In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Back from my walk and one Christmas got and a couple of other things done for today. Came back and decided to do a little bill shredding.
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Quote:Is that $210 before or after we fiddled with your heater a while back? I was thinking we fixed something that made it more efficient.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Long story short, my conern is money.
Winter bills are a different story, and even though I keep it fairly cold in the house, my largest winter bill so far was around $210.
That was with good natural gas prices. If we see a huge increase this year like they're predicting, it's going to be an expensive winter heating season.
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The rain has arrived.
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If nothing else, I hope the sound of the rain as you go to sleep is enjoyable.
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Holy crap... that All In One is HUGE. I guess I underestimated how much larger a 24" monitor would be compared to a 21" monitor on my coffee table.
It's making me reconsider my plan here.
Had I known I was going to be getting two really nice desktops for near-nothing only several days later, I probably wouldn't have bought it. My TV in my living room is big enough where I'd have no problem using that as my monitor even from across the room if I get a wireless keyboard/mouse combo, so I don't really need an AIO on my coffee table like I've become accustomed to over the years.
Not that I have much furniture upstairs, but this AIO could be a TV/Computer combo in the small bedroom. I'm even considering buying another of those tiny desktops for myself when I get one for my friend, assuming the guy still has two left. That could be put on the TV in the master bedroom, and just basically be a backup in case any of the other ones fail over time.
I've got a lot of options now. I didn't realize how quickly the tech world had been passing me by. I never would have suspected I could get machines capable of doing what these things do for so little money in 2021.
But yeah.... I don't think a 24" AIO is going to work on my coffee table. 
Maybe if it were an HP AIO with a low center of gravity, but those DELL AIO's come on a stand that probably wouldn't take to kindly to me swinging my coffee table all over the floor when I'm vacuuming or just moving it out of the way on the rare occasion that I'm watching something on the TV.
Hell.....
Now that I think about it, maybe I could just mount the AIO to the far wall in the porch when I get it remodeled. I don't really want to put a giant TV out there that would entice somebody to break my shiny new windows to steal. It's small enough where I think the chances of that happening would be pretty low, but it is still large enough to put a game on or something while I have people over for poker night (yes... that will be a thing when I finally get my house in shape for it).
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Well, it's stopped raining for today. Out for my walk soon.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
If nothing else, I hope the sound of the rain as you go to sleep is enjoyable.
I think it did.
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Quote:Hey, that sounds like an awesome idea, SIX! Having people over to play cards... when I was little, my step-aunt would invite the family over for Xmas and New Year's, and it always turned into a card-fest.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Holy crap... that All In One is HUGE. I guess I underestimated how much larger a 24" monitor would be compared to a 21" monitor on my coffee table.
It's making me reconsider my plan here.
Had I known I was going to be getting two really nice desktops for near-nothing only several days later, I probably wouldn't have bought it. My TV in my living room is big enough where I'd have no problem using that as my monitor even from across the room if I get a wireless keyboard/mouse combo, so I don't really need an AIO on my coffee table like I've become accustomed to over the years.
Not that I have much furniture upstairs, but this AIO could be a TV/Computer combo in the small bedroom. I'm even considering buying another of those tiny desktops for myself when I get one for my friend, assuming the guy still has two left. That could be put on the TV in the master bedroom, and just basically be a backup in case any of the other ones fail over time.
I've got a lot of options now. I didn't realize how quickly the tech world had been passing me by. I never would have suspected I could get machines capable of doing what these things do for so little money in 2021.
But yeah.... I don't think a 24" AIO is going to work on my coffee table.
Maybe if it were an HP AIO with a low center of gravity, but those DELL AIO's come on a stand that probably wouldn't take to kindly to me swinging my coffee table all over the floor when I'm vacuuming or just moving it out of the way on the rare occasion that I'm watching something on the TV.
Hell.....
Now that I think about it, maybe I could just mount the AIO to the far wall in the porch when I get it remodeled. I don't really want to put a giant TV out there that would entice somebody to break my shiny new windows to steal. It's small enough where I think the chances of that happening would be pretty low, but it is still large enough to put a game on or something while I have people over for poker night (yes... that will be a thing when I finally get my house in shape for it).
Fun!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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When I lived with my brother for a few years we always had poker night almost every week. Just a $20 buy in for chips and we'd play Hold 'em. Cheap way to play no limit, and a good way not to lose any friends when people start betting more than they can afford.
I never did that with my old buddies. Now that we're back in touch, I'm looking forward to having a place where we can get together.
P.S. About pre-built computers. I would certainly recommend DELL over HP if anybody here is ever in the market for them... at least right now (I still haven't put the DELL through any stress tests).
I'm basing this purely on how easy it is to modify and upgrade them, as well as how good the support and driver downloads are, as well as how extensive one company adds additional support for their product over the other.
Opening up the DELL AIO and accessing what you need is far more easy than I ever would have imagined it could be after having to deal with opening up the HP AIO a few years back. And HP customer support on the website is abysmal compared to DELL's.
Granted, the ease in which you can get to the stuff in the HP small form factor desktops is quite nice as well, so maybe HP has remedied this problem over the years afterall. I can only speak to my own personal experience.
Out to mow the lawn now while the new system is updating. Can't wait to get this thing all set up and see how it compares to the desktop.
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