In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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Cool is good SIX. My brain I know could never do what you are doing with numbers. My brain and numbers aren't really friends and that doesn't change no matter how hard I try. 
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Cool is good SIX. My brain I know could never do what you are doing with numbers. My brain and numbers aren't really friends and that doesn't change no matter how hard I try.
I'm good with all the basics. Enough to do taxes and balance a checkbook and keep a budget. I'm good at statistics and holding numbers in my head. But give me anything beyond basic algebra and it's all a foreign language to me.
This wasn't even really about the math, more than it was about the "feeling" of that number being right. In a way, it's about knowing myself, because so much of myself has been poured into it. I'd been working on this part of this one thing, that had the first bricks put underneath it even before I saw Firefly. But this one thing has been taking up most of my waking hours for the last week, and with no real idea what the final number could be, I was just weighing out the possibilities against the numbers I knew I had and even though I was still at least 8 or 9 hours away from being done I came up with a number that was nearly on the head.
And actually, I'm exactly at 1,200 right now. I had a little surprise in there that cost me about 2 hours to work on, but it got me 8 more add backs I wasn't expecting along the way.
I've got enough leverage on the fringes to play around with that number and make it what I want, but I'm not willing it to happen. It's just cool that with still only around 150 more things to go through I'm exactly at the number I guessed that I might be.
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1,198...
Feels good to have that done.
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Yay! for you, SIX!!!
If I had to guess, it sounds like you're creating a database- like structure using searchable filenames to allow retrieval?
That's tough, man. Of course, I could be way off, but sounds like a lot of work, whatever it is!
Hey BRENDA, sounds lije you're in reorg/ declutter mode? Good for you! I just have one ??? ... what's a TV pin?
Been mostly absent here, going balls to the wall on finding a resolution for hubby's back pain, and landscaping. The weather continues acceptable for outdoor work so I'm doing as much as my knee and Dr appt schedule permit. Been spending a heckuva amt of time pruning up the climbing roses while preserving the branches with flowers so family doesn't squawk. It's going very slowly bc four of those climbers are excessively thorny, and I have to go really slowly. I wear an overshirt to protect from the sun, and it's got a couple of good sized tears in the back from when I got tangled up, and several "picks"... and several blood spots ... It's kind of a waste of time bc I hope to replace them with other bushes later, but I've already removed about 2 70-gal bins of material and will probably remove one more before I'm done.
Well, on with the show!
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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In the process of pruning up the roses I discovered THREE Texas tomato cages, from when the roses allowed a veggie patch in front of them. That's how overgrown they are! I also discovered a volunteer privet and found out what I was dealing with ... a SECOND Lady Banks rose right behind the volunteer privet. All things considered I'll take out the Lady Banks since they're most problematic.
Three more bins before I'm done.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Cool is good SIX. My brain I know could never do what you are doing with numbers. My brain and numbers aren't really friends and that doesn't change no matter how hard I try.
I'm good with all the basics. Enough to do taxes and balance a checkbook and keep a budget. I'm good at statistics and holding numbers in my head. But give me anything beyond basic algebra and it's all a foreign language to me.
This wasn't even really about the math, more than it was about the "feeling" of that number being right. In a way, it's about knowing myself, because so much of myself has been poured into it. I'd been working on this part of this one thing, that had the first bricks put underneath it even before I saw Firefly. But this one thing has been taking up most of my waking hours for the last week, and with no real idea what the final number could be, I was just weighing out the possibilities against the numbers I knew I had and even though I was still at least 8 or 9 hours away from being done I came up with a number that was nearly on the head.
And actually, I'm exactly at 1,200 right now. I had a little surprise in there that cost me about 2 hours to work on, but it got me 8 more add backs I wasn't expecting along the way.
I've got enough leverage on the fringes to play around with that number and make it what I want, but I'm not willing it to happen. It's just cool that with still only around 150 more things to go through I'm exactly at the number I guessed that I might be.
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Be Nice. Don't be a dick.
You are a head of me. I learned how to do taxes in high school but no way would I try that now. Tax rules have changed up since then. I can do banking and budgeting.
But you've seen how well I do with computers. So , no. My brain can never go there.
I also have been known to screw up my counting in mah jong.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yay! for you, SIX!!!
If I had to guess, it sounds like you're creating a database- like structure using searchable filenames to allow retrieval?
That's tough, man. Of course, I could be way off, but sounds like a lot of work, whatever it is!
Hey BRENDA, sounds lije you're in reorg/ declutter mode? Good for you! I just have one ??? ... what's a TV pin?
Been mostly absent here, going balls to the wall on finding a resolution for hubby's back pain, and landscaping. The weather continues acceptable for outdoor work so I'm doing as much as my knee and Dr appt schedule permit. Been spending a heckuva amt of time pruning up the climbing roses while preserving the branches with flowers so family doesn't squawk. It's going very slowly bc four of those climbers are excessively thorny, and I have to go really slowly. I wear an overshirt to protect from the sun, and it's got a couple of good sized tears in the back from when I got tangled up, and several "picks"... and several blood spots ... It's kind of a waste of time bc I hope to replace them with other bushes later, but I've already removed about 2 70-gal bins of material and will probably remove one more before I'm done.
Well, on with the show!
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Sort of SIG. Oh, a "tv pin" is just a pin with a tv character on it or a saying from a tv show. One of my favourites is "Beam me up Scotty. There is no intelligent life down here. "
I've got a couple of Doctor Who ones and Miami Vice, Blake Seven. My friend gave me one last Friday for our Christmas in April but somehow it got broken and I have to fix it. It's a Stargate pin.I've also got some little bits of jewelry that I have to put into my mom's jewelry box. I kept that because my dad gave it to her and it is also a music box. Amazingly enough it still plays after all the bouncing around it's taken.
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Got everything done for today. Lousy morning at mah jong. Managed to go out once and almost had all 4 flowers but no luck. Finished the morning with over 2,000points.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
You are a head of me. I learned how to do taxes in high school but no way would I try that now. Tax rules have changed up since then. I can do banking and budgeting.
But you've seen how well I do with computers. So , no. My brain can never go there.
I also have been known to screw up my counting in mah jong.
The problem with keeping all that info and those numbers up in there for such a prolonged period of time is that it's exhausting. It's really info that (at least my) body and mind are regularly trying to purge from the RAM in my brain, because there is no doubt much more important things that should be occupying that valuable space.
People can joke about it all they want, but I really do believe that digital hoarding is in some ways as serious a problem as real-world hoarding. I've had a ever-growing mess of a digital hoard that has moved from 250GB hard drives from the mid-90's all the way until now, where I've got things all over 7 different hard drives ranging from 1TB to 15TB.
Except for my project, personal documents, photos and videos, it's all expendable. I wouldn't lose any sleep if any of it weren't backed up and a drive died. In fact, once this program is truly done, I plan on going through and just deleting about 90% of anything not in one of those categories and just have it all out of my life forever.
The problem with this project work is that it wasn't consolidated before I picked it up again nearly 2 years ago now, and it was a mess spanning 4 or 5 hard drives.
I've now got everything I want backed up 3 separate times here, and I will have it saved somewhere else as well when I'm through. If it weren't for a very large part that needs to be on that 15TB drive, everything would be on a single drive. Once I get a full backup made on that 15TB drive along with the large part, it will be. The only thing that won't be backed up 3 other times is that very huge thing, but that's only until I finally break down and buy one more large drive for a final backup.
In the meantime, I've nearly finished with purging all copies of old and redundant data anywhere I could find it, and with the stuff I have currently been working on I've backed up anything that I didn't personally use, but that I or anybody else looking to work on this in the future could use to do that just in case there comes a time where all of this isn't as readily available as it is today. All of that can be archived and backed up and if I choose to never look at it again that would be fine with me.
This time I'm ending the project work right, on my terms for the first time. Not because some external force is making me do it faster than it needs to be done. Everything will be properly documented on every level as to what is 99.9% finished, and what would be things other people might want to tweak and where they'd need to start (and most importantly preventing anybody from doing double work that was already done).
Right now while I'm in the middle of doing some final synchronizations and backups, I can feel the pressure valve releasing. Every little thing that I've done so far today was a finality and something that I don't need to think about again and I can finally let my brain purge it from the RAM to make that space usable for more important things.
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