|
Heeja heeja ho !
But a farmers life would not suit me, I'm already tired of weeding our garden.
The reason is that it's a new garden and when we moved in our new house about a year ago the weeds had had their chance to grow into a meters high jungle ... 
|
|
|
|
|
RickZeeland wrote: But a farmers life would not suit me, I'm already tired of weeding our garden.
Thirty years ago, I would have agreed with you. At that point, I never expected to move to Texas. I got a job with a defense contractor and, after a while, they moved my family to Texas. We sold our three-bedroom house on a third of an acre and bought a ranch. We even had money left over. My wife and children bought a herd of goats — and suddenly we were into agriculture!
We all had a lot of learning to do. Not only did we have to learn how to care for the herd, but also the government rules, regulations and paperwork. We did not look back. My wife and both children have each earned a college degree in agriculture.
I quickly learned to love the wide open spaces. I now feel trapped and confined when I am in a city – even a small city such as Waco. I do not think I could ever go back to urban or even suburban living.
__________________
Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
© 2009, Rex Hammock
|
|
|
|
|
The yellow rose of Texas is the only one for me 
No, not true, Dutch tulips are nice too, going to take our folding bikes and make a biking trip in the NoordOostpolder through the tulip fields today.
Got to make the most of the beautiful weather while it lasts ...
|
|
|
|
|
Back from a day out in the wide open NoordOost polder, normally a bit boring, but now an explosion of colors as the tulips are in bloom.
But given the choice between Amsterdam or the polders, I would prefer the polders.
I was wondering Jalapeno Bob if you grow peppers too on your ranch ?
|
|
|
|
|
No, we do not grow peppers, at least not in quantity. When you are raising goats on open range, they get into everything and everywhere. They are foragers. Sheep and cattle are grazers and prefer pasturage. Goats want more variety and will exercise considerable ingenuity and effort to get it. One of our major issues is keeping them out of the kitchen garden. As you can imagine, they love to eat any foods we grow for our own consumption.
The appellation "Jalapeño" comes from my love of eating these tasty and often spicy peppers, whether diced into an egg dish, sliced on pizza or on a burger or in a sandwich, pickled whole or sliced, or any other way.
__________________
Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
© 2009, Rex Hammock
|
|
|
|
|
Have you ever heard of "Madame Jeanette" peppers ? It's quite popular over here, probably because a lot of Surinam people live in the Netherlands.
I only ate a dish with a tiny amount of it, but that was already very hot !
On television there was an unsuspecting reporter who put a whole pepper in his mouth, he looked like he was going to faint, I heard it took days for him to recover from this experience 
Madame Jeanette - Wikipedia[^]
|
|
|
|
|
'Retirement' is a puzzle right now. I'm a little over 57 and I really don't have enough assets that I can rely on the future to put myself in retirement. For me, Job insecurity was the big factor for my entire life span till now.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
|
|
|
|
|
I am fully retired. It happened a few years earlier than planned but I am now older than the standard retirement age of 65. Anyone who is still writing code for money or supporting old projects in any substantive way is not retired.
My partner is still working 3 days a week but that will soon come to an end as she also retires.
As I have let go of my working life I have found many ways to fill my time. I started off thinking I would keep my hand in and write code for interest but I am a long way over that. If a need arises for something that requires some coding I am more than happy to do it (For example a stepper motor controller to focus a microscope). This has been mostly Arduino and to a lesser extent Raspberry Pi projects.
To mention one interest in particular in Australia we have the Australian Men's Shed Association[^] and I have joined my local one which is well equipped for wood and metal work. Even though I have a decent workshop of my own this has been a huge motivator for me to pursue my own projects as well as help others.
As for CP when my computer is switched on I am logged in to the site and as a long time member I know quite a few of the tags and watch their antics. This is a sort of side interest. I sometimes wonder what has happened to members who suddenly stop appearing after being active for many years and of course hope they are OK although I know some have passed on.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
|
|
|
|
|
63, hopefully with enough assets to survive in retirement. No overheads and a small income. I used to love woodworking when I was younger so I want to get back into making furniture. I have intentions of joining a Mens Shed but expect to build up a reasonable workshop at home. 4 months to go!
I don't think many have karked it but have moved on.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
|
|
|
|
|
The one big problem is Her Indoors. I retired about seven years ago now and have been sitting at my computer in my office every day since then to keep out of her way. Suddenly I hear her sweet tones. "Can you cut the lawn? Can you just give my car a wash? ---". She has never worked since we married 55 years ago, so you would think she would be very adept at these things by now. It appears she still can't start the petrol mower. If she uses the electric mower, she keeps running over the cord! Sometimes I think she does this on purpose. Still, she looks after me very well so some would say it's a small price to pay.
|
|
|
|
|
He is a natural at travelling (got that from me!). He loves seeing people at the airport, so far loves being in queues, and does not cry during take off!
He is well awake during take offs and get extremely happy as plane speeds up. He will look out the window for 15-20 min and then sleep. During landing time, if there are other kids crying he will make a cry face but we just need to talk to him and he laughs.
His first flight was when he was a month old and second one recently. Both were hassle free.
We have already done couple of road trips and he enjoyed them too.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
|
|
|
|
|
My children grew up traveling. My oldest daughter had a 1 week road trip when she was about 2 weeks old. They were used to travel sand never did give any trouble! They knew what my mother used to say "Children are to be seen and not heard!"
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
|
|
|
|
|
The only time we had a problem was when we landed at Ankara airport after a trip home, and walking to the arrivals building, my 4-year old son asked me, "is this Turkey?". When I replied in the affirmative he burst into tears wailing, "I din't want to come to Turkey"; but he did calm down before we got to passport control.
|
|
|
|
|
|
No, and he was happy enough when we got back to our apartment.
|
|
|
|
|
Nice! Mine was the same way. The stewardesses were happy and grateful for that.
|
|
|
|
|
So it was supposed to be https://noworky.firebaseio.com/Path.json?auth=..., but I decided in my utterly immesurable wisdom to use https://noworky.firebaseio.com/Pathjson?auth=...
But it has to work! Read, reread and tripple read the api documents.
Digest to regurgitation point how HttpClient works.
Don't check for a single missing elephanting .!
So how was your morning?
A pox upon the world of 'puters, I'm off for the tranquility of alligator wrestling!
veni bibi saltavi
|
|
|
|
|
My URL is bigger than yours, mate.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
|
|
|
|
|
Nagy Vilmos wrote: Don't check for a single missing elephanting .!
Easy to do - I read what I intended to write as well...
Nagy Vilmos wrote: So how was your morning?
Don't ask: I spent most of it - literally most of it, 3 hours - on hold to my local council. Three "songs", all quiet so you can't just put it on speaker and get on with stuff. And worse, every now and then the music cuts out in mid song for five or so seconds, giving you the illusion of hope that you are about to speak to a real human! Then their phone lines closed because it was 13:00 on POETS day...  
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
|
|
|
|
|
OriginalGriff wrote: Then their phone lines closed because it was 13:00 on POETS day...
In any mature society, civil servant is equivalent to civil master.
-- Lazarus Long
Ad astra - both ways!
|
|
|
|
|
Always nice to see someone with an appreciation for classic literature (Bob just spun in his grave).
Software Zen: delete this;
|
|
|
|
|
OriginalGriff wrote: hold to my local council. Three "songs", all quiet so you can't just put it on speaker and get on with stuff. And worse, every now and then the music cuts out in mid song for five or so seconds, giving you the illusion of hope that you are about to speak to a real human!
I've dealt with the same hold system. Actually, I guess all phone hold systems work like that.
I don't understand why the phone hold systems are so terrible. It ain't rocket science.
Just play music until a real person picks up. What is so difficult about that? 
|
|
|
|
|
I feel much better adfter reading that, so my morning has been just fine. I even have news on my imminent graduation!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
|
|
|
|
|
wasnt some error message speaking to you about "404". 
I was in alarm mode about a bug and the result was changig an assigment: "Job done" puh ... 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
|
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
(ok, let me remove that column for you, because it's obviously beyond your technical abilities, just like it's apparently beyond the abilities of the other software vendor to simply ignore the in-needed column! 
...and here you go! 
Oh boy, a reply back already...'the leading zeroes are missing'???
..and another reply with several dozen 'unmatched' entities...did I mention this was a sample file? (so, remove the unmatched from the sample file and we should have 100% success and they will leave me alone for awhile!