In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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As soon as I get the rest of the dishes done, get my painting tools down where they belong and get the countertop cleaned up, this is going to be by far the cleanest the house has ever been. Not only that, but the last time I cleaned it this deeply I still had a gaping hole in my porch and that hideous kitchen and living room hadn't been started either.
Even the small bedroom with 85% of my hoard is neat and organized and ready to roll. Nothing is stacked more than 2 high either, and that's only a few things at the end when I was trying to get another few boxes down there that made sense to have ready now. Plenty of room to work in the closet on that hole.
I've got some real work to do in the garage though, and that's going to be the last place where I've got to justify anything that I'm not getting rid of. Nothing out there is coming back into the house. It either finds a home in the garage or in the bin.
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Yes, I do mean the desktop. Sorry.
No worries, Brenda.
But if you can remember, try to use the correct terms for them just because they are universal and everyone will know what you're talking about if you use them when you're asking for help.
I'm a pretty patient guy, especially when I'm posting here and I've got the time. But you mentioned about people losing patience helping you and I think knowing little things like these exact names instead of trying to explain a picture of your screen or using the wrong terms will help you out greatly in getting some help from other people.Quote:
Yeah, background icons came up with taskbar but not the Adobe reader but like I said I don't use it. And it is only on the desktop, not the taskbar.
I did a little research on this and it could be because of several things over time. Adobe has been known to do updates to its program where it changes locations of the executable. This could have been any time in between the REAL restart you just now did and whenever the last time you did a restart like that (assuming that you ever did???). When this happens, the link on your Desktop for that program now points to nothing and we'd call that a "Broken Link".
So when Windows actually does a restart, it cleans a lot of caches that it has built up all around and one of them is all the desktop shortcut links you have. Unlike older versions of Windows back in the day that would just leave broken links on your Desktop until you manually removed them, Windows will catch any broken links on your desktop that are broken and throw them in the trash for you.
As long as that's your only issue, we should be good. Fingers Crossed.
BTW... Do you have any idea how long ago you did a "Restart" on your computer like you did just last night? Have you ever restarted the computer before?
I mean in this fashion. Not using the physical power button on the case, letting it fall asleep or forcing it to "Sleep" or "Shut Down".
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I am working on using the right terms for computer stuff. I've had to correct myself when I say "memory stick" and it is now called an USB stick. *sigh*
No, I have never done a restart like I did on the 4th. I didn't know that I needed to do that.
Okay. Like I said I don't use Adobe or very little. So I am not going to worry about it.
Like I said up. No I've never done a restart. The person I got it from just said play and go and that is basically what I did. Just hooked it up but then with the new router it had to be rehooked up.
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Off to mah jong tomorrow and hopefully less smoke like today.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
I am working on using the right terms for computer stuff. I've had to correct myself when I say "memory stick" and it is now called an USB stick. *sigh*
I don't want to contradict myself here, but there probably is certain things that are interchangable and can get tricky with locality. I don't regularly call them a USB stick. I would know what somebody meant if they called it either a memory stick or a USB stick. I probably tend to call them a thumb stick or thumb drive or flash drive, but I don't even know.
*I did just ask Google AI and they said in the US the most common are "Thumb Drive" and "Flash Drive". But in the UK and Ireland "Memory Stick" and "USB Stick" are the most common. It would appear that at least in your part of Canada they prefer the UK vernacular and you're using entirely different terms for it than I regularly do.
Don't get frustrated about that. Call it what you want. Most people you'd ever talk to about it are going to know what you're talking about no matter what name you use. If somebody was correcting you, that's pretty lame.
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No, I have never done a restart like I did on the 4th. I didn't know that I needed to do that.
Okay Brenda...
IMPORTANT: Please answer this question. I want to know if you have ever done a Restart command from any place before. I don't know how you did it last night, but you have the option to press the Start Button and then the Power Icon Button and select "Restart" from the list, and you also have the CTRL+ALT+DEL Menu where you would go to the lower right hand corner and press the Power Icon Button and select Restart from the menu.
You are saying that you've never done either of these methods before, correct?
You're not in trouble.
I just need to know this right now, because it is important to the conversation.Quote:
Okay. Like I said I don't use Adobe or very little. So I am not going to worry about it.
Yeah. Forget about it.
If you ever needed Adobe for anything we can get it for you. I can't see why you'd ever need it other than opening and editing a PDF file which you probably don't need to do because you do all of your banking and bills in real life and not online.
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Like I said up. No I've never done a restart. The person I got it from just said play and go and that is basically what I did. Just hooked it up but then with the new router it had to be rehooked up.
Okay. I don't mean to keep asking you, but I just want to make sure that you've never actually done what we did on the 4th before via any way that you can actually press "Restart".
Don't worry that nobody told you about it. I didn't tell anybody when I put together computers for them either. For decades on the earlier versions I didn't have to. It was just kind of known that things get crappy over time and if the computer is acting up you just power it down and reboot it and usually the problems go away.
I'm kind of annoyed that Microsoft made these changes because with all the dumbing down they've done over the years, I think it's incredibly unintuitive the way they handle it now. I didn't even know everything I'm telling you now until several years after I had installed Windows 10, and I've been using Windows operating systems since 1993.
So this is important to know.
I don't put myself on a timeline for doing restarts. Compared to how you use your computer, I literally drive mine into the ground. I have to do restarts probably every 3 months maximum, but sometimes when I'm doing really heavy work like I was on my project, it wouldn't be uncommon for me to restart it up to twice per week because it was messing up on me pretty bad.
But with how you use it, the only time it ever gets a proper Restart is when y
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Oh...
I could think of one reason you'd need Adobe.
When you sell that book, they're probably going to want to send you a PDF document to print out and sign and mail back to them.
We'll get you hooked up then.
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BRENDA, bc of the way Windows works, we would have to restart our data acquisition computers at least once a week.
We usually did what we called "the three fingered salute": holding down CNTRL+ALT+DEL simultaneously.
Windows is like that. It brings up something from the hard drive into memory and when it's done with that bit it doesn't completely free up all the memory that was occupied. So after a while the memory gets all clogged with leftover bits and pieces and the computer gets confused. The only way to clear the memory is to restart.
That's how I understand it anyway.
Also, thumb drive, memory stick, USB stick... I'd know what you were talking about no matter which term you used. It's all good.
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Thanks for the Cliff's Notes, Sigs.
That's probably all Brenda ever needs to know about it. I tend to lay out way more detail, probably a bit more than I should. But they're there if she wants to have a deeper understanding of what's going on.
I'm curious if Brenda only noticed it now because she's using Windows 10 and they ended service on it.
I rarely seem to have to restart the computer these days for updates, so I figure they've probably hijacked even more of our privacy and our own machinery so they can inject a lot more of their code whenever they want to without alerting us with all those pesky restarts.
I don't think Windows 10 is getting many restarts if at all these days. I think I did have one forced on me after the days-long power outage which made that take even longer to boot up than it usually does, but that's the only one in recent memory on that computer.
Maybe since M$ isn't restting it all the time, Brenda is starting to notice things that never would have creeped up otherwise.
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I could do this everyday for the rest of my life and you'd never hear me complain. 
Look at the overlook reflected off that top...
I hid it as best as I could now in the basement so she can't see it until I want to go down there. The overlook should avert the gaze, and even if she did see it from upstairs before I took her down to reveal it she wouldn't have a clue what it was anyhow, or that it will be sitting in her place soon.
I also found out that the printer and the photo paper I got from my friend's family after his father-in-law passed is super badass and I've been wasting it on black and white tax forms.
Thought a few letter-sized full color photos of what it used to look like might be an appropriate piece to accompany it.
She stared wistfully at the worn, mismatched piece of furniture one last time, winced at the memories it held, and finally forsook it on the curb before driving away into her new life.
Or so she thought.
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I'm so f#%@ing jealous of my Aunt right now!
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A friend of mine got a Serenity keychain. I have never used. Still in its packaging.
That picture is cute and so is the ornament.
My mum used to collect salt and pepper shakers. She had a set that are most like older than me. Cowboy boot or headstones. One says, "Here lies salt" and the other one, "Here lies pepper."
I didn't see you replied to this, Brenda.
A keychain is way more useful than a lanyard. I don't blame you for keeping it in the packaging though. I'm sure this thing will come with me wherever I go next since it takes up so little space. I think when he gave me that after we'd both gotten laid off, I probably figured I'd be working another job where I needed a lanyard by now. Probably not.
I'm not surprised you like the chefs. My sister-in-law couldn't get over them and how much work they put into making the kitchen into the Chef's TO THE EXTREME!!!!!
They only grew on me because after I removed it they bought me those two gifts. Before I did the kitchen I had that frame hanging up on the soffit in front of the sink for years. I just can't bring myself to put nail holes in my walls, so it never went back up.
But I've been thinking about that and I have some other things I'd like to have on display even if I don't want to damage the walls. I think I'm going to make some stands for pieces like this so I can stand them up somewhere instead of hanging them on the wall. I have a few things like this that could benefit from a stand that could go inside and on top of that bookcase when it's ready too.
Now that I've got all the chef's back out, I don't want to pack them away. Cafe dude is keeping his place on top of the fridge. When I make a stand for that picture, they'll probably go up there and join him.
Here lies salt. Here lies pepper. Love it.
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