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Post by rikita on Apr 6, 2017 8:00:40 GMT
also: was researching holiday homes at the baltic sea in poland (going there for a week in august with my mom and brother+family) - and i saw the perfect one, but wanted to see if there are more perfect ones ... there wasn't, but when i got back to it a few days later, it was booked - so we will have to go for a less perfect one ...
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Post by whatagain on Apr 6, 2017 9:51:44 GMT
thnk you Questa. Of course it was y fault. I wear all IPE (individual protective equipment) except ... gloves. I hate gloves, don't know why. And tetanus is ok. got injected some years ago when I ran behind my dog in the woods. And didn't see a remnant of barbed wire between 2 trees. Was stopped in my track. Ouch. Rikita are you familiar with Lafontaine ? www.iletaitunehistoire.com/genres/fables-poesies/lire/le-heron-biblidpoe_012
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Post by rikita on Apr 6, 2017 11:30:40 GMT
wasn't familiar with him, but have heard similar fables ... but i booked a pretty nice place now - the only disadvantage there is that we are further away from the beach, but we have cars, so that should be alright ...
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Post by whatagain on Apr 11, 2017 12:02:55 GMT
Lafontaine has written (or translated from latin or ...) a lot of the fables and we all frenchspeaking guys have to learn a few of those at school.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2017 13:13:07 GMT
I went to my mother's nursing home for the first time in 13 months. It was surprisingly hard to walk through the door, as though it was covered by an invisible membrane.
I was there to pick up some rings that are in the safe, but I will have to go back because the person who can open the safe will not be there until the 28th.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 11, 2017 14:17:56 GMT
Ugh, that would be hard. And now you "get to" go back again.
I AM glad that you will be allowed to reclaim her rings, and that they aren't confiscating them to pay her bills.
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Post by whatagain on Apr 11, 2017 16:12:21 GMT
A membrane is a good image.
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Post by tod2 on Apr 11, 2017 17:20:03 GMT
I know just how you felt Kerouac. After my mother's passing I drove past the nursing home gate and always slowed down and peered through the wrought iron at her room and veranda to see if I could catch a glimpse....of what? Certainly not mother, but the memory of her sitting in the chair with a cup of tea at her side kind of haunted me for many months. I don't do it any longer. Time is definitely a great healer.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2017 16:19:05 GMT
Today a company that had forgotten to get a monthly payment from my account for the last 14 months finally noticed and sent me a bill for the amount. I was expecting them to wake up some day, so I paid it.
The next person to wake up should be the village undertaker who has forgotten to request payment for his services since last November.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 13, 2017 17:30:02 GMT
It's a bitch when you have to ASK people to take your money, or ignore the twinges of conscience if you don't.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2017 12:15:52 GMT
For the first time ever, my computer inexplicably deleted about 20 photos without asking or warning me. I had downloaded a memory card with a few videos and the photos (and yes, I always delete everything from the memory card as soon as it is downloaded). For the first time ever, my computer separated the videos and the photos into two separate categories -- first the list of videos and then the list of photos. Okay, I thought, maybe this is something new (and unwanted) from the latest Windows update, no big deal. So I worked on the videos a bit and then I wanted to post some pictures, but the photos no longer exist. I looked everywhere and even tried a system restore, but.... Anyway, no tragic losses (not like if my 800 photos from Singapore had all disappeared) but a bit annoying. And of course I don't trust my computer anymore.
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Post by questa on Apr 18, 2017 13:42:42 GMT
Oh Bugga! sounds like your photos will join my 200 taken on the South Island of New Zealand 3 years ago. I had 3 separate geeks attempt to find them but ...gone. It was lucky I had posted North Island ones here before the others joined The Rapture.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 18, 2017 14:10:59 GMT
Old trauma, but related. I'm still mourning the roll of slide film from our 1991 trip to Oaxaca and Mexico City that didn't make it back to us from the processors. I imagine it sliding around for eternity under the seat of a postal truck somewhere...
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 18, 2017 16:24:41 GMT
Thanks, Kerouac and Questa ~ MORE paranoia for me now! The person who wrote the giant, mostly unread book I bought to go with my camera says never to wipe the card after downloading, but I do anyway. *sigh* Kerouac, it's a long shot, but check Recycle and also check Windows' annoying and confusing "Photos" (in your Start menu). Kimby, you know there is only one cure for that trauma.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2017 20:40:39 GMT
The trash can is the first place I looked (unsuccessfully), and I don't have the annoying and confusing photo thing on this computer because I am still using Windows 7 on it rather than Windows 10.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2017 10:29:46 GMT
My lost photos reappeared! Actually I got a little help from my memory card by downloading a dozen or so new photos today (while being careful not to delete them from the memory card yet!). And I saw that rather than automatically making a new independent file, they were labelled as a sub-file in my Les Halles folder (which I used a lot recently). And of course that's where the other photos were, too. (So why did the video files go in their own independent direction?)
Anyway, you were right, Bixa -- if I were using Windows 10, I would certainly have seen them in that photo zone in the Start menu.
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Post by tod2 on Apr 19, 2017 13:37:16 GMT
You guys are talking way above my head......my computer has been down since last Thursday when parts of our city went into a complete power-out and into total darkness. People are still throwing out rotten food from their fridges and freezers. Luckily we have a generator which kept us going with TV, lights, and alternating between the freezer/fridge and geysers for hot water, we managed just fine. My computer is still out of commission so am using a spare - hopefully mine will be fixed tomorrow.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 19, 2017 15:32:37 GMT
Is it the power cut that has broken it somehow? We get quite a few here and I've protected my stuff with a combined surge protector and UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply).
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 19, 2017 15:36:41 GMT
Oh thank goodness, Kerouac! Not only is it maddening to lose your pictures, but in that kind of situation you can't even be sure exactly how valuable they were.
Tod! That's hardly a petty trauma. Thank goodness you all have a generator. How long was the power out?
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Post by Kimby on Apr 19, 2017 15:40:56 GMT
Windows saves to whatever folder you last saved to, unless you specifically request a new location. Clicking Save As let's you see where a new save will go, and change it before saving. As K2 discovered.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2017 16:48:24 GMT
99% of the time I just stay in the general image zone, so each new download creates a new file there that I can find immediately. Obviously this time I had forgotten to close the file that I was using, so the photos got sent there. This still does not explain why the file was split into two separate sections -- videos and photos -- because I take a mixture all the time and most of my files are mixed with videos and photos together until I sort them out later. So what happened it still a mystery to me.
Tod, I'm glad you have a generator. In some places it seems like people should automatically have one even if it is almost never used. I wish my parents had had one during the "year of the four hurricanes."
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 19, 2017 18:39:50 GMT
How many hurricanes were there that year?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2017 19:07:40 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 19, 2017 20:20:12 GMT
Windows saves to whatever folder you last saved to, unless you specifically request a new location. Clicking Save As let's you see where a new save will go, and change it before saving. As K2 discovered. Not really, Kimby. When I download pictures, it does as Kerouac states below -- the download creates a new file. I have Windows Photo Gallery and that's where I see all my picture files. That may well be what Kerouac is also using, as it's been around for a while. 99% of the time I just stay in the general image zone, so each new download creates a new file there that I can find immediately. Obviously this time I had forgotten to close the file that I was using, so the photos got sent there. This still does not explain why the file was split into two separate sections -- videos and photos -- because I take a mixture all the time and most of my files are mixed with videos and photos together until I sort them out later. So what happened it still a mystery to me. That's interesting about the new downloads being sent to an open file -- I don't think I've had that happen. I wonder if something got updated and now works differently than before. You know how Windows loves to tell is how intuitive it is, so its surprise changes are theoretically no big deal, as we'll intuitively roll with them.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2017 20:50:01 GMT
At first I was going to take a little video today just so that there would be a mix of items, but then I forgot (because there was nothing of which to take a video) so I still don't know exactly what happened.
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Post by tod2 on Apr 21, 2017 7:07:27 GMT
Our power-out started with a summer thunderstorm. Lots a thunder and ligtening but one huge strike nearby could have put my computer out altho I do have surge filters on the plugs. A few hours later on Thursday evening a newly laid underground cable blew up plunging most of the city and surrounding suburbs into inky darkness. Of course we only learned the extent of the problem a day later - the engineers could not fix it. Another lot had to come 500km away to take care of the problem. It is now Friday lunchtime...and I notice the ice blocks in my freezer are becoming watery around the edges. Time to bring out the generator. On Monday I asked our neighbor what was happening their end as a rumor was circulating that it would be another three days in darkness. I offered to plug their deep freezer in via a long extentsion cable. The food inside was still good. Within 2 hrs the power came back on at 9pm. Too late for most households. My computor has gone in for a repair.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 21, 2017 13:44:41 GMT
That was quite an ordeal, Tod. I suppose many businesses had to close during the outage. Were schools open?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2017 17:10:33 GMT
I'm going to Brussels next week...
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Post by whatagain on Apr 22, 2017 11:40:26 GMT
We'll be in Firenze ! Do eat at 'Vincent' if in the center - it is in the 'îlot sacré' and quite good - take a waterzooi of course.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Apr 23, 2017 20:24:40 GMT
My hay fever is usually only mildly annoying but this year it's driving me crazy...tree pollen...I think it's tree pollen...my eyes my eyes!
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