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Going to call a few local suppliers for my friend tomorrow.

I'm trying to talk him into replacing the entire wall of the pool because of the damage, and I think it's a job the two of us could handle, but I don't know if he's going to go for it.

None of the big box stores carry sheet metal wider than 2 feet and he's going to need more than that if we're going to fix it right. Pretty sure a local supplier could offer that up for us though, and that way we'd be able to avoid a steep shipping fee any of the online suppliers charge for it.

I dunno... I know it would be a big job for us to do it all new on our own, but he'd practically have a brand new pool at that point since the posts and deck are solid. But if we just buy a sheet long enough span 1 foot past two of the posts for a patch job it would probably be 1/6th of the price and a lot less work. He'd probably get another 2-5 years out of it....

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Going to call a few local suppliers for my friend tomorrow.

I'm trying to talk him into replacing the entire wall of the pool because of the damage, and I think it's a job the two of us could handle, but I don't know if he's going to go for it.

None of the big box stores carry sheet metal wider than 2 feet and he's going to need more than that if we're going to fix it right. Pretty sure a local supplier could offer that up for us though, and that way we'd be able to avoid a steep shipping fee any of the online suppliers charge for it.

I dunno... I know it would be a big job for us to do it all new on our own, but he'd practically have a brand new pool at that point since the posts and deck are solid. But if we just buy a sheet long enough span 1 foot past two of the posts for a patch job it would probably be 1/6th of the price and a lot less work. He'd probably get another 2-5 years out of it....

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but he won't buy that primer and sand as much of the rust off as he can before spraying and taping the new piece to the existing piece.

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Yeah. I appreciate that. I believe I've watched that one already. I probably watched 10 of them last night that had damage to varying degrees, although none of them matched his particular problem.

I can't even get him to sand and prime anything, so bolts or rivets are out of the question.

At the end of the day, the only thing that is going to keep that water in the pool is the force of the water sandwiching the old walls in between the posts and the new sheet. I have zero faith in any spray adhesive or tape holding anything up for more than a few days after the liner is up there and humidity further screws with the stickiness on completely unprepared surfaces.

I'm no physicist. Maybe the water pressure alone is plenty enough to keep this thing together.

But I'm not even going to let him use one of my rolls of aluminum tape, even though I think that's a better option than duct tape. I think this thing has a better chance than a coin flip of falling apart and hurting somebody pretty badly if it does, and I sure as hell don't want it being blamed on my idea of which tape to use if that happens.

I'm kind of pissed about this whole thing right now. I gotta go back outside and get some work done to blow off some steam.

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Is this the friend who just sold the millstone from around his neck?

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Oh... I managed to finish the pavers today, so one fence down.

Took me damn near all day, so the lawn still isn't mowed and it's raining all day tomorrow. Going to be taking a break tomorrow for sure.


I'd show you pictures, but with the two psycho autists we've got here, pictures of the outside need to stay off this site. We know one of them is a retiree and the other one is jobless and still lives with his parents, so they've both got as much free time as I do and instead of putting it to work being productive and creative things, I'm liable to have my house swatted if either of them figured out where I lived based off of anything I've said in here coupled with identifying pictures like that.

It looks great though.

Let's see how long it holds up to the ants and moles. Not long I would assume.

That's okay. They're really just placeholders for me at the moment. I think I may be integrating one of my future property drainage solutions right through there and out to the street at some point, and the pavers will ensure I don't have to do the hard part again.

I'm probably going to end up doing the landscaping and waterproofing on the back of the house last at this point. I can't really do that tar in the rain when it's still cool, so that kind of pushes wrapping up that part toward mid to late summer, which was when I intended on starting all of this work.

I'm really glad I started it this early in the year despite the rain every few days. It's so much better to be doing all the digging when it's in the 60s and 70s, and the mess that I had imagined may happen if things were dug up like this when it was still raining a pretty good deal was way overstated in my brain. There's been zero basement leaks and the only real mess happening at all is a little mud splash on the foundation that I have yet to prep and the bottom of the siding. No biggie.

It's pretty sweet that by the time it really starts getting hot, I'll be done with all the digging I intend on doing this year.



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Sounds like you got a jump start on another big project, SIX.
Congrats!


Despite family medical issues and household chores (cooking, cleaning, household finances, home-grown therapy for dear daughter etc.) I'm chipping away, an hour or two at a time, at re-landscaping and general yard work.

Not sure if I mentioned it but I did weed and paper over the veggie garden and planted tomatoes and zucchini. I'll be doing more weeding and papering over this weekend.

That paper really prevents a lot of weeds from sprouting. Once I get a significant portion of the front yard papered over I'll order mulch. Once the mulch goes on the paper starts to disappear, so I have to put on at least 3" of mulch to also prevent weeds. Learned the hard way that mulch disappears over time and needs to be refreshed every two- three years, if not planted.

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Rainy Sunday around me and nothing much happening. I will get some music on later.

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I only think I'm capable of doing the projects that I do because I don't have the balance necessary to juggle the needs of a family with my own. I don't know how you or anybody else does it. It must be a lot easier than I imagine it would be though, or nobody would do it.

I'd be really great at it, until I wasn't. I don't think my personality type meshes at all with the constant needs of a family unit. As far back as I can remember I've always done pretty much everything in fiery bursts. But then I run out of gas and I'm pretty much useless until I get fired up again.

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I don't go anywhere without my wristwatch strapped. It was a habit I'd gotten out of for many years because a cell phone has the time, but back before I got rid of my cell phone I had a manager that was coaching me for future job interviews (outside the company) and he said that if he sees somebody is wearing a wristwatch that means that time is important to them, and he's much more likely to hire that person over anybody relying on their smartphone to tell them the time. I've been wearing a watch ever since.

Right now, time doesn't mean anything to me as far as any daily itinerary goes. I just kind of do what I want whenever I get around to doing it most days. I usually only really hyper-focus on time when doing outdoor projects and I'm racing against the sun going down.

But when I do work a job for somebody else, time becomes extremely important. It always was, even when I was relying on my cell phone for the time. I'd constantly be pulling it out to check the time to figure how much more work I could get done before it's time to punch out. The idea that me not wearing a wristwatch would convey that I wasn't conscious of time while I was working hadn't occurred to me before that manager told me how important that was to him in an interview. I immediately went out and got a watch and put that perception of me by anyone else to rest. And boy is that easier to just raise your arm and look at the time. I can't believe I went so many years without one.

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My pharmacy has its issues. I don't blame them for the problem today though. It was just the last annoyance in an annoying day. The icing on the cake.

For a long time there I was pre-contacting my doctors to renew my scripts when they'd run out. Not even realizing that the pharmacist already does that with the doctors on their own. But they're not really all that quick about it though. They just put a fax out to the doctor and as far as I can tell they don't follow up if they don't get an answer back. If I go out of my way to do this, the scrips are filled immediately on the day they would have if the scrip hadn't run out. But if I let the pharmacy take care of it, the scrips could be a week late.

The only other issue I've had is that sometimes on the day a scrip is supposed to be ready, they can't get it ready because they don't have any of that product and need to wait another day for it to be sent to them.


Both of these problems are annoying, and should be easily fixable if their processes were tweaked. If done correctly, they could be completely automated too. They already know what day every one of your scrips are due for a refill. They already know if you have any refills left in your current scrip. All of this data is available for every customer on their online account page.

They already know what inventory they have on hand. I'm pretty sure when we're talking about prescription drugs that it would be law that they had to.

There is zero reason that in 2024 there are any delays for prescriptions because the doctors haven't been contacted in advance to refill the scrips or there is not enough inventory on hand in the store to give to the customers on refill day.


ETA: And why the hell is anybody still faxing anything in 2024???

I do all of my comms with my doctors online. Any time I contact them about a scrip, one of the people they pay to sit and reply to these things all day is the one who takes care of that stuff and AFAIK the doctor's don't even get bothered with it. They're pretty damn fast about responding to any inquires that don't require the doctor specifically to reply too.

The "FAX Job" is probably the once daily job that everyone around the office hates doing and the person who drew the short straw is stuck doing it that day. If the pharmacy was dialed into that system and was able to request prescription updates from the same people online, there would be a lot of man hours saved on both sides nationwide, and any prescription refill request would be filled in hours instead of days.

And think of all the trees that need to be cut down to fax all these scrips every day.

Jeez... I hope the pharmacy is at least using a computer program to fax those over to the doctors and they're not actually printing them out and using a physical fax machine to send them over or that number of trees just got doubled.

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I only think I'm capable of doing the projects that I do because I don't have the balance necessary to juggle the needs of a family with my own. I don't know how you or anybody else does it. It must be a lot easier than I imagine it would be though, or nobody would do it.

I'd be really great at it, until I wasn't. I don't think my personality type meshes at all with the constant needs of a family unit. As far back as I can remember I've always done pretty much everything in fiery bursts. But then I run out of gas and I'm pretty much useless until I get fired up again.

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I noticed that about you. You'll be on fire for months at a time, and then kind of disappear for a month or two. I get a little worried that you'll get into a deep funk when that happens. You might want to think of some sort of low-level activity to keep your engine ticking over. Nothing too time consuming, just something engaging.
Or maybe it's just the way you work, when you're working for yourself, you're aware and OK with it, and I needn't worry.

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I appreciate the worry, but it's fine. At least it has been so far. My lows were certainly a lot longer and far more destructive back in my drinking days than they are now.

They're still not good, but they're not self-destructive like they used to be. The worst part about them is that if I let them go on for too long then bad habits can pop up like weeds again. But I'll take forgetting to take my medicine or vitamins for a day or two over cracking open the first beer to start off a 2 day drinking binge any day.

I think I probably am bi-polar like my mom and brother and uncle were.

It's actually pretty darn useful during those manic times if you can channel that energy into positive things. But boy are the lows low. I don't sit around feeling sorry for myself or have a noggin full of negative thoughts and energy like you'd typically think somebody who was depressed would be. I just lack any and all motivation with no sense of when I'm going to find it again is all. And when you don't have a job or a schedule to maintain, it can be very easy to just do nothing and not worry about it until that light switch goes back on. Let's just say I waste more than my fair share of time doing mindless activities like playing video games and falling down youtube rabbit holes.

I've always been like this. Even when I was a kid I would clean my room and closet until it was immaculate, but then I'd just let it slowly fall back into disarray until I couldn't take it anymore.

I think that knowing this about myself has always been a very strong motivator for having done things in my life and set myself up the way that I have. I know that when I'm on point there's nobody you could trust more to surpass any expectations you had for a job, but when I'm not on point you can't rely on me for anything and you're just going to have to wait until I'm good and ready to get it done.

I know the rest of the world isn't very likely to wait around on me if I owe them a favor or I'm drawing a regular paycheck from them. So why not set myself up in such a way that I can fall into the funks without putting myself or anybody else out, right?



I do find that I can enjoy my life a lot more, both the highs and the lows, if I am in a position not to lose anything other than time on my end and not to have inconvenienced or otherwise piss off somebody I care about or who is just beneficial not to put out when I'm in those moods. It makes getting back to action pretty seamless, and I don't feel guilty for not getting right back to work until I'm darn good and ready to. That's my luxury in life.

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I don't go anywhere without my wristwatch strapped. It was a habit I'd gotten out of for many years because a cell phone has the time, but back before I got rid of my cell phone I had a manager that was coaching me for future job interviews (outside the company) and he said that if he sees somebody is wearing a wristwatch that means that time is important to them, and he's much more likely to hire that person over anybody relying on their smartphone to tell them the time. I've been wearing a watch ever since.

Right now, time doesn't mean anything to me as far as any daily itinerary goes. I just kind of do what I want whenever I get around to doing it most days. I usually only really hyper-focus on time when doing outdoor projects and I'm racing against the sun going down.

But when I do work a job for somebody else, time becomes extremely important. It always was, even when I was relying on my cell phone for the time. I'd constantly be pulling it out to check the time to figure how much more work I could get done before it's time to punch out. The idea that me not wearing a wristwatch would convey that I wasn't conscious of time while I was working hadn't occurred to me before that manager told me how important that was to him in an interview. I immediately went out and got a watch and put that perception of me by anyone else to rest. And boy is that easier to just raise your arm and look at the time. I can't believe I went so many years without one.

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Hubby still wears a watch. Or, he will when I get a new battery bc it just pooped out. Personally I can't wear them. Something about my skin just eats through everything. I've even eaten thru a heavily chromed back and pitted a gold plated one. That's one of the reasons I set so many timers and alarms: it's too damn difficult to pull my cellphone out to check the time. So I've learned to have it keep track for me.

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You should see my wrist. After a day of working in the mud, it's the only clean part left of my arms, and after I'm showered up it's got tan lines.



I couldn't live without one these days. I'd be trying to figure out what I could paint the back of a watch with if my skin was eating through them.

I always know when it's 4:30PM because I set an alarm for my friend's dad one day years ago and never bothered un-setting it. Sometimes I manage to turn it off, but then I fiddle with something one day and it's back on again. I did that about a week ago and now when I'm working I get 30 seconds of beeping at 4:30.

That's the only alarm I got on my cheap Casio though. I bet you probably could set an alarm every 5 minutes with a different ring if you wanted to on that phone of yours though, huh?

It still wouldn't be enough for me. When I'm working on something I'm looking at that watch as involuntarily as I breathe.

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My pharmacy has its issues. I don't blame them for the problem today though. It was just the last annoyance in an annoying day. The icing on the cake.

For a long time there I was pre-contacting my doctors to renew my scripts when they'd run out. Not even realizing that the pharmacist already does that with the doctors on their own. But they're not really all that quick about it though. They just put a fax out to the doctor and as far as I can tell they don't follow up if they don't get an answer back. If I go out of my way to do this, the scrips are filled immediately on the day they would have if the scrip hadn't run out. But if I let the pharmacy take care of it, the scrips could be a week late.

The only other issue I've had is that sometimes on the day a scrip is supposed to be ready, they can't get it ready because they don't have any of that product and need to wait another day for it to be sent to them.


Both of these problems are annoying, and should be easily fixable if their processes were tweaked. If done correctly, they could be completely automated too. They already know what day every one of your scrips are due for a refill. They already know if you have any refills left in your current scrip. All of this data is available for every customer on their online account page.

They already know what inventory they have on hand. I'm pretty sure when we're talking about prescription drugs that it would be law that they had to.

There is zero reason that in 2024 there are any delays for prescriptions because the doctors haven't been contacted in advance to refill the scrips or there is not enough inventory on hand in the store to give to the customers on refill day.


ETA: And why the hell is anybody still faxing anything in 2024???

I do all of my comms with my doctors online. Any time I contact them about a scrip, one of the people they pay to sit and reply to these things all day is the one who takes care of that stuff and AFAIK the doctor's don't even get bothered with it. They're pretty damn fast about responding to any inquires that don't require the doctor specifically to reply too.

The "FAX Job" is probably the once daily job that everyone around the office hates doing and the person who drew the short straw is stuck doing it that day. If the pharmacy was dialed into that system and was able to request prescription updates from the same people online, there would be a lot of man hours saved on both sides nationwide, and any prescription refill request would be filled in hours instead of days.

And think of all the trees that need to be cut down to fax all these scrips every day.

Jeez... I hope the pharmacy is at least using a computer program to fax those over to the doctors and they're not actually printing them out and using a physical fax machine to send them over or that number of trees just got doubled.

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Our healthcare provider has a messaging system too, with a selectable title "Refill medications" which means "write a new scrip". When they see that, the nurse just fills it out and e-scrips to the pharmacy. It's a lot more reliable than having the pharmacy do it. Like you said, the pharmacy never follows up.

The only hitch is with controlled substances. I don't know if the pharmacy requires an actual mailed hardcopy or if a fax of the hardcopy will do, but I know the doctor has to fill out an actual form that keeps a carbonless copy.

We used to go to a CVS pharmacy that drove me nucking futs. I'd go to pick up several Rxs for us. So they'd look on the main wall where many alphabetized Rxs were hanging. Then, not finding it there, they had to go to a shelving unit and dig around the unsorted Rxs. If not there, there was another overflow area a little further back. And they might have to do this three or four times, if the Rxs were filled at different times and not stapled together.

And all I could think of was ..."HEY! MANAGER! Instead of flogging your people to work faster (and make mistakes, which they did*) how about you get off your manager's ass and get a SINGLE space built that can accomodate ALL of the Rxs and save at least 10 minutes each Rx?!"

And one time I asked for a price check on a controlled substance, and the pharmacy tech accidentally erased the Rx from the system.
POOF!
My first two thoughts were

"What kind of stupid software ALLOWS something like that to happen? Nobody should be able to casually modify the database!" and

"Poor guy obviously didn't get all the training he needed"

Getting a new Rx on a controlled from a doctor who had just written it took a lot of 'splaining.

* But the coup de grace for that pharmacy was when they gave our caregiver coumadin, a powerful blood thinner, instead of cardura, a blood pressure medication. Fortunately she asked us to look at the new label, and my head kind of exploded.

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I hope this rain tamps down the fire season.

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Wow, that was some set of servers you were babysitting, SIX! I can't imagine what organization would have such ginormous servers to require so much power except telecom or the NSA.
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Nothing as cloak and dagger as that, I'm afraid. Big financial hub is all. You don't want to even know what the FED/Government charges per half hour if you're late sending them all the financials for the day at 2:00AM. I'm sure whatever that figure is today would blow that number from 2009 right out the water too.

I knew a thing or two. My self-learned tech knowledge was responsible for any of the real money I've ever made in my life. It was just always pretty hard to get my foot into the door without a piece of paper saying that I got a degree though. Made the most of it whenever I could though. But like I said, they don't even need anyone like me anymore. I'd figure that 90% of the jobs that were in that building before the merger moved operations up north aren't even jobs that exist anymore.

Had I survived the layoff, the new server room that I was going to work in every day required a retinal and thumb print scans and voice activation. Not only that, but you were doing those while standing on a plate that would weigh you and if you were +/- 10 lbs from what the database said you weigh it wouldn't let you in.

No thanks. A little too Orwellian for my tastes. I bet some of them have a barcode or an RFID implant to get around the building at this point. Back in my day I just had my card on my lanyard to buzz me into the doors I had access to.

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You seem to know yourself enough to be able to roll with the ups and downs. You look like you spend more time highly ... HIGHLY... productive, tackling a lot of things with confidence and able to learn quickly. But nobody can be "up" all the time. So I guess there will be those other months.

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On balance, tho, it sounds like you've learned how to take advantage of the "up" times and live thru the down times. But if it ever gets too much, I hope you have a medically knowledgeable friend looking out for you.
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These days I do. I talk to people frequently enough that they start to get worried if they don't hear from me now that I'm diabetic. Even though I have that well under control at this point, even in my down times, that's not going to stop people from worrying if I don't reach out.

I don't really have anybody that's medically knowledgeable though. But I do have two emergency pens if anybody ever finds me passed out. I carry one around with me in my tool bag (man purse) and the other one stays put in the same place at home. Everyone I regularly talk to knows where these are.






Not a huge day ahead of me now. I just want to finish what I started yesterday and do a little cleanup outside. I managed to move some of the pavers for the new temporary path from the driveway to my back porch yesterday after mowing the lawn, and I'd like to get the rest of that strip put in today before I shower up and go pick up a few scrips.

The old "walkway" I had out there in the sand pit was bullshit. It wasn't put in there as a walkway years ago. I put those pavers down right underneath where the water would fall off the roof and put a huge divot in the sand after constantly kicking it up everywhere. The need for this was eliminated years ago when I got my gutters installed. It was always way too close to the side of the garage to be a comfortable walkway and I've made people other than myself endure that every time they visit. Time to fix that.

40% chance of rain today turned into kind of a bust. I'm only seeing 7% chance every hour for the rest of the day and it doesn't look like it rained at all yet. Getting a really late start today, but shouldn't have any problems getting what I need to get done finished.



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There's only so many times your eyes can visually trip over ... or your feet can actually trip over... something. And when you get that almost subconscious "ARGH!" out of the way, it's such a relief!!

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Cool!

Here's a few things to check:

Do you have enough sturdy chairs to go around?

Do you have a big enough table for everyone to sit around, maybe play cards?

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For a few people at a time. Probably seat 4 to 6 comfortably either in the house or in the porch. Got some captain's chairs and I kept 2 of the patio furniture chairs when I got rid of that set.

When I dehoarded I gave my brother a card table and chairs with it, and 2 extra folding chairs. He's also got my very, very nice poker table. They were basically a "they're all yours unless I ever want them back in the future" kind of deal. That was so long ago he might not even remember I gave the small table and chairs to him at this point. Almost feels wrong to even ask about it now. I need to get the poker table back for sure though.

I'm not looking to have any parties here. Poker night is cool, but otherwise I'd just like to have a hub that people can meet at before we do things like go the the local music fest.

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The shower is getting clogged up again. Clearing that out is basically a yearly routine for me these days. Everything else works fine. It ain't sparkling though.

What I'd like to do is install the pedestal sink my buddy gave me a few years back and put a few walls up and put tile up over that shower basin in the basement and get it to where I can take showers down there. That way I'd be able to clean the main bathroom spotless and I wouldn't get it dirty, outside of maybe needing to clean the sink and toilet every once in a while, and keep all that down in the basement. The only time I'd probably ever use the main bathroom at that point would be the winter when it was cold down there.

That's something I've been wanting to do for a while now. If I do the shower right, even though it will probably be years before I ever remodeled down there, I wouldn't have to redo it later unless a flood forces me to do that. That pedestal sink should be easy to install and take back down when I need to. There's already a working toilet in there.

This is probably going to be part of my winter projects this year. I'm already putting off certain things that can only be done during nice weather to do other things that can only be done during nice weather.

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SCE notified us when they have to come in and trim our trees away from their lines.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Got back a bit after 5pm today and I won the first round. Had a hand with 7 doubles in it. Winds & dragons along with my 2 flowers. I was sooo close to having all 8 flowers in one hand but the other ladies I was playing with got the other 2.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Got back a bit after 5pm today and I won the first round. Had a hand with 7 doubles in it. Winds & dragons along with my 2 flowers. I was sooo close to having all 8 flowers in one hand but the other ladies I was playing with got the other 2.

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Congrats on the win, Brenda.


I don't know what 8 flowers means, and trying to look it up online didn't clear it up for me either...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mahjong/comments/10pn0dp/7_or_8_flower_win_ta
iwanese/

https://sloperama.com/shanghai/Images/mjchin.htm



I had no idea how complicated a game Mahjong is until just now. How long do you think it too you to learn it? Do you still feel like you're learning or improving the more you play?

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