Joelle is under the weather and I exercised a lot and am tired. So that’s about it for us, folks.
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Joelle is under the weather and I exercised a lot and am tired. So that’s about it for us, folks.
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Maxim
I hope she feels better soon and you both get a good night’s sleep.
NotMax
Not too late to pass along a Happy Absolute Immunity Day sentiment.
(F. Leghorn voice: “That’s – ah say – that’s a joke. son.)
Almost Retired
Now that you’ve noted that Joelle is under the weather, you are about to be deluged with amateur medical advice.
Villago Delenda Est
Joelle needs to get above the weather as soon as possible. Here’s wishing for her success!
japa21
@Almost Retired: This place is known for that. Might as well put a subtitle on the blog’s name “Web DO”
eclare
Congrats on the exercise!
Odie Hugh Manatee
I get to pull the TV apart tonight to clean the Tcon connections in the hope that will solve the problem of a few horizontal lines that the bottom of the screen that flash out every 4 seconds or so. I updated the firmware and the problem moved down a few lines and later moved back up. I flexed the screen frame by moving it and they stopped flashing and it’s been working fine for a couple of hours now.
I’m hoping it’s a board/ribbon connection issue or the video board itself. There’s a board for it on ebay for $90 which isn’t bad. The TV is a HDMI v2.1 4K120 65″ and it’s just over two years old so this sucks. It’s a great 4K 120Hz gaming screen with our HTPC.
Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.)
Get a lot of sleep, both of you, and drink a lot of water.
Sister Golden Bear
Hope Joelle feels better soon, and you get some rest.
On my end, I made the hard decision to cancel my trip to see April’s solar eclipse. Mostly uncertainty about whether my shoulder problems (pinched nerve, bursitis and a potential rotor cuff tear) will be healed enough to travel. Plus, as a trans person, I didn’t feel that safe about going to Texas — which unfortunately where the best chance of clear weather.
Consoling myself that there are a number of total eclipses in the coming years, even if it means having travel overseas to see them.
CaseyL
Best wishes to Joelle to feel better soon!
I just love how you descended on the place like Mr. Clean and the White Tornado (remember those ads, or are you too young?). I picture Joelle (sans head cold) lounging on the sofa, or in The Comfy Chair, sipping a drink and cheering you on. You’ve shared some photos with us; I’d love to see more.
I, too, am clearing out some stuff. People talk about starting to emerge from the pandemic trauma… I didn’t think of myself as traumatized at all, but there may be something to it. I seem to be slowly emerging from a kind of mental or spiritual torpor, looking around at my house and thinking My God I have way too much stuff. Way too much clutter.
I have a drawer full of relics from my long-deceased grandparents – mostly letters from their travels – that I hardly ever look at, that no one else in the family is interested in (and, considering my grandmother’s handwriting, that hardly anyone else can even read), but can hardly make myself dispose of. Not to mention another drawer of photos, maps, and guidebooks from all of my travels that I haven’t looked at since I squirreled them away, but am also loath to part with. I may just brood over it for another few days and then get rid of the lot.
MisterForkbeard
John, did you ever finish Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous? Are you playing games at all while in AZ?
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Almost Retired:
Yo guy! An investigator has been assigned and I sent off the list of characters involved in this crappy screenplay to them this AM, so it’s on. Oh, and Henry quit his job after his 17 day suspension was up, a couple of months short of his 30th year. I’ll tell you more about it soon but I can say that a lot of people are very happy with his exit. :)
Thanks for the help with everything and I’ll let you know as stuff happens!
John Cole
@MisterForkbeard: finished it twice
dmsilev
Right now, I’m kind of pissed at one of my colleague’s minions. He had signed up for some time on shared equipment which I administer, which is fine. But then a couple of hours ago he wrote to me saying that he actually wanted to use a complex and delicate add-on, and I needed to show him how tomorrow morning. Yeah, no, you don’t get to claim two or three hours of my time on half a days notice. You doubly especially don’t get to do so when it’s clear that you’ve done none of the prep work needed to actually make use of the add-on.
I tried not to be *too* acerbic in my reply.
WaterGirl
@dmsilev: Gotta teach the young pups how the world works, or they will never learn.
Good for you.
Harrison Wesley
Recording from one of my favorite bands (WARNING: it’s a link to a pretty full set). Maybe some other old duffers here are Pentangle fans.
https://youtu.be/C3DFCXaqLrg?si=zTg_70ed-9KItK7E
dmsilev
@WaterGirl: Pretty much, yeah.
Suzanne
So. The project on which I have been working for almost three years is delivering 100% construction documents on 3/1. (Of course, calling them “100%” is a bit of a misnomer…. There will be changes for years.) But, these documents will become the basis for the contract and there will be a GMP delivered in June. So it’s a big deal.
And, of course, there’s still all kinds of stuff that’s wrong, stuff that’s completely undone, not to mention, SWAG stuff that we’re sort of making up in order to have something priced, but we know it doesn’t coordinate.
I’ve been working late and over the weekend, and I am tired.
cain
I spent my 3 day weekend just doing cleaning while my wife is gone.
My complete deep clean of the carpets and laundry room has so far have not had any new inappropriate pee’ing. I took the added step to completely clean all the litter boxes with soap and bleach and then a round of pee remover formula.
So far so good !
brendancalling
I made enough jambalaya to feed an army (again), and also managed to get more work done on improving the sound in our tiny practice room. I didn’t get the oil changed though.
I saw a really good movie this weekend, “American Fiction,” which was very different from what I expected from the trailers—kind of a slow burn that hit an hour after the movie.
Yutsano
I have a busy morning tomorrow which means trying to do this thing called sleep later on. Then the afternoon is muchas phone calls. Although there will be a nap also. Too.
@CaseyL: The temptation to remove all my kitchen stuff and then throw away everything in my storage unit is very tempting. It would let me move with just my clothes and the bed in the bedroom my mom said I could have. I’ve lived without the vast majority of that stuff until now, so basically removing the clutter and doing a minimalist move sounds very intriguing. But the Kitchen-Aid comes with me. That’s non-negotiable.
karen marie
@CaseyL: Bag it up and mail it to the Smithsonian or the Library of Congress but no return address so they can’t refuse it. Stuff like that should never be thrown out but what to do with it can be problematic.
BigJimSlade
You what now? (jk)
It’s rainy here in LA, so it was a rare day that I didn’t exercise, though yesterday I mountain biked and swam 50 laps that would usually happen today :-)
eclare
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
Wow, good luck! Two years seems like a small time…
Yarrow
Must be something going around. My neighbors (a couple) are both sick. I walked their dog for them this evening because they weren’t up to it. Good deed for the day.
karen marie
@Yutsano: I did that – effectively abandoned/gave away everything I owned that wasn’t kitchen or clothes – to move from Massachusetts to Arizona. I had no real choice because I could only take what fit in my car but I get a huge pang when I have a flash of a piece of art or my 1940s maple dresser and chest of drawers that I no longer have.
If it’s in storage and you can afford to continue paying it, keep the stuff. You can always get rid of it later.
Ohio Mom
@CaseyL: I read somewhere that eight photos of a subject — baby’s first birthday, the day at the lake, whatever — is generally enough to tell the story you want to remember. More photos than that doesn’t add anything, it just overwhelms.
That’s the yardstick I’m planning on using.
eclare
@Sister Golden Bear:
Oh, I’m sorry. I hope your shoulder feels better, my dad was an old school actual paper boy in his youth and had shoulder issues for the rest of his life.
As for not going to TX, I hate that you and so many others don’t feel safe going there. That makes me very sad, I cannot imagine how it makes you feel.
eclare
@Suzanne:
Is that a yay? Sounds like a yay.
sxjames
@Harrison Wesley: Thanks for the Pentangle :). I’m (relatively) young and have been a fan ever since I stumbled across Bert Jansch’s guitar playing several years ago.
Jackie
@Almost Retired:
Oh, so true!
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Ohio Mom
@Sister Golden Bear: We are fortunate that we are just an hour’s drive from the center of the eclipse’s path, though I am also aware that April can be cloudy around here; we may have a very diminished experience if it’s overcast or rainy.
I looked at my eclipse map, and it really is a Red State eclipse: Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, then the southern, rural part of Illinois which is a Red area, on to Indiana, Ohio — things pick up a little when the path goes through Pennsylvania and New York but again, through Red, rural parts, then sigh of relief, Vermont, then New Hampshire and Maine.
It’s sobering to see how much of the country is inhospitable, to put it mildly.
Harrison Wesley
@sxjames: Having both him and John Renbourn in the same band was very cool.
Cheryl from Maryland
@karen :
@CaseyL:
No not the Smithsonian nor the Library of Congress nor the National Archives. The Smithsonian Archival collections must be related to objects in the collections. The Library of Congress specialized in books, manuscripts, advertising, maps and photographs. The National Archives also has specific collecting areas. And an anonymous donation makes it harder for an institution to donate or dispose of. Send them to your state archives. Don’t be anonymous. Tell them you would be happy if your state archives donated them to another institution.
Another Scott
@Cheryl from Maryland: This really is a full service blog!
:-)
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@eclare:
It is for a $1,400 TV! I look at it as nothing to lose so why not…
Famous last words… 😁
ETA: I have a lot of experience with electronics so this is just more of the same. I fixed our Samsung TV a few years ago (new power supply board) and saw that these units are pretty simple with only two parts that are replacable (power board and Tcon/video board). The screen is the other piece and if that’s got a problem then it’s game over.
MisterForkbeard
@John Cole: Did you ever pick up Rogue Trader? I’m playing through it now and having a blast. So far reminds me of the good parts of WotR, though it’s also set in the Warhammer 40k universe. So that may or may not make it more interesting.
Also: What path did you take in WotR?
BigJimSlade
@Odie Hugh Manatee: I had a MacBook Pro that would occasionally drop data (importing cds), and other fritzy behavior. But it would work fine 98% of the time. I took it to the genius bar and they couldn’t figure it out, but it worked the last time the tried before they gave it back to me. It continued it’s weird behavior for 3 years.
Then I took it into a mac repair shop when it was heading too far south, and after much head-scratching, the guy said, let me try one more thing. He had seen another case like this years ago and it was a bad ribbon cable (I think that would be from the mother board to the hard drive). So he got a $25 ribbon cable (maybe it was $35), covered by my apple care warranty, and it fixed it! I used it for 4 more years.
Kayla Rudbek
@CaseyL: I joke that I need a backhoe and an exorcist to help me clean up my home office, as I have stuff from my previous on-site office (a decade worth) stuff from law school plus, I am currently working from home, and I have almost all of my crafting supplies in the room as well. And Mr. Rudbek always wants to go out biking or doing something every weekend, and I just really want about a week off to get the house set into order. I could use our host coming over and cleaning up like a whirlwind.
CaseyL
@karen marie:
Great idea! I did some very quick research. The Smithsonian doesn’t seem to have any collections of ordinary people stuff, but in the course of looking that up, I found out that many states have their own archive repositories and might be interested in documents, letters, etc. for historical research purposes.
I’ll go through what I have and see if any of it might be of interest to one of the many states my grandparents lived in.
@Kayla Rudbek: Gods, yes. Two rooms in my house have stacks of stuff for glass fusing, which I am determined to get back into.
Another Scott
@BigJimSlade: Yup! I’ve got one like that, also too, in my pile of computers for recycling.
(Rough machining inside the aluminum case gave rise to sharp edges where a ribbon cable crosses. Flexing, etc., gives rise to motion and rubbing, …)
Cheers,
Scott.
CaseyL
@Cheryl from Maryland:
Hah! I wrote my comment before I saw yours.
I am going to see if that will work. My grandparents lived in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Florida.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@BigJimSlade:
Smart tech, ribbon cables are usually the first place to look. Same with the Tcon connections; they are two ribbon cables that supply the panel connections to the screen. We are about 400 feet from the Pacific Ocean so environmental corrosion is a problem. For example one fix for a pc not booting up is to clean the contacts on the memory modules with a natural rubber eraser to clean the gold-plated contacts.
I’m going to clean the contacts the same way and then treat them with a product called DeOxit that inhibits corrosion. Hopefully that’s the issue. The TV was set up and hasn’t been touched since the installation other than light dusting.
We will see…
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@CaseyL: Don’t forget county archives and county historical and genealogical societies. Some universities have extensive collections of letters and other papers. And there’s always the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.
BigJimSlade
@Another Scott: I bought that computer refurbished, but basically new – it was like that from day one. I’m sure that’s why it was a refurb :-/
sxjames
@Harrison Wesley: Yes. I discovered Bert thru Led Zep / Jimmy Page (his umm….reworking of “Blackwater Side”) and then the local Christmas Revels group did a beautiful John Renbourn tune (can’t think of the name off hand), and I went down the rabbit hole, so to speak :)
They were all fantastic musicians. Sadly, nothing like them today….
BigJimSlade
@Odie Hugh Manatee: Makes me glad I live 2.5 miles away from the Pacific ;-) Good luck with your repairs!
BigJimSlade
@Harrison Wesley: Thanks for that! I’ve wanted to give them a try – now I will :-)
a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)
@CaseyL: Find an archive that might be interested.
Origuy
@Sister Golden Bear: Too bad about the eclipse. I’m planning to be at my sister’s near Indianapolis. Heading to Ohio first to see some native earthworks at the new UNESCO site and doing some orienteering in the Oxford area. Thus if the weather sucks at my sister’s, I’ll at least have seen her and the fam, and got in some fun activities.
NotMax
@Ohio Mom
Redundant. Most of those locales are already in the dark.
//
Manyakitty
@Ohio Mom: I’m in the path of totality here in Akron and I plan to stay home with my eclipse glasses to enjoy the show. Local meetup?
Paul in KY
@Jackie: Probably a nice blood letting should restore the humours…
karen marie
@CaseyL: I’m glad to hear that you’ve got a potential solution! I hope you keep us updated on your journey in this regard.