Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!
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We've got 1/4 of an acre in town and we're going to do our dead-level best to remove as much grass as possible, and replace it with hardy, indigenous flowering and berrying shrubs, fruit trees, and a big ol' subsistence garden and anyone who has a problem with that can nicely ask us to change our minds, but we won't.
I’m very happy with how little lawn we have considering the size of our lot.
I have been sick since the night before my flight home from China. Sore throat, horrible runny nose, terrible cough with yellow phlegm, stuffy ears, and even a fever Thursday night/Friday. Although its gotten less severe as of Saturday, it's been holding in a constant state of relative crappiness since then. I haven't posted my pictures or unpacked or done anything of relative importantance--including sleep. Jet lag is still here and terrible. I sleep all afternoon and when I try to sleep at night, I get about an hour before I wake myself up with coughing which leads me to just giving up and getting out of bed. So yeah, when's this gonna stop?
And I brought all my best viruses from home, too!
For every infection there is an equal and opposite infection.
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Well, you need all that room for the Doomies and their steeds.
Not to belittle the amount of work a farm is (I grew up on one so's I know) but I'd take needing to cruise a sitdown mower over a 10 acres than dealing with beautifying a shitty lawn to sell a house ANY day of the summer.
I don't blame you at all.
I also specified "pasture" because that's exactly what it is - grazing land for the deer and moose.
GasBandit
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Well, much like the lawns of old, the trick is to be able to pay someone else to maintain it
Cajungal
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Also stupid. Money is for good whiskey and travel.Well, much like the lawns of old, the trick is to be able to pay someone else to maintain it
And a beastly camera to take pictures of the above
I still would want to try them.
I haven't mowed my own lawn in 20 years. And having someone come out and mow it, surprisingly, isn't much more expensive now than it was back then.Well, much like the lawns of old, the trick is to be able to pay someone else to maintain it
The predominant flavor is of soy sauce. If you're into that, definitely give it a try.
GasBandit
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Today is Pauline's birthday.
It's possible I would have let it go by unnoticed, if I didn't have an annual event reminder in my google calendar dating back years.
I'd cancel it, but... I don't know if I would feel better for not being reminded, or worse for suddenly remembering later and realizing I didn't remember at the time, or...
It's complicated.
It's possible I would have let it go by unnoticed, if I didn't have an annual event reminder in my google calendar dating back years.
I'd cancel it, but... I don't know if I would feel better for not being reminded, or worse for suddenly remembering later and realizing I didn't remember at the time, or...
It's complicated.
I guess I ought to update: found the short, it's a design error, so I broke out the dremel tool and carved the circuit boards a little bit, and it's working fine now. The problem is the mounting tabs for this micro USB jack are shorted to the internal power layer. They should have been isolated, however due to the PCB software's inability to understand milling operations it doesn't check for shorts in slots, just holes.
Cutting through the bottom into the power layer (there are four layers of copper in this board) isolates the connector from the power layer copper.
GasBandit
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Does that mean you've dodged having to do a fabrication re-run?
Yes, we can use these boards now.
On a semi-related note, our son has just busted the rear audio out jack off the motherboard of the computer we (I) bought for him.
I can probably open it up and reflow it, but until then he's going to have to use the front audio jack, which we were avoiding because the front jack is less protected.
I'm not sure he understands what it's going to mean to have to use a computer that may not have sound for literal years until we can replace it (assuming the reflow doesn't work). On the other hand, I've been trying to spec a machine for pfsense, so ... maybe he will help make my decision for me?
--Patrick
I can probably open it up and reflow it, but until then he's going to have to use the front audio jack, which we were avoiding because the front jack is less protected.
I'm not sure he understands what it's going to mean to have to use a computer that may not have sound for literal years until we can replace it (assuming the reflow doesn't work). On the other hand, I've been trying to spec a machine for pfsense, so ... maybe he will help make my decision for me?
--Patrick
Sure, and I used to work in pro audio, but the idea is not to have to use USBs (with sound or Bluetooth) to make up for the fact that he wasn't supposed to break his computer's motherboard EIGHT MONTHS AFTER GETTING IT.Does the computer not have any USB ports?
--Patrick
Is it still under warranty? I have jacked some boards up and still talked my way into getting a replacement.
Oh yeah, those cpu pins were definitely bent when I got it. It's not because I dropped something on it at all...