In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2) by SIGNYM

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In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)

POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Sunday, June 8, 2025 14:10
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Thursday, June 5, 2025 6:06 PM

Another lousy day playing mah jong. Ugh! Add to that my internet went funky last night. Have no idea what happened. Had to get on the phone this afternoon to get it and the tv sorted out. Luckily they could.

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Friday, June 6, 2025 12:59 PM

BRENDA

Out for my two year mammogram check. Yuck. Will get a bottle of water before I hop a bus to go to another city for it.

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Friday, June 6, 2025 6:46 PM

BRENDA

Got mammogram in spite of being late. They weren't too busy.

Got a good breeze going through my area today which is good. Didn't need anything to do but will tomorrow.

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Saturday, June 7, 2025 12:06 AM

BRENDA

People and their stinky deodorant, cologne or perfume are making me miserable. Just when my allergies were settling down this heat and ugh.

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Saturday, June 7, 2025 1:58 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Hey Sigs,

Just wanted to duck in and thank you for being a sounding board with my coding stuff a few times here.

It helps me work things out in my brain when I've got some issues that need solving and even if I haven't come to the answer I thought I needed to come to, I've come to answers to questions I didn't realize I should have been asking. If that makes any sense.

I'm still a coding dummy for sure, but I've enlisted the assistance of various programs I didn't even know existed until I looked for them, made a few tweaks here and there... not just in the project but my modes of thinking in certain instances as well. In some cases it's as if a few walls in my brain were knocked down and I'm accessing some tools I didn't realize that I had just on the other side of 'em.

And talking about throwing out outdated models when they don't serve a purpose anymore is playing a part in this as well. I was already kind of in that mode anyway but maybe didn't even realize that I was dipping my toes into it until we were talking about it the other night. And I've just decided to take a plunge in a few areas I never did before and try things I wouldn't have thought to try.

One huge change, now that my main "hub" project has been done for quite some time is to become much more lax in my documentation processes. Not only have I not realized until just recently that I get things done about 10 times faster when I'm not painstakingly documenting every single thing I do, every step of the way, but with some new tools available to me a lot of that won't even be necessary going forward. The project itself will be its own documentation in some cases.

The time I spent on all that documentation before is never a waste because it's still always going to be helpful and easy to access since it's part of the core, but 90% or more of that documentation where things are expanded going forward just isn't going to be necessary when the original can be reflected upon as a reference by anybody smart enough to ever want to check under the hood. A month ago I would have either kept right on doing wasting all that time documenting everything, or I would have walked away completely because I don't have the time to do this thing I enjoy anymore. But I would if I could make it a part time thing to enjoy and I can balance it with real life important stuff.

But I've also been making a real effort to learn more stuff to make automatic tasks play out on my own instead of hoping I can find somebody else smarter than me to do it. It was time to learn how to fish.

Not going to speak at all about what exactly it is I'm working on, of course, but let's just say that in the last few weeks I've been able to get work done on something that would have taken me a year to finish the way I was carrying on about it all a few months ago, and I've just cut that entire process down to about 6 weeks by the time I finish it without losing anything, or making any concessions in the name of saving time.

So even if you didn't think you were helpful with your answers sometimes, you were.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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Saturday, June 7, 2025 1:18 PM

BRENDA

Out to get laundry done then a walk in the sunshine. Need groceries.

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Saturday, June 7, 2025 2:12 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
People and their stinky deodorant, cologne or perfume are making me miserable. Just when my allergies were settling down this heat and ugh.

My asthma used to be so bad it could be triggered by perfumes or even heavily scented soaps. Elevators could be a nightmare! So I feel ya!

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA

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Saturday, June 7, 2025 2:17 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

That's great SIX! Isn't discovery grand??
What you accomplished, it was all on your own. I did the easy part: nothing.

But you're welcome. I'm always ready to do nothing again.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA

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Saturday, June 7, 2025 5:38 PM

BRENDA

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
People and their stinky deodorant, cologne or perfume are making me miserable. Just when my allergies were settling down this heat and ugh.

My asthma used to be so bad it could be triggered by perfumes or even heavily scented soaps. Elevators could be a nightmare! So I feel ya!

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA

Stuff like that can give me a headache. Dang near had one yesterday with all that stuff around. Just yuck! And I feel ya on the not being able to breath. That will hit me as well.

It feels to me like they've taken a bath in that stuff.

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Saturday, June 7, 2025 5:39 PM

BRENDA

All done for today. Discovered I forgot a couple of things yesterday at the grocery store, I was in there today. Will get them on Monday.

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Sunday, June 8, 2025 1:54 PM

BRENDA

Up to do things then book work.

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Sunday, June 8, 2025 2:10 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
That's great SIX! Isn't discovery grand??
What you accomplished, it was all on your own. I did the easy part: nothing.

But you're welcome. I'm always ready to do nothing again.

Thank you regardless. Just putting questions out there makes me think of them in a different way. Especially with how I post things when I'm not just posting throwaway comments and I come back and re-edit them a few times. It just gets my mind working in different ways that it wouldn't if I just kept internalizing the thing.

In the last few days I've been approaching name changes a much different way than I used to. There is a lot of overlap between filenames in certain aspects of stuff that is already out there because at least some standardization efforts have been made by others over the years. It's still a mess though.

But whenever I'd do something like this before, it was a laborious manual process, and all that work would not translate to another massive operation which would require the entire manual process to take place again from scratch. And again. And again. And again. And then yet again.

What I am engaged in now wouldn't be possible back in the day, because as much as I was working on trying to standardize things many years ago, those efforts hadn't been made otherwise by anyone else. Now that it's very clear that several noble attempts have been made, I'm able to put in a good deal of REPEATABLE manual work (as in, it will now be automated and fully repeatable without any further manual labor once complete) that can carry over to the other parts, with only some minor tweaking to the stuff that hasn't yet been standardized. So I'm kind of creating this Rosetta Stone from which batch files can be derived fairly quickly to finally standardize this stuff. And it all builds on itself and the more that is done the more it makes other stuff even easier to integrate.

Again, this is just one part of the improvement of the process, but it's a massive time-saving improvement. Not just right now, but going forward too.

I actually did something that I've never done before and donated a few bucks to somebody for all of their hard work creating one of the tools that I've always wished somebody had made for 20 years now. I only found this thing by accident, and it was made by people in France of all places.

They made it some time between now and the last time I was working on any of this, so it's not like I lost much time not knowing about it's existence, but I'm glad that I somehow put in the right search to Discover it.

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