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Saturday, December 14, 2024 2:02 AM

BRENDA


Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
They should but since English is considered a "universal" language at this point in time, I doubt they will.

That is why I ignore the squiggles when they come up.

Also SIG mentioned about English collecting words from other languages which is true. But that one fact makes English one of the hardest languages for non-English speakers to learn.


I think you can fix it.

What browser do you use?

I just checked for Firefox and it's pretty simple. You hit the three horizontal bars up toward the top right of the browser, somewhere right below the X that closes the window. A drop-down menu with a lot of options pops up and you click on "Settings", located somewhere near the bottom of that list.

This opens a new tab in Firefox.

From this tab, go to "General" if it didn't already default to "General". (The gear icon on the left side)

On the General tab, scroll down a little to "Language and Appearance".

There is a line that says the following:

"Language
Choose the languages used to display menus, messages, and notifications from Firefox."

Click on the dropdown box right under this that says "Search for more Languages".


You will get a popup that says "Firefox Language Settings".

Click the bottom button here that says "Select Language To Add".


Now you'll get a huge list of languages. Scroll down to English and there will be quite a few options with a qualifier in parenthesis. I do believe that yours would be "English (CA)".





I'm sure there's something similar in the language settings for whatever browser you use. The steps to get there would be slightly different, but I'm sure they had to have added these alternate dictionaries on every browser by now.

Let me know if you try it out or have any questions. I can look into how you'd do it on a different browser if you needed help.


I hope you do. I don't know how you haven't thrown that thing out your apartment window by now looking at red squiggly lines for words you're spelling correctly all the time. I know I would have a long time ago.



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I use Goggle Chrome and I probably could but I doubt there is a way to do anything about Word which I use for my writing. Sometimes it will do things like underline when it thinks a word is spelt wrong or on a name.

When it is a name in what I am writing I just ignore it because it would come up with something weird.

No, then I would be throwing it around during my writing.

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Saturday, December 14, 2024 8:46 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I think the English language is awesome. It's borrowed so many words from so many languages, there are so many shades of meaning.

Run. Bolt. Sprint. Scarper. Race. Dash....

If you can't find the exact right word, you're not trying.

The grammar,compared to German, French, and Spanish, is easy.

But the SPELLING!!

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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




That and "handwriting" are why I got B's in English in grade school when I was straight A's otherwise. That really depended on the teacher though an how much weight they gave that stuff on our grades. I had a 4th grade teacher I was convinced hated me because she gave me the only C grade I ever had in grade school because of my handwriting.

Thanks lady. I can type 65wpm with a 1% error rate, but I sucked at writing calligraphy that they don't even bother teaching kids anymore in the 2020s.

By the time I was in middle school I got A's in all of my English classes through my multiple attempts at college. I'm glad we moved into an era where my two biggest writing weaknesses aren't even a factor anymore.

Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:

The spelling depends on where you are. In Canada we left the "u" in colour while in the US, you took it out and other things like that. I typed in the Canadian way of spelling "colour" and get a red line under it to correct it. I don't bother.


Oh geez...

I never thought of that before. They've got to have a local dictionary option somewhere on the browser, right?

That would drive me nuts if words that I knew I was spelling correctly had the red squiggles. It's already bad enough that these browser dictionaries are limited and sometimes I use words that aren't even in them and I get the squiggles that way.



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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.


They should but since English is considered a "universal" language at this point in time, I doubt they will.

That is why I ignore the squiggles when they come up.

Also SIG mentioned about English collecting words from other languages which is true. But that one fact makes English one of the hardest languages for non-English speakers to learn.


So, as I recall Word dictionary has an option that alllows you to "add" words to your spell check dictionary. I made use of that quite often when I had to add technical or (for personal use) medical words that were beyond its original dictionary. I don't use Word anymore, I use OpenOffice, but as I recall when a word is flagged as being misspelled the options are "change", "ignore", and "add".

FWIW my dad learned English in Britain, and somehow I learned some British spellings at home. "Grey" was one of them. The nuns were constantly bonking me on those. Even at work: cancelled? Or canceled? Our reports have both! But canceled is the American version.

I have a hugely difficult time learning languages because it's all rote memorization of fairly random stuff, and rote memorization is my weak point. It's why I never went beyond Fortran ...

But it helps my memory if I can attach some sort of logic to the item I'm trying to memorize, and one thing that helped me was word origins. In the end, it helped me learn French, since there are a lot of common Latin based words in English.

Fr: ceinture (belt)
Engl: cincture (the rope belt of priesthood garb)
cinch (the belt that holds a saddle on a horse)

Fr: ciel (sky)
Engl: ceiling (inside of a roof)

Of course, a lot of words could only be memorized. But learning English... REALLY learning English ... made me learn bits of Latin, Greek, and German. As difficult as it was, it helped with other languages later.

What BTW was your original language?

My family has, or had, 3.5 non-native speakers: my dad, my mom (who learned English in school), my husband, and my mother in law. They had no problems learning spoken English, it was the spelling that bonked them.

Yanno, I can read French, German, Polish, and Spanish out loud. I often have no idea WTF Im reading, but the rules of pronounciation are very clear. I'm with JO753: make English phonetic. It wood mayk things soh much eezeeyr.





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AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA


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Saturday, December 14, 2024 1:20 PM

BRENDA


Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Just to mention something along the same subject, I had a very similar conversation with my brother recently. He was complaining about his Mac not doing something that would be a Genius Idea if somebody ever implemented it.

I don't remember specifically what his idea was or what he wanted to do, but it sounded like something that was very easy to get his devices to do if he knew how to use the settings of his Mac and how to get all of his stuff cross-talking with each other. I just wasn't much help for him beyond that because I don't know MacOS and I have no intention of ever using Apple products. I could probably figure this out for him when I'm at his place and I've got some time to tinker with things, but I'm not going to try to walk him through how to use his Mac over the phone when I can't see what he's looking at or what he's doing.



I think everybody would be surprised at what they can get their devices to do for them, but they just don't know about it because they're only presented with the one way that the developers give them the software/hardware right out of the box and they don't get adventurous and play around with the settings.



Most of the time it's pretty safe to be playing around with any of the general settings somebody gives you. They usually do a pretty good job these days of "idiot proofing" things to the point that nobody can get themselves into trouble unless they go out of their way to "unlock doors" barring them from all the big red shiny buttons.



Over time I've gotten my aunt to be much more adventurous with this stuff and she figures out a lot of things on her own now. I'm kind of amazed sometimes, actually. All she needed was for me to take the training wheels off and to let her know that we've got all her important stuff backed up and there's nothing she could do to her desktop or laptop that I couldn't fix.

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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.


Back to what we were talking about last night. You can't just write language programs willy-nilly because word meanings change over time. Language evolves.

Here are two good examples.

Dude at one time in the old West, 1800s it meant a gentleman from the East. Say Chicago or New York City. Someone with money and dressed fancy. Forward that to the late 1970s and through the 80s and it came to mean a person. Someone asks you about a name, you think and say, "I don't know that dude."

Another word is "trooper" or "trouper".
Notice the difference in spelling. The double "oo" is American and the "u" is British. This word too has at least three different meanings. The root word "troop" comes from the military which means to be part of a larger group. In Medieval through Elizabethan times it meant to be part of a wandering group. Usually "players" as the called actors who went from town to town to perform. Singing, dancing and putting on small plays.
Then you have the meaning now of someone who no matter what does as they are asked even when it is something tough.

So as I said language evolves.

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Saturday, December 14, 2024 1:34 PM

BRENDA


Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I think the English language is awesome. It's borrowed so many words from so many languages, there are so many shades of meaning.

Run. Bolt. Sprint. Scarper. Race. Dash....

If you can't find the exact right word, you're not trying.

The grammar,compared to German, French, and Spanish, is easy.

But the SPELLING!!

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


AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA




That and "handwriting" are why I got B's in English in grade school when I was straight A's otherwise. That really depended on the teacher though an how much weight they gave that stuff on our grades. I had a 4th grade teacher I was convinced hated me because she gave me the only C grade I ever had in grade school because of my handwriting.

Thanks lady. I can type 65wpm with a 1% error rate, but I sucked at writing calligraphy that they don't even bother teaching kids anymore in the 2020s.

By the time I was in middle school I got A's in all of my English classes through my multiple attempts at college. I'm glad we moved into an era where my two biggest writing weaknesses aren't even a factor anymore.

Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:

The spelling depends on where you are. In Canada we left the "u" in colour while in the US, you took it out and other things like that. I typed in the Canadian way of spelling "colour" and get a red line under it to correct it. I don't bother.


Oh geez...

I never thought of that before. They've got to have a local dictionary option somewhere on the browser, right?

That would drive me nuts if words that I knew I was spelling correctly had the red squiggles. It's already bad enough that these browser dictionaries are limited and sometimes I use words that aren't even in them and I get the squiggles that way.



--------------------------------------------------

Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.


They should but since English is considered a "universal" language at this point in time, I doubt they will.

That is why I ignore the squiggles when they come up.

Also SIG mentioned about English collecting words from other languages which is true. But that one fact makes English one of the hardest languages for non-English speakers to learn.


So, as I recall Word dictionary has an option that alllows you to "add" words to your spell check dictionary. I made use of that quite often when I had to add technical or (for personal use) medical words that were beyond its original dictionary. I don't use Word anymore, I use OpenOffice, but as I recall when a word is flagged as being misspelled the options are "change", "ignore", and "add".

FWIW my dad learned English in Britain, and somehow I learned some British spellings at home. "Grey" was one of them. The nuns were constantly bonking me on those. Even at work: cancelled? Or canceled? Our reports have both! But canceled is the American version.

I have a hugely difficult time learning languages because it's all rote memorization of fairly random stuff, and rote memorization is my weak point. It's why I never went beyond Fortran ...

But it helps my memory if I can attach some sort of logic to the item I'm trying to memorize, and one thing that helped me was word origins. In the end, it helped me learn French, since there are a lot of common Latin based words in English.

Fr: ceinture (belt)
Engl: cincture (the rope belt of priesthood garb)
cinch (the belt that holds a saddle on a horse)

Fr: ciel (sky)
Engl: ceiling (inside of a roof)

Of course, a lot of words could only be memorized. But learning English... REALLY learning English ... made me learn bits of Latin, Greek, and German. As difficult as it was, it helped with other languages later.

What BTW was your original language?

My family has, or had, 3.5 non-native speakers: my dad, my mom (who learned English in school), my husband, and my mother in law. They had no problems learning spoken English, it was the spelling that bonked them.

Yanno, I can read French, German, Polish, and Spanish out loud. I often have no idea WTF Im reading, but the rules of pronounciation are very clear. I'm with JO753: make English phonetic. It wood mayk things soh much eezeeyr.





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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



All of my dad and his brothers and sisters spoke and wrote in English. I and my brother both speak and write in English. Cousins in Canada and the US the same.

My dad's parents would have been a bit different. My grandfather would have spoke and written in English being from Scotland. My grandmother probably learned both French from her father and Shoshoni from her mother. It wouldn't have been till she got to residential school that her and her brother and sisters learned English. Same for any cousins she had on her mother's side. For speaking I am not sure how good my grandmother's English would have been.

I've learned to spell both ways. English and American and have been corrected when I have spelt something American in school. I would get corrected in school or by a friend of my mum's if I said "zee" American instead of "zed" British or Canadian. My dad didn't care because I could speak better than other children.

Still say "zee" to this day. *L*

I learned to read and speak a bit of French in school but what is taught in schools in Canada is actually Quebec french and not France french. I can understand it if I hear it spoken to this day. Never learned any German past a few words and a few numbers. Never attempted Latin. Have wanted to try my hand at learning Erse which the Irish language or Gaelic which is the language of Scotland and maybe my great grandmother's language.

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Saturday, December 14, 2024 1:37 PM

BRENDA


Wind storm here rattling the bejeezus out of everything. But I am out in a minute. A rare Saturday afternoon mah jong game and I got to get a couple of things done before hand.

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Saturday, December 14, 2024 4:25 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Chrome language select process (according to Google AI):

To change the spell check language in Google Chrome, go to your Chrome settings, navigate to "Languages", and then select the desired language from the list to use for spell checking; you may need to add the language if it's not already listed there.
Key steps:

Open Google Chrome.
Click on "More" (three dots) and select "Settings".
On the left side, select "Languages".
Under "Preferred languages", add or select the language you want to use for spell check.




Word Language Select Process:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/check-spelling-and-grammar-
in-a-different-language-667ba67a-a202-42fd-8596-edc1fa320e00

The above is only for "Word365" which is the only version that Microsoft supports anymore. It's a subscritpion service, which I assume you're not paying for and you have an older version (I still use Word 2007 myself).

The steps would probably be similar in the version you're using if you're not using 365. If you can't figure it out with this, I'll see what I can dig up.



I know the languages change, but really not that quickly anymore. You get some new words here or there because some of the jargon and slang that kids use end up being added to the dictionary when they're the predominant generation.

If these companies are doing their jobs, part of their update process likely makes any of the small changes once a year at least.

Changing to English (CA) should at least severely minimize the red squigglies.

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Saturday, December 14, 2024 4:53 PM

BRENDA


Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Chrome language select process (according to Google AI):

To change the spell check language in Google Chrome, go to your Chrome settings, navigate to "Languages", and then select the desired language from the list to use for spell checking; you may need to add the language if it's not already listed there.
Key steps:

Open Google Chrome.
Click on "More" (three dots) and select "Settings".
On the left side, select "Languages".
Under "Preferred languages", add or select the language you want to use for spell check.




Word Language Select Process:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/check-spelling-and-grammar-
in-a-different-language-667ba67a-a202-42fd-8596-edc1fa320e00

The above is only for "Word365" which is the only version that Microsoft supports anymore. It's a subscritpion service, which I assume you're not paying for and you have an older version (I still use Word 2007 myself).

The steps would probably be similar in the version you're using if you're not using 365. If you can't figure it out with this, I'll see what I can dig up.



I know the languages change, but really not that quickly anymore. You get some new words here or there because some of the jargon and slang that kids use end up being added to the dictionary when they're the predominant generation.

If these companies are doing their jobs, part of their update process likely makes any of the small changes once a year at least.

Changing to English (CA) should at least severely minimize the red squigglies.

--------------------------------------------------

Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.


Thanks for the info. I may write it down and try it one of these days.

I'm using Window 10. I think what I am using for my writing is Word 2007.

Yeah, what mostly is coming into the lexicon is slang from the kids and of course words can get dropped as well, fall out of use.

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Saturday, December 14, 2024 4:56 PM

BRENDA


Back and done for today because mah jong game was cancelled. Lady who runs the game couldn't get enough bodies to play. Guess she wanted two tables and when she couldn't decided to go to bingo instead. I and another lady who showed up, had a cell and called her. Think it was rude not to call us and tell us it was cancelled. So, I did all my running around like a crazy person to be there on time.

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Saturday, December 14, 2024 7:51 PM

BRENDA


Just got a call from the lady who runs the mah jong group. She apologized for the mix up about the cancellation for today. See what happens next Wednesday.

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Saturday, December 14, 2024 8:11 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Just got a call from the lady who runs the mah jong group. She apologized for the mix up about the cancellation for today. See what happens next Wednesday.
Did she give a legitimate reason for failing to call? Or did she just have a brain fart?

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AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA


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Sunday, December 15, 2024 3:14 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Thanks for the info. I may write it down and try it one of these days.

I'm using Window 10. I think what I am using for my writing is Word 2007.

Yeah, what mostly is coming into the lexicon is slang from the kids and of course words can get dropped as well, fall out of use.


Yeah. As long as they didn't change the location of anything in the menus in an update since that piece was written, it should be super easy for you to do in Chrome just following those steps.

Don't be afraid to peek into the other options in those settings too if you've never gone to them just to kind of familiarize yourself with the types of things that they make it pretty safe for you to change without negative side effects. You might even find something else you wanted to change that you didn't think of before.

They have fairly easy ways for people to do way deeper dives into system settings and screw up their browser completely, but dangerous system changes like that are nothing that anybody who wasn't specifically looking to change them could accidentally stumble on. I think the only real "danger" for you in the standard settings would be if you picked a total foreign language on accident and you'd have to figure out how to switch it back without being able to read anything.

I remember doing that to my dad's new "big screen" 36" TV when I was a kid while dicking around with the remote and playing with menu options. I remember panicking and thinking I ruined the TV when I changed it to some other language and just bumbling around the menu until I finally accidentally clicked on the right option to change it back. My dad was never the slapping around type, so I wasn't worried about getting into trouble. I just thought I broke my old man's new pride and joy.




I'll take a look at Word 2007 and see how easy it is, and if it's even possible. I totally expected everything modern like our browsers to work for you, but I do have some doubt that a program from 2007 would have what you were looking for.

I seem to recall one of the reasons why the old install discs of Office were fairly large were because of all the optional foreign language libraries you could choose to add to it when you installed the program, so I think there is hope. I just don't know if they went out of their way back then to have 7 or 8 different variations of English. Office 2007 predates YouTube and Google Street View. I think it might even predate the iPhone. Things were a little bit different back then and Microsoft might not have gotten around to writing dictionaries for the various nuances of the English language yet.

They probably have a British English though at least. Do you think that would be better than US English?

Probably not. You guys spell colour the same. Do you also spell armor "armour"?

You might have those in common but there might be a lot of other differences you have with the UK English that you didn't have with the US English.


I'll figure it out and let you know.

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Sunday, December 15, 2024 5:43 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Haven't looked at word yet Brenda, but Google AI says you can do it...





If that works, that's awesome and simple and easy. I'm not convinced that Google AI is correct here until we know we can do it.

From what I've read and heard about Google AI is that it's not really all that accurate and a lot of its answers are based off of answers to questions on Reddit, which I don't think is very wise. Plus, it could be taking a "correct" answer to a different question and it might just be adding 2007 because I asked for it, but the answer it's giving is for 365 or another version that's newer than 2007.






I just figured out something cool. Recently I've been using a program called Paint.NET pretty heavily and for some of the work I decided that I would save myself a ton of time if I started learning keyboard shortcuts. They were small little time saves here and there but they've probably saved me hours and hours over time with how much I've used them.

So the other day I was using an Explorer window for one reason or another and when I was done with it instead of hitting the X to close the window, I mindlessly hit CTRL +W and the Explorer window closed. I knew that ALT +F4 could do that, but I didn't realize that CTRL +W would do it as well. I was using that in Paint.NET to close an image file when I was done editing it.

And just now I was using the much simpler Paint program to make that image I just put here, and instead of using the very slow method of using the mouse to crop the image to size by scrolling all the way to one end and then pulling in a corner to where I wanted to crop the image, all I did was select that small portion that I put above with my mouse and then I hit CTRL +X and it removed everything but the selected image above, which is just what it would have done in Paint.NET.

I've been screwing myself for decades by not learning these keyboard shortcuts... Especially now since it appears that quite a few programs do the same thing with the same shortcuts.

I've never felt slow on a computer at all before, but I feel like I just found a turbo button for productivity by committing these shortcuts to memory.

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Sunday, December 15, 2024 1:15 PM

BRENDA


Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Just got a call from the lady who runs the mah jong group. She apologized for the mix up about the cancellation for today. See what happens next Wednesday.
Did she give a legitimate reason for failing to call? Or did she just have a brain fart?

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She said she had to straighten something out with someone who runs a bingo game that she usually goes to on Saturday. She has had run-ins with this person before and I think sometimes she is just being nosy. You know butting into things that really aren't her business.

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Sunday, December 15, 2024 1:21 PM

BRENDA


Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Thanks for the info. I may write it down and try it one of these days.

I'm using Window 10. I think what I am using for my writing is Word 2007.

Yeah, what mostly is coming into the lexicon is slang from the kids and of course words can get dropped as well, fall out of use.


Yeah. As long as they didn't change the location of anything in the menus in an update since that piece was written, it should be super easy for you to do in Chrome just following those steps.

Don't be afraid to peek into the other options in those settings too if you've never gone to them just to kind of familiarize yourself with the types of things that they make it pretty safe for you to change without negative side effects. You might even find something else you wanted to change that you didn't think of before.

They have fairly easy ways for people to do way deeper dives into system settings and screw up their browser completely, but dangerous system changes like that are nothing that anybody who wasn't specifically looking to change them could accidentally stumble on. I think the only real "danger" for you in the standard settings would be if you picked a total foreign language on accident and you'd have to figure out how to switch it back without being able to read anything.

I remember doing that to my dad's new "big screen" 36" TV when I was a kid while dicking around with the remote and playing with menu options. I remember panicking and thinking I ruined the TV when I changed it to some other language and just bumbling around the menu until I finally accidentally clicked on the right option to change it back. My dad was never the slapping around type, so I wasn't worried about getting into trouble. I just thought I broke my old man's new pride and joy.




I'll take a look at Word 2007 and see how easy it is, and if it's even possible. I totally expected everything modern like our browsers to work for you, but I do have some doubt that a program from 2007 would have what you were looking for.

I seem to recall one of the reasons why the old install discs of Office were fairly large were because of all the optional foreign language libraries you could choose to add to it when you installed the program, so I think there is hope. I just don't know if they went out of their way back then to have 7 or 8 different variations of English. Office 2007 predates YouTube and Google Street View. I think it might even predate the iPhone. Things were a little bit different back then and Microsoft might not have gotten around to writing dictionaries for the various nuances of the English language yet.

They probably have a British English though at least. Do you think that would be better than US English?

Probably not. You guys spell colour the same. Do you also spell armor "armour"?

You might have those in common but there might be a lot of other differences you have with the UK English that you didn't have with the US English.


I'll figure it out and let you know.

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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.


That's what makes me nervous about going through some of things on this computer. Sometimes it is fear I will screw something up or if while I am doing that I have another seizure.

Yes, we do spell armour the same way as the Brits. I got the red squiggles when you used both of them and when I put armour in again, twice.

That is possible.

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Sunday, December 15, 2024 1:23 PM

BRENDA


Just a Sunday around me. Will get a couple of small things done then some music. Need my music after a week's worth of stuff.

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Sunday, December 15, 2024 1:26 PM

BRENDA


Got an interesting little show out from my library called, "Black Snow". Travis Fimmel is it. Lead actor and the guy who played Ragnar in Vikings. He's a cold case cop from a big city in Australia and he goes out to a small community to work it. Case is over 20years old. Murder of an Aboriginal high school girl. Show kept giving me a number of suspects to pick from and it finally was the one character I never thought about.

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Monday, December 16, 2024 1:29 PM

BRENDA


Out and things to do for today. Will take umbrella and just hope another wind doesn't come up like on Saturday and trash it. Think this will be the second one the wind has trashed this season.

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Monday, December 16, 2024 5:24 PM

BRENDA


Back and done. Got rained on when I went out and dry when I was coming back.

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Monday, December 16, 2024 6:04 PM

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Thanks for the info. I may write it down and try it one of these days.

I'm using Window 10. I think what I am using for my writing is Word 2007.

Yeah, what mostly is coming into the lexicon is slang from the kids and of course words can get dropped as well, fall out of use.


Yeah. As long as they didn't change the location of anything in the menus in an update since that piece was written, it should be super easy for you to do in Chrome just following those steps.

Don't be afraid to peek into the other options in those settings too if you've never gone to them just to kind of familiarize yourself with the types of things that they make it pretty safe for you to change without negative side effects. You might even find something else you wanted to change that you didn't think of before.

They have fairly easy ways for people to do way deeper dives into system settings and screw up their browser completely, but dangerous system changes like that are nothing that anybody who wasn't specifically looking to change them could accidentally stumble on. I think the only real "danger" for you in the standard settings would be if you picked a total foreign language on accident and you'd have to figure out how to switch it back without being able to read anything.

I remember doing that to my dad's new "big screen" 36" TV when I was a kid while dicking around with the remote and playing with menu options. I remember panicking and thinking I ruined the TV when I changed it to some other language and just bumbling around the menu until I finally accidentally clicked on the right option to change it back. My dad was never the slapping around type, so I wasn't worried about getting into trouble. I just thought I broke my old man's new pride and joy.




I'll take a look at Word 2007 and see how easy it is, and if it's even possible. I totally expected everything modern like our browsers to work for you, but I do have some doubt that a program from 2007 would have what you were looking for.

I seem to recall one of the reasons why the old install discs of Office were fairly large were because of all the optional foreign language libraries you could choose to add to it when you installed the program, so I think there is hope. I just don't know if they went out of their way back then to have 7 or 8 different variations of English. Office 2007 predates YouTube and Google Street View. I think it might even predate the iPhone. Things were a little bit different back then and Microsoft might not have gotten around to writing dictionaries for the various nuances of the English language yet.

They probably have a British English though at least. Do you think that would be better than US English?

Probably not. You guys spell colour the same. Do you also spell armor "armour"?

You might have those in common but there might be a lot of other differences you have with the UK English that you didn't have with the US English.


I'll figure it out and let you know.

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That's what makes me nervous about going through some of things on this computer. Sometimes it is fear I will screw something up or if while I am doing that I have another seizure.

Yes, we do spell armour the same way as the Brits. I got the red squiggles when you used both of them and when I put armour in again, twice.

That is possible.




I'm trying to do the opposite of scaring you out of it.

Any of the options that could get you into trouble are locked away. You'd have to actually know the words to type in the address bar of your broswer with a ":" between them to get deep enough under the hood where you can cause yourself problems.

You should give it a shot. If you've got the browser open already to reply here, it should only take you a minute or two to follow those Chrome instructions at least.

I'll try to remember to look at Word 2007. When I set this particular computer back up a while ago I didn't install it again and I haven't needed it here. I just gotta remember to look later.

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Monday, December 16, 2024 10:21 PM

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In my experience, anything you can access by pointing and clicking is safe. They tuck all the dangerous things away buried deep in a menu, or accessible only if you hit a couple keys at the same time.
Take your time. Read thru the menus. Familiarize yourself with them. Don't click on anything until you know what it does. Take a deep breath. There's no rush.

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Monday, December 16, 2024 10:31 PM

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I am a lazy user. Once I figure out how to do what I want, which is pretty minimal, I don't stray too far from that.

Which is why I never looked for a spell checker on my browser.

So I decided to take my advice and take a walk thru my Firefox settings. Lo and behold, a zillion languages! Everything from Abkhazian to Tiqrui.

But no spell check.


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Monday, December 16, 2024 10:59 PM

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Hard to believe but I talked myself into some yardwork today.

As usual, I derailed myself from digging up the invading Bermuda grass from a 3' strip along the curb ... to going another 3' into the yard to dig the grass out of the mulch pile, and separate the mulch and puke it up for further use ... to trying to dig the grass from under the front walkway, and deciding to pull up the pavers instead and get the grass out that way

Well, almost done with the pavers. I only needed to do about 8' of the walkway bc the grass hadn't spread too far. I just need to re-set a couple bc one is rocking a little and the other doesn't quite fit. Need to get a rubber mallet and tap that line of a little tighter together to make some room.

Of course, that was a "quick and dirty". That whole walkway needs re- doing bc it slants a little from one side to the other, there's a hump in the middle, and the end closest to the house is too low so water puddles there. Now that I know how easy it is, I can make that a project for later. Much later.

About that 3' strip along the curb. I have about 4' on the far end to finish digging up, and a section right next to the walkway that I need to dig again because there still seem to be a lot of Bermuda grass roots in there. And that grass definitely grows from the roots! Leave 2" in and you'll get another clump, which will spread and spread and spread.

Once that's done, gonna paper over and mulch. I have 8" garden "staples" to hold the paper down.

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Eye exam tomorrow. They're gonna dilate my pupils so I better borrow sunglasses from dear daughter.

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Yesterday I made veggie, ham, and bean soup. Today I made my very favorite: albondigas. Tomorrow it's gonna be chicken soup with parsnips.

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Monday, December 16, 2024 11:50 PM

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Thanks for the info. I may write it down and try it one of these days.

I'm using Window 10. I think what I am using for my writing is Word 2007.

Yeah, what mostly is coming into the lexicon is slang from the kids and of course words can get dropped as well, fall out of use.


Yeah. As long as they didn't change the location of anything in the menus in an update since that piece was written, it should be super easy for you to do in Chrome just following those steps.

Don't be afraid to peek into the other options in those settings too if you've never gone to them just to kind of familiarize yourself with the types of things that they make it pretty safe for you to change without negative side effects. You might even find something else you wanted to change that you didn't think of before.

They have fairly easy ways for people to do way deeper dives into system settings and screw up their browser completely, but dangerous system changes like that are nothing that anybody who wasn't specifically looking to change them could accidentally stumble on. I think the only real "danger" for you in the standard settings would be if you picked a total foreign language on accident and you'd have to figure out how to switch it back without being able to read anything.

I remember doing that to my dad's new "big screen" 36" TV when I was a kid while dicking around with the remote and playing with menu options. I remember panicking and thinking I ruined the TV when I changed it to some other language and just bumbling around the menu until I finally accidentally clicked on the right option to change it back. My dad was never the slapping around type, so I wasn't worried about getting into trouble. I just thought I broke my old man's new pride and joy.




I'll take a look at Word 2007 and see how easy it is, and if it's even possible. I totally expected everything modern like our browsers to work for you, but I do have some doubt that a program from 2007 would have what you were looking for.

I seem to recall one of the reasons why the old install discs of Office were fairly large were because of all the optional foreign language libraries you could choose to add to it when you installed the program, so I think there is hope. I just don't know if they went out of their way back then to have 7 or 8 different variations of English. Office 2007 predates YouTube and Google Street View. I think it might even predate the iPhone. Things were a little bit different back then and Microsoft might not have gotten around to writing dictionaries for the various nuances of the English language yet.

They probably have a British English though at least. Do you think that would be better than US English?

Probably not. You guys spell colour the same. Do you also spell armor "armour"?

You might have those in common but there might be a lot of other differences you have with the UK English that you didn't have with the US English.


I'll figure it out and let you know.

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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.


That's what makes me nervous about going through some of things on this computer. Sometimes it is fear I will screw something up or if while I am doing that I have another seizure.

Yes, we do spell armour the same way as the Brits. I got the red squiggles when you used both of them and when I put armour in again, twice.

That is possible.




I'm trying to do the opposite of scaring you out of it.

Any of the options that could get you into trouble are locked away. You'd have to actually know the words to type in the address bar of your broswer with a ":" between them to get deep enough under the hood where you can cause yourself problems.

You should give it a shot. If you've got the browser open already to reply here, it should only take you a minute or two to follow those Chrome instructions at least.

I'll try to remember to look at Word 2007. When I set this particular computer back up a while ago I didn't install it again and I haven't needed it here. I just gotta remember to look later.

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I know you aren't trying to scare me. I just get a little nervous is all. And I should write down what Google says and keep it incase I decide to try.

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Monday, December 16, 2024 11:52 PM

BRENDA


Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
In my experience, anything you can access by pointing and clicking is safe. They tuck all the dangerous things away buried deep in a menu, or accessible only if you hit a couple keys at the same time.
Take your time. Read thru the menus. Familiarize yourself with them. Don't click on anything until you know what it does. Take a deep breath. There's no rush.

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If I click on anything I do read it very carefully before getting out of it.

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Tuesday, December 17, 2024 12:00 AM

SIGNYM

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Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
In my experience, anything you can access by pointing and clicking is safe. They tuck all the dangerous things away buried deep in a menu, or accessible only if you hit a couple keys at the same time.
Take your time. Read thru the menus. Familiarize yourself with them. Don't click on anything until you know what it does. Take a deep breath. There's no rush.

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If I click on anything I do read it very carefully before getting out of it.
Good for you. Some people (me, sometimes) jump into things precipitously when they get nervous.


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Tuesday, December 17, 2024 9:01 AM

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Quote:
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I know you aren't trying to scare me. I just get a little nervous is all. And I should write down what Google says and keep it incase I decide to try.


I'll tell you what.

My aunt was the exact same way and it took me a while to break her of it.

But I realize that she knows that I'm just a phone call away and I can physically see what is going on and fix it.


I know that I can't do that in your case, and I'm taking this into account when suggesting you try this out. If anything were to happen to your computer and you weren't able to access things because of something I told you to do and I couldn't walk you back out of it, I would feel terrible about it.

It's okay to be nervous, but don't be afraid. This isn't anything you can't handle, and you can't get yourself into any trouble if you just take your time with it. You got this.



I told you about how I accidentally changed the language of my dad's first big TV. What was different there was when you scrolled through the language and picked one it didn't ask you to confirm the change and it just did it. That panic was probably the first event in my life that got me to where I am on computers today, even though outside of 2-color Apple computers at school, I didn't have a computer of my own to work on until I was in high school.

My mom paid a stupid $2,000 for that back in early 90's money. I never looked into what computers cost back then and compared what she got for her money, but she got it off HSN on a whim and I think they probably made a lot of money off of those.

It was always slow and it was a chore to get the good games to play, or when you could get them to play they wouldn't want to play the sound effects and music. Some guy gave me a "secret code" to open a game called DOOM and it worked. What I didn't know was that was just a keyboard shortcut to bypass Windows and I was typing out commands to run the game without all the memory being taken up by Windows first.

Back then computers were so slow and the hard drives were so small I was always learning new tricks to optimize the performance to get good games to play. I learned so much just because I wanted to play the games. I knew how to edit the system startup to do all sorts of things. But when I was running out of space I borked the whole thing by trying out a program in DOS called "DoubleSpace". It basically compressed all the data on your hard drive and gave you twice the space that you should have, but the problem was that everything you tried to use needed to be decompressed on the fly, and since my computer was already slow as hell, this made it basically unusable for anything. And it was IRREVERSIBLE.

Crap.

That's when I first learned how to reinstall Windows... On my own, with a little advice of a friend in real life since I'd never even been on the internet yet. My mom was going to kick my ass if I didn't get that thing running again.



And that was before Microsoft used the Rolling Stones' Start Me Up in their ad campaign for Windows 95. This was Windows 3.1 installed over DOS off of a few floppy disks.


It's crazy thinking back about all of that and realizing how difficult everything was when it was new and super expensive. That's why only us nerds were messing with them back then.










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Tuesday, December 17, 2024 1:23 PM

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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
In my experience, anything you can access by pointing and clicking is safe. They tuck all the dangerous things away buried deep in a menu, or accessible only if you hit a couple keys at the same time.
Take your time. Read thru the menus. Familiarize yourself with them. Don't click on anything until you know what it does. Take a deep breath. There's no rush.

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If I click on anything I do read it very carefully before getting out of it.
Good for you. Some people (me, sometimes) jump into things precipitously when they get nervous.


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Yup, as I don't need to screw this thing up. When I had this seizure, I was on Face Book and I messed it up. After getting over my panic I managed to get things right again. Still something a little wrong with the page and I'm not sure if I should try again what I did to fix it.

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Tuesday, December 17, 2024 1:27 PM

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
I know you aren't trying to scare me. I just get a little nervous is all. And I should write down what Google says and keep it incase I decide to try.


I'll tell you what.

My aunt was the exact same way and it took me a while to break her of it.

But I realize that she knows that I'm just a phone call away and I can physically see what is going on and fix it.


I know that I can't do that in your case, and I'm taking this into account when suggesting you try this out. If anything were to happen to your computer and you weren't able to access things because of something I told you to do and I couldn't walk you back out of it, I would feel terrible about it.

It's okay to be nervous, but don't be afraid. This isn't anything you can't handle, and you can't get yourself into any trouble if you just take your time with it. You got this.



I told you about how I accidentally changed the language of my dad's first big TV. What was different there was when you scrolled through the language and picked one it didn't ask you to confirm the change and it just did it. That panic was probably the first event in my life that got me to where I am on computers today, even though outside of 2-color Apple computers at school, I didn't have a computer of my own to work on until I was in high school.

My mom paid a stupid $2,000 for that back in early 90's money. I never looked into what computers cost back then and compared what she got for her money, but she got it off HSN on a whim and I think they probably made a lot of money off of those.

It was always slow and it was a chore to get the good games to play, or when you could get them to play they wouldn't want to play the sound effects and music. Some guy gave me a "secret code" to open a game called DOOM and it worked. What I didn't know was that was just a keyboard shortcut to bypass Windows and I was typing out commands to run the game without all the memory being taken up by Windows first.

Back then computers were so slow and the hard drives were so small I was always learning new tricks to optimize the performance to get good games to play. I learned so much just because I wanted to play the games. I knew how to edit the system startup to do all sorts of things. But when I was running out of space I borked the whole thing by trying out a program in DOS called "DoubleSpace". It basically compressed all the data on your hard drive and gave you twice the space that you should have, but the problem was that everything you tried to use needed to be decompressed on the fly, and since my computer was already slow as hell, this made it basically unusable for anything. And it was IRREVERSIBLE.

Crap.

That's when I first learned how to reinstall Windows... On my own, with a little advice of a friend in real life since I'd never even been on the internet yet. My mom was going to kick my ass if I didn't get that thing running again.



And that was before Microsoft used the Rolling Stones' Start Me Up in their ad campaign for Windows 95. This was Windows 3.1 installed over DOS off of a few floppy disks.


It's crazy thinking back about all of that and realizing how difficult everything was when it was new and super expensive. That's why only us nerds were messing with them back then.










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I know I have learned a lot about these things since I got my first one years ago but sometimes I still feel like a novice. Like when I was going from the laptop I had back to a desk top. Someone I know on Face Book helped me with that.

Like I said to SIG, I am very careful if I decide to do something or check out something by reading everything the addition or subtraction will do before I do it.

But I do appreciate the help even over long distance.

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Tuesday, December 17, 2024 1:28 PM

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Out for my walk in a bit on a rainy day. No wind thank goodness unlike last Saturday. My umbrella got turned inside out a couple of times but no damage.

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Tuesday, December 17, 2024 5:51 PM

BRENDA


Done for today in the rain.

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Tuesday, December 17, 2024 11:41 PM

BRENDA


Got some areas of my place cleaned up this evening. That's a good thing but on the flipside it is still raining out.

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Wednesday, December 18, 2024 1:22 PM

BRENDA


Out and about in a bit on a dry day. Looks like no pick up game of mah jong for me. No phone call last night.

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Wednesday, December 18, 2024 5:24 PM

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Back and done for the day. At least it is dry. Suppose to rain tomorrow.

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Wednesday, December 18, 2024 11:26 PM

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Regular mah jong game tomorrow.

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Wednesday, December 18, 2024 11:36 PM

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Well if you try it out let me know if you need any assistance.

It must not bother you all that much like it would me, and it sounds like you've grown quite accustomed to it to the point where you can just tune it out like white noise.

Perhaps this is just a problem that doesn't need solving.



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Thursday, December 19, 2024 5:31 PM

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Well if you try it out let me know if you need any assistance.

It must not bother you all that much like it would me, and it sounds like you've grown quite accustomed to it to the point where you can just tune it out like white noise.

Perhaps this is just a problem that doesn't need solving.



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Thanks.

Yeah, I just tune it out. I am so used to going back and forth between American spelling and Canadian or British spelling that I just ignore it.

Like just a bit ago. I spelt centre like a Canadian and I get the squiggly red line but I just ignore it.

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Thursday, December 19, 2024 5:37 PM

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Back and done from mah jong. So-so morning at least I managed to break 1,000points. Couldn't do that last week. So finished with over 3,000points though I couldn't get one of the prizes that the head lady was giving as Christmas gifts. She puts a sticker on random tiles and if you pick up that tile you get the gift. The two ladies I was playing with each got those tiles. Had the Christmas lunch at the centre and the turkey was good as well as the gravy and mashed potatoes. The ham they put on was chewy and I don't eat stuffing because of onions and cranberries in it. Also hate string beans and the brussel sprouts were so charred from being roasted that if you didn't know what they were, you were almost unable to identify them.

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Thursday, December 19, 2024 6:53 PM

SIGNYM

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Glad you got out and had at least part of a Christmas dinner.


We aren't doing anything special this Christmas. I don't know what happened. Even when I was on chemo I put up a small string of lights on a potted plant and arranged gifts under the "tree". This year I just seemed to run out of time, or steam. Sis' gifts, the ones she wraps and sends, the ones that make the day look special, are gonna be late. I guess she ran out if steam too. I crossed off the rib roast I was planning. The only thing special is gonna be pumpkin pie, whipped cream, and Baileys. Maybe we can do what we did for T-day/ b-day ... celebrate late? A combined Xmas/ New Years?

It's been that kind of a holiday season.

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Just OOC, do some publishers require Canadian English and some require American English?

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Thursday, December 19, 2024 7:03 PM

SIGNYM

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Hey SIX,I know you'reworking on a data/ software project, but when you get to doing heavy duty work again, I thought you might want to try Gorilla Grip gloves.

I discovered them last summer, when one of the contractors dropped a glove when they left. It turned out to be so useful I ordered a couple of pairs.

They aren't puncture proof or waterproof. Definitely won't protect against rose thorns or anthing else sharp. But they do protect against all the little pokes and scrapes from dirt, twigs, etc and are EXCELLENT for handling rocks, pavers, planks, and even tool handles (better grip). And also, around here, black widow and brown recluse spider bites. May not be an issue for you, but I'm supposed to protect my hands bc risk of infection.

Hubby really likes them as driving and woodworking gloves.

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Friday, December 20, 2024 12:00 AM

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Glad you got out and had at least part of a Christmas dinner.


We aren't doing anything special this Christmas. I don't know what happened. Even when I was on chemo I put up a small string of lights on a potted plant and arranged gifts under the "tree". This year I just seemed to run out of time, or steam. Sis' gifts, the ones she wraps and sends, the ones that make the day look special, are gonna be late. I guess she ran out if steam too. I crossed off the rib roast I was planning. The only thing special is gonna be pumpkin pie, whipped cream, and Baileys. Maybe we can do what we did for T-day/ b-day ... celebrate late? A combined Xmas/ New Years?

It's been that kind of a holiday season.

*****

Just OOC, do some publishers require Canadian English and some require American English?

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Yeah, it was. I do enjoy my Thursday morning game even if I get frustrated.

I bought a little artificial tree from a local Dollar store and some small decorations with a small string of lights. They use batteries. I am so not going to bother with the 4 foot tree that I have. But that is all that I am doing.

Have to get hold of a friend to see if we are meeting before Christmas or after the New Year. I have a feeling it will be in the New Year to exchange Christmas and she owes me my birthday present from this September.

As for Christmas dinner I have no idea what is what. My boss said they have no plans and she will call me, which probably means they are doing something else. So, I will get something for myself. See if I can find a small piece of pork tenderloin or a couple of pork chops and some veg. I say pork chops because I can't seem to find just a can of V8. They are all the big bottles or the little cans of 6. And outside of putting it over pork, I don't drink it.

Tomorrow I am meeting someone for a coffee and I have to get a Christmas card done.

In Canada it seems that publishers accept Canadian and American spelling.

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Friday, December 20, 2024 9:21 AM

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Hey SIX,I know you'reworking on a data/ software project, but when you get to doing heavy duty work again, I thought you might want to try Gorilla Grip gloves.

I discovered them last summer, when one of the contractors dropped a glove when they left. It turned out to be so useful I ordered a couple of pairs.

They aren't puncture proof or waterproof. Definitely won't protect against rose thorns or anthing else sharp. But they do protect against all the little pokes and scrapes from dirt, twigs, etc and are EXCELLENT for handling rocks, pavers, planks, and even tool handles (better grip). And also, around here, black widow and brown recluse spider bites. May not be an issue for you, but I'm supposed to protect my hands bc risk of infection.

Hubby really likes them as driving and woodworking gloves.


Good tip. I actually have used these before. My friends dad turned me on to them. They're even washable at least a few times if you were getting into something nasty with them. They hold up better than most of those thin gloves do.



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Friday, December 20, 2024 10:08 AM

SIGNYM

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Woke up earlier than usual, and what a lovely, soft, misty AM. We don't get many of those. Mist settling on the dry grass makes a sweet smell. Looks like central CA coast.

A cup of coffee and aaaahhhhh.

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Friday, December 20, 2024 12:39 PM

BRENDA


Out soon with things to do like meet someone for coffee. Christmas card is done and ready to go.

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Friday, December 20, 2024 1:31 PM

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Oh... and a little cheaper than the Gorilla gloves are the Grease Monkey gloves at Sam's Club. They're slightly thicker, but I think they both hold up to the same amount of abuse. I haven't looked at prices for either for a while, but those Grease Monkey gloves are almost certainly cheaper unless you luck into a good sale on the Gorilla gloves.

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Friday, December 20, 2024 3:35 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Thanks! When my gloves wear out I'll check those out!

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Friday, December 20, 2024 3:40 PM

SIGNYM

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Well, I did one Christmas thing: I have my last survivor ng elder generation aunt and uncle. Both in their 90s, they are in assisted living in WNY and not liking it a whole lot.

This year, I was so behind, that for the first time that I can remember I failed to send Xmas cards to anyone. My generation and younger... they do eCards anyway. But aunt and uncle appreciate the real deal. So, to make up for my lack of timeliness, I sent them a flower arrangement. I hope it brightens their room.

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Friday, December 20, 2024 5:26 PM

BRENDA


Back and done for today. Christmas card given and received a big box of chocolates from this gentleman and his wife. I won't eat them so I will take them over to senior's centre. Give one layer to the office staff and take the other to mah jong.

There also a couple of gift cards. One from Walmart and the other from London Drugs.

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