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MildredHubble

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  • MildredHubble
    If you are in the UK I hope this storm hasn't caused you any trouble! The wind is pretty ferocious here and I'm not in the area of the country that has the really bad winds! I really hope it will be over soon! Stay safe!
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    I spent this evening fixing up an iMac as a Christmas gift for our friend. I bought a super cheap SSD thinking it was worth a try, on Amazon. I'm super impressed, it loads apps in a nano second! I guess I need to change my opinion on cheaper SSD drives! :-)
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    Who knows where I grabbed this picture from?
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    It's a fantastic guess @RESleight but in this specific case it's not the right answer as crazy as it sounds! But when I saw it, it was even funnier in context! 😸
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    MildredHubble
    Let's say you are both right and wrong 😸
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    MildredHubble
    I will let everyone in on the secret 😸 In this specific case, the image is from an episode of The A Team. It is actually footage from Airplane! but not technically taken from it. It's spliced in at the end of the episode where Murdoch has to help Hannibal land a plane while he's blinded. Seeing it was the most hysterically funny thing I've seen this year! 😸 It was the last thing I was expecting.
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    It's soooo cold! And I can't find my slipper socks! 😐
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    Currently 17 here, at 4:00 in the morning. Heading for a maximum of 34 today.
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    That sounds so nice! But I also think I would probably melt. I seem to be made for a very specific range on temperature lol! :-)
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    My domestic "pirate radio station" has been pretty good tonight. We've had Ry Cooder, Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Tori Amos and Tom Petty :-) I wonder what's next! :-)
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    UberScout
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    Yo, @MildredHubble , I found myself a new jam, I think you might like it. "We Know Something You Don't Know" by DJ Format. Every time I listen to it with headphones and/or some good delta, I see, like, retro video game-style music videos in my head lol.
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    Thanks @UberScout :-) I will check it out :-) I do like pixel art and old computers and video games :-) It would be quite cool if I find it has the same effect on me :-)
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    Feeling rather sick 🤢 I seem feeling very headachey and ill after eating tomato based food, like soup. My head is pounding and like I'm going to be sick. I just had some sweet earl grey tea and I think it might be helping a bit :-) My girlfriend makes lovely tomato soup but I seem to react to it 😕
    Misty Avich
    Misty Avich
    Oh dear...as an emetophobe I have great sympathy for you. I hope you're feeling better now.
    MildredHubble
    I've been watching the 90s version of Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Anyone remember that? It's a bit strange watching it now, it seems strangely old fashioned in it's references, even for the time. I remember it had an episode with the Violent Femmes featured in it. Not exactly the trendiest band considering. But it reminds me of a time where things were briefly good in my life and it's nice to revisit it :-)
    Jonn
    Jonn
    I have watched it a number of times, but it wasn't a favourite of mine, as you can imagine.
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    thejuice
    i didnt even have attention span to follow a plot for a childrens show like that, but it seemed alright, id have watched it if i watched that kind of thing
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    thejuice
    if i watched it now, id probably have unwarranted nostalgia and pretend i always loved it and things were better back then! :D
    MildredHubble
    I've been messing around with FM transmitters today. I can't stand a lot of music on the radio, so I had the idea of getting one of those little transmitters you plug into an MP3 player so I could have my own radio station. It worked well, perhaps a little to well and it was possible to pick it up maybe 200 feet away so I hope my neighbours like Tom Waits! 😸
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    thejuice
    THe only way to make it more cosy would be a storm and cup of tea
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    MildredHubble
    I like the static sounds. The fuzzy clicks and pops are comforting. Even though I know it's not real, it has this quality that I find reassuring that I'm probably not doing a good job of explaining 😸. I suppose it creates the illusion of activity going on in the world somewhere. Like there's a world out there but it's at a comfortable distance. Does that make any sense to anyone? 🤔
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    thejuice
    i know what you mean, precisely.
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    I did it! :-) I managed to squeeze the new solid state drive into the iMac so my dad can use his old hard drive and not immediately fill up the new SSD. I hope this will keep it going for a good long while yet! :-)
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    Updating my Dad's iMac to Sonoma with OpenCore and installing an SSD to hopefully get another good few years out of it! Wish me luck! :-)

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    That picture shocked me, the installer is nearly 20 gig in size. How big's your USB stick?
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    It's 32 gigs! I suspect it comes with a few updates as last time I'm pretty sure it was about 11 GB :-)
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    It seems to have gone well :-) The OS is running over USB currently and everything works except that the web cam is all green through QuickTime. Not a big deal I suspect and I can install OBS to work around it. So tomorrow I will install the SSD in the actual computer :-)
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    It's so stormy and windy today. I think it's making me get a headache and that's usually a sign that it's going to be a very bad storm. It's like I have a weird "6th sense". I'd prefer to be able to predict winning lottery numbers.
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    Actually that's quite a good way to describe it, particularly the tin comparison! It's been bugging me all day that I kinda know the smell I associate with impending rain but I've never actually described it before and it was more challenging than I thought!
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    Probably not really the same in your climate, but in the cities here just before the rain hits you get hit with that hot bitumen tar smell. That happens here because our roads get pretty hot and the first few drops of rain to fall turn in to steam.
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    thejuice
    Love the smell of tar!
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    I really hope that the internet archive will be available again soon. I'd just discovered that it was a really good source for documentaries and I had just started downloading on the exact day it got attacked by hackers 😞 Fortunately I did manage to get a good few before it went down.
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    I'm really hoping that they can fix it. I did notice in the bundle of documentaries I got that some of the BBC documentaries started off with a US TV ident. I can't remember which one right now. Others had an American voice over when the one I watched years ago had a British one.
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    And if you like a bit of humour I recommend this one:
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    Cool :-) I will check it out :-)
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    Just had a super weird experience. I had migraine with aura (visual disturbance) while I was asleep and I could see the jagged rainbow I usually see but in my sleep. It was a weird lucid dream and I rarely ever dream. It woke me up and took about an hour to pass.
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    I just got this pillow. It's very firm, I'm hoping it might help me stop attempting to tunnel through the head of the bed head first when I'm sleeping :)
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    I might see if I can put the pillow under the sheet. I'm not sure why but in my sleep I seem pretty determined to tunnel headfirst through the head of the bed. If the walls weren't made of bricks, I think I'd regularly wake up halfway down the street! 🤪
    Tired
    Tired
    I am doing the same thing and I kinda gave up. It was interesting tho that when I once was sleeping on the mattress on the floor (so no head of the bed), I would just push away pillow and then sleep using my arm as a pillow lol
    MildredHubble
    MildredHubble
    I end up using my arm as a pillow too :-) I think I need a padded bedroom 😆
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    I went into a thrift store today and look at what was sitting on the first shelf I looked at as if it had been placed there waiting for me to discover it :) ...
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    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    Got to love a good find especially related to a special interest.
    And it looks like it's in excellent condition! Paperbacks rarely survive nicely.
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    Yes, excellent condition.
    MildredHubble
    MildredHubble
    Yes, absolutely @Gerontius :-) I guess it's quite funny, if you saw me go in there you'd swear I already knew it was there 😸 but honestly I just walked in saw it immediately and picked it up :-) Even though it's not a cover illustration I'm familiar with. It leapt out at me :-)
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    I'm starting to consider doing some sort of freelance work through fiverr. It will probably be something I approach slowly and cautiously. I don't want to rush into anything that might make me super unwell again. It might be a way of sidestepping office politics that I just no longer can deal with.
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    I guess I would say so. I'm in a lot of pain nearly all of the time and I have bipolar disorder, which seems to be manifesting as mostly depression these days. I'm very slow at getting things done that used to feel so easy. Things certainly pile up that I used to have no problem getting done. And when I do get things done it exhausts me.
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    thejuice
    Is it pain all around the body?
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    MildredHubble
    Kinda, I get pain on my right hip, lower back, and knee. On my left side it feels like I have a rib in my back that got injured and never healed properly. I have pain in my right shoulder which I think causes tension in my neck. It also goes into spasm at times when I reach for things or lift something. It's like a spiral of pain.
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    Uh, I have a nasty headache and can't sleep. Hopefully the painkillers will help. It's that special kind of headache that gets better only when you adopt a specific position. Laying down makes it worse :-(
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