Just booked our 25th anniversary cruise. It was more money than I'm used to spending, but my love is worth it.
We don't leave until late July. Anticipation...
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Just booked our 25th anniversary cruise. It was more money than I'm used to spending, but my love is worth it.
We don't leave until late July. Anticipation...
<injects Kokomo in your head> You are welcome. :) Oh, and have fun on your cruise!Quote:
Originally Posted by Winston
I dual boot Linux Mint and Windows 10. I mostly live in Mint and boot 10 for things I need. But when I would, I'd often be greeted by a black screen with spinning dots that my friend Amie called "spinning anal beads" (which phrase I adopted). They look like this:
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only spinning. And it would be stuck there ... until I turned off my computer. And then it would stick there again. Until I let it stick there for a half hour or so and made sure the hard drive light was off and turned off the computer. Then turned it back on. The problem is, I only booted Windows when I needed it so this delay would be a total pain.
I looked it up and it was because I'd upgraded to the Anniversary Upgrade. Well, okay. I backed up my stuff and tried to roll back--it wouldn't let me. So I opened Internet Explorer and got into chat with a Microsoft support specialist and asked how to roll t back. I was given a link and told to Run it and it would be Win10 without the upgrade. After an hour, it said that it would install Windows 10 and "keep nothing" (it had the option of keeping everything, keeping personal files and settings, or nothing, but only nothing was available to choose). I'd backed up, so I accepted the terms and said Yes.
After another hour, I had a new Windows 10. Unfortunately, it couldn't read my backup on the D: drive. (This isn't all horrible--I have my Documents folder on that drive.) I also keep my *stuff* either on that drive or on the cloud because that way I can access it from either Mint or Windows. But I had/have to reinstall *lots* of software. Starting with Google Chrome.
I've been installing every little thing I need to be comfy. I probably lost something I'd wanted to keep, but dunno what yet. Stuff in the Downloads folder for sure. Configs for programs.
Dropped a 70lb rock on my leg right above the knee. It bounced and broke on the ground. Had to walk, climb down the hillside trying not to bend too much. 24hrs later and it feels a lot better. Was reading about athletes pumping clots from deep bruising into their brains. Think I'll give it a few days to grow back the pipes.
Just back from ski trip up north (Michigan). Afternoon temps 50F; turned to slush, but had good time with granddaughters. Preparing for annual trip to Breckenridge, CO. Hope the snow holds there. I never could water ski. ha
Had a woman phone in twice about help with placing an online order through another book dealer.Both times she was informed, no we cannot help her with that. Offered to order the book for her. Nope. Apparently we needed to order the book for her through a secondary seller and walk her through the process, so it got done correctly. Again, we told her, we can't do that as it is not our store or site. You want our time and service...We're happy to help, but when what the customer wants is not our job, we have a right to say, 'I'm sorry, but we cannot do that.' I hate entitlement...:uncomfortableness: People like this really can ruin your day.
My latest batch of beer bottle conditioned well. I'll have to remember that recipe.
Our chickens have started laying eggs again. Pretty early in the year. I suppose they don't want to be roasters yet.
Took the boy to the rifle range. He's still flinching a bit on our larger calibers, but does fine with the smaller boom sticks. That's why we practice.
Woke up this morning thinking it was Sunday. The day is almost over, but my brain is convinced tomorrow is Monday. Not sure how I lost an entire day.
It's not even a full moon, so the only explanation I can come up with to account for the unprecidented weirdness for today is the rain. Generally this time of year we have three feet of snow and it is usually well below zero. Today it was 60 degrees fahrenheit and we've had lines of thunderstorms rolling through. The only plausible possibility for today is that all that rain and melt water flushed the troglobites from their burrows, driving them to the surface weeks ahead of schedule. All in all I'm glad the day is done. Hopefully tomorrow will be a little less bizarre. On a brighter note, I didn't stab anyone with a pen...And our in-store customers were all right. It was just one wonky phone call after another.
Kind of the same as usual. Listened to people's problems, but powerless to do anything about them.
You can only do so much, before it becomes prying.