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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    nomms royal danish buttah cookies.

    wookie cookie

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,377
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Non-complaint:  I found an on-line auction yesterday and saw an elegant and rare item I'd wanted for decades.smiley  I patiently watched and waited most of the afternoon until my item came up.  I pounced on the "BID" button once as it first appeared at the minimum price and got feedback that "I was the current highest bidder".  Yea!  Then I noticed than in the millisecond from the time my brain made the decision to  press the "BID" button to the time my finger actually moved, the price had flipped up a step.  Grrr...  That, and the "Buyer's Fee" plus tax and exorbitant shipping brings the total to 3 times the price I had intended to spend. frown

    Complaint:  I found an on-line auction yesterday and saw an item I'd wanted for decades and won it.  This is terrible. sad These auctions are way too addictive.  Almost as bad as shopping at DAZ.  My budget is now shot to hell for the next 3 months and I still have medical bills to prepare for.  I've made the decision that auctions are now off my plate.  All email  notices for auctions will go directly to the JUNK folder, the credit card comes out of my wallet and goes into the safe, and it's a cash only existence for a hundred days.  And DAZ will have to exist without my support.  The catalog is off limits.  Putting my finger fingers in my ears (la-la-la-la)  except for freebies.

    Edited to correct the anatomically impossible act of putting one finger it both ears (without a very long finger and definite brain damage).

    Happy and sad for you!

    You made me laugh out loud with the long finger and brain damage comment!   laugh​  laugh​  laugh​  

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,377

    At 1:00 am it was 31F.  At 1:00 pm...25F.  This seems to be happening a lot...warmer in the middle of the night than the afternoon.   frown​  

    And windy...very windy.

    Dana

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    it's a dusting tnite.  brrrrr brrrrrrrr

     

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  • starionwolfstarionwolf Posts: 3,670

    Yes, it is cold and windy tonight.

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    Morning. Cooler here after some kind of storm front moved in and disappeared the sun a couple of hours ago :)

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,475

    I am trying to figure out if I installed the right version of OS on this machine.  Is it possible to install a 32 bit OS onto a 64 bit machine?

  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,324
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Non-complaint:  I found an on-line auction yesterday and saw an elegant and rare item I'd wanted for decades.smiley  I patiently watched and waited most of the afternoon until my item came up.  I pounced on the "BID" button once as it first appeared at the minimum price and got feedback that "I was the current highest bidder".  Yea!  Then I noticed than in the millisecond from the time my brain made the decision to  press the "BID" button to the time my finger actually moved, the price had flipped up a step.  Grrr...  That, and the "Buyer's Fee" plus tax and exorbitant shipping brings the total to 3 times the price I had intended to spend. frown

    Complaint:  I found an on-line auction yesterday and saw an item I'd wanted for decades and won it.  This is terrible. sad These auctions are way too addictive.  Almost as bad as shopping at DAZ.  My budget is now shot to hell for the next 3 months and I still have medical bills to prepare for.  I've made the decision that auctions are now off my plate.  All email  notices for auctions will go directly to the JUNK folder, the credit card comes out of my wallet and goes into the safe, and it's a cash only existence for a hundred days.  And DAZ will have to exist without my support.  The catalog is off limits.  Putting my finger fingers in my ears (la-la-la-la)  except for freebies.

    Edited to correct the anatomically impossible act of putting one finger it both ears (without a very long finger and definite brain damage).

    I have one emergency credit card.
    I keep it dry inside a ziplock bag, which is inside a gallon bag full of water.
    In the freezer.
    Like I said, it's for emergencies.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,187
    DanaTA said:

    At 1:00 am it was 31F.  At 1:00 pm...25F.  This seems to be happening a lot...warmer in the middle of the night than the afternoon.   frown​  

    And windy...very windy.

    Dana

    ...windy and cold here as well.  Had to go to the east side of town today during my mid week errands where the wind was even worse with daytime temps in the low 40s.  Waiting for the bus home tonight was no fun.  At least I had a doorway to stand in to get out of the wind which picked up even more by evening with temps that dropped into the mid 30s.  Even with extra layers on and nice thick wooly socks I was still shivering.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,187
    Petercat said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Non-complaint:  I found an on-line auction yesterday and saw an elegant and rare item I'd wanted for decades.smiley  I patiently watched and waited most of the afternoon until my item came up.  I pounced on the "BID" button once as it first appeared at the minimum price and got feedback that "I was the current highest bidder".  Yea!  Then I noticed than in the millisecond from the time my brain made the decision to  press the "BID" button to the time my finger actually moved, the price had flipped up a step.  Grrr...  That, and the "Buyer's Fee" plus tax and exorbitant shipping brings the total to 3 times the price I had intended to spend. frown

    Complaint:  I found an on-line auction yesterday and saw an item I'd wanted for decades and won it.  This is terrible. sad These auctions are way too addictive.  Almost as bad as shopping at DAZ.  My budget is now shot to hell for the next 3 months and I still have medical bills to prepare for.  I've made the decision that auctions are now off my plate.  All email  notices for auctions will go directly to the JUNK folder, the credit card comes out of my wallet and goes into the safe, and it's a cash only existence for a hundred days.  And DAZ will have to exist without my support.  The catalog is off limits.  Putting my finger fingers in my ears (la-la-la-la)  except for freebies.

    Edited to correct the anatomically impossible act of putting one finger it both ears (without a very long finger and definite brain damage).

    I have one emergency credit card.
    I keep it dry inside a ziplock bag, which is inside a gallon bag full of water.
    In the freezer.
    Like I said, it's for emergencies.

    ...good plan.

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    I am trying to figure out if I installed the right version of OS on this machine.  Is it possible to install a 32 bit OS onto a 64 bit machine?

    Sure if you boot from an install DVD although prepherals might not work cos they came with 64 bit drivers ?

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    kyoto kid said:
    Petercat said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Non-complaint:  I found an on-line auction yesterday and saw an elegant and rare item I'd wanted for decades.smiley  I patiently watched and waited most of the afternoon until my item came up.  I pounced on the "BID" button once as it first appeared at the minimum price and got feedback that "I was the current highest bidder".  Yea!  Then I noticed than in the millisecond from the time my brain made the decision to  press the "BID" button to the time my finger actually moved, the price had flipped up a step.  Grrr...  That, and the "Buyer's Fee" plus tax and exorbitant shipping brings the total to 3 times the price I had intended to spend. frown

    Complaint:  I found an on-line auction yesterday and saw an item I'd wanted for decades and won it.  This is terrible. sad These auctions are way too addictive.  Almost as bad as shopping at DAZ.  My budget is now shot to hell for the next 3 months and I still have medical bills to prepare for.  I've made the decision that auctions are now off my plate.  All email  notices for auctions will go directly to the JUNK folder, the credit card comes out of my wallet and goes into the safe, and it's a cash only existence for a hundred days.  And DAZ will have to exist without my support.  The catalog is off limits.  Putting my finger fingers in my ears (la-la-la-la)  except for freebies.

    Edited to correct the anatomically impossible act of putting one finger it both ears (without a very long finger and definite brain damage).

    I have one emergency credit card.
    I keep it dry inside a ziplock bag, which is inside a gallon bag full of water.
    In the freezer.
    Like I said, it's for emergencies.

    ...good plan.

    Always wondered how a credit freeze worked :)

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,187

    ....hehhehheh.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,270
    edited December 2017

    Complaint:  Arghhhh..., last night there was well over a foot of snow on the ground, and my car and this morning there's another 2 or 3 inches.  Luckily it's still light fluffy stuff so I guess I better get out there and remove it before it turns to heavy, sticky, frozen, nasty stuff. frown

    Unfortunately, I've discovered that the exhaust system fix I had done a few weeks ago didn't hold.  (there goes $77 down the drain) and if my car is stopped in place while running, fumes come into the cabin and I have to open the windows. angry So, warming the car while sweeping the snow off of it will be problematic. sad

    Non-complaint:  Last night I got an email from an auction company that I'd been fighting with to finally bill me and ship a previous winnings from several weeks ago.  They said payment had been received and they were packing it when they noticed that one hoof of the bronze Waterbuffalo I'd won had, at some time in the past, been broken and poorly repaired.  The photo that they sent to prove it, showed a distinct off-center crude joint.  I could have lived with small dents or scratches or wear but not a poor repair, so I accepted their offer to cancel my order.  This is actually a good thing because that frees up some money to pay for the auction item I won a few days ago that I was worried about how to pay for.  Not a total solution, but it helps. indecision  Although I will regret someday not having another unique bronze animal in my menagerie. sad  What is it with my bronze animals that I win at auction that turn out to be broken before shipment?  First it was a beautiful little owl and now a magnificent Waterbuffalo lost to "breakage".  Sigh!  I started collecting bronze figurines 40 years ago because I figured they wouldn't break like glass or porcelain.  Oy!  Go figure!  My other major collection is essentially rocks!  Little animals carved from semi-precious gemstone rocks like Jasper, Carnelion, Jade, Dolomite, Quartz, Turquoise, Agate, Calcite, Lapis Lazuli, Dalmation Jasper, Alabaster, Tiger Eye, Amethyst, Charoite, Petrified Wood, Soapstone, Amber and Malachite.  I apparently have this fear of my klutzy-self breaking things. blush

    In case you're interested in the rainbow of colors of my "stones".

    Jasper          deep yellow

    Carnelion     translucent red/orange

    Jade            semi-translucent green

    Dolomite     brown/white

    Quartz         clear, smokey, translucent/transparent pink

    Turquoise   mottled turquoise

    Agate          translucent/transparent orange/white

    Calcite        off-white

    Lapis Lazuli     deep intense dark blue w/goldish flecks

    Dalmation Jasper    light gray with black spots

    Alabaster       translucent brilliant white

    Tiger Eye       brilliantly irridescent brown

    Amethyst       transparent purple/violet

    Charoite        deep mottled blue

    Petrified Wood     mottled reddish brown

    Soapstone      tan

    Amber            transparent amber

    Malachite       deep intense mottled dark green

    I'm still looking for something dark black, something like obsidian.  Perhaps an obsidian penguin inlayed with alabaster tummy and jasper beak & feet, and a pearl egg between its feet. enlightened

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    is it friday yet?

    frosty stuff on the ground. no wanna walk on it.

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,475

    I do not feel well.  Upset tummy issues.

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    kyoto kid said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...good to see your appetite is back.

    Big pot of dead bird in yellow Thai curry with green onions and petite carrots on the schedule for tonight.  That will last me four days. Nighttime temps gonna be around or below freezing all week so need to stay warm and the best (as well as tastiest) way is from the inside.

    Dead bird curry, yum!  I prefer dead bird to dead cow for Thai food, or non-trayed dead fish.

    ...yeah have moved away from beef in a lot of my cooking with a few exceptions (my burritos as well as Pho and occasionally in Teryaki), and I still like a good burger now & then.  Not much of a "steak & potato" person anymore.  When I can find (and afford) it I'll sometimes use buffalo for my burritos. Much better and healthier than most ground beef you get at the market (especially that stuff that comes in those big tubes).

    Used to love shrimp but lately it seems I'm developing a sensitivity to it. 

    Gads this spell check really needs a better dictionary and some recoding.  I'm finding more and more that I have to manually fix typos as the suggestions are sometimes so off base for what are common typos it is ridiculous.  Apparently "when" is no longer a correction option for "whne" (it used to be) and while it finally flags typos like  "teh" and "adn" it doesn't list "the" or "and" as possible corrections. 

    My beef (pun intended) is that most of the Thai places I go to use so--so grade beef or a tough cut, ruining the experience.  Nowadays if I want beef I get ground sirloin or a good cut steak and cook it all myself

    Now I want Thai food and the online delivery service doesn't have anything decent.  Feh.

    Lovely weather here, upper 50f's all week. Wibdow and curtains open. :) Snacking on Romaine lettuce leaves, so healthy and tasty.

    Buffalo is so lean.. good stuff, I can get ground buffalo delivered.  Makes killer burgers.  I've done a turkey burger ot two before as well/

    Damn, I really want Thai food!

     

  • NVIATWASNVIATWAS Posts: 1,242
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  OMG..., Jane Fonda (Barbarella) is 80 years old.   surprise http://www.erienewsnow.com/story/37042252/jane-fonda-celebrates-80th-birthday-with-big-bash-in-atlanta

     

    OMG!  I had no idea!  Interestingly weird movie.  Lots of fake sex.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  Arghhhh..., last night there was well over a foot of snow on the ground, and my car and this morning there's another 2 or 3 inches.  Luckily it's still light fluffy stuff so I guess I better get out there and remove it before it turns to heavy, sticky, frozen, nasty stuff. frown

    Unfortunately, I've discovered that the exhaust system fix I had done a few weeks ago didn't hold.  (there goes $77 down the drain) and if my car is stopped in place while running, fumes come into the cabin and I have to open the windows. angry So, warming the car while sweeping the snow off of it will be problematic. sad

    Non-complaint:  Last night I got an email from an auction company that I'd been fighting with to finally bill me and ship a previous winnings from several weeks ago.  They said payment had been received and they were packing it when they noticed that one hoof of the bronze Waterbuffalo I'd won had, at some time in the past, been broken and poorly repaired.  The photo that they sent to prove it, showed a distinct off-center crude joint.  I could have lived with small dents or scratches or wear but not a poor repair, so I accepted their offer to cancel my order.  This is actually a good thing because that frees up some money to pay for the auction item I won a few days ago that I was worried about how to pay for.  Not a total solution, but it helps. indecision  Although I will regret someday not having another unique bronze animal in my menagerie. sad  What is it with my bronze animals that I win at auction that turn out to be broken before shipment?  First it was a beautiful little owl and now a magnificent Waterbuffalo lost to "breakage".  Sigh!  I started collecting bronze figurines 40 years ago because I figured they wouldn't break like glass or porcelain.  Oy!  Go figure!  My other major collection is essentially rocks!  Little animals carved from semi-precious gemstone rocks like Jasper, Carnelion, Jade, Dolomite, Quartz, Turquoise, Agate, Calcite, Lapis Lazuli, Dalmation Jasper, Alabaster, Tiger Eye, Amethyst, Charoite, Petrified Wood, Soapstone, Amber and Malachite.  I apparently have this fear of my klutzy-self breaking things. blush

    In case you're interested in the rainbow of colors of my "stones".

    Jasper          deep yellow

    Carnelion     translucent red/orange

    Jade            semi-translucent green

    Dolomite     brown/white

    Quartz         clear, smokey, translucent/transparent pink

    Turquoise   mottled turquoise

    Agate          translucent/transparent orange/white

    Calcite        off-white

    Lapis Lazuli     deep intense dark blue w/goldish flecks

    Dalmation Jasper    light gray with black spots

    Alabaster       translucent brilliant white

    Tiger Eye       brilliantly irridescent brown

    Amethyst       transparent purple/violet

    Charoite        deep mottled blue

    Petrified Wood     mottled reddish brown

    Soapstone      tan

    Amber            transparent amber

    Malachite       deep intense mottled dark green

    I'm still looking for something dark black, something like obsidian.  Perhaps an obsidian penguin inlayed with alabaster tummy and jasper beak & feet, and a pearl egg between its feet. enlightened

    I have a black dragon, carved from coal   

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,187
    edited December 2017
    Mistara said:

    is it friday yet?

    frosty stuff on the ground. no wanna walk on it.

    ...one more day.

    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,187
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    I do not feel well.  Upset tummy issues.

    ...

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,475

    I do not feel well.  Upset tummy issues.

    kyoto kid said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    I do not feel well.  Upset tummy issues.

    ...

    Thanks!

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,187
    NVIATWAS said:
    kyoto kid said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...good to see your appetite is back.

    Big pot of dead bird in yellow Thai curry with green onions and petite carrots on the schedule for tonight.  That will last me four days. Nighttime temps gonna be around or below freezing all week so need to stay warm and the best (as well as tastiest) way is from the inside.

    Dead bird curry, yum!  I prefer dead bird to dead cow for Thai food, or non-trayed dead fish.

    ...yeah have moved away from beef in a lot of my cooking with a few exceptions (my burritos as well as Pho and occasionally in Teryaki), and I still like a good burger now & then.  Not much of a "steak & potato" person anymore.  When I can find (and afford) it I'll sometimes use buffalo for my burritos. Much better and healthier than most ground beef you get at the market (especially that stuff that comes in those big tubes).

    Used to love shrimp but lately it seems I'm developing a sensitivity to it. 

    Gads this spell check really needs a better dictionary and some recoding.  I'm finding more and more that I have to manually fix typos as the suggestions are sometimes so off base for what are common typos it is ridiculous.  Apparently "when" is no longer a correction option for "whne" (it used to be) and while it finally flags typos like  "teh" and "adn" it doesn't list "the" or "and" as possible corrections. 

    My beef (pun intended) is that most of the Thai places I go to use so--so grade beef or a tough cut, ruining the experience.  Nowadays if I want beef I get ground sirloin or a good cut steak and cook it all myself

    Now I want Thai food and the online delivery service doesn't have anything decent.  Feh.

    Lovely weather here, upper 50f's all week. Wibdow and curtains open. :) Snacking on Romaine lettuce leaves, so healthy and tasty.

    Buffalo is so lean.. good stuff, I can get ground buffalo delivered.  Makes killer burgers.  I've done a turkey burger ot two before as well/

    Damn, I really want Thai food!

     

    ...there is a place I like to go to, close to where I used to live, that does both Thai and Vietnamese.  Their Pho is some of the best I've had, nice and tender almost paper thin slices of beef with veggies and rice noodles in a hearty broth.

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,475

    Trying to watch an odd Netflix show with people crawling out of graves.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,270
    Chohole said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  Arghhhh..., last night there was well over a foot of snow on the ground, and my car and this morning there's another 2 or 3 inches.  Luckily it's still light fluffy stuff so I guess I better get out there and remove it before it turns to heavy, sticky, frozen, nasty stuff. frown

    Unfortunately, I've discovered that the exhaust system fix I had done a few weeks ago didn't hold.  (there goes $77 down the drain) and if my car is stopped in place while running, fumes come into the cabin and I have to open the windows. angry So, warming the car while sweeping the snow off of it will be problematic. sad

    Non-complaint:  Last night I got an email from an auction company that I'd been fighting with to finally bill me and ship a previous winnings from several weeks ago.  They said payment had been received and they were packing it when they noticed that one hoof of the bronze Waterbuffalo I'd won had, at some time in the past, been broken and poorly repaired.  The photo that they sent to prove it, showed a distinct off-center crude joint.  I could have lived with small dents or scratches or wear but not a poor repair, so I accepted their offer to cancel my order.  This is actually a good thing because that frees up some money to pay for the auction item I won a few days ago that I was worried about how to pay for.  Not a total solution, but it helps. indecision  Although I will regret someday not having another unique bronze animal in my menagerie. sad  What is it with my bronze animals that I win at auction that turn out to be broken before shipment?  First it was a beautiful little owl and now a magnificent Waterbuffalo lost to "breakage".  Sigh!  I started collecting bronze figurines 40 years ago because I figured they wouldn't break like glass or porcelain.  Oy!  Go figure!  My other major collection is essentially rocks!  Little animals carved from semi-precious gemstone rocks like Jasper, Carnelion, Jade, Dolomite, Quartz, Turquoise, Agate, Calcite, Lapis Lazuli, Dalmation Jasper, Alabaster, Tiger Eye, Amethyst, Charoite, Petrified Wood, Soapstone, Amber and Malachite.  I apparently have this fear of my klutzy-self breaking things. blush

    In case you're interested in the rainbow of colors of my "stones".

    Jasper          deep yellow

    Carnelion     translucent red/orange

    Jade            semi-translucent green

    Dolomite     brown/white

    Quartz         clear, smokey, translucent/transparent pink

    Turquoise   mottled turquoise

    Agate          translucent/transparent orange/white

    Calcite        off-white

    Lapis Lazuli     deep intense dark blue w/goldish flecks

    Dalmation Jasper    light gray with black spots

    Alabaster       translucent brilliant white

    Tiger Eye       brilliantly irridescent brown

    Amethyst       transparent purple/violet

    Charoite        deep mottled blue

    Petrified Wood     mottled reddish brown

    Soapstone      tan

    Amber            transparent amber

    Malachite       deep intense mottled dark green

    I'm still looking for something dark black, something like obsidian.  Perhaps an obsidian penguin inlayed with alabaster tummy and jasper beak & feet, and a pearl egg between its feet. enlightened

    I have a black dragon, carved from coal   

    So very cool! yes

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,270
    edited December 2017
    NVIATWAS said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  OMG..., Jane Fonda (Barbarella) is 80 years old.   surprise http://www.erienewsnow.com/story/37042252/jane-fonda-celebrates-80th-birthday-with-big-bash-in-atlanta

     

    OMG!  I had no idea!  Interestingly weird movie.  Lots of fake sex.

    Back in the day it was shockingly weird.  Caused quite a controversy. yes

    This https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD0bBj_e5B4 was my favorite scene I think because of the guy wearing fur.  I didn't suspect until 10 years later that I was gay. surprise

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,377
    LeatherGryphon said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  OMG..., Jane Fonda (Barbarella) is 80 years old.   surprise http://www.erienewsnow.com/story/37042252/jane-fonda-celebrates-80th-birthday-with-big-bash-in-atlanta

     

    OMG!  I had no idea!  Interestingly weird movie.  Lots of fake sex.

    Back in the day it was shockingly weird.  Caused quite a controversy. yes

    Great, fun, movie!  One of my favorites!  (I seem to have a lot of favorites)

    Dana

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,355

    Argh...cold or flu. Making sure I'm hydrated. Hate being sick!

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,187

    ...ugh I know the feeling.  Get better soonest.

  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,324
    DanaTA said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    NVIATWAS said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Complaint:  OMG..., Jane Fonda (Barbarella) is 80 years old.   surprise http://www.erienewsnow.com/story/37042252/jane-fonda-celebrates-80th-birthday-with-big-bash-in-atlanta

     

    OMG!  I had no idea!  Interestingly weird movie.  Lots of fake sex.

    Back in the day it was shockingly weird.  Caused quite a controversy. yes

    Great, fun, movie!  One of my favorites!  (I seem to have a lot of favorites)

    Dana

    I'll take anything with Raquel Welch in it.
    She was such a versatile actress.

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