In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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I was hoping to get some gardening done today, but since dear daughter needs a phone ASAP (and is getting one by Thursday) we were trying to find a way to shift off all of her critical info off her old phone. We already moved the texts off with "SMS backup and restore" (altho I would like to find a way to move them off as plain text so ANY program can read them, there's just so much additional info with each text, linking - for example- a series of texts together as a "conversation") I'm not sure it's possible.
SO then we saw how many photos she had on her phone. Was going to try it the old=fashioned way ... forwarding a text to email with pictures attached ... but her phone is so old and the doesn't get signal too well, so LTE was unbelievably slow and unreliable. Cable xfer would have been preferable but her USB port is "charge only" so it would have to be either Bluetooth or Wifi. Tried Bluetooth, maybe didn't try hard enuf but it didn't seen to want to go, and I hate the idea of google OneDrive of whatever the frak it's called so we tried a couple of different apps but finally settled on Telegram. Once we get the pix off her phone I'll just uninstall it bc there's a lot of dodgy accounts around (meetupininsertcitynamehere" kind sticks in my memory, and if I can see them I'm sure they can see me. Good thing I anonymized the account name.)
Anyway, this is not at all elegant, very quick and dirty/under time pressure, but we'll get it done.
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Oh, cool with "trading work"!
Yeah. This will be the third person I've been doing it with. He wants to start doing some of my stuff first, which is the way I want it too after having so many obs planted elsewhere that I have to chase to get back.
I bet a lot of people who have skills are doing stuff like this with the economy the way it is.
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Yanno SIX, it occurs to me, with your work experience and tools, you could be a paid handyman.
Yeah. I've been thinking about that too. I've also got some respectable references under my sleeve, and it's rare that I can't figure out how to solve a problem through youtube or DIY forums along with advice from people in the industry that I know personally.
Jack of all trades, master of none... with a quite a little bit of tech know-how on the side. It's an interesting mix.
Once I get my house down to about a dozen or two projects instead of a hundred or two, I think I'm going to get bored. I'm either going to have to hang a shingle on my roof or look around for a semi-permanent gig somewhere.
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I was hoping to get some gardening done today, but since dear daughter needs a phone ASAP (and is getting one by Thursday) we were trying to find a way to shift off all of her critical info off her old phone. We already moved the texts off with "SMS backup and restore" (altho I would like to find a way to move them off as plain text so ANY program can read them, there's just so much additional info with each text, linking - for example- a series of texts together as a "conversation") I'm not sure it's possible.
SO then we saw how many photos she had on her phone. Was going to try it the old=fashioned way ... forwarding a text to email with pictures attached ... but her phone is so old and the doesn't get signal too well, so LTE was unbelievably slow and unreliable. Cable xfer would have been preferable but her USB port is "charge only" so it would have to be either Bluetooth or Wifi. Tried Bluetooth, maybe didn't try hard enuf but it didn't seen to want to go, and I hate the idea of google OneDrive of whatever the frak it's called so we tried a couple of different apps but finally settled on Telegram. Once we get the pix off her phone I'll just uninstall it bc there's a lot of dodgy accounts around (meetupininsertcitynamehere" kind sticks in my memory, and if I can see them I'm sure they can see me. Good thing I anonymized the account name.)
Anyway, this is not at all elegant, very quick and dirty/under time pressure, but we'll get it done.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
Are you SURE the USB port is charge only? That seems pretty odd to me. Did you try other cables? Sounds like you got a temporary solution.
I wouldn't be paranoid about the photosharing sites. (Onedrive is Microsoft, Photos is Google).
You know how paranoid about things I am... or at least I used to be. All of my photos are up on one of the above. Unless your daughter has things on there that need be hidden, I wouldn't worry too much about it. Google already knows everything about you and Microsoft probably knows 80% as much as Google knows anyway.
I don't really have any advice on the SMS to TXT thing. I tried looking on CNET to see if there were any programs you could download and run on your computer to convert them after you got them off the phone, but I couldn't find any.
There are a lot of online places that would do it for "free", but you're giving them all that information too for free. There also appears to be apps you can download from the Apple or Google Play store that will do this as well, but again, you're running all those text through a third party app you have no reason to trust.
Just doing a search on Google for this right now made me realize how lucky I am to have all of my old programs through the years backed up in several places, and that I have a few older computers capable of running the older ones with lesser versions of Windows that remain offline too. One day I might not be able to do the type of file management I want to do anymore once our PCs start behaving more like cell phones.
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Out and about soon to get things done. Later peeps.
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Git 'er done! 
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Got my shopping list ready. Got some really good deals at the DIY store for Father's Day, which means great buys for fatherless me and not for my own father since he doesn't do tools.
Also got my list together for all the remaning electrical stuff I'll need in the garage. Rather than reuse old outlets I've had sitting in boxes for years, I'm just buying new ones. Got some metal covers that I'll use, but I don't have enough for what I'm doing.
I'm not going to plan for the two exterior plug outlets or the outdoor light above the overhead door yet other than making sure that the placement of things makes sense when I get around to doing those after everything else is done.
If nothing else comes up and the weather finally cools off, I should have a lot of outlets and 6 very bright overhead lights for my new workshop by this time next week.
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I managed to get everything done for today. Always good to get even small errands accomplished.
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Got everything done I needed to too.
Old man's coming by tomorrow for the first time since February. I haven't even seen him since March. Gas prices pretty much keep most of our convos relegated to the phone these days.
Will be nice to show off all the work finally.
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Got everything done I needed to too.
Old man's coming by tomorrow for the first time since February. I haven't even seen him since March. Gas prices pretty much keep most of our convos relegated to the phone these days.
Will be nice to show off all the work finally.
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That sounds great Jack.
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I'm off to mah jong in the morning then some errands after. Think being on the carpet is getting to the tower of this desk top. Gotta get a small stool for it to sit on.
Forgot to add that all will be done in the rain or at least the walk to mah jong will.
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