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Post by alexanderhoward on Sept 21, 2024 18:56:09 GMT
Sitting in the pool all day, catching some rays. Well, that's what the frogs have been doing. I have been seized up all down my left side, from above my hip to my calf. Muscle spasm. Apparently the worst thing to do is sit down at a desk all day, so Monday will be fun. It is not easing up with walking or floor exercises (from which it is difficult to get up). I'm too young for this. It usually goes eventually.
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Post by amanda on Sept 22, 2024 8:08:45 GMT
My buttocks muscles are hurting, I think my computer chair is getting old and doesn't support me like it should. Despite this pain, I sat down on the floor this afternoon (the only place with the available space to spread out the pages/plastic sheets) to sort out my two folders of booklists.
Finally threw out the 20 odd plastic pockets with hot chocolate stains from last year's country town booksale/trip. Got a new folder and have put the entire book collection into one folder, separated by hardbacks and paperbacks as that's how the shelves are arranged, with some spare pockets, and kept the other folder just for the books boxed up in the garage and on the software program.
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Post by jenny on Sept 22, 2024 17:40:16 GMT
You are far more organised than me, Amanda!
We had an internet outage about 9:30 pm yesterday - luckily, just after the movie we were watching finished. It was still out this morning, but when I called the customer service people (who were working at 7:30 am today, Sunday so I was impressed) they were able to fix it by sending a "refresh" signal straight to my modem.
Fidium Fiber is working its way through Portland and I was quite interested in that, but the reviews are pretty bad from people who've already had it installed, so I think I may just stick with Spectrum.
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Post by amanda on Sept 22, 2024 23:10:51 GMT
'twas a few years ago before the big country town May booksale here that I realised I had to somehow compile lists of my still growing collection. Now all it takes is maintenance (writing in new titles on appropriate pages, removing those I've read etc)
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Post by efros on Sept 23, 2024 8:03:00 GMT
Fidium Fiber is working its way through Portland and I was quite interested in that, but the reviews are pretty bad from people who've already had it installed, so I think I may just stick with Spectrum. We've had a couple of glitches now and then but nothing serious with Fidium. Also the deal I got was about $30 a month less than I was paying for Spectrum at a much lower bandwidth, 240MB for Spectrum vs 1GB for Fidium. |
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Post by jenny on Sept 23, 2024 14:22:24 GMT
Thanks Efros - Fidium hasn't reached our bit of Portland yet but I'll bear that in mind. However, Spectrum does also give me a landline number that gives me free phone calls to the UK, so that is worth it when I have to call a business or a bank there (obviously no problem calling the kids on Messenger or WhatsApp).
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Post by crissdee on Sept 23, 2024 14:36:12 GMT
Got an interview tomorrow with a big builders merchant place in Hay on Wye. Could be dangerous earning money in the Town of Books.....
Also trying out for a day in the local hardware store in town on Friday, but that is only part time atm...
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Post by amanda on Sept 23, 2024 22:58:09 GMT
crissdee wrote:
About just as bad as when I was a casual in for only half a day at a secondhand bookshop. Some of the books I was adding to the online system, or when putting them away, I'd see others and want to buy them....
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Post by tetsabb on Sept 24, 2024 8:50:01 GMT
Apropos of which, an item in this week's Radio Times abiut a programme where a family wish to declutter their belongings. It says they have 479 books and magazines. 479 ? We probably have that many on one set of shelves!!! |
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Post by amanda on Sept 24, 2024 9:46:10 GMT
Reminds me of when the Marie Kondo craze was sweeping the world and she 'suggested' to keep only 30 books. Those of us with libraries said (and such memes soon appeared) 'like, on the night stand?"
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Post by crissdee on Sept 24, 2024 12:47:47 GMT
It says they have 479 books and magazines. I have almost that many issues of Fortean Times alone! Chuck in all the other motorbike, gun & militaria, pulp sci-fi, and Weekly World News tabloids, and I've got them beat hollow just on my upstairs landing.... |
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Post by efros on Sept 24, 2024 17:19:01 GMT
I saw something today I have not seen in my 24 years as a High School teacher. A kid in an Honors section managed to get 0% in a multiple choice quiz. Something going wrong between ears, eyes and their brain I think, the monkey test suggests that a monkey sitting it would get on average 20%.
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Post by jenny on Sept 24, 2024 18:39:04 GMT
Perhaps he was deliberately trying to get them all wrong?
My day is about to get worse because I have to have a tooth (back upper left molar, fact fans) extracted. I am going to have a conversation with the dentist about whether I have an implant to replace it (not visually necessary) or just have it packed with bone dust, as they do when preparing for an implant, to preserve the strength of the bone. I have had two implants and a recrowning on three teeth this year, and I blew through my dental insurance covering on the first part of the first of those, so it's been an expensive year. However, the molar in question has been root-canaled and crowned since 2004 but is now decaying at the root and has to come out whatever I decide next. My appointment is at 4pm and then I have a class I don't want to miss because I've paid for it at 6-9pm, so that's unlikely to be fun. The lovely Woodsman is chauffeuring me to all of this though, so at least I don't have to drive.
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Post by crissdee on Sept 24, 2024 20:15:23 GMT
I don't understand wiring in anything but its simplest form, and domestic wiring barely at all, so I don't know how strange this is. I just came up to my spare room, turned the light on and nothing happened. Inspection revealed that none of my upstairs lights worked, although the plug sockets did. A check of the consumer unit downstairs showed the circuit breaker had tripped. I flicked it back on, now all the lights except the one in my spare room are working. I don't think this light came on at all when I tried it, not even a flash. Could one blown bulb on a circuit of 8 trip the breaker?
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Post by Numerophile on Sept 24, 2024 21:20:42 GMT
Yes, that's quite common with a filament bulb. (Haven't you changed to LEDs yet?)
When the filament breaks it may cause a momentary arc which carries enough current to trip the circuit breaker. It didn't happen so much with old-fashioned fuses because they weren't as sensitive.
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Post by suze on Sept 24, 2024 21:24:48 GMT
Yes.
We had our house rewired in 2015, and when the guy had finished the work he left us with a couple of pieces of wisdom. One of those pieces of wisdom was that modern standards require breakers to be "ridiculously easy" to trip, and that one light bulb failing could be enough. In our experience since, one light bulb failing does indeed sometimes (not always) trip a breaker.
Now, I don't know when your house was last wired. If it was done to 17th Edition (2008) standards or anything more recent*, then see the paragraph above. If it was done longer ago than that, you might want to try and find someone who does actually understand domestic wiring.
* The 18th Edition came out in 2018. The 19th Edition is currently out for consultation and is expected to come into force in 2026.
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Post by celebaelin on Sept 25, 2024 5:42:12 GMT
Today has barely started but yesterday hardly existed at all for me. I went to sleep at around midnight, woke at about 6am and had a bite or two from shopping bags within reach then went back to sleep. Next thing I knew it was coming up on 6pm!
On the plus side this darned cold or whatever it is seems to be on its way out - slowly, but the trend is definitely upward.
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Post by crissdee on Sept 25, 2024 9:22:52 GMT
This room probably will get either a low energy or LED bulb when I replace it, I just went with what was to hand when I moved in...
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Post by amanda on Sept 26, 2024 8:44:01 GMT
Another day at the religious library, another group of donated books to check.....and we fell down another rabbit hole.
I mention the name Beryl F. Bennie-Nickson - where Bennie is the maiden name, Nickson the married one - to an organist of the church the librarian now attends, they married in 1914, she is described on her husband's - Arthur Ernest Howard Nickson - entry as a music student and was 23 when they married.
There is also a 'travelling scholarship' available from the University of Melbourne in his name.
Among the book donations were two copies each of her poetry books - Ladder of Joy and As Linnets sing. In one of these is a short poem about the inner city church that not even the church historian knew about when he wrote his book.
There is a third poetry book which we found on the Trove site of library listings but that wasn't in this lot of donations.
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Post by jenny on Sept 26, 2024 17:44:27 GMT
Home today - I have a poem I need to work on for a class I'm taking (last one next Tuesday).
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Post by tetsabb on Sept 28, 2024 9:53:14 GMT
Not so much my day as much as other people's week.
A friend slipped on wet grass, causing a major sprain and torn ligaments.
A couple of days later, the husband of a former colleague had his large, heavy motorcycle go over on his ankle.
And an on-line acquaintance slipped coming down stairs and wrecked one of her ankles. She had locked the door and left her keys in the lock, so the Ambulance crew had to call on the Fire Service to come and break the door down. At some point, the dog felt it necessary to defend its realm from invaders, and trod on the injured leg.
Stop giggling... it's not funny... really.
Odd coincidences.
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Post by amanda on Sept 28, 2024 12:01:11 GMT
Today was the Aussie football grand final. A nice day for once, and while both teams are now based interstate from Victoria, both originated here - one as South Melbourne Swans , the other as Fitzroy Lions - both retained their team animal names - and there are plenty of the 'old faithful' supporters of both teams still around. Pubs in both suburbs were suitably decked out.
A crowd of 100, 013 at the 'hallowed turf' of the Melbourne Cricket Ground (yes, it's still called that even though the footy is played from March - September) and I was wanting the team to win, who'd had the longest time from their last win. The Fitzroy (now based in Brisbane - two teams merged in the late 1990s - both original teams were broke and losing money) team had had a 'three-peat' Grand final wins in the early 2000's and were the losers last year. The Swans won in 2005.
May the best team win, is usually the call. Most Melbourne based people choose a team for the day, based on logic such as mine.
The game is played in four quarters of 20 minutes each. By half time the Lions had about a 40 point lead and kept kicking goals, worth six points each. They just seemed to have better connections with each other, catching the balls from both kicks and hand balls/passes.
Final score - a 60 point win. I'm sure the stats will be out soon as to what was another big win like that in a grand final.
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Post by bigmartin on Sept 28, 2024 20:36:32 GMT
A chat on the phone to TOIL yesterday evening after having had my ears cleared out so I could now hear her. She was hoping to come down to my place pre-party this morning, but she warned she's currently on some powerful antibiotics and might not feel up to it.
Awake at 3 am this morning needing a drink so I came down and opened the few cards I'd already had (family in NZ etc.) and realised that TOIL had sent me an e-card just after midnight because she couldn't get their "delayed delivery" system to work.
Up again at a more sensible time and started 70th birthday party preparations. TOIL rang to say the antibiotics were doing their worst - shame, but glad she's looking after herself.
Just about finished getting everything prepared and time for a shave and change into clean clothes, when the first guests arrived. A dozen or so relatives, a similar number over both the Thursday and Sunday house volunteer teams from Dyrham and a handful from other things in my past. Now mostly cleared up and quietly on my own.
Aunt and uncle's 60th wedding anniversary do tomorrow!
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Post by tetsabb on Sept 29, 2024 9:22:03 GMT
Happy birthday, Martin!
Sounds like you had a good one.
🥂🍻🍹🍸
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Post by RLDavies on Sept 29, 2024 18:15:54 GMT
Happy birthday! And happy anniversary to aunt and uncle, too!
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Post by jenny on Sept 29, 2024 19:40:42 GMT
Belated happy birthday Martin - sounds like a good weekend.
Mine was pretty good too - we had a Maine Poets Society meeting yesterday, which I was running so I had to be there, but it was very enjoyable and always nice to get together with people. I was too knackered to cook when I got home, so we went out to eat - only Applebees, which is not exactly haute cuisine but was reasonable enough.
Today we're going out to eat again this evening, taking Woodsman's cousin out for dinner to celebrate his 81st birthday (cousin's birthday - Woodsman was 82 in August).
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Post by celebaelin on Sept 30, 2024 22:37:04 GMT
Sorry but when did TOIL come into being? TSIL I'd understand but O? Have I missed something?
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Post by efros on Oct 1, 2024 8:42:08 GMT
Time Off In Lieu, was common when I worked in the UK some 25 years ago.
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Post by tetsabb on Oct 1, 2024 9:16:33 GMT
The One I Love, I believe.
As opposed to Texan Sister In-law
😉😑
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Post by Bondee on Oct 1, 2024 9:49:37 GMT
The One I Love, I believe. Indeed. I asked the very same question in "the old place" and Strawberry very kindly gave me the answer.
Mention of whom makes me wonder if we'll ever hear from some of the previous members. I'm surpised PWUM didn't sign up after his wobbly when the closure was announced.
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