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No worries. I know I love my tech but I can be a bit of dummy about it.

It is something to think about for sure.

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Speaking of EMP... we had one bolt of lightning all yesterday evening.
Only one.
But it either hit a powerline of very close to it, bc it made all of the lights do a slow blink and reset our microwave, tablet, and a few of the clocks.
If I had been doing anything on the PC, it would have screwed it up for sure.

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Ehhhh... Probably not. I mean, anything you were working on when it knocked your PC out that wasn't saved would have been lost (if the program didn't have an autosave feature), but my computers have been hit quite a bit over the years with blackouts and brownouts and there's only been one instance where I felt one of the computers may have taken some physical damage from it because of how it performed afterward, but it never screwed up any of the data on my drives.

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(Did I even tell you about the time hubby had been programming furiously for 3 hours when the power suddenly went out? There was a moment of silence, the I hear a big "SHIT!" coming from a dark room).

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No. lol... But I've been through something like that once or twice in my life.

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If I ever come off as being impatient or insulting about it, please don't take offense. I'm not directing that at you, Brenda. My frustration is with myself for not being able to direct you properly.

Did you email the book to yourself? You really should do that first so you always have a copy in your email to re-download if something goes wrong.

Then you should make a few backup copies on a thumb drive and your other computer.



Please send yourself the email and do the backups first before we move on to making the 25 page doc to send to your friend.

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Back from mah jong and grocery shopping. No luck at mah jong.

This day started off real good with the power going out in my building and all around the area someone in the building told me. So, I ate a cold breakfast to take my meds and walked down 10 flights of stairs to get out to go to mah jong. I was going to get my garbage out but I am tired and will do it tomorrow.

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I heard a great horned owl tonight, what a treat! They show up once or twice a year. It would be nice to have a permanent popuation: they would keep the rats and mice down.

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I don't know what a great horned owl sounds like, but that might be the one I hear only once or twice a year around these parts since I was a kid too. Never seen one, but I was told by my parents it was an owl when I was a kid.

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Yeterday and today was workin the house. We had a handyman come and patch walls under he sink from our drain line replacement. OMG SIX you could make a fortune here. Altho I know you wouldn't dream of living in LA!

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I bet I would, but I'd spend it all right away on living expenses. My brother lived in LA for a short stint and even though he was making buckets full of cash, he was paying $2.5k per month for an attic apartment so he could live reasonably close to work. And that was years ago, way before Bidenflation.

At that time, just a little over 2 months of his rent was about what it cost for me to live.

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Yeah... I've had what I would call more than a little bit of unintentional weight loss this winter. I'm hoping it's just living in the cold all winter and the recent stressors. I've been making an effort to eat better and eat more the last week. I'm feeling more energetic, since yesterday, but the week before was pretty rough.

I look fantastic though. I need to take advantage of this after I put on a few pounds and feel better. If I went back to doing crunchies for a month I'd be rocking an 8 pack that I haven't seen since I was 22 years old.

I just gotta make sure that I didn't get an ancient gypsy curse put on me like the guy in Thinner... or worse.

My old man says that if I'm not sick, I need to figure out how I did it and patent it and I'll be a millionaire.



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Back from mah jong and grocery shopping. No luck at mah jong.

This day started off real good with the power going out in my building and all around the area someone in the building told me. So, I ate a cold breakfast to take my meds and walked down 10 flights of stairs to get out to go to mah jong. I was going to get my garbage out but I am tired and will do it tomorrow.

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I heard a great horned owl tonight, what a treat! They show up once or twice a year. It would be nice to have a permanent popuation: they would keep the rats and mice down.

SIX: I don't know what a great horned owl sounds like, but that might be the one I hear only once or twice a year around these parts since I was a kid too. Never seen one, but I was told by my parents it was an owl when I was a kid.

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Yeterday and today was workin the house. We had a handyman come and patch walls under he sink from our drain line replacement. OMG SIX you could make a fortune here. Altho I know you wouldn't dream of living in LA!

SIX: I bet I would, but I'd spend it all right away on living expenses. My brother lived in LA for a short stint and even though he was making buckets full of cash, he was paying $2.5k per month for an attic apartment so he could live reasonably close to work. And that was years ago, way before Bidenflation.
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SIGNY: Sounds like you need a break, SIX. I hope you have a nice time relaxing.

SIX: Yeah... I've had what I would call more than a little bit of unintentional weight loss this winter. I'm hoping it's just living in the cold all winter and the recent stressors. I've been making an effort to eat better and eat more the last week. I'm feeling more energetic, since yesterday, but the week before was pretty rough.

I look fantastic though. I need to take advantage of this after I put on a few pounds and feel better. If I went back to doing crunchies for a month I'd be rocking an 8 pack that I haven't seen since I was 22 years old.
I just gotta make sure that I didn't get an ancient gypsy curse put on me like the guy in Thinner... or worse.
My old man says that if I'm not sick, I need to figure out how I did it and patent it and I'll be a millionaire.

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I had a response to this but when I tried to post it the site had logged me out so it got lost in the ether. I really should do this in a text editor.

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I heard a great horned owl tonight, what a treat! They show up once or twice a year. It would be nice to have a permanent popuation: they would keep the rats and mice down.

SIX: I don't know what a great horned owl sounds like, but that might be the one I hear only once or twice a year around these parts since I was a kid too. Never seen one, but I was told by my parents it was an owl when I was a kid.

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AFAIK they're the only ones that go WHOO WHOO at night. (If you hear something similar during the day, it's either a mourning dove or the closely related pigeon) The WHOOO HOOO is when they're looking for, or trying to locate their mate.
Owl sounds, various owls. We used to have a pair of great horned owls nesting on a window ledge a work.

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I want to say that it's a Great Horned Owl call that I've heard, because out of all of those it's the closest sounding, but I always hear the same call they do and none of the hoot patterns I've heard on a few other videos for them matches what I've noticed.

It's like a Whoo! Whoo! Whooo-WHOOOOOO! Whoo-WHOOOOOOO! Whoo! Then it starts over again over time. The two "WHOOOOOOO! parts actually sound kind of "warbled" too.

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Great horned owl hooting duet.
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Great_Horned_Owl/sounds#

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Yeterday and today was workin the house. We had a handyman come and patch walls under he sink from our drain line replacement. OMG SIX you could make a fortune here. Altho I know you wouldn't dream of living in LA!

SIX: I bet I would, but I'd spend it all right away on living expenses. My brother lived in LA for a short stint and even though he was making buckets full of cash, he was paying $2.5k per month for an attic apartment so he could live reasonably close to work. And that was years ago, way before Bidenflation.
At that time, just a little over 2 months of his rent was about what it cost for me to live.

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You could have paid a month and a half of rent for what we paid this guy for a sloppy job. Decent handymen are as rare as hen's teeth around here! But I know I can't sell you on LA bc it's just nota vey nice place to live.

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SIGNY: Sounds like you need a break, SIX. I hope you have a nice time relaxing.

SIX: Yeah... I've had what I would call more than a little bit of unintentional weight loss this winter. I'm hoping it's just living in the cold all winter and the recent stressors. I've been making an effort to eat better and eat more the last week. I'm feeling more energetic, since yesterday, but the week before was pretty rough.

I look fantastic though. I need to take advantage of this after I put on a few pounds and feel better. If I went back to doing crunchies for a month I'd be rocking an 8 pack that I haven't seen since I was 22 years old.
I just gotta make sure that I didn't get an ancient gypsy curse put on me like the guy in Thinner... or worse.
My old man says that if I'm not sick, I need to figure out how I did it and patent it and I'll be a millionaire.

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It's probably the cold. I remember reading somewhere that the Innuit burn 20,000-30,000 calories per day ... more than ten times normal for most people... just generating enuf body heat to survive. There was an engineer who need to lose weight, and after reading all about diet and exercise he decided to immerse himself in cold water for a number of hours every evening, and it worked. Personally, I'd rather go the "diet and exercise" route. I hope you put some healthy weight on this summer, tho.

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Wow! Maybe I'm on to something then. Just got to do better eating right and taking care of myself. I've started a journal with my weight, and I intend to run this little experiment again next year, but making sure to get all the nutrition I need next time as well as adding a reasonable amount of exercise in the mix too.

By August (assuming I'm not sick) I should be in fantastic shape again. From September to the end of November I want to get back up to about 175lbs with a decent amount of that being fat like I usually do around that time a year, and then keep the heat down to what I had it at last year without changing the amount I usually eat during the winter (which is the same is what I eat during the summer, but I put the pounds on when I'm not busy doing a lot of labor intensive projects in the cold).

I don't know if I could make millions with this system because I think most people are like you and wouldn't even want to attempt it, but (again, assuming I'm not sick), it REALLY works. I've got my 20 year old body back right now.

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Haven't had time to catch up with the news, even. Been real busy playing catch-up on all fronts. Front yard has been beaten into not being such a mess and back yard it getting the same once-over. That, plus contractors.

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Dinner cooking now. Had a late night at my bud's building that social credit some more. His dad was there too, so we had a fun and productive day. I know my bud will pay it back when he has time. We just need to get him out from under that bad situation and get his life back. Poor guy barely has time to sleep he's over there working whenever he isn't doing his real job.

I can't wait to get the help working on my house some day. His dad really came through for me the last two falls.

We're not going to start super early tomorrow but I'm going back for round two sometime in the AM.



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Dinner cooking now. Had a late night at my bud's building that social credit some more. His dad was there too, so we had a fun and productive day. I know my bud will pay it back when he has time. We just need to get him out from under that bad situation and get his life back. Poor guy barely has time to sleep he's over there working whenever he isn't doing his real job.

I can't wait to get the help working on my house some day. His dad really came through for me the last two falls.

We're not going to start super early tomorrow but I'm going back for round two sometime in the AM.



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Seems like you (collectively) have been rehabbing that rental for quite a while. It must hve been really trashed. I guess a family of hoarders can really ruin things.


Realistically, what else is there to do? IIRC the hoarders were booted out and the place de-junked. This was the house with the sinking front stoop, yes? That's been corrected. Last I remember, you were cleaning cat piss off the lower walls and baseboard. [HINT: Since the compounds responsible for the bad smell are basic (amines) , vinegar, being an acid, helps neutralize the odor.] What else? Windows? Painting? Door repair/replacement? wiring?

Just being nosy, but I'm always interested in the details of a rehab. I guess even if our progress is glacial, reading about someone else's progress makes me feel better.

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I guess I had my Sunday yesterday, today is almost a regular "work" day for me excpet I ot out of bed late. Time to get back to it, my list of "things to do" gets longer and longer every time I think about it. Have a nice one. Do something fun!


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Was talking to someone I know about my book today and she already has me doing a book tour. *L*

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Was talking to someone I know about my book today and she already has me doing a book tour. *L*

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Awwww... sorry about your family, Sigs. Hope everyone feels better soon.

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Was talking to someone I know about my book today and she already has me doing a book tour. *L*

Wow, Brenda. That sounds great!




I put another piece of the puzzle together on the dread work I was talking about today. I'm still going to have a lot to do.

I'll probably be helping on the rental next Saturday, but maybe not with Sunday being Easter. His family is big into the holidays. May or may not help my other buddy this week with his kitchen, but that's not going to happen until I make it through this next round of terrible storms over the next 2 days. :(

I seem to have put on a few pounds. At least it's trending upward. Been between 149 and 151 lbs for 2 days now, which is up from the low of 146. But jeez... do I have to eat a lot right now. I must have put my metabolism in hyperdrive. You wouldn't believe how much I'm eating. It's almost a chore at this point.

Feeling my energy pick back up. Once I get back to about 153 I'm going to start working out about 30 minutes a day and hopefully all these new good habits stick after a few weeks.



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Had to call AAA to replace a battery this AM. We've had to jumpstart the car for a few weeks now, and the fuss was getting old. But it was a 7-year old battery so I guess we needed a new one.
Still dealing with sick people here. I was going to take the family out to see the superbloom but between illness and Easter I think that'll be later.



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Here comes the rain again...

They're calling for some monster Tstorms with a chance of tornadoes again.

Might not be getting too much sleep tonight. Had a nice nap though.

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Here comes the rain again...

They're calling for some monster Tstorms with a chance of tornadoes again.

Might not be getting too much sleep tonight. Had a nice nap though.

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