In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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Warm enough today to run some errands, so I'll probably do that. Need to get some milk since I'm out, so I'll pick up a few things while I'm there.
Another semi-decent rebate sale happening, but I'm not going to do nearly as well as the last few hauls percentage-wise since they have Buy1-Get1 on folding saw horses, and I plan on picking up a few pairs for myself and one for the old man.
Still won't be bad though. And they've got some fuel cleaner additive that's free after rebate, so I'm going to pick a bunch of them up and start running them through the car 1 tank at a time now that everything FINALLY seems to be in working order.
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Did that. Good stuff.
Wrapped up a few things on the project this morning before I went out, but I'm feeling a little "off" today. Think I might take a nap. Hopefully I'm not coming down with anything. I want to get over to my friend's house and help him wrap up his man cave and clear out his crawl space this weekend.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
My problem is I can have a big problem with asking for help. I can get so stuck on trying to do everything on my own then when I need help it's hard.
I hear ya, and I do the same. But I've found that going out of my way to help others first makes it pretty easy to get favors returned, and makes it easier for me to ask for help when I need it too. I can't really offer any direct help to the two people who helped me online the other day, but I have done things for a greater community in the past and they're happy to spend a few minutes whipping up something for me when I do ask.
But yeah... I wasted about 8 to 10 hours doing something manually that could have been done in about 1 hour with their help. And there's a lot more to be done that will be really quick now.Quote:
Well, she's going to help me write a proposal. You have to do that first. I learned that through research.
I am. I've never gave up on my writing but this is the first time in years that I've actually been able to get things done with it. Well, the momentum for getting ready for someone else to read and help me is certainly with me.
I can tell. I've heard you talk about writing from time to time, but never seen you on fire like this before.
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Well, my other problem is that with no transport of my own. I can't really offer people I know help. Oh, well.
It's been a looooong time since I've been this on fire with it. But I am hopeful.
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Back from mah jong and other stuff. No luck today. 1 decent hand and I went out 2 times. Another lady I was playing with could do no wrong. Oh well.
Other things after mah jong took a little longer than planned, so no book work today. But that's okay. I will get back to it tomorrow.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, my other problem is that with no transport of my own. I can't really offer people I know help. Oh, well.
It's been a looooong time since I've been this on fire with it. But I am hopeful.
With the car problems I've had keeping me homebound more often than not in 2022 going into 2023, I actually can empathize a bit with you on that one. I mean, not really though... My brother who also doesn't drive would know exactly how that feels, and I've only just had a little taste.
Honestly though, back in my drinking days I don't even know what I would have done. I would have had nobody to help me get around and not enough sense to even work on the car.
I tried to take as little advantage as I could over the last year, but I did have friends, family and neighbors that helped me out while I got through that, but that's only because I stopped being a worthless POS.
I know that you probably don't want to do that much inside your apartment because I think you hold boundaries in high regard as I do. When I did rent, I usually had as little to do as possible with neighbors because they could just come to your door and knock on it whenever they felt like if you get too close to them. Maybe it's different with houses, or maybe I've just got good neighbors, but without me having to state it we've got a "phone first" policy if we need anything.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from mah jong and other stuff. No luck today. 1 decent hand and I went out 2 times. Another lady I was playing with could do no wrong. Oh well.
Other things after mah jong took a little longer than planned, so no book work today. But that's okay. I will get back to it tomorrow.
It's cool taking a break. I'm sure your mind is still working though... Keep that pad of paper and a pencil on the ready if you brainstorm something that you might lose in your sleep.
I had a little nap and feel better than I did this afternoon, but now I'm going to be up for a few hours anyhow so I'm going to get a little bit more done on my project.
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I hit a little speedbump last night that wasted a few hours. At first I thought it was some code that I had written that was bad, but after verifying twice that this wasn't the case, I began to think maybe it was a memory issue by the behavior pattern. Nope... That wasn't it. And even with this old machine there is plenty of RAM to spare.
Unfortunately, this newer system doesn't have a large community behind it with a reams of easily searchable documentation to go to when oddities happen, so I'm kind of flying blind here. And this issue was so vaguely unspecific that there was no way I was going to be able to get my smarter online friends to figure it out for me without sitting right next to them and plopping the laptop on their desk.
So I finally went into the developer options to fiddle around a bit and found a "clear cache" option, similar to what is found in a Fire Stick/TV. With nothing to lose I tried it, and wouldn't you know it... it cleared everything up.
Apparently, while setting this thing up, that's a thing I have to do semi-regularly.
I didn't have to do that with the outdated system from 5 years ago, and if I just used that system this wouldn't have taken a fraction of the time. But that old system was developed with ARM architecture in mind. It was ported to X86_64 and worked on a standard PC, but was far from optimized back then. This new system is optimized for X86_64, so my task is rebuilding my stuff from behind the scenes in as few steps as possible, and then testing that the setup is good.
And speaking of testing, I'm glad that as I've gotten past certain landmarks I've been backing everything up. 3 out of 4 important code documents by the end of last night had been altered from the backups after doing this. Not by much... In fact they're still the same size in KB, but my FTP compare shows them as different now when matching file size. So I'm going to have to compare both documents in a program that compares the differences in txt files.
Maybe I should see if ChatGPT could do all of this for me?
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, my other problem is that with no transport of my own. I can't really offer people I know help. Oh, well.
It's been a looooong time since I've been this on fire with it. But I am hopeful.
With the car problems I've had keeping me homebound more often than not in 2022 going into 2023, I actually can empathize a bit with you on that one. I mean, not really though... My brother who also doesn't drive would know exactly how that feels, and I've only just had a little taste.
Honestly though, back in my drinking days I don't even know what I would have done. I would have had nobody to help me get around and not enough sense to even work on the car.
I tried to take as little advantage as I could over the last year, but I did have friends, family and neighbors that helped me out while I got through that, but that's only because I stopped being a worthless POS.
I know that you probably don't want to do that much inside your apartment because I think you hold boundaries in high regard as I do. When I did rent, I usually had as little to do as possible with neighbors because they could just come to your door and knock on it whenever they felt like if you get too close to them. Maybe it's different with houses, or maybe I've just got good neighbors, but without me having to state it we've got a "phone first" policy if we need anything.Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from mah jong and other stuff. No luck today. 1 decent hand and I went out 2 times. Another lady I was playing with could do no wrong. Oh well.
Other things after mah jong took a little longer than planned, so no book work today. But that's okay. I will get back to it tomorrow.
It's cool taking a break. I'm sure your mind is still working though... Keep that pad of paper and a pencil on the ready if you brainstorm something that you might lose in your sleep.
I had a little nap and feel better than I did this afternoon, but now I'm going to be up for a few hours anyhow so I'm going to get a little bit more done on my project.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
I have been finding that being unable to drive as I get a little older is sucking. Because I am now limited in what at times I can do for myself.
Yeah, you right. I've heard people down in the lobby arguing over stuff and I just don't want to get involved in whatever it is. I just mind my own business. If I see someone I will say hello and maybe talk about the weather or some such thing but that is it.
My hands need a break. I was stressing them out and they need a rest and a stretch in a different way.
I always have a pen and paper on me when I go out, so I can maybe grab a cup of coffee and do some writing.
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Out for my walk but suppose to rain even though the sun is out a bit now.
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Back and in around 1pm. Dishes done and about an hour and a bit of book work. Ch.26 is long. There is a wind coming up now.
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Nope... It wasn't the cache clear that fixed the problem. That was just a coincidence.
It wasn't an issue with my code either.
It seems that under a certain condition, the system will bastardize part of my code upon a refresh. I haven't pinpointed exactly why yet, but I have managed to work around this problem twice now, confident that it won't happen again now in these two instances.
I'll get one more opportunity to perhaps figure out exactly what is going on, because there is going to be one more instance where this condition is met.
Otherwise... things are going well.
I didn't get it done before the cold temperature were over, but there's nothing saying I can't keep working on it when it's 40 degrees outside.
ETA: Just one step away from finishing a major part... probably the biggest part. I'm going to have to deal with that bug to gt past it. Hopefully it doesn't keep me up too late tonight and I can get to the rest of it over the weekend. I'm really hoping that the rest is pretty plug-n-play.
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