Today I’m posting a two-fer from 10 years ago. I’ve been doing a lot of this sort of thing myself lately, thinking of ways to expand my studio, which is a small downstairs room in my house that is overflowing with, well… I’m not sure what all this crap is, but suffice to say it’s “overflowing.” In 30 years of drawing Arlo & Janis I have had only one perfect studio space, the entire upstairs of a small Tudor-style house I lived in briefly in the 90s. Of course, this situation is my own doing. My lack of organizational skills and my relative indifference to clutter have turned many an adequate room into a dysfunctional fire trap. Well, if I say so myself, this year’s resolutions are holding strong, and I’m determined to transform my current workspace, albeit small. Maybe I’ll post pictures as I go!
Rearranged Marriage
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141 responses to “Rearranged Marriage”
Thanx for that beautiful picture, Mark. I’ve added it to my list of random wallpapers and sent a link to my sister, whose very fond of rainbows.
OF due NOW-1810 CST. emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Prediction, of course, was 1800 +/- 10 minuten. Carried laptop into kitchen and onto counter, made tea in m’wave, glancing at screen, brought tea over to laptop. First jets about 1759, then OF sort of fiddled around. Put supper on reheat casserole. Began to think it was a fizzle, but about 1805, full-blown, splendid eruption. No smart phone, no iPod[R], but old enough to be grateful for this technology. Only one viewer showed [may have been others off to left or right], lightly clad. Must be warmer there than here. Supposed to reach teens-low 20s Fri. Grateful for that too, and longer days. Two different beers in fridge.
Prosit! emb
Ballast Pt. Pale Ale, B.Pt. Bwg. Co., San Diego. 5.2% abv. Not bad, only slightly squiffed [@@*&%%*@ speelczech]. [The other is a porter, not really right for emb’s original leftover fried rice mix.]
Peace, emb
Spent all afternoon at ATT with a very diligent female who got me out of Mike’s contract, got rid of his phone, neither of us could figure out what the heck he thought he had accomplished with his program/plan? Got me unlimited text and voice and 10 gigabytes of data to see if that is enough, got me an even newer Smart phone, a Samsung Galaxy 4 in its’ newest incarnation, plus a 10″ Samsung tablet with a real keyboard in addition to the built in one with touch screen, got a semi-waterproof cover called n Otter which I think refers to fact it is supposed to be waterproof to 30 inches deep but I doubt it floats like an otter?
Got cover and protector for tablet, insurance on everything and probably some more stuff I forgot included, all for less than I was paying for husband’s miserable plan. Then I had to listen to daughter telling me what an idiot I was. If I am, I will listen to the Village saying so and think over what you say but not my kids right now. This is supposed to be the sturdiest they have available for people like me who plan to be in some places phones and tablets aren’t supposed to be, I guess? Think I will hire the sales lady as a coach to teach me to use this stuff, she used to be a school teacher and burned out, I believe that!
Now I have two new goals in immediate time, learn to use these pieces of technology correctly and learn to use and handle my new defense system, the gun, not the deputy! So, it turns out a lot of people I know shoot guns as a hobby or as self defense, so I need to get signed up for lessons. Actually I am entertaining myself and not bored or depressed much at all, surprisingly.
Love, Jackie
Forgot to say, I will write down anything I am supposed to be adding to the phone and/or tablet and get it. Protection seemed in order, so protective covers for everything were purchased.
Jackie, can’t criticize any of your purchases. Have an Otter case on my phone, mainly to add some thickness and grippability. On the data plan; I consume 12 -18 Gb a month on just my tablet. Both phone and tablet should have user guides stored on board; read these before paying for help.
Jackie, it sounds right to me. Good thing on the protective covers. My only beef with the Otterbox for the Iphone I had was the clip to attach it to my belt. The clip is made of durable plastic, but the hinge was just two tiny molded pins. Being on the wide side, I would catch the phone on doorways or chair arms and eventually the pins would break. When the first one did this I contacted Otterbox and they sent me 4 replacements for free. Now that is excellent customer service.
Good thing the phone and tablet you got were both Samsung. That should reduce the learning curve since they share the same operating system. That tablet should make a good e-reader for you too. The Google app has a voice command feature that you can use with the phone. You tap the app icon, then say “Google” followed by your question.
Have been to see mother. Departed in a turmoil, transferred to a snit and will be in a grand funk soon. You can pick your friends and pick your nose but you can’t pick your relatives.
Jackie, if you got the newer version of what Mike had, I think this is the page you need.
http://www.att.com/devicehowto/?make=samsung&model=galaxys4active%28i537%29#fbid=Ybo4uAksaSO
Jackie said; “..it turns out a lot of people I know shoot guns as a hobby or as self defense…”
I can see you hanging with the hobbyist group, but what kind of people are constantly shooting in self defense?
Jackie, it sounds to me as though you got a great deal. Your data usage will depend on how much your use your tablet and for what when you are traveling and/or do not have access to WiFi. When I’m traveling, I run my WiFi-only tablet through my phone’s “hotspot” when WiFi is not available, and I’ve never exceeded 2GB of data usage per month. sand must use his tablet for a lot of what I use my PCs.
Don’t let sand tease you; I know what you meant. 🙂
Debbe 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7B5jXYRy3Q
I do know several police officers and some of my boating group are still in military or reserves, so that counts as Sand’s reference. Even our Corps of Engineers guys are armed at times, they do lake patrol and the State Troopers here do lake patrol as well. And the Park Rangers and Coast Guard are armed too. It seems a lot of people I know are involved in trying to maintain a lawful use of state and federal property and observance of law and order.
Clarified?
Jackie, GR6,
We have a home wireless network, data gets inhaled an exhausted at a high rate in this house. Phones, tablets, laptops, printers, and TV all access it. When out, phones go to 4G; we connect other devices to local WiFi, mainly hotels, *$$, or in Loon’s case Micky D’s.
Jackie, if you approach shooting with same verve and determination you seem to have applied to everything else you’ve done in life, I have no doubt you will become proficient. Two suggestions…get good some instructions and then practice, practice, practice. There’s a saying in competitive shooting, “Don’t fear the competitor that bought a $3000 gun; fear the competitor that bought $3000 of ammunition.”
Ghost, I wanted to thank you for the John Ringo Zombie Apocalypse recommendation! Have you got and read the fourth (last) yet? It came out in January, I have it but have not yet read it, since I’m in the process of re-reading the first three before I do. Just started #3. I really like them, even though I have to look up military slang and jargon a lot!
I know there are Robert Heinlein fans here. Just as a note, Ringo has one direct reference to Starship Troopers in one of them, and also one indirect reference (when Faith gets pinned).
Here’s a question for you, Ghost. What’s your explanation of what is said about the Marine Corps Ball the morning after? Help, please….
Best regards, Nancy Kirk
Ghost, I got an email from a friend, male (do I have many of any other kind?) who wrote to say how much he admired my inspirational attitude and he was glad to see me plunging into life.
Plunging is probably a good description of me. I rarely do anything without enthusiastic mind set. In other words, I like a lot of things but I am rarely a person who hesitates or takes the measure of things but attacks with sword flying. I think were I a pirate I’d be plundering and slashing!
Somehow I seem not able to do things by half. By the way, I gave up my Diet Cokes and I am drinking a big glass of water right now. Iced tea with lemon or lime, no sweetner and water, that’s it. No sodas or juices or artificially sweetened anything.
I would slit my wrists and inject caffeine at times. I think the Diet Soda is harder to give up than anything although I have done so many times. It is actually painful to drink and I think it is the pain and the caffeine I am missing.
Love, Jackie
Dear Galliglo, good for you, writing in and sharing what you’ve been doing. Glad to see that you are doing so well. Did you get out of the parking lot this morning? Ten inches of snow, that’s a lot to drive in. It snowed here last night, and again today; good grief!
Ursen, your description of what’s going on is amazing, and you sound cheerful and unfazed. Hope the food holds out until you are able to get out for more supplies.
Jackie, you are a wonder! Sounds like you made good choices for all the phone stuff; good that you were able to save money on the plan. Do I envy your being able to read all that Mark Twain published! I have read a lot of his books, though. I think he was another force of nature — you would definitely make good dinner companions for each other.
When we were downsizing I got rid of a lot of my books, we used to have a library as big as most people’s living rooms with shelves up to 15 feet in air and a sliding ladder to get to the high shelves. Anyway, a lot of Twain’s books are totally out of print, I believe, and these were actually printed not long after he wrote them, so some were pretty obscure. Actually not everything he wrote was totally wonderful but I checked and every single book was in the collection. Each was stamped with the library plate and dated, so I think they dated from late 1800’s.
We had inherited these somehow from a relative who had gotten them from a closed library. I had books from Hazelhurst, Mississippi and Sunflower, MS both small towns.
My children give me no credit for being capable of anything I believe!
Love, Jackie
Credit where credit is due: On or about Fe 9th, I aired my thought about needing to contact the IRS just to get the instructions for tax forms. My thought was not positive.
Let it be noted that my internet order was filled and delivered to me by ordinary mail on Fe 17th, only 8 days end-to-end. That is good service.
However, I would not want to have waited until Ap to try that!
Mark
One picture to treasure – especially in his memory.
Thanks
emb
Did you know of Julia Richmond HS? My Mother went there.
Jackie
Rotary dial is good enough for me. Some day I will be dragged into the 20th cent.
kicking and screaming.
Jackie
looting and then plundering AND then burning
Old Bear, you and my late mother! She had rotary dialed phones hard wired into the farm house and every time I would have to contact the phone companies or carriers on her behalf, they would say, “What kind of phone ARE you on?”
So, she could not use a modern phone, much less a cell phone. I would have to dial one for her and hand it to her after I got her party on line. She could not use a remote, could not understand that the a/c thermostat was not a light switch. Nor use a microwave, a toaster except the kind you laid bread on and slid in flat like a shovel into an oven, just on and on. She’d buy cars with lots of fancy equipment, could never even turn on a radio and most of the stuff she never knew she owned.
Gayla, my minion, is a Luddite and we argued about gps and paper maps the whole time we were gone. I told her today she would have to use paper maps on this next trip, as we were going on very rural country roads in most cases, real Blue Highways. She likes that idea.
Love, Jackie