay additional money. It's not a math error on the tax forms. He should have increased the amount being deducted from his pension, ie income. He still had the withholding like he had 2 deductions, so it was not enough being withheld. Mom passed away 2011hat return is fine, but he should have changed the amount because 2012 would be the first year filing as single and the standard deduction goes down, making the tax due go up. Also all of his other tax credits and deductions are now zero. He should have increased the withholding maybe a few years ago but probally has just been paying the extra at tax time, i don't know because i don't have any other previous returns, only 2011's. The other thing is he spent all the cash he had, the checkbook is about empty and no savings account. The only thing left is all those coins I deposited and that is not enough.
Right now his income is 250 bucks shy of living expenses. Those coins we cash in were to pay the extra 250 for some months, maybe a year, before I had to start paying the extra for his bills and that is if his care package does not need to be increased and any other surprise show up. So basically he is broke. Now we got a big tax bill to pay from somewhere. His pockets are empty of coins, i can't beat any more out of them.
But it is not all that bad, i have options. I have a cash surplus i've been building up for emergencies, only i didn't expect it to be a dad problem. I'd rather pay it out of his money though and not drain my emergency fund. Also I may be able to cash in one of the insurance policies or take a loan from one. He has some and i haven't reviewed them all but one of the smaller ones may cover it and the difference in cash value and death benefit might be small enough it won't matter much and it's not worth waiting for the later. In the end I'll get my money back and more as he has put a lot into life insurance policies. Then too I can get assistance from at least one of the brother's if needed, but dad has always wanted to not be a burden on the children, so i'm trying to stay within his thinking and use any of his resources first, even though we don't mind taking care of him.
I had already planned for this type of thing a while back. Even recently I cut my gpu's off, sorry to the boinc comunity, but I had to reduce the luxuries and the extra electric bill is one of those things. I don't want to end up homeless and it might be every little bit of cash is needed to avoid that.
The other problem though is I should increase his withhold so this does not occur next year, but that means less monthly income and that 250 extra bucks i was going to have to pay suddenly becomes larger unless i can find some more excess insurance funds to use. No worries though, i've got all of march to figure it out. Good thing though i did the taxes now instead of waiting til krunch time. Yes i've checked them again, i'm sure i got the right numbers and can't squeeze any more numbers to make the taxes less.
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The other problem though is I should increase his withhold so this does not occur next year, but that means less monthly income and that 250 extra bucks i was going to have to pay suddenly becomes larger unless i can find some more excess insurance funds to use. No worries though, i've got all of march to figure it out. Good thing though i did the taxes now instead of waiting til krunch time. Yes i've checked them again, i'm sure i got the right numbers and can't squeeze any more numbers to make the taxes less.
That sounds a little bit like my situation... Due to the recession, my housing value has dropped into the cellar and my property taxes with it. Add to that, that my mortgage interest has dropped below critical mass and all of a sudden...no itemized deductions! My wife is not having anything deducted from her disability income, so any tax withholding has to come from my paycheck. This year I'm going to have to modify my W4 so they take out more.
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The other problem though is I should increase his withhold so this does not occur next year, but that means less monthly income and that 250 extra bucks i was going to have to pay suddenly becomes larger unless i can find some more excess insurance funds to use. No worries though, i've got all of march to figure it out. Good thing though i did the taxes now instead of waiting til krunch time. Yes i've checked them again, i'm sure i got the right numbers and can't squeeze any more numbers to make the taxes less.
That sounds a little bit like my situation... Due to the recession, my housing value has dropped into the cellar and my property taxes with it. Add to that, that my mortgage interest has dropped below critical mass and all of a sudden...no itemized deductions! My wife is not having anything deducted from her disability income, so any tax withholding has to come from my paycheck. This year I'm going to have to modify my W4 so they take out more.
WINNING???
I have no idea what my own tax situation will be next year, this past year it was all from disability income so not taxable, but next year it will all be from IRA payouts, of which they will be taking out taxes, but I don't know if it will be enough or not. I gave them some numbers and am hoping it will be enough.
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Keith sorry I misunderstood, I thought he paid too much taxes in the end.
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Hi guys.
An interesting read since I last posted, sooo long ago.
Still a bit here-and-there from the chemo. But, the new immune system is working well (from blood results). But, I still find a lack of interest and tend to post intermittently.
Anyway, it is good to see Keith has settled his dad, and one of his brothers are working with him. Lots to do, and dad problems to solve.
Getting ready to post a belated win ...
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Hi guys.
An interesting read since I last posted, sooo long ago.
Still a bit here-and-there from the chemo. But, the new immune system is working well (from blood results). But, I still find a lack of interest and tend to post intermittently.
Anyway, it is good to see Keith has settled his dad, and one of his brothers are working with him. Lots to do, and dad problems to solve.
Getting ready to post a belated win ...
Moanday mourning again...but a short week for me!
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Hi guys.
An interesting read since I last posted, sooo long ago.
Still a bit here-and-there from the chemo. But, the new immune system is working well (from blood results). But, I still find a lack of interest and tend to post intermittently.
Anyway, it is good to see Keith has settled his dad, and one of his brothers are working with him. Lots to do, and dad problems to solve.
Getting ready to post a belated win ...
Moanday mourning again...but a short week for me!
WINNING!!!
I JUST got an email asking for help about a webpage being blocked by Google, it is a site run by a friend and is for a Church! I am going to have to help her, she really knows NOTHING and just took it over because the original person died! What a mess and my week just got L-O-N-G!!!
John I am glad you are back and feeling a little bit better!!! Say hi to the doggies and remember too many snacks means they waddle when they walk!!
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Hi guys.
An interesting read since I last posted, sooo long ago.
Still a bit here-and-there from the chemo. But, the new immune system is working well (from blood results). But, I still find a lack of interest and tend to post intermittently.
Anyway, it is good to see Keith has settled his dad, and one of his brothers are working with him. Lots to do, and dad problems to solve.
Getting ready to post a belated win ...
Moanday mourning again...but a short week for me!
WINNING!!!
I JUST got an email asking for help about a webpage being blocked by Google, it is a site run by a friend and is for a Church! I am going to have to help her, she really knows NOTHING and just took it over because the original person died! What a mess and my week just got L-O-N-G!!!
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Probably some Atheist group flagging it as offensive!
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Hi guys.
An interesting read since I last posted, sooo long ago.
Still a bit here-and-there from the chemo. But, the new immune system is working well (from blood results). But, I still find a lack of interest and tend to post intermittently.
Anyway, it is good to see Keith has settled his dad, and one of his brothers are working with him. Lots to do, and dad problems to solve.
Getting ready to post a belated win ...
Moanday mourning again...but a short week for me!
WINNING!!!
I JUST got an email asking for help about a webpage being blocked by Google, it is a site run by a friend and is for a Church! I am going to have to help her, she really knows NOTHING and just took it over because the original person died! What a mess and my week just got L-O-N-G!!!
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Probably some Atheist group flagging it as offensive!
My guess would be somehow the site has some hosting by google or google ads or something related to that and some bill has not been paid, so access is blocked.
Good luck, Trying to straighen out someones else's "creations" can often be a challange, especially to prove yourself the authorized new caretaker just to gain access, much less figure out what they have setup and how it works from thier way of thinking.
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Challenging myself to post here two days in a row ...
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Challenging myself to post here two days in a row ...
GO JOHN GO!!!
I will have to go see the lady tomorrow or Wednesday and see what I see, she has the page on her desktop as that is where she edits it from.
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I did a bad thing yesterday. I ate the whole bag of peanut butter cream oreos. Now I have no snack to nibble on while dinner cooks. Poor planning on my part, I should have bought 2 bags.
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I did a bad thing yesterday. I ate the whole bag of peanut butter cream oreos. Now I have no snack to nibble on while dinner cooks. Poor planning on my part, I should have bought 2 bags.
Sounds like time for pumpkin brownies.
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I did a bad thing yesterday. I ate the whole bag of peanut butter cream oreos. Now I have no snack to nibble on while dinner cooks. Poor planning on my part, I should have bought 2 bags.
Sounds like time for pumpkin brownies.
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Ummm, ummm good!!!
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I did a bad thing yesterday. I ate the whole bag of peanut butter cream oreos. Now I have no snack to nibble on while dinner cooks. Poor planning on my part, I should have bought 2 bags.
Sounds like time for pumpkin brownies.
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Ummm, ummm good!!!
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Bracing for a Winter Blast starting mid-afternoon. Calling for 3-6" of heavy WET sn*w. Might be w@^king from home tomorrow...
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Knowing the high pressure over the UK will move in about a week, and the temperatures will start rising to the average now. It won't be long before Spring starts and then we are all WINNING ...
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Knowing the high pressure over the UK will move in about a week, and the temperatures will start rising to the average now. It won't be long before Spring starts and then we are all WINNING ...
Oh don't worry John it will still rain ALOT! When I was in Scotland it rained EVERY DAY, or at least the non rainy days were so far apart I don't remember many of them!
Randy it's a good thing you don't w*&k for Yahoo then isn't it?!!
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Wohoo, Electronic deposit posted. Got MY tax refund a few moments ago. I only submitted my return electronically 6 days ago. Now I can go out and buy another bag of Oreos !
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Wohoo, Electronic deposit posted. Got MY tax refund a few moments ago. I only submitted my return electronically 6 days ago. Now I can go out and buy another bag of Oreos !
My tax guy has mine now, I have known him for MANY years and he is very good but a bit too conservative for me sometimes, I have changed several returns adding deductions he said may not fly. They ALL have so far. He said IF they call me about those deductions I am on my own, but he will be right there with me on anything else. I told him that was fair and fine by me. I had to change my deductions for this year though, this is the first year in 12 that I will be paying taxes on MY income, disability income is tax free, and the numbers I gave the lady doing the distributions were too low he said. It will all change again in 2.5 years as I start taking early SS. Lower IRA withdrawals means it will last longer! SO FAR I am making over double what the monthly payment will be, so that is a VERY good thing!!
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Winning on a warm very sunny dry February afternoon ...
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Winning on a warm very sunny dry February afternoon ...
WOO HOO 4 days in a ROW!!! Way to go John!!! You must be feeling better, I am guessing some good home cooking will do that for you.
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W@^king from home due to inclement weather. Closing for tomorrow has been cancelled. Rescheduled for 3/8/13. QL now says they need to obtain a current property survey before accepting validity of the Title. Not...
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It's SUNNY and very warm here, hitting into the 60's (F). I wore heavy coat to [here] because it looked like R... again, but that cleared (finally) and the big yellow ball is heating things up. I got my long sleeves rolled up, but need them down outside due to much wind, but don't need the coat.
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It's SUNNY and very warm here, hitting into the 60's (F). I wore heavy coat to [here] because it looked like R... again, but that cleared (finally) and the big yellow ball is heating things up. I got my long sleeves rolled up, but need them down outside due to much wind, but don't need the coat.
It is in the mid 50's here and although no longer sunny, still warm. Over the next few days Randy will be sending me his C-O-L-D air and by the weekend my temps will be in the LOW 40's for the HIGHS!! BUT NO SNOW, at least so far!! Rain will be okay and some light flurry activity will be okay too, but NOTHING like what Randy is getting!!! Oh Randy my son is saying "Andy Freddy" as far as the snow goes!!! When my kids were growing up they always wanted to prove they were stronger then me so they would jump on me and I would just hold them until they stopped squirming, and then make them say "Andy Freddy". It means "always and forever" that I will be stronger then them! Now that they are older they have stopped trying, which is a good thing for me as now they WOULD win!! But I won't tell them that!
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It's SUNNY and very warm here, hitting into the 60's (F). I wore heavy coat to [here] because it looked like R... again, but that cleared (finally) and the big yellow ball is heating things up. I got my long sleeves rolled up, but need them down outside due to much wind, but don't need the coat.
It is in the mid 50's here and although no longer sunny, still warm. Over the next few days Randy will be sending me his C-O-L-D air and by the weekend my temps will be in the LOW 40's for the HIGHS!! BUT NO SNOW, at least so far!! Rain will be okay and some light flurry activity will be okay too, but NOTHING like what Randy is getting!!! Oh Randy my son is saying "Andy Freddy" as far as the snow goes!!! When my kids were growing up they always wanted to prove they were stronger then me so they would jump on me and I would just hold them until they stopped squirming, and then make them say "Andy Freddy". It means "always and forever" that I will be stronger then them! Now that they are older they have stopped trying, which is a good thing for me as now they WOULD win!! But I won't tell them that!
WINNING!!!
I've been getting a mild drizzle here most of the afternoon. Now that evening's coming on it's trying it's darnedest to switch over to sn*w.
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It's SUNNY and very warm here, hitting into the 60's (F). I wore heavy coat to [here] because it looked like R... again, but that cleared (finally) and the big yellow ball is heating things up. I got my long sleeves rolled up, but need them down outside due to much wind, but don't need the coat.
It is in the mid 50's here and although no longer sunny, still warm. Over the next few days Randy will be sending me his C-O-L-D air and by the weekend my temps will be in the LOW 40's for the HIGHS!! BUT NO SNOW, at least so far!! Rain will be okay and some light flurry activity will be okay too, but NOTHING like what Randy is getting!!! Oh Randy my son is saying "Andy Freddy" as far as the snow goes!!! When my kids were growing up they always wanted to prove they were stronger then me so they would jump on me and I would just hold them until they stopped squirming, and then make them say "Andy Freddy". It means "always and forever" that I will be stronger then them! Now that they are older they have stopped trying, which is a good thing for me as now they WOULD win!! But I won't tell them that!
WINNING!!!
I've been getting a mild drizzle here most of the afternoon. Now that evening's coming on it's trying it's darnedest to switch over to sn*w.
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Well I HOPE you get a break and NO SNOW anytime soon!!
I JUST ordered a box of 10 packs of paper with FREE delivery for 10bucks from Staples!
Here is how if you are interested:
http://slickdeals.net/
I did it as a just checkout do not create an account thing and it still worked! It is just one of the several places I browse every day.
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Well I HOPE you get a break and NO SNOW anytime soon!!
I JUST ordered a box of 10 packs of paper with FREE delivery for 10bucks from Staples!
Here is how if you are interested:
http://slickdeals.net/
I did it as a just checkout do not create an account thing and it still worked! It is just one of the several places I browse every day.
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I think I still have 3-5 reams of paper left from the last case of paper I bought...about 6 years ago. I'd buy paper by the ream except for the fact I can find it on sale by the case for the cost of about 4 reams by themselves.
WINNING!!!
...without needing to purchase more paper.
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Winning while being in a similar position on reams of paper to RandyC ...
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I just steal paper from [here].
I use less than 1 ream a year of new paper as I do most everything electronically and don't print out that much stuff. A lot I print on the backs of other already used paper.
I'm beat, did a reorder from one vendor for my internet store today and then spent all afternoon updating my listings for those items putting them up for pre-order status.
Tomorrow is busy too, have to do extra paperwork for the beginning of the month.
Then I have two more reorders to do for other vendors.
I think it's time to go home.
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I just steal paper from [here].
I use less than 1 ream a year of new paper as I do most everything electronically and don't print out that much stuff. A lot I print on the backs of other already used paper.
I'm beat, did a reorder from one vendor for my internet store today and then spent all afternoon updating my listings for those items putting them up for pre-order status.
Tomorrow is busy too, have to do extra paperwork for the beginning of the month.
Then I have two more reorders to do for other vendors.
I think it's time to go home.
The paper is partly because it was on sale, we JUST got 2 5 packs 4 days ago, so now we will have 20 reams of paper later on today. I got an email last night saying it would be here today. And I too do NOT print much but my wife uses paper like she grows her own trees! I ream of paper could last me for over a year, in all 3 of the printers I use! That's NOT a ream each, that's a ream TOTAL!! In fact I am STILL using paper that I am tearing the tractor feed holes off of! The tractor feed printer is still in a box, may not even work anymore, but the paper I used back then is what I am STILL using in 2 of my printers!
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I just steal paper from [here].
I use less than 1 ream a year of new paper as I do most everything electronically and don't print out that much stuff. A lot I print on the backs of other already used paper.
I'm beat, did a reorder from one vendor for my internet store today and then spent all afternoon updating my listings for those items putting them up for pre-order status.
Tomorrow is busy too, have to do extra paperwork for the beginning of the month.
Then I have two more reorders to do for other vendors.
I think it's time to go home.
The paper is partly because it was on sale, we JUST got 2 5 packs 4 days ago, so now we will have 20 reams of paper later on today. I got an email last night saying it would be here today. And I too do NOT print much but my wife uses paper like she grows her own trees! I ream of paper could last me for over a year, in all 3 of the printers I use! That's NOT a ream each, that's a ream TOTAL!! In fact I am STILL using paper that I am tearing the tractor feed holes off of! The tractor feed printer is still in a box, may not even work anymore, but the paper I used back then is what I am STILL using in 2 of my printers!
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My pin-feed paper got used up years ago...except for some address labels. We use those to cover over addresses on padded envelopes or boxes we re-use. They're just about gone now however.
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Keith I found something you might be interested in:
http://www.jr.com/pogoplug/pe/PGG_POGOV4A101/
It is called PogoPlug and lets you plug your pc, just a harddrive, or even a smart card into it and you can then have access to it from anywhere in the World on any mobile device or pc. It is ONLY 15 bucks today. This would stop you from uploading and REuploding your stuff to sites that then change or lose your stuff!
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We still have acase of holey fanfold paper here. I actually still have the old printers at home, and I bet they still work. I has someone give me some once and i used them at w..k as extra printers, had an electronic swith to select between 8 printers, each loaded with a differnet paper or form. The 2 big printers had the round ball print head that banged through the ribbon so it was great for multipart carbon forms. Got two of those and the weight like 50 pounds each.
I still have index cards with the holey edges i'm using as a note pad.
and i have pounds of old paper in the cabinet for reprinting, i think i'm up to 2004 stuff.
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We still have acase of holey fanfold paper here. I actually still have the old printers at home, and I bet they still work. I has someone give me some once and i used them at w..k as extra printers, had an electronic swith to select between 8 printers, each loaded with a differnet paper or form. The 2 big printers had the round ball print head that banged through the ribbon so it was great for multipart carbon forms. Got two of those and the weight like 50 pounds each.
I still have index cards with the holey edges i'm using as a note pad.
and i have pounds of old paper in the cabinet for reprinting, i think i'm up to 2004 stuff.
GOOD GRIEF, that's ALOT of paper!!!
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We still have acase of holey fanfold paper here. I actually still have the old printers at home, and I bet they still work. I has someone give me some once and i used them at w..k as extra printers, had an electronic swith to select between 8 printers, each loaded with a differnet paper or form. The 2 big printers had the round ball print head that banged through the ribbon so it was great for multipart carbon forms. Got two of those and the weight like 50 pounds each.
I still have index cards with the holey edges i'm using as a note pad.
and i have pounds of old paper in the cabinet for reprinting, i think i'm up to 2004 stuff.
GOOD GRIEF, that's ALOT of paper!!!
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Well we use to have to print out "back-up" copies because the silly old-old-old computer software would not do reprints. We use to have 5 boxes, the size of your case of 10 reams, every year in the back room for backups of invoices and reports. You have to keep them 7 years. Not to mention it is a FIRE hazard. No more. I scan everything or our new software can do reprints of any invoice or report for any time period so it never even gets printed for our use much anymore and i have many backups of the database. A lot I email so they get exported directly to pdf, never printed. This has reduced the saved paper to less than 1 box a year and now i've got 7 years stuffed in 2 drawers of a wide metal filing cabinet. The stuff in the back gets shuffled into the recycle pile and 2003 was the last year of the 5 boxes a year, so the pile has been dwindling, I think it is 3 boxes left. A lot of it too i shread as packing material.
Yes it was alot of paper we use to use.
I think the boss still uses it as multiuse paper, and besides printing, he ..... ... ... with it.
The other fanfold paper was just left over and never used from days gone by. I only started trying to use it up as scrap note paper in the last year or so.
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John the Jack Daniels Honey and Whiskey should put you to sleep pretty quickly, ask your guy at the pub for a snort. It even SMELLS delicious!!
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Went to see dad this morning around 9am-ish. He seemed improved. Looked more healthy and chipper. I talked with him a while and we reviewed the current status on a bunch of accounts and where we stand with those. I'm making progress slowly with necessary changes and gaining access. IT seemed though for a while that the list of todo kept growing while the done list had no entries. It seems to be though i'm getting a few done. I took a break this past week and didn't do much while waiting for some things to arrive in the mail. But there is still a lot to do and I keep finding new additions to the list. Back to dad, I got him to walk today. I was moving his wheel chair out of the way and when i turned around, he had grabbed the walker, got up quickly and started walking across the room. My brother had put down some blue painters tape strips on the carpet, making a walk line, so until we get his eyes and neck brace he can see those and walk in a straight line. He did the short lap across the room and back in record time. But at the moment one lap is all he can manage. However i'm encouraged he is gaining overall strength and shown improvment. Previosuly I got him some ensure muscle builder formula and he has been drinking those and i think that has helped, along with the exercises the physical theropist has given him to do. Some arms movements, leg lifts while sitting and he is suppose to stand up and then sit down 5 times in a row which he says he does. Also he has some stretching movements to do while laying in bed. Walking requires assistance at this time and i try every time i go to visit to get him to walk. I think my brother does to and we try to visit different days.
Coming up Thursday is a visual test i have to take him to and if he passes next Monday is his eye-lid fix at the plastic surgeon, hopefully giving him a better visual field. Then we can work on his next support brace which will allow him to see ahead, instead of his feet when walking and work more on walking farther.
So i've been sitting here all the rest of the day doing paperwork for dad. I'm about beat and ready to quit for the day. I think I ate lunch, I remember making a sandwich and I see an empty plate so I must of ate it, or filed it with some papers ?
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Wondering what's for dinner, but not planning on looking through Keith's paperwork...
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I think I filed the sandwich in the heathkare folder as a medikare supplement.
That's a no brainer. Last knight was pizza knight, so tooknight is (repeat-za) repizza knight. I'm armed with a sharp knife.
the movie will be Battlestar Galaktika - Blood & Krome
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I'll have to go get a Domino's in a few days, but I will continue to post a win for ...
You have Domino's Pizza in UK? Their HQ is right here in Michigan.
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You have Domino's Pizza in UK? Their HQ is right here in Michigan.
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We get them too, when our local sports teams meet the criteria to get 50% off. Last year the NHL Capitals did really well and we ate it alot, this year they have one good game and 3 bad ones! I guess ANOTHER new Coach will do that.
I am getting ready to go out for breakfast with the neighbors, we try to do it once a month and we vary the places we go so it doesn't get old. Today it is Bob Evans, I LOVE their French Vanilla Latte's! The first one is $2.50 but they give free refills and I usually drink 3 or 4, after which my wife usually cuts me off. Apparently I talk too much when I drink them and nobody else can get a word in edgewise.
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I am getting ready to go out for breakfast with the neighbors, we try to do it once a month and we vary the places we go so it doesn't get old. Today it is Bob Evans, I LOVE their French Vanilla Latte's! The first one is $2.50 but they give free refills and I usually drink 3 or 4, after which my wife usually cuts me off. Apparently I talk too much when I drink them and nobody else can get a word in edgewise.
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@Mikey,
I've been reading on all the supposed fall-out from The Sequestration. Especially as it relates to the DC suburbs. I know your retirement funds probably won't be taking any hits, but is the wife gonna get hit by any of this mess? I hear anything even touching military in that area is going to tank.
Minimally effected (for now) in SE MI, and...
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I am getting ready to go out for breakfast with the neighbors, we try to do it once a month and we vary the places we go so it doesn't get old. Today it is Bob Evans, I LOVE their French Vanilla Latte's! The first one is $2.50 but they give free refills and I usually drink 3 or 4, after which my wife usually cuts me off. Apparently I talk too much when I drink them and nobody else can get a word in edgewise.
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@Mikey,
I've been reading on all the supposed fall-out from The Sequestration. Especially as it relates to the DC suburbs. I know your retirement funds probably won't be taking any hits, but is the wife gonna get hit by any of this mess? I hear anything even touching military in that area is going to tank.
Minimally effected (for now) in SE MI, and...
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It is NOT as big as the new is saying, one day a week off for most people WITHOUT pay. So yes it will hurt some, but most of the people affected are Military retirees and most of them will still get their full military retirement checks. The Government Contractors hire retired military folks and then pay them so their paychecks equal what they used to make when they were still w*&king in the military. So if a guy w*&ked 20 years and gets 50% of his full pay, he now gets the remaining 50% from the contractor to bring him back up to full pay. If he w*&ked 30 years and gets 75% retirement pay he only gets 25% from the contractor to make him at 100%. The contractor is paying for the contacts, not the experience. Younger guys move around more ten older people, so the younger ones have more contacts.
As for my wife she is affected but only sorta kinda, she is part time and only allowed to w*&k 29 hours per week. In the past this was averaged over her full year, the change is that now it is a MAX PER WEEK and still includes travel time. So when my wife travels 6 hours to a job site that IS part of her weekly 29 hours, and don't forget the 6 hours home again. So in that example she is down to 13 hours of working TOTAL for that week. There is a group of around 6 or 8 people and they need more then one person at most sites. There are almost a thousand jurisdictions in the State and they try to get the closest people to come to a particular site, but with leave, etc sometimes people must travel so they have enough people. Also some places some people just WON'T go again unless they have to, some places are NOT exactly friendly and see my wifes job as 'the feds coming in to whack them'! My wife w&^ks for the State but some of the things she looks at is Federal monies and they do 'whack' jurisdictions with fines against future monies. There are specific things you can and can't spend this or that money on, they must have receipts, etc and when they get it wrong, it can be VERY complicated, they have to essentially pay the money back. They go thru an appeals process and my wife is NOT involved in any of that, or the actual fine amounts, but some places have had to pay MILLIONS of dollars in 'fines'. The 'fine' isn't an actual fine, it is future money that is just not received and must be made up by the local jurisdiction instead. Anyway some places make it needlessly long and complicated as neither the program or the cases reviews are a priority for them. Some places have only 1 part-time w*&ker assigned, meaning TONS of mistakes, while others have 100's of kids involved and the w*&kers don't care if it is right or wrong! MOST of the problems come from lack of documentation for the monies spent, or spending money in ways that are not allowed. For instance you can spend Fed or State money for a taxi to take the kid to school, but you CANNOT spend Fed or State money to give the kid an allowance. These are Foster Kids they are looking at. Each jurisdiction can spend its own local money any way it wants, no Fed or State controls on that.
Anyway they can only review 3 to 4 cases per 8 hour day in most cases. They are now reviewing 100% of ALL cases in each jurisdiction, so if takes 6 hours for my wife to drive to Martinsville, VA and 6 hours to come back home again that is 16 hours off the amount of time she can spend case reviewing for the week, leaving her only 13 hours or essentially 1.5 days of actual reviewing time. If they have, for instance, 50 cases then they need a ton of people just for there leaving fewer people to be elsewhere reviewing cases. They like to take no more than 1 week to review the cases at each site as all the cases should be pulled and ready for review, meaning the actual case w*&kers can't w*&k on them during the review process. Her bosses boss wants them to review 100% of the cases on a yearly basis, which they achieved this past calendar year. That is easy in places that only have 3 kids, that is ALOT harder in places that have 300 or more kids!! Hiring new people is out of the question right now so they are having a meeting next week to figure out what they can do. The meeting itself will take 3 days, including travel time, for most of the reviewers. That means they are pretty much done for next week with NO cases being reviewed!
All reviewers are ALSO the Technical folks for any area that has a question about how this or that needs to be done, so they do a lot of emails and phone calls during the week too, which they count as time spent w*&rking. This too must be cut down to be within the same total of 29 hours per week. Before the sequestration they used to w*&k 40 hours some weeks but when they took a weeks vacation, it averaged out to only 20 hours for the 2 week period. Not it is a hard and fast 29 hours PER WEEK rule they must NOT go over! NO ONE went over their AVERAGE of 29 hours per week last year, but EVERYONE went over the 29 hour per week sometimes so they have some problems. Also NONE of these reviewers are full time people, they are retired workers, mostly former Foster Kid Case W*&kers, like my wife. That means that telling them that can't take this or that week off is not going to fly very well, and some may actually say 'seeya' instead!
Sorry for the long involved response, the French Vanilla Cappuccino's are still in FULL effect!!
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Sorry for the long involved response, the French Vanilla Cappuccino's are still in FULL effect!!
I was thinking that when this long post popped up.
Maybe that is why some of mine end up being looong, when i've been drinking koffee all day.
Today was a good day again. I went for yet another visit with dad. Hard to find things to talk about since I was just there yesterday. Anyway He went for a walk. I measured it at about 18 feet, but we'll call it 20 'casue there are a few steps to turn around, so he goes 40 up and back. Today he wanted to do a second lap, which he did just fine. Hey it's an improvemnt from barely being able to make 1 lap to doing 2 laps without assistance. I was ready to catch him but he looked very stable so i didn't follow too closely, this is still using the walker though. It was a good visit and i'm pleased.
We'll try farther next time or maybe down the hall. There are places he could walk to then sit and i can always go get the wheelchair if he can't make it back. If he keeps it up he could be back to the cane soon, and in the hallways there is a hand rail all along the walls, except doorways.
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Sorry for the long involved response, the French Vanilla Cappuccino's are still in FULL effect!!
I was thinking that when this long post popped up.
Maybe that is why some of mine end up being looong, when i've been drinking koffee all day.
Today was a good day again. I went for yet another visit with dad. Hard to find things to talk about since I was just there yesterday. Anyway He went for a walk. I measured it at about 18 feet, but we'll call it 20 'casue there are a few steps to turn around, so he goes 40 up and back. Today he wanted to do a second lap, which he did just fine. Hey it's an improvemnt from barely being able to make 1 lap to doing 2 laps without assistance. I was ready to catch him but he looked very stable so i didn't follow too closely, this is still using the walker though. It was a good visit and i'm pleased.
We'll try farther next time or maybe down the hall. There are places he could walk to then sit and i can always go get the wheelchair if he can't make it back. If he keeps it up he could be back to the cane soon, and in the hallways there is a hand rail all along the walls, except doorways.
That IS really good Keith!! Tell him we are all pulling for him!
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Not fair you sneaking in while most of us are past bedtime. :^)
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Not fair you sneaking in while most of us are past bedtime. :^)
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Not fair you sneaking in while most of us are past bedtime. :^)
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I am just WINNING!!!
You WERE winning...now I am...
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Not fair you sneaking in while most of us are past bedtime. :^)
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I am just WINNING!!!
You WERE winning...now I am...
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Not fair you sneaking in while most of us are past bedtime. :^)
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Winning while posting on Tuesday. But I still need to catch up on Monday's sleep ...
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Winning while posting on Tuesday. But I still need to catch up on Monday's sleep ...
Today is STILL Monday here and that means I am WINNING!!!
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Winning while posting on Tuesday. But I still need to catch up on Monday's sleep ...
Today is STILL Monday here and that means I am WINNING!!!
But now it IS Tuesday and I am...
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Winning while posting on Tuesday. But I still need to catch up on Monday's sleep ...
Today is STILL Monday here and that means I am WINNING!!!
But now it IS Tuesday and I am...
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Yes it is!
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Winning while posting on Tuesday. But I still need to catch up on Monday's sleep ...
Today is STILL Monday here and that means I am WINNING!!!
But now it IS Tuesday and I am...
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Yes it is!
Glad you agree...
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Today is STILL Monday here and that means I am WINNING!!!
But now it IS Tuesday and I am...
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Glad you agree...
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Winning while posting on Tuesday. But I still need to catch up on Monday's sleep ...
Today is STILL Monday here and that means I am WINNING!!!
But now it IS Tuesday and I am...
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Yes it is!
Glad you agree...
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ABSOLUTELY!!!
Your post is invalid, one word posts are not counted toward winning, but don't worry the goes on so you get another chance.
Making progress on the dad todo list. Made some phone calls today but the list actually is not shorter yet. More to do to complete those steps and then of course another thing gets stuck on the list.
To get rid of the car, apparantely I will have to mail the license palte back to the sate of florida, according to the insurance company. I have to call the state first though and verify. The car insurance though at the moment is not canceled, we put it in "storage" mode so we get a big refund on the amount already paid. woohoo.
I was sitting here wishing i could See some Girls, then a flock of Sea Gulls landed in the parking lot. Someone misheard me and sent the wrong thing, just my luck.
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Making progress on the dad todo list. Made some phone calls today but the list actually is not shorter yet. More to do to complete those steps and then of course another thing gets stuck on the list.
To get rid of the car, apparantely I will have to mail the license palte back to the sate of florida, according to the insurance company. I have to call the state first though and verify. The car insurance though at the moment is not canceled, we put it in "storage" mode so we get a big refund on the amount already paid. woohoo.
I was sitting here wishing i could See some Girls, then a flock of Sea Gulls landed in the parking lot. Someone misheard me and sent the wrong thing, just my luck.
Well THAT's a bummer. Need to wait for a little warmer weather I suppose.
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Were they long legged sea gulls?
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Were they long legged sea gulls?
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I don't look at bird legs too much, How do you tell ?
Around here, one is the same as the other and we call them "flying rats". Also there is the "long bushy tail rat" one of Mikey's favorite garden visitors.
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Were they long legged sea gulls?
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I don't look at bird legs too much, How do you tell ?
Around here, one is the same as the other and we call them "flying rats". Also there is the "long bushy tail rat" one of Mikey's favorite garden visitors.
Speaking of Mikey...
Hey Mikey, There's this big humongous winter storm that's just now passing south of here...headed your way I hear. Have fun with it!!!
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I don't look at bird legs too much, How do you tell ?
Around here, one is the same as the other and we call them "flying rats". Also there is the "long bushy tail rat" one of Mikey's favorite garden visitors.
Speaking of Mikey...
Hey Mikey, There's this big humongous winter storm that's just now passing south of here...headed your way I hear. Have fun with it!!!
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YES IT IS!!! I ALREADY have over 1 inch, the garden hose on my deck is barely discernible, and it is going to snow ALL DAY LONG!!! The snow plow has already made a pass down my street too! The storm is JUST getting started the weatherman says! Depending on which channel you watch my totals could be 6 to 9 inches or 3 to 6 inches! The line runs right over the top of me.
As far as my "long bushy tail rats" are going I am STILL shooting at them, the new gun is more accurate so I hit them more often, but I STILL see them every once in a while. As for the actual gun I am using it is a black battery powered one:
I put 'heavy load' plastic pellets in it, the 'light load' ones that come with it swerve to the side easier. I bought some yellow 'medium load' pellets for the next batch, they are all biodegradable. I also have some paint ball type ones but it is a very small bottle and if I miss the tree looks funny so I don't use them very often, it washes off in the rain. I had thought of getting some cyanide and putting some in with the paint and when the "long bushy tail rats" lick the paint off they would just go home and pass out and never wake up, but it turns out to be impractical. The paint makes the pellet pretty full already and they are not exactly 'soft' pellets. Basically it make a frickin mess in the kitchen so I gave up on the idea. I tried it with some flour just for test purposes.
Keith CONGRATULATIONS on being User Of the Day at Collatz!!!!!!
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It's Brrrrr here at 40F and dropping, feels like 31F with that 17-29 MPH west wind. The sky got dark but now the sun is peaking true in places. I think the storm blew past.
I hope it continues on it's merry way. I've got to go get dad tomorrow for a road trip to the eye doc for his visual test. There is a covered pictup area at the home and I think to at the eye doc, jsut in case we need one, but I'm worried about the wind blowing dad away in his wheelchair. I don't want to be running down the road after him. :)
Back to watching the wind blow....
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Ooooo, nifty! Just got an email from Xfinity (Comcast) saying my internet speeds have doubled (down/up).
Yeah, right... We'll know once I get home and reset the modem, then run a Speednet test.
...maybe...
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Sitting around watching the wind and thinkin'
Came up with a plan. In my internet sales inventory spreadsheet, i have a date column for last purchase. I've made some of my best sellers automnatically indicate "Reorder" when the quantity falls below a specific point and to base the reorder quantity on an average of units sold over the last 3 years.
But searching through 1987 records when i want to reorder is, well, not easy. So I came up with a clever way, at the end of the database it shows the items that are suggested reorders and the quantities. Now I can better see what is low and when there is enough of one manufacturer to reorder several items at once. Plus it shows me the sales so i can tell if the estimate is a good number and base my actual reorder on the numbers shown.
Needs tweeking but it is going to be a big helper i think.
I've already reordered a bunch of stuff alst week, and put it up for sale as preorders and already sold 4 pieces. Which is already factored into the stock level, so if i sell out of one it would let me know.
Back to tinkering and listening to the wind wistle in through the door cracks.
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Sitting around watching the wind and thinkin'
Came up with a plan. In my internet sales inventory spreadsheet, i have a date column for last purchase. I've made some of my best sellers automnatically indicate "Reorder" when the quantity falls below a specific point and to base the reorder quantity on an average of units sold over the last 3 years.
But searching through 1987 records when i want to reorder is, well, not easy. So I came up with a clever way, at the end of the database it shows the items that are suggested reorders and the quantities. Now I can better see what is low and when there is enough of one manufacturer to reorder several items at once. Plus it shows me the sales so i can tell if the estimate is a good number and base my actual reorder on the numbers shown.
Needs tweeking but it is going to be a big helper i think.
I've already reordered a bunch of stuff alst week, and put it up for sale as preorders and already sold 4 pieces. Which is already factored into the stock level, so if i sell out of one it would let me know.
Back to tinkering and listening to the wind wistle in through the door cracks.
The wind is blowing here too! I got about 4 inches of snow so far and although it IS snowing it isn't accumulating like they said it could be. THAT is a good thing. All my neighbors have been out shoveling, but the temps this weekend will be in the 50's nad in the 60's on Monday. I am NOT shoveling!!
Randy I HOPE they upped your speed!
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Speedtest shows
33.21Mb/s download
6.18 Mb/s upload
about 1/3 Improvement both ways.
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Speedtest shows
33.21Mb/s download
6.18 Mb/s upload
about 1/3 Improvement both ways.
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Then it is a good thing, unless they find ways to charge you!!
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33.21Mb/s download
6.18 Mb/s upload
about 1/3 Improvement both ways.
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Then it is a good thing, unless they find ways to charge you!!
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Yeah, except they advertised speed would double to ~50Mb/s. :(
I put the battery packs back in the car yesterday afternoon. I was getting ~61 mpg on this tank up 'til then. As of my commute this morning I am getting ~69 mpg and expect it to go MUCH higher...if the weather stays warm.
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...if the weather stays warm.
Not here. Again 41F that feels like 33F because of 15-29 MPH winds. At least the nasty parcipitation stopped. Yesterday it was a light, very cold, dribblling. Mostly while driving your car was pelted with road spray, but the wind blew it everywhere so it could be from cars way in front of you.
Gotta go fetch dad now and take him to see the eye doctor for his visiual test. Should be simple and not take long, except for the paperwork as he will be a new patient.
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Winnng while the weather coold to 6C (43F) without snow od ==r frost, t, maybe, rain ...
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...if the weather stays warm.
Not here. Again 41F that feels like 33F because of 15-29 MPH winds. At least the nasty parcipitation stopped. Yesterday it was a light, very cold, dribblling. Mostly while driving your car was pelted with road spray, but the wind blew it everywhere so it could be from cars way in front of you.
Gotta go fetch dad now and take him to see the eye doctor for his visiual test. Should be simple and not take long, except for the paperwork as he will be a new patient.
Oh JOY!!
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...if the weather stays warm.
Not here. Again 41F that feels like 33F because of 15-29 MPH winds. At least the nasty parcipitation stopped. Yesterday it was a light, very cold, dribblling. Mostly while driving your car was pelted with road spray, but the wind blew it everywhere so it could be from cars way in front of you.
Gotta go fetch dad now and take him to see the eye doctor for his visiual test. Should be simple and not take long, except for the paperwork as he will be a new patient.
Oh JOY!!
WINNING!!!
What a chore. I think he passed. First the wheelchair hit the tables the machines are on, so we had to get him in a chair. He does not always sit up straight and he had to put his chin on the chin rest and with his forehead against a strap. I had to hold him up from behind and push on his head. There was one test at one machine then he had 4 more tests, once with each eye unaided and then one with each eye taped open. You look at a dot in the center of the machine and various lights pop up and you click a button if you see one. There are 64 lights per test. He scored about 6-8 on the unaided and near mid 50's on the taped up. It shows that the propossed operation will be of benefit and so the medicare will cover it. During those last 4 tests i was holding him up, holding his head and also trying to keep the chair from rolling or tiliting so he remained still. If his head came off the rest the test had to stop, we reposition him and continue. I was knealing on the floor, which made my kneee hurt plus it put a lot of straing on my bad wrist. It ended up taking 1.5 hours. I though this was going to be like a 15 minute in and out thing.
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...if the weather stays warm.
Not here. Again 41F that feels like 33F because of 15-29 MPH winds. At least the nasty parcipitation stopped. Yesterday it was a light, very cold, dribblling. Mostly while driving your car was pelted with road spray, but the wind blew it everywhere so it could be from cars way in front of you.
Gotta go fetch dad now and take him to see the eye doctor for his visiual test. Should be simple and not take long, except for the paperwork as he will be a new patient.
Oh JOY!!
WINNING!!!
What a chore. I think he passed. First the wheelchair hit the tables the machines are on, so we had to get him in a chair. He does not always sit up straight and he had to put his chin on the chin rest and with his forehead against a strap. I had to hold him up from behind and push on his head. There was one test at one machine then he had 4 more tests, once with each eye unaided and then one with each eye taped open. You look at a dot in the center of the machine and various lights pop up and you click a button if you see one. There are 64 lights per test. He scored about 6-8 on the unaided and near mid 50's on the taped up. It shows that the propossed operation will be of benefit and so the medicare will cover it. During those last 4 tests i was holding him up, holding his head and also trying to keep the chair from rolling or tiliting so he remained still. If his head came off the rest the test had to stop, we reposition him and continue. I was knealing on the floor, which made my kneee hurt plus it put a lot of straing on my bad wrist. It ended up taking 1.5 hours. I though this was going to be like a 15 minute in and out thing.
WHEW I hope I never need THAT test!!!
WINNING while hoping my kids would put up with me thru all of that!!!
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Today is #two out of five Friday's I have off in March. I was SUPPOSED to be closing on my daughter's house today...but I'm not. I think this house is cursed. The latest problem is that the records in the survey office do not match the "legal description" on the Title. This will make the third time that closing has been delayed. Not to mention (but I am of course) that I had to restart the whole process with another loan company when the first one said the house appraisal was not high enough to support the loan requested. :(
OTOH...I'm not w@^king today, so I must be...
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My boss keeps plants inside the building here in the winter. There's a Sea Gull pecking on the window wondering how to get to the plant. Of course the other 17 are sitting down the parking lot laughing at him or her, not sure how to tell them apart.
I hope it warms up so the Sea Gulls go away and are replaced by ....
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My boss keeps plants inside the building here in the winter. There's a Sea Gull pecking on the window wondering how to get to the plant. Of course the other 17 are sitting down the parking lot laughing at him or her, not sure how to tell them apart.
I hope it warms up so the Sea Gulls go away and are replaced by ....
Get some corn and sprinkle some rat poison on it and they WILL go away! Just DON'T tell anyone!!!
WINNING!!!
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My boss keeps plants inside the building here in the winter. There's a Sea Gull pecking on the window wondering how to get to the plant. Of course the other 17 are sitting down the parking lot laughing at him or her, not sure how to tell them apart.
I hope it warms up so the Sea Gulls go away and are replaced by ....
Get some corn and sprinkle some rat poison on it and they WILL go away! Just DON'T tell anyone!!!
WINNING!!!
PETA will be after you...and besides, it might be illegal as well.
WINNING!!!
...without any rat poison.
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My boss keeps plants inside the building here in the winter. There's a Sea Gull pecking on the window wondering how to get to the plant. Of course the other 17 are sitting down the parking lot laughing at him or her, not sure how to tell them apart.
I hope it warms up so the Sea Gulls go away and are replaced by ....
Get some corn and sprinkle some rat poison on it and they WILL go away! Just DON'T tell anyone!!!
WINNING!!!
PETA will be after you...and besides, it might be illegal as well.
WINNING!!!
...without any rat poison.
Oh it is DEFINITELY against the law, but NOT the local laws, it is Federal Laws! As in "Such killing is a federal misdemeanor and is punishable by a fine not to exceed $15,000 or imprisonment not to exceed six months for each bird killed!" But I'll bet they taste like chicken!!
WINNING!!!
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Still no date to close yet. :(
Taking the wife out to see 'Oz the Great and Powerful' this morning. Should be pretty good I hear.
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Visit with dad went well today. Took him some junk mail, not much business paperwork to do today, finally. There's still stuff to do but it's where I can slow down on some of it. I have a bunch of things for him to sign but i've been waiting until we get his eyes fixed, which is Monday. I had him sign one thing today and he seemed much better at it. He says he is eating more or all of his meals now. I can see the improvement some and his overall strength and health is getting slowly better. I hope to get him walking more next week.
The weather here is klear and not wet. Actually the shinny light thing is blazing and, even at 48ish, it feels good for a change. I went outside barefoot and with short sleeves on, talked with the neighbor for a while and it was not bad.
Now to try to dry my kar out, i've got that leak again. I had the windshield repalced, it kracked about 2 feet from the korner where the rust damaged leak was before. It rained quite a bit after I had it done and I was not able to put sealant on it. I finally got some extra sealant all across the top edge and around my doors some, but the inside is still very wet and I don't know if that was there from before or after I sealed. I need to dry it up and watch it to see and maybe look for more spots to reseal. The windshield guy though di repair that korner with some figerglass goo and even managed to spackle some white paint on it, no extra charge from his quote to replace the windshield. You wouldn't notice unless you were really looking at the spot. Well while it's warm let me go look again.
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Winning as I remember feeding cascara tablets, inside dough balls, to the sea gulls. It doesn't half clear them out ...
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Visit with dad went well today. Took him some junk mail, not much business paperwork to do today, finally. There's still stuff to do but it's where I can slow down on some of it. I have a bunch of things for him to sign but i've been waiting until we get his eyes fixed, which is Monday. I had him sign one thing today and he seemed much better at it. He says he is eating more or all of his meals now. I can see the improvement some and his overall strength and health is getting slowly better. I hope to get him walking more next week.
The weather here is klear and not wet. Actually the shinny light thing is blazing and, even at 48ish, it feels good for a change. I went outside barefoot and with short sleeves on, talked with the neighbor for a while and it was not bad.
Now to try to dry my kar out, i've got that leak again. I had the windshield repalced, it kracked about 2 feet from the korner where the rust damaged leak was before. It rained quite a bit after I had it done and I was not able to put sealant on it. I finally got some extra sealant all across the top edge and around my doors some, but the inside is still very wet and I don't know if that was there from before or after I sealed. I need to dry it up and watch it to see and maybe look for more spots to reseal. The windshield guy though di repair that korner with some figerglass goo and even managed to spackle some white paint on it, no extra charge from his quote to replace the windshield. You wouldn't notice unless you were really looking at the spot. Well while it's warm let me go look again.
Keith while the weather is still too cool and unpredictable you can get a cheap bag of kitty litter or sawdust or something and put it in your car to help absorb the excess moisture. No need to spread it around, just open the bag and let the moist air be absorbed on its own.
Randy I am feeling for you, my settlement, actually refi, was easy and the lady even came to my house to do it. But you are caught in the 'new' way of doing things, they are under ALOT of Federal pressure and each and every loan is examined now. The lady told me that IF your loan does not meet the new Federal Regs then the lender cannot sell the loan, meaning they must keep it themselves for the life of it. And that means tied up money, so most are doing a 'little extra' just to make sure they can move them on and free up the cash. Mine had some extra paperwork involved due to some missing paperwork from our last refi, then it didn't get faxed to the lady that came to our home in time, TWICE! It was a 'pain in the buns'!!
John feeding the seagulls laxatives is okay, just don't do it near your own cars!!
But today is Sunday and I am WINNING!!!
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More bad news...it just keeps piling on, don't it?
On the way back from the movie, my battery pack stopped working. There's very little troubleshooting I can do on it. I have one idea I haven't tested yet..but it would be the least expensive fix if that's what it is...will keep you posted.
OTOH...the movie was EXCELLENT! If you get a chance, go see Oz the Great and Powerful!
WINNING!!!
...well, kinda.
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More bad news...it just keeps piling on, don't it?
On the way back from the movie, my battery pack stopped working. There's very little troubleshooting I can do on it. I have one idea I haven't tested yet..but it would be the least expensive fix if that's what it is...will keep you posted.
OTOH...the movie was EXCELLENT! If you get a chance, go see Oz the Great and Powerful!
WINNING!!!
...well, kinda.
Could it just be not charging due to sitting for a while?
WINNING!!!
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More bad news...it just keeps piling on, don't it?
On the way back from the movie, my battery pack stopped working. There's very little troubleshooting I can do on it. I have one idea I haven't tested yet..but it would be the least expensive fix if that's what it is...will keep you posted.
OTOH...the movie was EXCELLENT! If you get a chance, go see Oz the Great and Powerful!
WINNING!!!
...well, kinda.
Could it just be not charging due to sitting for a while?
WINNING!!!
No, actually I was using it beginning about Monday afternoon (I think) and everything worked fine. But when I got home from the movie the charger acts like the battery is fully charged. It's possible the signal line from the controller to the charger is either 'open' or it's shorted...I'm thinking if that's it, I've got a loose connection in that line. The worst case scenario looks like something's wrong with the charger and it needs to be replaced. I checked the voltage on the battery pack and it reads lower than if it was fully charged.
This thing is just something I have no training on the pieces and that makes me VERY uneasy. I wish I knew more and was...
WINNING!!!
[edit]The temp outside is 61F and we just opened the house up to air out. Turned the furnace off for the time being...WINNING!!![/edit]
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More bad news...it just keeps piling on, don't it?
On the way back from the movie, my battery pack stopped working. There's very little troubleshooting I can do on it. I have one idea I haven't tested yet..but it would be the least expensive fix if that's what it is...will keep you posted.
OTOH...the movie was EXCELLENT! If you get a chance, go see Oz the Great and Powerful!
WINNING!!!
...well, kinda.
Could it just be not charging due to sitting for a while?
WINNING!!!
No, actually I was using it beginning about Monday afternoon (I think) and everything worked fine. But when I got home from the movie the charger acts like the battery is fully charged. It's possible the signal line from the controller to the charger is either 'open' or it's shorted...I'm thinking if that's it, I've got a loose connection in that line. The worst case scenario looks like something's wrong with the charger and it needs to be replaced. I checked the voltage on the battery pack and it reads lower than if it was fully charged.
This thing is just something I have no training on the pieces and that makes me VERY uneasy. I wish I knew more and was...
WINNING!!!
[edit]The temp outside is 61F and we just opened the house up to air out. Turned the furnace off for the time being...WINNING!!![/edit]
Yeah I did the same thing the other night, my wife was NOT happy, but the house smells cleaner now! I have an electrostatic air cleaner on the vent system, it seems to work very well. My dad taught me to keep the fan running 24/7 to keep the air circulating, so the air is ALWAYS being cleaned.
Randy I HOPE it an easy fix!!
WINNING!!!
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Winning after I used seagulls to clear a beech of holiday makers to take my boat down to the sea, when they refused to move. I was wearing oil skins and s Southwester ...
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Winning after I used seagulls to clear a beech of holiday makers to take my boat down to the sea, when they refused to move. I was wearing oil skins and s Southwester ...
Now that must have been COOL!!! I have ALWAYS wanted to do that!!
Hey Randy and John...I just got back from MicroCenter, a computer store, and bought myself an AMD 7970 gpu!! It was $441 bucks out the door price!!! I could have bought TWO motherboards, TWO cpu's and 32gb of memory for that same amount of money!! The price on the box is $471 dollars, but they dropped it to $417 and then there is a $20 mail in rebate too, so a final price of $421.00, or $397 after rebate but before taxes! I got the Diamond Radeon one, it has 3gb of onboard memory and has 2048 stream processors on it!! I will probably get it up and running tomorrow as I need to NNT the gpu it will be replacing.
I AM WINNING!!!
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Yesteray i wore a lighter coat, then by evening it was 63F and when i went to visit dad i didn't even take a coat with me. This morning I put on a thinner long sleeve shirt. It looks like R... today and it may begin to get kooler again, but spring is not far away.
Speaking of spring, i reopened my internet stores. Funny thing when i left for florida i turned 2 of the 3 off, seems i missed one. I did not get a single order for 2 weeks until the day after i came back to work, i got an order an discovered it was still on. So i turned the others back on too.
Now i've started my restocks. Placed 2 out of 3 orders and already had 4 items sold from order 1 when they came in the door, sold some more over the last 2 days and already ran out of 1 item so it's time for a re-order already and spring is not even here. I'm already at about half of the 3 year average for this month, which i think is great.
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Winning withour any HD3970s and wishing that ...
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Oops, we didn't pass our fire safety inspection again this year.
Not my fault. The bossman piles stuff up. He has boxes near the ceiling. They use to tell us there could be nothing within 18 inches of a sprinkler head. Now they say, and it was the chief here doing the inspection this time, that in a sprinkler building, nothing flamable can be within 18 inches of the ceiling. We have one metal rack hanging near the ceiling and that was ok, but the old christmas decorations and two us flags hanging on it had to come down. Also there is this big orange outdoor waterproof honking extension cord plugged in, and the boss man knows that is a no-no becuase they tell us that ever year. They didn't miss that as it is bright orange. Of course he had to be out of the office today.
There were no violations over by my desk or the computer lab desk, all properly wired, no extension cords and no boxes piled way up to the ceiling.
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Oops, we didn't pass our fire safety inspection again this year.
Not my fault. The bossman piles stuff up. He has boxes near the ceiling. They use to tell us there could be nothing within 18 inches of a sprinkler head. Now they say, and it was the chief here doing the inspection this time, that in a sprinkler building, nothing flamable can be within 18 inches of the ceiling. We have one metal rack hanging near the ceiling and that was ok, but the old christmas decorations and two us flags hanging on it had to come down. Also there is this big orange outdoor waterproof honking extension cord plugged in, and the boss man knows that is a no-no becuase they tell us that ever year. They didn't miss that as it is bright orange. Of course he had to be out of the office today.
There were no violations over by my desk or the computer lab desk, all properly wired, no extension cords and no boxes piled way up to the ceiling.
YUUUP sprinklers work in an umbrella type pattern so anything as high as they are doesn't get hit by the water. The 18" is a 'safety measure distance' to help ensure everything gets wet. Also NO extension cords are allowed in a business, they want you to get an electrician in there to keep from overloading circuits. Needless to say as a f/f I used to do inspections, I did them from the first day in the station until the last day! Sometimes it was fun, sometimes it wasn't so fun! Keith yours sounds like a fun one with lots of things to look at and dream about.
I got the new gpu up and running, even my wife was impressed with the times, the 5770 that I took out was doing a unit in about 6800 seconds, the new 7970 is doing units in about 600 seconds, 10 times FASTER!!! Life is good right now and I am WINNING, WINNING and WINNING!!!
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I have a little bit of hope that today I'll get a date for closing on the house for my daughter.
We got a little bit of sn*w overnight and the early morning commute is a major disaster. Several freeway ramps are currently closed due to accidents...one had 3 semi-trucks involved. People see it as just a coating and think they can travel their normal PSL + 10 mph--idiots!
Safe at w@^k and...
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I got the new gpu up and running, even my wife was impressed with the times, the 5770 that I took out was doing a unit in about 6800 seconds, the new 7970 is doing units in about 600 seconds, 10 times FASTER!!! Life is good right now and I am WINNING, WINNING and WINNING!!!
Oh, wait until you get the electric bill. It won't be 10 times as much, but it will be a surprise...
I don't think I slept much again last night, maybe 1-2 hours. I don't know what is bothering me now as everything seems to be at hand and under control. SO I don't know now.
Funny thing yesterday. I got home and started a baked potato in the oven. I swear I looked at the klock on the microwave, but maybe I looked at the other klock on the kounter, so I could get the time to know whne my potatoe would be done. Then I did something and then I noticed the klock on the microwave was out. The light inside didn't work either. I went and checked the breaker, it seemed fine but i flipped it off then back on. Still no microwave. I checked the other sokets in the kitchedn and everything was on, all the lights worked. Very odd. Great another thing to take kare of but I put off kalling the rental maintenace, since this is the built in microwave that came with the house, they take kare of it. I though i'd worry about it next day and call from w&*k when i'm not w&*k!ng.
During the night after dinner i got hungry again and thought of making a PBJ. So when i was in the kitchen i looked at the klock which was still out. I tried the light under it, which is part of the unit, it didn't work either nor did the fan. I thought it was odd the whole unit was off. Then I remembered the unit plugs into a wall socket inside the cabinet over it. I went to touch the plug and it came on. I had gotten sometihing out of that cabinet and moved a bottle of vineager which must have bumped it slightly. Moved the bottle which bumped it again and it went off again. So i unplugged it and plugged it in the lower of the two sockets, it came on. Just a loose plug.
Don't think I would have remembered if I wasn't making a sandwich snack.
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I got the new gpu up and running, even my wife was impressed with the times, the 5770 that I took out was doing a unit in about 6800 seconds, the new 7970 is doing units in about 600 seconds, 10 times FASTER!!! Life is good right now and I am WINNING, WINNING and WINNING!!!
Oh, wait until you get the electric bill. It won't be 10 times as much, but it will be a surprise...
I don't think I slept much again last night, maybe 1-2 hours. I don't know what is bothering me now as everything seems to be at hand and under control. SO I don't know now.
Funny thing yesterday. I got home and started a baked potato in the oven. I swear I looked at the klock on the microwave, but maybe I looked at the other klock on the kounter, so I could get the time to know whne my potatoe would be done. Then I did something and then I noticed the klock on the microwave was out. The light inside didn't work either. I went and checked the breaker, it seemed fine but i flipped it off then back on. Still no microwave. I checked the other sokets in the kitchedn and everything was on, all the lights worked. Very odd. Great another thing to take kare of but I put off kalling the rental maintenace, since this is the built in microwave that came with the house, they take kare of it. I though i'd worry about it next day and call from w&*k when i'm not w&*k!ng.
During the night after dinner i got hungry again and thought of making a PBJ. So when i was in the kitchen i looked at the klock which was still out. I tried the light under it, which is part of the unit, it didn't work either nor did the fan. I thought it was odd the whole unit was off. Then I remembered the unit plugs into a wall socket inside the cabinet over it. I went to touch the plug and it came on. I had gotten sometihing out of that cabinet and moved a bottle of vineager which must have bumped it slightly. Moved the bottle which bumped it again and it went off again. So i unplugged it and plugged it in the lower of the two sockets, it came on. Just a loose plug.
Don't think I would have remembered if I wasn't making a sandwich snack.
Keith you are probably just worried about your dads upcoming minor surgery, it is normal for kids to worry about their parents like that. Parents worry about their kids too!
Randy I will have to ask my son about his commute.
Keith I had not thought of the electric bill, I may just turn off an older XP pc that has been giving me troubles lately.
WINNING!!!
ps Keith you are User Of The Day AGAIN at Collatz, CONGRATULATIONS!!!
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Keith you are probably just worried about your dads upcoming minor surgery, it is normal for kids to worry about their parents like that. Parents worry about their kids too!
Well i'm worried about something i guess, but usually i don't worry about things. I've had a lot of sleepless nights this year and that is unusal for me.
Maybe I should stop knapping while i w&*k during the day.
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Got my new supply of labels for internet orders this year. I've ordered 600, 600 and 800 in the past years. 71 left now. I ordered 1,000 for this year.
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Keith you are probably just worried about your dads upcoming minor surgery, it is normal for kids to worry about their parents like that. Parents worry about their kids too!
Well i'm worried about something i guess, but usually i don't worry about things. I've had a lot of sleepless nights this year and that is unusal for me.
Maybe I should stop knapping while i w&*k during the day.
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Got my new supply of labels for internet orders this year. I've ordered 600, 600 and 800 in the past years. 71 left now. I ordered 1,000 for this year.
THAT is thinking positive!!!
WINNING!!!
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Another virtual Friday for me.
Tentative closing is tomorrow @9am IF the seller representatives are available.
WINNING!!!
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Another virtual Friday for me.
Tentative closing is tomorrow @9am IF the seller representatives are available.
WINNING!!!
WOO HOO!!!! I sure hope things finally go thru for you!!!
WINNING!!!
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Keith you are probably just worried about your dads upcoming minor surgery, it is normal for kids to worry about their parents like that. Parents worry about their kids too!
Well i'm worried about something i guess, but usually i don't worry about things. I've had a lot of sleepless nights this year and that is unusal for me.
Maybe I should stop knapping while i w&*k during the day.
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Got my new supply of labels for internet orders this year. I've ordered 600, 600 and 800 in the past years. 71 left now. I ordered 1,000 for this year.
THAT is thinking positive!!!
WINNING!!!
Not speciafically my thinking, they are cheaper as you buy more at one time. First i had to build up listings so i could use more and more. I hope they dissapear sooner than later but the supply is becasue i've got to cut expenses anywhere i can. A few extra fractions of a cent off counts, It adds up over time. If i bought 800 at a time for 5 batches, not necessarily 5 years worth versus 4 batches at 1000 each, the savings would be 16 bucks. But you can't just buy 4000 now to save more, as these things age and then after a few years you end up with half a batch of useless not sticky labels so you end up wasting money. If sales pick up i'll buy more sooner or a bigger batch, but if they slow down then i'll just have these longer and possibly buy a smaller batch next time.
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Keith you are probably just worried about your dads upcoming minor surgery, it is normal for kids to worry about their parents like that. Parents worry about their kids too!
Well i'm worried about something i guess, but usually i don't worry about things. I've had a lot of sleepless nights this year and that is unusal for me.
Maybe I should stop knapping while i w&*k during the day.
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Got my new supply of labels for internet orders this year. I've ordered 600, 600 and 800 in the past years. 71 left now. I ordered 1,000 for this year.
THAT is thinking positive!!!
WINNING!!!
Not speciafically my thinking, they are cheaper as you buy more at one time. First i had to build up listings so i could use more and more. I hope they dissapear sooner than later but the supply is becasue i've got to cut expenses anywhere i can. A few extra fractions of a cent off counts, It adds up over time. If i bought 800 at a time for 5 batches, not necessarily 5 years worth versus 4 batches at 1000 each, the savings would be 16 bucks. But you can't just buy 4000 now to save more, as these things age and then after a few years you end up with half a batch of useless not sticky labels so you end up wasting money. If sales pick up i'll buy more sooner or a bigger batch, but if they slow down then i'll just have these longer and possibly buy a smaller batch next time.
HOPEFULLY as the market improves so will the peoples desire to do more summer activities and YOUR business will increase along with it!
WINNING!!!
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So there I was winning, and watching my new AMD HD9970 graphics card crunching away and ....
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So there I was winning, and watching my new AMD HD9970 graphics card crunching away and ....
John you are dreaming again, you MUST be napping!
WINNING!!!
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It's finally REAL! Going to closing today @9 am.
But first a trip to the Toyota Stealership for some recall work on the wife's Prius (mine's already done). And after closing it will be--moving time for daughter and fiancee.
WINNING!!!
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It's finally REAL! Going to closing today @9 am.
But first a trip to the Toyota Stealership for some recall work on the wife's Prius (mine's already done). And after closing it will be--moving time for daughter and fiancee.
WINNING!!!
I am NOT so sure THAT constitutes winning on your part, CONGRATULATIONS on the closing though, to me that seems ALOT like W*&K!!!
I on the other hand am just sitting here watching a tape of the 2nd F1 practice session from Australia, I am definitely WINNING!!
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Randy ... congratulations on the deal closing, and soon back to 200 mpg.
Now I can win as my HD9970 hits the curve, and ....
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Well I slept better the last 2 nights, actually getting some sleep.
Worked hard today so I hope I sleep good tonight.
Mid month sales report. Sales are good. For this year this month is at 135% of average, but that is misleading since I had closed for 3 weeks and February's number is really low. But for the last 3 years of marchs averaged together, i'm at 58% which is good this being the 50% mark. Feb was 24% of Februarys and January 51% of Januarys. so this month is doing good.
I like my new kool little reorder list. I added it to my sales page and as each item sells, if it's already been set for reorders and the quantity falls below it's reorder point, it automatically pops on the list. Just helps me monitor items and be able to judge when i need to order more. I don't have to constantly now search the lsit for low quantity items.
40 more minutes to waste then i can go home for pizza and some sleeep
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Well I slept better the last 2 nights, actually getting some sleep.
Worked hard today so I hope I sleep good tonight.
Mid month sales report. Sales are good. For this year this month is at 135% of average, but that is misleading since I had closed for 3 weeks and February's number is really low. But for the last 3 years of marchs averaged together, i'm at 58% which is good this being the 50% mark. Feb was 24% of Februarys and January 51% of Januarys. so this month is doing good.
I like my new kool little reorder list. I added it to my sales page and as each item sells, if it's already been set for reorders and the quantity falls below it's reorder point, it automatically pops on the list. Just helps me monitor items and be able to judge when i need to order more. I don't have to constantly now search the lsit for low quantity items.
40 more minutes to waste then i can go home for pizza and some sleeep
WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! W*&k is NOT over yet, you said 20 MORE minutes!!!
John you need to WAKE UP too!!! You are dreaming as the next AMD card will be an 8??? I think, no 9970's for a few years yet!
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Yes indeed! It's a Saturday morning and it's ~2:35 am. Got up about 2:15 to take another pain pill after kinda sleeping for about 4 hrs.
Daughter and her fiancee are still working on getting the last bit out of their apartment (I called for status). We worked (and it WAS work!) on getting the truck loaded and stuff moved...from 1 pm until almost 9:30 pm when I turned the truck in to U-Haul. @58+ YO, I'm not up to this sort of thing anymore. Dan says they have about two more loads in the cars and then they can pick up my granddaughter (my wife watched her from noon 'til I came home and put her down to sleep) and go to their new home.
Closing went better/worse than expected. It was delayed by about 45 mins so the 'closer' could get the paperwork collected and printed. However, I had a nice chat with the sellers...very nice people who were just as frustrated as I was over all the glitches getting this done. They seem to feel that their RE Agent was incompetent and didn't deserve her fee...I won't comment further on that.
The GOOD thing is that the $$$ I was quoted as needing for closing was too much and the closer cut me a refund check for ~$1725 back on the cashier's check I gave him.
Tired...ready to go back to bed...and...
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Yes indeed! It's a Saturday morning and it's ~2:35 am. Got up about 2:15 to take another pain pill after kinda sleeping for about 4 hrs.
Daughter and her fiancee are still working on getting the last bit out of their apartment (I called for status). We worked (and it WAS work!) on getting the truck loaded and stuff moved...from 1 pm until almost 9:30 pm when I turned the truck in to U-Haul. @58+ YO, I'm not up to this sort of thing anymore. Dan says they have about two more loads in the cars and then they can pick up my granddaughter (my wife watched her from noon 'til I came home and put her down to sleep) and go to their new home.
Closing went better/worse than expected. It was delayed by about 45 mins so the 'closer' could get the paperwork collected and printed. However, I had a nice chat with the sellers...very nice people who were just as frustrated as I was over all the glitches getting this done. They seem to feel that their RE Agent was incompetent and didn't deserve her fee...I won't comment further on that.
The GOOD thing is that the $$$ I was quoted as needing for closing was too much and the closer cut me a refund check for ~$1725 back on the cashier's check I gave him.
Tired...ready to go back to bed...and...
WINNING!!!
I WOULD call getting a refund a WIN too!!! BUT all that w*&k you did means you are NOW losing!!! I HATE having to wake up and take pain pills, I TRY not to do that very often but sometimes it is impossible to sleep without one!!
John NO pre-wins, I do not think that is allowed under the rules.
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John NO pre-wins, I do not think that is allowed under the rules.
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I am not aware of the rule saying future wins cannot count today. So, counting towards a win ...
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Microsoft is trying to push IE 10 out in the automatic updates. Has anyone switched? And if so, is it any good or just more bloatware?
Not biting and...
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Microsoft is trying to push IE 10 out in the automatic updates. Has anyone switched? And if so, is it any good or just more bloatware?
Not biting and...
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I let it download but use Firefox so won't see if often. I downloaded it because IE is built into Windows and I want Windows to be as fast as it can be. I am in the US and only the EU has told MS they can't integrate IE into the whole thing.
John it is in the fine print!
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Microsoft is trying to push IE 10 out in the automatic updates. Has anyone switched? And if so, is it any good or just more bloatware?
Not biting and...
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I saw that on my work computers I had to select it since I have mine on manual update. I like to read some of the updates. They update components i'll never use and some of them are redicious. Let's patch the patched pathches and plug yet another holes. The thing had so many holes to start with there was nothing there, it's just a collection of patches. ie has been patched 101% and counting [up].
I did not check that update as I wanted to read more first, oops i FORGOT.
I just got use to ie 9 and have to switch and have it be un-understandable and more difficult to use. It's suppose to be easy but if it is different than what i'm use to that is not easy.
I HATE changes but it is inevidible.
So at this time i'm RESISTING.
maybe i'll try it on one of the unused stations first, so if [xx that and make it say when] it blows up something it won't ?iss me O??.
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If certain people use all thier future wins now, then in the future at winning time you will have already used your win in the past and not be able to win at the winning time because you ran out of wins.
Tomorrow may be your lucky day.
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If certain people use all thier future wins now, then in the future at winning time you will have already used your win in the past and not be able to win at the winning time because you ran out of wins.
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Cautious, not worried and...
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Winning because it is already tomorrow ...
Well if it's tomorrow for you, then you missed being the winner today.
Try living in the now.
Remember whenever you go, now it is.
Hap'y Saint Patrick's Day to everyone here today and now.
If you are reading this it is now.
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Well, the kids are moved into the new house...not settled-in, just moved-in. The city has posted a notice that the house cannot be occupied because it doesn't have an occupancy permit...notice is dated in December 2012, but was put on the front door yesterday. Why don't they go bother the squatters in some abandoned building instead of people who have a right to be in a home??? We'll get the permit when the city department comes back to work on Monday...maybe.
Now I've just got to get the kids to haul all their junk we've been storing for them out of MY house and garage. Then I'll really be...
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Well, the kids are moved into the new house...not settled-in, just moved-in. The city has posted a notice that the house cannot be occupied because it doesn't have an occupancy permit...notice is dated in December 2012, but was put on the front door yesterday. Why don't they go bother the squatters in some abandoned building instead of people who have a right to be in a home??? We'll get the permit when the city department comes back to work on Monday...maybe.
Now I've just got to get the kids to haul all their junk we've been storing for them out of MY house and garage. Then I'll really be...
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I am HAPPY!! The FIRST race of the F1 season is now over, it really ended at like 4AM EST, but I dvr'd it as I can't stay up that late anymore!! Kimi Raikkinon with Lotus won with Fernando Alonso and Ferrari coming in 2nd and Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull rounding out the podium. While practice was dry qualifying was rained out until just prior to the race, but then the race was dry again. Australia can be very finicky this time of year! Next weekend they will be in Malaysia, another area with VERY finicky weather for this time of year, so things should be interesting again.
Keith I didn't see any real outstanding differences between IE9 and 10, but I'll bet there are tons underneath the hood! I too have it on some pc's that I almost never use the net on, I should rephrase that...I downloaded and installed it on ALL of my pc's, but will only ever use it on a few of them.
Randy it sounds like typical bureaucratic BS!! How can the settlement go thru without a valid 'occupancy permit'?!! You would think the bank wouldn't even let you buy the home as your primary residence without one!!
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Well, the kids are moved into the new house...not settled-in, just moved-in. The city has posted a notice that the house cannot be occupied because it doesn't have an occupancy permit...notice is dated in December 2012, but was put on the front door yesterday. Why don't they go bother the squatters in some abandoned building instead of people who have a right to be in a home??? We'll get the permit when the city department comes back to work on Monday...maybe.
Now I've just got to get the kids to haul all their junk we've been storing for them out of MY house and garage. Then I'll really be...
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Randy it sounds like typical bureaucratic BS!! How can the settlement go thru without a valid 'occupancy permit'?!! You would think the bank wouldn't even let you buy the home as your primary residence without one!!
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Well, it's not listed as MY primary residence. It's categorized as Investment Property--for mortgage loan purposes. But the fact is, neither Quicken Loans nor the Title company called out the lack of an occupancy permit. You'd have thought that the Title company at least would have said something.
Well, they're living there anyway. They'll get a city inspection scheduled so they can have an occupancy permit issued. The only thing that might get flagged is that there isn't a stove/oven in the house--yet. They have to buy one and get it installed. They DO have a Microwave and an electric skillet, so it's not like they can't cook.
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Winning because we don't have, nor need, such permits here ...
New rule, winning will be by permit only.
You must have any kind of permit to win.
Only those not permitted to win do not need a permit.
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Winning because we don't have, nor need, such permits here ...
New rule, winning will be by permit only.
You must have any kind of permit to win.
Only those not permitted to win do not need a permit.
When I first started to drive I got a Learner's Permit.
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I have an expired permit to work on the MSA brand breathing gear the firefighters wear...does that count?
Randy at the very least they should be able to give a temporary permit since they WILL be buying a stove! Even if they get a used one it should count, it sort of depends on the Inspectors feelings. If he feels in a good mood and thinks your daughter and hubby are TRYING then he can give a temp permit for x amount of time. If he thinks he is being scammed he can shut down and then placard the house as uninhabitable and then they are living in your garage! Tell them to make friends with the guy and talk to him like he is a person and they WANT to get to know him better, he might loosen up and tell them exactly what they need to do to get a full permit. I have seen Inspectors tell people 'go read the book' or 'get a contractor' before, they CAN be real ornery sometimes! When I first started on the FD, in 1978, an Inspector got a complaint filed against him because he HUNG the owners dog! Seems the Inspector had been trying to inspect the place, it was commercial property, and the owner was trying to cover things up so he got a dog to keep the Inspector out. After a long time period most of the piping in the building was ripped out and the building was sold to someone else who did it the right way! It was never PROVEN that the Inspector ever touched the dog, but he DID come by and get a new piece of rope and the story is cool!
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Those all count. I only said you had to have a permit. I didn't say what type or weather it had to be current or not.
Even if you have a permit to NOT permit you to win, you have a permit, so you are eligible to win.
I have a driver's permit, am i driving you krazy yet ?
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Those all count. I only said you had to have a permit. I didn't say what type or weather it had to be current or not.
Even if you have a permit to NOT permit you to win, you have a permit, so you are eligible to win.
I have a driver's permit, am i driving you krazy yet ?
I didn't get a permit to build my deck, 25 years ago, does that count? That would be a non permit permit.
John a license is also a permit IMO.
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Randy how did the O.P. inspection go? All good I hope!!
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Randy how did the O.P. inspection go? All good I hope!!
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Not scheduled yet. Doesn't look like anyone's going to be knocking the door down to 'evict' them. We'll get it done ASAP. (They're getting Cable service installed today...ya know; first things first!).
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Those all count. I only said you had to have a permit. I didn't say what type or weather it had to be current or not.
Even if you have a permit to NOT permit you to win, you have a permit, so you are eligible to win.
I have a driver's permit, am i driving you krazy yet ?
I didn't get a permit to build my deck, 25 years ago, does that count? That would be a non permit permit.
John a license is also a permit IMO.
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Works for me. Don't you have a squirrell painting permit too ?
Took dad for surgery this morning. A little scarry for me as this is my first time. Well orginally it was scheduled for 8:!5 then the day before they told me 8:30. So this morning i was ready earlier and putting stuff in the kar to be ready, when the phone rang and they said, kan you kome earlier. I said sure as I was sure dad would be ready too, and he was. Got there at 8am. An hour of preliminary preps. The surgery wentt well taking an hour then and hour for recovery and to check out. I hope all is well, hard to tell but doctor said it went good. He looks like rocky after a fight with tape and dried blood and stitches all over his eye lids.
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Good to see things are still remaining positive, Randy, and a license is a permit to allow the family to WIN ...
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Good to see things are still remaining positive, Randy, and a license is a permit to allow the family to WIN ...
Me too!
Keith take some pictures of your dad and he can laugh about it later, you can also show your brothers the progress and the after pics.
I also DO have a permit to 'paint' the squirrels, I have one from both my wife and my neighbors!
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Good to see things are still remaining positive, Randy, and a license is a permit to allow the family to WIN ...
Me too!
Keith take some pictures of your dad and he can laugh about it later, you can also show your brothers the progress and the after pics.
I also DO have a permit to 'paint' the squirrels, I have one from both my wife and my neighbors!
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Speaking of squirrells, the neighbor across the street, some retired guy, he is outdoing his yard. rock edging along the driveway, a rock garden with a bench. Another with a stone pelican and yet another with a stone gator, and that is just the front yard. I'm gonna ketch a squirell, or run one over, especially that one i missed the other day, that after i went passed ran back out into the middle of the road. I could see him laughing in my mirror. i'll get you my little pretty. Then i'm gonna stuff one in the stone gators mouth. OR maybe just find a fake tale, but i though it would be funny.
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Good to see things are still remaining positive, Randy, and a license is a permit to allow the family to WIN ...
Me too!
Keith take some pictures of your dad and he can laugh about it later, you can also show your brothers the progress and the after pics.
I also DO have a permit to 'paint' the squirrels, I have one from both my wife and my neighbors!
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Speaking of squirrells, the neighbor across the street, some retired guy, he is outdoing his yard. rock edging along the driveway, a rock garden with a bench. Another with a stone pelican and yet another with a stone gator, and that is just the front yard. I'm gonna ketch a squirell, or run one over, especially that one i missed the other day, that after i went passed ran back out into the middle of the road. I could see him laughing in my mirror. i'll get you my little pretty. Then i'm gonna stuff one in the stone gators mouth. OR maybe just find a fake tale, but i though it would be funny.
I'll bet he won't laugh, at first anyway!! BUT that IS funny!!
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Really, really busy at w@^k today. Just a few minutes to be...
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Really, really busy at w@^k today. Just a few minutes to be...
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It's probably all those days off you have been taking lately, w*&k is catching up with you!!
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Really, really busy at w@^k today. Just a few minutes to be...
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It's probably all those days off you have been taking lately, w*&k is catching up with you!!
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No...they've scheduled a Beta test project and monthly maintenance at the same time. Add to that, that we are rolling out a new distribution process and things go off the deep end.
It didn't help that I had all those problems closing on my daughter's house either.
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Keith has is your dad? Does he still look like he had been in a fight?
Randy that sure sounds like poor planning on someones part!
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Randy that sure sounds like poor planning on someones part!
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That ain't the half of it! Pretty much everybody in the company who's been here for 10 years or more (and that's > 60% of us) got two additional weeks vacation time for this Fiscal year...FY ends March 31 and it's use-it or lose-it. I've got two days still unallocated I will probably have to lose 'cause I don't have time to use them and still get everything done by the end of the month.
I am not alone either! At least I got to use 8 vacation days I didn't have previously.
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Keith has is your dad? Does he still look like he had been in a fight?
Randy that sure sounds like poor planning on someones part!
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That ain't the half of it! Pretty much everybody in the company who's been here for 10 years or more (and that's > 60% of us) got two additional weeks vacation time for this Fiscal year...FY ends March 31 and it's use-it or lose-it. I've got two days still unallocated I will probably have to lose 'cause I don't have time to use them and still get everything done by the end of the month.
I am not alone either! At least I got to use 8 vacation days I didn't have previously.
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That sounds very much like a lose lose situation! You either lose the leave or take the leave and lose you job!!
WINNING while being VERY thankful I am retired!!!
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I found something kool. I still have some old photos to look thru, some are early 1900's. I also found an envelope from Hungary. That is where my mother's father came from and left his family behind when he was 18 when he immigrated here. Mom use to tell me he wrote letters back and forth to home. No letter, but I do now have an address, well is 80 years old, but its a CLUE to add some info to the family tree and maybe aid in [future] research into the past.
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I hope the address is still there, and any follow back research works out.
As regards w8&k! I ask, wot's that!
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I hope the address is still there, and any follow back research works out.
As regards w8&k! I ask, wot's that!
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W@^k is a means to keep food on the table, clothes on the bod, and a roof over the head.
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I hope the address is still there, and any follow back research works out.
As regards w8&k! I ask, wot's that!
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W@^k is a means to keep food on the table, clothes on the bod, and a roof over the head.
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W*&k is the root of all evil! It makes us get up early, do things all day long we don't want to be doing AND doing it for someone else. Then coming home and trying to figure out what to stuff down our throats while trying not to fall asleep too early so we don't then wake up too early before we start all over again tomorrow! The ONLY good thing about w*&k is that it helps you get to the point where you don't have to anymore!!
Very little of the above is really true for MOST of us, but it sounds good!! MOST of us find a decent job that pays okay and that we enjoy while trying to make a difference at whatever it is we chose to do.
Keith ask your dad if he ever met any of his mom's family here in the US, it may get him thinking and remembering something. When families sent one kid over and they did okay, they would often send more kids and they would meet before going their own paths.
Randy how's the battery pack doing? Is it up to peak performance yet?
OH and I have S-N-O-W on my deck AGAIN!!! The other day I had between 1 and 2 inches while today I only have a very light dusting, so far. It is supposed to get above freezing every day, so it shouldn't stay long. But this weekend and early next week they are talking a HIGH in the LOW 40'sF!!!
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Randy how's the battery pack doing? Is it up to peak performance yet?
OH and I have S-N-O-W on my deck AGAIN!!! The other day I had between 1 and 2 inches while today I only have a very light dusting, so far. It is supposed to get above freezing every day, so it shouldn't stay long. But this weekend and early next week they are talking a HIGH in the LOW 40'sF!!!
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The battery pack has been pulled again. Winter does not want to go away! I've still got the issue of the charger not wanting to charge the battery pack unresolved. I'm hoping it was just a transient thing and when I reinstall the pack it will charge properly.
...isn't that the definition of insane? ...doing the same thing over and over and expecting it to be different?
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...'cause I went loony ages ago; just haven't realized it yet.
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Keith ask your dad if he ever met any of his mom's family here in the US, it may get him thinking and remembering something. When families sent one kid over and they did okay, they would often send more kids and they would meet before going their own paths.
No, the rest of the family never came over and he never went back. There was an uncle of his he lived with when he immigrated but tracking him too has been difficult. When grandpa immigrated he spoke no english, only hungarian. He was 18 i think.
Same with some of my dad's ancestors. In the early days they moved to 'non-census' sities and dissapeared. Maybe they resurface somewhere but information is too scare to make any matches. Dad never even met his grandfather, whom died before dad was born. there was very little talk about him even. I found more in research than dad ever knew.
It will be some time though before I find energy to get back to this projsct. With my too full time j*bs (regular plus dad) i'm run done and have little time.
I didn't sleep well last night either, this time is due to a musscle cramp in my neck/back. And to make things worse, when the weather turns kold, my back muscles kontract and get really tight, sometimes to the point of pain, so that doesn't help eaither. I can barely turn my head without pain today. To look around i have to turn my whole body. I had to be careful driving to w&*k and then had to stop to get gas on the way, when it is in the 40's outside plus a honking kold wind blowin. I didn't feel good standing there. I'm trying to overdose on hot koffee to warm me up from the inside.
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Keith ask your dad if he ever met any of his mom's family here in the US, it may get him thinking and remembering something. When families sent one kid over and they did okay, they would often send more kids and they would meet before going their own paths.
No, the rest of the family never came over and he never went back. There was an uncle of his he lived with when he immigrated but tracking him too has been difficult. When grandpa immigrated he spoke no english, only hungarian. He was 18 i think.
Same with some of my dad's ancestors. In the early days they moved to 'non-census' sities and dissapeared. Maybe they resurface somewhere but information is too scare to make any matches. Dad never even met his grandfather, whom died before dad was born. there was very little talk about him even. I found more in research than dad ever knew.
It will be some time though before I find energy to get back to this projsct. With my too full time j*bs (regular plus dad) i'm run done and have little time.
I didn't sleep well last night either, this time is due to a musscle cramp in my neck/back. And to make things worse, when the weather turns kold, my back muscles kontract and get really tight, sometimes to the point of pain, so that doesn't help eaither. I can barely turn my head without pain today. To look around i have to turn my whole body. I had to be careful driving to w&*k and then had to stop to get gas on the way, when it is in the 40's outside plus a honking kold wind blowin. I didn't feel good standing there. I'm trying to overdose on hot koffee to warm me up from the inside.
I had a crick in my back last week and it hurt for 3 days! I could put my fingers on the spot and it was painful, it went away though so I probably just slept funny.
As for your dads family try the local Churches, they tended to write down births, deaths and baptisms for their members, and alot of it is online now. Try here https://familysearch.org/ It is free and even going in to use the local LDS library is free and EVERYONE is welcome! I got and viewed lots of microfilms from them during my initial research phase. You must leave the films there, but for a minor amount of money it can be kept onsite forever.
Randy I HOPE you just left a wire off or something, it never hurts to redo things if they worked once and then after taking it apart it no longer does.
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As for your dads family try the local Churches, they tended to write down births, deaths and baptisms for their members, and alot of it is online now. Try here https://familysearch.org/ It is free and even going in to use the local LDS library is free and EVERYONE is welcome! I got and viewed lots of microfilms from them during my initial research phase. You must leave the films there, but for a minor amount of money it can be kept onsite forever.
When i get more time, i put that project on temporary hold 2-1/2 years ago, see how long temporary is. Temporary might might last until i retire.
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Well it's spring here at the beach, and SNOWING !!!
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Well it's spring here at the beach, and SNOWING !!!
Well maybe you need a Tardis to transport you to a new zipcode! Drink more coffee to stay warm, and remember NO driving in the snow!!! People get it so rarely there they will be all over the roads and you could get caught up in an accident!
I put my own on hold too and now have to look things up just to talk about it!
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Trying to WIN, and waiting for Friday and Saturdays snow falls (up to 20") ...
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Trying to WIN, and waiting for Friday and Saturdays snow falls (up to 20") ...
Hey! You mean you're starting to get a REAL winter on that side of the pond?
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Trying to WIN, and waiting for Friday and Saturdays snow falls (up to 20") ...
Hey! You mean you're starting to get a REAL winter on that side of the pond?
WINNING!!!
WOW, my eyes almost popped out at that too! That IS a heck of alot of snow for England!!
It is just cold here, high of 42 yesterday, it is below freeing now at 7:45AM, and the high today should be about 40F! They are predicting the LOW 40's for highs for the next several days and on Monday a combination of rain and snow depending on the temp at the time.
I am just WINNING!!!
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Trying to WIN, and waiting for Friday and Saturdays snow falls (up to 20") ...
Hey! You mean you're starting to get a REAL winter on that side of the pond?
WINNING!!!
WOW, my eyes almost popped out at that too! That IS a heck of alot of snow for England!!
It is just cold here, high of 42 yesterday, it is below freeing now at 7:45AM, and the high today should be about 40F! They are predicting the LOW 40's for highs for the next several days and on Monday a combination of rain and snow depending on the temp at the time.
I am just WINNING!!!
While Mikey blindly feels around for his eyeballs on the floor, check this out about the storm http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21885817
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Mikey, when you can see again, read the part about Dumfries, Scotland.
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Winning, because I posted, but quite clear the forecast snow has yet to hit. So, I am ....
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Trying to WIN, and waiting for Friday and Saturdays snow falls (up to 20") ...
Hey! You mean you're starting to get a REAL winter on that side of the pond?
WINNING!!!
WOW, my eyes almost popped out at that too! That IS a heck of alot of snow for England!!
It is just cold here, high of 42 yesterday, it is below freeing now at 7:45AM, and the high today should be about 40F! They are predicting the LOW 40's for highs for the next several days and on Monday a combination of rain and snow depending on the temp at the time.
I am just WINNING!!!
While Mikey blindly feels around for his eyeballs on the floor, check this out about the storm http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21885817
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Mikey, when you can see again, read the part about Dumfries, Scotland.
I would have NEVER even thought of that happening!!! Global Warming my rear end!!! It DID snow when I was there, but NEVER enough to even stop the boats heading to and from the dock!
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ps John I was a tick slower then you were so I am NOW WINNING!!!
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Well as I wrap up another week, internet sales this week exceed last weeks.
Doing good for month, sould be about 75% and i'm at 78% of the averages for this month.
Added some new features to my spreadsheet. A few tweeks to help me find numbers easier.
Then out of curiosity i added a few 'sales by batch' counters for the 3 batches of new stuff i got this month. One i've recovered 22% of cost so far with the total at 13% for all. Not bad for only 2 weeks since they hit inventory.
Enjoying the sun in the last hour of w...
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Winning because it's dark and now Saturday. Still cold and quite brrr! ...
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Finally, some GOOD news on my daughter's house.
Yesterday afternoon I took the property transfer papers to the city assessor to be file...no problems there. I asked the clerk where to get the occupancy permit and was told it was in a set of buildings about two miles away, but fairly easy to find.
Dan and I drove over there and found the proper clerk...a very nice lady. She looked the property up on the computer and was going to have us fill out a Vacant Building registration and inspection form--cost: $100 to register and $200 to get inspected; THEN we could get an occupancy permit. While I filled out the form, she went back to her computer and looked up a bunch of stuff.
When she came back, she asked how long before we planned to occupy the house--answer: <whispering>we already were. She then said, that since the property hadn't been vacant for a FULL six months, we wouldn't need to go through the VB registration and inspection program...now if we had waited until after the end of the month, the township was changing its rules and the building could only be vacant 30 days before it required the inspection, etc. Then she tore up the registration and said we should just remove the sticker from the door and forget about it.
Two possibilities here:
1. She hated her job so much she was willing to let us off the hook so the town would be 'out' the $300 fee, or...
2. She was such a dedicated public servant she was willing to give us a break and save us the $300 fee.
Hoping it was the latter, but regardless I am...
WINNING!!!
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Finally, some GOOD news on my daughter's house.
Yesterday afternoon I took the property transfer papers to the city assessor to be file...no problems there. I asked the clerk where to get the occupancy permit and was told it was in a set of buildings about two miles away, but fairly easy to find.
Dan and I drove over there and found the proper clerk...a very nice lady. She looked the property up on the computer and was going to have us fill out a Vacant Building registration and inspection form--cost: $100 to register and $200 to get inspected; THEN we could get an occupancy permit. While I filled out the form, she went back to her computer and looked up a bunch of stuff.
When she came back, she asked how long before we planned to occupy the house--answer: <whispering>we already were. She then said, that since the property hadn't been vacant for a FULL six months, we wouldn't need to go through the VB registration and inspection program...now if we had waited until after the end of the month, the township was changing its rules and the building could only be vacant 30 days before it required the inspection, etc. Then she tore up the registration and said we should just remove the sticker from the door and forget about it.
Two possibilities here:
1. She hated her job so much she was willing to let us off the hook so the town would be 'out' the $300 fee, or...
2. She was such a dedicated public servant she was willing to give us a break and save us the $300 fee.
Hoping it was the latter, but regardless I am...
WINNING!!!
You actually seem to have found someone who CARES about people and their job!! She obviously was NOT a government robot who says "NO" and "NEXT"! Well done Randy!!! I am glad to hear the house is now up to par and liveable...legally!!
Keith I am also glad to hear the sales are picking up, that new stat should keep the boss happy too. You could use it too when he buys the bulk stuff again.
Today my weather is cold but not too bad, it is of course below freezing outside but it will go up into the mid 40's today and tomorrow then on Monday it is supposed to SNOW and rain all day long with the high at 40F!!
John I am sorry it is still dark, have you tried actually opening your eyes yet?
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John I am sorry it is still dark, have you tried actually opening your eyes yet?
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Hey Mikey,
John can't read the message board unless he opens his eyes.
WINNING!!!
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John I am sorry it is still dark, have you tried actually opening your eyes yet?
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Hey Mikey,
John can't read the message board unless he opens his eyes.
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Yes, but Mikey's eyes popped out so he can't see what he is typing.
My dad has bluury vision from after his surgery Tuesday. I checked on him 3 evenings in a row. I'll go visit him soon today and I hope it is better and not a complication or [permanaent] side effect. We see the doctor Moanday to get his stitches out.
I can't see well either if I have my wrong pair of glasses on.
This message board sounds like the blind leading the blind .....
@Randy,
I think you should call that office on Monday and ask a general question and see if you get the same answer about the occupancy and that VB rule, just to be sure. You don't want to have the kids come home to find an eviction notice or some other torubles down the road.
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John I am sorry it is still dark, have you tried actually opening your eyes yet?
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Hey Mikey,
John can't read the message board unless he opens his eyes.
WINNING!!!
Yes, but Mikey's eyes popped out so he can't see what he is typing.
My dad has bluury vision from after his surgery Tuesday. I checked on him 3 evenings in a row. I'll go visit him soon today and I hope it is better and not a complication or [permanaent] side effect. We see the doctor Moanday to get his stitches out.
I can't see well either if I have my wrong pair of glasses on.
This message board sounds like the blind leading the blind .....
@Randy,
I think you should call that office on Monday and ask a general question and see if you get the same answer about the occupancy and that VB rule, just to be sure. You don't want to have the kids come home to find an eviction notice or some other torubles down the road.
I popped my eyes back in again, it was easy just line them up and push on them with my finger!
Keith that blurry vision could be a result of the stitches, he also could need glasses now.
As for Randy as long as he remembers the ladies name and had a witness I may just leave it alone, she said what she said and he does have a witness and the ladies name, so even if she retires there is not a whole lot they can do except make him go thru the process then instead of now. Randy MAY have to fight the costs and stuff as he asked now BEFORE the changes, but they should give in eventually. After all he DID ASK and got an OFFICIAL answer!
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Winning as I blindly lead the band ...
That works for me!!
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Winning as I blindly lead the band ...
That works for me!!
And me!
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I lead us all down a hole then we crawled out and proceeded to WIN ...
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I lead us all down a hole then we crawled out and proceeded to WIN ...
I though it was "don't lead us into temptation", where is temptation anyway ? I don't ever remember seeing a sign on the side of the road showing how far away it was.
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I lead us all down a hole then we crawled out and proceeded to WIN ...
I though it was "don't lead us into temptation", where is temptation anyway ? I don't ever remember seeing a sign on the side of the road showing how far away it was.
It is about 2 miles South of you, it is also called a Strip Club or Gentleman's Club!!
WINNING!!!
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Hop Sing was a quiet man and so small he disappeared under the 24" snow drifts, when I last saw him. The medics reported that he was alive and well, so we WIN ...
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Hop Sing was a quiet man and so small he disappeared under the 24" snow drifts, when I last saw him. The medics reported that he was alive and well, so we WIN ...
Wasn't he the cook on Bonanza?
WINNING!!!
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