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I'm thinking that Chris Mess might have been an attempt to wish you a Merry Christmas.
finally finished it. 30 hours of efforting, but i pleased with it, except for the end. using the winX video editor, the background music stops long before it ends. doh
...still very nice.
i think I'm getting old. 45 degrees F feels cold now. Yes, I was wearing a jacket and a scarf and a hat outside.
The simple pleasures of Daffy Dook
How does Boxing Day work? Santa comes on the 25th?
No, that doesn't look like a kidnapping waiting to happen!
Dana
Nicely done, Misty!
Dana
...I believe Geoff made a guest appearance at the pub I was at last night dressed as Santa. He was sitting by the end of the bar next to the door that led to the courtyard.
Wondered how they were getting away with some of the stuff they said until I saw that David Letterman's company, Worldwide Pants produces the show. Makes total sense now.
Great limb movement blowing in the wind.
I thought I saw the answer somewhere in there, too.
Dana
Nah, it was just dust.
dust in the wind?
sigh pooped out
occurs to me, just cause the twintub washer is plugged in
doesn't mean i have to wash every single thing in the hamper,
5 daays of clothes is all i need for the work week, wash day wouldn't be so exhausting an ordeal
...well back from a decent afternoon in town. Sunny, mild, and clam day for early December in this neck of the woods.
Dropped off some paperwork at my congressperson's office (they are working to get me the rest of my refund from the deductions taken out of my benefits). Did a little shopping afterwards at the local Ross store downtown and filled several actual needs including a very comfy pair or fleece lined house slippers to keep the toes warm in winter, a professional polymer cutting board (now I can toss those old flimsy plastic cutting mats that tend to warp) and a "box" grater for shredding cheese and .grating spices (like ginger & tumeric root). The total lot was came to under 30$.
This morning grabbed a couple Stonemason items off my wishlist along with the new Iray Brick Shaders Which triggered a 70% discount on the Stonemason items). Felt almost like the old days as on top of al the sale discounts (including my holiday loyalty discount), I was able to use my PC+ PA coupon and the whole lot came to just over 16$ (for 97$ worth of content).
A very fruitful day, particularly for a Monday..
more fuitful than doing laundry all day.
sigh
i like chris pine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bIn0Ha7ymY
they should remake all the old trek episodes with Chris
Me too.
Immigrrate to anywhere below the equator.
I couldn't take "Daffy Dook" after the first 3 repeats of it. Is this what stands for comedy today; say the same thing two dozen times and giggle about it?
My crock pot wouldn't turn on this evening. I have turkey soup ready to cook, but the electronics are broke down.
My choices are to either cook it in the Ninja Foodi on the "slow cook" setting or just transfer everything into a dutch oven and cook it in the oven.
Supposed to be 81degF and dry tomorrow.
Motorcycle!
Checked on getting some work done on it. $75.00 an hour.
I'll do it myself, I charge less. But I'd rather ride it than work on it.
I'll do it when it's raining.
You're asking the wrong question.
How many hours will it take to finish the work yourself? For them? Is there a big difference?
To me, spending a couple hundred for a several-hour job is well worth it, assuming that you're able to outsource it to a competent person. What's your bike's worth...10,000? More? A few hundred is a pittance in comparison.
I say this from experience, too. I once had a car in my dad's garage for a month while we did an upper engine job on it, reconditioning the heads, replacing half the pushrods and all of the lifters, and much much more. And I ended up selling that car less than a year later anyway. A terrible waste of time, that project was.
I like cars. But I'd rather have spent that time having lunch with my dad rather than being under the engine struggling with some damned frozen spark plug or bolt.
Can you go shopping for more motorcycle stuff while waiting those hours for it to be fixed? Hell, even watching cat videos might be more interesting (and I hate cat videos)...but maybe that's just me.
...hmm used to be able to fix the old 64 buick at home. Depending on the task, it could be 30 min could be 4 hours, or in the case of removing the engine steam cleaning it rebuilding the transmission putting it all putting back together replacing the fluids, tuning it all up, maybe 16 - 18 hours over a weekend. Then I think what even a relatively simple job would cost me at a mechanic today for something I could have done in an hour or so of my time plus the cost of the part.
I would still take that stylin' old 64 Buick over one of these new ugly looking computerised vehicles of today with "no user serviceable parts inside."
vs.
..that's a Buick? Looks more like a Hyundai or Kia.
I can see the resemblance...they're both white!
Dana
Back in the day,I used to fix my '72 Honda 350 myself. Changed the cam chain twice! (Pretty good for a no mechanical aptitude 'lectronic nerd.) Helped that hard use bike survive 50,000 miles. But when I moved up to BMW motorcycles I let the local chicken rancher do it.
(he was only 5 miles away and had the best BMW cycle garage within 60 miles)
Young people today don't know what driving a real automobile is like. They scoot around in pastel colored Easter eggs on wheels and miss out on the thrill of maneuvering a floating gunless tank into a garage or parking space two sizes too small. The "suicide door" Lincolns of the mid-sixties for example. In '92 we bought a '66 Lincoln hardtop with "the doors". Good condition. Only drove it on Sundays because it was a gasoline hog and needed a not-cheap special additive to the gas to compensate for its need of, unavailable in the '90s, leaded-gasoline. My last car (RIP
) was a 2003 Buick LeSabre. Smaller than the big cars of the last 35 years of the 20th century but big by today's standards and still a cloud floating tank that I felt safe and pampered in. And it had room to carry big things in, and to comfortably travel loooong distances in. It would instantly obey my command to "GO" when I said go. Lots of smooth, quiet power. And yet would get 30mpg on the Interstates. My BMW bikes also had lots of smooth, quiet power when I wanted it.
Ah, memories of things lost to the ravages of time and situations.
I look at today's Buicks and wonder "how'd we come to this?"
My '66 and '69 Chrysler Newports were like that...big boats that really moved. I could lay down fully stretched out in the back OR front seat, and not touch both doors. Granted, I'm only 5'6", but still. Try that today. SUVs can maybe handle that.
Dana
i killed the toilet seat thread
Sounds like a good thing to do.
...ugh after such a wonderful day yesterday Google and Chrome are being total PITAs this morning.
Multiple error messages that it cannot load a page or site, a "loading" message when trying to open an email that takes its own sweet time to open, perpetual swirlies on the tabs again (even though in some cases the page has completely loaded) and that excruciatingly slow "line by line" loading of graphics and images again making getting through the morning emails like pulling teeth from a Hippo with a pair of kitchen tongs. Did all the usual things to speed fix the issues like checking my connection and transfer rate, clearing cache, cookies, & such. Still makes me wonder if whd this rubbish happens that Google isn't' doing some automatic maintenance/updating. At least with Firefox I could turn that off.
Not in a very good mood already, as I seem to have contracted something that has caused a very annoying cough which kept waking me up in the middle of the night. Definitely don't need to deal with this rubbish as well.
ETA
...just went back to my inbox after opening an email only to see a blank black screen.
winter weather advisory for the morning.
i heard a Oregon airport has a billboard outside sign saying 'the wages of sin is death'. seems a weird thing to put up.
what are 3 yo into this year? do they still like the tickle elmo?
Finally my PayPal debit card came in. Hopefully my budget coach will paypal me some funds tonight so I can go Christmas shopping tomorrow for my brother, sister in law, newphews, Mum and stepfather.
...well the woes continue. I shutdown the system to clear internal buffers as sometimes that cures the issue, and it suddenly began auto updating again (which I don't understand why as I have it set to just remind me when updates are available so I can manually install them). This is the second time this has occurred
What is worse, my standard mouse suddenly refuses to work. I can use the trackball but that is a pain when doing anything other than modelling or building scenes (particularly highlighting text to perform editing functions) On startup, an error message appeared the that a pointing device driver was not installed, but when I went to check both devices in Control Panel/Device manager the drivers for both devices are showing as installed.and "working". I went into the settings for the mouse, clicked "update driver" and it mentioned I have the latest version. The device itself is functioning as the light is on, however the cursor doesn't respond to it when I move it.
Really been a hell of a frustrating morning and now afternoon so far dealing with nothing but rubbish.
ETA:
Did another restart to see if that would fix the driver issue but nothing. What was worse is there was an error message that Windows Explorer stopped working and had to restart. over four hours of my day wasted with this rubbish and now I'm hamstrung with a non function mouse that my system tells me is working perfectly. Going to take me more than twice as long to get through all the emails that have backed up since this morning. Not sure what that auto-update did but I am not pleased.