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Gerontius

Gerontius

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  • Gerontius
    So happy spring is coming. Winter is lovely and I enjoy it, but I am also looking forward to nature waking up again. Saw some robins!
    Gerontius
    I am enjoying winter but definitely looking forward to spring at this point. It's freezing!
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    Looking forward to it warming up to freezing a day or two this coming week. One drawback to such a warm up, though, is making the roads slippery, ice forming at night when it's in the teens again. Or lower.
    Gerontius
    Planning for after college is tricky...
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    Gerontius
    Thanks @watersprite and the best of luck to your friend.
    I'd like to shoot for a doctorate someday but looking at the academic world, all I can say is thank goodness for the trades...got half a mind to go into the brass factory.
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    watersprite
    Thank you - there are valid paths all over the map. Just stay out of creeks in winter…
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    Luca
    I was unsure about my future too until I discovered that I can make decent money putting in more hours working with dogs, on my own :) I haven’t figured out the college piece yet either, though. I keep trying to graduate and running into social roadblocks. And I’m 27.
    Gerontius
    It's raining here & doing a good job melting the remaining snow on the ground--the rain, snow, and fog combined for a bit; very pretty.
    Gerontius
    This might be my lucky day; I think I found a new top to replace the one missing from my 1890s reed organ. Exact same model & everything.
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    Gerontius
    I am doing this to keep them around a few more decades as pump organs are all but extinct if people keep making them into bars
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    Gerontius
    If I spend 300 on old organs I am saving about an 1879 Sterling that is intact but a bit leaky.
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    Luca
    I think it’s awesome that you’re keeping them alive :) We need more people like you in the world.
    Gerontius
    Warming up today, appropriate for Groundhog Day. A happy Candlemas to those who are still celebrating Christmas. We can stop now.
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    Luca
    “We can stop now” made me lol.
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    Gerontius
    Hey, what can I say--You give me the holiday season & I'm going to celebrate the WHOLE holiday season. Religious, secular, you name it. I love the holidays. Something almost--perfect about it.
    Gerontius
    Deep snow outside, listening to Josephine Baker on the old radio inside, wrapped up in a heavy overcoat-- Not a bad kind of day really
    Gerontius
    I think I'm getting a job! Telephoned the movers in town & they basically handed me Employment. More consistent than side hustles.
    Streetwise
    @crewlucca email might be better as uk mobile phone call\text providers can be expensive ,european mainland is cheaper, i use email so i dont feel as crappy if someone cant hear me doing whatever for gizmo the cat
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    Luca
    I don’t use my email a lot other than for online shopping, but I can PM her my email address.
    Streetwise
    I think the crux of the matter is she might be putting a mental block on using email or the telephone so that's why she hasn't given it thats why I advised the web chat its very anonymous
    Streetwise
    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    Good question! No, she hasn't. I wish Roxie left her phone number with some of the women on here--wiser older women especially--She needs help and y'all are like the Mental-Health Matriarchs; Brain Babushkas, Autism Aunties she needs.
    Gerontius
    Right now I've got a weird writer's-block for studying...It will pass but it still looks ridiculous.
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    Gerontius
    It's getting better. The mental blockage--the odd superstition "I can't work now!" is a pain. Now I'm going.
    Streetwise
    Streetwise
    I try moving from the screen \page or creating a memory palace to make my mind unblock listen to comedy it affects the brain differently
    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
    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.
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    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
    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.
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    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.
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    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
    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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