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Well, you've been busy SIX! Congrats on getting a lot accomplished!

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It's not really the season, considering that I have to crank up the oven to 350-400 for an hour, but I made roast onions, potato, and zucchini yesterday. (The zucchini is doing well again this year.) So tasty, for just a simple prep! It was so good I think I'm going to do the same thing again tomorrow, only I'll throw a chicken in the oven too.

C'mon over for dinner! I'll make a salad with fresh garden tomatoes too!


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It's not really the season, considering that I have to crank up the oven to 350-400 for an hour, but I made roast onions, potato, and zucchini yesterday. (The zucchini is doing well again this year.) So tasty, for just a simple prep! It was so good I think I'm going to do the same thing again tomorrow, only I'll throw a chicken in the oven too.

C'mon over for dinner! I'll make a salad with fresh garden tomatoes too!

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Back to the trenches.

The blister on my palm from all that tar painting is not very fun. And apparently while I was opening up the packaging on my outlet tester I decided that the other palm needed in on the fun and sliced it pretty good.

But the good news is, all of my garage electric is good. Well... that or the tester isn't good. Hmmmmm... I suppose I'm going to have to get around to intentionally wiring up an outlet incorrectly to see if my tester is working.





I've got two, maybe 2 1/2 days to backfill the front before the rain comes down. It won't take me all day to do that, so maybe I'll get some of it done and go back to putting down fabric and rocks after more grading. I'd really rather be doing that today, but I don't want to let time get away from me and not have the front backfill done before the rain comes in this weekend.

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Good luck, Brenda.



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Back to the trenches.

The blister on my palm from all that tar painting is not very fun. And apparently while I was opening up the packaging on my outlet tester I decided that the other palm needed in on the fun and sliced it pretty good.

But the good news is, all of my garage electric is good. Well... that or the tester isn't good. Hmmmmm... I suppose I'm going to have to get around to intentionally wiring up an outlet incorrectly to see if my tester is working.





I've got two, maybe 2 1/2 days to backfill the front before the rain comes down. It won't take me all day to do that, so maybe I'll get some of it done and go back to putting down fabric and rocks after more grading. I'd really rather be doing that today, but I don't want to let time get away from me and not have the front backfill done before the rain comes in this weekend.

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I assume without the backfill you'd just have trench full of rain ?

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Good luck, Brenda.



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Actually Jack. I had great luck. I got 1st place and won $10. Had 3 really good hands all over 1,000 points. Finally hand was winds and dragons.

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Actually Jack. I had great luck. I got 1st place and won $10. Had 3 really good hands all over 1,000 points. Finally hand was winds and dragons.

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Awesome.

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Was also informed by a lady that lives on my floor that she has seen a mouse around. I thanked for the info and said I will be careful and keep an eye out.

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BRENDA Actually Jack. I had great luck. I got 1st place and won $10. Had 3 really good hands all over 1,000 points. Finally hand was winds and dragons.

SUX: Awesome.

BRENDA: It was. . My first hand, I went out and got over 1,000points. Then it sort of skidded around for a while then I got another hand with over 1,000points. Then more skidding. I almost had winds and dragons in another hand but I couldn't get rid of 2 character tiles. So, that hand wasn't great. The last hand was just pure luck. Didn't have my own flower or my own wind. But I had the wind of the round which was West and the green and white dragons. So, I got 3 doubles for the basic winds and dragons then another 3 doubles for the wind of the round and the 2 dragons in my hand. 6 doubles and another over 1,000point hand.

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Was also informed by a lady that lives on my floor that she has seen a mouse around. I thanked for the info and said I will be careful and keep an eye out.

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Just make sure all your food is sealed up in sturdy containers. You probably won't see mice per se, but keep an eye out for droppings next to baseboards, backs of drawers and cabinets in your kitchen, and backs of closets.

We had a field mouse in our house once, so I bought a fieldmouse-sized live trap and caught it. Cute little thing. I released it in a nearby field.

But they chew power cords and can spread hanta virus (altho never heard of hanta virus near Vancouver) so best that they're not in the house.

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BRENDA Actually Jack. I had great luck. I got 1st place and won $10. Had 3 really good hands all over 1,000 points. Finally hand was winds and dragons.

SUX: Awesome.

BRENDA: It was. . My first hand, I went out and got over 1,000points. Then it sort of skidded around for a while then I got another hand with over 1,000points. Then more skidding. I almost had winds and dragons in another hand but I couldn't get rid of 2 character tiles. So, that hand wasn't great. The last hand was just pure luck. Didn't have my own flower or my own wind. But I had the wind of the round which was West and the green and white dragons. So, I got 3 doubles for the basic winds and dragons then another 3 doubles for the wind of the round and the 2 dragons in my hand. 6 doubles and another over 1,000point hand.

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That was your lucky day! Congrats!

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BRENDA Actually Jack. I had great luck. I got 1st place and won $10. Had 3 really good hands all over 1,000 points. Finally hand was winds and dragons.

SUX: Awesome.

BRENDA: It was. . My first hand, I went out and got over 1,000points. Then it sort of skidded around for a while then I got another hand with over 1,000points. Then more skidding. I almost had winds and dragons in another hand but I couldn't get rid of 2 character tiles. So, that hand wasn't great. The last hand was just pure luck. Didn't have my own flower or my own wind. But I had the wind of the round which was West and the green and white dragons. So, I got 3 doubles for the basic winds and dragons then another 3 doubles for the wind of the round and the 2 dragons in my hand. 6 doubles and another over 1,000point hand.

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That was your lucky day! Congrats!

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BRENDA Actually Jack. I had great luck. I got 1st place and won $10. Had 3 really good hands all over 1,000 points. Finally hand was winds and dragons.

SUX: Awesome.

BRENDA: It was. . My first hand, I went out and got over 1,000points. Then it sort of skidded around for a while then I got another hand with over 1,000points. Then more skidding. I almost had winds and dragons in another hand but I couldn't get rid of 2 character tiles. So, that hand wasn't great. The last hand was just pure luck. Didn't have my own flower or my own wind. But I had the wind of the round which was West and the green and white dragons. So, I got 3 doubles for the basic winds and dragons then another 3 doubles for the wind of the round and the 2 dragons in my hand. 6 doubles and another over 1,000point hand.

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Did you just call me SUX?



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You're like the guy in my typing ckass. He was short for a guy but bc he was built like a refrigerator and fast he was on the football team. Real nice guy, not puffed up like some of the others on the team. Anyway, he had sausages for fingers but he typed like a demon.

Me? I'm a terrible typist. No matter how much I practiced I could never get it right,I had to drop typing in HS bc it was bringing my grade down! Anyway, I mostly post from my phone, no typing involved. Between the characters being so close together, auto fill/ autocorrect and bad eyesight it makes for a lot of funny mistakes.

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Oh, nice!

Have fun with your new toy!


I have one of those "starter batteries", just in case.

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Had a problem a while ago. Couldn't post. Don't know what happened.

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Wiki is a reasonable place to start though - especially if you want a bit of basic information- which I didn’t have before. Not sure I’m interested enough to read the biography of Hamilton which is supposedly quite good.

In the end much of history is about the lens in which you look through - the basic facts don’t change but the view of them do- always been that way.

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If you couldn't reach ANY internet website, it was probably a problem with your internet service provider. We're on cable, and there was a time when our inet went out for a few hours, and while walking the dog I saw our electricity provider replacing some poles while running a (big!) generator to run the telecom and internet services because, of course, they run on electricity too. Or could be a server (DNS) problem with your ISP, especially if you got "file not found"-type error messages wherever you tried to go.

Another problem that can cause global errors is a problem with the modem and router. I don't know how you get inet access ... if you have your own modem and router and pay your own bill, or if your apartment come with jacks in the wall, or wifi provided by the apartment bldg ... but SOMEONE has a modem and router through which you reach the inet, and occasionally it gets confused and needs to be rebooted, or firmware patches need to be downloaded from your ISP.

If it was just this site ... well, this is probably a medium-sized database at this point, and every now and again it needs repacking or backing up or other maintenance.

But if your PC was misbehaving with other software ... say, you tried to save file and it garbled the contents ... then it might have been your PC. SIX would prolly be able to explain troubleshooting better than I can.



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If you couldn't reach ANY internet website, it was probably a problem with your internet service provider. We're on cable, and there was a time when our inet went out for a few hours, and while walking the dog I saw our electricity provider replacing some poles while running a (big!) generator to run the telecom and internet services because, of course, they run on electricity too. Or could be a server (DNS) problem with your ISP, especially if you got "file not found"-type error messages wherever you tried to go.

Another problem that can cause global errors is a problem with the modem and router. I don't know how you get inet access ... if you have your own modem and router and pay your own bill, or if your apartment come with jacks in the wall, or wifi provided by the apartment bldg ... but SOMEONE has a modem and router through which you reach the inet, and occasionally it gets confused and needs to be rebooted, or firmware patches need to be downloaded from your ISP.

If it was just this site ... well, this is probably a medium-sized database at this point, and every now and again it needs repacking or backing up or other maintenance.

But if your PC was misbehaving with other software ... say, you tried to save file and it garbled the contents ... then it might have been your PC. SIX would prolly be able to explain troubleshooting better than I can.



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Wiki is a reasonable place to start though - especially if you want a bit of basic information- which I didn’t have before. Not sure I’m interested enough to read the biography of Hamilton which is supposedly quite good.

In the end much of history is about the lens in which you look through - the basic facts don’t change but the view of them do- always been that way.

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I find Wiki USUALLY to be a reliable source of technical info.* I used to refer to it all the time when I needed basic technial info like "How do blowout preventers work?" or "what is texanol?" but anything political or historical ... Hoo boy! It doesn't get basic facts wrong ... names, dates, etc ... but it could highly selective about WHICH facts were put in, and it would leave a crap-ton out. If I was following a specific topic I could see the content change from month to month, or even from day to day, depending on how politically active the topic was and what narrative was being pushed that month/week/day.

One of the original founders of wikipedia - Larry Sangers- has disavowed it, even as Jimmy Wales continues hawking for donations.

That is the problem with the inet's historical info: it's too fluid. Our agency was not above changing the language (on the sly) of a negotiated contract just before signing ... fortunately, one of our negotiators was a stubborn cuss who insisted on reading the whole thing word for word before signing... and the intranet version was just as fluid, so it paid to have a signed hardcopy document on-hand that couldn't be changed on a whim bc I found discrepancies between the intranet and hardcopy versions.

* Altho we did just find a technical error just yesterday. We were watching a TV show and the phrase "drift mine" came up, and the wiki definition was at odds with every other definition and every image that duckduck came up with. Clearly, wiki got it wrong on that one.

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