I just had one of those embarrassing centre stage moments where you find yourself forming a little heap on the floor in the salad section of a supermarket :/ I know :\I was putting a red pepper into the trolley, and I remember thinking it was a bit odd because I was sure I'd meant to bend slightly at the waist, but was instead folding up at the knees with the kind of purpose that suggested, as I would be communing with the floor anyway, it would be better to arrive with not too much of a bump and maybe even some dignity. Which I think worked to some degree. Certainly whilst I was holding onto the side of the trolley and sort of... sliding down it.
At that point, it must've looked like I'd suddenly been overcome by the urge to drop down on my knees and pray to it, so had. It might not even be that far from the truth. I may have got a little over-excited at the discovery of tinned guava halves (a stupidly rare find in the UK, and never before at a realistically affordable price) gleaming at me like jewels from a shelf :) *frank blink* it felt like every cell of my body had suddenly thrown a party on my behalf.
Or it could have been the shock of discovering that all the coffee had turned into loads and loads of cereal bars *feel distinct need to lie down again* Oh dear... or maybe it was what happened next... which I'm really not able to talk about yet *turn beetroot to prove it*
I'll do that later maybe :) which is when I will also be saying hello to: snagletooth and Kavanagh (because it's been a little time since they last popped in and it's lovely to see them); and everyone else too (because it might look rude if I don't) then talking A/C (and loads of other stuff too that you've all been going on about)... and also, hatching a plan to tempt Kathryn through the door and well... keep her here :)
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I think it was just one of those weird days that got off to a poor start because I dreamt I'd died while I was cowering from a beating *pull face* so I was kind of both startled and relieved that I hadn't, and went to make myself a cup of tea to confirm it, and in getting the milk out of the fridge, had to slightly disturb one of my pusscats (who was sprawled out on top of it) because otherwise I would have shut his tail in the door.
Instead of just staying where he was and going back to sleep, he decided to jump down and have some water, and then, just out the corner of my eye, I noticed him do that sort of rear end wiggle they do prior to launch and thought I'd better get the milk back in the fridge before he got back to his favourite spot, and there was the softest of softest sounds that just didn't make sense and I turned round, and he was dead on the floor :( He was only four.
So I'd not scheduled the day to have a burial in it, in ground so baked hard it felt like breaking open cement. And it was really really hot. In assessing where to put him I made the mistake of going out there barefoot too. Everything is soooooo dry here, it felt easier to believe I was back in Africa than England, because I could hear the last of the grass crisping and the shuffle of thousands of feet doing what they do when they belong to the little inhabitants of the planet - and thoroughly spooked myself. I was so sure that my sister was behind me that I looked back over my shoulder :\ which was pretty stupid. She's somewhere on the west coast of Europe this week, holidaying with my brother-in-law's brother and his wife.
I'd kind of hoped that as they'd come all the way from India to be just over there *wave vaguely at Belgium and the Netherlands* that they might also be able to pop over here, but they won't be, so that probably had a lot to do with that stupid near-hallucination :)
Anyway... by the time I went shopping, I'd not eaten much, hadn't replenished what got ejected from my eyes, got thoroughly dehydrated on the walk there , and my blood pressure's gone wonky again which I think all adds up to a little lie down :)
As to the other bit *turn beetroot again* :)
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edit about a day later: We have 4 air conditioning units downstairs and five up, although two of those are a completely different setup so I'm going to ignore them
But basically, you set them by turning each operating arm 90 degrees anti-clockwise from their "off" (6 o'clock position) to their "on" (3 o'clock one), and without releasing - yank. If the top of a unit doesn't fall towards you, you need to simply hold on tight and fling half a body backwards repeatedly until it does. Any half will do.
Depending on prevailing directional currents external to the units, some might need two or more attempts during the initial priming stage, and you have to listen out for sudden explosive bangs as they usually mean that a unit somewhere that you'd already set, will need attention (There's an unprintable trouble shooter in the manual which will guide you through the process).
There isa "full-blast" setting *furl brows like umbrellas* at the 12 o'clock position but you can't use it from the "on" position. Only when its entirely "off" and it can be quite dangerous even then. In fact ... it's remarkably dangerous. You can knock yourself out quite badly on the inside on all levels, and very badly on the outside on the upper ones which is why I never use it :)
We had a very similar system in all the places we lived in in Africa. We called them windows ;)
uh-oh... *leave thread in a bewildered state*
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Ah, the planar transparent crystalline A/C modules well known for confusing and sometime dangerous settings. As the alternating character depends upon external conditions we use them pairwise on opposing sides of the building. Ours features a winding aspect that uses a spiral action propelled by a rotating knob to give a continuous positional range from OFF to ON and back again. I fear that say, yourself, would run the risk of hair entanglement, what with your generalised tendency to probe the operating boundaries of artificial devices. The other A/Cs are a quite large sliding type running on grooves. I have been known to use these in their undocumented door mode, but you must take extreme care regarding the actual setting in that function. Nasal injuries abound.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Mikey has hotter weather on the East Side here every day this time of year than the UK ever does (I did just check the weather channel link)
Here on the West Side (ok NW) we have blazing 75 degrees and possible rain every other day........but once in a blue moon we will get a month without rain.....and then we get protesters in the street telling us our cars cause Global Warming and we should all peddle bicycles .......which could make it easier to drive through a wall of protesters........well until they knock you to the pavement and start beating you until you join the protest.
And they wonder why a person on a hot day late for WORK runs them over when they block a State highway holding signs and yelling repeated stupid lines that their hippy parents and current loons here like to do.
No free stuff and tax payers on bicycles no peace!!
I don't live near any big city or any of these clowns so my front bumper is still only a bug magnet
Once in a while in the Summer we get that week of high 90's and I get told that I should have bought an A/C years ago (like in the Winter when they say that I should have bought a power generator for the day when maybe a storm would knock out the power)
These days we have TV commercials that will sell you something for everything and in fact you can get 2 for the price of 1 just pay an extra fee .......they have this little box that you can put near you inside or outside that will cool you down with a quiet fan and all you do is put a little cold water in it and get cooled for pennies a day
But then the total price is about $40 and I tend to rather spend it on something else........like gas to drive me to the bowling alley every monday
Oh and .....well today is the wife and my 31st anniversary .......looks like once again we will sit here watching tv
I'm sure the complaining will start tomorrow in the early morning as I get ready for that drive to the bowling alley
(all female members close your eyes).......why the hell is it the males duty to figure out and plan something for the female on this day (and every other day of the year) ??
My plan is just not turn on the Golf Channel today......so she can't bitch at me about watching golf even though I quit playing after 40+ years and saving thousands of dollars
Oh and here in the USA we have people that slip and fall at the grocery store every day and then getting an ambulance chaser to sue for millions so the lawyer and the slip--ee gets more free stuff.......here where we are demanded to give people free stuff.........but since I was born here in the not so great northwest I don't get anything for free..........I even have to pay to type this and post it on the www.......and of course the wife still after 14 years says this project and the Cern projects I have been running are just searching for aliens from another world.
I give up......ok almost.......better finish my breakfast can of RockStar energy drink.......already had the lil bottle of Ensure old geezer vanilla flavored......umm.......vitamins.
Oh gawd another Flex-Glue tv commercial.......maybe I should use it to glue a few of those My Pillows together and duct tape it over their mouth's.........(she has the remote that turns down the sound as usual)
Ok back to the regularly scheduled programming muhahahahahahaha[/] (not gonna check this for any errors this time)[=8]
(all female members close your eyes).......why the hell is it the males duty to figure out and plan something for the female on this day (and every other day of the year) ??
I'm told there are ways to get the female to plan such a day, but it requires the male to act the day before. The male has to innocently remind the female the day is coming up. Of course she is fully aware of it, but never mind. Then the male must also feign that he wants it to be special for her. You can start with suggesting an outline of a basic simple date night. Then ask questions of the female about the details, such as choice of venue, etc. Soon the female will have planned the entire day and filled in all the details. Problem solved.
If this works for you donate to your favorite BOINC projects as payment. If it gets you a frying pan don't blame me.
Kavanagh wrote:Happy aphelion
Thank you and right back at you!!
I just had one of those
I just had one of those embarrassing centre stage moments where you find yourself forming a little heap on the floor in the salad section of a supermarket :/ I know :\I was putting a red pepper into the trolley, and I remember thinking it was a bit odd because I was sure I'd meant to bend slightly at the waist, but was instead folding up at the knees with the kind of purpose that suggested, as I would be communing with the floor anyway, it would be better to arrive with not too much of a bump and maybe even some dignity. Which I think worked to some degree. Certainly whilst I was holding onto the side of the trolley and sort of... sliding down it.
At that point, it must've looked like I'd suddenly been overcome by the urge to drop down on my knees and pray to it, so had. It might not even be that far from the truth. I may have got a little over-excited at the discovery of tinned guava halves (a stupidly rare find in the UK, and never before at a realistically affordable price) gleaming at me like jewels from a shelf :) *frank blink* it felt like every cell of my body had suddenly thrown a party on my behalf.
Or it could have been the shock of discovering that all the coffee had turned into loads and loads of cereal bars *feel distinct need to lie down again* Oh dear... or maybe it was what happened next... which I'm really not able to talk about yet *turn beetroot to prove it*
I'll do that later maybe :) which is when I will also be saying hello to: snagletooth and Kavanagh (because it's been a little time since they last popped in and it's lovely to see them); and everyone else too (because it might look rude if I don't) then talking A/C (and loads of other stuff too that you've all been going on about)... and also, hatching a plan to tempt Kathryn through the door and well... keep her here :)
Please wait here. Further instructions could pile up at any time. Thank you.
*concerned doctor's frown*
*concerned doctor's frown* .... yeesss .... do tell.
Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
I think it was just one of
I think it was just one of those weird days that got off to a poor start because I dreamt I'd died while I was cowering from a beating *pull face* so I was kind of both startled and relieved that I hadn't, and went to make myself a cup of tea to confirm it, and in getting the milk out of the fridge, had to slightly disturb one of my pusscats (who was sprawled out on top of it) because otherwise I would have shut his tail in the door.
Instead of just staying where he was and going back to sleep, he decided to jump down and have some water, and then, just out the corner of my eye, I noticed him do that sort of rear end wiggle they do prior to launch and thought I'd better get the milk back in the fridge before he got back to his favourite spot, and there was the softest of softest sounds that just didn't make sense and I turned round, and he was dead on the floor :( He was only four.
So I'd not scheduled the day to have a burial in it, in ground so baked hard it felt like breaking open cement. And it was really really hot. In assessing where to put him I made the mistake of going out there barefoot too. Everything is soooooo dry here, it felt easier to believe I was back in Africa than England, because I could hear the last of the grass crisping and the shuffle of thousands of feet doing what they do when they belong to the little inhabitants of the planet - and thoroughly spooked myself. I was so sure that my sister was behind me that I looked back over my shoulder :\ which was pretty stupid. She's somewhere on the west coast of Europe this week, holidaying with my brother-in-law's brother and his wife.
I'd kind of hoped that as they'd come all the way from India to be just over there *wave vaguely at Belgium and the Netherlands* that they might also be able to pop over here, but they won't be, so that probably had a lot to do with that stupid near-hallucination :)
Anyway... by the time I went shopping, I'd not eaten much, hadn't replenished what got ejected from my eyes, got thoroughly dehydrated on the walk there , and my blood pressure's gone wonky again which I think all adds up to a little lie down :)
As to the other bit *turn beetroot again* :)
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edit about a day later: We
edit about a day later: We have 4 air conditioning units downstairs and five up, although two of those are a completely different setup so I'm going to ignore them
But basically, you set them by turning each operating arm 90 degrees anti-clockwise from their "off" (6 o'clock position) to their "on" (3 o'clock one), and without releasing - yank. If the top of a unit doesn't fall towards you, you need to simply hold on tight and fling half a body backwards repeatedly until it does. Any half will do.
Depending on prevailing directional currents external to the units, some might need two or more attempts during the initial priming stage, and you have to listen out for sudden explosive bangs as they usually mean that a unit somewhere that you'd already set, will need attention (There's an unprintable trouble shooter in the manual which will guide you through the process).
There is a "full-blast" setting *furl brows like umbrellas* at the 12 o'clock position but you can't use it from the "on" position. Only when its entirely "off" and it can be quite dangerous even then. In fact ... it's remarkably dangerous. You can knock yourself out quite badly on the inside on all levels, and very badly on the outside on the upper ones which is why I never use it :)
We had a very similar system in all the places we lived in in Africa. We called them windows ;)
uh-oh... *leave thread in a bewildered state*
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Ah, the planar transparent
Ah, the planar transparent crystalline A/C modules well known for confusing and sometime dangerous settings. As the alternating character depends upon external conditions we use them pairwise on opposing sides of the building. Ours features a winding aspect that uses a spiral action propelled by a rotating knob to give a continuous positional range from OFF to ON and back again. I fear that say, yourself, would run the risk of hair entanglement, what with your generalised tendency to probe the operating boundaries of artificial devices. The other A/Cs are a quite large sliding type running on grooves. I have been known to use these in their undocumented door mode, but you must take extreme care regarding the actual setting in that function. Nasal injuries abound.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Just for
Just for Annie...
*hug*
/me pops in
/me pops out
Kathryn :o)
Einstein@Home Moderator
KSMarksPsych wrote:Just for
Sad face!!!
Mikey has hotter weather on
Mikey has hotter weather on the East Side here every day this time of year than the UK ever does (I did just check the weather channel link)
Here on the West Side (ok NW) we have blazing 75 degrees and possible rain every other day........but once in a blue moon we will get a month without rain.....and then we get protesters in the street telling us our cars cause Global Warming and we should all peddle bicycles .......which could make it easier to drive through a wall of protesters........well until they knock you to the pavement and start beating you until you join the protest.
And they wonder why a person on a hot day late for WORK runs them over when they block a State highway holding signs and yelling repeated stupid lines that their hippy parents and current loons here like to do.
No free stuff and tax payers on bicycles no peace!!
I don't live near any big city or any of these clowns so my front bumper is still only a bug magnet
Once in a while in the Summer we get that week of high 90's and I get told that I should have bought an A/C years ago (like in the Winter when they say that I should have bought a power generator for the day when maybe a storm would knock out the power)
These days we have TV commercials that will sell you something for everything and in fact you can get 2 for the price of 1 just pay an extra fee .......they have this little box that you can put near you inside or outside that will cool you down with a quiet fan and all you do is put a little cold water in it and get cooled for pennies a day
But then the total price is about $40 and I tend to rather spend it on something else........like gas to drive me to the bowling alley every monday
Oh and .....well today is the wife and my 31st anniversary .......looks like once again we will sit here watching tv
I'm sure the complaining will start tomorrow in the early morning as I get ready for that drive to the bowling alley
(all female members close your eyes).......why the hell is it the males duty to figure out and plan something for the female on this day (and every other day of the year) ??
My plan is just not turn on the Golf Channel today......so she can't bitch at me about watching golf even though I quit playing after 40+ years and saving thousands of dollars
Oh and here in the USA we have people that slip and fall at the grocery store every day and then getting an ambulance chaser to sue for millions so the lawyer and the slip--ee gets more free stuff.......here where we are demanded to give people free stuff.........but since I was born here in the not so great northwest I don't get anything for free..........I even have to pay to type this and post it on the www.......and of course the wife still after 14 years says this project and the Cern projects I have been running are just searching for aliens from another world.
I give up......ok almost.......better finish my breakfast can of RockStar energy drink.......already had the lil bottle of Ensure old geezer vanilla flavored......umm.......vitamins.
Oh gawd another Flex-Glue tv commercial.......maybe I should use it to glue a few of those My Pillows together and duct tape it over their mouth's.........(she has the remote that turns down the sound as usual)
Ok back to the regularly scheduled programming muhahahahahahaha[/] (not gonna check this for any errors this time)[=8]
As Joseph Hill used to say......... Peace,Love,and Harmony
MAGIC Quantum Mechanic
I'm told there are ways to get the female to plan such a day, but it requires the male to act the day before. The male has to innocently remind the female the day is coming up. Of course she is fully aware of it, but never mind. Then the male must also feign that he wants it to be special for her. You can start with suggesting an outline of a basic simple date night. Then ask questions of the female about the details, such as choice of venue, etc. Soon the female will have planned the entire day and filled in all the details. Problem solved.
If this works for you donate to your favorite BOINC projects as payment. If it gets you a frying pan don't blame me.