Golly I love program updates and "improvements" that just happen automatically.

I have been using QuickBooks for over 14 years. It works, and makes invoices and prints checks and makes me look like I know what I am doing.

I went to print a check today and everything is normal, until I hit the print button. QB just locks up. Nothing will kill it shy of using the task manager and saying end program. I go back thinking it was a one time thing. This time I even restart the printer in case it was the issue. Same lockup.

So I call the tech support line. I talk to a guy that seems capable of helping me. I download a tool, and then rebuild the QB print function. Try to print a check, full lockup. Kill it, and reload. Then he suggest to leave off the logo I use that I have used for years. OK, it is just a logo and no big deal. Tada, the check prints. Then he tells me the program suddenly does not like logos and they are working on it. It is the very same logo image that worked for years. Oh well, they are working on it. I will have to upgrade to the newer version before the end of the year as I am using QB Pro 2018.

Did the newest system update on my iPhone 7Plus. Now the battery only last about an hour and takes 2 hours to charge. it was supposed to fix battery problems not causr them. Don't think replacing the battery will do any good. Looks like the only way to fix it is to downgrade my system version, or get a newer phone. Apple says this one is worth $150 trade-in.

Morning all.

Today we get to be frustrated. My wife has an idea that we can drape some mosquito netting over part of the pond to provide some shade, and somehow not have it blow away in the next big wind. Like her compost barrel I will let her do this her way and get a better idea of what she wants. Then I will re-engineer the system to work, maybe. That netting is going to be real hard to keep in place in a 50+ MPH wind.

For the compost barrel she figured we could use some little cute casters likely rated for 20 pounds each. I had to build some mega strong supports and use large heavy duty caster to make it recall work. This will be interesting. I know better than just taking over the design from the start. When I am fixing her design suddenly I am right, and any design suggestions now is unwelcome.

When I built the flower bed in the front yard for a Crepe myrtle bush she picked the concrete building blocks but got real mad at the way I was building it. She was trying to use then upside down and have the wall lean out. When full of dirt the wall would have collapsed. After many years it is still perfect built by me. She got mad and went inside, so I was on my own.

I know how to do her projects, but do it the right way. Some of her ideas do work out fine. The dry stack wall for the flower bed in the front was her idea, but she read al lot before trying it.

Morning all. Yesterday was another catch up day but today I am out of here at 11 sharp and not taking calls.

When my wife first got her cell phone she did not give out the number to any of the co-worker except good friends. They all knew, it was for friends calling and not work related calls. She worked a lot of overtime and of course only got "comp time" as a payment.

She would not use her cell phone for work related calls because the phone then could be subpoenaed in a lawsuit. They could come in and just take her personal phone as evidence in a lawsuit against the university. She did not use her work email at home ever.

me either. all self contained on the laptop that is work supplied.

Back in the mid to late 1980s I did a lot of work at home on my computer. I lived just a 1.5 miles from work so it was not for any reason other than the comfort of being home. I was paid 20% of the sale for the computer graphics I was doing. Lots of doctors and lawyers did slide shoe presentations back in the day when every single hotel on the planet with a meeting room had slide projectors. The presenter just brought the slide carousel and the show was on. We charged $25 to $150 per slide depending on complexity. It was good money for me.

That would be great if I got paid extra for working more than 40...………...

My "important" friend has a dual sim card in his iPhone so has two phone numbers that reach his iPhone. One personal, one business.

ET bro's iPhone hangs up after 5 minutes if he ever answers. Says they tell him the sim card is cracked, the battery needs replaced, the phone needs replaced, and they are adding 5G networks in his area. This all started the same day I told him I was not going to watch some secret internet 2 hour movie that is all heresay to prove the ET conspracy.

What you hate watching comedy?

One of the guy in the local regional PCA group had three cell phones for a while. He has his personal phone that no one at work has the number to, and one work issued phone. He never would say what the third phone was for, but he made it clear he was not going to answer, so I dropped the subject.

Not paying to watch and listen to conspiracy theories. Especially since he complains his computer mac or pc doesn't work and can't do anything you tell him will fix either. Yet give access to some scammer that deletes his anti-virus anti-malware apps that Geek Squad installed.

I have a concrete slab next to the garage for RV parking or whatever, and I noticed last week that critters had dug a little bit of a hole between the corner of that slab and the block wall that butts up against it.
Don't like that. It wasn't a very big hole, maybe two fists wide. I was figuring ground squirrel maybe.
So I pull out a partial bag of concrete mix I had in the garage left over from an old job and mix it up real wet, almost like slurry and the pour it down the hole to support the slab from being undercut and seal it up.

A few hours later I smelled it, skunk. Evidently one of them things was down in that hole and got sealed up and was making not-nice with the stink.
Bummer, but nothing I could do about it.
Over a week later, it still stinks to high heaven on that side of the garage all the way out to the sidewalk just like if a car ran over a skunk in the road.

I was planning to just wait for it to go away but it doesn't seem to be dissipating.
I was hoping it wouldn't take this long to go way but I have no idea how long dead skunks stink for.
Now I'm thinking about trying to seal up the cracks/joints between the concrete parts to knock down that smell.
Luckily it's on the furthest part of the lot from the house but the wife is not pleased about how it tends to waft when she opens the windows.

If anyone wants to come over and take a good whiff, we gots plenty to go around ;)


It's right about thar ....

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Would try to see if I could get some "Nature's Miracle" into that den. It has stuff in it that eats the odor. Maybe a sprayer with a wand that could be pushef into the den.

That's why when I had my attic de-squirrelled they made a 4 ft ramp out of pvc pipe then blocked everywhere they could get in. Squirrels could slide out, but not climb back in. Waited a couple of weeks and no squirrels. They were crawling all over the outside of the house looking for a way back in. Said if they just put some stuff out to kill them, they would stink up the attic.

Our skunk trapped called. The fist two nights there was nothing in the traps. On the third night he caught a kit on one trap. On the next night he caught the moma and two babies in the trap, and got one more with the grabber on a pole thingie. We looked in the hole with my endoscope and did not see anymore. He is thinking with a moma and 4 babies total he likely got them all. Now e need to pour in some concrete into the hole or the next skunk that come along will find a ready made den. I may give it a through look see with the endoscope to be double sure.

The good news is it is the common area and a ways away from my house, but with a north west wind we could smell a rotting skunk. I really think they are gone.

that is a distinctive odor, isn't it?

I just ordered a bottle of this stuff on your recommend.
The den is sealed up but I can dilute it a little and put it down in the joints where the slab meets the other concrete, I believe that's where the smell is coming form. Worth a shot, not very much $$$$.


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https://www.livingonadime.com/skunk-smell-remover/

That link is the recipe to make your own, and it does work. We used it on our dog that got hit twice. The good news is it cheap.

Our beagle was hit once and he got the message.

Our dachshund Reuben is way to stubborn to ever learn. This morning when were were in the back yard he just HAD to go after a small toad. He was starting to froth up and just could not stop himself. I had to poke him with my finger twice to get his attention. Finally I locked him out of the back yard for a while. It is like he is addicted to toad poison and likes to froth at the mouth.