In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Quote:Just keep burning them down. Sooner of later all the root energy stores get used up, and they piddle off to nowhere-land.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
We used it on teeny-tiny little weed sprouts which prolly won't come back, but I have some sedge-like things in the back that I literally burned to a crisp - twice - and they're resprouting. Buggers sure are fire-resistant!
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Quote:So they say! but these little buggers have a bulblet just under the ground, they have a LOT of root energy to spare!
Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:Just keep burning them down. Sooner of later all the root energy stores get used up, and they piddle off to nowhere-land.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
We used it on teeny-tiny little weed sprouts which prolly won't come back, but I have some sedge-like things in the back that I literally burned to a crisp - twice - and they're resprouting. Buggers sure are fire-resistant!
One thing about the weed torch: if you don't mind starting a little fire and your neighbors won't freak out ... and you have a hose handy ... the weeds you wilted and dried out last week you can burn up this week for a quick cleanup.
Tomorrow will be mowing the back lawn and selective spraying, and after that a little gutter -cleaning bc one downspout seems to be clogged, prolly pine needles. After that, the rains come and I collapse.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So SIX, are you talking about lots of goop in your bronchi?
Yup. A bit of sneezing for a while at least a few times a day, but haven't sneezed for a day or two. The occasional cough, but I do smoke and I've been stuck inside most of the time for a while, so not necessarily from this. I just usually forced it out by forcing coughs.
Goop was clear until last night, for up to about 2 weeks. Not so much now. It's more like what you get right before you get over something.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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In more productive news, I finally accomplished something I was working on a few years ago, which was part of a larger project I devoted nearly 100% of my time to for a few months when I first stopped drinking and needed a hardcore distraction from the rest of life.
It turns out, I actually got it right back then and didn't know it. I figured in my boredom right now I'd give it another shot and right when I fired it up, it worked perfectly...
I have to rewind a bit to explain what I did. 
Back when my brothers and I were kids and our mom bought a ridiculously expensive PC she saw on the Home Shopping Network on a lark (our first PC right before my freshman year of HS). She never used HSN, and she never listened to our pleas for a computer before this, so nobody knows why this purchase was made, but there was never a complaint out of us.
We got some cool little Demo Discs to show off the badass Double Speed CD ROM. One of them was mostly just game demos that left us longing for full versions that we'd never get to play, but there were two full games on there. One was a pretty decent Golf simulator that we played out of boredom even though we were never into golf, but the other was a little-known Tetris clone called Gemstorm (I know I've posted about it in here during my drunk ramblings before).
While it's a cool take on the Tetris forumula, it wasn't really anything too groundbreaking or anything that hasn't been done 1000 times afterward. What was great about it though were the MIDI tracks that just really bring back that feeling of early 90's nostalgia and huge PC speakers when you hear them. (You'd have to have heard it back then to get it).
So, a project I was working on was using a program called DOSBox to make old DOS games completely playable in a virtual console on new PC systems with Windows installed (something that Windows itself is completely incapable of).
With DOSBox, as long as your PC is fast enough, there isn't any old DOS games that you can't play. But that doesn't mean that there isn't a huge barrier to entry for your average person to get them to actually work (like REALLY huge, given that it wasn't easy to set these things up back then if you didn't know computers and now you're adding the fact that modern computers weren't designed to run them), and if you're not using something called a Frontend and diligently taking notes on how you've configured everything from game to game, you will lose that work once you end the experience and you won't have a base to work off of when trying another one.
So I spent a few months with it. Not only getting a few hundred old games working by just a simple double click of the mouse, but actually improving on them in various ways. With quite a bit of work and note taking, many games that were only playable with a keyboard and/or mouse are now fully playable on a video game controller. I also took great care to make sure that from game to game similar functions like "jump" and "shoot" used the same buttons on the controller, which is something that even large video game companies rarely ever take the care to do when releasing old stuff like this. You'll have to trust me when I say that playing Commander Keen is a lot cooler on a joystick than it was on a keyboard.
I also made cool, simple little interactive launch menus for games that had multiple entries in the series. This way, rather than cluttering up the Windows menu of games with 9 chapters of an old DOS game, there is only one slot for the game to double click and then you can choose which chapter to start by pressing the number on your keyboard in the menu. This was REALLY cool to do for the old InfoCom text based adventure games, putting them all into a single entry but having multiple menus to scroll through to start Zork or Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Further upping the cool factor, games that had multiple options for audio now have a DOS me
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Been out for my walk. Need to walk for a bit almost every day to keep my left leg from stiffening up.
Having lunch now just a hot dog wrapped in a tortilla.
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
We used it on teeny-tiny little weed sprouts which prolly won't come back, but I have some sedge-like things in the back that I literally burned to a crisp - twice - and they're resprouting. Buggers sure are fire-resistant!
Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Just keep burning them down. Sooner of later all the root energy stores get used up, and they piddle off to nowhere-land.
Quote:Seriously ... if I had half your energy it would be a big improvement!
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So they say! but these little buggers have a bulblet just under the ground, they have a LOT of root energy to spare!
One thing about the weed torch: if you don't mind starting a little fire and your neighbors won't freak out ... and you have a hose handy ... the weeds you wilted and dried out last week you can burn up this week for a quick cleanup.
Tomorrow will be mowing the back lawn and selective spraying, and after that a little gutter -cleaning bc one downspout seems to be clogged, prolly pine needles. After that, the rains come and I collapse.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Quote:That sounds good! But unfortunately, because of all the sodium, it's off limits for me. (If I WERE to have a hot dog, though, I personally am in favor of baked hot dogs where the outside gets browned and the hot dog gets a little chewy.)
Originally posted by Brenda:
Been out for my walk. Need to walk for a bit almost every day to keep my left leg from stiffening up.
Having lunch now just a hot dog wrapped in a tortilla.
OTOH I DID just have my own lunch, which was an individually portioned and frozen crustless 'pie' made of ground turkey, onions, lots and lots of kale, potatoes (cubed into smallish pieces), feta cheese and lemon juice - and whipped eggs and ricotta as a binder. It's one of my favorite recipes!
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Quote:Seriously, I showed dear daughter how to use the push mower and she did the mowing while I did the spraying. If I had half of HER energy it would be a big improvement!
Seriously ... if I had half your energy it would be a big improvement!
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Quote:That sounds good! But unfortunately, because of all the sodium, it's off limits for me. (If I WERE to have a hot dog, though, I personally am in favor of baked hot dogs where the outside gets browned and the hot dog gets a little chewy.)
Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Been out for my walk. Need to walk for a bit almost every day to keep my left leg from stiffening up.
Having lunch now just a hot dog wrapped in a tortilla.
OTOH I DID just have my own lunch, which was an individually portioned and frozen crustless 'pie' made of ground turkey, onions, lots and lots of kale, potatoes (cubed into smallish pieces), feta cheese and lemon juice - and whipped eggs and ricotta as a binder. It's one of my favorite recipes!
I don't eat hot dogs very often because of their sodium levels. But I didn't want to try and find lunch out so I came home and that was quick and easy to do while I got the dishes done, so I could get off my leg.
I like the odd pot pie but your recipe has too many things in it that I can't realy eat. Like eggs, onions, cheese and lemon juice. Also not to offend but kale to me tastes like nothing when I've tried it.
Trying to figure out what to get in for my easter supper. Guess, I'll get a ham steak, some veg and a can of gravy. I know I won't be seeing anyone this year.
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