In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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Another hurdle will be jumped today. Unfortunately, this one will require quite a bit of testing, documentation and new code, but fortunately it's a very small portion of the greater whole and shouldn't take me more than today to fix.
I'm hoping I have time to spare so I can go back and fix a few other loose ends on other aspects that I've passed on doing now. It's all about getting the biggest bang for my buck up front and then going back and spending time smoothing out the rough edges. Otherwise it becomes too daunting in my mind if I spend an inordinate amount of time on the little things up front.
I'd say I'm about 80% done with it now. 
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Quote:The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'd say I'm about 80% done with it now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety%E2%80%93ninety_rule
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
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I have been finding that being unable to drive as I get a little older is sucking. Because I am now limited in what at times I can do for myself.
Man... I'm sorry about that Brenda. In the future I'm really going to have to figure out if I can get down by my brother or if I can get him up by me. At the moment he can ride on his e-bike and get things he'd need if my old man couldn't do it for him anymore, but with age that's probably not going to be a possibility anymore for him.
Have you considered an e-bike? It really gives him a lot of freedom he never had in his life before.
And with gas prices what they are today it's the first time I've ever heard him say he's happy he can't drive a car.Quote:
Yeah, you right. I've heard people down in the lobby arguing over stuff and I just don't want to get involved in whatever it is. I just mind my own business. If I see someone I will say hello and maybe talk about the weather or some such thing but that is it.
Yeah. I get that.Quote:
My hands need a break. I was stressing them out and they need a rest and a stretch in a different way.
My back does too. I don't really have the ideal setup for sitting around for hours and working on the project. I keep needing to get up and move around.Quote:
I always have a pen and paper on me when I go out, so I can maybe grab a cup of coffee and do some writing.
Nice.
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An e-bike might suit some of my needs but with other things that I want that are far heavier than groceries. It wouldn't.
That's the thing about a car. Someone at mah jong said to me oh you are still young enough to learn to drive. But in my case there is a safety thing now. My reflexes aren't that good any more and if my seizure meds were to stop working and I cause an accident.
Exactly. Not a good thing to take sides in apartment building squabbles.
I've been there with my back too. I can stop typing every so often and stretch my fingers and hands so I'm not doing too much damage.
Yeah, learned that with this first book and working on ideas for my second.
My brother absolutely adores his e-bike. It's his pride and joy. I've never seen him take such good care of something he owned before in my life.
It's by a brand called Aventon, I believe. This thing has a battery that will take him something like 30 miles round trip if he didn't pedal at all, but you can pedal on it too and extend the life of the battery.
I'd imagine that you could probably even get some sort of "wagon" to attach to the back of it to haul bigger things if you wanted to. I'm going to guess that you're probably 100lbs less than he is, so right there you'd have 100lbs of extra carrying capacity.
This time he didn't mess around with a piece of junk toy that was more like a glorified Power Wheel. This thing is closer to a small street legal electric motorcycle. I think he might have paid somewhere around $1,500 for it.
I'm so glad I pushed my dad into allowing him to buy it. He was strongly against the idea. But the amount of freedom and personal agency it's given him since he got it is astounding. And now that he lives in a reasonably smaller town that has everything within a reasonable distance from his place, there's really nothing he can't do with his bike that he could have done with a car. The only time that isn't true is when the weather is really bad.
I know the price is high, but I do think it's something you may want to consider, Brenda.
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Anyways. It is Sunday and that means I have lots of time for book work which I will get to in a while.
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I'm sure it is possible to hook up a wagon or something to an e-bike. There is the recharging issue though. My apartment building is an older building and not set up for anything like that. Also I would have to check out the driving rules for someone with a seizure disorder. That complicates things for when it comes to handling any equipment that you have to "drive".
It just plugs into a regular wall outlet. Nothing special required. The battery itself attaches to the frame between your legs and can be taken off with a key. Although I think that's just for replacing them (or swapping them out if you're RICH, because replacement batteries do cost around $500). I don't think my brother needs to remove it to charge it in the wall. I could ask for you.
At least where my brother is, there's no requirement for having any special license to drive it. If there were, he wouldn't qualify since he's barred from getting a driver's license because of his vision issue. I'm not sure what the laws in Canada would be, and I think you live in a more populous area than my brother does.
It comes limited at 20MPH, but I believe that with the app included you could reduce that to whatever speed you would feel comfortable for the max speed. You can also choose to just ride it as a regular bike whenever you wanted and only use the POWER for when you're going to be hauling stuff.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Anyways. It is Sunday and that means I have lots of time for book work which I will get to in a while.
Still plugging away at my project too.
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Another thing to consider is that in these parts even bicycles are prohibited from sidewalks. E-bikes are on the road with cars, motorcycles and bicycles.
If your city has bicycle lanes and/or the traffic isn't too fast you'd be ok but I'd hate to be on a four lane boulevard. Especially with parked cars.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
I'm sure it is possible to hook up a wagon or something to an e-bike. There is the recharging issue though. My apartment building is an older building and not set up for anything like that. Also I would have to check out the driving rules for someone with a seizure disorder. That complicates things for when it comes to handling any equipment that you have to "drive".
It just plugs into a regular wall outlet. Nothing special required. The battery itself attaches to the frame between your legs and can be taken off with a key. Although I think that's just for replacing them (or swapping them out if you're RICH, because replacement batteries do cost around $500). I don't think my brother needs to remove it to charge it in the wall. I could ask for you.
At least where my brother is, there's no requirement for having any special license to drive it. If there were, he wouldn't qualify since he's barred from getting a driver's license because of his vision issue. I'm not sure what the laws in Canada would be, and I think you live in a more populous area than my brother does.
It comes limited at 20MPH, but I believe that with the app included you could reduce that to whatever speed you would feel comfortable for the max speed. You can also choose to just ride it as a regular bike whenever you wanted and only use the POWER for when you're going to be hauling stuff.
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I didn't know that.
My area is more populated definitely. And I would have to check all that out for sure.
Huh. I didn't know any of that.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Anyways. It is Sunday and that means I have lots of time for book work which I will get to in a while.
Still plugging away at my project too.
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I got to it and I am almost done.
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