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

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

POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Wednesday, September 9, 2026 18:43
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Tuesday, September 8, 2026 6:23 PM

Welp, all done for today. Got some veg which are still in my shopping bag.

Doctor's appointment went good. Keppra prescription sorted. Have one refill on the old one and that will be used by the end of the month.
Told doc about seizures and said it's not a bad wait to see neurologist. He double checked how much I am taking of both of them. He's not sure what the neurologist will say. But all of that needed to be added to my file. Also developed some red and scabby skin on my left hand. Told him what I what is going on with it and he thinks it is contact dermatitis. I said that is what I was sort of thinking. Got a prescription for that. He said use it for two weeks but if I notice it isn't helping for if the skin on my hand is thinning to come back.

Also boss just had to get something to me today. So, I had to go back out and meet her.

But I am officially done and in for today.

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Tuesday, September 8, 2026 6:34 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

You had a busy day. Time for a break!

*****

Here is what's driving our weather: The farthest storm on the right.

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

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Tuesday, September 8, 2026 11:37 PM

BRENDA

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
You had a busy day. Time for a break!

*****

Here is what's driving our weather: The farthest storm on the right.

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

Yeah, I did.

Wow! No wonder your weather was so wonky today. Not seeing anything like that in BC despite the still 124 fires burning in province. There is rain coming at some point.

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Wednesday, September 9, 2026 12:02 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Well... I think we'd better say our goodbyes soon before the plug gets pulled here, Brenda and Sigs.

Between "Haken"'s unwillingness to extrapolate on what sort of AI actions are being taken after Ted let that slip out, and this new move to a strange "uat" subdomain that there isn't much online about other than stuff that makes me worry, I don't think I'll be posting here anymore once the change is made.

The good news, if you stick around, is I think that "Haken" should be able to isolate the site from Google tracking if he set it up right. So there's that...

I'm going to miss this place. I've been posting here 20 years... A good majority of my adult life.

If you have any ways of staying in contact, suggestions should be made now. I'm not good at email, so I'm not going to lie and say that's a good way to do it on my side. Short of finding some unrelated web 1.0 site that has similar side-threads not related to the topic of the site and a whole lot of strangers around that might not appreciate us hijacking the place, I don't know if there really is a good solution.

I'd hate to leave it like this with Sigs and I arguing, and I'm really going to miss our chats, Brenda.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

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Wednesday, September 9, 2026 1:49 PM

BRENDA

I'll be sorry to see you go SIX. I'll miss our chats too.

I don't know what I will do. But what you posted has made me nervous after some of the stuff I've had happen with this turkey.

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Wednesday, September 9, 2026 1:50 PM

BRENDA

Out in a bit. Just a couple of things to do.

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Wednesday, September 9, 2026 3:01 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by Brenda:
I'll be sorry to see you go SIX. I'll miss our chats too.

I don't know what I will do. But what you posted has made me nervous after some of the stuff I've had happen with this turkey.

Me too, Brenda. :(

I wish I could tell you more, but even doing research on the new subdomain is difficult. (What I mean is the site will be known as uat.fireflyfans.net, instead of www.fireflyfans.net going forward).

It's not as if www has been safe for well over a decade now either, and this "upgrade" might be good for everyone. Like I said, if he sets it up correctly, he could keep Google from crawling the site as it's capable of doing right now. It's really easy for me to find most things that people said in the past on this site because of that fact. I'm still a memember of a few other web 1.0 sites, but they had upgraded to 2.0 and they both prohibit Google from seeing anything, and prohibit lurkers from being able to see things unless they are members of the site, as it should be.

I just don't like how quiet "Haken" is about all of this. He's never taken any time to tell any of us (outside of possibly Ted in email conversations) what his AI plans are, and now this.

I won't tell you that you shouldn't stay here. I'm just thinking that it's time for me to go.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

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Wednesday, September 9, 2026 3:07 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Finally turned the A/C off after who knows how many straight days of blasting it 24/7. During the worst, it was almost 100 degrees outside with a real feel of 110 degrees with nothing but humidity in the air.

Even with my little A/C unit struggling to keep up, it was so bad that my front door didn't want to close when I got the mail, and that NEVER happened in the 8 or so years I didn't have any A/C in this house at all.

Down to 73 on the 2nd floor right now, with low humidity in the house today, and it's raining on and off all day with pure cloud cover. It actually was getting uncomfortably cool as I'm sitting in my boxers so rather than put on clothes and keep it running I just turned it off.

I'm seeing one more day next week in the high 80's but that should be the end of that for this year.

Soon I'll be bitching about my $600 gas bills and wishing for summer again.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

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Wednesday, September 9, 2026 4:41 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Well... I think we'd better say our goodbyes soon before the plug gets pulled here, Brenda and Sigs.

Between "Haken"'s unwillingness to extrapolate on what sort of AI actions are being taken after Ted let that slip out, and this new move to a strange "uat" subdomain that there isn't much online about other than stuff that makes me worry, I don't think I'll be posting here anymore once the change is made.

The good news, if you stick around, is I think that "Haken" should be able to isolate the site from Google tracking if he set it up right. So there's that...

I'm going to miss this place. I've been posting here 20 years... A good majority of my adult life.

If you have any ways of staying in contact, suggestions should be made now. I'm not good at email, so I'm not going to lie and say that's a good way to do it on my side. Short of finding some unrelated web 1.0 site that has similar side-threads not related to the topic of the site and a whole lot of strangers around that might not appreciate us hijacking the place, I don't know if there really is a good solution.

I'd hate to leave it like this with Sigs and I arguing, and I'm really going to miss our chats, Brenda.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

So far it's still .net. I'll look into .ua. Maybe it's not as bad as you think.

Also, maybe like you said, we can find an alternate site.

Somehow, and I don't remember how, I got BRENDA's email from ... like... 20 years ago. Unless she's changed it, I can still get in touch.

And don't ask me how, but I think I know your real name and your IRL addy, SIX, to the city and street name. What I can't do is get a way of getting in touch. You probably wouldn't want to, but if you post your house # I can send something snail mail with a valid but non-critical email addy. If I've got the wrong info, no harm done, and you haven't revealed anything vital.

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

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Wednesday, September 9, 2026 4:53 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

That sounds terrifying.

I'm sure Google knows who I am and where I live by now, also everything that I've ever posted on this half-baked website with zero security.

I have a good idea how you would know this, I just would never think that somebody other than me would be that persistent and/or have that much free time on their hands.

I think, at least right now, I'm going to pass on that idea.

If you're that resourceful and persistent, I don't think I want to know the truth of whether or not you know who I really am.

How about you just go ahead and send some nonsense in the mail to the person you think I am, and try not to feel too bad when you hear in the news that my heart exploded in the week or so following, mkay?

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Wednesday, September 9, 2026 6:11 PM

BRENDA

Still warm around me. Not hot but okay. Got my stuff done for today.

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Wednesday, September 9, 2026 6:35 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

I'm not THAT persistent SIX! Not that knowledgeable either! Nothing to do with me at all.

If I can I'll try to get a letter to you and explain it all. I just don't want to leave any online breadcrumbs for anyone else, just in case.

Rest easy.

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Wednesday, September 9, 2026 6:43 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I'm not THAT persistent SIX! Not that knowledgeable either! Nothing to do with me at all.

If I can I'll try to get a letter to you and explain it all. I just don't want to leave any online breadcrumbs for anyone else, just in case.

Rest easy.

Yeah... Please don't.

If your way is easier than what I'd concocted in my own head after reading that, we don't need the two fucking idiots having any idea how you did it... if you really did it.

Because they'd be sending SWAT to have us murdered by cop that very same day if they knew.

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