Kevin's Watch

That's cheating. And I can see it happening.

I think it all started when they moved their fancy coffee machine from the dog waiting room to the cat waiting room. Some of the dog people would feel they had to justify their intrusion into cat territory, and the cat people would commiserate. And it would quickly devolve into a contest, because people are weird.

I won the contest without cheating a few years back. It's not really a contest you want to win.

We are looking to sell this house,
Buy some land and place a modular
House on that. Meaning instead of
Retiring for good from the prison in
About six years; I would retire in six
Years and go back. Double dipping

sgt.null wrote:We are looking to sell this house,
Buy some land and place a modular
House on that. Meaning instead of
Retiring for good from the prison in
About six years; I would retire in six
Years and go back. Double dipping

Great plan!! We've been planning along the same lines. I want to keep some pigs and chickens, get our own eggs and bacon instead of buying.

Good luck! It's worth it.

Hope the double-dipping thing works out for you, Sarge. Although I kind of wish you could retire from that place for good. Sounds like a horribly stressful job.

Speaking of my stressful workplace...: 264 days 'til I can retire. More like 472 before I will, though. I met last week with one of the financial planners that the firm brings in to talk to us once a year. She had a lot of advice for me, mostly of the cautious variety. Stuff like having 6 months of expenses set aside in case I can't get settled as fast as I hope to, and so on. Kinda scared me, tbh. But then I talked to a co-worker who reminded me that we've all taken big leaps of faith before, without having the financial cushion these folks always tell us we need, and everything has always worked out. So I ran the numbers on my own again yesterday and I'm pretty sure I'll be fine.

472 days sounds like a long time, but in the scheme of things not long at all (I think I have 6500 days before I can retire but hoping I'll make my millions before then )

balon! wrote:

StevieG wrote:My daughter has a trampoline competition this weekend, so it's dad and daughter time

That sounds fun! What's it entail? Is this a full contact sport? haha Pads and helmets?

Not exactly It entails jumping up and down on a trampoline and doing fancy tricks, flips and twists.

Pretty darn cool imo.

6500 days is that like 17 years? Good lord thats a long time 472 days is a drop in the ocean comparatively

Thats what we kinda did Sarge and Balon but no intention of double dipping at all ... never going back .. ever

Although when I left State policing ... I received three requests from them for me to go back but Id already got my sights set on federal LE by then.

Our course gets together every 5 years .. we travel from across the country for one night of dining and wining .. that always degenerates into whining

Im sooo glad I left SAPOL .. youd say SAPD .. cos they are doing it tough. Taking case work home, a mate in prosecutions, where Id worked too .. looked soooo old, just from the stress, the demands and the hours.

Nope we bought a small property 20 acres, 5 acres laid to garden the rest grazing lease. We ran sheep, alpaca, horses and goats .. but we moved on the livestock. The goats we trained to join a team that works in the lov area, the rest we sold for a pittance. But the drought made it impossible to feed them.

Now I only have one horse and weve had sooo much rain the grass is ridiculous and my one horse isnt keeping it down. Murphys Law right?

But we have chooks and ducks so eggs aplenty and veggie beds where we grow what we need, and a greenhouse I designed and built for my husband so he can keep his plants alive all year round. Plus I will be building an orangerie when I get back home .. for the citrus trees. It gets too cold in winter for them outside or in the ground.

Meh...computer still not sorted.

First, my old power supply wasn't quite right, and though it would have worked, the relevant cable was too short.

So, I went and bought a new power supply on Saturday.

Then I set everything up, carefully and tediously injected the boot-critical drivers into my existing OS, and it all worked and booted up.

Then, it turned out that the new gen chipset for the motherboard has no Win7 support. So as far as the PC was concerned, I had no USB ports (so no mouse / keyboard) and no network ports.

So, resigned to finally installing Win10, I tried to boot up on my Win10 installation USB. But, the system didn't see any USB ports, so it wouldn't boot off it.

So I said screw it, and ordered a 500GB SSD to do a clean install.

And then it turned out that my Win10 drive was broken.

So I've had to make a new Win10 installation USB today at work. But when I get home, I will have no power. ::sigh::

Anyway, this went from replacing the MB and CPU to a seriously expensive build.

On the plus side, when it works, it will be the most powerful PC I've ever had. And the most expensive.

--A

well powerful is good

Skyweir wrote:Niiicce Lazy .. do you record your own music? What do you play?

When I have the time I like to compose my own tunes. I use MIDI keyboard to utilize the recording software, and the new Lexicon sound card was to plug and play my electric guitar into the computer.

I play a Ratabaster 4 string, electric guitar. That's a stratocaster imitation I salvaged from a dumpster, hehehe.
The top frets are jagged and will snap strings when string bending. So I just keep it as a 4 string.
It doubles as a signal generator/continuity tester, when building guitar electronic circuits. It's all I need for now.

Wow you are VERY resourceful:biggrin: Lazy .. sounds an impressive set up?

Do you know Gwyn Ashton he is brilliant .. hes been in the UK forever it seems like. He is brilliant, makes his guitar scream like a demonic banchee .. I love it.

Balon - thanks. Good to you as well.

Skyweir wrote:Do you know Gwyn Ashton he is brilliant

He sounds like quite a guy, but I betcha any money he doesn't own a Ratabaster 4 string

https://www.gwynashton.com


Guitar solo at 2.38
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mcPb3XRqYh0


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0SgpFn1_zSw

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EcA_NvsKmrI

This one is a shit recording but the guitar solo rocks
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DzN7YysdueM

Skyweir wrote:

https://www.gwynashton.com

Thanks, but no thanks.
I never listen to others recordings while making my own.

Avatar wrote:Meh...computer still not sorted.

First, my old power supply wasn't quite right, and though it would have worked, the relevant cable was too short.

So, I went and bought a new power supply on Saturday.

Then I set everything up, carefully and tediously injected the boot-critical drivers into my existing OS, and it all worked and booted up.

Then, it turned out that the new gen chipset for the motherboard has no Win7 support. So as far as the PC was concerned, I had no USB ports (so no mouse / keyboard) and no network ports.

So, resigned to finally installing Win10, I tried to boot up on my Win10 installation USB. But, the system didn't see any USB ports, so it wouldn't boot off it.

So I said screw it, and ordered a 500GB SSD to do a clean install.

And then it turned out that my Win10 drive was broken.

So I've had to make a new Win10 installation USB today at work. But when I get home, I will have no power. ::sigh::

Anyway, this went from replacing the MB and CPU to a seriously expensive build.

On the plus side, when it works, it will be the most powerful PC I've ever had. And the most expensive.

--A

Sounds like quite an ordeal - but worth it in the end, I hope.

My graphics card has been acting up tonight. Hope it just needs new drivers or whatnot, because it's not that old, and replacing it is absolutely not in my current budget, especially with Kara needing dental work.

I feel barfy. Was just in the bathroom at work, and there was something in the trash that looked gross. I am hopeful it is just coffee grounds, but it looks more like a hysterectomy was performed in the men's bathroom.

I don't really want answers to any of the questions I might have about that statement.

Cagliostro wrote: like a hysterectomy was performed in the men's bathroom.

I hate it when that happens.

Nearing the end of Spring Break Staycation. It's been awesomely awesome!! Except that my tbrr (to be reread) list keeps getting longer. I need to reread LOTR, Harry Potter, the Chrons, the Silmarillion (really pumped that the Fall of Numenor is going to be a TV series!) Meanwhile I just started the Malazan books, plus nonfic reading on the side... So many books, so little time... When Doors of Stone comes out, I'll be in real trouble...

Cagliostro wrote: like a hysterectomy was performed in the men's bathroom.

I hate it when that happens.

Nearing the end of Spring Break Staycation. It's been awesomely awesome!! Except that my tbrr (to be reread) list keeps getting longer. I need to reread LOTR, Harry Potter, the Chrons, the Silmarillion (really pumped that the Fall of Numenor is going to be a TV series!) Meanwhile I just started the Malazan books, plus nonfic reading on the side... So many books, so little time... When Doors of Stone comes out, I'll be in real trouble...

I feel excited!!! Just got Clear to Close on the first home that I will ever own in my life and with my beautiful wife and this marks the first home she will ever own as well!!

Our closing day is April 3rd!!!
Will be moving to a far west suburb of Chicago [about 50 miles west from downtown Chicago] but I work only about 25 miles from new location.

So proud that I can make this big step in my life!!