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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.
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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[ ^]
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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
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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.
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No, and he was happy enough when we got back to our apartment.
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Nice! Mine was the same way. The stewardesses were happy and grateful for that.
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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
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My URL is bigger than yours, mate.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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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!
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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!
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Always nice to see someone with an appreciation for classic literature (Bob just spun in his grave).
Software Zen: delete this;
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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?
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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
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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
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Recognizable, but nothing compared with the days wasted by ... certificates
My god, this must have been the work of some mystical sect aiming to drive developers crazy
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The Gathering - My Electricity[^]
Last week I've been listening to The Gathering, a pretty (internationally) famous Dutch rock band.
You may know them from their former singer, Anneke van Giersbergen, who is also known for her solo projects Agua de Annique and VUUR (Dutch for Fire) or one of her many collaborations with other artists.
I've known them for a long time, listen to them once in a while, always enjoy it, but never really got into it like I got with other bands.
Except for a few songs, of which My Electricity is one.
My Electricity is an older and not-so-rocking song, but beautiful.
So enjoy, and do yourself a favor and listen to some other songs as well
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Honestly. the only Dutch rock band I'm aware of is Golden Earring, So I wouldn't know if any other radar lovers are gone!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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They're probably the best known (and still existing) international Dutch rock band, but the only Dutch rock band who scored a #1 hit in America was Shocking Blue - Venus[^].
And then there's Focus[^] with guitar player Jan Akkerman who had the title of best guitar player in the world some 40 years ago.
And surely you've heard of George Baker - Little Green Bag[^] from Tarantino's Reservoir Dog's, also Dutch
I don't know any current international famous bands though...
But I'm sure there are a few
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Frans Bauer ! even Mick Jagger hummed his songs
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I just looked that up and now I need mind bleach
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They're fun to look at, especially the girl(s) on the right, but the a cappella isn't really my thing...
I'll be sure to bring $2 more though
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I agree, that's the prettiest of the lot
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