Coroplast greenhouse! :)

[Xist]

I watched one shed video since school started.

I referred to the 25.25 hours of speech therapy sessions I observed for the third time

Mom says the refrigerator woke her at 8:15.

It was so loud I heard it through the living room and down the hall.

It seemed like a steady racket, but she ran the dishwasher, and I couldn't hear the refrigerator over it, but I can definitely hear the refrigerator now that the dishwasher stopped, it just isn't nearly as loud as before, but definitely too loud.

I keep wondering if it is time to get Mom's refrigerator and it is my friend's birthday.

She sounded sad to not have any plans, so I thought that I would mention a road trip with lots of junk food, but I haven't heard from her.

I think it is too late to drive to pick her up, drive to Uhaul in Show Low, have her follow me in Bro to Mom's house, drop a dolly, load the refrigerator and freezer since we are there, load the dolly and Bro, drive down here, drop the car and the dolly, unload the refrigerator and freezer, reconnect the dolly, have my friend follow me to drop off the car, and drop off my friend.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Couldn't you have someone else dealing with your mother's refrigerator while you could go hanging out with your friend?

[Xist]

My sister's friend was supposed to get the refrigerator, but her son-in-law needed to go to the E.R., so the friend drove down for that.

I wonder if it would make more sense to have U-Haul install a hitch on my Camry and then, I don't know, there must be some option!

I had a great time driving to Show Low and back with one young lady, I just would have preferred to maintain eye contact!

I have known her for 3-4 weeks.

I have known the one who just had a birthday for 6 years.

I have known another friend for a few years and her parents live about 20 years from Mom's house, but she hasn't talked to me too much lately, and I would probably need to rent something for her to haul a refrigerator.

[freebeard]

If it didn't have to be that particular refrierator you could probably save money by buying the closest one.

I really like my new $100 refrigerator.

[Xist]

There is a side-by-side on Craigslist for $50.

Should I care they call it a "Garage refrigerator?"--"regrigerator."

Nice backup garage regrigerator - $50 (Higley)

For some reason, the refrigerator quieted down, but is there any reason to expect it to stay quiet?

I was supposed to hang out with that fine young lady, but Mom demanded I drove her to her favorite thrift store for some new furniture, but somehow it is my fault that new handmade hardwood furniture is expensive, so maybe on Saturday I need to take this fine young lady to buy one used refrigerator and two used dressers.

Anyway, my brother-in-law apparently volunteered to do respite with my brother, and since I know a great deal about that, I tried to look up the best pay, and gave my sister the contact information, but of course, all of that took too long.

Then I finally rushed off to the VA.

1. Free myself from the tyranny of the nurse I took out: They would try, but they really wanted me to stay put so they could explain things I already understood at ridiculous length. I pay good money for my professors to do that.
2. Test my blood for immunizations: Done and I should have the results today.
3. Vaccinate me for chicken pox: Once I am reassigned I can request that from my new doctor, except I can't wait!
4. Discuss my ADHD: The site shows a walk-in clinic, but it isn't a lie, and I am doomed.
5. Discuss bifocals, because I am apparently that old: They moved that clinic, too, and I need an appointment, and:
6. Convince someone to put their name on that form due June First, but I need my test results and chicken pox vaccination first.

I sprinted around the VA and didn't necessarily accomplish anything--until I did 31 push-ups in the hospital.
Having sprinted sounds a giant hospital, I felt the need for something to drink.
Sonic showed a location a couple of miles away, so I had it give me directions, and it led me to a random intersection, without a Sonic in sight.
I told Google to take me to the nearest actual location, but I couldn't order because I couldn't pick up or cancel my first order.
I finally drove to school and was 15 minutes late. So that is how competent I am, I cannot even get a cup of water and make it to school on time.

Some OT was telling us war stories, so I drove to the supermarket 2 miles away, got lost, and failed a quiz.

[freebeard]

So that is how competent I am, I cannot even get a cup of water and make it to school on time.

Driving your own car? With a cigar lighter 12VDC outlet?

Koolatron and a 12V coffee pot?

I told Google to take me to the nearest actual location, but I couldn't order because I couldn't pick up or cancel my first order.

gOOgle? Those are the guys proposing a gatwkeeper API for the web.

Mozilla and Brave Respond to Google Web DRM

I was talking to my son, and was amazed that he is oblivious to the Micro$oft strategy of 'embrace, extend extinguish' that [quite literally] decimated computer companies in the 1990s. I mean, he lived through that.

Now here is gOOgle doing the same thing with HTML; add a layer to the TCP/IP stack without adding a layer.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by freebeard

I was talking to my son, and was amazed that he is oblivious to the Micro$oft strategy of 'embrace, extend extinguish' that [quite literally] decimated computer companies in the 1990s. I mean, he lived through that.

Now here is gOOgle doing the same thing with HTML; add a layer to the TCP/IP stack without adding a layer.

I used to believe the "free software" folks would force the predatory competition from Microsoft (and now from Google too) to at least slow down a little. Seems like I was wrong...

[freebeard]

It did work.

Apache (a-patche-ee, get it?) runs Internet. Free and Open Source can out-compete commercial software -- Blender being my favorite example.

https://kinsta.com › knowledgebase › what-is-apache
What Is Apache Web Server? What It Is and How It Works - Kinsta
Last updated: May 28, 2021 Apache is a popular open-source, cross-platform web server that is, by the numbers, the most popular web server in existence. It's actively maintained by the Apache Software Foundation.

https://store.steampowered.com › app › 365670 › Blender
Blender on Steam
Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, and video editing. Advanced users employ Blender's API for Python scripting to customize the application and write specialized tools; often these are included ...

But gOOgle is gonna gOOgle.

[Xist]

I had committed to driving to the VA on Monday and didn't have the time to go until Thursday.

I still don't have access to our mail, which apparently includes a $3,000 check, and apparently a G.I. bill certificate, although I finally took care of that.

They paid me about $950 after one month of school.

There is just a 2-3-week delay, right?

Right?!

When I don't have a deadline I keep going to pull up school stuff and deciding to go through my tabs first and not getting to school stuff until 11.

I did finally go to the VA Thursday morning--after getting my sister the information for my brother-in-law to provide respite for my brother.

I couldn't find my agency's pay anywhere, even in my work e-mail where they have shared the pay before.

I called and after waiting on hold and then talking to someone else they said $18, but their ad says that Direct Service Workers earn $20-23 and then talks about respite, habilitation, and attendant care.

Does respite pay $18 or $20?!

I don't know that I accomplished anything at the VA except for sprinting and doing a set of push-ups and then I desperately needed water.

Sonic showed a location a couple of miles away, so I set a course, which led me 19 miles to a random intersection in Mesa.

I tried calling, but the number didn't work.

I drove to the nearest location, but couldn't order because I still had one in limbo, so I drove straight to school where an OT student was talking to us, so I ran to Fry's for some water.

I had two assignments due Thursday night and didn't complete either.

It was supposed to be in English and Spanish and I couldn't just translate the Spanish because it was a language screener, so I would have needed to look up grammatic milestones.

Spanish has half as many phonemes as English, but it still took me a while to make phrases with three words starting with each phoneme.

I knew the professor docked 10% once it was 1 minute late--and only allows us to submit assignments 21 minutes late, I submitted what I had at 11:59 and went to bed.

I translated the non-grammatical remainder, updated it for my own satisfaction, and then made an oral speech mechanism screener combining the two examples we had for another class, but our professor explained why that wasn't great, although she still gave us full credit.

We were told to wear scrubs and bring gloves, but neither of the examples I saw involved me touching the client, so the gloves and provided tongue depressors were wasted, and I don't know why we were told to wear scrubs.

However, the professor reminded me that we wanted to have the client push the tongue depressor, so I will probably add that to my screener.

I lost 10% for submitting it late and then scored 71.4% on a quiz, so I am barely passing, and need to ensure that I pull up that.

Some on-line training through Colombia University was due tonight and of course the site didn't work right.

I was up until 0230 working on it, slept less than 5 hours, hiked almost 4 miles with that beautiful runner--and kept stopping to rest.

It was 107° when we got back to my car, there wasn't an inch of shade, and I brought two water bottles in a backpack thinking I wouldn't need nearly that much and, once I rested in my air conditioning for 15 minutes I drove straight to Sonic and bought a 44-ounce diet cherry limeade and a 44-ounce water.

Then I drove to Kneaders and drank a quart of soup and a cup of water.

Camelbacks are great, but I don't want to wash one again, so I said that I wanted something to carry 4 Nalgene bottles and she said they totally sell them, although I cannot find anything.

Had I started my homework at a reasonable hour I should have been able to wake up and go hiking much earlier--after additional sleep--should have made a huge difference, but what about this?

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by freebeard

It did work.

Not to the extent I expected it would, when I was more interested about it 15 years ago. Nowadays I still lurk about getting rid of Windows once in a while...

Free and Open Source can out-compete commercial software

The problem is Microsoft still has a much greater market presence than some Linux distros for instance. Even some cheap notebooks with an extremely basic hardware have Windows by default, while anything with Ubuntu is usually only available on request.