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Cool.
The University we support is shutting down for two weeks starting Monday. The Foundation, where I work isn't shutting down but everyone is getting the 23rd, 24th, and 31st as well as three additional days of their choice during the next two weeks off as paid holidays.
Me, I'm taking two weeks and visiting my parents.
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My clients (education support sector) will be out from today through the rest of the year. I however traditionally take the downtime to try and get caught up, though it is a much more relaxed schedule.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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I think today is the last 2021 day, so they should cut the power anyti
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1. Good News.
2. Company Half Day on 24th, Bank Holidays then back on 29th
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My clients will have work going on until Friday and then restarting the following Wednesday. Which means that if there are any issues, I'll be working. (There probably won't be!) But if I need a break from washing up and playing Monopoly, there's some fun real-time GPS/mapping work to do, some CSS tweaks and logging of a TCP/IP communication stream that all need to be ready early January. Plus I need to automate some archival stuff as that will save me time (and therefore also income!) in 2022.
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I work when I feel like it for the most part. I probably won't shut down for long though as I get bored easily otherwise. I'm like that. I always have to have some code cooking or I'm under stimulated I guess. If I'm not actively working on it in the moment, then it's at least a current project i'm working on.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Darren Korb - In the Blood (feat. Ashley Barrett)[^]
So this doesn't happen often, but for the second time in a row the SOTW is from the same composer for the same soundtrack.
Last week, I shared the final boss theme of Hades and this week I finally made it to the credits.
The credits song is amazing, sung by Orpheus and Euridyce, or composer Darren Korb and singer Ashley Barrett in real life.
I guess everything else about Hades has already been said in last week's SOTW, so I'll just repeat that it's an awesome game with an awesome soundtrack! 
After today I'm taking a two week vacation from work and the SOTW.
I'll be back with new sounds in January!
modified 17-Dec-21 7:23am.
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Quote: after today I'm taking a two week vacation from work and the SOTW.
Enjoy your break.
Quote: back with new sounds in January
Look forward to it.
Have been meaning to share Primus - The Rainbow Goblins[^] with you for while now. Take a moment over your break to listen this album and hope you enjoy. The album is based on a kids books which has amazing and vivid paintings ( I can't find the link which describes it better then what I can).
Primus is one of favourite bands, too many songs to list. Not sure if many people know it but they did the opening song to South Park.
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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Primus is an odd one.
Listened to Sailing the Seas of Cheese a couple of times way back when.
Listening to the goblin album now and I hear they haven't changed 
yacCarsten wrote: they did the opening song to South Park
I did not know this! 
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Ludovico Einaudi is probably the most played pianist among piano students of all levels.
My dad plays it and my teacher played it with various students.
I haven't played piano in the last year though, but if I did I'd probably be playing it too
David O'Neil wrote: And a bunch of New Wave
Yeah, had quite enough of that after the past few weeks, thanks 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Yeah, had quite enough of that after the past few weeks, thanks
Here's something different, then! Sleigh Bells - KEXP
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I have a spreadsheet which is reaching the limits of usability - for me that's about 200 rows if I'm adding them regularly, so it should be a DB app instead of a spreadsheet. So today's task was to write the DB app and import the existing data, creating the DB as I go.
So I have spent the morning wrestling with bloody excel, trying to read it from OneDrive and convert it from MS's arcane interop methods to something resembling a sensible format: a DataTable is good. I mean, have you looked at it? The cell content is accessed via a property called "Value2" fer gawds sake ...
And it's difficult - so after piles of googling, trying code samples and such like, I thought - "I'm sure I did this before, and used an article on CP" so I go off and google for it. And top of the list is "Reading an Excel Sheet into a DataTable, generic method". Brilliant! Let's have a look ...
Oh. 
I wrote it eight years ago. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Been there - both regarding discovering I wrote an article for something I'm searching for, and for using your article on reading Excel into a DataTable. 
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I only noticed when I tried it and it worked first time, so I went back to upvote it and found it was mine ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Been there done that.
Here's another story about my articles though.
I used to work for a company where the entire team was hired externally.
Now there was this architect who was quite full of himself and kept underestimating me.
Like, I asked him "why didn't we use this technology instead of the older technology we're using now?" (I think I wanted Azure Functions and we went with WebJobs).
His answer was "because I didn't think you'd understand the new technology."
Like WTF you ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing 
Anyway, then he and his butt kisser coworker wanted to look up some information about Functions and they used an article and then found out it was mine.
Take that, es!
Ultimately, the coworker was laid off and the architect made sure I was too a few months later (much to the dislike of the rest of the team).
The architect is still there and got a contract, I understood.
I was really happy to get out of there and I'm now running my own business with some success, so it all worked out in the end
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The memory is the first thing to go, as we age.
Trust me. I know.
What's my name again?
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OriginalGriff wrote: I wrote it eight years ago
I find it scary that some people end up forgetting more things than others will ever learn throughout their entire lifetimes.
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Too funny.
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Legacy Excel (XLS) ? Or modern Excel (XLSX) ?
I used to use the JET/ACE Engine with OLE DB for reading and writing Excel programmatically.
XLSX is really a ZIP file containing XML files, so I open it extract the data from the XML.
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I am a novice. So, I import an Excel sheet into Access. Then convert it to MySql. Not much tech knowledge on my part. But I get good help from CP on many projects.
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I don't think that is embarrassing. A lot happens in eight years and we humans can not keep track of everything.
Really embarrassing would be if you failed to follow your own instructions in front of your boss. I somehow skipped a step when reading  . After that, there is no place to hide 
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Get a booster and have side effects.
With the Real Covid Experience, I lost 6 Kg in two weeks, and while it wasn't an experience I want to repeat, I have kept that weight off, bringing my BMI down from the mid 24's (top end of "healthy", bordering on "fat") to 22 (middle of the "healthy" range) and I'm glad of that.
The first vaccination (AstraZeneca) gave me a day of nasties, but didn't last, the second gave me nothing bad at all other than injection site pain and a little redness.
But the booster (Pfizer) gave me a "mini-covid" experience for three days - nowhere as bad as the full thing, and it wouldn't stop me having another booster when I need one - I suspect because my immune system went "What the heck? You again? you!" and went into overdrive to ensure I was cleared out: not pleasant ... but presumably effective.
And I just weighed myself again ... lost another 1.5Kg, which is probably a good thing. It does mean I can overindulge over Christmas without feeling too guilty!
Side effects are rare, and the intensity of them I experienced kinda makes you think that maybe the vaccination really had "worn off" in just six months. If so, I guess I've got another bout of nasties coming early summer next year ... but that won't stop me having it!
A quick google says that if you have had Covid, you do stand a higher chance of getting side effects from vaccinations: Why vaccine side effects might be more common in people who've already had COVID-19[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Yeah the Pfizer hits hard, I had it as my 1st and 2nd dose and the second one knocked me out for a couple of days. It's apparently the most effective though.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I lost 32 pounds from an oral/mouth/throat surgery many years ago. I lost it in the course of about 3-4 weeks, due to the fact that I could not eat any solid food for that time.
Needless to say, I have found that medical\health events are great for weight loss. Now, only if the same could be said after one heals.
I have had both initial Pfizer vaccine doses and a Pfizer booster. I was only "ill" for a couple of days for all 3 vaccine events, but nothing serious to report; no weight loss. Sucks that it hit you harder, it appears.
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