In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'm mildly annoyed this morning...
Windy as hell here today. I think the cold front is coming back in.
I've blown the leaves off of my yard a record 4 times this year. That's as much blowing as I've done in the prior 3 to 4 years combined.
There isn't a single leaf left on any of the 4 maple trees on my corner lot, but there's still a ton of Oaks and other tree leaves up on neighbors yards. The stupid wind is blowing in just the right direction to bring them all across the entirety of my front yard. It looks like shit out there now.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Trying to wind where I am Jack. Trees are fluttering in it and I can hear some rattling as well as leaf blowers going.
You can have mine. Still hasn't quit.
Cold as hell when I went out to pick up my new glasses and ran for groceries, even though it was 41 degrees outside. Felt like it was in the 20's or below with that wind.
The good news is, most of the leaves that were on my lawn already blew off. Had a bunch that managed to blow over my roof from the damn trees across the street somehow. But the wind pretty much put them all in a single spot up against my back porch door, so it only took me a few minutes to pick it all up. Not supposed to put them in the trash cans, but I don't care. If I put them out on the curb they would have just blown onto somebody else's yard.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Hey Jack - I'll be happy if you can make it back with a link!
In any case
HAPPY T-DAY EVERYONE !!!
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Hey Jack - I'll be happy if you can make it back with a link!
In any case
HAPPY T-DAY EVERYONE !!!
Yep, HAPPY TDAY!
A day to relax, enjoy yourself, and reflect on what there is to be thankful for,
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Hope y'all had a nice Thanksgiving
You don't do anything today up there in Canada, do you Brenda?
I got my day planned out tomorrow. My new computer fan came in the mail, direct from China. It's the exact same make and model that came in the computer over a decade ago, but HP doesn't support rigs that old. It was a really high priced touch screen destktop/laptop hybrid thing my brother gave me years ago when it crapped out on him. With a little TLC and a crappy old laptop hard drive that I velcroed into the innards where it used to have a full sized HD that died, I got her working again for me pretty nicely. I think it had Windows Vista when my brother got it. I don't think it was old enough to have XP on it, but I could be wrong about that. She does Windows 10, but is definitely showing her age with the increased demand of the internet these days.
My little 3-in-1 fix turned out to only be a temporary bandage on the situation. Most of the time it's okay, but one day it got loud enough that I went and ordered one. It's really been fine ever since, but now I've got no excuse. I still have thermal paste from the last computer I fixed, so I'm going to get the whole thing down to the CPU, clean it all real good and put some fresh paste and the new fan in there.
That alone should speed it up quite a bit I would think. Especially during summer (not that that matters much right now around here).
But I also got a great black friday deal on a 256GB SSD hard drive yesterday. That will be the first one I've used in a computer. It's extremly highly rated by over 500 people. It claims to be "up to 10 times faster than mechanical hard drives". I'm not sure how legit that claim is, especially since a lot of other brands only claim 3 to 4 times faster, but from everything I've read I should see a significant performance boost once I've installed it.
I'll probably benefit more than most people by doing it too, because the only drive I had that was 250GB at the time was a crappy old laptop drive that my brother had taken out of an old laptop. Since day one a S.M.A.R.T. test spit out a few yellow warnings on it. I have no doubt that it's only 5400RPM (Maybe even less... I never really tinkered much with laptops). There's no way it was 7200RPM.
One of the big things that was making me resistant to doing this before, besides the pricetag, was not wanting to re-install everything from scratch. Without going into boring detail, I have quite a bit of stuff that is installed and set up for one of my projects that I had put nearly a year into on that drive. All of the data is backed up elsewhere, for sure, but part of it is a Windows based program with all of its pre-configurations. It's been a LONG time since I worked on it, and to be honest I forget a lot of stuff if I haven't worked with it for a long time. I didn't want to just have that sitting on a drive outside of the computer and lose all of those configurations.
But now that the price is right, with a little research I found out that cloning drives is a snap these days. The last time I did anything with that it was some serious work to get it done right if you weren't making an exact clone of a drive on a matching make model and size hard drive. It might take a bit longer to clone mine since the rig itself is pretty outdated, but I shouldn't have any problems cloning the drive and firing it right up after I install it.
Since it's a pretty proprietary system and the memory is maxed out and there isn't any way to put a better processor or GPU in there, this is the last thing that really can be done to get her up to speed. She's nearing the end of her life, but I thing I'll probably breathe a few more years into her with this.
In other news, while window shopping the local home improvement stores, I came across a system they've got where you can browse their stock of discontinued
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Noice!
All done shopping, and it worked out better than I ever would have imagined.
Upon further looking, I was able to get legit pine trim for only roughly 50 cents more per board than the MDF bullshit (that I started thinking was probably a really bad idea with the humidity in my house during the summer with no A/C).
Freaking wild discounts here. Figured I bought the 4 1/2" base trim for about 46% of regular price.
But then I found it. The 3 1/4" window and door casings. Only 3 bucks compared to the normal $8.99 per board! 1/3rd the normal price! I bought 10 more than I needed. I'll probably do the two remaining windows that weren't done on the first floor at some point for a fraction of the cost.
All solid pine. All comes primered.
Total cost for more than I even needed in the first place?
Around $200 bucks and change. Puts me over the hump to get the credit back on my card and will end up costing me about $15 for everything, which is around what the tax is costing me.
Saved about $360 in what it would have cost me at full price with taxes thrown on...
So yeah. That's how I just got about $560 worth of stuff I need for the remodel for $15. 
I'm not sure if I can get the 11% rebate on items that were this steeply discounted, but the next time they have the "11% off everything sale" I'm going to ask for the 11% price match and give it a try and send it off.
That will be another $24 and change back my way if it works, and that will essentially be a bunch of free pre-primered wood sent my way at a net profit on my end of around $9 bucks.
I didn't even have to use my rebates yet. Actually, I couldn't since you can't use them online. I'm going in sometime this weekend for their 3 day sale. I'm going to buy some paint I'll be using at some steep black friday discounts with them.
Oh yeah... I forgot.
I measured the biggest "holes" at the end of the floor where the hardwood didn't butt up close to the wall. None of them are over 1/2", and unlike the 1/2" width of the MDF, the Pine is all 9/16", so I won't even have to spring for the rounded pieces either.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Yup.
Feeling good.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Hope y'all had a nice Thanksgiving
You don't do anything today up there in Canada, do you Brenda?
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Hope you had a good Thanksgiving Jack.
Nope. Just a plain old Thursday up here in Canada. I just played mah jong and went to work.
Next holiday we got coming up is Christmas which is the same down there.
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I hope your T-DAY in Canada was as nice as mine BRENDA.
I have very little family on the west coast, so we do the restaurant thing where they serve a nice meal and I don't have to cook or do dishes. Went there, thought I would have to park a half-mile away and walk in the rain and then wait 40 minutes, but a car pulled out real close to the door on my second circle around the parking lot, and we waited less than 10 minutes to be seated despite the huge crowd at the door (I have no idea how THAT happened!) and had a nice relaxing time.
Then we went back home where hubby had set up a fire in the fireplace and just relaxed and chatted and had some eggnog and brandy and an extra piece of pie. What a nice evening!!
Holiday is over. Back to work for me!
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Wow SIX you got somegood deals there! Are these Black Friday sales?
Wish we had a home improvement store like you do. All we have are the national chains and most of them either sell crap or are too expensive.
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The storm came thru in two waves. The first was supposed to drop 1.8" but only manaaged to squeeze out a measly 0.5". But the second was only supposed to drop about 1" but dumped approx 2.5". I'd call that a great start to the rainy season. We have four days of clear weather ... I'm going to try re-spraying the weeds today and see if it has any effect before the rains come. I'm also going to tarp part of the yard and see how that works.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Wow SIX you got somegood deals there! Are these Black Friday sales?
Wish we had a home improvement store like you do. All we have are the national chains and most of them either sell crap or are too expensive.
I just won Black Friday.
I went up there to pick up my trim but wanted to do some shopping for deals first. Spent about another $40 on miscellaneous blades, adhisives and caulks that were all discounted around 50% or more. I also bought about 170 feet of premium insulation for my porch and the leftovers will go in the basement bedroom before I finish it. After rebates, that will only cost me 1/3rd of what I paid today for it.
So, after paying with my previous rebates, after I get my new rebates in the mail and I get my new credit card bonus, I will have gotten $750 worth of stuff I need for the house for around $30.
Even better, if I'm able to get the 11% price match rebate on all of that when it becomes available in the coming weeks, I just might end up getting all of it for free.
My new hard drive was already delivered by the time I got back too. I'm going to relax the rest of the day and get my computer up to speed.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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