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wife is binge watching the hurricane coming in, 88 yo father in law was doddering around, and somewhere in my recent past I thought I retired.
Gin, I need gin.
Charlie Gilley
“Microsoft is the virus..."
"the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"
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Sounds like a start of a good indie movie.
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I'm here:
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Charlie Gilley
“Microsoft is the virus..."
"the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"
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Be thankful you even have a life. I wish I had one.
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I have one more wedding to go through. Late October. I was so down in late June, I was contemplating hitting the road, Jack Reacher style. Sucked it up, then MIL broke her hip on 8.5 - my anniversary. There went my life.
Looking real hard at the gin. Wife calls it angry juice.
Somehow I need to learn some humility and accept my fate. I cannot even get my adult children who don't live at home anymore to remove their crap. Sure, I get it, it's an inconvenience for them. But when SWMBO defends them... sigh. Rapidly approaching the FI moment.
Charlie Gilley
“Microsoft is the virus..."
"the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"
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charlieg wrote: wife is binge watching the hurricane coming in
Do you realize that there is at least one Wafflehouse in Tallahassee that is closed AND boarded up? That's good reason to be terrified. God help us.
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I actually saw that. I detect your sarcasm. Please tell me I'm right. 
I'm listening to a youtube weather channel want a be drone on and on. He's actually quite good, but 24x7 coverage of a hurricane? ffs.
for what it's worth, I live 40 miles north of Atlanta, and the hurricane (which will be a tropical storm by the time it reaches us) will be here early am. I'm getting up early to sit on my front porch and watch and enjoy. If I get a spin up tornado, waaa hoo.
good grief, I am dark tonight.
Charlie Gilley
“Microsoft is the virus..."
"the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"
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Tired[^]
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
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If you're listening to music right now, what song is playing? If you're not currently listening to music, what song would you like to be listening to right now?
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When I'm working I like songs with no lyrics. Often soundtracks to movies or games. Right this second I'm listening to the Quest For Glory 5 soundtrack... "Dance of mystery and intrigue". I grew up on the Quest for Glory computer games. Remember when those crazy pixelated images looked so "life like" and cool.
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I wish I was listening to the Grateful Dead May 26, 1973 Kezar Stadium.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Nazareth - Changin' Times (Hair of the Dog Album).
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one.
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I work from home, so things are pretty quiet.
But if I needed to drown out surrounding annoyances, I'd have a headset on and play white noise in a loop. I've used that before, and found it to be quite effective.
Seriously. If I need to focus, music is a distraction.
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peterkmx wrote: Rivers of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
Ok, that was trippy.  
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Natalie Merchant Motherland
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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When programming, instrumental music. For that I'll pull up a YT live music channel, something from Lofi Girl, Epic Music VM, or Chill Music Lab channel.
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soundtrack from Red October.
Charlie Gilley
“Microsoft is the virus..."
"the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"
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I have a small pile of old laptops that I'm not quite willing to get rid of just yet. Stacked them one of top of the other. Some have been in the pile for years.
The one at the bottom, under the weight of all the others, I guess started putting too much pressure on the trackpad buttons, and I recently found out they no longer work. Lesson learned. That's what you get for being so obsessed with thinness, you manufacture a laptop with so little space between the display and the keyboard when the lid is closed that they touch.
Anyway. I thought I was really clever when I instead started using those (typically) metal or plastic dividers you get from office supply places. I don't know what to call them. They're made to let you organize papers on a desk. Not just a stack of horizontal shelves. The sort that lets you place papers or small books in them vertically.
Here. This illustrates what I'm talking about...
So...I started placing my old laptops in one of these trays, "nose first" -- none of my laptops have buttons on the front that would get damaged from the laptop sitting on that edge for some amount of time. Whether the power connector is at the back or either side, that's not a problem either. Easy to grab any of them or put them back (easier than trying to take the last one from a stacked pile anyway). Takes little room. I only see advantages to this. Most laptops nowadays are thin enough they easily fit in one slot.
Nothing particularly innovative here. I just never thought of using one of those trays like this until now.
How else have you repurposed some everyday thing in a way it wasn't really intended?
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Not only music, but any "louder" sound breaks mental focus or changes it. For me, absolute silence is the best, and every few hours a short break with some quietly played 
extreme metal such as Meshuggah, Rivers of Nihil, or Job for a Cowboy refreshes my mind somehow, it works 
