izonfire
4 years ago
I got some advice for ya…
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deadeyedick
4 years ago
Gents! Up and out for a hike in the mountain preserve.
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Ram27
4 years ago
Hello !
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Gene363
4 years ago
Good Sunday Morning! It's 57° and clear on the way to 75° today.
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MACS
4 years ago

Gents! Up and out for a hike in the mountain preserve.

deadeyedick wrote:



I was having a lot of fun hiking through the hills around here, and so was Tank. Then we found out about the stupid foxtail grass and now I don't want to take him places like that. Hell, that **** is even growing in the nature paths around the neighborhood!

Poor puppy dog 😞
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MACS
4 years ago
I think a trip to dog beach is in order...
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RMAN4443
4 years ago

I think a trip to dog beach is in order...

MACS wrote:


I took a trip to the dog beach once...man, those chicks wuz FUG-ly...😨
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Sunoverbeach
4 years ago
Does the foxtail stuff have a season, or is Tank gonna be restricted forever?
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rfenst
4 years ago
Waz up folks?

[rant on] Still nursing aching ribs with rx lidocaine patches, ant-inflammatory and a muscle relaxant. A little MMJ too.

Initial estimate on the crash repair, BEFORE tear-down, is over $13k, so it will probably end up being like $18k, which still isn't enough to make it a total loss.[ram27bat].

With all the structural and frame damage, it will never be safe enough for me again and I am trading it in to the dealer the day repairs are fully complete. I plan to give the dealer the damage photos and repair estimates and bills- so they can decide whether to just auction it off or sell it to someone stupid enough to buy it knowing everything.

Niece living with us got kicked out of prom last night after being caught smoking a nicotine vape in the restroom.
She spent $100s on her dress and her date both hired a limo and rented a beach house for the weekend through Monday, so maybe she can salvage things.

Franking idiot x 10. We are just about done with her. She's a good kid (we think/hope), whose absent father and useless mother have done NOTHING to help her in life, but helping her could just be too much as there are other major issues too.

Anyhow, my wife son and I are all on the same page and Monday will be her day of reckoning.

[rant off]
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Sunoverbeach
4 years ago
That sucks Robert. If it's in any way a consolation, high schoolers are very, very, really, truly, absolutely, stupid, generally speaking. Something about risk/reward area of the brain not fully developed. I think it was the 14-18ish years the wife and I were fully prepared to kill the boy. Mrs Beach may have just been venting. I was thinking through body disposal options. In the end we let him live, and he grew into a responsible young adult, and even apologized to us for the dark times.

I'm not excusing her behavior of courser. I'm just saying there's a decent chance of cranial rectal separation in the future. Both of you and the wife hang in there whichever way this plays out
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BuckyB93
4 years ago
Not to belittle the incident but it made me think of this oldy but goody (just trying to add some levity)



Or the Crue version back in the day when MTV was really MTV



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MACS
4 years ago

Does the foxtail stuff have a season, or is Tank gonna be restricted forever?

Sunoverbeach wrote:



When it's green it isn't too bad. When it dries up and releases the spores, no bueno. Either way, vet says you should really keep them away from it.

https://pets.webmd.com/dogs/foxtail-grass-and-your-dog 
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Whistlebritches
4 years ago

When it's green it isn't too bad. When it dries up and releases the spores, no bueno. Either way, vet says you should really keep them away from it.

https://pets.webmd.com/dogs/foxtail-grass-and-your-dog 

MACS wrote:




Beach is better anyway............BIKINIS
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8trackdisco
4 years ago

Beach is better anyway............BIKINIS

Whistlebritches wrote:



It is really tough finding a correctly fitting dog bikini.
Unless you want MACS to wear one. 😰
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BuckyB93
4 years ago
Ugh... just spent an hour and a half on the phone with my tech challenged parents to try to diagnose an emergency on why my mom's computer crashed.
- Is it plugged in?
- Does it give troubleshooting lights or beep codes?
- Is the monitor plugged in?

She's the treasurer of her church and has all the finances on her computer (but supposedly their accountant has copies too). During the discussion, we touched base on random discussions on this that and the other thing over the past week (my mom is never short of words).

I should have sent 8-track over to be my eyes and ears onsite. [whip]

After many attempts on troubleshooting over the phone, it looks like the power supply $hit the bed. Dad seemed to confirm this diagnosis. He's from the vacuum tube era but computers don't use vacuum tubes or (rarely) parts that can be replaced on the motherboard with a simple solder iron and a resistors, capacitors, transistors from Radio Shack. My dad can fix anything circa 1990. Now days in the digital world, not so much.

He had a super cool HAM shack in basement when I was a kid. Spent many hours down there screwing around with stuff that I shouldn't have been playing with... luckily survived with with only a handful of shocks soldering iron burns.

https://tinyurl.com/4y52tkjc 

Anyway, replacement computer ordered (check). Gonna do a laptop rather than a desktop so she can take it with her back and forth to church and the church reading room and stuff. Once delivered I'll purge it from all the crap that they preinstall and then send it back home.

Parents can be a pain. I was a pain as I kid and I owe them more than I can ever pay back.

In the spirit of Mark Twain quotes (edited and paraphrased):

When I was 18, my parents were so ignorant I could hardly stand to have them around. But when I got to be 24, I was astonished at how much they learned in six years.
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Gene363
4 years ago

Ugh... just spent an hour and a half on the phone with my tech challenged parents to try to diagnose an emergency on why my mom's computer crashed.
- Is it plugged in?
- Does it give troubleshooting lights or beep codes?
- Is the monitor plugged in?

She's the treasurer of her church and has all the finances on her computer (but supposedly their accountant has copies too). During the discussion, we touched base on random discussions on this that and the other thing over the past week (my mom is never short of words).

I should have sent 8-track over to be my eyes and ears onsite. [whip]

After many attempts on troubleshooting over the phone, it looks like the power supply $hit the bed. Dad seemed to confirm this diagnosis. He's from the vacuum tube era but doesn't have the any vacuum tubes that fit into the desktop. My dad can fix anything circa 1990.

Spent many hours in his HAM shack as a kid playing with stuff that I shouldn't have been playing with and luckily survived with with only a handful of shocks.

https://tinyurl.com/4y52tkjc 

Anyway, replacement computer ordered (check). Gonna do a laptop rather than a desktop so she can take it with her back and forth to church and the church reading room and stuff. Once delivered I'll purge it from all the crap that they preinstall and then send it back home.

Parents can be a pain. I was a pain as I kid and I owe them more than I can ever pay back.

In the spirit of Mark Twain quotes (edited and paraphrased):

When I was 18, my parents were so ignorant I could hardly stand to have them around. But when I got to be 24, I was astonished at how much they learned in six years.

BuckyB93 wrote:



I feel your pain. I set up a couple of computers for my Mother. The funniest call was after I installed Windows XP:

I had asked her not to just turn off the power strip and just bumping the power button did work instantly, hence the call.

Mom: "How do I turn off the computer?"

Me: "Click on the Start Menu."

Mom: "No, I want to turn the computer off, not on."

Me: "Sigh... Mom I didn't write Windows, the shutdown feature is on the Start Menu."

Mom: "Well that makes no sense at all."

Me: "Now that you mention it, it doesn't, but that is where you need to go."

Mom: "It's easier to just hit the power switch on the power strip."

Me: "Oh, please don't, XP does not like that"

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frankj1
4 years ago

It is really tough finding a correctly fitting dog bikini.
Unless you want MACS to wear one. 😰

8trackdisco wrote:


excellent.
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Whistlebritches
4 years ago

It is really tough finding a correctly fitting dog bikini.
Unless you want MACS to wear one. 😰

8trackdisco wrote:




I think it would be tough finding a correctly fitting MACS bikini..............plus eye bleach would be necessary,LOTS of eye bleach
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BuckyB93
4 years ago
Yeppers....

I'm trying to do it remotely over the phone and I can't see the other end. If it's a software thingy and I can do TeamViewer, it's a bit easier as long as they can get on the internet. Hardware issue... it's painful. Then there's Dad in the background adding his part of it.

Me: Let's start again... do you have it plugged in? Is the power strip on?.... is the monitor connected?
Her: I think so, but there are so many cables behind the desk.
Me: Follow the cable to the power strip from the computer.
Her: There are 2.
Me: 2?
Her: Yeah, computer and the TV.
Me: You don't have a TV in your home office.
Her: The TV that is connects to the computer.
Me: ... no Mom... it's the monitor but we'll call it a TV for now. Is the TV connected to the computer.
Her: Yes in the HOM1 connection.
Me: sigh you mean HDMI.
Her: OK, I don't have my glasses on, I also have some stuff connected to the U5D.
Me: Uhg... USB that's totally different than... fug... Let's go back to the start...

This is what I feel like... fast forward to about the 1:00 mark of this Fawlty Towers skit



"I could spend the rest of my life having this conversion... Please, please try to understand before one of us dies..."

Fore Tree NINE!
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BuckyB93
4 years ago

I feel your pain. I set up a couple of computers for my Mother. The funniest call was after I installed Windows XP:

I had asked her not to just turn off the power strip and just bumping the power button did work instantly, hence the call.

Mom: "How do I turn off the computer?"

Me: "Click on the Start Menu."

Mom: "No, I want to turn the computer off, not on."

Me: "Sigh... Mom I didn't write Windows, the shutdown feature is on the Start Menu."

Mom: "Well that makes no sense at all."

Me: "Now that you mention it, it doesn't, but that is where you need to go."

Mom: "It's easier to just hit the power switch on the power strip."

Me: "Oh, please don't, XP does not like that"

Gene363 wrote:



Yeppers....

I'm trying to do it remotely over the phone and I can't see the other end. If it's a software thingy and I can do TeamViewer, it's a bit easier as long as they can get on the internet. Hardware issue... it's painful. Then there's Dad in the background adding his part of it.

Me: Let's start again... do you have it plugged in? Is the power strip on?.... is the monitor connected?
Her: I think so, but there are so many cables behind the desk.
Me: Follow the cable to the power strip from the computer.
Her: There are 2.
Me: 2?
Her: Yeah, computer and the TV.
Me: You don't have a TV in your home office.
Her: The TV that is connects to the computer.
Me: ... no Mom... it's the monitor but we'll call it a TV for now. Is the TV connected to the computer.
Her: Yes in the HOM1 connection.
Me: sigh you mean HDMI.
Her: OK, I don't have my glasses on, I also have some stuff connected to the U5D.
Me: Uhg... USB that's totally different than... fug... Let's go back to the start...

This is what I feel like... fast forward to about the 1:00 mark of this Fawlty Towers skit



"I could spend the rest of my life having this conversion... Please, please try to understand before one of us dies..."
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