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Finally able to try out Disney+. I forgot which account I used to set it up, but it is set up on my Roku. Not sure if I want to put it on my FireTV until I know what I think. Wonder if I should try to watch something before dinner. I really do wish they had a way to browse what is available without subscribing for a trial.
...well I went to the MS site, downloaded and installed the drivers that are supposed to work and nothing. I have no idea what to do now and using the trackball is clusy for most general purposes. I am not sure where driver files are kept to delete the last one I installed because when I click on the unistall I don't get the checkbox to remove it from the system so every time I plug the mouse back in it appears again (and is only 32 bit no not 64. I've tried the mouse from the other system and that does work (got a message that the driver software was installed) but when I go back to the original one again, dead as a doornail, so Now I have to keep swapping the mouse between the two machines. The really odd and annoying thing is it is using the same original driver as the other one. but now I am without both front panel USB ports as the cord isn't long enough to reach the back of the case.
What is really frustrating, is when I checked the update history, that particular update failed to install, but in the process apparently corrupted the driver during the "cleanup" phase.
This has been one helluva day I wish I could get a do-over for. Five hours now wasted.and a tonne of emails going back to this morning yet to slog through. So much for getting any scene or rendering work done today.
Sounds like quite the bad day.
Dana
...yeah,really questioning the use of Chrome & Google but If I moved to another platform I'd have to rebuild my entire contact list, my password list, my form fill list, and my favourites list.
Just about every time there was an issue on the bottom of the screen the message "waiting for Google" would pop up. Again with FireFox you can defer updating to a manual process (something I'd do before turning in for the night, same for manually installing Windows security updates as I'd perform a restart so I didn't have to deal with sitting through the download/install phase and initialising/cleanup routines after the system came back upp ) I cannot find any such options to defer updating for Chrome or the various Google apps that go along with it (that I rarely if ever use save for the calendar).
Well even though it's pouring out. heading to the coffee shop to step away from this all for a while (and pick up a free 1# of my favourite roast for home as it's their 30th anniversary - oh and it's a local company, not the "Evil Mermaid Empire").
In all the frustration and grinding of teeth today almost forgot:
Happy Birthday Mr Messiaen
He'd be 111 today
Tom Baker wasn't the only one who loved long multi-coloured scarves.
ummm KK is it possible that the mouse died? Can you use it on the other system?
No, they are really into "Strangle Me Elmo"... I don't know if they sell those commercially, but my wife's cousin's son really got a kick out of me strangling the hell out of Elmo because he (Elmo) wouldn't shut up or shut off... apparently strangling worked because he did shut up after I choked him a bit... it was kinda creepy because he seemed to enjoy it too much... he was dancing and laughing the whole time. My daughter's theory was he was stuck in demo mode, but I told the little boy it was probably because Elmo was possessed by the spirit of the vengeful demon Azorak the Defiler...
You didn't say if it's a boy or a girl or actually if it's a human three year old... (not that it should matter, but some parents have different ideas about that) In my house my daughters played with whatever they were into... dolls, play tools, stuffed animals, hot wheels, legos... fire occasionally... (it's hereditary)...
I know one of my daughters would have definitely loved one of these...
Aside from editing out the company name and name and logo of the website (it's like totally not recognizable... right?), that's a real product page and real warning.
As you can see it's a choking hazard to children under 3 years of age... but apparently quite safe for anyone 3 years and up... So you can be the cool aunt and get the kid a present they'll never forget... or you could just buy them Elmo or a Tickle Me Pennywise doll...
I think IT is still big... Newbury Comics had lots of Pennywise dolls the other day... little children absolutely love Pennywise. They love dreaming about sewer clowns and being chased by them through dark forests... so if you feel the zombie killer machete is too heavy for the kid, maybe a cuddly Pennywise doll is the best choice...
Also fireworks... you can never go wrong with fireworks.
...the mouse is good, just that the driver refused to recognise it.
When the failure first happened none of the other devices I tried worked, even the mouse from the other system that I currently am using.
Again hardware is my strong suit, software is just full too of bugs for my taste.
On another note:
Seems I'm just cursed today. After taking a little time off for some coffee, I stopped at the market to get a couple items and only one checkout lane was open with a queue that included one person with a trolly full of items (most of which were from the produce section which the checker had to manually enter the codes in for). Just after I finally put my items on the belt, that was when they finally opened a second lane, but it was too late to switch as everyone else in the queue behind me moved over (including someone else with a trolley load of groceries).
I guess the old adage is true "some days you just can't win for losing." I just want this bleedin' day to be over.
Complaint: Tried several ways, couldn't get to the freebie "Angel Statue". Everything I tried just brought me to the main page. Very elusive statue!
Dana
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Try adding it to the cart using the button on the main page, then the link in your cart will work.
Also I have now added the link to the first page of the PA gifts thread
Re: Grocery Lane Woes: One of the benefits of shopping in my small town grocery store is despite the fact that they only have two checkout lanes, they rarely have more than two customers at a time.
My biggest complaints are that sometimes I have to wait for the one full-time cashier to deal with a gasoline customer at the external window. Or that I have to wait a minute for the cashier to be finished with a checkout before she can come to the Lotto window to sell me a ticket. Or that sometimes there are three or even four! customers in line at which time the cashier presses the panic button and I have to wait two minutes for the stock boy to man the other register. Life in small towns is rough.
My actual biggest valid complaint about small town grocery shopping is that they often don't have the better brands of products. eg: Generic store branded canned mandarin oranges for putting into Jello, just don't cut it.
They don't always have all the inter-segment membrane removed (blech), and are large and not as tasty as the delicious, tiny, perfect segments of the more expensive famous brand names. Another product is canned pears. Store brand pears are often un-ripe and crunchy. I like my canned pears to be able to be cut without a knife.
For some things I am willing to pay for quality.
snow on the ground
frozen fingers brr brr. sitting with my electric shawl wrapped around me, warming up
heard its 0F in green bay 80f in Miami
I am so with you mostly I have given up altogether on canned pears. Store I use for my main online shop sells a big bag of "A little less than perfect" raw pears. They keep for some time in the fridge if wrapped in paper, and leave a couple or three out to ripen indoors. Once they have softened off they can either be eaten raw or lighlty poached. This time of the year my fave poaching syrup is mulling spices and some Stevia, maybe a little sugar or heny to taste (depending on your taste) Spiced pears, yummy.
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I'll buy fresh pears when they're available. Our little town store has a very limited fresh produce section. It's limited to about a 10 foot cooler. We get pears, grapes, oranges, tangerines, head lettuce, bagged salad greens, kiwi, celery, cabbage and apples when they're available. No specialty or luxury produce. There's a special table for the non-refrigerated staples like onions, potatoes and bananas.
I love the modern seedless grapes, bloated pearls of juice and flavor. Mmmm yum!
And yes, the pears are bought mostly when crunchy and kept refrigerated with one or two set on the window sill in rotation to ripen. But currently it's apples that I'm addicted to. I really do not like older types like Empire or Macintosh or Granny Smith apples. They all have their problems, i.e. sour, thick skinned, rot too quickly. But recently there have been some very good types that have come to market. For the last decade or so, I've been on the watch for Braeburn apples which are wonderfully good for direct eating. Crispy, thin skinned, sweet, juicy, but they go mealy quickly and lose their crisp crunch after a few days even in the refrigerator. However, just within the last 6 months or so we've started getting "Honeycrisp" apples. Mmmmmmmmm, so f'n good.
Thin skinned, sweet, super juicy and they last a long time in the refrigerator and even on the shelf. I never find myself rushing to eat them up before they go bad. But wait, it gets better, there is a new type of apple coming out next year. It's a cross of Honeycrisp and something else that will be marketed as "Cosmic Crisp" that are reported to be even better than Honeycrisp.
Over the last several years, apple farmers have been planting millions of Cosmic Crisp trees and the strain will be generally available next year. I've got my local store owner watching out for them to see if he can try them out. He's willing to try them because he admited that he can't keep Honeycrisp in stock because they sell so well.
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I grew up in Kent in the South East of England. Kent used to be known as "The Garden of England" My favourite apples were the real old fashioned ones that you never see on the shelves today Coxes and Russets, both quite different. Coxes (Coxes Orange Pippin) if you want the long name is a very english apple, needs to cool climate of England and quite likes sea breezes. Not an easy apple to grow well, and although it can be stored is best eaten before christmas. The best ones are always off your own trees (or a friends tree if you weren't lucky enough to have apple trees). The best thing about coxes is that you shake them and if the rattle then you know they are ripe and perfect for eating. Russets are sort of more velvety skinned than most apples, and the flesh is somewhat drier than normal. THey need eating quickly, 6 weeks from picking to clearing teh apple bins.
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When I was a kid, we had lots of apple trees scattered around this town. Some good, some yucky. But we knew which ones to raid. When I started 7th grade (about age of 13) we moved to a house that had an apple tree in the back yard that had edible apples, and there was a nice apple tree standing lonely in the middle of the cow pasture at the top of the hill on our property behind the house. We were never short of apples. In fact, at the time, my father also owned about 80 acres of hilltop land 5 miles south of town where he'd planted thousands of Christmas tree seedlings in some of the pastures. But in one pasture was an old apple orchard. At the right time of the year mom would drag us up to the top of that hill (terribly rough, narrow, steep, dirt road to drive up) and we'd have to fill a stationwagon full of bushels of apples. The bushels of apples would then be taken to the next town south of us where there was an ancient cider press business. The building was unpainted wood like a small, ill-kept, two story barn. It was filled with ancient machinery. A big 10 or 12 foot cast iron wheel (driven by steam in the old days) with a wide long looping canvas belt that ran across guide pulleys near the ceiling and eventually turned the knives on the chopping machine and the screw on the pressing machine. The apples would be chopped and dumped onto burlap cloth which was then folded over the chunks, a wooden grate was placed on top, then another bag of chunks on that, and another wooden grate, etc., etc., etc. Finally when the pile of bags & grates was about 5 foot thick they'd be slid under the press and juicing would begin. leaves, stems, seeds, worms, all went into the juice that gushed into the wooden barrel under the press. The smell of the place was incredibly delightful. Sweet smell of apple fermentation. Sanitation was not a worry for the grizzled old man who ran the place since before the beginning of the world. The squeezed out mash was dumped in a big pile behind the building where it was surrounded by a haze of late summer bees and flies. I imagine that a lot of it eventually ended up as fertilizer for local crops.
That was some of the best cider I've ever had. What we didn't drink right away, we froze. But by mid-winter when we dug out a 2-quart cardboard milk carton of frozen cider out of the freezer, chances were about 20% that it had fermented even as ice and was bulging out the sides of the container. Even the kids were permitted a taste of the tangy cider but mostly that carton was reserved for the adults.
[End apple reminiscences]
Complaint: I see no apple trees around town anymore. And my parents are dead and they'd sold the Christmas tree and apple orchard decades ago. But that's OK, I've found Honeycrisp apples in the store.
Thank you! That worked. And I was able to save the promo images. Very weird, but all's well...
Dana
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Aye, for some things they really were the goold old days. We also had several PYO farms for soft fruit. Within reachable distance even though we didn't run a car, but easier if Uncle Len was willing to take us. Strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, red, white and blackcurrants. And then the fun part, picking them over, topping and tailing Mum called it, and huge saucpans of various jams cooking away. Some preserved in syrup whole. No home freezers really in those days, in fact at one time we didn't even have a fridge, but a meat safe in the larder and a dairy store, milk came in bottles everyday, and in hot weather was stored in a bowl of colwater standing on a marble slab in the larder. Big walk in larder, I don't knw why they ever di away with them. Held much more stuff and easier to get to than modern fitted kitchens. The only problem with the milk coming every day was that, until he updated his transport, you had to be careful of the milkman's horse, he was old and could be grumpy.
(end general reminiscences)
I have a walk in 'larder' in my kitchen. The village I grew up in was surrounded by strawberry fields, they are now houses or the golf course of a hotel.
[Begin strawberry reminiscences]
Wild strawberry shortcake. On that same 80 acre hilltop with the Christmas trees and abandoned apple orchard was acre and acre of wild strawberries that my mother saw fit to teach us the joys of bending over double for hours on end picking fruit about the size of an average pea one by one. But the taste of a freshly picked ripe wild strawberry made it difficult to put it into the basket instead of one's mouth. Progress in filling the basket was slow. Then after we'd picked 3 or 4 quarts my mother would gather her 20 quarts and we'd go back home and cut the greens from each individual berry, mash them up with a little sugar and make the most delicious topping for ice cream or homemade baking powder biscuits for strawberry shortcake. Mmmmm...
Also would freeze some of the berry slurry for shortcake later in the year.
[End strawberry reminiscences]
My parents owned a gas station/restaurant when I was a toddler (late 40s, early 50s) so they always had a freezer. Later when I was about 5 or 6, I remember them having to get one for the new house we moved to after they sold the restaurant. So we always had a freezer. They had that freezer for about 20 years with never a problem.
My mother also always had a garden. Tomatoes, corn, potatoes, beans, squash. We had a walk-in stone "fruit cellar" about 7 foot square lined on three sides with long, deep shelves from floor to 6 foot ceiling stocked with canned tomatoes, corn & beans. As well as canned venison and a canned ground vegetable/mayonaise "sandwich spread" that was a favorite in the house.
For some reason I somehow did not see three freebies in the store when I asked the store to sort it by lowest price.
Non-complaint: After recent refunds from returned orders, I had money burning a hole in my pocket. I've been trying to find something fortuitous to spend it on. A few weeks ago I complained about ordering 8GB of DDR2 RAM (two sticks of 4GB RAM) for my oldest useful computer to replace the 4GB it currently has and bring it up to the 8Gb max it can support. The first attempt at getting memory for that machine resulted in getting memory for an AMD CPU as opposed to my Intel CPU (yes, apparently at that time there was a real difference for some motherboards). When inserted, the motherboard "behaved badly" to say the least.
So I got permission to return it and went looking in the catalog again and learning more about DDR2 memory. But when I finally found the right type of memory the price was 6 times as expensive ($150 vs $25) from all sources I could locate. 
Reason: Supply and demand. Old, state of the art, low production numbers, high end memory. So I gave up.
But today I browsed through the NewEgg catalog and found a few new entries for exactly the right memory, made by a quality manufacturer. Apparently from a new source of unsold or reclaimed equipment. And it's on sale for $80.
So, considering that it's half of what it used to be from other sources, then it's worth another gamble. Yay! Money spent, pocket cooling.
Give it a few years and it'll be 80°F every day in January here on Long Island... of course you'll need a submarine or a boat to enjoy that.
I was born here in the hills of western NY State 1200 feet above the sea and lived here for 18 years. then I went to college on the east coast of Florida 10 feet above the sea and lived there for 18 years. Then I lived in Washington, DC where the lawn of the White House is 54 feet above the sea, for another 18 years. Then I returned to Florida east coast 10 feet above the sea for another 6 years. Then I retired back up here in the hills of western NY State 1200 feet above the sea. Perhaps it's the pessimist in me.
Or perhaps I'm just being cautious.
I found a phone that will work with my phone number if it was not for the cracked screen!
Since we are reminiscing about fruits... I'll take apples...
When I bought my house twenty something years ago, we had two apple trees in the back of the property... I'm not sure why they were way the hell in the back near the woods, but one was a "Red Delicious" variety and the other "Honeycrisp"... the red delicious died about ten years ago, after having been besieged by woodpeckers and squirrels for several years... the Honeycrisp is still around, but stopped producing apples a few years ago... also thanks to woodpeckers and squirrels... For the first few years we lived here we used to get bushels of apples from the trees... we'd give them away because there were so many and the ground would be littered with ones that I didn't get a chance to pick... actually it's kinda gross because the whole back of the yard would end up smelling like rotting apple wine... the tires on my tractor would get jammed up with apple guts to the point I'd be sliding around on rotten apples...
But the taste of the not rotten, fresh apples was awesome...
Incidentally, if you've never tried "Honeycrisp" apples, give one a try... they are delicious and for some reason they last really long in the fridge... they make great pies and desserts too.
...well, another one of "those days" again.
I need a few beers, or something stronger.
recent veggir memories
beet juice has a nasty after taste
but i down it anyhoo spposed to have vits for eyes
and why do organic carrots look different from the carrots in bags
the fresh organic not nearly plump like the bagged
cold weather needs the extra proofs
to warms