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Hmmm... If I stand still long enough outside I get speckled with ash in this 97 to 112 Fahrenheit (36-44 Celsius) degree heat. There are two forest firess to the North of me and two more to the South, all wihin the same county. The air is thick with the haze of smoke and it smells like the fires should be immediately visible. And this is all happening while we are still trying to cleanup the mess outside. Thankfully the power is back up, so its not all gloom and doom. A couple of nights back a thunder and lightening storm blew in with a sudden roar. One minute the weather was calm and sweltering and the next moment I could have sworn we were being hit by a tornado. The sudden and fierce wind was blowing large and small brancches as well as a hoard of duff (detritus) off the surrounding redwoods. It even blew the tops off some of the trees, and the fruit off our fruit trees. I've never seen so much stuff blown off the trees around here in just a few minutes. Jeezu! While I enjoyed the thunder as the storm blew in from the pacifi... I bet you can guess what started the fires. Tommorrow I have to sit in this heat for three hours while performing home hemo-dialysis. It could be worse I suppose... I could have been in Death Valley when it reached 130 degrees F recently. I hate hot weather! ...Sorry for the rant. I needed to vent. ;-)
Oh! Hi everyone !!! ...Hope you're all doing well.
I'm still recovering and busy getting my life and projects going again. So I haven't been around much.
..makes sense.
...mmm squeaky cheese curds. Would always make a stop at Brandon Cheese makers on teh way to Milwaukee from Stevens Point and buy a1# bag for 99¢ (of course that was back in the 1970s). Best road snack in the world.
If I tired to drive, I'd likely get pulled over for no licence and lack of insurance (the latter which is why I no longer drive as it's been so many years [decades] that even at my age, I'm considered a "new driver" again which means a teenager's rate for at least 6 months).
Oh and speaking of Cajun, dining on Cajun bronzed redfish, beets, and my signature tarragon garlic roasted red potatoes as I write (finally cooled down enough here I could use the oven). Wish I could get real catfish (the proper fish for Cajun skillet cooking), but it's rare here in the Pacific Northwet. Salmon is plentiful as well as relatively inexpensive here, but I'm allergic to it (and much of the salmon here is farmed or GMO based [same for trout] while the redfish I get is natural and line caught in the ocean).
Most complaint-worthy indeed. Hope you can remain safe and healthy.
I will pipe up for the occasional lurkers who pop in randomly to see what Mcgiver is on about and what Leathergryphon is eating for lunch... and say -hope Mystarra is doing well!
I wonder how they came to that conclusion.
Had a smol little storm pass through the other day. Was interesting how it just started raining all a sudden while still being somewhat warm outside, and then the thunder. I hadn't heard thunder in quite a while, and hadn't SEEN it in even longer. If you count a single little streak going across the sky (no fancy branching or anything) as such, but still~
Wait... how do you know about Mcgiver?... That and Mcgabber are my top secret aliases...
Or they were until now...
Well, at least I didn't mention Mcgrabber or McNuggets...
Damn.
Whatever... the squirrels' outta the bag now and as soon as I get the squirrel back in the bag I'm going to make a note to myself to store squirrels in things other than bags... maybe Tupperware or something... hopefully I'll remember to poke holes in it this time too... beforehand... not like last time...
I know you're supposed to put cats in bags, but all I had was a lousy squirrel...
I tried to do a Schrodinger's squirrel but it was always alive when I looked in the box until I forgot about for a few months, but by then somebody replaced it with a smelly weird skeleton.
In general I don't recommend storing squirrels in anything other than certified squirrel storage bins, but those are kinda pricey, so do what you feel is fit.
Are there any other questions?
I believe there was a lunch related question...?
Lunch is an abbreviation of "luncheon", and is a meal eaten around midday... During the 20th century, the meaning was gradually whittled down to a small or mid-sized meal eaten midday. Lunch is commonly the second meal of the day, after second breakfast, but before second lunch. The meal varies in size depending on the culture and the size of the individual engaged in eating it and significant variations exist in different areas of the galaxy.
I hope that helps...
Well, I'm gonna go back to whatever the hell it was that I was doing before I sensed someone mentioned my McOctopussandwich alias.
Damn... that one too...
All I have left are Mcfluffypants and...
Ha!... you almost got me to reveal "Mcgibbon"...
Damn.
You win this time... but remember... "He who laughs last probably didn't get the joke and was just trying pretending they did"... no... that wasn't it...
"The early bird gets the early bus"?... that doesn't make any sense... bird don't takes buses to work... there was a pigeon on the subway once, but he got off near the park and I assumed he worked pooping on the many statues there.
You know, I'm all for taking down inappropriate statutes, but if they don't replace them with something else, where are all the pigeons going to poop?... this could get messy... especially for slow people, or anyone who falls asleep on a park bench... or those performance artists who pretend they are statues... that could be a form of punishment actually... instead of community service, you dress up like a statues and pigeons poop on you all day until you work off the equivalent of your parking fines in pigeon poop.
Does pigeon poop have an exchange rate?
Seabird guano goes for $22 for a five pound bag on Amazon.
I didn't make that up... apparently Walmart sells bat poop online too.
Maybe I should...
No... I won't go there...
This has gone on long enough... I should get back to whatever I was doing...
McMuffin over and out.
Ah, damn it.
...ugh definitely sounds most unpleasant.
I remember the same situation here in Oregon a few years ago (two years in a row), mid - upper 90s and thick choking smoke. For a couple days back in 2017 it was so bad I could see the ash sifting through the branches of trees in the centre of the city.
So far, we've been fortunate this year, but we still have about a month of fire season to go up here and currently are under a red flag warning..
Take care and stay safe.
...hmm squirrels. I wonder if McGuyver tired this solution yet?.
Updare: Had to evacuate due to the fast approaching fires. No idea when I'll be able to post again. Heres hoping we still have a home after this. We've done everything we could over the years to protect our home from fires, but when you're surrounded by a forest..
@Kyoto Kid... I remember those fires.
My wife and I watched the Last Airbender movie, despite both of us expecting it to be bad. When I was still trying to persuade her not to watch it, I mentioned that it was a Shyamalan movie, to which she responded that she actually likes Shyamalan movies, although he did seem like an odd choice to direct a movie based on Avatar. I said that if you want a movie not to be competently made, Shyamalan is a good choice, and she didn't even disagree with me on that.
It turned out to be even worse than I expected, and I've watched multiple videos going into detail on exactly why it's such a bad movie. I don't think I've ever seen a movie put less effort into characterization, which is bad enough on its own, but the strength of the characters' personalities were such a huge part of the original series' charm. There's so much lore and backstory crammed into the movie, but no character. It manages to be overly faithful to the source material without retaining a single thing that made the source material good.
Hope firstly that you and your family stay safe but also that your home remains unscathed. Please let us know that you are OK when you are able.
Has anybody heard from Misti lately? I really hope she is doing OK after her operation.
Be well, Misty, if you are lurking.
Thank you. Thank you. (*sniff
..., I'm so happy that it wasn't just me missing something obvious that would have redeemed it.*) I made it about half way before bailing out. Even at 10 minute sessions it became unbearable.
...ugh, I keep getting an annoying popup relating to the Daz Deals emails every time I open anything new here in the forums or the store, it freezes the page I am on and opens another tab to the options page. Nothing looks wrong on my end even though it keeps saying there is a "problem". Apparently a new update was issued Tuesday night and likely something went buggy with it.
Posted about this on the Daz Deals thread last night.
No, it really is as bad as you thought.
how big are these patches for online games? The patcher has already spent two hours downloading 15%. Maybe I should just play single player games during the summer.
How this hobby is sometimes :P
I do have those system (some with xp lol) that I hide offline. BUT my one of my fav tools is photoshop. I bought and downloaded deviney's catelogue. Some productes work some don't. But luckily I have other PC's that have PS version 7, and PS version CS3 and PS verison CS6 but for 3D graphics mesh tools, and painting 3D objects, and subjective extraction, the way I want & need PS 20 is the solution for me. Can't get that with older windows versions.
...never could afford the full version when they still offered the perpetual licence (was something like 700$ just for Photoshop alone, about half of what it cost me to build my first PC workstation). I have been reading that the subscription version is acting oddly lately as well.
Worked with Gimp for even longer than I've been with Daz (for doing photomanips along with preparing scans of hand drawn/painted artwork for printing) and can almost use it with my eyes closed. Gimp will handle PS brushes (I have a set of the Deviney ones I use the most pre-installed (does slow the start up a bit) and the rest in a separate folder that I can access as need be) but not the larger background files.
Exposure X3 primarily deals with photo filtering and film effects as well as allows the user to build custom filters. I primarily use PaintShop Pro (an older version since they ceased providing the boxed DVD [I always like having a backup]) primarily for applying text to images and texture maps as it brings in my library of fonts nicely using a drop down menu that actually shows the font face. Krita is like Corel Painter but doesn't cost 430$ and can be used to create some nice artistic effects.
Still have the Corel Draw 3.0 version lol. That says it all.
My friend is on the coast near Sonoma watching a big fire that's still about twenty miles away... his pictures are surreal. Good luck and please update us when you are able... stay safe too.
I'd add a couple of tiny land mines and some lava... to make it more challenging.
I want to buy Rozy but the website is slow. :( https://www.daz3d.com/rozy-hd-for-genesis-8-female
So we are still recovering from flood (happened a week before christmas) and trying to move things in from storage. Energency damage company packed the3 units (10 x 20) so tight, I couldn't bomb for bugs but we started movig stuff back since April. Fast forward ... the temps here were 110 the past weeks and thee AC broke four weeks ago. Leak detection found the coil bit the dust and the copper line going thru the cathedral ceilings, partial attic crawl space, leaking. It's going to take 100 feet of replacement copper wire to to reach the unit in the garage. The worst part is the fish tanks got up to 91 and the fish started dying (as water temps go up oxygen goes down, plus the swords can't survive these high temps). The aviary outside was hitting 106-112 and the dogs were panting (so are we). Floating frozen ice bottles ( 7 tanks of various sizes) hosing down the roof of aviary and us, has been awful (and people complain about Stalked not available to read... if they only knew). The worst part is my hubby has 50% lung capcity and can't drive, walk independently or breath well especially with higher heat. Two weeks ago we found over a hundred baby black widows nesting in a towel inside the house (a storage box squatter family).Since then we have been trying to dismantle that room and wash everything in the hottest water while having no AC. It's been a nightmare. So far I have 22 bites on my arms and legs and I have inhaled at least 2 gallons of vinegar trying to spray every damn thing in that room. Yesterday we found out that the HVAC permits and HERS test, plus modification charges (never mind the coil or copper or freon etc) are going to hit 2k plus. Because of these issue we did not notice the pool salt generator was broke and the color of my hubby's therapy pool now matches the skin tone of Kermit the frog, and the breeze part is on back order. Damage control is not an easy task but I did take the time to document it all with photos for a later youube upload (like the thousand others yet to upload). Well today, while hosing the aviary we found 3 little gouldian babies needing rescue. Strangely despite all the stress, and deaths, new life ... these little babies made us smile and feel a tad blessed. When colored out these guys are gorgeous. The mom parent is in last pic before the cats. The dad is red face with briliant blue ring around face, white chested with yellow body.
Mm on the topic of fires (Not something I like talking about much though wah), earlier last week a fire started not too terribly far from where I live. And then another, not far from that. Good news, the fire depatment was on it ASAP. The next day, it turns out some dip was actually going around starting these fires intentionally. Also good news, they caught the guy and he's in jail now.
And as an additional non-complaint, my hourly pay rate has gone up slightly at work wheee. On the complaint side though, I'm still the only one in my group (as the rest are still under "Do not come into work" orders) so it's just me + my supervisor for now~
Complaint: Arghhh... my medical insurance company just sent me a nice polite letter saying that my urologist is no longer a member of their group. So now I have to pay out-of-group fees if I continue to use him.
This is a small city. It's not like we have a plethora of urologists hanging around like vultures to get our business. This organization has the big medical building specializing in urology right next to the hospital. The next nearest cities are Erie, PA (60 miles away, out-of-state, out-of-insurance-group-area) and Buffalo (in-state, in-group-area, but also 60 miles away). 
(Remember, I don't have a car.) This wouldn't be troubling me so much if it wasn't for the fact that a while ago, the local hospital lab also abandoned my insurance company group, so now I have to go to a 3rd party lab for blood tests. Am I seeing the beginning of a pattern here?
Another complaint: I've been watching the 1977 movie "A Bridge Too Far". Meh, it's OK. Lots of big name actors, good sets, props, action, dialog, acting, costumes, but as far as I'm concerned it's a "Movie Too Long". (2h 55m) . I mean, didn't Hollywood learn from the 1963 movie "Cleopatra" (3h 12m) or the 1965 movie "Dr. Zhivago" (3h 17m) that movies that require more than one bathroom break are tough on audiences?