What Are You Doing Right Now
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
That's pretty much what it was. Emilia is used to white noise so without it she kept startling herself awake. Normally she wakes up at ~3AM and goes immediately back to bed after a feeding. Last night she was up ~every 10 minutes.
WIth my boys, battery powered radio on static got us through some overnight power outages. Being an Amateur Radio nut, it was easy to just set one of my ham radios to an unused frequency and I have enough batteries to go all night.
That's a good idea. Need to find a radio though.
My Dad has my Grampa's old ham radio with a built in amp of questionable legality, lol. Dang thing dims the lights in the neighbor's house... and I used to be able to hear grampa over our TV set half a mile away when I was a kid, lol.
Can I plug my guitar into that amp?
I'd have to check the plug, but I'm sure you could. Arguably, we'd have to fiddle with the output too since I'm not entirely certain where the speakers would plug up, lol. He built this one himself and had it connected to hand strung antennae that he strung into the trees outside his house... but who knows, maybe the ham radio guys on the other side of the planet could enjoy your jams.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
That's pretty much what it was. Emilia is used to white noise so without it she kept startling herself awake. Normally she wakes up at ~3AM and goes immediately back to bed after a feeding. Last night she was up ~every 10 minutes.
WIth my boys, battery powered radio on static got us through some overnight power outages. Being an Amateur Radio nut, it was easy to just set one of my ham radios to an unused frequency and I have enough batteries to go all night.
That's a good idea. Need to find a radio though.
My Dad has my Grampa's old ham radio with a built in amp of questionable legality, lol. Dang thing dims the lights in the neighbor's house... and I used to be able to hear grampa over our TV set half a mile away when I was a kid, lol.
Can I plug my guitar into that amp?
I'd have to check the plug, but I'm sure you could. Arguably, we'd have to fiddle with the output too since I'm not entirely certain where the speakers would plug up, lol. He built this one himself and had it connected to hand strung antennae that he strung into the trees outside his house... but who knows, maybe the ham radio guys on the other side of the planet could enjoy your jams.
If the tubes work, I can figure out the input/output stuff. I've made guitar sounds come out of many different amplifiers, and have discovered that impedance mismatch just isn't that big of a deal.
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
That's pretty much what it was. Emilia is used to white noise so without it she kept startling herself awake. Normally she wakes up at ~3AM and goes immediately back to bed after a feeding. Last night she was up ~every 10 minutes.
WIth my boys, battery powered radio on static got us through some overnight power outages. Being an Amateur Radio nut, it was easy to just set one of my ham radios to an unused frequency and I have enough batteries to go all night.
That's a good idea. Need to find a radio though.
My Dad has my Grampa's old ham radio with a built in amp of questionable legality, lol. Dang thing dims the lights in the neighbor's house... and I used to be able to hear grampa over our TV set half a mile away when I was a kid, lol.
Can I plug my guitar into that amp?
I'd have to check the plug, but I'm sure you could. Arguably, we'd have to fiddle with the output too since I'm not entirely certain where the speakers would plug up, lol. He built this one himself and had it connected to hand strung antennae that he strung into the trees outside his house... but who knows, maybe the ham radio guys on the other side of the planet could enjoy your jams.
If the tubes work, I can figure out the input/output stuff. I've made guitar sounds come out of many different amplifiers, and have discovered that impedance mismatch just isn't that big of a deal.
You'd have to bring your own speaker, I'm fairly sure... and earmuffs... Everybody in a half mile radius is likely to hear you at the lowest volume setting, lol.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
That's pretty much what it was. Emilia is used to white noise so without it she kept startling herself awake. Normally she wakes up at ~3AM and goes immediately back to bed after a feeding. Last night she was up ~every 10 minutes.
WIth my boys, battery powered radio on static got us through some overnight power outages. Being an Amateur Radio nut, it was easy to just set one of my ham radios to an unused frequency and I have enough batteries to go all night.
That's a good idea. Need to find a radio though.
My Dad has my Grampa's old ham radio with a built in amp of questionable legality, lol. Dang thing dims the lights in the neighbor's house... and I used to be able to hear grampa over our TV set half a mile away when I was a kid, lol.
Can I plug my guitar into that amp?
I'd have to check the plug, but I'm sure you could. Arguably, we'd have to fiddle with the output too since I'm not entirely certain where the speakers would plug up, lol. He built this one himself and had it connected to hand strung antennae that he strung into the trees outside his house... but who knows, maybe the ham radio guys on the other side of the planet could enjoy your jams.
If the tubes work, I can figure out the input/output stuff. I've made guitar sounds come out of many different amplifiers, and have discovered that impedance mismatch just isn't that big of a deal.
You'd have to bring your own speaker, I'm fairly sure... and earmuffs... Everybody in a half mile radius is likely to hear you at the lowest volume setting, lol.
That's too metal for one hand.... \mm/
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Can't believe that my wife is still asleep. It will be noon in not too long.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Can't believe that my wife is still asleep. It will be noon in not too long.
She's lucky... to be able to sleep in. Let her enjoy it.
Probably doesn't happen to often.
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About to eat another salad. Lost 7 lbs so far. Maybe I'll start looking human after a few months of this.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
About to eat another salad. Lost 7 lbs so far. Maybe I'll start looking human after a few months of this.
Or like a rabbit?
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
About to eat another salad. Lost 7 lbs so far. Maybe I'll start looking human after a few months of this.
Or like a rabbit?
Still an improvement
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@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Well... Pops and I went through the house with a find toothed comb. We can't figure out where all the smoke was coming from last night. Nothing smells like it was burning or anything.
We did find a bad circuit breaker but it's a chicken & the egg scenario... Did the circuit breaker blow and cause all the smoke... or did something else cause all the smoke and blow the circuit breaker... Found a couple of power outlets that needed to be replaced, and did that. Other than that, all is clear.
Wow...what a night.
Didn't find any burnt rodent or insect husks in the breaker or surrounding areas?
Does one of your kids have a chemistry set? I used to make some horrific aromas with mine, some with smoke, some without.
Nope. No dead rodents or pets or chemistry sets (yet). Best I can figure is the circuit breaker burned out and smoked up the place. The living room circuit tripped and was fine, but the one for the stove had to be replaced.
Humpty Dumpty has been back together for hours now and no worse for the wear. We don't know what caused it... But whatever it did definitely took out our stove's breaker.
Maybe the stove did something funky. Is it new or old?
Relatively new... (I'd guess 3 to 5 years due to the safety features on it). Gas stove with electric ignition and digital clocks timers, etc). When the power blips on it, it locks it self so the gas won't run at all until we unlock it.
No burn marks or smells anywhere we checked.
It's not a problem unless you can repeat it. Or so I tell my users anyway.
I tell mine it is not a problem because you never reported it to the helpdesk.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Well... Pops and I went through the house with a find toothed comb. We can't figure out where all the smoke was coming from last night. Nothing smells like it was burning or anything.
We did find a bad circuit breaker but it's a chicken & the egg scenario... Did the circuit breaker blow and cause all the smoke... or did something else cause all the smoke and blow the circuit breaker... Found a couple of power outlets that needed to be replaced, and did that. Other than that, all is clear.
Wow...what a night.
Didn't find any burnt rodent or insect husks in the breaker or surrounding areas?
Does one of your kids have a chemistry set? I used to make some horrific aromas with mine, some with smoke, some without.
Nope. No dead rodents or pets or chemistry sets (yet). Best I can figure is the circuit breaker burned out and smoked up the place. The living room circuit tripped and was fine, but the one for the stove had to be replaced.
Humpty Dumpty has been back together for hours now and no worse for the wear. We don't know what caused it... But whatever it did definitely took out our stove's breaker.
Maybe the stove did something funky. Is it new or old?
Relatively new... (I'd guess 3 to 5 years due to the safety features on it). Gas stove with electric ignition and digital clocks timers, etc). When the power blips on it, it locks it self so the gas won't run at all until we unlock it.
No burn marks or smells anywhere we checked.
It's not a problem unless you can repeat it. Or so I tell my users anyway.
I tell mine it is not a problem because you never reported it to the helpdesk.
100% this. Ticket or it didn't happen.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
About to eat another salad. Lost 7 lbs so far. Maybe I'll start looking human after a few months of this.
Or like a rabbit?
Just keep checking for the fluffy tail and long ears.
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And the crazy post-weekend traffic levels have returned.
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Had lunch with my old boss today. We work in the same building again! ROFL
@scottalanmiller and @Minion-Queen , lunch with Digifox today! -
Skipped breakfast and lunch, probably too late now.
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Oh... my... https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1735822-two-partitions-on-same-drive
I had a really, really good experience (seriously) with OG mods a few days ago, but sometimes I'm just asking myself what makes a topic a featured one. Is there some algorithm behind?
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Oh... my... https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1735822-two-partitions-on-same-drive
I had a really, really good experience (seriously) with OG mods a few days ago, but sometimes I'm just asking myself what makes a topic a featured one. Is there some algorithm behind?
Yes..... are the words in the topic something that recent liberal arts college grads from a school known only for sports and not at all for acedemics understand?
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Deciding if I want to bump from 25/25 to 50/50 for $10 more a month.
(FiOS renewal time...)
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About to mount our new SmartBoard in the conference room.
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@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Deciding if I want to bump from 25/25 to 50/50 for $10 more a month.
(FiOS renewal time...)
Just curious, do you mean https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_Fios? If so, what are you paying currently?
