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I love hearing about the the walks some of you are taking. I love to walk with the dogs but right now it's too hot.
I don't recall updating on my Car Crisis, but the insurance totalled our poor Equinox. It didn't look more than dinged but apparently a LOT of damage was underneath that cracked front grill. (Feel free to share this story with any new or future drivers in your life, so some good comes from our misfortune - even low speed collisions with deer can mess up your car.) Insurance is going about the process of paying the finance company, loaner car isn't costing us out of pocket, and we think we have found a safe replacement vehicle that's in good shape at a good price.
Remember that, if the US is like the UK, uneconomical to repair doesn't man the same as the repair would cost more than a replacement - it just means that the insurers will end up better off (smaller loss, or even a profit) from writing the car off, paying you, and salvaging the "wreck" than they would from paying for the fix - alowing for the potential of the fix to cost more than estimated. My father's car was damaged (back door badly dented and some adjacent areas affected) and the iinsureers wanted to write it off, but he thought it was fixable so he took the reduced insurance payment for keeping the car and was able to get the door replaced and adjacent areas fixed for less than that reduce payment - but of course if it had worked out to cost more he would have had no protection and would have had to cover the shortfall.
Non-complaint: Wheee, an out of town mini-adventure. Symphony buddy and I are going to a gem and mineral show in Erie, Pennsylvania this weekend.
Lots of eye candy and some of it possibly affordable. I can't think of any particular mineral sample I want to add to my collection of gems & minerals, I've got adequate examples of the typical ones, and very little display space left. However, sometimes at the gem shows they have some nice examples of carved semi-precious gemstone animals (nephrite, jadeite, alabaster, tiger's eye, lapis lazuli, agate, turquoise, petrified wood, rose quartz, malachite, amethyst, carnelian, amazonite, jasper, etc.) and I can always find room for a new type of animal in my petrified zoo. They're small usually less than 1.5 or 2 inches (3-5 cm) high. Finding a good one (i.e. quality stone, quality carving) is the problem, I'm picky, and necessarily frugal.
Back when I lived in Washington, DC I had access to little shops in big cities once in a while to glean my collection of nearly 40 years.
It does work very similar over here. I wish we could do what your dad did, but as the vehicle loan wasn't paid off, the insurance is paying the company that gave us the loan & not us. :( And we don't have the money it would cost to get it fixed if we could keep it.
Ever hear of Ulexite (Television Stone)? I have a piece that I got at the Museum of Science in Boston. Pretty cool!
I love your stone menagerie! I hope you find a new friend to add to the herd!
I had the sudden urge to see what the lowest denomination of each country's currency was, and either nobody has thought to compile that information, or my Google-fu has somehow failed, because I've tried several different combinations of search terms and most of the results are just which currencies have the lowest value in financial terms. As an example of the kind of information I'm looking for, 1,000 Korean won are worth roughly one US dollar, and I haven't been to Korea in quite some time, but the smallest coin I remember encountering was 100 won. The Vietnamese dong is worth so little the lowest denomination of currency commonly in use is the 1,000 dong bill. Conversely, the US and UK still have a penny, worth 1/100 of a dollar, even though they really should retire them and make 5-cent/pence coins the lowest value of coin available.
But then we wouldn't be able to 'Spend a Penny', though last time I got charged it cost me 50 pence! That's inflation for you, though the public toilets in question did accept contactless cards, it's not yet reached the point where your charged different amounts depending on your needs, and/or quantity.
Of course now the idea is out there it's only a matter of time.
In the UK we only removed the Half-Penny from circulation in 1984, some 7 centuries after it's introduction, so I can't see the removal of the 1 and 2 pence coins anytime soon, it's just not the sort of thing we do, maybe in the next millennium?
The loss of the 2p coin would of course be a great loss to the seaside amusements industry as the 2p Penny Falls would need to be replaced or re-engineered.
I actually forgot that tuppence were a real thing, not a device dreamed up by Charles Dickens or something.
Tuppence is very much a real thing, both a coin and a name. Of course we also had the Farthing until 1960, the quater penny. Of course back then there were 240 pence in the pound and a whole host of different value coins, the Three Farthing worth 3 quarters of a penny, the Threepenny, the Thrupny Bit as it was commonly known, probably best not to bring up Cockney Rhyming Slang at this point. When decimalisation was introduced many remained in circulation with new decimal values, the old sixpence being worth 2.5p and in use until 1980.
I'm familiar with its behavior, but I never knew its name, and don't have an example. Thanks.
Speaking of stone, specifically flint.
I used to pick up quite a few arrowheads around the farm through the years. The Cherokee relics were turned up when we tilled the fields. My farm (where I still live) is in southeast Tennessee.
We don't farm the farm anymore, though.
It's just another day that could only happen in the They Don't Farm the Farms Anymore Complaint Thread.
I wanted to download the Mosquito. Apparently there are two products called the Mosquito. One is a robot mosquito and the other one is not. I got confused which download is which.
Complaint one. I spilled a bowl of rubbing alcohol mixed wsith water on my dresser/desk. I hope I picked most of it up. Some of it got on the carpet. I was trying to clean my earrings. Fortunately most of the stuff that spilled was water.
Complaint 2. I made two cheese hot dogs and I only could eat one. The cheese was actually a slice of colby jack. Complaint 2.5 I could not open the bag of sliced colby jack cheese. I cut it open and threw the bag away. The cheese is now in a clean whip cream container.
Complaint 3. When my dad was visiting earlier this month, I told him about a software project I wanted to make. Instead of helping me with it, he suggested me using Blender instead of the software I use. He says it is more powerful. He told me of the software he got that can turn pictures into 3D objects. He said he would give it to me, but I haven't seen it. He wants me to use it with Blender. I am afraid that the mesh would be a complete mess. He told me that I can use a decimator that is in blender. There is a Decimator for DS in the store.
Complaint 4. My guardian won't give me money. Her excuse is that I should clean my room instead of thinking of something to buy. I do work on my room, but I can't do it all in one day. I am working part by part. Also it isn't looking for something to buy per say. It is that I have no money and it stressed me out. I am trying to get back to work but this financial situation is very annoying.
I wonder how old they are... no way to tell, I suppose.
I am trying to transfer photos from my iPad to my computer. For some reason, my computer can't see the iPad. I restarted the iPad and just restarted the computer.
I love taking the spoon out of my soup and only realize it had no food on it when it reaches my mouth.
I browned some beef. I added it to some cream of mushroom soup and cooked it. I also added some corn and some fiesta cheese to it. That is my dinner tonight!
Non-complaint: I'm making my own stuff in Blender now. Can I now call myself a 3D artist/creator?
It'd be nice to actually have a valid response when people ask me what I do.
Complaint: Gotta go herd some cats....
Very nice. You have my permission to call yourself a 3D modeler.
Silly Animation I made with A.I.
https://youtube.com/shorts/cjsn8fo-2PE?si=wEMvC9D-pKrLDMcw
Non-complaint: Back from the Gem & Mineral show in Erie, PA. Found a couple of new stone critters for my petrified zoo. A malachite panther, and a tiger eye cobra.(center of photo below) Saw lots of other eye candy, some to drool over but way out of my league. Had lunch with my symphony buddy in Erie at the Outback Steakhouse. Stopped at a big liquor store to pick up a bottle of champagne for a wedding gift. Busy day. Had to raid my savings again, but all in all, a great mini-adventure, w/souvenirs.
WHOO-HOO! Thanks ^^
Cool.
I took a nap. It was longer than I thought I wanted. It was over an hour, I think.
Wheee... Unexpected micro-adventure: Apparently while I was out of town yesterday, the town fire department was celebrating 100 years of service and had a parade, games, bounce house, food trucks, and chicken BBQ. Which I totally missed (I love chicken BBQ
). Then after dark they had a proper, professional fireworks display (a first, there's never been a proper fireworks display in this town)
All this was happening at the fireman's picnic grounds, with parking and a big picnic pavilion next to the creek, which goes completely unused for ten years at at time, in the center of town (two blocks from me). When the sky explosions started I turned off the porch light, stood on my porch and watched the show, above the trees, which lasted about 20 minutes.
Non-complaint: I woke up early this morning(6:15) and just happened to notice a few brown blips through the venetian blinds in my bedroom window. When I looked out, there was a family of four deer that had come down the hill from the woods, getting ready to cross the main road and go down into the swamp. I'd seen them before, earlier this year but now the two fawns are about 3/4 the size of the adults. Three of them made it across, but the fourth hesitated and got scared by an oncoming truck, and ran back up the hill. I kept watching and it eventually decided to "gun it" and raced full speed from halfway up the hill, down across the neighbor's lawn and across the street to the rest of the family waiting on the other side. And off they went, across the train tracks and down into the swamp for a day of grazing. I sent positive waves at them, suggesting that they have a good day, find lots of food, don't get hit by a car, and don't get eaten by the bears.
non-complaint: My suburb's celebration of itself was this past week, and the fireworks were last night. That show's been a tradition for elder child + me since they were three or so and we happened upon it accidentally... much more complicated now with Little Dude's sensory issues and sleep disorder. I wound up peeling him out of bed several hours before he would've gotten up on his own and carrying him down to the car (oof - he's getting bigger, and I'm not). But we got parked in the lot of the local Kohl's with about twenty minutes to spare, Little Dude was patient for all twenty of them, and once the show started he and I stayed in the car where he'd be buffered from the noise and vibrations. Elder child took their snacks to the trunk and enjoyed from the outside -- thirteen is old enough for that, and to think it's cool to have a little independent space. Everyone enjoyed and we didn't get stuck in traffic on the way out. The rest of the day was kind of a wash (which happens when dude is underslept) but for that one shining moment I had everything together.
And that was the one moment I really needed, so elder child could still have their special tradition.
Mom win.
I am confused by something that my dad told me years ago. That was that the beauty of fiction is that you can make it up.
I have major issues with this. There are at least several movies that icozld not finish due to blatant anachronisms in them. One example is in Gladiator 2, where someone is a pumpkin farmer. I knew even then that pumpkins were not in that area during gladiator time.
The Roman's had curcurbitas which were types of edible gourds, but pumpkins didn't reach Europe until after Columbus made his first voyage to the"New World".
So Gladiator 2 should have had a gourd farmer, which would have been accurate.
Although the first Gladiator had that scene where they were watching television, but I may be thinking of a different movie altogether.
I am planing on going back into writing that novel series I have planned on writing for almost 20 years. I can't remember when I thought of the idea to write an homage story based on a book released in the fall of 2005 and the movie released in the fall of 2008.
I am toying with the reason Izzy (the MC) moves to Washington. I think it might have to do with her iPhone 13 taken away from her. Somehow that makes it so she had to move.