It is almost that bad. I have had to produce a low resolution (email size) version of the print as a 40x60, and a 27x40. They don't really car if it is normal easy to divide scale, so I make one at 1"=35' and another at 1"=38' and then one at 1"=40' Agahhhh

In the olden days, clients wanted to be able to put a scale ruler on the print and figure out how far from two points were. They only really want a pretty picture for the wall. Scale is not important to be a nice normal easy to divide or multiply number.

Having fun this morning. I got up a bit early, and got showered, dressed, fed the dogs, and got the coffee pot ready to go. Then I headed out to get my blood and pee test to keep my doctors happy and spread some more money around.

The test facility has a good operation going. I signed in on a tablet, mounted to a pole. It said 20 minute wait as the room not full, but had several people ahead of me. I was called pretty much on schedule, and off to the room with just a privacy curtain. They had a humongous wide chair I bet rated for 800 pounds, and almost love seat width. I scooched over to one side, and she had to ask the sign in questions. One of them required me to select one of three options.

Let them bill my insurance for the tests,
I can pay them $505 right now and not bill the insurance,
Screw it all, I ain't paying and I will just leave. Well, OK, it was not worded that way, but yea, I will not pay and no testing will be done is pretty much the same thing.

I can't imagine going there, waiting for the que, and then refusing to pay and leaving. I guess some people think all testing should be free? Who knows.

I chose to let them bill my insurance, I figure I pay for it, let them handle it. And likely the insurance will just knock the price down to $150 or less and pay it.

Morning all. Geeze the computer made me login to here this morning. I had to think about the PW its been so long.

Pelican is having issues this morning. I think it has rebooted a few times.

I have to log in about 1 time in 10 for fir the last few months. I don;t know if it is on my end with automatic cookie deletions, or on their end. No big deal, I just use password as my password and it is easy to remember. ;)

I use 1234. Seems to work ok for most things.

For a long time when my wife worked at her university job, her IT department required her to change her password every 20 days. It gets hard to make up and then remember the new password. She made an Excel spreadsheet and came up with 15 passwords. Then when the password had to be changed, she just advanced it one, and saved the file in a place she could get to without logging into the main software that required the password.

She used the same 15 passwords in rotation for years.

I just wonder if any real study on passwords has shown that changing them regularly is any more secure than a good strong password that is never written down, and used for years.

One program I have used since 1986 is Quicken, when it came on 5.25 inch floppy discs. It has been updated many many times, and I have all my data back to the start. I have used the same password for all those years to open the program. Security is not a big issue as no one else uses my computer.

They finally came out with a system for us that if you use a strong enough PW then you never have to change it. Like 16 characters including a few odd balls or capitals in the mix. I finally have came up with one that now never needs changing at least till the next IT boss changes the rules.

For my on line banking and financial stuff, yea, I have some really long difficult to type passwords. One of my biggest pet peeves, is a site that does not allow my to paste in the long password from a file, and all I see are dots or asterisks and no way to see what I am typing. It gets real old, having to type super careful and be sure not to fat finger the keyboard, expectantly on a laptop or phone keyboard, and then remember exactly where I was in the typing if I am interrupted or have a random reminder.

I hear ya! I have made a mistake typing in the long one here and I only get three tries then I have to reset it and not use the old one.

Then back 180 left.

no 179.999999

As expected, left along with north pointing to the left, but they kept changing the scale.

So picture a window that is 27x40 inches and someone holding a 40x60 photo on the other side of the window. Obviously if they walk up to the window, you only see part of the photo, as they move back you can see more and more of the photo. Your window size is the same. That is like the scale, they did keep changing from 1'=40' to 1'=38' and then 1"=35' They finally settled on the final scale, and I hope they don't change their minds again. Now I just need the GO and I can make the prints they want.

I have to use the mapping program to open the mosaic image, another program to crop the image to about the area, another program to add the informational text, back to yet another program to rotate it and rotate the north arrow, and then a final program to make a final PDF file to send to the printer.

So minor changes are a pain in the back side.

Morning all. Working from home today. Should be my last day for two weeks.

Ya slacker, taking a vacation like that. How will those drawings get done. They ain't gonna do themselves!

Have fun in the old country. I have two different great grandparents that came from Germany, so I have some German blood in me.

My grandfather was born there.

NIST says the most secure is a long pass phrase and no expiration. Phrase as in 4 to 5 words minimum.

David, enjoy the trip!

Thanks we have all our ducks in a row for now. If one gets out of line............well duck is for dinner.

I had fun digging in the yard on Saturday morning. The master gardener required I add a new head, right back to the spot I had one originally, but we moved it due to a large bush she had me plant. That large bush has been eliminated, and replaced with the compost pile, and the head I moved before is hiding under a flowering plant that hogs all the water from the one head.

Digging in dry clay is like digging in heavily compacted gravel. I can stand on the shovel, and it makes a mark 1/6 inch deep and I have to slam the shovel down with my hands to get any progress.

It is done. And this morning, we get .64 inches of rain so far and more coming. We needed the rain.

Hi all, we finally have the 718 home
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