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Hazel_1914

Hazel_1914

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  • Hazel_1914
    Turns out $6 "ingrown toenail pullers" (gross) work as well as $450 "keyring pliers" for replacing the keyboard on a typewriter.
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    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    Got them online--I had a 1916 Remington typewriter with the original keyboard still on it. Well, that rotted. Celluloid decays with time. So I bought some new inserts for the keys and ended up having a hard time getting the keys apart.
    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    Eventually I bought those small pullers & was able to pop the metal rings off the keys, so I just have to polish the rings & replace a few that had corroded through and then crimp them back on with a screw clamp or padded plies
    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    There's the right tool for the job, but those pliers cost $450 for a set, which is a lot considering how little value unrestored typewriters really have. So anyway if I'm ever done with college stuff then I will be putting the keys together & I guess it should hold up a lot better
    Hazel_1914
    I went out in the woods & fell asleep watching the sun start going down. I think I'm going to sleep in the woods more often.
    smilie
    smilie
    be careful though gerontius
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    Owliet
    Don’t fall asleep in woods within a circle of mushrooms....
    Hazel_1914
    I found out that Connecticut's National Guard still has a mounted volunteer cavalry unit that's had the same job for 240 years.
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    LadyS
    LadyS
    That's really neat :)
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    Owliet
    If you do do that on Thursday, would you share them on here? I’d love to see the photos. I love history.
    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    @Owliet I absolutely will share them if I can make it over there & film the 1st Company doing drills. They're really cool & I also hope to be able to maybe interview some of the officers or the troopers & ask about what it is like to be the last of the real old-time horse cavalry.
    Hazel_1914
    Finally found the score to "Into the Unknown" from a show called "Over the Garden Wall." Planning to adapt for parlor organ.
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    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    @Callistemon if you want to hear a master, try Rodney Jantzi's YouTube channel. He's fantastic--builder, musician, and artist.

    I don't know what they cost in your end of the world, but you can get a good pump organ for a low cost, or free, in the United States or England at least. Expensive to work on but a cheap way into Victorian keyboard instruments.
    Callistemon
    Callistemon
    Thankyou for that link! :) Beautiful-looking instruments - and his hands are so incredibly relaxed when he's playing! Watched *the* Toccata & Fugue and will watch a few more from there.
    Callistemon
    Callistemon
    I'm not so suited to keyboards, and after initially giving it a go, found that strings were more my thing and really intuitive to me, so I had three years of lessons in that in my 20s. Have to get back into playing because I stopped when we were building the house and I've not been able to get back to it consistently yet...
    Hazel_1914
    Internet conked out--forget online midterms--Went for a late night walk & that was a good thing. I love walking.
    Lou Laurinen
    Lou Laurinen
    I love walking too! Hope you can still get your midterms done on time though.
    Hazel_1914
    Looks like after college stuff today I have to fix the ceiling. Landlords' washing machine is leaking. At least I have tiles & a handsaw :)
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    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    I hope so too; I'm going to go up there & fix their washer & dryer first--so I don't have to fix the ceiling twice. It's right over two very nice, early model antique typewriters on display & a 1928 cabinet gramophone, too, so I don't want to get those soaked either.
    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    I had a roof leak on the Christmas of 2021 that filled up my 1929 Underwood desktop with water. That was a different, crappier apartment. The leak here is just normal Victorian House Problems. VHP's are pretty common & they are not the end of the world.
    Lou Laurinen
    Lou Laurinen
    My parents had a burst pipe in their house two years ago, when I was still living there. The kitchen was flooded. It was very bad. They still get occasional leaks in their house. It’s not a Victorian house but it’s an old Colonial farmhouse, so probably even worse lol
    Hazel_1914
    My executive functioning is at the all time low and I cannot wait for this semester to be over.
    Jordy
    Jordy
    Try staying in bed for an entire day with no sensory distractions.
    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    No can do! I'm not that kind of person. Besides, outdoors is nicer than indoors.
    Hazel_1914
    I spent the morning wandering around outside with a kitten stuck to my shoulder. This is the start of a good day.
    Hazel_1914
    Ukranians are selling Russian tanks on eBay. I'm waiting until they sell Putin. "For sale: One Cold War surplus KGB agent--
    maycontainthunder
    maycontainthunder
    And the rest of the description is rather impolite and cannot be displayed on this forum ;).
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    What a bully he is. Watch out, he may go *putin* onyou.
    Hazel_1914
    The snow is frozen solid outside so I went sliding on it, without a sled. Missed the tree twice, not pushing my luck. It's fun.
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    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    @tree body-surfing it is.
    tree
    tree
    yipes
    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    Thanks for the cardboard idea; I went sliding again later and cardboard definitely improves speed. Forget being able to steer, but it is a good way to slide much faster on thinner ice. Metaphor for life in general at that point.
    Hazel_1914
    Have been having the strangest interactions. Going to church is about like going to traffic court--to say nothing of college.
    Lou Laurinen
    Lou Laurinen
    I’ve been having strange/awkward interactions with neighbors recently too.
    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    Something's in the water, I reckon.
    Hazel_1914
    Now is a good time to plan your victory gardens. Fuel & food may cost more round the world, due to the war in Europe affecting oil & wheat.
    Hazel_1914
    Writer's-block in the worst way on this college stuff. I've got to get done with this stuff & recharge before academia is interesting again.
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    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    Sorry you had to deal with garbage in online classes @luca. They tend to be very helpful when all goes well, but frequently it does not.
    Lou Laurinen
    Lou Laurinen
    I hope you get the job! :)
    I’m lucky I guess because I have my own business and I can charge pretty high rates in my area… just less than my competitors lol… but I get far more business than they do ;)
    I hate career choice stuff too. So I decided I wanted to start my own.
    Lou Laurinen
    Lou Laurinen
    Thanks. College students are mean. And now if I went back in the fall I’d be close to 30 and that would make the kids laugh at me more :( I’m putting school on hold for the moment… I want to get into a better university anyway.
    Hazel_1914
    I hope that today is the last of my less productive days for awhile. Hoping for this spring weather to keep sticking around.
    Lou Laurinen
    Lou Laurinen
    Same here… I’ve been pretty lazy. And I wish it would stay above 50 degrees here but it’s supposed to go up to 60 the next two days and then go back down to freezing. I hate late winter/early spring. Especially here.
    Hazel_1914
    In the interest of Computing for Broke Technophobes, LibreOffice 7.2.5 goes on my "new" Hewlett Packard notebook running Windows 7.
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    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    The laptop itself is old & fragile, and too bulky to fit in my satchel, so I leave it at home...I really am not sold on computers. Don't like 'em. I've fixed them before but now it's time to overhaul the guts of this one.
    Hazel_1914
    Hazel_1914
    OK it works pretty great after the first few minutes where it crashed a few times. I think I have something that might work better than Word.
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    Its a love hate relationship. My ex stole my notebook. I loved it for it's ease and it was easy to reboot should something go wrong.
    Hazel_1914
    I have been struck by the Masked Upgrader. Have no idea who did this, but thank you very much whoever you are.
    Streetwise
    Streetwise
    I have a superpower also the power to never be anonymously upgraded
    Streetwise
    Streetwise
    Your term reminded me of the British comedy skit the phantom raspberry blower (portrayed by Ronnie Barker)
    Hazel_1914
    Springlike weather yesterday, snow shower today, a moment of warm, then again snow. New England weather is something else.
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