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Didn't you just do that recently? How do you suppose they all broke on you like that?

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There are a bunch of games I don't know how to play, and cribbage is one of them
Poker, blackjack, and chess are a few more. It sounds like these groups are pretty well established and don't have room for beginners? That's too bad! The best time I ever had playing was as a newbie with a really fun group.

I like to play some online games (247games) and I'm expanding my repertoire to blackjack and poker. Doing pretty well at poker, really. Still learning the odds of blackjack. I might try hearts next. Since it's all no- cost I can flub around as much as I want while I learn the rules of the games. But there's no online cribbage, alas.

Maybe you could learn some games online?

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Ooohhh! Chinese checkers! Now THAT'S a blast from the past!

Nice thing about the game it accommodates from 2 to 6 players. We girls had TONS of fun with that!!

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What would it take to start a new group, BRENDA? I mean, if there was a particular game that you wanted to play that wasn't being played at the Senior Center?

Just to let y'all know, I'll be cutting back on posting again. Lots to do! But I'll still be keeping up with what you're doing/ what's happening, and chipping in from time to time.

I expect progress reports from you, SIX!

As you used to say: "Do right, be right".
Good saying!

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Didn't you just do that recently? How do you suppose they all broke on you like that?

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No, not recently. But in the process of chopping down weeds some sprinkler heads got chopped too. And three, I know, have been broken for over a year.

I have a gizmo for unscrewing broken "risers". It can be a PITA to use, but it works.

More importantly, I want to replace those (9) 70- year old valves and ridiculous controller, two valves that leak and two stuck shut, with ball valves, and reconfigure the PVC connections to make more sense. That would require cuttingthe valves off copper lines on tbe upstream side and putting ball valves in with ... well, I would like a soldered joint but be happy with a compression fittings ( what we in the lab would call swagelok or parker hannifen fittings) and PVC on the downstream side. SharkBite works well for PVC.
But first, I need to assess the backyard valves. So tomorrow I'm goin to grab my trusty pocket reciporocating saw and cut down those effing palm sprouts that have grown up in the irrigation supply area. And elsewhere. Those Mexican fan plams! I had those effing trees taken out, but their seeds are still everywhere.

Thanks to 4 years illness i have a lot to catch up on!

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Back and in for today. Meds refilled and having a sit down now.


Also don't you just hate it when you mess up your tv and can't figure out how to undo what you did. Did that to myself the other day.

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Back and in for today. Meds refilled and having a sit down now.


Also don't you just hate it when you mess up your tv and can't figure out how to undo what you did. Did that to myself the other day.

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LOL... I haven't done that since I was a kid and I was messing around with the menus and changed the launguage from English to something else.



My TVs are all "dumb" except for a small one my aunt gave me last year. I set up both of hers and it was a bit of a chore getting everything running the way she wanted it and removing all the bloat and crap she was never going to use.

I don't know how the hell they think your average person who doesn't keep up with tech could set those up where they're actually useful. They probably don't care and don't even want that anyhow because they want you to have potential "landmines" all over the place, enticing you to spend more money on things you don't need after the purchase. I actually had to go into the deeper settings to find "privacy" and manually disagree to allowing them to sell her data since the default option is that she gives them express permission to sell any data they collect on her.

Ridiculous.

The only reason I even took the one she was getting rid of is because I can keep it offline and use an Amazon Fire Stick for the online connectivity.

Good luck!


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Well, I fixed whatever I did to my tv, myself, so that is good. Saves me a trip out to a store. It's not perfect but it works. So, I am happy.

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Well, I fixed whatever I did to my tv, myself, so that is good. Saves me a trip out to a store. It's not perfect but it works. So, I am happy.

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Whew!!

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I'm glad you got it operational again Brenda.

I'm pretty sure that whatever you wanted to make it do you could bend that TV to your will, but I won't suggest that you even try to do it yourself because you might accidentally end up with a TV that doesn't serve you at all again.

I know you don't use credit cards, but if you could manage to get your hands on a current generation Amazon Fire TV stick there's not much you can't do with that and an antenna connected to it.

With the Fire TV you can download all sorts of free streaming programs as long as you don't mind commercial TV. A lot of them could probably be downloaded to your smart TV as well, although different manufacturers have different lists of apps that they make available to you unless you start hacking things.

What's great about the Fire Stick is that it is easily hackable, and even if you screwed something up while trying to do that it's also very easy to factory reset it so you can try it again. You don't get that guaranty with a TV and could accidentally brick it by messing around like that.

Back when I watched TV and movies on the regular, I had installed a program called KODI on my Fire Stick and could watch pretty much anything that had ever been made. The only problem was that every few months or so they'd get shut down and you'd have to redo it again with the new software that thwarted their attempts to shut them down. You could put KODI on a good deal of smart TVs too, but they recommended against it since you'd be putting a several hundred dollar TV at risk instead of a $40 device that could easily be factory reset if something went sideways.

But come to think of it now... I don't even know if KODI is a thing that exists anymore. It's been a LONG time now.


I hate that Roku TV my aunt gave me. It takes about 10 to 15 seconds to load up when you turn it on, and the user interface is ass. Even when you're not online with it and it can't show you constant advertisements, the boxes are there where the ads would be and only about half of the main screen is functional for the user. And when you're not online it won't even let you make any changes to what you see on your "home" page. And I refuse to put it online now since I'm probably one of the only Roku TV owners that never agreed to their new terms of service since it hasn't been online since last fall when I took it out of my back porch and packed it away for the winter. The second that thing goes online it will update and I won't even be able to use the TV for anything unless I agree to their new bullshit TOS.

I've looked... It's not hackable since it's a closed source OS.

I much prefer the ancient Zenith flat screen I just got from my friend a few months ago. It's twice as thick and not nearly as sleek looking, but it's just a regular old dumb TV that turns on immediately and loads my fire stick right after it turns on.

I've never actually purchased a flat screen TV on my own. They've all been hand me downs. But if I ever do buy one, I'm thinking that I might just buy a huge computer monitor instead. I can always buy an antenna if I ever go insane and decide to watch commercial TV again, and that way I could plug whatever I wanted into it and not have their stupid "smart" things going on in the foreground and the background. I will never buy a TV that can connect directly to the internet.

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Back and in for today. Got my groceries and I really should buy a small dictionary to keep handing for when I am writing and I don't know how to spell.

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Thing is was I pushed a wrong button and somehow it dropped a channel that I watch the local news on.

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How did THAT happen??

Number one rule to anything computer related: ALWAYS save backups!

If you have faith in your computer hardware, save it under a different filename! (And come up with a good file and file-naming system so you know what time was created when, and for who. (Example 24-05-04-synopsis-for-XYZpublisher-backup).

If not, save that file, same explicit filename, to a thumb drive, for example.

I had to come up with a file-naming system for an entire group of 14 people using 30 different instruments and a number of different methods so they would all wind up on the shared drive in findable locations. Instruments had different firmware filename limitations. THAT was a challenge !

Your own personal files should be relatively easy to document.

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Back and in for today. Got my groceries and I really should buy a small dictionary to keep handing for when I am writing and I don't know how to spell.

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Haha...

Don't you go feeling bad about that.

If I were writing out all my posts I make here by hand on paper and you saw how bad of a speller I was IRL you'd swear to god I was retarded. Sometimes when I see all those red squiggly lines, I do wonder.

I probably damn near broke the right mouse button clean off correcting all those misspellings by now.



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Thing is was I pushed a wrong button and somehow it dropped a channel that I watch the local news on.

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I see. Did you have to rescan for all your channels? Howdja fix it?

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Well, you forget that I live in an apartment building on the tenth floor and any work done up this high would not be really possible.

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Not sure what part of my post you're referencing here. I think perhaps we may have gotten our wires crossed.

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My tv is old and will just have to do until it dies and I get one of the newer flat screen ones. And that will be a smaller one as the space for a tv I got is small.

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Wow. You mean old, old... like a Tube TV?

Oh yeah... even if you have to buy one used, you've got to treat yourself to a flat screen if that's the case, even if it's the same size as your old one, the picture is just SO much better. You're going to see things you never would have noticed before.

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Mostly I use a tv to watch the news, my cooking shows, maybe Dr. Who if I can get it and of course Nathan Fillion's show "The Rookie". Then I use it to watch DVDs, like movies and stuff I can't find on YouTube.

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My aunt's got the free streaming apps on her smart TV and also a streaming box the cable company gave her. She's watching things like cooking shows and cop shows all the time on demand... meaning she doesn't have to wait for a particular show she likes to come on and she can just cue it up whenever she wants to watch it. They still inject commercials into it, so I can't be bothered watching TV that way, but I'd assume just like my aunt that you're used to it and it wouldn't bother you none.

You get yourself a flat screen TV with an HDMI input or two and get one of those Fire Sticks, along with your internet it's going to open up a whole lot more viewing options you probably aren't even aware of.

Let me know if and when you decide to go for it and even though I don't use none of that stuff I can fire up my stick and see what your options are and try to walk you through setting any of it up.

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Got a couple of things to do before I get on to my email to the lady poet. So later peeps.

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Got a couple of things to do before I get on to my email to the lady poet. So later peeps.

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My email.
Ugh.
I get so much spam it's hard to keep my inbox cleared. Right now its full of junk. It needs weed whacking as desperately as the yard.

Since we try to give dear daughter as much experience wuth different things as possible, after safety instructions (always have the blade moving away from you, here is the button that locks the trigger off, brace the shoe against what you're trying to cut) and one example, I gave dear daughter the pocket reciprocating saw. And with me hovering over her at first but then moving away, damn if she didn't cut down somewhere in the realm of 15 palm saplings. Did a great job, cutting down as close to the ground as possible. Some were 4" thick, so I had to switch her out from a short blade to a longer one, but I was impressed with her work!


Well, on with the show here, too!


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Just got a call. Pick up mah jong game for me tomorrow afternoon.

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Just OOC SIX have you noticed any seasonal pattern? One of my relatives is strongly affected by season. Come the shortening days of winter, they want to go to sleep. In spring, they're "wired but tired".

In reviewing old phone bills over a few years, my long distance calls (when there was such a thing) REALLY peaked in May. (Now, it's internet shopping!)

BRENDA seems to be affected by cold, dark weather.

So, something perhaps in the transition from summer to fall, or winter to spring? Or both?

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Maybe, but not really though... I used to think it was SAD, but even though I've had some bad winters, I've also kept myself busy with that full kitchen remodel over a winter and you know I've been busy this winter. Around these parts that can sometimes be 2 straight months without even seeing the sun. But then last summer I got a lot less done than I should have and this last thing had a lot of crap days but I wasted some nice sunny days too.

The thing I can say for sure is that no matter what happens I'm regularly super busy between the end of August up through the beginning of November or so. That's a benefit to living where I do and knowing that no matter what you did all summer you've only got a little time left to get everything you want to do outside done.

I know that overall getting rid of all the darkened blinds and putting all that vinyl up was a major positive life change. There used to be zero light in the basement, and not all that much on the 1st floor before I did that. I think my only problem now is that I've spent half my working life working overnights and I don't have any problem sleeping even when the sun is glaring right down on me. But it's a lot nicer having the sun come in whenever it pops out while still maintaining privacy.

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Sometimes success builds on success. You get such a charge accomplishing something it leads you to do more. But sometimes it's just hard to get the motor going! You start, do, accomplish... motivation coughs, sputters ... and then dies.

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Yup. That explains it right there.

And that's exactly how my leaf blower is behaving right now too. Once I get my head fixed I'm going to have to extend the courtesy and get her head on straight too.



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