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| Computer Vicissitudes Continue [message #3093] |
Fri, 31 October 2008 20:34  |
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Computer Vicissitudes Continue
[Updated on: Fri, 31 October 2008 20:34]
Smooshes!
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| Re: Computer Vicissitudes Continue [message #3094 is a reply to message #3093 ] |
Fri, 31 October 2008 20:40  |
 b_twin_1
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::sigh::
::changes candle stub from holder with new candle. Lights it::
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: Computer Vicissitudes Continue [message #3095 is a reply to message #3093 ] |
Fri, 31 October 2008 20:43 |
librarykat
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Hoping the computer problems do get straightened out soon. I'd be totally bonkers by now if they were happening to me.
Just to let you know, my Klutz Klub membership card arrived in today's mail. <happy dance>
And, on one of my librarian listservs, we had a thread going on fairy tale retellings, and Beauty showed up a number of times on various people's lists of good ones. And one librarian from Texas said that Beauty is THE best fairy tale retelling EVER.
And another librarian posted to thank me for recommending Dragonhaven, which she loves.
I finally finished reading Chalice. Since I stretched it out over a couple of weeks, I will now have to go back and reread it. I love it, consider it one of my favorite books of 2008 (right now it's at the top of my list). And I have stated so publicly, in a discussion thread on "best of 2008" titles at a librarian listserv.
Anyway, if Robin gets a chance to read this, maybe all this librarian love for her books will cheer her up a little bit.
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| Re: Computer Vicissitudes Continue [message #3105 is a reply to message #3093 ] |
Fri, 31 October 2008 21:28 |
skating librarian
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I know whereof you speak (the mice in the tulips) ... and last year planted tulips and lilies in a huge tree sized "pot", with the hardware cloth, and a small Alberta Spruce so that the monster pot wouldn't look quite so strange in the middle of the rose bed all winter.
Of course the eight feet of snow pretty well disguised the ugly pot ... and the tulips made it (cause the mice were all in the house).
Come summer I finally cleared out the last of the mice ... and then the rats moved in.
When the Rat Zapper (major expense, but it worked) had done away with all seven rats, I ripped up the kitchen and living room floor (it's one room), cleaned away some really disgusting messes, and began adding hardware cloth between the bottom of all the joists, followed by 5 -6 " of rodent unfriendly insulation and at last, a month later I am almost ready to screw down the plywood subfloor.
I think the ripping out the flooring and subfloor were the worst of the job, although making the floor level came a close second.
I think before I am done I may wrap the whole house in hardware cloth.
As I worked, I kept wondering why books about "women who do things" never seem to feature anyone slaying rats and using a reciprocating saw.
I guess like the Little Red Hen, I may have to do it myself ... tho it sounds kind of Terry Pratchet to me.
"Winning a war is like winning an earthquake" Jeanette Rankin
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| Re: Computer Vicissitudes Continue [message #3124 is a reply to message #3105 ] |
Sat, 01 November 2008 00:26 |
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Diane in MN
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| skating librarian wrote on Fri, 31 October 2008 20:28 |
Come summer I finally cleared out the last of the mice ... and then the rats moved in.
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Last summer, after cleaning up mouse contamination in my dog room YET AGAIN, I bought some of those devices that broadcast ultrasonic blasts to freak out mice. The folks at the university extension had said that these things don't work for long, if at all, but I was tired of dealing with little corpses and subsequent disinfecting of rooms,and figured I'd try them anyway. Whether coincidence or not, last winter I had no mouse problems. We and the dogs are not affected at all. If you haven't tried them, it might be worth a shot. 
"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich
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| Re: Computer Vicissitudes Continue [message #3150 is a reply to message #3093 ] |
Sat, 01 November 2008 14:31 |
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Don't hate me--we're having lovely fall weather here. Oh course, it could change any minute. I'm getting out today to enjoy it. Time to get the brows done and it's Saturday so it's also time to get the hair done--part of me will regret when I can wash my own hair again! So love the pampering.
But first I have to change the bandages, which has become OH SO FUN. I want my sock.
My computer is maing funny noises, sort of a whistling noise, sometimes a "hmmmf" like a large dog was hummfing--I don't know what is wrong. And my emails don't download, so I have to go to the server to read them, which is a pain. I will have to hit the Apple store soon, I fear.
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: Computer Vicissitudes Continue [message #3168 is a reply to message #3167 ] |
Sat, 01 November 2008 19:08 |
b_twin_1
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| Susan from Athens wrote on Sat, 01 November 2008 19:07 |
We've had 30 celsius and 80% plus humidity for the past two days. This is not normal for November at all. We too could do with rain. We had four days of rain in September, but nothing all October, and this is our rainy season. I'll keep my fingers crossed for rain for us both, b_twin_1
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Eeek! That sounds just like our weather!
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: Computer Vicissitudes Continue [message #3171 is a reply to message #3170 ] |
Sat, 01 November 2008 20:01 |
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Susan from Athens
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| b_twin_1 wrote on Sun, 02 November 2008 01:16 |
| AJLR wrote on Sat, 01 November 2008 19:10 |
Oh dear, that doesn't sound too good. Is the grass still growing enough to feed the stock, or do you need supplementary feeding as well? I know that can become really expensive!
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The grass is in various stages of late maturity/death. I have quite a lot of native grasses that will green up again if we do get some rain in the next few weeks. (Maybe tonight? must be going to rain... we're shearing tomorrow!)
And then there will be a clear out ... less sheep ....  Hopefully that will delay hand feeding.
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Being a city person, your comments make it so clear to me how dependent on the weather the everyday life of anyone living on the land is. I mean, I know theoretically that farmers worry about the weather, but I have to say (living slap bang in the middle of the city) I haven't had any actual contact with farmers and it shakes you up a bit. For me lack of rain is a worry for water supplies in general, but there are others here too who are much more directly affected. Should we do a rain dance of some kind? All jokes aside, will think precipitation down under...
“I have always imagined heaven to be a kind of library.” –Jorge Luis Borges
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| Re: Computer Vicissitudes Continue [message #3239 is a reply to message #3093 ] |
Sun, 02 November 2008 11:51 |
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"...IE is still crashing my brains out, even on my brand-new extra-super-powered mews laptop which has neither of my known large trouble-making programmes loaded on it..."
If it's any consolation, thousands of our booking-flights-online customers have been fighting with IE recently, too. It's not just you: It's IE.
[Updated on: Sun, 02 November 2008 11:52]
Scar
"People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around."
T.P.
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| Re: Computer Vicissitudes Continue [message #3412 is a reply to message #3105 ] |
Mon, 03 November 2008 10:41 |
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shalea
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| skating librarian wrote on Fri, 31 October 2008 21:28 |
...I ripped up the kitchen and living room floor (it's one room), cleaned away some really disgusting messes, and began adding hardware cloth between the bottom of all the joists, followed by 5 -6 " of rodent unfriendly insulation and at last, a month later I am almost ready to screw down the plywood subfloor....
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A month later? Gaaah. I had to go through a similar process (mold in the subfloor, not rats) and was only kitchenless for about two weeks, but even then was ready to kill someone if I couldn't just sit at my own dining room table and eat breakfast. How'd you manage for a whole month? Longer, I guess, since I note that you're "almost ready" to put the subfloor back.
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