In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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Hey Sigs,
Your husband ever build stair banisters from scratch?
Just wondering if he's got any advice for a first-timer. 
I'm going to make it out of wood. I'm not going to use closet poles as thick as the ones I used for the overlook for the posts in the middle. I figure I'll get them about half the diameter, or whatever is the thinnest code-compliant size. Likely 2 of them per step, making sure the width between them aren't against code.
I already figured out how I want to install these "spokes" too. It will be similar to how I did the overlook, but it should be easier because it's not going to be installed in an enclosed space. I'm going to make very decorative "blocks" for each step that will have the two holes for the spokes. The blocks will all be the same size for every step going up to the 2nd floor and down to the basement, and they will have nice beveled edges that I make with a router. These can be firmly affixed to the steps and then the spokes can be glued in and hit with a few brad nails on the bottom.
On the top I would have my hand-rail. I am going to stain this piece and hit it with several coats of poly because that will hold up a lot better to human hands over the years than white glossy paint will. But I figure underneath this top piece, I will also have a white glossy piece that I will be drilling all the holes into for the top of the spokes, where they can also be firmly attached to the rail at the top.
My only real sticking point on how I want to go about doing this is what to do about the load bearing posts, and how I'm going to make them. I think I can buy them already made, but I think that would be prohibitively expensive compared to making something of my own. Even if it was just a good quality 4x4 and a decorative cap that I put on top of it.
I dunno... I think I'm going to have to go through some photographs online and see if I get any inspiration.
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I probably do in some way. Don't really know why. Maybe it is because this is the first time in YEARS that I have actually been able to get at my stuff and see what is what. You know like what do I need to keep and what can I donate or what has to be plain chucked because it useless to me or anyone else.
My other problem is is this is a small one bedroom apartment and there is only so much room for my stuff. And so some of it comes down to rearranging things again to make the space more usable for me.
Yeah... My problem is that I keep taking stuff in and I've got way too much space to put other people's junk so I don't have to make decisions... Until I start noticing that my space doesn't belong to me anymore and it belongs to the stuff. By then, there's a lot of work that needs to be done. We're not exactly there yet, but I can feel it coming on if I don't start going through things and throwing most of it out.Quote:
I've been looking at something to put my nails and stuff in to. I've got my dad's old nail can and his hammer sitting on top of the fridge but in a side thing with shelves, on the floor is some nails and other stuff I have bought over the years for various reasons. But I can't really get at them because something else is in the way.
You just said the problem right there...
You can't get at something because something else is in the way.
That's how it is in my garage right now. I had that thing perfectly organized a few years back with a few dozen modular shelving units I built from discarded lumber. I knew where everything was and never had to move anything to get to what I wanted. But if you don't put stuff back where it belongs or clean up after a project AND you're taking in other people's crap, the space fills up and becomes pretty unusable, fast.
That's also how it is in my livingroom. But that's for different reasons like I said yesterday. I just need to remove a bunch of stuff that is useful and worth keeping to a different room where it's out of the way and I can get to it on the rare occasions that I need it. Then I can use that space for things I do in there every day or at least much more frequently, and I can keep the clutter out of sight when I'm not working on it.
The other major thing that comes out of this after you get your space working for you and you keep up with it is that you never lose anything anymore. No more going through the entire house and garage to look for a tool until hours pass and you've checked inside your refrigerator 3 times.
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I hear you on the laziness. I've got my files in a plastic thing and it is right in the middle of the living room and I have to walk around it to get at my Victrola on Sunday. Been meaning to do something with those for a long while.
That's funny you mention that. One of the things I have in my curio cabinet is a plastic tote with the most important paperwork that I've got. Things like my birth certificate and my High School diploma. Stuff I've had to use in the past for things like applying for jobs and what not.
But that's just a great example of what I mean here. I've had that curio cabinet there for probably 4 years now. I know I've been in that box at least one time, but right now I can't look back and visualize the 2nd time I was in it in 4 years. I do remember the one time that I did go through it that I took time to go through everything in there and decided some of it could be thrown away. But it's a big plastic tote taking up some prime real estate when it could be put in a closet upstairs where it's not taking up room that would work much better for me if I had it doing something else.
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Yeah... I think so too, Brenda. Why don't you start working on it tomorrow.
Even if you don't get it finished, pull it all out so you can look at it and think about how you want to put it all together.
What's wrong with the dresser? It sounds like anyone who's seen it says that it doesn't belong there...
It's not poking into a door entry, is it? I mean, it's not partially in the way of getting into the bathroom, the kitchen or your bedroom where it's sitting, right?
Do you have another place in mind for the photo of your folks and your grandparents? Maybe between the other two or something?
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Yeah... I think so too, Brenda. Why don't you start working on it tomorrow.
Even if you don't get it finished, pull it all out so you can look at it and think about how you want to put it all together.
What's wrong with the dresser? It sounds like anyone who's seen it says that it doesn't belong there...
It's not poking into a door entry, is it? I mean, it's not partially in the way of getting into the bathroom, the kitchen or your bedroom where it's sitting, right?
Do you have another place in mind for the photo of your folks and your grandparents? Maybe between the other two or something?
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Your right and I've got nothing holding me back today from doing that frame up.
Nothing is really wrong with it. It's just told and bulky and in the last part of the Z hallway. So no not blocking a door or the bathroom or the kitchen. Just going by it is a little tight is all. I've got thing on top of it that have been knocked down. Like my some old hearing aides that you can recharge. I've also knocked over a collectable. On the other wall is a family crest with the family motto on it. My mum had it made years ago.
Funny, I was just thinking about something like that last night.
More thought to have.
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Out in a bit in a wander in the rain.
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All done in the rain.
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Oh, SIX. I got that frame up and 3 of the pictures have dates on them which is amazing. One though is a negative but I can guess at the year or the next year it was taken.
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Oh, SIX. I got that frame up and 3 of the pictures have dates on them which is amazing. One though is a negative but I can guess at the year or the next year it was taken.
Wow. You already did it? Good for you.
How long were you sitting on that one?
That's one of the reasons why I think it's good to write things down. Probably one of the reasons I'm still here instead of posting stuff into the void of Twitter too. We couldn't have a real conversation like this on any of the main forms of social media except for chat places like Discord. And I kind of prefer this posting format compared to the realtime nature of chat.
Sometimes writing things down is all you need to get your mind in the right gear to get something that you've been meaning to get done finished.
I still haven't done anything with my living area yet. It's not that I'm not busy... I'm still working on that computer project to the exclusion of almost everything else. Made some major finishing touches on some big things recently, and before I decide what else I want to do I'm in the process of doing some neglected file cleanup and maintenance.
When I get to this point on certain aspects of the project, I need to take time to sift through all of the debris that I kicked up along the way and decide what can be discarded, and what should be held onto in case I or anybody else in the future wants to make any more improvements. One big aspect of my project is preserving what may not always be easily accessible otherwise someday, and so I don't want to just delete everything that I didn't use just because I didn't use it. It's probably mostly useless things if a perfectionist like me didn't see fit to use them, but one of my hopes always was that if the main work had already been done, other people down the line that might have tried building something similar themselves no longer need to, and maybe they'll use some of that free time improving or making minor additions to it that wouldn't have been done otherwise. This is meant to be something that evolves over time, and part of my goal is to also keep collections of things that I didn't use in a way where they're easily accessible if somebody else wants them, and they're organized in such a way that it would be easy to find if what they were looking for is saved in there.
But the cleanup and archiving have to be done while it's all fresh in my mind, otherwise I'll forget exactly where I was and what I was doing and then I'll be too afraid to delete anything or make any real decisions on it unless I dive headfirst back into all of it. I don't want to leave a bunch of landmines all around that could trigger me back into this project work after I leave it in a state that I'm satisfied with. Everything that is in the project will work flawlessly and look and navigate perfectly. Everything that is not in it will be archived and warehoused, likely only ever to be looked at by me again if somebody makes a request.
And until I go through all of this and make the decisions, I'm wasting a ton of hard drive space before I purge everything that is no longer necessary. That's all space that is going to be used to make a 4th backup of everything once I get it all purged out.
I got a lot of cleanup to do. Better get back to it.
I'm glad to hear that you got your frame up and it's cool that there were dates on them. Just some small thing that somebody thought to do years ago that really means something to somebody else all that time later.
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Oh, SIX. I got that frame up and 3 of the pictures have dates on them which is amazing. One though is a negative but I can guess at the year or the next year it was taken.
Wow. You already did it? Good for you.
How long were you sitting on that one?
That's one of the reasons why I think it's good to write things down. Probably one of the reasons I'm still here instead of posting stuff into the void of Twitter too. We couldn't have a real conversation like this on any of the main forms of social media except for chat places like Discord. And I kind of prefer this posting format compared to the realtime nature of chat.
Sometimes writing things down is all you need to get your mind in the right gear to get something that you've been meaning to get done finished.
I still haven't done anything with my living area yet. It's not that I'm not busy... I'm still working on that computer project to the exclusion of almost everything else. Made some major finishing touches on some big things recently, and before I decide what else I want to do I'm in the process of doing some neglected file cleanup and maintenance.
When I get to this point on certain aspects of the project, I need to take time to sift through all of the debris that I kicked up along the way and decide what can be discarded, and what should be held onto in case I or anybody else in the future wants to make any more improvements. One big aspect of my project is preserving what may not always be easily accessible otherwise someday, and so I don't want to just delete everything that I didn't use just because I didn't use it. It's probably mostly useless things if a perfectionist like me didn't see fit to use them, but one of my hopes always was that if the main work had already been done, other people down the line that might have tried building something similar themselves no longer need to, and maybe they'll use some of that free time improving or making minor additions to it that wouldn't have been done otherwise. This is meant to be something that evolves over time, and part of my goal is to also keep collections of things that I didn't use in a way where they're easily accessible if somebody else wants them, and they're organized in such a way that it would be easy to find if what they were looking for is saved in there.
But the cleanup and archiving have to be done while it's all fresh in my mind, otherwise I'll forget exactly where I was and what I was doing and then I'll be too afraid to delete anything or make any real decisions on it unless I dive headfirst back into all of it. I don't want to leave a bunch of landmines all around that could trigger me back into this project work after I leave it in a state that I'm satisfied with. Everything that is in the project will work flawlessly and look and navigate perfectly. Everything that is not in it will be archived and warehoused, likely only ever to be looked at by me again if somebody makes a request.
And until I go through all of this and make the decisions, I'm wasting a ton of hard drive space before I purge everything that is no longer necessary. That's all space that is going to be used to make a 4th backup of everything once I get it all purged out.
I got a lot of cleanup to do. Better get back to it.
I'm glad to hear that you got your frame up and it's cool that there were dates on them. Just some small thing that somebody thought to do years ago that really means something to somebody else all that time later.
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Yeah, got to it this afternoon. Just made up my mind to do it.
It would have to have been months, since I am not sure when I bought the frame. Like said end of last year or January of this yea
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Mah jong for me tomorrow. Then a bit of shopping. Also have to figure out my easter supper.
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Your right and I've got nothing holding me back today from doing that frame up.
Did you hang it up already and figure out where all your frames are going yet, or you still thinking about that?
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Nothing is really wrong with it. It's just told and bulky and in the last part of the Z hallway. So no not blocking a door or the bathroom or the kitchen. Just going by it is a little tight is all. I've got thing on top of it that have been knocked down. Like my some old hearing aides that you can recharge. I've also knocked over a collectable. On the other wall is a family crest with the family motto on it. My mum had it made years ago.
So the dresser is not in a room but it's taking up space in a hallway and you have to walk sideways around it then?
If that's the case, are you sure you can't imagine another place for it if you did some reorganization ad re-arranging? Do you already have another dresser in your bedroom and this is an extra one? If that's the case, do you really need everything inside of it? Could you do without it? If you chose to get rid of one dresser, would you want to swap this one and get rid of the dresser in your bedroom?
That just sounds potentially dangerous to me like having stuff in the hall on the floor. And like you said with the hearing aides falling off of it, you can't be putting stuff on top of that thing and making travel in your hallway even more difficult.
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Funny, I was just thinking about something like that last night.
Ah... so you haven't decided yet.
I'm sure something will come to mind now that we're actively engaged with it.
EDIT: Oh nevermind... I got confused and kind of posted out of order here. I got tripped up about your dresser and I must have missed you replying about it the first time I replied to that post. I'll have to look at your new post and make another reply.
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Your right and I've got nothing holding me back today from doing that frame up.
Did you hang it up already and figure out where all your frames are going yet, or you still thinking about that?Quote:
Nothing is really wrong with it. It's just told and bulky and in the last part of the Z hallway. So no not blocking a door or the bathroom or the kitchen. Just going by it is a little tight is all. I've got thing on top of it that have been knocked down. Like my some old hearing aides that you can recharge. I've also knocked over a collectable. On the other wall is a family crest with the family motto on it. My mum had it made years ago.
So the dresser is not in a room but it's taking up space in a hallway and you have to walk sideways around it then?
If that's the case, are you sure you can't imagine another place for it if you did some reorganization ad re-arranging? Do you already have another dresser in your bedroom and this is an extra one? If that's the case, do you really need everything inside of it? Could you do without it? If you chose to get rid of one dresser, would you want to swap this one and get rid of the dresser in your bedroom?
That just sounds potentially dangerous to me like having stuff in the hall on the floor. And like you said with the hearing aides falling off of it, you can't be putting stuff on top of that thing and making travel in your hallway even more difficult.Quote:
Funny, I was just thinking about something like that last night.
Ah... so you haven't decided yet.
I'm sure something will come to mind now that we're actively engaged with it.
EDIT: Oh nevermind... I got confused and kind of posted out of order here. I got tripped up about your dresser and I must have missed you replying about it the first time I replied to that post. I'll have to look at your new post and make another reply.
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That frame I did yesterday is up next to another one I did up ages ago.
I have a big dresser in the bedroom with clothes in it. And I can't switch the two around. Because it would still be a tight spot to get by. There are things I can move off the top of the dresser so they aren't knocked down. Also I was just thinking that if I could get help, it could be moved so it's not as much in the way. Problem there is a bookcase and again I would need help to move it even with all the books removed.
As to the frame with my folks and my grandparents, I have sort of found a space. There are empty sides on either of those 2 frames. The one I just put up has 2 black and white photos and 2 coloured. So, I don't think it would fit. But the other frame has all black and whites in it and I think it would work better there.
No worries SIX.
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Well, no rain today but a lousy morning at mah jong.
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Out and about on a Friday. Need a few things for my easter supper.
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Back and done for today. Over did it on the groceries because left hand getting on the shaking.
Also trying to decide if it is worth going over to boss's tomorrow. Got invite yesterday for and easter thing as she put it. Have no idea what is going on except it will only be an hour. 15 minute walk there and back. Oh, it is from 5pm to 6pm. Have to call her back and get some details out of her.
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You overdid the groceries bc your left hand was shaking??
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No SIG.
Over doing groceries is what caused my left hand to shake today. I carry my shopping back on my left arm straining the muscles and so when I am done, my hand shakes. The left has been pretty good this last while but today.
Oh, well.
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Oh, well, DOH!
I should have figured that out!
I guess my brain went on vacation for a bit!
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Oh, well, DOH!
I should have figured that out!
I guess my brain went on vacation for a bit!
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No worries SIG. My right hand shakes when I am on the computer. Also my brain has been doing a loop da loop since last Saturday and with the holiday I won't hear anything until sometime this coming week.
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Out soon to do laundry then my errands.
Not going to my boss's for supper. If she says 5pm to sit down it won't be until 6 or possibly even 7pm for supper. Also I don't feel like getting dragged into some sort of kitchen duty. It's bad enough I got to eat before I go over there for supper.
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I don't understand why your neurologist isn't reaching for better seizure control BRENDA. I know "they" don't like polytherapy but maybe you need a different or additional medication. And, honestly, if there ever was a case for epilepsy surgery, yours sounds like one. I know surgery is expensive and your medical system is trying to save money, but it's so frustrating to think that they're letting your case and your life molder.
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I don't understand why your neurologist isn't reaching for better seizure control BRENDA. I know "they" don't like polytherapy but maybe you need a different or additional medication. And, honestly, if there ever was a case for epilepsy surgery, yours sounds like one. I know surgery is expensive and your medical system is trying to save money, but it's so frustrating to think that they're letting your case and your life molder.
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I've talked to him about my hands and truthfully when I don't over strain my arms they don't shake. He figures I am doing too many heavy things. Which is way he suggested the "old lady shopping cart." I didn't say anything but I started thinking no, no, no. I am not that old.
Also I am on 2 meds right now and he doesn't want to up them anymore because of side effects. And as long as I don't have another for me big one, like the I had playing mah jong the other year. He's okay with things and truthfully so am I.
I don't know if I qualify for the surgery. To my understanding it is only for people who can't tolerate or if the meds don't control seizures at all. And with the meds I do have control. Not that I haven't thought about that from time to time. Also I think may depend on where the seizures are happening. I was told in the temporal lobe, can't really remember which side now.
I appreciate the concern but I have bigger fish to fry with the results of the echo from last Saturday.
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Got in a while ago on a lovely Saturday up here.
Washing done and lambchops secured for tomorrow. But when reaching for something off a top shelf, I didn't realize that I had pulled out my lower back. Am now sore. Ow.
Also no rushing over to my boss's. She also said the time frame was because of something else. So I am guessing they are heading out to their church after supper.
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I don't understand why your neurologist isn't reaching for better seizure control BRENDA. I know "they" don't like polytherapy but maybe you need a different or additional medication. And, honestly, if there ever was a case for epilepsy surgery, yours sounds like one. I know surgery is expensive and your medical system is trying to save money, but it's so frustrating to think that they're letting your case and your life molder.
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I've talked to him about my hands and truthfully when I don't over strain my arms they don't shake. He figures I am doing too many heavy things. Which is way he suggested the "old lady shopping cart." I didn't say anything but I started thinking no, no, no. I am not that old.
Quote:Two anticonvulsants? I've only heard of Keppra. But you're on a thyroid pill, right? Dear daughter is on Keppra and it seems her thyroid is slowing down. I wonder if there's a connection.
Also I am on 2 meds right now and he doesn't want to up them anymore because of side effects. And as long as I don't have another for me big one, like the I had playing mah jong the other year. He's okay with things and truthfully so am I.
Anyway, if you're happy, I'm happy. I'll try to remember that.
Quote:I don't know what threshold your medical system has for epilepsy surgery. And even if you do qualify, there's a whole big presurgical workup that has to be done to see if the seizure focus is even identifiable, and - if it is - operable. It requires all kinds of testing.
I don't know if I qualify for the surgery. To my understanding it is only for people who can't tolerate or if the meds don't control seizures at all. And with the meds I do have control. Not that I haven't thought about that from time to time. Also I think may depend on where the seizures are happening. I was told in the temporal lobe, can't really remember which side now.
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I appreciate the concern but I have bigger fish to fry with the results of the echo from last Saturday.
Ohhh....???
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I don't understand why your neurologist isn't reaching for better seizure control BRENDA. I know "they" don't like polytherapy but maybe you need a different or additional medication. And, honestly, if there ever was a case for epilepsy surgery, yours sounds like one. I know surgery is expensive and your medical system is trying to save money, but it's so frustrating to think that they're letting your case and your life molder.
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I've talked to him about my hands and truthfully when I don't over strain my arms they don't shake. He figures I am doing too many heavy things. Which is way he suggested the "old lady shopping cart." I didn't say anything but I started thinking no, no, no. I am not that old.Quote:Two anticonvulsants? I've only heard of Keppra. But you're on a thyroid pill, right? Dear daughter is on Keppra and it seems her thyroid is slowing down. I wonder if there's a connection.
Also I am on 2 meds right now and he doesn't want to up them anymore because of side effects. And as long as I don't have another for me big one, like the I had playing mah jong the other year. He's okay with things and truthfully so am I.
Anyway, if you're happy, I'm happy. I'll try to remember that.Quote:I don't know what threshold your medical system has for epilepsy surgery. And even if you do qualify, there's a whole big presurgical workup that has to be done to see if the seizure focus is even identifiable, and - if it is - operable. It requires all kinds of testing.
I don't know if I qualify for the surgery. To my understanding it is only for people who can't tolerate or if the meds don't control seizures at all. And with the meds I do have control. Not that I haven't thought about that from time to time. Also I think may depend on where the seizures are happening. I was told in the temporal lobe, can't really remember which side now.Quote:
I appreciate the concern but I have bigger fish to fry with the results of the echo from last Saturday.
Ohhh....???
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Yeah, just not going there with that. So, I try to break up what I have to do in smaller bits.
Yeah, the other one is Lamotrigine. He put me on that a year ago. Yeah, I am on thyroid med because my thyroid is slow. I started taking the thyroid med first I think. Some one yesterday asked me a question and I had to think about it. Finally I said around 35years, I've been living with this problem which is my hypoglycemia.
Yeah, he said as long as I can live with the little blips where I am only gone for a second and I haven't hurt myself. Then all is good and I don't want anymore seizure meds.
Lots of testing I am sure for the surgery would be needed up here. It would be up to the neurologist about that and where they are is in my file. My memory is very vague now about what the first neurologist or neurosurgeon told me.
I mean I haven't got the results yet from the echo. Technician told me it would take seven days. And with the holiday probably a little longer also not sure which doctor I will be seeing. Most like the cardiologist who will put me on meds or whatever and then my regular doc anyways. Thyroid test and need one seizure med refill.
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Quiet Sunday. Clean up, lunch then on to publishers. I've been avoiding that since I got this new monitor but I should get back to that.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:I know what you mean. And I'm 10 years ahead of you!
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I don't understand why your neurologist isn't reaching for better seizure control BRENDA. I know "they" don't like polytherapy but maybe you need a different or additional medication. And, honestly, if there ever was a case for epilepsy surgery, yours sounds like one. I know surgery is expensive and your medical system is trying to save money, but it's so frustrating to think that they're letting your case and your life molder.
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I've talked to him about my hands and truthfully when I don't over strain my arms they don't shake. He figures I am doing too many heavy things. Which is way he suggested the "old lady shopping cart." I didn't say anything but I started thinking no, no, no. I am not that old.Quote:Two anticonvulsants? I've only heard of Keppra. But you're on a thyroid pill, right? Dear daughter is on Keppra and it seems her thyroid is slowing down. I wonder if there's a connection.
Also I am on 2 meds right now and he doesn't want to up them anymore because of side effects. And as long as I don't have another for me big one, like the I had playing mah jong the other year. He's okay with things and truthfully so am I.
Anyway, if you're happy, I'm happy. I'll try to remember that.Quote:I don't know what threshold your medical system has for epilepsy surgery. And even if you do qualify, there's a whole big presurgical workup that has to be done to see if the seizure focus is even identifiable, and - if it is - operable. It requires all kinds of testing.
I don't know if I qualify for the surgery. To my understanding it is only for people who can't tolerate or if the meds don't control seizures at all. And with the meds I do have control. Not that I haven't thought about that from time to time. Also I think may depend on where the seizures are happening. I was told in the temporal lobe, can't really remember which side now.Quote:
I appreciate the concern but I have bigger fish to fry with the results of the echo from last Saturday.
Ohhh....???
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Yeah, just not going there with that. So, I try to break up what I have to do in smaller bits.
Yeah, the other one is Lamotrigine. He put me on that a year ago. Yeah, I am on thyroid med because my thyroid is slow. I started taking the thyroid med first I think. Some one yesterday asked me a question and I had to think about it. Finally I said around 35years, I've been living with this problem which is my hypoglycemia.
Yeah, he said as long as I can live with the little blips where I am only gone for a second and I haven't hurt myself. Then all is good and I don't want anymore seizure meds.
Lots of testing I am sure for the surgery would be needed up here. It would be up to the neurologist about that and where they are is in my file. My memory is very vague now about what the first neurologist or neurosurgeon told me.
I mean I haven't got the results yet from the echo. Technician told me it would take seven days. And with the holiday probably a little longer also not sure which doctor I will be seeing. Most like the cardiologist who will put me on meds or whatever and then my regular doc anyways. Thyroid test and need one seizure med refill.
. Sounds like they're pursuing your basic health. That's a good thing!
Don't be afraid of meds. I'm on 10 meds. I've cut them all down to the lowest effective dose, and doing everything I can to stay healthy and get healthier, but I need my meds.
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Quote:. Sounds like they're pursuing your basic health. That's a good thing!
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:I know what you mean. And I'm 10 years ahead of you!
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I don't understand why your neurologist isn't reaching for better seizure control BRENDA. I know "they" don't like polytherapy but maybe you need a different or additional medication. And, honestly, if there ever was a case for epilepsy surgery, yours sounds like one. I know surgery is expensive and your medical system is trying to save money, but it's so frustrating to think that they're letting your case and your life molder.
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I've talked to him about my hands and truthfully when I don't over strain my arms they don't shake. He figures I am doing too many heavy things. Which is way he suggested the "old lady shopping cart." I didn't say anything but I started thinking no, no, no. I am not that old.Quote:Two anticonvulsants? I've only heard of Keppra. But you're on a thyroid pill, right? Dear daughter is on Keppra and it seems her thyroid is slowing down. I wonder if there's a connection.
Also I am on 2 meds right now and he doesn't want to up them anymore because of side effects. And as long as I don't have another for me big one, like the I had playing mah jong the other year. He's okay with things and truthfully so am I.
Anyway, if you're happy, I'm happy. I'll try to remember that.Quote:I don't know what threshold your medical system has for epilepsy surgery. And even if you do qualify, there's a whole big presurgical workup that has to be done to see if the seizure focus is even identifiable, and - if it is - operable. It requires all kinds of testing.
I don't know if I qualify for the surgery. To my understanding it is only for people who can't tolerate or if the meds don't control seizures at all. And with the meds I do have control. Not that I haven't thought about that from time to time. Also I think may depend on where the seizures are happening. I was told in the temporal lobe, can't really remember which side now.Quote:
I appreciate the concern but I have bigger fish to fry with the results of the echo from last Saturday.
Ohhh....???
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Yeah, just not going there with that. So, I try to break up what I have to do in smaller bits.
Yeah, the other one is Lamotrigine. He put me on that a year ago. Yeah, I am on thyroid med because my thyroid is slow. I started taking the thyroid med first I think. Some one yesterday asked me a question and I had to think about it. Finally I said around 35years, I've been living with this problem which is my hypoglycemia.
Yeah, he said as long as I can live with the little blips where I am only gone for a second and I haven't hurt myself. Then all is good and I don't want anymore seizure meds.
Lots of testing I am sure for the surgery would be needed up here. It would be up to the neurologist about that and where they are is in my file. My memory is very vague now about what the first neurologist or neurosurgeon told me.
I mean I haven't got the results yet from the echo. Technician told me it would take seven days. And with the holiday probably a little longer also not sure which doctor I will be seeing. Most like the cardiologist who will put me on meds or whatever and then my regular doc anyways. Thyroid test and need one seizure med refill.
Don't be afraid of meds. I'm on 10 meds. I've cut them all down to the lowest effective dose, and doing everything I can to stay healthy and get healthier, but I need my meds.
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All done for a lovely day up here.
Got a call from the cardiologist's office. Will go down there tomorrow as they are very hard to get a hold of on the phone. Must be test results. Yikes! Not much sleep tonight as my brain will go into over drive.
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Call from the cardiologist today. My heart is okay. Heart function is good. He asked me how I felt and I said you just lifted a big weight off of me. And he said that's why he called me on Easter Monday to give me the good news.
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Call from the cardiologist today. My heart is okay. Heart function is good. He asked me how I felt and I said you just lifted a big weight off of me. And he said that's why he called me on Easter Monday to give me the good news.
Good news indeed!
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Call from the cardiologist today. My heart is okay. Heart function is good. He asked me how I felt and I said you just lifted a big weight off of me. And he said that's why he called me on Easter Monday to give me the good news.
Good news indeed!
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I know. I practically collapsed in relief after that call. I nervous laughed at him but it was in relief, because hearing my heart was pumping right and no blockages is the best thing in the world right now.
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Being the nosy person that I am... generally, doctors don't order tests for the helluvit. You must have had some symptoms that triggered the echo. Since they can rule out (R/O in medical terms) heart function (yay!) that still leaves whatever symptoms to resolve. Is that something you want to pursue?
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Glad to hear you're good, Brenda.
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Being the nosy person that I am... generally, doctors don't order tests for the helluvit. You must have had some symptoms that triggered the echo. Since they can rule out (R/O in medical terms) heart function (yay!) that still leaves whatever symptoms to resolve. Is that something you want to pursue?
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There was something on the ecg which is why the echo. I'm not sure about pursuing it. I have to see my own doc this month and I will discuss it with him.
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Yeah, SIX. Looks like I am in the clear.
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All done for today. It is lovely out but there is a cold wind blowing.
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Out in a bit couple of things to do. One I need to confirm my hearing aide appointment. Since I'll be around the office I will try to do it today.
Think I am going to put on a Spring jacket today. My winter coat was heavy yesterday in spite of the cold wind blowing.
Later peeps.
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Back and in on another lovely day. Wind not as cold as yesterday. Have to try again to fix the zipper on my Spring jacket. It is stuck.
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Yeah, SIX. Looks like I am in the clear.
Great news.
Still have no idea where I'm at, but I'm still feeling a lot better than I was.
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Yeah, SIX. Looks like I am in the clear.
Great news.
Still have no idea where I'm at, but I'm still feeling a lot better than I was.
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Feeling good is the important thing as is getting this done.
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Figured out how to get the date up on the monitor. When it came on just the time was on. My eyes automatically go down to the right hand corner for the time and the date. Noticed no date. Had a look at a couple of things in settings and got it straightened out. Taskbar was on lock and something else needed adjusting. Still tweaking things to get to where I would like them.
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Off to mah jong in the morning then a couple of things after.
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Figured out how to get the date up on the monitor. When it came on just the time was on. My eyes automatically go down to the right hand corner for the time and the date. Noticed no date. Had a look at a couple of things in settings and got it straightened out. Taskbar was on lock and something else needed adjusting. Still tweaking things to get to where I would like them.
I love hearing this.
How are you doing these things?
Just poking around?
Asking others for hints?
Looking up online how to do them?
I can't remember the guy's name now, but one of the college teachers I had the most respect for was the guy teaching an intermediate DOS class in my freshman year of high school. Rather than make us memorize things for the tests, he let us bring our small paperback books into the tests with us.
He said something along the lines of "In the real world when there are real world tests, you're going to have access to information to get things done the right way.
My tests are going to be problems that you need to solve. If you've been paying attention in class, you're going to have no problem solving them and whatever you don't remember you will know enough to know how to look it up and then how to use it."
And that's computers in a nutshell...
And the best part is because of the internet you have a far easier time learning new things than I did when I first got into computers. Everything you could ever possibly want to know is out there, although you obviously need to know quite a bit to grasp the top tier stuff.
But those little things you're doing now like fixing the clock/date and the taskbar and just getting things working the way you want them to is how you dip your toes in.
I didn't really start learning computers until I screwed up the PC my mom paid way too much for. I used a program called DoubleSpace that gave you nearly double the hard drive space for programs and games, but what I didn't realize before using it was that it did this by compressing all the non-system-critical files on the computer and there was no way to reverse it once it was done. The cost for all that extra space was that my already slow computer was now unusable.
That's when I learned how to format a hard drive and re-install Windows. It was either that or get nailed to a cross when my mom found out what I did.
I was pretty fearless about computers after I was able to do that. So far I've found that you can't break anything so much that it can't be fixed as long as the hardware is still good.
Keep plugging away...
Maybe now that you've got things back up and running, the next thing you can do is make another copy of your book and back up your photographs too. You could even learn how to make folders and sub-folders so you can organize the photos if you want too.
It's like learning a foreign language, but the more you learn the more you realize what you can make that computer do for you.
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Still slaving away at my project here. Weather is starting to finally warm up for good this time, so I'm really running out of time to be doing this 24/7 like I have been since I have important things to do.
I'm getting really close to where I want it to be now. Just so many tiny things that need being done and they take up so much time. And a lot of them are the things I dread doing and were put off to the end, so that's fun. At least I wasn't sloppy all over the place though. I knew better than to do that, because had I left 100% of the 10% of this project I hate doing all for the end, I'd screw myself because I'd never finish it. I did a pretty good job balancing that work as I went along, but the part I'm working on now never saw a ton of work since even the stuff I normally enjoy doing is not very enjoyable here. Everything just seems to take 5 times as long while doing this. There's just a ton of variables and other things that make you really have to plan things out on the fly while you're working instead of going on autopilot for a few hours and listening to a podcast or music in the background. Too many things here are tied to other things and great care has to be taken to line everything up. A lot of the project just contains many things that are self-contained and self-referential and can be manipulated by external processes. But this one large part has so many inter-connected parts.
I had some last minute additions in there which I said I wasn't going to do, but they were too good to be passing up. If I'm not officially done with adding anything new stuff, I'm just about there. Not that I've run out of things to add since that would probably be impossible in one lifetime, but I do believe that I've covered everything that I personally find worthwhile and interesting.
Just cleaning up the work and the documentation now and doing some last minute testing on things.
Unfortunately, I think I'm going to have to try to figure out a work/life balance with this thing as I'm wrapping it up though since hibernation time is just about over. I think I would have made the spring deadline if I didn't get sick.
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Figured out how to get the date up on the monitor. When it came on just the time was on. My eyes automatically go down to the right hand corner for the time and the date. Noticed no date. Had a look at a couple of things in settings and got it straightened out. Taskbar was on lock and something else needed adjusting. Still tweaking things to get to where I would like them.
I love hearing this.
How are you doing these things?
Just poking around?
Asking others for hints?
Looking up online how to do them?
I can't remember the guy's name now, but one of the college teachers I had the most respect for was the guy teaching an intermediate DOS class in my freshman year of high school. Rather than make us memorize things for the tests, he let us bring our small paperback books into the tests with us.
He said something along the lines of "In the real world when there are real world tests, you're going to have access to information to get things done the right way.
My tests are going to be problems that you need to solve. If you've been paying attention in class, you're going to have no problem solving them and whatever you don't remember you will know enough to know how to look it up and then how to use it."
And that's computers in a nutshell...
And the best part is because of the internet you have a far easier time learning new things than I did when I first got into computers. Everything you could ever possibly want to know is out there, although you obviously need to know quite a bit to grasp the top tier stuff.
But those little things you're doing now like fixing the clock/date and the taskbar and just getting things working the way you want them to is how you dip your toes in.
I didn't really start learning computers until I screwed up the PC my mom paid way too much for. I used a program called DoubleSpace that gave you nearly double the hard drive space for programs and games, but what I didn't realize before using it was that it did this by compressing all the non-system-critical files on the computer and there was no way to reverse it once it was done. The cost for all that extra space was that my already slow computer was now unusable.
That's when I learned how to format a hard drive and re-install Windows. It was either that or get nailed to a cross when my mom found out what I did.
I was pretty fearless about computers after I was able to do that. So far I've found that you can't break anything so much that it can't be fixed as long as the hardware is still good.
Keep plugging away...
Maybe now that you've got things back up and running, the next thing you can do is make another copy of your book and back up your photographs too. You could even learn how to make folders and sub-folders so you can organize the photos if you want too.
It's like learning a foreign language, but the more you learn the more you realize what you can make that computer do for you.
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For some of the tweaking it is poking around and looking things up on the internet.
For the date I asked a question at where I bought the monitor then I had to do some poking but once I found it it was easy. I just had to unlock the taskbar, you know move the blue "toggle" as they call it when you look it up. Then it was the same for increasing the size of the taskbar icons and the date came up. Felt pretty good getting that done with little fuss.
Yeah, I know things will get easier hopefully as time goes on. But I had that other monitor for 5years, so I was used to it.
I haven't gotten to my pictures yet. One of these Sundays I will.
I am half back on the trail of looking for a publisher. So that is a good start.
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All done for today. Lousy morning at mah jong. Could not and I mean could not break 1,000 points for love nor money. Ugh! Then to top that off I forgot something in the grocery store and luckily the cashier let me hurry to the aisle to get it.
Could wear my Spring jacket today. Wind has died down some and when it does hit you it isn't as cold.
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Been a busy day,and to top it off the wash machine finally totally broke and flooded the laundry area.
Considering the # of times it's been repaired and probably the lack of replacement parts, maybe it's time to blow taps on it.
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Been a busy day,and to top it off the wash machine finally totally broke and flooded the laundry area.
Considering the # of times it's been repaired and probably the lack of replacement parts, maybe it's time to blow taps on it.
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Sounds like it is officially dead. That's always bad. I replaced a hose once on my mum's machine and hoped it would last. It didn't. So it was laundry mat time.
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Out soon another lovely day up here in the Northlands. Odds and sods to do today. Need a better hair trap for the bathtub drain. Had no luck yesterday. Maybe today.
Was going through the pockets of my heavy coat and found $10. And I can't even remember where it came from. Must have been change from groceries and I just stuck it into a 3rd pocket on my heavy coat.
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Damn... That's a bummer sigs.
If you can't repair it, I'd do some research before buying a new one. I hear that a lot of them today are crap even though the prices are sky high. I'd try to get one with as few computer parts on it as possible, since most of your repair bills in the future will be because of circuit board problems which may or may not be purposefully built into the products these days.
Knock on wood, but I bought a used Amana Washer/Dryer combo when I first moved here for $325 and they just work. I don't know how old they are, but I've had them for going on 14 years now myself. I'm sure there is a board or two underneath somewhere, but they'd be really simple things since there is nothing but dials and knobs on both machines without even a simple LED or LCD screen anywhere to be found.
I've heard that Amana is crap today though even though they used to be top-tier.
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Done for today. Got something for the bath tub drain that I hope will work. Hearing aide office is closed until Tuesday. Wanted to go in and confirm my appointment for next month. Sign on the door they are closed because their receptionist is on holiday.
Also went into a store that sells used books and new along with vinyl records. I went in their looking for an album and found another one I want but I came out with a Dr. Who book. They do some publishing so I will take a look at their web site. Owner of the shop said take a look and maybe we can talk. Told him a bit about my book then we got onto other things. Think I spent over 10 minutes in that store. That is why I told him his store is bad. He said we try not to be bad. To me it is.
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Damn... That's a bummer sigs.
If you can't repair it, I'd do some research before buying a new one. I hear that a lot of them today are crap even though the prices are sky high. I'd try to get one with as few computer parts on it as possible, since most of your repair bills in the future will be because of circuit board problems which may or may not be purposefully built into the products these days.
Knock on wood, but I bought a used Amana Washer/Dryer combo when I first moved here for $325 and they just work. I don't know how old they are, but I've had them for going on 14 years now myself. I'm sure there is a board or two underneath somewhere, but they'd be really simple things since there is nothing but dials and knobs on both machines without even a simple LED or LCD screen anywhere to be found.
I've heard that Amana is crap today though even though they used to be top-tier.
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According to the internet, Speed Queen (yes, they still make them!) and LG are both reliable. I'm leaning to Speed Queen cause my sis has a 30 year old machine.
In the meantime, it's the laundromat.
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Oh... Speed Queen... Cool. I never heard of that brand before, but when I looked online it mentioned them specifically as one of the only brands you can still buy that aren't loaded up with a bunch of computer crap that you don't need. Hopefully you can snag one for a good price though because it sounds like you probably can't buy them at your local big box store and it might be special order.
I like this post that I saw from somebody on Reddit...
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My washer and dryer came with my house—a 1990’s Maytag washer and an early 2000’s Amana dryer. You can pry my laundry set from my cold dead hands. In fact I will put them in my will to make sure they stay in the family. Heirlooms
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With a little help from Goggle I found an easier way of accessing Word rather then going directly to the icon, which means getting off my home page. So that is good.
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Out soon on a cloudy day. Have a slight chance of rain.
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All done for today. No rain just spitting.
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Nice quiet Sunday around me. Clean up then double checking a publishing website.
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Out soon in the rain. Especially lovely when I didn't really sleep last night.
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All done in the rain. Had to go back out in said rain because I forgot something that I needed. Ugh!
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With a little help from Goggle I found an easier way of accessing Word rather then going directly to the icon, which means getting off my home page.
Nice. How are you opening it now?
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Almost done with the project. It's so close I can taste it.
Like I said, there's always more work to do and more things that can be added, but I do think that I will have finished the bulk if not all that I set out to do when I started it many years ago.
Got some real life stuff getting in the way of me wrapping it up quickly, but I should be able to maintain a balance between the two for a short while before I'm truly done and I figure out how to get it out there.
Between all the extra under the hood work that I've done and all the documentation, I've been able to also make this something that people can pick and choose what they'd want if they don't have 5TB handy to keep a full copy of the package. We're well beyond the 64GB thumbstick I started with, but if somebody wanted a minimum install it should fit on a 256GB thumb drive. You'd be gimping the experience by doing so, but it's also made in such a way where somebody could later decide to get a large drive and add a whole bunch to it peace-meal and they'd work together seamlessly.
This is arguably as big as when I dehoarded my house and got rid of 70% of the stuff I owned. It will be nice to not have this thing weighing me down in the back of my mind anymore after all these years.
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With a little help from Goggle I found an easier way of accessing Word rather then going directly to the icon, which means getting off my home page.
Nice. How are you opening it now?
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I type Word into the search area on the taskbar and it brings up Word 2007 which is what is on the computer. Even brings up all my documents. I just it open at the top of the menu and voila a new Word page.
And the good thing for me is that I don't have to leave whatever else I maybe doing on the internet.
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I type Word into the search area on the taskbar and it brings up Word 2007 which is what is on the computer. Even brings up all my documents. I just it open at the top of the menu and voila a new Word page.
Nice Brenda. I'm aware that is a feature now, but I've been using Windows for so long that most of the time it wasn't so I tend to forget that it even exists, despite the fact that it always says "search" down there.
Like I said before, there's a lot of ways to do pretty much everything in Windows, and really no wrong way to do any of it as long as it makes sense to you and is easy to get there.
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And the good thing for me is that I don't have to leave whatever else I maybe doing on the internet.
Right.
Are you aware that you can "PIN" your frequently used programs on the taskbar and make it even easier to open them?
Try it out. Next time you open your browser and Word, you see the icon in the taskbar there? Bring your pointer over it, right click on that with your mouse and it will bring up a Context Menu. Depending on the program there will be anywhere from 2 options that pop up to quite a few. Sometimes those options will be a list of your most recently opened files within that program (like your book in word, for instance).
One of the options though will be "Pin to Taskbar".
If you left click on "Pin to Taskbar" the icon will remain on the taskbar even after you close the internet or word.
Then any time you want to open those programs all you have to do is click on them and they open without even searching.
Even better, on when you pin Word to the taskbar, you can right click on it and your book will be one of the Context Menu options as long as it was one of the last 10 or so Word Documents that you opened and you won't even have to search for your book to open it.
For most people there is plenty of room on that taskbar for all of the icons of their most used programs. You're probably only going to need a few. With all my computer work I use a ton of programs and I've never even run out of taskbar space. But I do tend to add and remove programs pretty frequently. When I know that I'm done using something for good or even just for a really long time I remove it just so I'm not clogging up the interface with stuff I won't be using.
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I type Word into the search area on the taskbar and it brings up Word 2007 which is what is on the computer. Even brings up all my documents. I just it open at the top of the menu and voila a new Word page.
Nice Brenda. I'm aware that is a feature now, but I've been using Windows for so long that most of the time it wasn't so I tend to forget that it even exists, despite the fact that it always says "search" down there.
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And the good thing for me is that I don't have to leave whatever else I maybe doing on the internet.
Right.
Are you aware that you can "PIN" your frequently used programs on the taskbar and make it even easier to open them?
Try it out. Next time you open your browser and Word, you see the icon in the taskbar there? Bring your pointer over it, right click on that with your mouse and it will bring up a Context Menu. Depending on the program there will be anywhere from 2 options that pop up to quite a few. Sometimes those options will be a list of your most recently opened files within that program (like your book in word, for instance).
One of the options though will be "Pin to Taskbar".
If you left click on "Pin to Taskbar" the icon will remain on the taskbar even after you close the internet or word.
Then any time you want to open those programs all you have to do is click on them and they open without even searching.
Even better, on when you pin Word to the taskbar, you can right click on it and your book will be one of the Context Menu options as long as it was one of the last 10 or so Word Documents that you opened and you won't even have to search for your book to open it.
For most people there is plenty of room on that taskbar for all of the icons of their most used programs. You're probably only going to need a few. With all my computer work I use a ton of programs and I've never even run out of taskbar space. But I do tend to add and remove programs pretty frequently. When I know that I'm done using something for good or even just for a really long time I remove it just so I'm not clogging up the interface with stuff I won't be using.
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I will keep all of that in mind. But no, I didn't I know that you could pin Word to the taskbar. Somehow last night I managed to get rid of the Edge icon on taskbar. Didn't notice it till this morning. Thinking about whether not it is important to put that back.
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Out soon in the rain. Have to see if hearing aide place is open to confirm my appointment for next month. I have developed a bad habit of not always reading or answering emails.
Also for some reason I've not been sleeping really good the last couple of nights. Guess trying to figure out how to keep the bathtub drain from clogging has been clogging up my brain.
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Well, accidentally closed my Goggle home page after I was here and EDGE came back up. Guess it was just slow to wake up. Then Chrome had a moment to come back up. Probably a little cold.
I think I know why now. I just noticed a cute little thing at the top of the page. It has changed ask Goggle AI to Ask Gemini with a little multi coloured star in front of it.
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When it rains, it pours.
I think we're coming to the end of disaster month. Sick van, sick dog, sick hubby, busted washing machine. And now at the tax preparer's office. At least I got my paperwork together.
It sounds like you're getting used to your new monitor, BRENDA. And exploring different options in your software. That's GREAT!
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Ah, man SIG that is a rough one for sure. Hope all goes well with the tax man.
Yeah, I am finding new and different stuff on this monitor which is good. Some of it I probably could have done on the old but just never bothered. I will admit it is kinda cool for me to be learning some of this new stuff.
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All done for today. Ick! on the rain though. Hearing appointment confirmed for next month. I got their email just never got around to answering it. Bad habit I have picked up over the months. Got lunch ordered for Thursday at the seniors' centre. So, yeah not a bad day in spite of the rain.
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Out in the dry for today. Missed the weather last night so don't know about the rest of the week.
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I will keep all of that in mind. But no, I didn't I know that you could pin Word to the taskbar. Somehow last night I managed to get rid of the Edge icon on taskbar. Didn't notice it till this morning. Thinking about whether not it is important to put that back.
My normal answer would be no, but is Edge the browser that you use?
If that's your browser, you might as well pin it back on the taskbar. It's the same steps I mentioned in the previous post.
Any program that you open will show an icon on the task bar. Just right click that icon when the program is open for the pop up menu and select "Pin to taskbar" and when you close the program the icon will stay on the taskbar.
When you removed it, you might have right clicked and accidentally clicked on "unpin from taskbar".
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I will keep all of that in mind. But no, I didn't I know that you could pin Word to the taskbar. Somehow last night I managed to get rid of the Edge icon on taskbar. Didn't notice it till this morning. Thinking about whether not it is important to put that back.
My normal answer would be no, but is Edge the browser that you use?
If that's your browser, you might as well pin it back on the taskbar. It's the same steps I mentioned in the previous post.
Any program that you open will show an icon on the task bar. Just right click that icon when the program is open for the pop up menu and select "Pin to taskbar" and when you close the program the icon will stay on the taskbar.
When you removed it, you might have right clicked and accidentally clicked on "unpin from taskbar".
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I use Chrome as my browser and it turned out that Edge was doing an update adding another AI to things. So, the icon came back after a bit. I just ignore things like that anyways.
So, all is good. Still thinking about stuff and I really, really, really have to shoot off an email to that publishing site I found.
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All done outside for today. Still dry but there were some dark clouds moving in.
Ran into the lady that used to come in and look after my mum. We keep talking about a coffee date but we haven't go there yet. Maybe next week. Anyways some good news and bad news from her. Her husband just went through his last cancer treatment last week, which is fantastic news. But they got a phone call in the middle of the night at the end of March saying that his mother had died. He couldn't go home because he wasn't allowed to fly because of his treatments. He's from Eastern Europe. She's hoping to go back to work.
Got a call from my dentist cancelling my appointment for next Monday. It's been shoved back to June. Called the office to find out when.
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I use Chrome as my browser and it turned out that Edge was doing an update adding another AI to things. So, the icon came back after a bit. I just ignore things like that anyways.
Okay. You don't need to pin it then. I never use Edge for anything. Most people don't.
Next time you log in here with chrome though, give pinning it to the taskbar a shot. It's really super easy to do and is a time saver. Once you've done that, you can do it with Word anything else you use too.
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So, all is good. Still thinking about stuff and I really, really, really have to shoot off an email to that publishing site I found.
Go for it.
I'm finally getting some stuff done that I was talking about doing.
My old man is coming by to visit tomorrow so I started cleaning my living room this afternoon. A deeper clean than usual... moving some stuff that's been in there for no reason for a long time now and also using microfiber cloths to really dust everything good before I vac it all up...
And that got me to look at the rat's nest of cables behind and all around my TV.
Sensless...
I've already removed 2 things I don't need to have plugged in there after tracing all the wires, and I found an abandoned RJ45 cable, VGA cable and coaxial cable that have been back there so long I don't even remember what I was using any of them for before I abandoned them. I also found my two 20-packs of velcro cable ties that I got for free after rebate maybe 4 years ago and are just now finally getting used (they are AWESOME, btw...).
I'm moving some furniture around while I do it too...
My old man is finally going to have a side table and a coaster to put his Coke on when we're watching a movie tomorrow. That's the really nice table that was in the kitchen above my recycle box and that the Air Fryer was on. Way too low to the ground for that job, really.
Not that it's the best replacement, but it will do until I find something better, I have a REALLY nice decorative shelving unit that my Step-Dad gave me when they moved. I believe it was actually a TV stand at some point, maybe? It's a really tall one with about 5 shelves under that top shelf. I won't be able to put my recycle box under or inside it, but it's going to raise my air fryer to the appropriate height until I can find a good cabinet or something to put over there instead. The recycle box will need to be put to the side of it for now. There will be enough room between the shelving unit and the kitchen door for that. I'm going to look and see if I have another nice unused tote for the recyclables instead, since all I'm using right now is an old Amazon packing box for that job right now.
I believe I'm going to take the small bedside cabinet from an old set I gave away out of my master bedroom and put that where the tiny cabinet with the hidden compartment is now. That's the one I've got my router and cordless tool battery charger on that's sitting in between my TV stand and the curio cabinet. It looks really stupid there because it's sideways... It's super thin from the front, but very deep. I can't really get to those drawers and they don't hold much anyhow. Not that it will look great in my bedroom either, but I don't really use it all that much and I'll need something to put the TV on if I take that bedside dresser out of the bedroom. I'll have to find a new home for the towels that I stored in there, but they were my "garbage" extra towels from some various old sets that I never use for bathing. They can all be put in a tote or a box in a closet, really. Once that's in the living room, I can use those two very large drawers to store most of the stuff that's cluttering up my curio cabinet.
I had all of my electric stuff for the generator plug laying on the floor in my livingroom for 2 or 3 years now. I also
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HOLY CRAP THAT TV STAND WAS HEAVY!!!!
I don't think it actually was a TV stand now though, come to think of it. I seem to remember my step dad had all of his stereo equipment on it back in the day. There is a plastic thing tacked into the back of it on every shelf that had holes for plugs and cables to go through for the different components.
It's got a solid black metal frame and each shelf is veneered high density fiberboard.
It's been up in my attic since 2019 when I dehoarded. Of all the furniture I threw out, I couldn't bring myself to throw that thing out. I honestly have no idea how I got it upstairs. I'm thinking my brother had to help me with it. I'm amazed I was able to get it all the way downstairs without gouging the crap out of the stairs or the walls or the trim anywhere. Sliding it down the crappy carpet going into the attic was pretty easy, but it gave me pause for the rest of the job. I almost left it up there in the hallway until my dad came tomorrow, but I want this all set up before he gets here so I soldiered on. Getting that thing down one step at a time on my finished stairs going to the 2nd floor without damaging anything was tricky as hell, so I'm taking a break now.
It looks really nice in the corner of the kitchen with the air fryer on it. I found out that I can just barely fit my big crock pot in between the shelves if I take the top off, but I thought better of it and just put it back in the lower kitchen cabinets for now. Just because I have shelves there now doesn't mean I want to use them. I will have to dust that thing every once in a while and I don't need a ton of crap on it that doesn't need to be there. If I can figure out a way to remove one of the shelves and the brackets for it without breaking it, I may remove the 2nd from the bottom and then I can put a tote for recyclables on the bottom shelf. Otherwise, this thing is only going to be temporary.
I thought I had a 2nd really awesome power strip from a "back to school" special the power company runs every few years where you pay something stupid like $8 for a bunch of LED lightbulbs, a desk lamp, a night light, a power strip and some other goodies, but I was wrong. Unlike the one I've been using that I got the first time I bought a package, this doesn't have any USB chargers, and it's got a weird infered dongle that will power up 4 of the 6 outlets only when it senses movement in the room. I don't want any of that crap. I'm going to see if my dad wants it tomorrow. In the meantime I'm swapping the existing power strips I was using because now I've got a ton of room underneath the printer on the corner piece since the only thing there now is the power strip, so that will be a great place to charge my mp3 player and tablets instead of charging them on the floor by the TV stand.
Man... After 8PM already and it's dark out. I've got a lot of stuff to do yet. I'll probably be at this until midnight at least. I guess I'll just make sure I wake up early enough to clean the bathroom before I take a shower tomorrow because I doubt I'm going to be in the mood to clean a bathroom at 1AM.
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Nice... The 2nd to the bottom shelf came right off with 8 screws from the bottom and the brackets for it on either side don't even look bad so I probably won't even bother pulling off my furniture pads from the feet to see how I would get them out. I had a nice tote in my pantry that had a bunch of old sunflower seeds in it that are all expired (I overbought and stopped eating them years ago). So now that's on the bottom shelf of the stand and everything fits perfect in the corner. I probably don't even have to look for a cabinet anymore, but I'll keep my eye out if there's anything I see that I'd consider an upgrade down the road. It doesn't match my trim, but one of the few wall hangings I have in my house is the oil rubbed bronze clock in the kitchen right above it which matches all my cabinet hardware, and the solid black frame goes well with all of it.
I have a small table out in the garage that I'm going to bring into the basement and put my battery charger on since I don't want to look at it in my living room anymore. I'll grab that when I go outside to take my trash out and get that taken care of.
Boy... I may have bit off more than I could chew in one day here. Might not be able to get it all done before my dad comes by tomorrow along with the kitchen/bathroom cleaning. Oh well... It looks a lot better already all around and I can tell how much nicer doing small things is going to be down the road now that I'm doing some real planning and making my space work for me.
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I use Chrome as my browser and it turned out that Edge was doing an update adding another AI to things. So, the icon came back after a bit. I just ignore things like that anyways.
Okay. You don't need to pin it then. I never use Edge for anything. Most people don't.
Next time you log in here with chrome though, give pinning it to the taskbar a shot. It's really super easy to do and is a time saver. Once you've done that, you can do it with Word anything else you use too.Quote:
So, all is good. Still thinking about stuff and I really, really, really have to shoot off an email to that publishing site I found.
Go for it.
I'm finally getting some stuff done that I was talking about doing.
My old man is coming by to visit tomorrow so I started cleaning my living room this afternoon. A deeper clean than usual... moving some stuff that's been in there for no reason for a long time now and also using microfiber cloths to really dust everything good before I vac it all up...
And that got me to look at the rat's nest of cables behind and all around my TV.
Sensless...
I've already removed 2 things I don't need to have plugged in there after tracing all the wires, and I found an abandoned RJ45 cable, VGA cable and coaxial cable that have been back there so long I don't even remember what I was using any of them for before I abandoned them. I also found my two 20-packs of velcro cable ties that I got for free after rebate maybe 4 years ago and are just now finally getting used (they are AWESOME, btw...).
I'm moving some furniture around while I do it too...
My old man is finally going to have a side table and a coaster to put his Coke on when we're watching a movie tomorrow. That's the really nice table that was in the kitchen above my recycle box and that the Air Fryer was on. Way too low to the ground for that job, really.
Not that it's the best replacement, but it will do until I find something better, I have a REALLY nice decorative shelving unit that my Step-Dad gave me when they moved. I believe it was actually a TV stand at some point, maybe? It's a really tall one with about 5 shelves under that top shelf. I won't be able to put my recycle box under or inside it, but it's going to raise my air fryer to the appropriate height until I can find a good cabinet or something to put over there instead. The recycle box will need to be put to the side of it for now. There will be enough room between the shelving unit and the kitchen door for that. I'm going to look and see if I have another nice unused tote for the recyclables instead, since all I'm using right now is an old Amazon packing box for that job right now.
I believe I'm going to take the small bedside cabinet from an old set I gave away out of my master bedroom and put that where the tiny cabinet with the hidden compartment is now. That's the one I've got my router and cordless tool battery charger on that's sitting in between my TV stand and the curio cabinet. It looks really stupid there because it's sideways... It's super thin from the front, but very deep. I can't really get to those drawers and they don't hold much anyhow. Not that it will look great in my bedroom either, but I don't really use it all that much and I'll need something to put the TV on if I take that bedside dresser out of the bedroom. I'll have to find a new home for the towels that I stored in there, but they were my "garbage" extra towels from some various old sets that I never use for bathing. They can all be put in a tote or a box in a closet, really. Once that's in the living room, I can use those two very large drawers to store most of the stuff that's cluttering up my curio cabinet.
I had all of my electric stuff for the generator plug laying on the floor
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Off to mah jong tomorrow. At least it will be dry again. Yay!!
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Yeah... Definately over thinking things, but it's okay. I would have spent most of today working on my computer project anyway and that work isn't going anywhere. I can't mow my front lawn until Friday because of rain anyhow. I just need to wrap up enough of this job so I can get to sleep at a somewhat decent hour. I can't believe it's already 1AM already.
Rat's nest is finally solved. It took a lot of planning and about 30 of those velcro straps, but nothing is tangled anymore, most of it is off of the floor for easy vacuuming, and I did a really good job of wiping everything down with microfiber including the TV stand and the perpierals I'm still going to use on it. I made sure the TV plug is on top for easy removal, because with the price of 65" TVs right now at Costco and Sam's club, I think Jack is going to be buying one when my dad comes over. He'll... I'd buy the 75" one if I had a way of getting it back home at only $379, but I think we might have to take the TV out of the box just to get the 65" version in my dad's car. The 65" TV is only $279... Amazing. Unfortunately they won't ship them and it's only pick up in store, so I can't get the bigger one.
My dad doesn't know he's doing that yet, but I'm sure he's going to be thrilled to be watching movies on that thing with me when he's staying for a few days before his big vacation and any time he comes over after that.
Turns out I'm not going to bring that small bedside cabinet down from the master bedroom after all. I thought I'd want something there to hide the rats nest, but I did a great job hiding 90% of that behind the TV stand and up off the floor so other than a few cords from the wall outlet, there's nothing to hide anymore. Once I clean up all the crap off the floor that I don't need in the living room anymore and vacuum everything up, the living room is going to look so spacious now.
I can't believe how long I've been at this now. I think I started doing this work at around 3PM. Lots of cleaning and dusting and other things happened along the way too, but jeez...
I think I'm probably going to be working until 4AM.
That's alright. I'm not doing anything tomorrow except for having him over anyhow. Maybe I'll go grocery shopping at some point after he's gone, but that's about it. I don't need a full 8 hours of sleep for that, and maybe I'll get to bed at a decent hour tomorrow night so I can mow the lawn early instead of starting that at 3PM on Friday.
I was thinking about bringing down my 2-seater kitchen table and the chairs, dusting them off and setting them up in the kitchen before he got here too, but then I remembered that I still have all that new trim I put up around the stairs and close to where the table is going to go and I'm going to wait until I've done all the filling, sanding and touching up before I finally get my kitchen table back (after like 5 or 6 years now... )
I've got a beautiful dark leather recliner a neighbor gave me that's been sitting in my garage too. I've decided that's going to go in the living room and sit where a restored rocking chair my mom and step-dad gave me is sitting by the entryway, but getting that in my house without damaging anything is probably too big a job on my own. I can't remember how heavy it is, but it's probably not something I will ask my dad to help me with. I'll have to get one of my friends over soon to help. The rocking chair can go upstairs in one of the bedrooms. It's too nice to be putting out in the back porch.
Well... break time is over. Back to work!
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Boy... still at it. We're going on 12 hours now. I knew there was a reason I put all this off for so long.
The work has wound down, but it's just time consuming crap right now. I'm going through junk mail and trying to clear out some stuff from that curio cabinet and the foyer table that I restored.
I think I'm going to have to give it up soon and just do a little clean up in the kitchen and call it a night. Still kind of aching from the yard work I did the other day and 12 hours at this hasn't helped either. Jack's gotta get back into shape.
I'm not heavy or nothing, but I could lose about 5lbs and I'm just achey because all I do most days is sit on my couch and work on that project. And I did just have a 8cm growth in my left lung 6 weeks ago too... Gonna put that project behind me soon and get back on the horse. Gonna have to get a job of some sort by the end of the year and I've got some big things around here I want to get done before I start looking.
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Ten to Five and just finally wrapping things up. That was a LONG day...
The only thing I didn't get done was going through the more important paperwork, sorting through the drawer and doors on the bottom of the curio cabinet, and some more stuff to go through on that foyer table.
Kitchen and bathroom are clean too except for the toilet. I'm going to clean that right before my shower tomorrow.
Looks great. Can't wait until the old man comes tomorrow.
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Man, you got a lot of work done. Don't think I could go at anything in here for 8 hours straight with pulling a muscle or just plain tiring myself out. But it's good that you did all of that. Nice time you go to dust or whatever it will be easier.
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All done for me today. Got the booby prize at mah jong. Got my $2 back. Oh well. Found a foot stool that would work for my place, just have to figure out how I would get it back if I bought it. It is on wheels but with the weird weather meaning going from sunny to rain, I could end up tracking mud in and I don't want to do that. Also being square it would be awkward to carry back. Will think on it.
Dry and sunny but a cold wind is blowing for sure.
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Yeah... Got a ton done yesterday for sure...
My dad left at around 6:30 and instead of going grocery shopping I decided to mow the front lawn. Just barely made it before sundown. Now if I want to mow the back a 2nd time since it's already long again, I can just do that tomorrow when it's in the 80's. By the time I was finished I was sweating and that's a cold wind. Going back down in the high 40's low 50's tonight before the 83 high tomorrow... Spring in Chicago.
Could you send me a picture of a similar footstool, Brenda? Maybe I can think of something you could try to get it back home.
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Yeah... Got a ton done yesterday for sure...
My dad left at around 6:30 and instead of going grocery shopping I decided to mow the front lawn. Just barely made it before sundown. Now if I want to mow the back a 2nd time since it's already long again, I can just do that tomorrow when it's in the 80's. By the time I was finished I was sweating and that's a cold wind. Going back down in the high 40's low 50's tonight before the 83 high tomorrow... Spring in Chicago.
Could you send me a picture of a similar footstool, Brenda? Maybe I can think of something you could try to get it back home.
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I tried looking for a picture of it last night on the store's website and couldn't find it. Wish I had written down how big it is.
https://www.thebrick.com/collections/furniture-living-room-ottomans
It is the blue one on the right hand side of the page. I hope I did it right.
Sorry, I still haven't really gotten the hang of copying pictures or whatever you call it. I did find a picture of it on another store's website and it is 14 by 74". If that is any help?
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Off to work tomorrow.
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Yeah... Got a ton done yesterday for sure...
My dad left at around 6:30 and instead of going grocery shopping I decided to mow the front lawn. Just barely made it before sundown. Now if I want to mow the back a 2nd time since it's already long again, I can just do that tomorrow when it's in the 80's. By the time I was finished I was sweating and that's a cold wind. Going back down in the high 40's low 50's tonight before the 83 high tomorrow... Spring in Chicago.
Could you send me a picture of a similar footstool, Brenda? Maybe I can think of something you could try to get it back home.
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I tried looking for a picture of it last night on the store's website and couldn't find it. Wish I had written down how big it is.
https://www.thebrick.com/collections/furniture-living-room-ottomans
It is the blue one on the right hand side of the page. I hope I did it right.
Sorry, I still haven't really gotten the hang of copying pictures or whatever you call it. I did find a picture of it on another store's website and it is 14 by 74". If that is any help?
Ahhh... I thought you meant a stool as something to stand up on to reach a higher height. You mean an ottoman then? I'm not sure if I'm seeing the same images as you are so without the full name of the product I couldn't say for sure.
14" x 74"? That's over 6 feet long. I'm a little bit confused. That seems way too big for you to even consider lugging home on your own. Even if it was ultra light and you had a big wagon wheel it back to your place, I would imagine that would still be tough to impossible with it right up in your face or even on your back as you were pulling the wagon, so I think I'm not getting what you're talking about.
Can you type in the exact name of it?
I saw a Navy blue one on that page that is 14.75" squared...
Ottawa 14.75" Square Fabric Storage Ottoman - Navy
https://www.thebrick.com/products/ottawa-square-fabric-storage-ottoman
-navy
Maybe that's the one you're talking about? That would seem infinitely more manageable.
ETA: No... sorry. That's not it. Went back and re-read your first post and saw that it has wheels. So it probably is really big. Hmmmmmmmm...
Yeah if you can, send click on the product and give me the link directly to the one you're talking about so I can see it.
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Goddamnit... Had a visit from my Smoke Demon tonight...
I can't even remember the last time I had a night terror. I was living here. I know I've had a few of them since I moved here, but I think my last one was before the covid lockdowns.
I wish I remember what the dream I was having was about. It wasn't a nightmare at first, and my dad was in it. I think at some point we got separated and I was looking for him. All I can remember now is that I found him creepy house that was a drastic shift in tone from everything else before it. He said he was alright, but something happened... I think I remember him saying it made him cry? But that was it... I was pulled away backwards from him while he was talking on a mattress that was either on some sort of roller coaster to hell or just back into the void and out of that reality. As I slid back down into nothingness, I heard heavy breathing all around me...
Turns out that was me breathing heavy IRL...
BAM!!!!
Eyes open. We're in reality again. But I can't move. Trapped again in the terrifying realm of half life and half dreams...
And my wiggle-the-toes solution I'd come to figure out was the easiest way out was not working so well this time. And against my better judgement, I look in the corner. Yup. There he is. My AIO computer monitor on my coffee table thankfully sheilding my eyes from seeing his full form, but there's his head in the corner with those glowing white eyes staring right back into mine. Thankfully, he's not moving. He never does. He just stands there staring at me... smoke swirling all around his head but somehow never dimming the glow of those eyes as if they're in front of smoke itself...
Heavy breathing. Loud...
I scream out "FUCK YOU!"... But I know that I don't really. It's only in my head. I can't speak. I can't ever speak...
Wiggling my toes still, but now trying to perform the Herculean task of sitting upright and breaking the spell since the tried and true method of toe wiggling is not waking my feet up fast enough to kick my way out.
Look anywhere but that corner. Focus on escape. Anywhere but that corner...
Fuck!
I'm staring right into his dead eyes again. I know none of this is real, but the panic is very real. Adrenaline is really pumping now. I can feel it. The breathing is even heavier now.
I'm giving him the finger. I can feel that I am, but without moving my head because that's still impossible, I move my eyes to look down at where it feels my hand should be, but in reality my entire arm is pinned lifelessly at my side.
I never looked back at the corner a third time and eventually I managed to kick my way out of the nightmare and wake up.
And it's only 2:33AM. Shit. I've only gotten a few hours sleep.
And now I'm here. Had me a cigarette and wasting time because the only thing to do now is wake up completely before I go back to the dream realm.
To do otherwise would be foolish. If there is any hint of the sleep chemicals flowing through my blood before I sleep again I'll be plunged right back into the place between worlds where the demons roam and I have no ability to do anything but breath heavy and feel a terror the likes of which I've never faced in real life. Being beat half to death and stabbed by 4 guys doesn't have shit on whatever these episodes really are.
Christ... These Night Terror / Sleep Paralaysis episodes are something else.
If I had just one good thing to still say about the internet in 2026 is that somewhere along the line it let me know that I wasn't crazy and that there were other people who have had the same experience.
Back when I had my first visit from Mr. Smoke, I was in my early 20's living at my Grandma's house. Anybody I mentioned it to didn't know what the hell I was talking about, so I just stopped mentioning it. Even when it happened again, I never told a soul. At least not until I had youtube videos
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This poor girl...
The other thing I learned from the internet is that these dreams could be a whole lot worse than mine, and that my smoke demon, as terrifying as he is, isn't such a bad guy. He doesn't interact. He just stares at me, perhaps in silent judgement...
Some are haunted by dream demons that move all around and do some pretty horrific things to people before they can snap out of it.
And if Fuseli's "The Nightmare" painting is any indication there have been others who have had these visits for at least 250 years. Maybe some among us have always had them.
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I will keep all of that in mind. But no, I didn't I know that you could pin Word to the taskbar. Somehow last night I managed to get rid of the Edge icon on taskbar. Didn't notice it till this morning. Thinking about whether not it is important to put that back.
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My normal answer would be no, but is Edge the browser that you use?
If that's your browser, you might as well pin it back on the taskbar. It's the same steps I mentioned in the previous post.
Any program that you open will show an icon on the task bar. Just right click that icon when the program is open for the pop up menu and select "Pin to taskbar" and when you close the program the icon will stay on the taskbar.
When you removed it, you might have right clicked and accidentally clicked on "unpin from taskbar".
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I use Chrome as my browser and it turned out that Edge was doing an update adding another AI to things. So, the icon came back after a bit. I just ignore things like that anyways.
So, all is good. Still thinking about stuff and I really, really, really have to shoot off an email to that publishing site I found.
Scrolling up to see what I missed.
I really hate those updates. My phone updates all the time, and a lot of times they take a perfectly functional app and screw it up. I ignore AI too.
Yeah, like SIX said about the publisher: Go for it!
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All done outside for today. Still dry but there were some dark clouds moving in.
Ran into the lady that used to come in and look after my mum. We keep talking about a coffee date but we haven't go there yet.
Quote:fingers crossed for them that it worked
Anyways some good news and bad news from her. Her husband just went through his last cancer treatment last week, which is fantastic news.
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But they got a phone call in the middle of the night at the end of March saying that his mother had died. He couldn't go home because he wasn't allowed to fly because of his treatments. He's from Eastern Europe. She's hoping to go back to work.
That's a shame.
I hope she gets back to work. Being immersed in family health problems 24/7 is a little crazy -making, even if you're used to it.
Quote:Fingers crossed that all your appointments from now on are routine cleaning!
Got a call from my dentist cancelling my appointment for next Monday. It's been shoved back to June. Called the office to find out when.
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Quote:Snake's nests of cables: a cleaning nightmare! Happy for you that you could get rid of some!
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I'm finally getting some stuff done that I was talking about doing.
My old man is coming by to visit tomorrow so I started cleaning my living room this afternoon. A deeper clean than usual... moving some stuff that's been in there for no reason for a long time now and also using microfiber cloths to really dust everything good before I vac it all up...
And that got me to look at the rat's nest of cables behind and all around my TV.
Sensless...
I've already removed 2 things I don't need to have plugged in there after tracing all the wires, and I found an abandoned RJ45 cable, VGA cable and coaxial cable that have been back there so long I don't even remember what I was using any of them for before I abandoned them. I also found my two 20-packs of velcro cable ties that I got for free after rebate maybe 4 years ago and are just now finally getting used (they are AWESOME, btw...).
Hubby found a gizmo that sticks to walls with a kind of a close able hook on it that allows us to lift cables off the floor. Not sure if you want to mar your walls with something like that but they're really handy.
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I'm moving some furniture around while I do it too...
My old man is finally going to have a side table and a coaster to put his Coke on when we're watching a movie tomorrow. That's the really nice table that was in the kitchen above my recycle box and that the Air Fryer was on. Way too low to the ground for that job, really.
Not that it's the best replacement, but it will do until I find something better, I have a REALLY nice decorative shelving unit that my Step-Dad gave me when they moved. I believe it was actually a TV stand at some point, maybe? It's a really tall one with about 5 shelves under that top shelf. I won't be able to put my recycle box under or inside it, but it's going to raise my air fryer to the appropriate height until I can find a good cabinet or something to put over there instead. The recycle box will need to be put to the side of it for now. There will be enough room between the shelving unit and the kitchen door for that. I'm going to look and see if I have another nice unused tote for the recyclables instead, since all I'm using right now is an old Amazon packing box for that job right now.
I believe I'm going to take the small bedside cabinet from an old set I gave away out of my master bedroom and put that where the tiny cabinet with the hidden compartment is now. That's the one I've got my router and cordless tool battery charger on that's sitting in between my TV stand and the curio cabinet. It looks really stupid there because it's sideways... It's super thin from the front, but very deep. I can't really get to those drawers and they don't hold much anyhow. Not that it will look great in my bedroom either, but I don't really use it all that much and I'll need something to put the TV on if I take that bedside dresser out of the bedroom. I'll have to find a new home for the towels that I stored in there, but they were my "garbage" extra towels from some various old sets that I never use for bathing. They can all be put in a tote or a box in a closet, really. Once that's in the living room, I can use those two very large drawers to store most of the stuff that's cluttering up my curio cabinet.
I had all of my electric stuff for the generator plug laying on the floor in my livingroom for 2 or 3 years now. I also had about 20 carpet pads for steps sitting with them ever since I painted those basement steps too. These are extra pads I bought in case they didn't hold up well over the years and needed replacements, but the ones I've been using for years now have held up great and after I vaccumed all of them up a few weeks back they looked brand new. I probably won't need those for years andNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
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HOLY CRAP THAT TV STAND WAS HEAVY!!!!
I don't think it actually was a TV stand now though, come to think of it. I seem to remember my step dad had all of his stereo equipment on it back in the day. There is a plastic thing tacked into the back of it on every shelf that had holes for plugs and cables to go through for the different components.
It's got a solid black metal frame and each shelf is veneered high density fiberboard.
OMG! that IS heavy!
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It's been up in my attic since 2019 when I dehoarded. Of all the furniture I threw out, I couldn't bring myself to throw that thing out. I honestly have no idea how I got it upstairs. I'm thinking my brother had to help me with it. I'm amazed I was able to get it all the way downstairs without gouging the crap out of the stairs or the walls or the trim anywhere. Sliding it down the crappy carpet going into the attic was pretty easy, but it gave me pause for the rest of the job. I almost left it up there in the hallway until my dad came tomorrow, but I want this all set up before he gets here so I soldiered on. Getting that thing down one step at a time on my finished stairs going to the 2nd floor without damaging anything was tricky as hell, so I'm taking a break now.
Again... OMG!!
Quote:Still lots to go...?
It looks really nice in the corner of the kitchen with the air fryer on it. I found out that I can just barely fit my big crock pot in between the shelves if I take the top off, but I thought better of it and just put it back in the lower kitchen cabinets for now. Just because I have shelves there now doesn't mean I want to use them. I will have to dust that thing every once in a while and I don't need a ton of crap on it that doesn't need to be there. If I can figure out a way to remove one of the shelves and the brackets for it without breaking it, I may remove the 2nd from the bottom and then I can put a tote for recyclables on the bottom shelf. Otherwise, this thing is only going to be temporary.
I thought I had a 2nd really awesome power strip from a "back to school" special the power company runs every few years where you pay something stupid like $8 for a bunch of LED lightbulbs, a desk lamp, a night light, a power strip and some other goodies, but I was wrong. Unlike the one I've been using that I got the first time I bought a package, this doesn't have any USB chargers, and it's got a weird infered dongle that will power up 4 of the 6 outlets only when it senses movement in the room. I don't want any of that crap. I'm going to see if my dad wants it tomorrow. In the meantime I'm swapping the existing power strips I was using because now I've got a ton of room underneath the printer on the corner piece since the only thing there now is the power strip, so that will be a great place to charge my mp3 player and tablets instead of charging them on the floor by the TV stand.
Man... After 8PM already and it's dark out. I've got a lot of stuff to do yet. I'll probably be at this until midnight at least. I guess I'll just make sure I wake up early enough to clean the bathroom before I take a shower tomorrow because I doubt I'm going to be in the mood to clean a bathroom at 1AM.
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Ten to Five and just finally wrapping things up. That was a LONG day...
The only thing I didn't get done was going through the more important paperwork, sorting through the drawer and doors on the bottom of the curio cabinet, and some more stuff to go through on that foyer table.
Kitchen and bathroom are clean too except for the toilet. I'm going to clean that right before my shower tomorrow.
Looks great. Can't wait until the old man comes tomorrow.
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Yanno, aside from being a handyman, you seem to be a good organizer. There are plenty of ppl who would pay to have their homes uncluttered and organized!
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Goddamnit... Had a visit from my Smoke Demon tonight...
I can't even remember the last time I had a night terror. I was living here. I know I've had a few of them since I moved here, but I think my last one was before the covid lockdowns.
I wish I remember what the dream I was having was about. It wasn't a nightmare at first, and my dad was in it. I think at some point we got separated and I was looking for him. All I can remember now is that I found him creepy house that was a drastic shift in tone from everything else before it. He said he was alright, but something happened... I think I remember him saying it made him cry? But that was it... I was pulled away backwards from him while he was talking on a mattress that was either on some sort of roller coaster to hell or just back into the void and out of that reality. As I slid back down into nothingness, I heard heavy breathing all around me...
Turns out that was me breathing heavy IRL...
BAM!!!!
Eyes open. We're in reality again. But I can't move. Trapped again in the terrifying realm of half life and half dreams...
And my wiggle-the-toes solution I'd come to figure out was the easiest way out was not working so well this time. And against my better judgement, I look in the corner. Yup. There he is. My AIO computer monitor on my coffee table thankfully sheilding my eyes from seeing his full form, but there's his head in the corner with those glowing white eyes staring right back into mine. Thankfully, he's not moving. He never does. He just stands there staring at me... smoke swirling all around his head but somehow never dimming the glow of those eyes as if they're in front of smoke itself...
Heavy breathing. Loud...
I scream out "FUCK YOU!"... But I know that I don't really. It's only in my head. I can't speak. I can't ever speak...
Wiggling my toes still, but now trying to perform the Herculean task of sitting upright and breaking the spell since the tried and true method of toe wiggling is not waking my feet up fast enough to kick my way out.
Look anywhere but that corner. Focus on escape. Anywhere but that corner...
Fuck!
I'm staring right into his dead eyes again. I know none of this is real, but the panic is very real. Adrenaline is really pumping now. I can feel it. The breathing is even heavier now.
I'm giving him the finger. I can feel that I am, but without moving my head because that's still impossible, I move my eyes to look down at where it feels my hand should be, but in reality my entire arm is pinned lifelessly at my side.
I never looked back at the corner a third time and eventually I managed to kick my way out of the nightmare and wake up.
And it's only 2:33AM. Shit. I've only gotten a few hours sleep.
And now I'm here. Had me a cigarette and wasting time because the only thing to do now is wake up completely before I go back to the dream realm.
To do otherwise would be foolish. If there is any hint of the sleep chemicals flowing through my blood before I sleep again I'll be plunged right back into the place between worlds where the demons roam and I have no ability to do anything but breath heavy and feel a terror the likes of which I've never faced in real life. Being beat half to death and stabbed by 4 guys doesn't have shit on whatever these episodes really are.
Christ... These Night Terror / Sleep Paralaysis episodes are something else.
If I had just one good thing to still say about the internet in 2026 is that somewhere along the line it let me know that I wasn't crazy and that there were other people who have had the same experience.
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Quote:6ix's cleaning frenzy suggests he is entering the manic stage. There is a strong connection between nightmares and bipolar disorder, with individuals often experiencing vivid and intense nightmares or night terrors. These nightmares can act as early indicators of upcoming mood shifts, specifically mania or depression, and are often linked to increased anxiety and, in some cases, elevated risk of suicide. 6ix's father's visit today must have triggered anxiety yesterday.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
What an awful night for you!
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Yeah... Got a ton done yesterday for sure...
My dad left at around 6:30 and instead of going grocery shopping I decided to mow the front lawn. Just barely made it before sundown. Now if I want to mow the back a 2nd time since it's already long again, I can just do that tomorrow when it's in the 80's. By the time I was finished I was sweating and that's a cold wind. Going back down in the high 40's low 50's tonight before the 83 high tomorrow... Spring in Chicago.
Could you send me a picture of a similar footstool, Brenda? Maybe I can think of something you could try to get it back home.
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I tried looking for a picture of it last night on the store's website and couldn't find it. Wish I had written down how big it is.
https://www.thebrick.com/collections/furniture-living-room-ottomans
It is the blue one on the right hand side of the page. I hope I did it right.
Sorry, I still haven't really gotten the hang of copying pictures or whatever you call it. I did find a picture of it on another store's website and it is 14 by 74". If that is any help?
Ahhh... I thought you meant a stool as something to stand up on to reach a higher height. You mean an ottoman then? I'm not sure if I'm seeing the same images as you are so without the full name of the product I couldn't say for sure.
14" x 74"? That's over 6 feet long. I'm a little bit confused. That seems way too big for you to even consider lugging home on your own. Even if it was ultra light and you had a big wagon wheel it back to your place, I would imagine that would still be tough to impossible with it right up in your face or even on your back as you were pulling the wagon, so I think I'm not getting what you're talking about.
Can you type in the exact name of it?
I saw a Navy blue one on that page that is 14.75" squared...
Ottawa 14.75" Square Fabric Storage Ottoman - Navy
https://www.thebrick.com/products/ottawa-square-fabric-storage-ottoman
-navy
Maybe that's the one you're talking about? That would seem infinitely more manageable.
ETA: No... sorry. That's not it. Went back and re-read your first post and saw that it has wheels. So it probably is really big. Hmmmmmmmm...
Yeah if you can, send click on the product and give me the link directly to the one you're talking about so I can see it.
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Okay thanks for telling me that it would be too big for my place. No worries. It looks like it would on the page.
I tried looking at the website for what I saw in the store and their website is useless.
Thanks for trying to help. Though if the store still has it maybe I can get the measurements off the ottaman itself. Will see.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Go for that too!
Originally posted by Brenda:
All done outside for today. Still dry but there were some dark clouds moving in.
Ran into the lady that used to come in and look after my mum. We keep talking about a coffee date but we haven't go there yet.Quote:fingers crossed for them that it worked
Anyways some good news and bad news from her. Her husband just went through his last cancer treatment last week, which is fantastic news.Quote:
But they got a phone call in the middle of the night at the end of March saying that his mother had died. He couldn't go home because he wasn't allowed to fly because of his treatments. He's from Eastern Europe. She's hoping to go back to work.
That's a shame.
I hope she gets back to work. Being immersed in family health problems 24/7 is a little crazy -making, even if you're used to it.Quote:
Got a call from my dentist cancelling my appointment for next Monday. It's been shoved back to June. Called the office to find out when.
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We will if we can coordinate our times. That's the thing. I'm pretty open but it is her schedule.
Me too. She sounded really hopeful.
It was. She wished he could of got home to say good bye. It was his sister that called them. I don't know if he has anyone else at home that helped her but I hope she had help. Yeah, going back to work will be good for her. Something else to think about from her husband's health.
Dental appointment is about a replacement crown. They had to do another root canal and so the crown came off. So, we shall see.
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