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I AM GOING OUT TONIGHT! Here's hoping work goes by smoothly!
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YES! YEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS! NUDITY! GLORIOUS GLORIOUS NUDITY!
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YES! YEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS! NUDITY! GLORIOUS GLORIOUS NUDITY!
Casual Friday, it is!
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YES! YEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS! NUDITY! GLORIOUS GLORIOUS NUDITY!
the double favoriting of captain yesterday! This is a good omen!
Also good omens is on Amazon! This is also a good omen!
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Well, my life is "complicated". My family is all about, "We're going to do whatever the heck we feel like, and you can join is if you want, but if you don't we don't particularly care."
Add that my mother is a horrific gossipmonger and we're just as happy to see them very rarely.
But GothBard's family plays the, "You should know why I'm upset," game, which for me means, "Well, since I'm not a psychic I guess that just means I won't associate with you any more, since you can't communicate like an adult."
But it's all exploding around Impus Major's graduation, and the fact that he told us he was getting 7 tickets and then got only 4 and they won't give us any more is just making things FAR too complicated and stressful. The whole family might just skip graduation and let the relatives fight it out over the seats...
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Wooooooow...
IT Department: "You must upgrade Windows. It's a 6 GB patch, so run this tool to download and apply the patch. You must be connected via VPN this whole time."
NobodysHome: OK. That's about 3 hours. I'll kick it off right after work and it'll be ready in the morning.
Microsoft Windows: What's that? You're applying a critical patch? Doesn't matter! My VPN timeout settings say one hour of inactivity, and my sleep settings say 10 minutes! Shutting down now! Buh-bye!
So yep, my system put itself to sleep mid-patch, and now I'm waiting to see whether I'll actually be able to boot my computer this morning.
Nice job, guys!
If it went to sleep in 10 minutes, then it should still be in the download phase. You should be fine, and it should pick up where it left off.
EDIT: I emphasize the word "should". I always say should. It should do this. Doesn't mean it will, but that's the behavior it's supposed to exhibit.
Additionally, turn off your computer's ability to go to sleep. And the VPN timeout after one hour is just stupid - that's your IT department's fault. Ours times out after 8 hours.
"Any strange?" in Irish slang is just any news/stories/updates. Having looked up the American version, all y'all heads are in the gutters. :PI'm curious to your meaning behind "Any strange?" Because it means something in American slang. For some people, granted, but there is a definite meaning.I hope he adjust quickly LordSynosThanks Woran. :) Me too. :D
I hope you're keeping well, and having a good one so far. :) Any strange?
Excellent to know - Irish slang isn't heard/used much here outside of NYC/Boston.
Orthos - *hugs*.
If it went to sleep in 10 minutes, then it should still be in the download phase. You should be fine, and it should pick up where it left off.
EDIT: I emphasize the word "should". I always say should. It should do this. Doesn't mean it will, but that's the behavior it's supposed to exhibit.
Additionally, turn off your computer's ability to go to sleep. And the VPN timeout after one hour is just stupid - that's your IT department's fault. Ours times out after 8 hours.
(1) "Should" is the operative phrase. It was applying patches incrementally, so the PC was frozen up this morning and it took about 10 minutes to coax it into doing a "proper" reboot, then the reboot itself took around 25 minutes.
(2) That's my HUGE complaint about Windows. It is an OS patch provided by the manufacturer. It should prevent the computer from going to sleep on its own. It shouldn't be relying on users to remember, "Oh, yeah. I shouldn't apply this patch until I've adjusted my sleep settings."
That's just stupidity/laziness on the manufacturer's part.
(My Mac just updates and reboots on its own; it doesn't care whether or not the computer is asleep.)
(3) Yeah, the VPN timeout is a running thing. Go out to lunch = VPN times out. Whyyyyyyyyyyyyy?
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Small grandmother update. She's been in assisted living for about a year now and it's looking like she probably will be able to remain there for the duration of her treatment. I don't know if her facility has a hospice ward but if so she may be moving there.
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Well, my life is "complicated". My family is all about, "We're going to do whatever the heck we feel like, and you can join is if you want, but if you don't we don't particularly care."
Add that my mother is a horrific gossipmonger and we're just as happy to see them very rarely.But GothBard's family plays the, "You should know why I'm upset," game, which for me means, "Well, since I'm not a psychic I guess that just means I won't associate with you any more, since you can't communicate like an adult."
But it's all exploding around Impus Major's graduation, and the fact that he told us he was getting 7 tickets and then got only 4 and they won't give us any more is just making things FAR too complicated and stressful. The whole family might just skip graduation and let the relatives fight it out over the seats...
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT
Small grandmother update. She's been in assisted living for about a year now and it's looking like she probably will be able to remain there for the duration of her treatment. I don't know if her facility has a hospice ward but if so she may be moving there.
That's good. Familiar surroundings help.
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(2) That's my HUGE complaint about Windows. It is an OS patch provided by the manufacturer. It should prevent the computer from going to sleep on its own. It shouldn't be relying on users to remember, "Oh, yeah. I shouldn't apply this patch until I've adjusted my sleep settings."
That's just stupidity/laziness on the manufacturer's part.
(My Mac just updates and reboots on its own; it doesn't care whether or not the computer is asleep.)
I adjust the PC settings for my office (and personal computers, and family computers, and friends who bug me, etc) to never sleep. Turn off the monitor, sure, but never go to sleep.
It's a nice way to save battery life on a laptop, but the only thing it does for desktop PCs is save a little on the electric bill. Granted, for a megacorp, that could mean quite a lot of money in the aggregate, but from a technical aspect Microsoft has never handled sleep mode well. In particular it's bad at coming out of sleep mode. Sometimes it won't come out of sleep and you have to reboot anyway kind of bad at it. And it screws up unattended things like a large file download, because it determines whether it should go to sleep based on mouse or keyboard input - basically does it think the user walked away - and never looks at anything else. Conversely, the people at Microsoft handling the patch management never put in any code to temporarily override the sleep settings. Given the way massive corporations with many, many, many programmers in many, many different departments work, this really doesn't surprise me. I wish they would do it, but I am not at all shocked that they haven't just from a corporate bureaucracy standpoint.
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Coworker (after realizing we'd accomplished his goals for the day by 10:30 am, for the second day in a row): You, taking it easy, might be three times faster than everyone else, just putting that out there.
Apparently, the day I missed they gave him someone else and they didn't get anything done.
I set sleep to never on my laptop either. Too much hassle for little benefit. Longevity of battery is secondary matter for me, because the laptop runs is connected to power all the time anyway.
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Hi, everyone. Well, today was interesting. Wednesday's storms knocked sticks from a nearby dead tree onto an access road that I sometimes walk on. Knees, meet broken asphalt pavement. I got moderate scrapes on both knees, and I hurt my right index finger. But I don't think it's broken.
Auch, I hope your finger is just bruised.
Ah, but of course!
Upgrade completed, so Windows (without my permission) re-enabled my wireless network adaptor, and all h*** broke loose as it couldn't get a steady wireless connection and ignored the perfectly-stable wired connection.
I hate Windows...
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OK, updates where updates are due:
(1) The relative in question actually e-mailed an apology and an admission of being in the wrong to GothBard! It's an amazing display of maturing emotionally, especially considering this is happening in someone over 70.
But if someone over 70 can learn such things, you can use that to beat your own relatives over the head with the clue stick.
(2) What does my 200/2000 policy get me (donate 200 hours and $2000 per year to the choir)? I am now the choir director's official "assistant" to herd the kids at graduation. For 15-20 minutes of work I get in with no ticket, and as soon as the choir kids are settled I need to go find a seat in the audience until the graduation is over. Hmm... I wonder where I'll be able to find a seat?
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Hi, everyone. Well, today was interesting. Wednesday's storms knocked sticks from a nearby dead tree onto an access road that I sometimes walk on. Knees, meet broken asphalt pavement. I got moderate scrapes on both knees, and I hurt my right index finger. But I don't think it's broken.
When I was a kid, that sort of thing wouldn't phase me. Now, I look at perfectly even sidewalks with suspicion, phantom pain in my not-yet-twisted ankles beginning to throb...
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It seems to be okay. I squeezed the bone, and it doesn't bend in ways that it's not supposed to.Hi, everyone. Well, today was interesting. Wednesday's storms knocked sticks from a nearby dead tree onto an access road that I sometimes walk on. Knees, meet broken asphalt pavement. I got moderate scrapes on both knees, and I hurt my right index finger. But I don't think it's broken.Auch, I hope your finger is just bruised.
as a fellow proud member of neverbrokeabone, I salute you.
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OK, updates where updates are due:
(1) The relative in question actually e-mailed an apology and an admission of being in the wrong to GothBard! It's an amazing display of maturing emotionally, especially considering this is happening in someone over 70.
But if someone over 70 can learn such things, you can use that to beat your own relatives over the head with the clue stick.
DAMMIT NOBODYSHOME I WANT MY BLOODSPORT
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DAMMIT NOBODYSHOME I WANT MY BLOODSPORTOK, updates where updates are due:
(1) The relative in question actually e-mailed an apology and an admission of being in the wrong to GothBard! It's an amazing display of maturing emotionally, especially considering this is happening in someone over 70.
But if someone over 70 can learn such things, you can use that to beat your own relatives over the head with the clue stick.
And verily, lucke is with thee, as ye Institute of Chartered Surveyors requireth an newe deputy HR manneager, for the gaining of which a most dealthious affraye will shortly take place, and since I am providynge ye kukris and punche dagggeres, I can get thee on ye guest list should thou so desirest.
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I never broke a bone, until I had kids.
I never broke a bone, until I had kids.
I never broke a bone until I had a house.
Cut down a lemon tree, drove it to the dump, it made the bed of the borrowed pickup wet, I was in boots, so as I threw the tree out the back my boots went out from under me and I tipped over the side of the truck backwards and headfirst towards the concrete.
I had a choice between my head and an arm.
I chose the arm, and got a minor fracture in my wrist. Pretty good, considering the alternative.
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I am out with CH and company WOOOOOOO
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WW and I took the kids fishing all afternoon and now I'm cooking Thai red curry chicken over the camp stove.
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After work I picked up the kids and took them with to pick up my check as the barn cats both had kittens recently.
And of course, there's only one thing Crookshanks and Tiny T-Rex love more than adult animals, baby animals!
So we were there an hour while the kids befriended kittens I talked to Bobbo and the Firefighter I impressed this winter when he led the plow crew that plowed the streets of my condo community I was in charge of.
Also, I saw another guy I used to work with at the previous company that I worked with my coworker at, so that was a fun time.
And I had a highly productive day, despite it being 87 degrees out and I was taking it easy (I really was, I swear!).
Now I have a weekend to heal and relax.
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So, the kids don't get out of school until the 12th but their out of state cousins got out last week, so now the next two weeks are going to seem longer than they actually are because the kids are going to be SURLY.
Yay.
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Tiny T-Rex: On Monday, it's going to be June 3rd!
The General: Oh, what happens on June 3rd?
Tiny T-Rex: Um, it's Monday!
My skeleton is fully intact as well. Bravo gentlemen.
Likewise, despite a few close calls.
Broke my arm once. Was not fun.
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I don’t know which is sadder:
(1) When you check the Apple App Store for a calculator, an HP 15C emulator shows up on the first page.
(2) I bought it.
(3) I’m still using the one my dad gave me in 1983.
Good calculator, though!
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Heading to St Louis Zoo with Zelda and the kids.
I dropped my phone on the concrete pad under the picnic table at our campsite. Yay, spider webbing!
It now actually hurts my finger to scroll on the right side of the screen. But the touch-screen functionality dies not seem to be impaired.
I know how that is.
Scotch tape works pretty good.
My face, it feels!
*Deep breath*
Maximum effort!
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I know how that is.
Scotch tape works pretty good.
Cell phones? Bah. Get back to me when you're Fronkensteening together zombie servants out of assorted body parts, Flex Tape®, and static electricity from balloons.
Do you like really, really ridiculous armour?
I do.
If you do too, check out Filippo Negroli
People actually wore this stuff, even if it was just to show off when on parade. However, there is no boob-plate.
Sorry, Freehold.
Sorry for the recent silence, still job hunting and whatnot.
Also went to see Avengers: Endgame. It was a really good movie.
Hi Icy.
Hello there!