Jim Morrison Is God - A Love Her Madly MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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DogButler - I actually have a spare 300 gig drive that I’m planning on buying an enclosure for (if I can find an IDE-to-eSATA enclosure for a decent price) that I will probably use in part as a ghost drive for my boot partition and schedule monthly backups of said drive. I’m the worst person in the known universe for doing backups, though I’ve gotten a tad better in backing up certain easily-backed up folders (like the My Documents folder, which has eleventy billion digital camera pics and background images and stuff on it) and downloaded files, but my boot partition has yet to see a real honest-to-Og backup of any automated sort. (I backup manually the vitally important bits when I’m doing a complete reinstall such as when I upgrade, but that’s it, and that’s only because I can’t upgrade without doing so.)

What I’m actually thinking about doing is RMAing my current 500GB drive after I buy a new one this weekend and then, when the RMA comes back, running both 500GB drives in RAID 0+1. Speed and instant backup. :slight_smile:

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Just waving in frustration at my crappy day!

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Our electricity went out about fifteen minutes ago. Before it came back on, second-in-command suggested that perhaps the boss hadn’t paid his electric bill. It did come back on, though, so maybe it wasn’t that. Luckily the template of my spreadsheet was saved before the outage, and I hadn’t done much work on it yet, so little was lost and nothing irretrievably. It was a bit of a surprise when all the lights went out, though.

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Mindfield, I do not have the faintest idea what you are talking about.

No news from Rosie yet?

Nava, sounds like you could just breeze your way to another master’s; I say go for it!

Something seems to be wrong with all the house phones - they’re not working. Not a good thing when I’m hoping to get a call about a job.

Taxi, I’m jealous. I love to ride but have never taken lessons; my uncles pretty much threw me up there and away I went. I read so much about horses I was able to do pretty well and didn’t have a bad seat at all for someone who never had any training. We saw a beautiful black mare a few weeks ago - really big and sweet, but with badly overgrown hooves. Why do people keep animals and not properly care for them?

Gwen is still with us; she just scarfed down a half can of kitten food and purred while she was eating. Now she is back in her basket having an after-breakfast wash and still purring. So I don’t think she is miserable.

More laundry today and I need to go through some more yard sale stuff.

Have a great day, everyone!

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Boy, howdy, do we need rain. My sister’s house sits on the end of a penninsula in the middle of what used to be a lake but now looks more like a prarrie.

Billing hell is over for the month. I was only two days late. :rolleyes:

mindi, you sure you don’t just secretly love a challenge? :wink:

swamps, I think you’re on to something. How bout a landscaping bidness? :smiley:

{{{mbg}}} What’s buggin’ you guy?

I took riding lessons back when I was in my 20s. It was fun. Don’t think I’d drive an hour for the pleasure, though, taxi.

Mucho work to catch up on.

Tupug

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I lurk here. I swear. I don’t know why I don’t post much. But I have to today.

I GOT A JOB! Mind you, it’s going to be very much part-time, but it’ll be some money coming in, and it should be tons of fun. Washing dogs! I think I’d like to learn to groom them, and this seems like a great way to find out whether I actually do want to work with them (I can’t imagine I’d change my mind on that) and how well I can do it. It’s at a great place, you can either wash your dog yourself or pay us to do it, and it’s also a coffee shop, so you can hang out and drink coffee while we wash…or just come in and hang out with your dog and drink coffee and not get said critter washed. It’s right next to a local dog beach, which is a downright inspired location, and it’s getting warm enough that there’s going to be a ton of customers.

Dogs! Coffee! Dog people! A paycheck! Perfect!

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EEEEEEWWWWWW! Burning tires are almost impossible to put out.

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Hi all, I am only half here, mentally, emotionally and physically. The last two weeks have been marrige hell, although we have decided to give it another try. Seventeen years is a long time to just walk away from, although compromises must be made. Of course, the stress has caused another flare, yipee skipee. My TMI contribution for the week is that no matter how much Maloxx I take, I am still spending a large amount of time in the bathroom. Fortunately I keep a book in there, lol!

I began my big ass post, but it is turning into a story that may be too long for the MMP. I will let you all know that today, at 6:00 am eighteen years ago I arrived in Kodiak, in weather very similar to this morning. Overcast, chilly and rainy. When I left Seattle on April 18th it was hot, flowers were blooming, and the further north I traveled the more the season retreated into late winter.

The last few photos I posted were my rhubarb sprouting, I will try to get back outside after the kids get home to take new photos. Once Breakup is in full swing things happen fast. I have some tulips up about five inches, bit only in one bed. I am hoping the other bed is just being slow, I planted just over two hundred bulbs in each bed and will be sad if one bed doesn’t bloom. Also my wild iris and my trolius are up and growing, and the dianthus is showing new green as well.

Rain, who needs rain? We have had so much heavy rain that yesterday a deck broke off a house and slid downhill, crushing a pickumup truck on the street below. Winds to match as well. It has been a very long, cold winter here, and I am so looking forward to Spring/Summer.

I need to pay bills now, I offer my appropriate sympathies to all, and will do my best to be more regular (ha!) this week.

TTFN!

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Oooh, we have a lurker–it’s like being stalked, but with less peeping through the windows at night! :smiley: Hello, whiterabbit, and congratulations on the job! Dogs are wonderful creatures (most of them, anyway), that’s awesome that you get to work with them. :slight_smile:

Speaking of lurkers–I’m still here, I swear. shifty eyes My excuse? Exams are eating up my free time. Just took the dreaded Logic exam this morning; it’s worth 30% of my grade for the semester, and I completely fudged all but one of the proof constructions. I might as well have written, “… and so, (~A v C) * ~R because Ra made us that way!” But hey, only two finals to go, after that I am free… to go get a summer job, that is. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Snakes - Not to worry. It all boils down to: Hard drive go cough, wheeze. Need to buy new hard drive. Put one on reserve. Copy everything on old hard drive to new hard drive. Send piece of crap back to Seagate for RMA, possibly with love note doused in tear gas. You know, technological circle of life stuff. :smiley:

Puggy - Oh, I love a challenge in topics I like, but there is a very fine line to walk between “challenge” and “die you accursed piece of electronic toe jam and burn in the fiery pits of Fred Phelps’ underarms!”

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{{{kaiwik}}}

LapinBlanc, congrats on the job; and that is indeed an inspired location for a dog grooming place. A wee bit of advice; if you apprentice with a groomer and decide you like it. set up a mobile grooming business. A friend of mine works out of a van fitted with water tanks and plugs into the customers electric; she makes a wonderful living and sets her own schedule. I was reading in another thread where a Doper was on waiting lists for three mobile groomers.

I don’t know what is going on in here, but I am receiving much kitty luv. Spock is about to head-butt my arm off; it’s unusual that he hoists his lardbutt up on the desk.

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So you all remember that Charlie Brown television special where he and Linus are looking up at the clouds, and telling what they see? Linus says he sees St. Stephen the martyr being stoned to death and, I think, the Creation of Adam from the Sistene Chapel. Or something like that. He turns to Charlie Brown and asks, “what do you see, Charlie Brown?” And Charlie Brown says, “I was going to say I saw a bunny and a horsie, but I changed my mind.”

This is what I was thinking after reading Mindfield’s post about his computer wrangling. I was going to say, “I was rebooting my work’s email server and it bwoke,” but, I changed my mind.

Why, Ellen, you ask, were you rebooting something as complex and foreign as a SERVER, when in the normal course of events you are a mild-mannered writer of promotional literature and former news/documentary scriptwriter? HUH? Well, in addtion to the aforesaid mild-mannered writer, I am also married to our network administrator, who was home flat on his back with the most gawdawful croupy disgusting POOR BABY cough and fever you can imagine. So I was doing his rebooting duties for him, in the absence of HIS boss, who normally takes care of All Things Email … but HE … HE …

…HE was home flat on HIS back with a broken foot and/or leg. I haven’t quite heard the complete truthful telling of it. Over the weekend he met with a hideous glider accident which (apparently) broke bones in two places, one of which resulted in a quarter-inch gap in said bones. :eek: Yipe is right. And the funny thing is …

… when Husband told me of the freak glider accident Sunday both he and I pictured some sort of model airplane disaster, so THAT’s what I told all over the building yesterday. He’d had a run-in of some sort with a MODEL AIRPLANE the likes of which no one could imagine, he being the sort of man not inclined to frolic in the back yard with toys of a spring afternoon. So I was gettinga lot of mileage out of THAT yesterday, only to find out TODAY that the glider in question is one of those porch swing thingies … like a love seat with springs and stuff that makes it swing kinda like a porch swing, but not attaching to the roof or anything.

So … since I’m married to the only OTHER computer person in the building, and HE’s out with the aforementioned nasty croupy coughing crud, it’s up to me to FURTHER tell it around the building that no, it wasn’t a model airplace it was a swing and lord knows how he managed that, etc., etc.

It made for a fun morning, and if it doesn’t sound like lot of work got done, you’re right … what with the whoopin’ and hollerin’ and no email and stuff.

Poor hub had to come in to work anyway, when it turns out I didn’t break the server after all – it was dying last night and my reboot attempt had nothing to do with it whatsoever. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. The last I saw, one of the computer guys on the web team had this ancient Mac cracked open and guts were being moved from one Ancient Mac to another, and lo and behold, 20 minutes later we had email once more.

And I saw a horsie and a bunny, too. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Morning, or afternoon, or whatever it is, everyone. I dunno. My life is turning into a series of short-term deadlines. I finished up this morning’s deadline on time (i.e. by noon); now I have two more deadlines for tomorrow, one I should have done by noon and one due by COB. I’m starting to think I should chuck it and go join Lapin Blanc in her dogwashing job. :smiley:

Fortunately, we had a front go through this morning so even though we didn’t have any rain, the humidity is way up so my joints are feeling happier. So we shall see. I do need to start bringing in a more normal income, however, and working is the only way I know to do it since I am, alas, not independently wealthy. Yet. Maybe Papa Tigs will solve that problem this weekend and hit a Big One when he goes to make $$ from his free $100 in house money. It’s a nice idea, anyway, isn’t it?

My nose is now just red, not a scabbed-over mess. I may be able to face the world in another day or two. Fortunately, I have no need to go anywhere. Except back to work. Which I will, as soon as I say I hope Rosie is feeling happy because of being well-drugged right now, and that Nava doesn’t let the family/job/health drive her totally crazy, and that Kai sorts out her marriage hell, and that Swampy finds a great job, and assorted other good wishes/thoughts/back pats/technological miracles/kicks in the behind, as needed!

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Yes please. I am currently reading three books, all of which were purchased at least 4 months ago, and since then at least another dozen or so books have been added to my collection of books waiting to be read.

I took the GRE this weekend and since I took it at a computerized testing center I got my non-writing scores back right away. I did about what I expected for verbal, but my quantitative score was a lot lower than I wanted.

V - 640 (91[sup]st[/sup] percentile)
Q - 690 (68[sup]th[/sup] percentile :frowning: )

I am thinking that I might retake it next month to see if I can’t bump those scores up a bit.

My new computer parts are supposed to be delivered tomorrow, finally after three years I will actually have an up-to-date computer (I have had a 500Gb SATA drive sitting around for six months that I can’t use because my computer is too old to be able to handle SATA). Of course I am going to be gone tomorrow, but the parts will be waiting for me on Thursday.

Speaking of things going on this week, Meli’s birthday is this Friday. Hmm, it just occured to me that I have nothing to wrap her present with, and I am giving it to her tomorrow… I’ll have to figure something out.

If it makes you feel any better in the course of the last two computers I have built for myself (5 and 3 years ago) I have had to RMA 12 motherboards, two video cards, a hard drive, and a processor. I have never experienced QC any higher than the level you are getting now… and now I am not quite so excited about my new parts coming in tomorrow.

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Dangit, Ali, you weren’t supposed to mention that! Now someone is bound to ask how old I will be, and I’m going to have to give it, and then I will again feel very age-slash-wisdom-challenged compared to the rest of the posters here. And wait… why am I getting the present on Wednesday when I’ll see you on Friday anyway? :stuck_out_tongue:

And it sounds like a lot of MMP-ers are in need of hugs or something to help ease their frustrations as of late. I bet there’s many more in need of some comfort who may not have posted about it, so… {{{hugs to all}}} And Ellen, that’s got to be such an aggravating situation to be in, but you have to admit, it makes for a great story. :wink:

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kai, prayers headed out. Lots of hugs, too.
OtherQuasiDaughter might be coming for a couple of days next week. That would be fun. They’re moving halfway across the country, and they don’t actually have an apartment yet, because they’re not sure where she’s going to be working. I would be in hysterical tears, but she seems pretty okay.
What do I want for lunch? Pizza, pulled pork, quesadillas, fritatta, or shepherd’s pie?

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We’ve spent the last couple weeks, scratch that - month or so here - having union issues, with their contract negotiations. One of the very real possibilities is that I’d be told to get a bid out and contract the whole deal and essentially put 150 people on the streets.

Not something I’d look forward to, but if it’s my job and the Powers That Be say to do it, I do, right? So I spent most of the last couple weeks getting a bid document letter-perfect, psyching some of the staff for the possibility and pre-warning some contractors for the possibility of a somewhat late in the bid season bid coming out.

Last night the board told us, no bid, find a way to settle with the union. Which, I have to say will be damn near impossible with some of the positions they’re taking. We might have to accept a BS-laden contract for a year before being able to either put the clamps on them for a real contract, or dump their stupid union. The fact is that their union does little for them, and all that’ll happen is most of them go to work for whatever private company comes in for me to oversee, at about $3/hour less.

What’s bugging me somewhat is that I’ve been busting my tail for the last couple weeks, ignoring things I could have been doing -all for something that turns into a “never mind”.

Grr.

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Good thoughts headed out for Nava’s nephew.

And for **Kai **and your husband. It sounds like you’ve made it through rough patches before (You got divorced and remarried, right? Or am I confusing you with someone else?); you can make it. We’re here to listen.

Ellen, I thought glider as in hang glider. Of all the options, I think that’s the one most in line with a bad broken leg/foot!

Good luck with the new job, pale bunny! I like the suggestion of a mobile grooming station. And if you want even more business, how about a mobile health station… meaning that you’d go to people’s houses and give their pets (cats in my case!) pills? I would probably pay a LOT to have someone else deal with forcing pills down my cat’s throat! You could make a killing. Or end up with lots of scratches and bite marks.

I really miss riding. I was never very good at it, and I don’t intend to compete, but I do want to have a horse someday so it’d be good to know how to ride well. So hopefully it won’t actually take me an hour to get to the farm. I have no idea… it’s outside of the 494/964 loop that goes around the Cities which means it might as well be in North Dakota. I don’t get out “to the country” much. But I do know it gets pretty countri-fied quite quickly as one heads west from here so it may not be too far… the directions are a little hazy. We’ll see. I’ll report back tomorrow if I don’t get lost in the corn fields!

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MBG that well and truly sucks. So, to TPTB I say, :p. That’ll show 'em!

kai sorry you’re goin’ through so much. I’ll keep ya in my thoughts and prayers.

Ok, I was gonna mow just two lawns, but I mowed four instead. They’re small and once I was at it, well, just seemed to make sense. I have mine plus one other to mow but those probably won’t happen til Thursday.

Supper tonight is cubed steak and gravy, green beans, creamed corn, garlic smashed N.O.T. and biscuits. I’m feelin’ all countrified. :smiley: Heck, I might even make a peach cobbler just cause.

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Simple, I’m impatient. You’re not actually complaining, are you?

Dinner tonight. . . Left over pizza and PBJ.

I really need to learn how to cook. I keep meaning to, but for some reason I never get around to it.