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Gerontius

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  • Gerontius
    Finally. Someone bought a very expensive item from me but he actually paid me this time unlike the other guy. Thank goodness.
    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    It was a $600 record player. I have to crate it & ship it but at least it's money.
    Gerontius
    James McMurtry wore a dress to protest Florida's drag laws. He's a rough, tough country music singer. Would that mean he is 'the Old Rugged Cross(dresser)?' The world wonders!
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    tazz
    tazz
    How do kilts feature in these drag bans?
    Forest Cat
    Forest Cat
    I do wonder a little if it makes a difference. I could put on a dress right now, but I think it would just upset people more than it would help anything. I don't have the legs for it. ;)
    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    Maybe upsetting a few people is the point. Whatever it was, I thought it interesting because country music in the 1920s and '30s had elements of protest music in it. This is a bit of a throwback to country's roots, in that sense, but in a lot of other senses a very 21st-century concern.
    Attacking at trans people is going to hurt a lot of autistics.
    Gerontius
    Went to work on the car. Washed it, went to turn the water hose off, & by the time I got back a bird had crapped right in the middle of what I washed. They never fly low enough to spray them with the water hose--but I don't want to scare them in case one of them has the runs.
    Gerontius
    My car broke down -- I tried fixing it & made it worse. So I've been walking everywhere. Pet ALL the dogs. Meet ALL the neighbors. See ALL the birds and the blue sky & count the bullfrog tadpoles in the creek. I should let it break down more often.
    Gerontius
    Ran 1/2mi. this morning which felt pretty great, pet all the dogs, said hi to my friends & the neighbors, got stuff done. A good start to the day I think. Trying to keep the blues away.
    Gerontius
    Now to get some boxes packed, see about repairing the car (again), get to the Post Office (again), and all that--
    Gerontius
    To: Linux. Re: function. Dear Ubuntu 22.04.1., you will not win. I will beat you. Strong letter to follow.
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    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    It's decent now but it corrupted last night. Reinstalled whole OS and basically wiped my computer. At least it runs!
    Judge
    Judge
    Ironically there are better versions of Ubuntu than Ubuntu itself. ;)

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    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    Mint is nice. I have tried the Mint from the Haking magazine quite awhile back.
    Gerontius
    I've got to go to the post-office today.
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    I hate our post office, but Monday, l flew thru the line. What a relief.
    tree
    tree
    The local post office here has a memento of the mail carrier who used to deliver to
    our route. The flamingo he had attached to his truck. They change costumes & accessories
    on the flamingo, according to season.
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    Our mail delivery employees get arrested for stealing gift cards, the lastest arrest was 60,000 dollars in checks were stolen. It's Florida. There is always something coming down.
    Gerontius
    why is it so much fun to play an instrument, even (very) badly? It just seems like a good thing to do.
    Gerald Wilgus
    Gerald Wilgus
    Why? Because it is pleasant learning a new song or just practicing licks. I like that for the banjo, notation is usually in tablature since I am poor at reading standard notation.
    Gerontius
    Company questionnaires on job applications are annoying. "Describe yourself." Look--Philosophers have fought this for centuries, & you think I can cook up an answer in 15 minutes to sell termite powder? Nobody's that smart.
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    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    Courage is the ability to walk away and not answer your your stupid job application questions, but having courage is over-rated.
    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    @Aspychata I am strictly mercenary & would prefer to actually have a job again though. I like working & I like having money; I just hate "the workplace world" and all that silliness of paperwork that goes with.
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    True dat- l love working, just don't like the pile that accompanied it
    Gerontius
    I'm filing my taxes, which I hate, and the doing of it is a lot less a stress than the preparation to do it. Executive functioning was never a strong point--I can't often "start" things, which is weird, cause I can actually do them.
    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    Starting to wonder what actually makes executive functioning, functional. I tend to have zero or less than zero skills on paperwork (I either freeze up, or do it wrong.) This year went great--Returns filed, all that--but now I'm curious as to what makes people tick. How do NT's & successful ASD folks keep it together.
    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    This might take a few months to figure out but I cannot tell how we manage to be the most motivated people in the world, over special-interests, and simultaneously lost when working on something important to just getting by. There's something missing here; I just don't know what it is yet.
    Gerontius
    I can't find my glasses but I did have a good night last night. This is a nice morning. happy Palm Sunday for anyone on the Gregorian calendar.
    Gerontius
    To any prospective pirate captains out there wanting to improve housekeeping, please remind your crews that "poop deck" refers to part of the ship, and is neither an order nor a personal challenge.
    Gerontius
    If I play my cards right, a rare Edison wax-cylinder phonograph I foolishly sold some years ago may be returning to my collection.
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    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    Was in contact with the young fellow who bought it when I was at a phonograph swap, and he said he still had it--I offered to buy it back, and he said he's hanging onto it but would like to sell. I saw it and he has it in better condition than when I owned it, as he is a master rebuilder.
    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    So when I've moved and got myself settled I'll probably be getting rid of a few gramophones & phonographs to clear a patch for the Model E, which can come sit next to a few other old record players. I'll be glad to see it back; it was a nice little machine and this will help out the other fellow too.
    tree
    tree
    Oh...so the cards you'd be playing won't be Tarot? Although the return does have a sort of magical quality to it.
    Gerontius
    It's not meant to be this way, but seen from above with the body removed the frame of an Austin Seven car looks almost like a letter "A." This is dumb but it seems kind of neat.
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    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    Was on the light rail a few weeks ago & the traction-motors sounded actually GOOD, like on a full size diesel-electric locomotive but without the diesel. I'm not interested in fancy delicate cars with heated seats and a screen in the middle of the dash-board--Tesla & similar are a little too frilly for me. E-waste on wheels.
    maycontainthunder
    maycontainthunder
    One of the reasons for such underpowered cars was the road tax cost. It was calculated on cylinder bore size. This changed in 1948 but the legacy of small bores and long stroke low-revving engines lasted well into the late fifties.
    Forest Cat
    Forest Cat
    I think it's actually called an A-frame, just like the Chevy X-frame looks like an X. That's a nice looking car.
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