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Gerontius

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  • Gerontius
    Don't park too close to bushes or a hedgerow. My car got colonized by mice. So far have caught 2, am working on any others.
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    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    Next time I get mice I'll be ready & try to catch them alive--Found out they cannot be humanely released in midwinter, but they can be kept alive indoors as pets. Deer mice do carry some wicked diseases but most are healthy.
    tree
    tree
    I've enjoyed feeding mice that I caught in the live trap. Feeding them until they could be transported elsewhere.
    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    I've got to do something like that. Deer mice are also a native species and I really like mice--They aren't doing any harm when they're not indoors.
    Gerontius
    My first issue of 'American Organist' Magazine came today. I forgot how much fun paper magazines were!
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    Luca
    I still get physical copies of magazines too! I’ve always preferred books and magazines to reading online :)
    Gerontius
    My laptop is falling apart & the screen is smashed; I'm building my own computer and keyboard next...
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    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    The idea came when I found out that 40% keyboards exist (very small) and when I realized I have a spare frame from an old office typewriter. It's another Remington--a Roaring '20s classic with "an open floor plan" inside. Perfect for alterations.
    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    I write constantly. Screens & keys are vital. The screen is the part I want to make right--a 7 1/4" wide display made from a Fresnel lens magnifying a smaller LCD with the option of turning off the backlight. The keys will be Cherry MX Blue switches, very reliable.
    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    Anyway the Pi is on the way and I'm looking forward to figuring out how to build this...Here's hoping.
    Gerontius
    There is a live bat in my apartment. He seems to be pretty frisky and in good health so I shut the door to the back annex & left him there.
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    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    The windows here are about 160 years old, and probably stuck--I'm scared to open one lest the glass come out of it. And this is a nice big old bat too. He'll get out eventually but he looks silly circling the light-bulb.
    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    Update: went back there to fetch a needle & thread and a pair of trousers needed cut down into knickerbockers, but there was no bat. Hopefully he's gone out the window instead of roosting up in the joists or the ceiling over the old boiler.
    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    And I am hoping he's gone & stays gone; I don't like living with animals in the house. Bats are mighty useful and beautiful creatures and I like them a lot, but there's something unsettling about something flying round like that in the house. Guy was the size of a redbird.
    Gerontius
    (oops, turns out the 'Blue Monday' phenomenon does not really exist. My bad!
    Gerontius
    Rain, snow, sleet outside--pretty cold! I think I'll wake up early tomorrow
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    Luca
    Same here! And I’m just waking up now at 4am. First full night of sleep in almost a month :)
    Gerontius
    I love Remington No. 10 and No. 12 typewriters so I am building a homemade Remington 12 from scratch, using parts from 2 1920s originals.
    Gerontius
    I think I have covid. I KNOW it's freezing outiside. Why then do I want to hike an abandoned train track--at midnight?
    Metalhead
    Metalhead
    These are strange days and people are looking for anything to break the monotony.
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    Luca
    I agree with Len. I’ve been going outside at night a lot too. Not my usual.
    Please do get better soon, and I’m working on a reply to your latest PM, I’ve just had a stressful day.
    Gerontius
    15 degrees--porcelain plug broke on the cord to the heater. Time to run backup & wear fuzzy coats to bed.
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    Markness
    Markness
    How are you holding up physically? My nose has been runny and I keep hocking up loogies!
    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    @Markness I'm fine! Why do you think I have all those heavy old wool jackets?
    I just have to craft a new end for the electric cord (or probably build a new cord entirely.) They don't make the plugs any more. My space heater is about 90 years old so and the few bakelite parts finally gave out. Hey maybe I can try resin casting now!
    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    As far as a runny nose in cold weather try to keep your core temperature up and your head warm, but let the extremities stay cooler. That helps. Also staying fairly acclimatized to cold weather helps. But don't do what I did a few days ago and run around in 20 degree weather and eat a ton of ramen. Hard on the throat.
    Gerontius
    Sewing is 90% moving cloth around, 5% math, and maybe 5% actually sewing...
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    Gerontius
    Trying to. Pattern drafting is always hard. I'm trying to start making my own clothes so I don't have to rely on factory-made clothing...but it is really kind of tricky.
    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    So I have one pair of shoes. The other pair needs resoled as I walked the bottoms off of them. The weather up here is a good way to get your shoes full of ice water so I am trying to draft a pair of gaiters and waterproof myself a little.
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    tree
    I've made clothing before, using existing clothes as guides. Is that how you're doing it?
    Gerontius
    I didn't grow up with a trampoline but I just thought about trampolines & now have been laughing
    Crossbreed
    Crossbreed
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    Luca
    LOL… I just read that and now have been laughing :p
    Raggamuffin
    Raggamuffin
    They are fun. I never owned one, but knew people over the years who did. My second GF had one in their garden. I remember taking off the trucks/wheels on my skateboard and just using the deck on the trampoline. It was a really fun, if slightly surreal experience doing tricks whilst bouncing absurdly high.
    Gerontius
    I love how much simpler bicycle maintenance is than car maintenance...
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    Luca
    I saw the picture of you transporting the organ on the stairs, I think :)
    That’s so fun!!
    I had a film camera for a long time but now I have a DSLR. I have a Polaroid too though.
    I haven’t seen a camcorder in years lol… I don’t know what happened to mine :( But it was not digital, this was like 2003. Lol.
    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    I have a couple cameras -- my dad's old Minolta SLR, a 1929 Agfa folding camera, and an old 8mm Mansfeld. Haven't tried the movie camera out yet but it spins when you turn the crank.
    And yes, the picture of what almost became a catapult-launch was real. You'd think I'd go buy an electronic keyboard.

    I like the newer Sony camera as the micro SD card works in most computers--
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    Luca
    Omg, I’m so sorry I didn’t see your last message! I didn’t get much sleep though. I have some vintage cameras too! Love the old Minoltas. I’ll have to upload photos of my vintage cameras… sadly I don’t think they work :(
    Where do you find all your antiques/vintage things? I can’t find anyplace that sells them around here. That picture was epic lol. Makes for a much more interesting story than a keyboard!
    Gerontius
    Spent three whole days hunting for my car keys, called a wrecker truck, all well-- walked inside & found the keys in front of the fridge :)
    tree
    tree
    On the floor??
    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    Yep! Right there on the floor. I guess they fell out of my pocket.
    Better there than in the yard!
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    Luca
    I sometimes think I lost my keys, but they’re in the front door! Happens to most of us :)
    Gerontius
    I have to admit today was completely overstimulating.
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    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    Isn't that weird that we both have short attention spans but do artwork stuff for hours?
    I had an awful time hand writing until I started the 1894 "Palmer Method" again--which is why I cannot reliably use a ball point pen. I have been using typewriters for a number of years now and "collect" them so there is a spare machine in case one breaks.
    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    The novel itself is more of just a book about people doing normal human things--I like writing about peoples' characters & letting that carry the action.
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    Luca
    Yes! I have no attention span for “regular” tasks but doing artwork or anything with dogs has my complete focus for a virtually unlimited amount of time.
    What is the Palmer Method?
    Are typewriters expensive to collect? How many do you have?
    I used to write a lot and I love writing characters too :)
    Gerontius
    I just decided to wash 2 and a half greasy old manual typewriters in the showerbath & pour myself a glass of Irn Bru. Cracking evening!
    Gerontius
    Grocery run tomorrow. I'll see about getting the Corolla fired up and go early. I also am going to go to the typewriter cave if I can.
    Gerontius
    I went to a coffee shop today & wrote until I ran out of paper, and one of my fountain-pens had run entirely out of ink. A good day.
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