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And It’s ONLY Monday!

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Got the laundry done. Which I wasn’t able to get done, as usual, yesterday.

OMG, that’s boring!

I'm Ready For Another Day Trip!

Overcoming temendous odds (getting out of bed), our Hero clung to convention, and daily routine, against all odds, to complete his appointed duties. …

Nope.

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No way around it: I’m boring. Hazard of being Retired and stuck inside on a partially rainy day, out near the woods, in the State of WaRshington.

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Speaking of rain: it rained like crazy a couple of times before I fell asleep last night. Man, it was really coming down! Thought I heard another “thunp,” so the Dog and I will have to check for more downed trees on our next walk around the property.

Was raining pretty good when I left to pick SWMBO up at the Ferry Landing. Rained all the way there and for awhile after I found a parking spot. She got a bit wet between the ferry and the truck!


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Not Quite An SSDD Thursday

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yt1bWhich started out with me going and getting my truck back. Had to stop and put gas in the rental (a Whopping $10!!!!) but made it to the rental place with no problem. They drove me down to pick my truck up since it was raining cats-and-dogs. Nice of them.

Drove through Port Orchard. Stopped at the Vets to see if I could get some more of that goop we’ve been putting in Poop Dog’s ears to fight that ear infection. Nope. Not without seeing him first. So he has an appointment for 0800 next Tuesday.

Went to Walmart and looked at camera’s. Saw a couple, fairly decent (and NOT Canon), for around $180. Stopped by the DVD section to see if they had anymore seasons of JAG; nope. Ah well.

Went to Fred Meyers to look at camera’s. What a crappy selection! Was so disappointed that I didn’t look at anything else in the store.

Was really raining during all this. Made the walk from the Truck (which I usually park way out from wherever and walk in) a shit load of fun. Windy too. (Turns out Battle Ground, WA had a tornado today! That is unusual!)

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Came on home and looked at camera’s on Amazon. Seems like some nice, fairly reasonably priced, camera’s but I really like “hands-on” when I buy things like that. Let’s me figure things out and see if it’ll really work for me or not.

Radio friend of mine came over for awhile and we worked on his Club website online for a few. Then we just sat and talked and I showed him how I rip my movies and how the Raspberry Pi 2 is working as a media server. He stayed for over an hour. (That’s unusual. I hardly ever get visitors and when I do they don’t usually stay long. I think it’s because I’m a Redneck.)

Oh, I guess the power went out, while I was gone,  just long enough to shut all the computers and the NAS down and make all our clocks blink. What fun. The 2-meter radio was still working though. Strange.

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Decided to go the easy way for dinner: warmed up a jar of that soup I made yesterday. That is one thick soup!

Anywho, back from picking SWMBO up so it’s about time to hit the rack.


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Lightning & Thunder This Morning!

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It was cool! Couldn’t hardly see the lightning through the downpour that was going on; but it was there. Thunder too. Cool! Too bad it lasted only 10 minutes or so. I set my camera up but haven’t watched the video to see if I caught any or not. Would be cool if I did! (Oh yeah, I’d be a “Storm-Chaser” if I could.)

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Other than that it’s been a pretty “normal” morning around here. Just finished my breakfast and about to head out to check mail. Updated the MCARC site. (Finally!) Moving things around on my drives trying to get ready to “upgrade” to larger drives. (Only 2 2-TB drives but that’s larger than what I have in there now.)

Guy from the car dealer called about 1330 and said that he’d try to have my truck back to me this afternoon. That he’d call me again around 1600. BUT, It MAY not be until tomorrow. Thanks for calling, but, you could have just waited until later to call to say either it’s ready or I’d have to wait until tomorrow.

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Not a whole lot going on and I’m bored as hell. All my usual chores are done and I’ve “puttered” around until I’m purely sick of puttering around. Still can’t really do anything outside cause it is still really wet out. I have some bucks but can’t think of anything I really want to buy.

Speaking of buying: last night I ordered SWMBO’s Christmas present and myself a new radio. Thought I’d give that JT-6188 Dual Band Radio a workout since it’s a “mere” $95 ($102.64 with tax and shipping). I figure I’ll set it up in the house and use it awhile before swapping it for the radio in the truck. If it works out I may be buying another; if it works. Reviews are pretty evenly split between “priceless” and “POS.”

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So, I made one of the Cheesy Potato soups (with diced grilled Chicken added), but, SWMBO said “Broccoli sure would go good in that!” so I wound up making Cheesy Potato Broccoli Soup instead. (Oh, my it was tasty and filling!) Made donut shaped corn muffins to go with it. Added a big glass of grape juice. Good stuff!

Picked SWMBO up at the Ferry Landing. Didn’t rain a bit either direction. Cool! We be home and she’s enjoying some of the soup I made. Think I’ll watch an episode of Doctor Who and “play” with Linux before I hit the rack.


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I Appear To Have Done It! Cool!

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Got tired of Ubuntu Studio not booting into the GUI (which I like)(the GUI. Not that it wouldn’t boot into it. Anyway …) So I backed all my “data” up and just wiped it all and started over again from scratch with Linux Mint KDE. Once I downloaded the NVidia video driver and got my monitors set it it seems to be working fine.

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Now to reinstall everything! Spent most of yesterday just doing that and really only got half my Thunderbird/Mail accounts done. And VMWare. Which appears to be working since I’m in Windows 7 VM to do this. So that’s cool.

Had a bit of a problem with sound but that seems to have worked itself out. But it was so much fun watching a movie with no sound! Not! Now I have to figure out why playing a movie from our NAS (in another room) is jerky. I’d hate to have to run a coax across a couple of rooms. Again.

Starting to like the Konsole window too; but I’ve always been a command line kind of guy. When I want to be. Apt-get is a pretty cool way to install stuff IF you know what you’re looking for.

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Change of subject: It is damned wet outside. Our annual “river” across the back yard has finally started and getting deeper by the hour. You can actually hear the rain running downhill to where it finally goes across our yard. It is really squishy out there!

Dropped my truck off at the dealer’s so they can install some new “injectors.” They gave me a rental car for the day. Personally I hope they get it repaired quickly since I have to pick SWMBO up at the Ferry Landing at 1945 tonight. Hope I didn’t buy a “lemon.”

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Well, it rained all the way when I went to pick SWMBO up. That rental car sucks. Way too low to the ground. Puts one right in the focus of the oncoming headlights. Hard to see around the vehicle in front of one. Miss my truck!


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