The "The Weather Changes More Often than the Thread Title" Complaint Thread

memcneil70 · August 21

Torquinox said:

@memcneil70 The awful part is, Adobe owns Substance Painter. I'd really like to give that a spin. Sorry to hear these things are happening to you. Failing eyesight is a nightmare and back pain is still among the worst pains. Seems unfair that anyone should have to deal with all that. I hear you on pet competition for prime sleepy time real estate. I was falling off the edge of the bed last night and wasn't sure why. Oh, the beagle was sleeping right in the middle of everything. Sadly for beagles, they don't have razor sharp claws and mine is docile. So I gently moved her out of the middle and took back my space.

I managed to buy Substance Painter just before Adobe bought it. Another thing I have to open up and learn. Sigh.

Back when I lived in California and had a home with a queen bed and six Lhasa Apsos I had that experience of being shoved off the bed as the furballs were lined up next to me and gradually shoving me off the edge during the night. Better me than them. Currently the cats are more mobile during the night. It is only during the day that Simon takes up his station in one corner made by my pillows and the other pillows and throws. Now Charlie has been know to climb on my rear pillow during the night and flatten it and I find my feet off the end of the bed or curled over. He varies his routine. He now has an Amazon shipping box with a throw in it, that is HIS safe zone and disappears into it often. Simon has tried to get into it and been absolutely rebuffed. They may be partners but there are limits!

But they woke me up at 1am MDT today. To a migraine that my meds seem to be helping. Thank you little gods.

SilverGirl · August 21

memcneil70 said:

Torquinox said:

@memcneil70 The awful part is, Adobe owns Substance Painter. I'd really like to give that a spin. Sorry to hear these things are happening to you. Failing eyesight is a nightmare and back pain is still among the worst pains. Seems unfair that anyone should have to deal with all that. I hear you on pet competition for prime sleepy time real estate. I was falling off the edge of the bed last night and wasn't sure why. Oh, the beagle was sleeping right in the middle of everything. Sadly for beagles, they don't have razor sharp claws and mine is docile. So I gently moved her out of the middle and took back my space.

I managed to buy Substance Painter just before Adobe bought it. Another thing I have to open up and learn. Sigh.

Back when I lived in California and had a home with a queen bed and six Lhasa Apsos I had that experience of being shoved off the bed as the furballs were lined up next to me and gradually shoving me off the edge during the night. Better me than them. Currently the cats are more mobile during the night. It is only during the day that Simon takes up his station in one corner made by my pillows and the other pillows and throws. Now Charlie has been know to climb on my rear pillow during the night and flatten it and I find my feet off the end of the bed or curled over. He varies his routine. He now has an Amazon shipping box with a throw in it, that is HIS safe zone and disappears into it often. Simon has tried to get into it and been absolutely rebuffed. They may be partners but there are limits!

But they woke me up at 1am MDT today. To a migraine that my meds seem to be helping. Thank you little gods.

So sorry about the migraine, but glad the meds are helping.

I join the sympathy train for being pushed out of one's own bed. For a while I was co-sleeping with Teen Kiddo (then 6.5 - 8-ish), Little Dude (baby to 2 years), plus two cats. I joked that my part of the bed was about six inches in the middle... and when Little Dude got bigger and both kids slept like starfish, sometimes I wound up just curling up at the foot of the bed. Once we got our house back and were the only ones in it, it was safe for Teen Kiddo to have their own room, and eventually both cats crossed the Bridge, so now I'm down to just Little Dude, and he really needs to be cuddled to sleep decently. Close is never close enough, so the night is pretty much a progression of him cuddling me off one side of the bed, me getting up to pee, then settling in on the opposite side (or some other spot if he's horizontal across it) and him wiggling over to start the process again.

(I know you're not supposed to co sleep with babies, but aside from the fact that he wouldn't sleep unless he was held, he was safer with me than in a crib of his own. And yes, towards the end, my ex- was that bad.)

DanaTA · August 21

TJohn said:

It's almost noon, I guess I'll hang it up.

Sad to report: Frank Beard, drummer for ZZTop and the only member that had no beard has died.

Now Billy Gibbons is the only original member left.

DanaTA · August 21

I have PhotoShop CS2. Couldn't afford any later versions, and I won't do the subscription thing. Tough using it. I have a 4K monitor and the text on the menus is so tiny. Don't need it for much, anyway...these days.

garrett_3d · August 21

SilverGirl said:

The critter part is because it's me putting munchies out for the rabbit that lives under the bush by our front door (as well as any squirrels that would like to partake). There's an apple tree on our walk that's right next to the street, and every year it drops a ton of apples that just roll down the hill and get run over by cars. So I collect the ones that would become road squish and bring them home so they can feed a hungry tummy.

So it's basically door dash... but for the critters. (They tip in happiness. :) )

It's cool... I'm pretty sure the bunny has seen me make the drop a few times now because the other day when I got home, he was munching the last of the previous day's drop and looking over at me with something that looked far more like hope than fear. I always give him his space, but I notice he doesn't bolt when we come out of the garage anymore. Wild creatures should stay wild, but I like the thought that he maybe thinks of me as the Apple Lady.

Awww, that's sweet. SilverAppleLadyGirl

SilverGirl · August 21

@garret_3d I do admit it's a little self serving... on the days it feels like so much is wrong and cruel in the world, and there's so little I can do about it, I can think "well, at least I made life a little easier for a rabbit. That's something."

kyoto kid · 2:42AM

richardandtracy said:

I don't/can't learn from video tutorials because the tutor usually speaks in an entirely unfamiliar and unintelligible version of English, I'm slightly deaf, the tutor then talks at length on something stupidly simple and skips by the only bit I don't understand in under a second. Also, not having Internet to my PC I have to watch the video on a small tablet screen away from the PC and try to remember the operation. I learn by reading and there are almost exactly zero written tutorials for Blender, and the same number of up to date help files. Regards, Richard.

...same here. It is not just the voice but some are simply poorly produced like where the "instructor" assumes you already know the intermediary steps that were skipped over to get to the end result in the video, Some narrators will also go off on tangents completely irrelevant to the process at hand.

However, the main issue I have with video tutorials is poor retention, and I often have to spend time "rewinding" them again and again, whereas with a PDF, text file format, or "heavens", an actual print manual, I can keep it open to the page(s) concerning the operation I am trying to learn.

I actually managed to find a PDF version of the dForce Complete Tutorial Bundle and downloaded it.

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@SilverGirl N ice story about the apples and bunny. I go past a place every couple days where the same is allowed to happen. Seems a tragic waste.

@LeatherGryphon: When I first encountered Blender (ver. 2.47) everything was pretty much handled through keyboard hot key commands that you had to memorise (and there were a lot of combinations) which seemed cumbersome compared to using a pointing device like Daz, Poser, Paint Shop Pro and even GIMP did. .It sort of reminds me when the opposite happened with word processors went they went from using function keys + Control. Alt. and Shift (eg. WordPerfect) to the mouse.(eg. MS Word), It just seemed counter productive to move one hand off the keyboard every so often.

Oh, and I still have my old Word Perfect function key template.

@TJohn.: Yeah, sad abut Frank Beard.

Used to have a ZZ Top beard when I was in college in the late 70s Over the decades it has since "morphed" more into a Walt Whitman (ca. late 1880s) one..

Oh and love the movie poster..

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Well the combination of dyslexia and arthritis are getting the best of me so need to take a break (making Word 2K's spell checker earn its keep tonight).

TJohn · 4:22AM

@ kyoto kid: I've been sporting long beards off and on since I retired and no longer needed to be able to wear a tight-fitting vapor/dust mask on the job. I couldn't grow a decent beard, just the 'stache - Scots-Irish ancestry so pale with blondish, reddish sparse facial fur until I was nearly 30.

You know I love parody, so A.I. is the only way I can go these days, time and health matters are such that honing my prompt writing skills is getting me there in an acceptable amount of time, and I can do all of it on a Samsung tablet. So glad you enjoyed it.

And...Complaint: What's the deal with "The Big 3-Oh" and "The Big 4-Oh"? Wait until you hit a real milestone in age; as Paul Simon wrote in the song "Old Friends":

"How terribly strange

To be seventy..."

p.s. Get off my lawn!

kyoto kid · 5:31AM

...with my next birthday this coming Decemberm my age will match my high school graduation year, '73, 1973 was the year The Paris Peace Accords were signed, NASA's Pioneer 10 space probe smet back the first close-up photographs of Jupiter, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon was released, and the first handheld cellular phone call was made.

memcneil70 · 9:26AM

kyoto kid said:

...with my next birthday this coming Decemberm my age will match my high school graduation year, '73, 1973 was the year The Paris Peace Accords were signed, NASA's Pioneer 10 space probe smet back the first close-up photographs of Jupiter, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon was released, and the first handheld cellular phone call was made.

I had to think what were the 'Paris Peace Accords' signed in 1973. Then I remembered. I was serving in the U.S. Air Force in West Germany so we didn't get much news of it except through the Stars and Stripes later and on AFRTS. Pink Floyd was a band that toured Germany. I think I was able to see them live?

miladyderyni_173d399f47 · 2:08PM

kyoto kid where did you find the PDF Complete dForce Tutorial & is it still available? I need that. I also don't do well with many video tutorials. (RiverSoftArts' & Sickleyield's are exceptions.)

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Charlie Judge · 4:15PM

miladyderyni_173d399f47 said:

kyoto kid where did you find the PDF Complete dForce Tutorial & is it still available? I need that. I also don't do well with many video tutorials. (RiverSoftArts' & Sickleyield's are exceptions.)

(Edited by mod to fix tag)

This? https://www.daz3d.com/dforce-complete--tutorial-bundle

TJohn · 5:25PM

kyoto kid said:

...with my next birthday this coming Decemberm my age will match my high school graduation year, '73, 1973 was the year The Paris Peace Accords were signed, NASA's Pioneer 10 space probe smet back the first close-up photographs of Jupiter, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon was released, and the first handheld cellular phone call was made.

Let me see, I graduated H.S. in '71...and I'm a Senior citizen.

Does that mean you're a Sophmore citizen?

1971:

Email Invention: Computer engineer Ray Tomlinson invented network email for ARPANET.

NASDAQ: The world's first electronic stock market officially began trading on February 8, 1971.

Walt Disney World: Opened its Magic Kingdom theme park in Orlando, Florida, on October 1, 1971.

26th Amendment: Formally certified on July 5, 1971, lowering the federal voting age from 21 to 18. This one I remember, because in Tennessee the state law changed the drinking age to 18 as well. They changed it back eventually, but I was 21 by then.

TJohn · 5:31PM

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