How are you?

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:58 pm

Edit:
hmmm.. I did not realize that would come on a new page... does not make a lot of sense, without the previous post... so it is not such a good day after all.. wonder whose fault it is....

gpackin · Post by **gpackin** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 10:57 am

This sucks!!!!

I don't know how I did it but I lost a folder of weeks worth of work. I have my IT guy looking on the backups for it right now as I type this. I'm sure I'll get it back, but I will have lost all my work since the last backup. I guess they back up every evening, but I've done a lot since then.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:05 pm

Oh, no!!!!!

I just parked my car in my garage, and do you know what was the reading of the counter (in kms)?

066600!!!!!

(I'm writing the first digit even though it is a zero so you know the counter actually has 6 digits, and the real distance covered is not, for instance 166600 kms, with only 5 digits appearing, as in some cars)

I wonder whose malefic influence caused this???

What is going to happen now?

The chances of it being stolen are small: it is supposed to be hard to steal even when left in the street, and it is in a closed garage, in an underground lot itself protected by an electric door. Of course it is pretty easy to enter or exit the common parking lot when someone comes in or gets out, and the lock on my garage is simple and easy to pick, but still.

But so many things can happen! Spontaneous combustion, for instance!

(well, no, that happens to humans, not cars!)

Or flooding of the underground garage?

But this is too mundane!!!
What I am really afraid of, is an earthquake that will open a fault just under my garage and swallow my car and all the other stuff I have stored there (four pairs of skis, for instance)

And I know where this fault is going to carry my poor car to. Or whom to, to be more precise!

but I am not allowed to say

gpackin · Post by **gpackin** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:44 pm

Hurray for Northrop Grumman User Support!

I got all my files back.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 1:20 pm

gpackin wrote:Hurray for Northrop Grumman User Support!

I got all my files back.

Good for you! But you should make backups very often, if you visit this website. There are some mysterious influences, here....

gpackin · Post by **gpackin** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 1:52 pm

voralfred wrote:Good for you! But you should make backups very often...

It's not my job

It's a huge network, with lots of funny rules.

mccormack44 · Post by **mccormack44** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 10:24 pm

I'm feeling rather good about the database tonight.

To refresh every one's memory: On March 26, 2007, I was fooling with my FileMakerPro 7 database for our home library. Being under the weather I totally forgot a BASIC computing rule. I was working on the original database instead of a copy, so when I made a design change that disconnected me from ALL my data, I had only myself to blame. I lost data on between 2,000 and 3,500 books and over 4,000 titles included in multiple novel compendiums, anthologies, and collections. Back-up media had died the day before. It looked like I would need to go back to the very beginning.

Luckily I found a two-year-old copy that had 697 items in it. Using this as a start, I began to recheck and re-enter all the books. TODAY my book count in the revived database reached 2699! This means that I'm more-or-less where I was when I did myself in. (More-or-less because some of these entries are books I've bought in these three months and because I approached the checking of my book trays in a different matterâ€”I have done some trays I hadn't reached yet and I have skipped some non-tray items that I had done prior to the crash.)

But, as of today, I feel that I have done a true recovery and that every entry from now on is truly a step forward. And besides that, I have actually done some good redesign of the database. (Don't worry, it is now backed up every day AND I design only on a copy of the database.)

I'm sure that I will still complain about entering things, especially the "included titles;" but that's just the usual griping. It's truly fair to fuss about the "included titles"â€”it took me two days to enter 38 titles because so many of they were collections. I'm still working on the 39th, which is the biggest collection of all. But as I just saidâ€”this now stands as NEW GROUND.

So again, it's been a pretty good day.

Sue

Moonspring · Post by **Moonspring** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:35 pm

I went dog sitting for a week and 411 eleven posts! I don't think I'll get through it all tonight.

violetblue · Post by **violetblue** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 8:01 pm

I actually tried relaxing today. I'm not very good at it. In fact, none of us are in our family. We always feel we have to be up doing something, and get antsy if we aren't. My sisters and I have had discussions about this before, if you can't tell.

This is a true story-- I was actually trying to pull up a webpage of relaxation techniques the other day, felt like my skull was going to burst because the page was taking too long to load, and had to click off and do something else.

So today, I tried catching up on some old TV shows I had recorded, but hadn't watched, and watched a couple of B horror movies. But then I realized I was making a mission out of watching the shows, like, "OK, I have to get the rest of this series watched and out of the way TODAY."

I wish I could learn to just sit back and truly relax. It's frustrating!

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 5:08 am

violetblue wrote:This is a true story-- I was actually trying to pull up a webpage of relaxation techniques the other day, felt like my skull was going to burst because the page was taking too long to load, and had to click off and do something else.

Sounds like the story of my life

violetblue wrote: But then I realized I was making a mission out of watching the shows, like, "OK, I have to get the rest of this series watched and out of the way TODAY."

ditto

mccormack44 · Post by **mccormack44** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 5:45 pm

John Greenleaf Whittier wrote:

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

What on EARTH was he thinking of? For a reader, the saddest words are surely "I have NOTHING to read!"

It is July 4th. Bob is at work. I have spent have most of the day in allergy sleep. It stormed in the middle of the day and I feel gray, grey, gloomy to match the skies.

So I went downstairs to rearrange the book trays in waiting so Bob will know which one to carry up, when next I am ready for it. (These are the hardback/trade-paper books; I CAN handle them, but why overwork?)

"What do my wondering eyes did appear?"â€”oh, wait, wrong poet, wrong poem.

But anyway, there it wasâ€”a totally unread, new to me Patricia McKillip! Suddenly my day is a lot brighter. I'm still working away at cataloging the books and doing exciting things like laundry and dishes and dusting and sweeping, but I get to stop every once in a while to read a new chapter in a new book.

My day is a whole lot brighter!

Sue

mccormack44 · Post by **mccormack44** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:19 pm

Today has sad news: Melanie, our 17-year-old cat appeared to have had a stroke yesterday. She was no longer able to walk, but needed to swim across the floor to get anywhere. So we took her to the veterinarian this morning and put her to sleep. We were both holding her while the doctor did the injection, so she had a peaceful and loved ending. But it was hard on us.

A while back Cho posted Rainbow Bridge.

This poem expresses very clearly what I feel about God's purpose for our pets. Thank you, Cho, for this solice at this time.

Sue

violetblue · Post by **violetblue** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:31 pm

I'm so sorry, Sue.

I had a cat that lived about that long. It died of a stroke, or heart attack, also. I think it's hard for anyone who hasn't had a beloved family pet to understand the attachment we can have for them. They are a large part of our daily lives, and love us (fairly) unconditionally (which is more than we can say for most people).

Cho's poem is very nice.

voralfred · Post by **voralfred** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 2:27 am

This is very sad, Sue, I sympathise with you. Not ever having had a pet, of course I canoot really feel the same way, but I try and imagine.
Maybe, as another solace, I can suggest you a reading that could help (if you haven't read it yet): all the books by the country british veterinarian surgeon whose pen name is James Herriot.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/10 ... .y=0&Go=Go
Several collection of short stories (don't buy all the books: some are just collections taken out of the collections: all the "Dog Stories" appear somewhere else in the series", for instance): some funny, some moving, some utterly sad, but all very well-written. It is not all about pets, he dealt mainly in farm animals. But some big farm animals can become pets, too...
I'm sure you'll find a kindred hear there.

the grim squeaker · Post by **the grim squeaker** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:10 am

The only way that my life could be improved is if I suddenly developed godlike powers, thus being able to smite the unholy.

Post by **Kvetch** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:00 pm

I have a summer job. I'm happy.

gpackin · Post by **gpackin** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 12:09 pm

I'm getting a vasectomy tomorrow, and I'm getting a bit nervous.

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 12:37 pm

Good luck

My brother-in-law's had one, and he said he was a bit sore after, but nothing a couple of tylenol couldn't handle

I wish getting myself fixed was that easy!

gpackin · Post by **gpackin** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 1:37 pm

gpackin wrote:I'm getting a vasectomy tomorrow, and I'm getting a bit nervous.

It's done. I feel a bit like I was kicked down there, but the Vicodin will help that.

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 1:41 pm

I'm glad it went well

My ex-husband outright refused to have the surgery, and now I'm going to have it done just to prevent any further ... accidents (both our kids were oopses... one was ours, one was someone else's).

violetblue · Post by **violetblue** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 9:23 am

Well, I think it's great you had it done. I think it's ridiculous when guys refuse to have it done, and make their wife or whatever have a lot riskier, in-patient procedure. Plus, having a hysterectomy has side effects as far as hormone levels, etc., for women.

gpackin · Post by **gpackin** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 12:23 pm

violetblue wrote:Well, I think it's great you had it done. I think it's ridiculous when guys refuse to have it done, and make their wife or whatever have a lot riskier, in-patient procedure. Plus, having a hysterectomy has side effects as far as hormone levels, etc., for women.

Thanks, it was really no bid deal in comparison to what my wife would have had to go through if we went that route. However, I do hope I never find myself on one of those tables in in that position again.

By the way, a full blown hysterectomy is not required for sterilization, just a tubal ligation. But it is still more complicated than a vasectomy.

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 1:55 pm

yeah, they won't give you a hysterectomy unless REALLY necessary anymore. I'm planning to have my tubes cut & cauterized. None of this TYING stuff for me

CodeBlower · Post by **CodeBlower** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 6:06 pm

gpackin wrote:
gpackin wrote:I'm getting a vasectomy tomorrow, and I'm getting a bit nervous.
It's done. I feel a bit like I was kicked down there, but the Vicodin will help that.

My doctor gave me Tylenol with Codeine -- which, for me, is worthless. Found some old Darvaset (sp?) that my wife had for a tooth -- that's the only way I made it.

The other day we had our second "reversal" discussion. My answer is still "no". I thought we covered this before the whole "ok, fine, you had the caesarian, I'll have the vascectomy" discussion ..

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 7:39 am

*snicker* did she see/hold someone else's baby? That's the only time I'm tempted to have another, but then I remember that I've already got two I have difficulty handling, remember the sleepless nights and the mounds of diapers, and the temptation passes

I'm more than happy to play with my niece's baby for a few hours and then give her back to mom & dad