In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Well - harrumph!
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As noisy as the rain was, as long as it fell, I only got about 1.25" in my ball-jar rain gauge. The last storm wasn't nearly as noisy, but surreptitiously dropped over 4" of rain. I suspect these drops in this storm were larger, hence noisier, but spaced far apart.
Sadly, no more rain is predicted as even a possibility till the end of the month. I keep thinking that this year is going to be like all the other drought years, where we started out with good rain in November, and some in early December, and then, nothing. But I keep hoping not. ETA: for comparison, to be AT normal we need and inch of rain a week for 4 months straight.
And Climate Stations STILL hasn't posted an official rain total for this rainy season!
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Over here, they were predicting about 1/2" of rain and just looking out the window it looks like we got 1.5". Yipee!!
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Scratch that last amount. I went out to walk the dog and didn't get past the corner when it started to POUR. That wasn't supposed to happen! May as well give puppy-wuppy a bath, she's wet already!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
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Apropos of nothing - I was running errands and once again I'm struck by the foliage colors this time of year.
As an explanation, SoCal supports both broadleaf evergreen and broadleaf deciduous trees. So there are many shades of broadleaf evergreen enlivened by the rain - from the deep, deep forest green of the coast live oak to the bright lime-green new leaves of the hollyleaf cherry. Then there's the deciduous fall colors, like the deep, deep maroon leaves of some varieties of crape myrtles, the maple-syrup-brown leaves of the California sycamore, the bright scarlet-orange of some crape myrtles and liquidambar, through the bright gold and pale ghostly glowing yellow of the ginkgo biloba.
Wow. What colors!
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Trees just beginning to turn here.
I wonder why the city doesn't plant coast live oak as a street tree. But I do love the colors of liquid amber!
Busy busy days for me. I took a five day vacation during and after Thanksgiving but it's back in the saddle for me!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
I'd nuke a BILLION PEOPLE if it would save the other 7 billion from living under Putin. Hell, I might go all the way to the last 100 people on Earth to keep this planet from being under fascist rule.- WISHIMAY
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Bummer.....
I got a little too ambitious with my PC project.
There's really no way to "clone" a user profile in Win10. That is to say, I'm sure there is, but that's a bit above my paygrade and common advise is to not even attempt it and to just start a 2nd and 3rd regular profile and build it from the ground up, otherwise, you're looking for trouble.
So I found a program that would do it...
And since I doubt anybody reading this here will ever attempt this for any reason in their lives, I'm not going to mention the company name, but it doesn't work.
It doesn't "clone" a profile. It "migrates" a profile. Once that process is done, it rebuilds your new profile after a reboot with all the old stuff and when you login to the original profile you find that it is essentially started from scratch and does the regular welcome screen stuff and you're at square one.
That alone would have just been an annoyance, since I would have resigned myself to having to build the other two from scratch... BUT IT BROKE THE PROFILE IN THE MIGRATION!!!! Some of the programs I have require an activation key. Now, when I try to re-enter that key it says that the the profile doesn't have access to that registry key which holds the flag....
On top of that, I can't even do a Windows Restore to an earlier point, because apparently one or more of the Services I turned off for smoother Windows operation on a slow PC shut down the hyberfile.sys and all active Restore features, so there isn't a Restore file to use.
Shit.
Oh well...
I guess I'm going to get a much faster than anticipated crash course in my backup software. Just used it to create a bootable flashdrive with a rudimentary version of Win10 on it that started the backup process immediately after it finished loading. Seems easy enough, and now I'll mark that USB drive and throw it in my case with all my other OS boot disks.
I shouldn't have lost too much work here. 2/3rds of my work yesterday was just organizing things, and a lot of that was on this drive, but I knew enough to create a few partitions so I'd only have to frag the main system partition in a case like this.
I won't know exactly how much work I lost until it's finished, but it should just be a few hours of installing stuff that I didn't put on until after the backup was made, re-arranging some Start Menu shortcuts and re-testing that everything works right.
Then I've got to make a few more profiles and set them up from scratch.
Good thing I got everything organized as I went along yesterday. 
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Well, there was some excitement here earlier. Something set off the fire alarm in the building where I live. Board that is set up in the lobby said it was in the parkade. Fire department arrived and went to check on it. Nothing was wrong. Another false alarm.
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Is it raining by you?
I ask because the fire alarm went off a few times for seemingly no reason at a place I used to work at. It was a huge deal because we'd end up with like 8 fire trucks from different cities over nothing and they'd get big fines.
It turns out that there was a leak in the roof that was dripping right on the box going to the alarm system and it tripped it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Sweet. That backup re-installed in less than 15 minutes.
Quite a bit of work that I had to re-do, but I seem to be all caught up to where I was when I finished last night again. Just in the process of starting the backup profiles now.
This gave me a chance to realize that my printer/fax wasn't set up right the first time too. I thought that happened after the botched clone, but it was a problem before the backup. That printer software has always been flaky.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Is it raining by you?
I ask because the fire alarm went off a few times for seemingly no reason at a place I used to work at. It was a huge deal because we'd end up with like 8 fire trucks from different cities over nothing and they'd get big fines.
It turns out that there was a leak in the roof that was dripping right on the box going to the alarm system and it tripped it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
No it wasn't raining last night Six.
This new fire system has been wonky since it was installed. Same thing happened on Tuesday but in the afternoon. I saw the fire trucks as I was leaving my local senior centre. Wondered what happened but didn't know. Someone told me last night as some of the tenants were gathered in the front lobby.
Like I said the firemen checked the parking out and side everything was fine. So, I guess the manager will have to get the fire alarm people in to check their system AGAIN. They were just here a few weeks ago.
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