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Wednesday, August 14, 2024 1:27 PM

BRENDA


Things to do before my pick up game of mah jong.

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Wednesday, August 14, 2024 11:34 PM

BRENDA


Back after 5pm today and I won.

Who knows what will happen tomorrow at regular game.

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Wednesday, August 14, 2024 11:51 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Nice.

Just plugging away on my computer project. Gettin' there.

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Thursday, August 15, 2024 1:07 AM

SIGNYM

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Quote:

Originally posted by Brenda:
Back after 5pm today and I won.

Who knows what will happen tomorrow at regular game.



Yay!


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Thursday, August 15, 2024 6:00 PM

BRENDA


It was good on Wednesday but suxxed today. Had hard time doing anything though I did manage to break 1,000points, which was something I couldn't do last Thursday.

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Friday, August 16, 2024 1:29 PM

BRENDA


Out to do some stuff then back to dedust another area.

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Friday, August 16, 2024 3:37 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Still plugging away at my project.

I've already gotten much deeper into it than I intended to, and something else always pops up.

I still feel that I'm making great progress though.

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Friday, August 16, 2024 5:58 PM

BRENDA


Outside chores done and dedusting and clean up done on my dad's old dresser. Just the top and I always wear a mask just because of so much dust that if I don't by the evening I will be hacking up a lung. It's still in pretty good shape in spite of all the moves and being in storage for a few months when I got back to BC. Letting it dry after cleaning it with dish soap and water then I will put everything back that needs to go back. Found things I knew was on it but something I didn't. A guitar pick. I have no idea where it came from as I don't remember buying one. Someone must have given it to me at one time and I just forgot.

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Friday, August 16, 2024 9:59 PM

SIGNYM

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Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Still plugging away at my project.

I've already gotten much deeper into it than I intended to, and something else always pops up.

I still feel that I'm making great progress though.

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Friday, August 16, 2024 9:59 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Quote:

Originally posted by Brenda:
Outside chores done and dedusting and clean up done on my dad's old dresser. Just the top and I always wear a mask just because of so much dust that if I don't by the evening I will be hacking up a lung. It's still in pretty good shape in spite of all the moves and being in storage for a few months when I got back to BC. Letting it dry after cleaning it with dish soap and water then I will put everything back that needs to go back. Found things I knew was on it but something I didn't. A guitar pick. I have no idea where it came from as I don't remember buying one. Someone must have given it to me at one time and I just forgot.

Oh, you too, huh?

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Friday, August 16, 2024 11:44 PM

BRENDA


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:

Originally posted by Brenda:
Outside chores done and dedusting and clean up done on my dad's old dresser. Just the top and I always wear a mask just because of so much dust that if I don't by the evening I will be hacking up a lung. It's still in pretty good shape in spite of all the moves and being in storage for a few months when I got back to BC. Letting it dry after cleaning it with dish soap and water then I will put everything back that needs to go back. Found things I knew was on it but something I didn't. A guitar pick. I have no idea where it came from as I don't remember buying one. Someone must have given it to me at one time and I just forgot.

Oh, you too, huh?

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Apparently and I just left it on the dresser. When I found it I was quite surprised.

Put a few things into the top draw that I will have to go through another time. No emergency there. Got to figure out where to put some information on my mum's family that an a great aunt of mine told me years ago when she was up to visit. She lived in the US. It's in the drawer but it should be somewhere else to make sure I don't loose it.

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Saturday, August 17, 2024 1:03 PM

BRENDA


Laundry day then out for my walk. Expecting a rain tomorrow but that's okay. Sunday and I don't go anywhere anyway.

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Saturday, August 17, 2024 1:47 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Still plugging away at my project.

I've already gotten much deeper into it than I intended to, and something else always pops up.

I still feel that I'm making great progress though.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.



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Way... way... way deeper...

My Perfectionist Demon is having one hell of a time right now.

I just spent 2 hours on something last night making something perfect that most people will never notice. It was just one part of a portion of this that has over 400 parts (each with sub-parts below them). My goal yesterday was to get all 400+ parts with all their sub-parts done before I went to sleep last night. I got only 218 of them done, with none of the sub-parts completed. Most of those parts were quick and easy, but there were quite a few that needed at least 10 or 15 minutes intervention before I could move on.

I knew this was going to happen.



ETA: "Nobody is going to notice"... That's the thing about this project. It's one of those things that when you do it right nobody notices that you did anything at all. Imagine all the daily things you do that are annoying because they don't work right since the people in charge of putting them together either never use it themselves or there wasn't enough money put into it to make it user-friendly.

Most people only notice things when they're problems.

And unfortunately for me, there's no money to be put into it because there's no way to monetize the work. I used to tell people I worked with that I felt the COO of one of the most productive corporations in the world, but nobody working there made any money because the company never had any way of making money.



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Saturday, August 17, 2024 3:42 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


I know what you mean. Like, my phone's apps. Every app works a little differently. Some you can delete individual items but you get to that part of the menu differently. Some you can only block delete. Some you can get to essentially the same function three different ways, but with slightly different results, especially in 5G v wifi access, or memory management.

Some things, you can't do at all.

I think each was written by a monkey, in isolation from the 20,000 other monkeys writing other apps.


I hope you get it done to your satisfaction, SIX. It'll be great!

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Saturday, August 17, 2024 5:50 PM

BRENDA


Back and done for today. Having a sit down now.

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Saturday, August 17, 2024 8:13 PM

THG


Hey comrade signym, trash your own thread.

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Kamala’s first interview question: “Describe yourself in one word.” Kamala: “Vague.” Interviewer: “Can you elaborate?” Kamala: “Possibly.”

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Kamala Harris has invented a new type of presidential candidacy – one based on being absolutely nothing. Seriously. She has stated exactly one position publicly: “No tax on tips” which is precisely the position staked out by Donald Trump two months ago. I guess we should give Kamala this one, since she’s no stranger to a variety of tips.


She’s pulling what I’ll call an “Ultra-Clinton” approach to her candidacy. Back when Hillary first ran for senate in 2000, I was expecting that, finally, she’d have to address the public. There wasn’t any way, I naively thought, that she could duck the people for an entire election. I mean, without killing them.

Whoops. While Hillary did do carefully staged and vetted “listening tour” events, what she didn’t do was meet with anyone but fawning press. She successfully avoided all genuine interaction with people so she wouldn’t have to kill time. Of course, Hillary was well known to be a GloboLeft accomplice, so it wasn’t any surprise when the New York machine churned out a senate seat for her to launch an eventual presidential campaign.

Kamala Harris, though, is another matter. She is the ultimate in vapor. What, exactly, does she stand for? Apparently, no taxes on tips. But beyond that, she is a ghost.

Is she Indian or black? Yes, though my guess is that more of her ancestors owned slaves than were slaves.

I guess if she doesn’t owe reparations, nobody does.

Is she for or against illegals scurrying across the border in unending streams?

Yes. She wants to be seen as “tough on immigration” at the same time she promises to “let every illegal sitting in detention out on day one”.

Is she against inflation? You bet she is, and on day one of her administration she’ll do something (the something is not mentioned) to stop it. Why the Biden/Harris administration can’t stop it right here and now isn’t discussed and no one asks here that question, since that would be mean or something. As usual, the Bee nails it:



If honesty is the best policy, I guess Kamala’s normally uses the second-best policy.

Interviews? Trump sits down to a multi-hour open and candid conversation with Elon Musk, and sits for interview after interview. Kamala? She might sit for an interview sometime by the end of the month. Maybe. If they can keep her off the gin for that long.

"They did a study of how often Kamala was drunk. The results were staggering." [HAHAHA!!!]

... This election is a circus, and we’re far short of the finale.

But what is known is that Kamala is really attempting to appeal to a select group of voters: those who aren’t paying attention and who will vote for a candidate based on what they feel.

Kamala has no need to preen for the hard-core GloboLeftists that want to hang Trump because they don’t like his face. They’re going to show up for her even if she changes her tune to being pro-life and wants to start distributing AR-15s to every citizen. They’d vote for her, because what they believe in is based only on what the latest talking points are from the DNC. These people are Non-Player Characters (NPC) because they’re programmed by the mainstream news or by whatever the talking head night joke men tell them to believe.


... Kamala has to appeal to those [NPC] people to win. She can’t do it on record, so the best option is to run against anything she has ever stood for, or at least pretend to run against that. She can say anything in front of any group, and will wait for the networks and search engines to run interference for her so that she can fulfill her strategy to win the White House.

How? Kamala intends to be the first NPC candidate, standing for nothing, with no real substance except a desire for power with the media as her staunchest friend and defender. Let’s get this woman some more gin!


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MORE AT https://wilderwealthywise.com/kamala-the-npc-candidate/

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Sunday, August 18, 2024 11:13 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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I know what you mean. Like, my phone's apps. Every app works a little differently. Some you can delete individual items but you get to that part of the menu differently. Some you can only block delete. Some you can get to essentially the same function three different ways, but with slightly different results, especially in 5G v wifi access, or memory management.

Some things, you can't do at all.

I think each was written by a monkey, in isolation from the 20,000 other monkeys writing other apps.


I hope you get it done to your satisfaction, SIX. It'll be great!



Yup. That's exactly what I'm talking about.

Many aspects of my project were far easier with WindowsXP than they are with Windows 10 too. WindowsXP was the Perfect OS. 10 is an improvement on everything that's come out in between, but it's still so bloated. I've got so much more processing power under the hood of my low-end computers today than I did back during the XP days, but I find myself having to restart Windows Explorer up to 2 or 3 times per day because it can't handle having 5 or 10 explorer windows open with folders that have thousands of files each.

And the "Search" function in Explorer today is garbage too. They've dumbed down everything so any idiot can use a computer and gimped all the awesome features that Windows used to be capable of in the process. It's 10 times as slow as it used to be and only about half as useful. I'm considering downloading a 3rd party explorer application so I don't have to use it anymore.


On the topic of phones specifically, my insulin pod app is garbage too. I should be able to use it on the device that came with the initial pod pack, but in order to use it in tandem with the CGM, I had to go on ebay and buy a used smart phone in order to make them work together. And not just any smartphone either. There was a very small list of Samsung phones that it would work on, and none of them were under $600 new. As of writing this, they still don't even support Apple phones, so anybody who's been using an Apple phone all these years either had to switch or has to carry around two devices with them to get the job done.

This is particularly bullshit, because the only reason you need to have a smart phone is so it can communicate with the CGM and also maintain internet connectivity so they can get all your data. Joke's on them. I don't have it connected to my wi-fi, and since it doesn't have a sim card they can't collect their precious data. (Although I guess joke's on me too, since the app will annoyingly buzz at me 4 times per day to scream at me about no internet connection... which has created a sort of "Boy Who Cried Wolf" scenario).

Then you can add to that the fact that I don't even use the automated feature of the pods because it's garbage and my A1C would be over 7.5 if I relied completely on the device to do the work since it starts withholding your basal drip when you're at 145. Which I assume is, just like the Windows scenario above, a dumbing down safeguard they baked into it so stupid people don't kill themselves. Pure trash.

Funny story... I was talking to my brother after I fixed his old car and he (and my Dad) gave it to me. He's the one who worked at Google for a few years. He specialized in bio-stats and was brought on to a project, briefly, to work with the people who were making those apps. He laughed when I told him about how shit they were and said he knew the people working on it and he wasn't surprised that it's crap.





Yeah... It will be great. Just have to keep plugging away at it.

At least it's gotten me back into a routine of sorts and I'm waking up at a decent hour now that I'm doing something. There's always the temptation to stay up just a little while longer working on it but there's always tomorrow.



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Sunday, August 18, 2024 1:55 PM

BRENDA


Just a rainy Sunday around me. It started around midnight last night and is still raining right now. So might keep up all day.

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Sunday, August 18, 2024 3:50 PM

BRENDA


Expecting more rain later today and just a musical Sunday around me. I should be sending an email but I am just lazy.

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Sunday, August 18, 2024 5:03 PM

SIGNYM

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Quote:

Originally posted by Brenda:
Expecting more rain later today and just a musical Sunday around me. I should be sending an email but I am just lazy.


Good for you!

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Sunday, August 18, 2024 11:39 PM

BRENDA


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:

Originally posted by Brenda:
Expecting more rain later today and just a musical Sunday around me. I should be sending an email but I am just lazy.


Good for you!

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Yeah, I will get to the email sometime this week.

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Sunday, August 18, 2024 11:40 PM

BRENDA


An inspector for something will roaming around the building tomorrow, starting at 9am. So I will have to be up early as I don't know what floor he is starting on.

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Monday, August 19, 2024 12:08 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


That sucks, Brenda.

I don't miss inspections.

Most of my apartment life we didn't even have any. It wasn't until the last few years I lived in an apartment when a big corporation took over that they did one every year. Maybe every 6 months? I don't remember now.

I don't blame them though after seeing how some people live.


My aunt had the first one of her life a few months back. It was so cute how much she was sweating it, especially since she'd be at work when they came in. I told her to relax. First off, they aren't going to steal anything. If they did that, they would have already been caught and gotten in trouble for it. Second, she bought all new furniture and artwork that I helped her install and she keeps the place immaculate. She doesn't even use a big kitchen trash can, opting instead for a little one that she uses grocery bags like most people use for the bathroom and she throws it out every morning before work. I never knew how clean she was because my Grandma's house was so old and run down that even when you cleaned up it didn't look like you cleaned up, but this apartment complex is really nice.

I told her that if they gave out awards she's probably get a medal for keeping it so clean.



But at least it's not like that last place you were living in, right?

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Monday, August 19, 2024 6:10 PM

BRENDA


Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That sucks, Brenda.

I don't miss inspections.

Most of my apartment life we didn't even have any. It wasn't until the last few years I lived in an apartment when a big corporation took over that they did one every year. Maybe every 6 months? I don't remember now.

I don't blame them though after seeing how some people live.


My aunt had the first one of her life a few months back. It was so cute how much she was sweating it, especially since she'd be at work when they came in. I told her to relax. First off, they aren't going to steal anything. If they did that, they would have already been caught and gotten in trouble for it. Second, she bought all new furniture and artwork that I helped her install and she keeps the place immaculate. She doesn't even use a big kitchen trash can, opting instead for a little one that she uses grocery bags like most people use for the bathroom and she throws it out every morning before work. I never knew how clean she was because my Grandma's house was so old and run down that even when you cleaned up it didn't look like you cleaned up, but this apartment complex is really nice.

I told her that if they gave out awards she's probably get a medal for keeping it so clean.



But at least it's not like that last place you were living in, right?

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.



It does and did. Guy got bent out of shape because he had to come back because I didn't hear him knock the first time. It was light that I almost missed it the second time.

It is much better than the last place I was living for sure.

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Monday, August 19, 2024 6:11 PM

BRENDA


Back and done but a week chocked full of things to do. Oh, yeah. Groceries today and that inspection which took about 5 minutes. At least it was dry for my walk. Suppose to get more rain at some point this week.

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Monday, August 19, 2024 7:32 PM

SIGNYM

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Been to my regular oncology follow up. All looks good, cancer- wise. Altho I told my doctor I've gotten to be a hypochondriac. She just laughed and said "Who wouldn't be?"

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Monday, August 19, 2024 8:24 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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It does and did. Guy got bent out of shape because he had to come back because I didn't hear him knock the first time. It was light that I almost missed it the second time.



Wow... you must have different laws on the books in your area. I don't know how it is in Indiana, but in both Illinois and Wisconsin they can come right in with a key as long as they gave you 24 hours notice. Good for you.

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It is much better than the last place I was living for sure.





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Monday, August 19, 2024 8:24 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Been to my regular oncology follow up. All looks good, cancer- wise. Altho I told my doctor I've gotten to be a hypochondriac. She just laughed and said "Who wouldn't be?"



Good to hear Sigs. So you're back home now? How you feeling?

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Monday, August 19, 2024 11:03 PM

BRENDA


Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:

Originally posted by Brenda:
It does and did. Guy got bent out of shape because he had to come back because I didn't hear him knock the first time. It was light that I almost missed it the second time.



Wow... you must have different laws on the books in your area. I don't know how it is in Indiana, but in both Illinois and Wisconsin they can come right in with a key as long as they gave you 24 hours notice. Good for you.

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It is much better than the last place I was living for sure.





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Here as far as I know an inspector or repair man can come in if you aren't in with the manager. And yes you are usually warned of repair work that needs to be done.

Yeah, at least here I can keep things cleaner than I could at the other place.

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Monday, August 19, 2024 11:41 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Here as far as I know an inspector or repair man can come in if you aren't in with the manager. And yes you are usually warned of repair work that needs to be done.



Yeah. The only way they can come in unannounced is in case of emergency. Obviously a fire, but if there's something like a water leak that's ruining the apartment below you, or some crazy noises that make people think you're up to something nefarious I'm sure.

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Yeah, at least here I can keep things cleaner than I could at the other place.


A lot to say about that for sure. That's what I was saying about my aunt. I had no idea she was such a clean person because of how dumpy my grandma's house had gotten over the decades. Same with my house now that most of the living area is finished too. I never used to bother cleaning much around here before that work got done because no matter what you did it always looked like crap.



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Tuesday, August 20, 2024 2:27 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Just hit a major milestone on the project tonight. Still plenty of work to do, but one huge part of it is now officially behind me.

I have some other things in real life that need tending to, so this seems like a good place to take some time away from it and get some other stuff done. Some of it needs to be done before the weekend and I'm going to my dad's on Thursday or Friday, so good timing.

I've got a little bit of cleanup to do and some documentation to make so I know exactly what I need to focus on when I get back to it, but I finally feel like I can step away from it for a day or two without losing track of where I was.



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Tuesday, August 20, 2024 8:58 AM

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Been to my regular oncology follow up. All looks good, cancer- wise. Altho I told my doctor I've gotten to be a hypochondriac. She just laughed and said "Who wouldn't be?"



Good to hear Sigs. So you're back home now? How you feeling?

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Honestly? Feeling a little nervous about upcoming treatment, which is risky.

Did I mention I had to go to ER? I had gotten cellulitis (infection) in my lower leg and am currently on antibiotics. I have no idea why that happened except as a possible side effect of the first drug I was given (mycophenylate). But I haven't been on that immune suppressant for a month, so why I should get an infection NOW makes me worry about what happens if I go on an even stronger immune suppressant.

I think I'm going to let my GP and ENT tell me if/ when they think its safe or even necessary to go on treatment. I've been doing something different with my at home sinus treatments and feel I'm doing better (long story) so if Dr. ENT looks in my nose and says HALLELUJAH! she should let Dr. RHEUM know. And if my nose still looks crappy, my GP should looknat my leg and give the go ahead for Rituxamab

Hmm.... thanks for letting me think this out. I think I have a plan. Time to put it in action.
Back to bed for me!


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Tuesday, August 20, 2024 8:59 AM

SIGNYM

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Just hit a major milestone on the project tonight. Still plenty of work to do, but one huge part of it is now officially behind me.

I have some other things in real life that need tending to, so this seems like a good place to take some time away from it and get some other stuff done. Some of it needs to be done before the weekend and I'm going to my dad's on Thursday or Friday, so good timing.

I've got a little bit of cleanup to do and some documentation to make so I know exactly what I need to focus on when I get back to it, but I finally feel like I can step away from it for a day or two without losing track of where I was.



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Tuesday, August 20, 2024 1:20 PM

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Here as far as I know an inspector or repair man can come in if you aren't in with the manager. And yes you are usually warned of repair work that needs to be done.



Yeah. The only way they can come in unannounced is in case of emergency. Obviously a fire, but if there's something like a water leak that's ruining the apartment below you, or some crazy noises that make people think you're up to something nefarious I'm sure.

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Yeah, at least here I can keep things cleaner than I could at the other place.


A lot to say about that for sure. That's what I was saying about my aunt. I had no idea she was such a clean person because of how dumpy my grandma's house had gotten over the decades. Same with my house now that most of the living area is finished too. I never used to bother cleaning much around here before that work got done because no matter what you did it always looked like crap.



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I think that is the same way up here but not sure really.

Yeah, I still got a mass of cleaning before the inspector and repair come in to do something.

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Tuesday, August 20, 2024 1:21 PM

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Out to get meds refilled then come back and do some chores.


Oh, and this place logged out last night so I had to relog in just now.

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Tuesday, August 20, 2024 5:17 PM

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Back and done for today.

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Wednesday, August 21, 2024 12:43 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Just hit a major milestone on the project tonight. Still plenty of work to do, but one huge part of it is now officially behind me.

I have some other things in real life that need tending to, so this seems like a good place to take some time away from it and get some other stuff done. Some of it needs to be done before the weekend and I'm going to my dad's on Thursday or Friday, so good timing.

I've got a little bit of cleanup to do and some documentation to make so I know exactly what I need to focus on when I get back to it, but I finally feel like I can step away from it for a day or two without losing track of where I was.



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Uh oh...

I'm doing it again.


I finished a major component of the part that had a definitive end to it last night, and all that was required was building up a few more parts surrounding it with nothing further to add to the base.

But I'm dangerously close to falling into something of a prolixity if I'm not careful.


The "definitive ending" part is what dragged me back into this in the first place. If I venture too deep into this other part that only requires a minor amount of tweaking surrounding a subjective "end" decided by me, I could lose an incalculable amount of time working on something so fluid that it may as well go on for infinity.

The truth is, I am not qualified to be the arbiter of where this part begins and ends since that would require me making decisions about what is and is not worthy of being a part of the project. And I don't believe that there is a single person who could make that decision in the first place since it's so vast and so subjective.

Some would say none of it should be included, and others would say all of it should be, while others would say somewhere on the spectrum in between. To do none of it would be a shame when I already know from personal experience that some of it is indeed very worthy of consideration and inclusion... and doing none of it would still be an effort since it would require backing out a lot of work that was already done 20 years ago. But to do all of it would be a task that I could never possibly finish if I worked on it every day for the rest of my life. And to do all of it would be foolish since there is so much that would then be included that is not worthy of being included and would only serve to greatly diminish the quality of the project overall.

I miss the fact that most of the people I used to work on this have moved on with their lives a long time ago. There was a time where I could present this to a large group of people who could discuss it for a few weeks and we could come to a consensus of how we should move forward. There just isn't enough input from other people to make that possible now.

I'm hoping when I finish what I'm doing that it would bring more people in to continue working on it after I'm done, but that's no help to me now.

I think I need to sleep on this for at least a day or two before I make any decisions one way or another.



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Wednesday, August 21, 2024 6:22 AM

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Is this a data management problem?

Large data sets are usually handled by databases, and the biggest problem is properly defining enough fields to make the data findable again.

Failing that, maybe using or including GREP (general regular expression parser) might be useful?

In any case, if you have the right software to be able to find and retrieve data, it doesnt matter how much data you put in.

OTOH if you're writing software, modularize as much as possible using reusable subroutines. That way you can debug each part.

Not an expert, but Ive had to test drive data acquisition software and databases, 'cause Im just smart enuf to use them, not smart enuf to intuitively avoid boobybtraps.

Is any of this helpful?

Oh, btw, you taught me a new word: prolixity!

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Wednesday, August 21, 2024 1:35 PM

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No pick up game for me today as no call last night or this morning.

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Wednesday, August 21, 2024 1:37 PM

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Is this a data management problem?



Yeah... I guess you could say that.

Quote:

Large data sets are usually handled by databases, and the biggest problem is properly defining enough fields to make the data findable again.

Failing that, maybe using or including GREP (general regular expression parser) might be useful?

In any case, if you have the right software to be able to find and retrieve data, it doesnt matter how much data you put in.

OTOH if you're writing software, modularize as much as possible using reusable subroutines. That way you can debug each part.

Not an expert, but Ive had to test drive data acquisition software and databases, 'cause Im just smart enuf to use them, not smart enuf to intuitively avoid boobybtraps.



I'm being intentionally vague here just because I have no interest in sharing anything that would indicate exactly what it is that I'm working on. Not because of you, of course, but because of Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber.

I have data scraping tools at my disposal, but the problem is that much of the data out there is incorrect in certain sources, correct in other sources, or correct in all sources or incorrect in all sources. The major obstacle on the data front is that there's so much of it to collect and edit and I'm only one person. Many sources have just too much data too, and for the purposes of this project that needs to be heavily edited down to something that is useful but also gets all the pertinent information across.

Then there's the media... That part makes the data part seem simple and fast. I really wish I could share some of what I've been working on here and show it off, but we have two goons here who would literally kill me if given the chance, so the less I share the better. I could just imagine a scenario where one day I end up having to deal with one or both of them on entirely different forums that don't engage at all in politics. If that ever were to happen though, the good news is that those other forums are all moderated and they would be ejected about as quick as they showed up.

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Is any of this helpful?


I wish I could say it was. But since I have to have my hands and eyes on literally every one of the pieces no matter how much I try to automate, there's really no easy or quick solution to any of it. The only way it ever gets done faster is when I just keep brute forcing my way through and I figure out ways to be quicker at the different aspects as I go along. It's one of the reasons I have to maintain heavy notes on all the work I'm doing as I'm doing it because in order to maintain a fast speed I have to do things counter-intuitively and come back to other parts of the same base thing over and over. Imagine how lines were written to a screen on old Cathode Ray Tube TV's, drawing a single image over and over again, and you'll get the picture of what I mean here.

Fortunately for me though, the sources for everything have vastly improved over what they were only 5 or 6 years ago and they're light years ahead of what we had 20+ years ago. That alone shaves countless hours off of the work.

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Oh, btw, you taught me a new word: prolixity!


I just learned it last night.

Sometimes I want to know a good word to explain something and I find it on Google. I love it when you can find a single word that can take the place of dozens of other words combined.

Especially when I know I'm often guilty of prolix writing myself.



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Wednesday, August 21, 2024 5:27 PM

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Back and done for today. Also no rain to be seen around me. Decided to take a look at my mattress and yeah it is in a sorry state for sure.

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Wednesday, August 21, 2024 6:23 PM

SIGNYM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Is this a data management problem?



Yeah... I guess you could say that.

Quote:

Large data sets are usually handled by databases, and the biggest problem is properly defining enough fields to make the data findable again.

Failing that, maybe using or including GREP (general regular expression parser) might be useful?

In any case, if you have the right software to be able to find and retrieve data, it doesnt matter how much data you put in.

OTOH if you're writing software, modularize as much as possible using reusable subroutines. That way you can debug each part.

Not an expert, but Ive had to test drive data acquisition software and databases, 'cause Im just smart enuf to use them, not smart enuf to intuitively avoid boobybtraps.



I'm being intentionally vague here just because I have no interest in sharing anything that would indicate exactly what it is that I'm working on. Not because of you, of course, but because of Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber.

I have data scraping tools at my disposal, but the problem is that much of the data out there is incorrect in certain sources, correct in other sources, or correct in all sources or incorrect in all sources. The major obstacle on the data front is that there's so much of it to collect and edit and I'm only one person. Many sources have just too much data too, and for the purposes of this project that needs to be heavily edited down to something that is useful but also gets all the pertinent information across.

Then there's the media... That part makes the data part seem simple and fast. I really wish I could share some of what I've been working on here and show it off, but we have two goons here who would literally kill me if given the chance, so the less I share the better. I could just imagine a scenario where one day I end up having to deal with one or both of them on entirely different forums that don't engage at all in politics. If that ever were to happen though, the good news is that those other forums are all moderated and they would be ejected about as quick as they showed up.

Quote:

Is any of this helpful?


I wish I could say it was. But since I have to have my hands and eyes on literally every one of the pieces no matter how much I try to automate, there's really no easy or quick solution to any of it. The only way it ever gets done faster is when I just keep brute forcing my way through and I figure out ways to be quicker at the different aspects as I go along. It's one of the reasons I have to maintain heavy notes on all the work I'm doing as I'm doing it because in order to maintain a fast speed I have to do things counter-intuitively and come back to other parts of the same base thing over and over. Imagine how lines were written to a screen on old Cathode Ray Tube TV's, drawing a single image over and over again, and you'll get the picture of what I mean here.

Fortunately for me though, the sources for everything have vastly improved over what they were only 5 or 6 years ago and they're light years ahead of what we had 20+ years ago. That alone shaves countless hours off of the work.

Quote:

Oh, btw, you taught me a new word: prolixity!


I just learned it last night.

Sometimes I want to know a good word to explain something and I find it on Google. I love it when you can find a single word that can take the place of dozens of other words combined.

Especially when I know I'm often guilty of prolix writing myself.



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I always thought you were pithy.

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Thursday, August 22, 2024 5:56 PM

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Back and done for today.

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Thursday, August 22, 2024 9:53 PM

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I always thought you were pithy.



That's such a flattering word, for one that sounds so unflattering, innit? Dearth. Pity. Death. Pitiful. Pithy. Just don't seem right. The English language can be pretty odd.

I have my moments. I think I tend to ramble quite a bit in between 'em though.

But thanks.



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Thursday, August 22, 2024 11:20 PM

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Boss is back and she called earlier. So I am off to work tomorrow.

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Thursday, August 22, 2024 11:26 PM

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Boss is back and she called earlier. So I am off to work tomorrow.



Take that well deserved nap tomorrow.

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Friday, August 23, 2024 11:33 PM

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Got back around 5pm today. Back hurting too much bending and twisting.

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Saturday, August 24, 2024 12:47 AM

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Got back around 5pm today. Back hurting too much bending and twisting.


Oh, that sucks.

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Saturday, August 24, 2024 1:09 AM

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Even tho it was a very late planting I'm managing to pick enough tomatoes for salads almost every day, and yesterday there were enough to make Michigan tomato vinaigrette - a recipe my mom used to make. Fresh tomatoes, red wine vinegar, chopped parsley, chopped onion, olive oil, salt and pepper.

Even I can taste that. Yum!

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Saturday, August 24, 2024 1:17 PM

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Boss is back and she called earlier. So I am off to work tomorrow.



Take that well deserved nap tomorrow.

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Wish I could have. Asked her if they had a nice time in Ontario and all I got back was there troubles about how not fun it was.

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