I'd like to consign to Hell the technology that is trying to update Windows on my PC. It shuts everything down, begins the long slow process, and stops at 91%. Always at 91%. It did it again yesterday; all I can do is shut it down, give it time, and hope it is still working normally.
I bought a mosquito net with the idea of supending it over my bed and spraying it with water to evaporate and cool the surroundings. It was no good, being synthetic and water resistant*. I need a lot of muslin. I have a peculiar lighting fitment from IKEA with two leads like trolley bus wires crossing the room, and my bed, and five directional lights between them**. It would be ideal to hang a coathanger with wet muslin from, if I could find the muslin. I have loads of thin sheets, but too heavy I think.
Please be exceeding careful where moist fabrics are close to wires, bulbs, plugs, switches etc!
The thoughts needed on that have been thought. Worry not. Hence the coat hanger. I did think of draping over the wires, which appear to be plastic coated, but am not going down that path. I have plastic coathangers,
Break my fingers and put out my eyes O God, that I may refrain from responding to a Facebook post. And thank-you for the blood pressure medication. Amen.
In the US, or here? (Not that that's relevant. As you say, why? To which the answer might be 'The Good Guys With Guns protect the People from The Bad Guys With Guns'. Yeah, right.)
Meanwhile, TICTH (though being stuck in a traffic jam might do the trick) all those who flocked to the beaches of Southern England today, resulting in a 'major incident' being declared in the Bournemouth area: https://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-53176717
Yes, people are fed up with lockdown, but with cases of Covid-19 rising in several countries, perhaps the feeling is 'let's live [and sunbathe] while we can'...after all, Boris says it's our patriotic duty to go to the pub, so let's start now by pooping, weeing, and strewing beer cans, all over our beaches. The world's going to fry in a year or two, so why worry?
Bishops Finger beat me to it. Brighton and Hove (Hove in particular today) subject to all the horrors he lists in his CTH.
The rest of the world is astounded by our stupidity.
When that happened at Bondi Beach the temporary fencing came out, the beach was locked off and police, council rangers and [I think?] some army reservists enforced the closure. A few days later, sure enough, a virus hotspot bloomed in neighbouring suburbs. Fortunately our leaders are listening to the scientists.
I noticed on the local news last night that young persons gathering in a noisy fashion on the front at Hove has happened in previous years, to the concern of local residents, but not to the interest of the news media.
TICTH the university’s new process for students registering a disability, which is making me very cross indeed. I have sent an email expressing my opinion, as a lecturer in disability studies and a disabled student.
There's an area of grass - Hove Lawns, between a street and the seafront.
I was in college at Clacton when the Mods and Rockers had a do there. All I saw from the library was two scooters driving north. And then driving north again. And possibly a third time.
No sat-navs in those days, obviously...Hove is south of Clacton, no?
Meanwhile...
Dear Lord.
Please let all those who want to defecate in public on a beach be afflicted with severe constipation until they reach home, and can pebbledash their own toilet.
Radio Scotland had a program this morning on this very topic. 😳. For those so inclined.... it is worth a listen although I didn’t know whether to laugh , cry or try to find my eyebrows.......
Judges take notice; force the offenders to listen many times and then write an essay
Question, if I may: Are there restrooms at/near the beaches where it happened? Not excusing the behavior. But IME, depending on how the beach and upper area are structured, a restroom can be quite a hike away--generally, uphill, trudging on sand. I can see how someone might be desperate enough to stay put--especially if a child is involved.
TICTH amateur fireworks. It's currently 11:00 on a Saturday morning, a week before Independence Day. So why is someone in my neighborhood setting off firecrackers*? (At least I assume that what they are. I hope it's not a shooting.)
And why, in the name of all that is holy, did the Kiwanis Club leave a pair of sparklers at everyone's front door last week? It's illegal to sell them to minors, but apparently it's o.k. to leave them where a child might find them before their parents? Not to mention, we have not had rain in 103 days.
I took my sparklers to the Household Hazardous Waste drop-off yesterday. I might have saved them for November 5, but burning them then would have been illegal.
(*Certain types of fireworks are legal, but they may only be used from
June 24 to July 6, and from December 24 to January 3. My city tried to ban them several years ago, but the State of Arizona said we couldn't.)
OK Sorry. That must just apply to Scotland. In fact I am actively engaged in getting a local public loo back open for this weekend - we are in the unusual situation where the council owns the building but the church operates the day to day running of it - as no one else would and council wanted to close it. This, I think, is a proper work of the church!
Here a local trust took on the running of the public toilets because the council which owned them couldn’t afford to, and the town council hadn’t the capacity.
With the pandemic the trust didn’t feel it could continue to operate safely and affordable, so the town council has taken it on.
Currently, I believe, two individual accessible toilets have been opened, with staff in place for frequent cleaning, and no payment required. This compares with four blocks of toilets normally open across the community.
Today I have to take a funeral (graveside) for a family who are travelling for a couple of hours to lay their mother by her parents' side. They will assemble here at my Manse where I am opening the loo - fortunately just at the back door - to them, as they will have no other facilities they can rely on!
Whoever it was thought it was a really good idea to have the digital television channels go through an irregular retuning as channels change tuning. Two weeks running I have had to do this, and it isn't just the retuning. I have to run through the channel list to remove all the dreck and the porn channels again, and then go through the planned recordings, which have been deleted. And do this for several machines. It is infuriating.
If I could find the person, I would have them retune at least a hundred machines in one session.
Yeah, me, too. There are some stations whose reception is rather iffy where I live. If I have to rescan for new/moved stations, I lose the iffy ones. I have to try many times, over a period of time, to get them back.
Two thoughts:
--I usually find it easiest and most successful to rescan late at night or in the early morning. Like 3 am early. I figure there's less other stuff whizzing through the air at that time.
--Does your TV system allow you to set up a favorites menu? If so, you might be able to just use that, and not have to re-delete all the stuff you don't want.
FWIW, YMMV.
PS Is there a way to set up a central device that could adjust all the TVs for you by wi-fi or Bluetooth? Might be expensive, but maybe a 2nd-hand one?
Nice ideas. But the favourites menus are all different and I can't get my mind round them all. And I don't want some of that stuff in my house, even hidden. And I want the word ADULT back, for things like the Smithsonian channel! I'm watching some adult stuff at the moment - the NASA team working on a mission to Pluto.
And the TVs are all different makes with different software, but what a brilliant idea that central device is!
But it would be more brilliant to allow an established station to own its channel in perpetuity, instead of giving it to some jumped up jackanapes, and making it move somewhere else.
Somebody has lifted part of a much larger article I wrote several years ago and has posted it, without attribution, on a Facebook local history page. I am venting here, because if I post on Facebook, pointing out that it is my work, I will sound petty.
Given that it is Facebook, it is possible that the poster might not realise that it is bad form to post without acknowledging where the words came from.
I'm not on social media, so I don't know whether this might work or might cause a flame storm. And I don't know if you currently identify yourself on FB.
Maybe you could say "Just FYI: Whoops, you forgot to put the source! It's mine, and here's a link to a copy". Or skip "It's mine", and substitute "yeah, I read that!".
Another way would be to privately contact the poster, and say basically the same thing.
I have posted "If you want to read more, the article from which this quote was taken is available in X library, once it re-opens. In the meantime, if anyone has any specific interests, I'm happy to post further extracts." And I posted a photo of the front sheet and the page from which the section was lifted.
That doesn't make me sound too pissed off, does it? Obviously I'm being passive-aggressive, but I'm hoping I sound cheerful and helpful.
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Please be exceeding careful where moist fabrics are close to wires, bulbs, plugs, switches etc!
I don't know where you are, but there's plenty on Amazon UK, mostly already cut to a fixed length, but some by the metre.
Just why......
Meanwhile, TICTH (though being stuck in a traffic jam might do the trick) all those who flocked to the beaches of Southern England today, resulting in a 'major incident' being declared in the Bournemouth area:
https://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-53176717
Yes, people are fed up with lockdown, but with cases of Covid-19 rising in several countries, perhaps the feeling is 'let's live [and sunbathe] while we can'...after all, Boris says it's our patriotic duty to go to the pub, so let's start now by pooping, weeing, and strewing beer cans, all over our beaches. The world's going to fry in a year or two, so why worry?
Buy a Beer and Booze on a Beach for Boris!
and
Way too close to people I love
The rest of the world is astounded by our stupidity.
What's the attraction of Hove seafront, in particular, over that of its eastern neighbour?
In My Day, Yoof were seen (if necessary) but not heard.
Goodness me. Yes, indeed - I had forgot.
Takes me back to my Yoof, that does...
(Reading about it in the papers then, I mean)
'Broken deckchairs'! It was war! The end of civilisation as we knew it!
I was in college at Clacton when the Mods and Rockers had a do there. All I saw from the library was two scooters driving north. And then driving north again. And possibly a third time.
Meanwhile...
Dear Lord.
Please let all those who want to defecate in public on a beach be afflicted with severe constipation until they reach home, and can pebbledash their own toilet.
Thank you.
Amen.
Well, the biggest-selling newspaper in the UK is the Daily Mail (https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/19/daily-mail-eclipses-the-sun-to-become-uks-top-selling-paper) and it has the second most popular newspaper website (https://blog.feedspot.com/uk_news_websites/) with twice as many FB followers as the Guardian (most popular newspaper website), so it's not impossible that quite a few of those on the beach are Daily Mail readers.
So what's happening to this country could plausibly be people following what the Daily Mail says.
Radio Scotland had a program this morning on this very topic. 😳. For those so inclined.... it is worth a listen although I didn’t know whether to laugh , cry or try to find my eyebrows.......
Judges take notice; force the offenders to listen many times and then write an essay
Thx.
Er, well, yes... anyway.
And why, in the name of all that is holy, did the Kiwanis Club leave a pair of sparklers at everyone's front door last week? It's illegal to sell them to minors, but apparently it's o.k. to leave them where a child might find them before their parents? Not to mention, we have not had rain in 103 days.
I took my sparklers to the Household Hazardous Waste drop-off yesterday. I might have saved them for November 5, but burning them then would have been illegal.
(*Certain types of fireworks are legal, but they may only be used from
June 24 to July 6, and from December 24 to January 3. My city tried to ban them several years ago, but the State of Arizona said we couldn't.)
With the pandemic the trust didn’t feel it could continue to operate safely and affordable, so the town council has taken it on.
Currently, I believe, two individual accessible toilets have been opened, with staff in place for frequent cleaning, and no payment required. This compares with four blocks of toilets normally open across the community.
If I could find the person, I would have them retune at least a hundred machines in one session.
Yeah, me, too. There are some stations whose reception is rather iffy where I live. If I have to rescan for new/moved stations, I lose the iffy ones. I have to try many times, over a period of time, to get them back.
Two thoughts:
--I usually find it easiest and most successful to rescan late at night or in the early morning. Like 3 am early. I figure there's less other stuff whizzing through the air at that time.
--Does your TV system allow you to set up a favorites menu? If so, you might be able to just use that, and not have to re-delete all the stuff you don't want.
FWIW, YMMV.
PS Is there a way to set up a central device that could adjust all the TVs for you by wi-fi or Bluetooth? Might be expensive, but maybe a 2nd-hand one?
And the TVs are all different makes with different software, but what a brilliant idea that central device is!
But it would be more brilliant to allow an established station to own its channel in perpetuity, instead of giving it to some jumped up jackanapes, and making it move somewhere else.
Given that it is Facebook, it is possible that the poster might not realise that it is bad form to post without acknowledging where the words came from.
I'm not on social media, so I don't know whether this might work or might cause a flame storm. And I don't know if you currently identify yourself on FB.
Maybe you could say "Just FYI: Whoops, you forgot to put the source! It's mine, and here's a link to a copy". Or skip "It's mine", and substitute "yeah, I read that!".
Another way would be to privately contact the poster, and say basically the same thing.
YMMV. Good luck, whatever you do!
That doesn't make me sound too pissed off, does it? Obviously I'm being passive-aggressive, but I'm hoping I sound cheerful and helpful.