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Ever upward, my ass.... STILL haven't been able to download my Excelsior Pass. On walkies this morning, I tried and failed to email the state's support desk for it, and wound up talking to someone on their 800 line who had about the technical expertise as the dog. Pepper literally pooped while I was on the phone with her, and I feel she accomplished more on her end than I did on mine. They're supposed to get back with a "solution." It does not involve my breath being held.
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Me, I'm just a lawnmower, you can tell me by the way I walk.... Before heading out with the dog this morning, Eleanor asked if I had any problem with her putting off the lawnmower repair we began two weekends ago. It's been confounding her at the same time the bathroom tile replacement has been doing the same, along with her impending deadline for picking a Medigap package, and the refi closing next week, and the older kitty who's maybe sick or maybe just pissed about the kittehzes annoying her and....
Don't worry about the lawnmower, Eleanor.
On the other hand, I kinda did have to worry about the lawn. I managed to get a first cut of the front yard two weekends ago right before we began the Case of the 200 Parts, but the bigger backyard, with generally more sun and thus higher grass, was fast turning into the Black Lagoon back there and I didn't want to wreck the new improved mower by trying to cut too-tall grass once it did get fixed. So I asked a kind neighbor if I could gas up and borrow his. Well, he rents, and their landlord uses a lawn service, but there's an old one in his shed he hasn't touched in ages we were welcome to try using it. Didn't he bring it over to our garage door without even being asked?
And as old beasts go, it looked to be in pretty good shape. I tossed a gas can in my trunk (empty for at least eight years after we replaced our last gas jobbie with a reel mower and now the electric under construction) and came home at lunch to try to start'er'up. It did! And promptly shut back down. I'd checked the oil, and it was a bit too low and inky black, so I grabbed a bottle of 30-weight on my second ride home and this time, PUTTPUTTPUTTPUTTROARRRRR! I got about half the back done before it ran out of gas- I'd only filled it partway in case it wouldn't start at all- and got the rest done on the remaining petrol I then poured in. Only problem? Bloody thing wouldn't shut off. Like most mowers of recent vintage, this one has a "deadman's control" which requires a swinging handle to engage to start the thing and is supposed to stop it when you release it. Didn't work. Gets good mileage, too, because I couldn't get it to just run out of gas again. It took disconnecting the spark plug to turn it off after I was done.
We owe Glenn a serious solid for helping out. A gift card at a minimum, and maybe taking it to be tuned up before returning it to him- or doing it for us, since I may just buy it if he has no use for it. So what if I'll then have two; at least it isn't a riding mower, which some duffers younger than us with smaller yards are out on around here. And I promise I won't yell at anyone to get off my lawn;)
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-I think you ought to know I'm feeling very deprecated. I did some homework on the cause of last night's Hate List inclusion of Bill's mortal enemy Steve Jobs. Turns out they are both in on making my life completely obsolete. The best suggested solution was to start using iCloud for Windows to do the syncing between my Outlook Windows and iPhone IOS calendars. I'd downloaded that beast sometime in the past and killed if off because it was interfering with the cable-connected syncing between Outlook and the phone. But now? I was ready. The only other thing I use iTunes for is to import CDs or other music onto the laptop just so I can transfer them from there to the phone. I never listen to music on the PC itself, so I could just as easily sync music by making another PC (like Zoey's email client) the default for syncing that and use iCloud just for calendar and maybe even contact syncing.
Off to the Store, in with the app, and there's the cloud. I see a horsie! I see a big fluffy cake! I see a ClusterCloud!
Yes, I admit it. Hello, my name is Ray, and I am a Luddite.
Hi, Ray!
I am still running Office 2003 on this (and every other) laptop. When that software suite went all graphic-crazy with the 2007 upgrade, I resisted it, and the 2010 and every other successive one, including the 365 that is now their Why Pay Once When You Can Pay Every Year model. Long as iTunes would import appointments from the PC and vice versa, I didn't need no stinkin' big boxy things all over! Except now, it appears, I will soon have no choice.
Already I have heard the siren song of 365 to increase my OneDrive storage; I chose to pay a couple of bucks a month on a prepaid credit card to get 50 gig without the Office suite. Now, though, it appears to be time: Individual runs 70 bucks a year, Family (multiple simultaneous runs) 100, and Best Buy will knock 15 off that thanks to some rewards laying around- AND that will throw in the extra OneDrive space for no additional charge. I will continue to resist until the dreaded iTunes update can no longer be avoided that will kill my sync mood.
Maybe I'll even get a Fitbit or a toaster that will sext with the smart TV. It's the Roaring 20s, after all:P
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- Open wide! I finally sucked it up and made the call today, and I now have a rendezvous with dentistry at 11 Friday morning to have my going-evil post extracted. For now, that's all we're doing, although I will be looking into what would be involved in all terms (expense, time and pain) in replacing it with Raymond's First Implant. I've been told that if I just leave the hole there, it will eventually result in the tooth below it (or whatever's left of it) having to come out as well, since teeth stimulate each other and get wonky if they lose their mate. Kinda like humans in general that way.
----
And that's more or less the wrap. Well, other than the Mets getting absolutely no offense two nights in a row and wasting awesome pitching performances from two of their own guys. I promised no hate tonight, so I'll end this here.
Ever upward, my ass.... STILL haven't been able to download my Excelsior Pass. On walkies this morning, I tried and failed to email the state's support desk for it, and wound up talking to someone on their 800 line who had about the technical expertise as the dog. Pepper literally pooped while I was on the phone with her, and I feel she accomplished more on her end than I did on mine. They're supposed to get back with a "solution." It does not involve my breath being held.
----
Me, I'm just a lawnmower, you can tell me by the way I walk.... Before heading out with the dog this morning, Eleanor asked if I had any problem with her putting off the lawnmower repair we began two weekends ago. It's been confounding her at the same time the bathroom tile replacement has been doing the same, along with her impending deadline for picking a Medigap package, and the refi closing next week, and the older kitty who's maybe sick or maybe just pissed about the kittehzes annoying her and....
Don't worry about the lawnmower, Eleanor.
On the other hand, I kinda did have to worry about the lawn. I managed to get a first cut of the front yard two weekends ago right before we began the Case of the 200 Parts, but the bigger backyard, with generally more sun and thus higher grass, was fast turning into the Black Lagoon back there and I didn't want to wreck the new improved mower by trying to cut too-tall grass once it did get fixed. So I asked a kind neighbor if I could gas up and borrow his. Well, he rents, and their landlord uses a lawn service, but there's an old one in his shed he hasn't touched in ages we were welcome to try using it. Didn't he bring it over to our garage door without even being asked?
And as old beasts go, it looked to be in pretty good shape. I tossed a gas can in my trunk (empty for at least eight years after we replaced our last gas jobbie with a reel mower and now the electric under construction) and came home at lunch to try to start'er'up. It did! And promptly shut back down. I'd checked the oil, and it was a bit too low and inky black, so I grabbed a bottle of 30-weight on my second ride home and this time, PUTTPUTTPUTTPUTTROARRRRR! I got about half the back done before it ran out of gas- I'd only filled it partway in case it wouldn't start at all- and got the rest done on the remaining petrol I then poured in. Only problem? Bloody thing wouldn't shut off. Like most mowers of recent vintage, this one has a "deadman's control" which requires a swinging handle to engage to start the thing and is supposed to stop it when you release it. Didn't work. Gets good mileage, too, because I couldn't get it to just run out of gas again. It took disconnecting the spark plug to turn it off after I was done.
We owe Glenn a serious solid for helping out. A gift card at a minimum, and maybe taking it to be tuned up before returning it to him- or doing it for us, since I may just buy it if he has no use for it. So what if I'll then have two; at least it isn't a riding mower, which some duffers younger than us with smaller yards are out on around here. And I promise I won't yell at anyone to get off my lawn;)
----
-I think you ought to know I'm feeling very deprecated. I did some homework on the cause of last night's Hate List inclusion of Bill's mortal enemy Steve Jobs. Turns out they are both in on making my life completely obsolete. The best suggested solution was to start using iCloud for Windows to do the syncing between my Outlook Windows and iPhone IOS calendars. I'd downloaded that beast sometime in the past and killed if off because it was interfering with the cable-connected syncing between Outlook and the phone. But now? I was ready. The only other thing I use iTunes for is to import CDs or other music onto the laptop just so I can transfer them from there to the phone. I never listen to music on the PC itself, so I could just as easily sync music by making another PC (like Zoey's email client) the default for syncing that and use iCloud just for calendar and maybe even contact syncing.
Off to the Store, in with the app, and there's the cloud. I see a horsie! I see a big fluffy cake! I see a ClusterCloud!
Yes, I admit it. Hello, my name is Ray, and I am a Luddite.
Hi, Ray!
I am still running Office 2003 on this (and every other) laptop. When that software suite went all graphic-crazy with the 2007 upgrade, I resisted it, and the 2010 and every other successive one, including the 365 that is now their Why Pay Once When You Can Pay Every Year model. Long as iTunes would import appointments from the PC and vice versa, I didn't need no stinkin' big boxy things all over! Except now, it appears, I will soon have no choice.
Already I have heard the siren song of 365 to increase my OneDrive storage; I chose to pay a couple of bucks a month on a prepaid credit card to get 50 gig without the Office suite. Now, though, it appears to be time: Individual runs 70 bucks a year, Family (multiple simultaneous runs) 100, and Best Buy will knock 15 off that thanks to some rewards laying around- AND that will throw in the extra OneDrive space for no additional charge. I will continue to resist until the dreaded iTunes update can no longer be avoided that will kill my sync mood.
Maybe I'll even get a Fitbit or a toaster that will sext with the smart TV. It's the Roaring 20s, after all:P
----
- Open wide! I finally sucked it up and made the call today, and I now have a rendezvous with dentistry at 11 Friday morning to have my going-evil post extracted. For now, that's all we're doing, although I will be looking into what would be involved in all terms (expense, time and pain) in replacing it with Raymond's First Implant. I've been told that if I just leave the hole there, it will eventually result in the tooth below it (or whatever's left of it) having to come out as well, since teeth stimulate each other and get wonky if they lose their mate. Kinda like humans in general that way.
----
And that's more or less the wrap. Well, other than the Mets getting absolutely no offense two nights in a row and wasting awesome pitching performances from two of their own guys. I promised no hate tonight, so I'll end this here.
You remind me...
Date: 2021-04-30 11:06 am (UTC)Yes. It's a thang. ;)