I watched cooking YouTube videos today. I need to hone my skills.
What I did today -instead- of Rocketry.
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Gardening and more gardening. Trying to get an upper hand on weed control by laying down sheet mulch. In the process, I found some mushrooms growing and thought I'd give it a go to identify them - my first try ever. I think they're Agrocybe Pediades (90% sure). I feel like I need a mushroom mentor or someone with very good knowledge to verify my identification before even thinking about consuming any edible mushrooms I may find foraging.
I baked some bread today. Made it from scratch. King of loafing around. 
Yes! Absolutely!
Many times people have eaten wild "mushrooms" and poisoned themselves.
Stay safe.
I baked some bread today. Made it from scratch. King of loafing around.
Yesterday you're watching youtube cooking videos, today you're baking bread from scratch, tomorrow...... michelin star chef!?
dr wogz
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James, Greg, Greg, you remind me of the brother from the movie "Don't tell mom the babysitter is dead"
starting running cables after replacing the sagging desktop in my ham radio closet. I've got lots of wires to manage.
Check with you county ag outreach. They'll know.
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Checked my Sugar Daddy sugar snap peas, every one has sprouted (one row of about 20 feet)! I just hope it's not too warm for them by late April or May, they're a cool-weather plant.
Nytrunner
Pop lugs, not drugs
Came home from dinner at girlfriend's place around 7:30. Odd chlorine/damp smell, and a squishy hall closet towards the rear of apartment.
Turns out a contractor busted a pipe in the upstairs unit. Girlfriend came over and helped me move stuff and assess damage. Thankfully nothing got soaked except bathroom towels, my passport, and the carpet. Considering the amount of rockets and electronic stuff in my livingroom, im happy.
A carpet cleaner came to get rid of the floor water this evening and said the apartment should be looking into the sheetrock and ceilings (they better, mold is not what i need recovering from the flu)
(Yes thats a light fixture full of water....)
Turns out a contractor busted a pipe in the upstairs unit. Girlfriend came over and helped me move stuff and assess damage. Thankfully nothing got soaked except bathroom towels, my passport, and the carpet. Considering the amount of rockets and electronic stuff in my livingroom, im happy.
A carpet cleaner came to get rid of the floor water this evening and said the apartment should be looking into the sheetrock and ceilings (they better, mold is not what i need recovering from the flu)
(Yes thats a light fixture full of water....)
Nytrunner, keep aware for bad smells, as mold could still develop despite the actions described. In or under the carpet, for instance, since there's only so dry a carpet cleaning machine can get it, and water had time to soak all the way down and into the subfloor.
Nytrunner
Pop lugs, not drugs
Yep, my nose will be peeled when I get home, that's for sure
Listened to the ritzenfratzen <unprintable> son of a ruptured <deleted> landline ring every 2-10 minutes. She Who Must Be Obeyed is working from home, which means that calls to the Land Between the Lakes Welcome Center are routed to our phone from 9-5. If this continues for much longer I am going to remove that phone, take it outside, and shoot it dead with a Walther PPQ M2 9mm. Seventeen shots ought to do it.
Best -- Terry
Best -- Terry
Nytrunner
Pop lugs, not drugs
I bet she got a lot of calls when they shut down the bridge across the lakes those times last year....
KY dot messed up when they didn't put a sign Before the East bridge saying that the West bridge was closed.....
How do you like your PPQ Terry? I've been eyeing one of those for a while now but haven't had a chance to try one yet.
The PPQ M2 has the nicest DAO trigger I've tried yet, though I've only tried a few. Trigger pull is low for a DAO and seems pretty smooth. Got mine from https://www.cdnnsports.com/; none of the gun shops I went to could come within $150 of their price, even with a $25 FFL charge. The magazines are expensive, though.
SeanW78
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I had to do that a few years back. Took off the doors, shortened the frame with new tenons cut where necessary. It still houses cook books, just without doors now.
Bookshelf for cook books is a great idea! Right now, I put those long aluminum foil rolls that don't fit in a drawer and a bottle of crown royal for meat tenderizing.
Thought about something: if I'd just taught for a few more years, I could have gotten half a semester off, paid.
Yes, I know it's evil. Disrespectful. That didn't stop the thought from occurring.
Best -- Terry
Yes, I know it's evil. Disrespectful. That didn't stop the thought from occurring.
Best -- Terry
Thought about something: if I'd just taught for a few more years, I could have gotten half a semester off, paid.
Yes, I know it's evil. Disrespectful. That didn't stop the thought from occurring.
Best -- Terry
You can’t be held responsible for what you think, only what you do...I have to believe this, because it is DARK in there.
In my experience, everything in a kitchen eventually gets a thin, sticky film of dust impregnated grease. Counters, range tops, etc. can be cleaned, but this will really mess up the spines of your cook books if you don't have them covered.
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The critical need sensor on my PowerMac tripped when the "How do I teach a lab through Zoom?!?" messages started filling up my inbox. I am able to get to the web just fine, but anything that needs to call home to prove that I am not a software pirate (do they even still call it that?) is throwing this kind of error at me. Of course all of the customer support folks at Apple and Adobe and Autodesk and Wacom are working from home, so they have to clear this kind of crap off their own systems before they can worry about fixing whatever broken thing is hidden in ~/library/frameworks/plugins/fragments/incompatible/whyistherejavaallthewaydownhere/undecipherable
I've been limping with the machine for a while -- the applications folder keeps bloating up with tmp files and I've got work related files scattered across 5 internal drives. I just took the bubble wrap off a new-to-me trashcan PowerMac (surplussed from an office that decided to fire half its staff so that it could afford to reëquip the survivors with 2020 cheese-grater Power Macs).
If somebody on the forum knows what I need to fix, I'll take it -- but I am really just moaning while the progress bar crawls (currently 268.85GB of 514.88GB, with "about 2 hours" to go). Rather than try to fix all of the stuff that is wrong on this machine, I am doing a fresh install of all of the applications I will need to teach remotely -- and keep myself from going completely bug-fsck -- on the Trashcan.
But that still means making back-ups of all the content that will move to external drives -- since the Trashcan only has the one. Some of the stuff I do produces stupid-huge files. I think I may end paying more for Thunderbolt2 cables and TB2-to-something adapters than I paid for the Mac.
Cue the "I have a Windows machine and I never have any issues..." yeah, well, you probably aren't dealing with the detritus of 15 years of lazy Migration Assistant and Carbon Copy Cloner transfers and a workflow that uses all of these...
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Charles_McG
Ciderwright
Disgorged almost 300 bottles of
Pear champagne.
Pear champagne.
I'm gonna have to raise an objection right here. You're calling everything "PowerMacs". That has me very confused.
Is the machine you're having trouble with actually a genuine PowerMac? If so it is oooooooold and I could understand the problems. You'll be much better off transitioning to the trashcan Mac Pro.
tOD
Sinking in the quicksand of HPR
Went to work. Night shift.
heada
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Planted morning glory seeds all along my fence-line.
o1d_dude
'I battle gravity'
I didn’t accomplish anything rocketry that I had planned for today.
Noticed this morning the calendar said I was due for a blood draw so I called the clinic and asked if they ~really~ wanted to see me under the Wuhan Virus restrictions. They said yes.
Drove out to the clinic, was screened by staff at the door and directed to use sanitizer before entering the facility.
Saw one patient sitting in the waiting area wearing a mask but none of the medical staff were wearing masks(???).
After a side trip to check if the Hobby Lobby and Sam’s Club were open I returned home. In the garage I disrobed and dropped all of my clothing into the washer and took a shower. You can see I didn’t think that through as midway through my shower the washing machine tapped the hot water heater for a cycle. BRRRR!!
When all was said and done, I’m just finishing up my dinner as I post this, and have done nothing rocketry related.
Extreme precautions yes but necessary as Mrs. OD is on an immune suppressor so I do what I must to minimize her exposure to the virus. Delivered packages sit outside in the garage over night, along with incoming mail. Everything gets wiped down with sanitizing wipes and/or sprayed with disinfectant. These precautions are nothing new for us. Checked with my kids and they are doing the same thing in their homes...and all are working from home.
It looks like Mrs. OD will be unable to refill her Plaquinel (hydroxycoquine) any time soon due to a shortage because the medication is being directed to virus treatments. Looks the medical profession has already decided the stuff really does cure the virus.
In “The Outlaw Josey Wales, Chief Dan George (the Cherokee Lone Watie) told Clint Eastwood “The Great White Father told the Cherokee tribe to ‘Endeavor to persevere.’”
Yup. Endeavor to persevere.
Noticed this morning the calendar said I was due for a blood draw so I called the clinic and asked if they ~really~ wanted to see me under the Wuhan Virus restrictions. They said yes.
Drove out to the clinic, was screened by staff at the door and directed to use sanitizer before entering the facility.
Saw one patient sitting in the waiting area wearing a mask but none of the medical staff were wearing masks(???).
After a side trip to check if the Hobby Lobby and Sam’s Club were open I returned home. In the garage I disrobed and dropped all of my clothing into the washer and took a shower. You can see I didn’t think that through as midway through my shower the washing machine tapped the hot water heater for a cycle. BRRRR!!
When all was said and done, I’m just finishing up my dinner as I post this, and have done nothing rocketry related.
Extreme precautions yes but necessary as Mrs. OD is on an immune suppressor so I do what I must to minimize her exposure to the virus. Delivered packages sit outside in the garage over night, along with incoming mail. Everything gets wiped down with sanitizing wipes and/or sprayed with disinfectant. These precautions are nothing new for us. Checked with my kids and they are doing the same thing in their homes...and all are working from home.
It looks like Mrs. OD will be unable to refill her Plaquinel (hydroxycoquine) any time soon due to a shortage because the medication is being directed to virus treatments. Looks the medical profession has already decided the stuff really does cure the virus.
In “The Outlaw Josey Wales, Chief Dan George (the Cherokee Lone Watie) told Clint Eastwood “The Great White Father told the Cherokee tribe to ‘Endeavor to persevere.’”
Yup. Endeavor to persevere.
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>smile< quite correct. I am migrating from a 6 core cheese-grater Mac Pro to a 12 Core cylinder Mac Pro ... but I come by my antiquated affectations honestly.
See if you can spot the ADB keyboard.
Hidden behind the table, just about in line with the trashcan, are two Desktop Beige G3s. One of them has a Wired4DVD card installed. It lived under my TV for a while at the end of the last century. The beige G3 tower obscured by the tangle of cords out of the power strip (that can't be safe) was my first real video work-station (an upgrade from a Performa 638). Its got 768MB of RAM, a 720MB Ultra320 SCSI RAID array, Voodoo5 video card (on top of the Apple AV personality card), Orangemicro Firewire 400 + USB card, and an XLR8 500MHz G4 processor upgrade. I pulled the zip drive out to install a 750MB hard drive. I think I might also have upgraded to a CD-R drive. Attached to a pair of 23 inch 0.23mm dot-pitch Hitachi CRTs..lights dimmed all over the neighborhood when I powered it on.
That bottle of iKlear was part of the "accessory kit" that came with my White G3 iBook (purchased new and which is near the bottom of a stack of iBooks and MacBooks just out of the top of the frame). The bottle is still about 80% full.
