Stijn!!

[Outback Porsche]

Hope you’re feeling better soon Richard

[GH85Carrera]

My grandparents put in a water softener in the 1960s. The softnend water in the house tasted horrible, so they would go to the back yard and use the water in the faucet for the yard to fill up the water jug in the fridge. It always sucked taking a shower at their house, it was impossible to get all the soap off of yourself.

We have pretty good city water here for the house.

I also have a water well I use just to water the yard. It is pretty hard water, but tastes fine. I had it tested for irrigation purposes and they said it was OK for that, just hard. I did not bother getting it tested for drinking as that is expensive, and I don't drink from the hose often.

Enjoy your soft water.

[RKDinOKC]

Mertnin

Have a water softner on my house. has a reverse flush salt filter thing similar to that in the garage, and a reverse osmosis filter thing under the kitchen sink with a specisl tap for extra filtered drinking water.

Got it when we moved here with my brother with MS. It filters out the stuff that is bad for his MS like clorine, etc. If he took a shower in chlorinated water he wouldn't be able to move within a couple of minutes.

The person that services my softner is telling me it is time for a new one because she can't get filters and parts any more.

[GH85Carrera]

I have two excellent Apps on my phone for warning me about weather. The dang phone is going nuts, with "areal flash flood" alerts. One emergency alert, with the obnoxious squall, and two other alerts about it. We have seen it rain 12 inches in 24 hours here at home, and we had a lot of water, but not an iota of flooding. I am just not worried at all about a flood. Not gonna happen. And so far today we have had a whopping 0.12 inches of rain.

No doubt the folks down near the creeks and rivers are having issues. Tulsa is still struggling and is lots of Arkansas. That really sucks.

[Jim Richards]

Our water here is hard. From time to time I think about getting a water softener, but I just can’t seem to pull the trigger.

More June gloom here. Every morning for a least a week now. At least our temperatures are comfortable.

More tinkering on the Z today. That is all.

[RKDinOKC]

Just got back from riding across town to pick up my laptop. Could hardly see more than 6 car lengths it was raining so hard there and back.

No flood water there and back though

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Welp, they decided my issues were not life threatening and sent me home from the hospital.
Actually walked out on the hospital in Tulsa.

Went Monday because got real dizzy and started projectile vomiting while taking brother Bob to lunch. Panera Bread.
Went to Tulsa hospital. They took blood, did a chest x-ray, cat scan of my head, then left me in the waiting room for 8 hours. We got in the Cayenne and my bro drove me home. Couldn't tell us when a doc could see us, so didn't tell them we left.
Figured it wasn't too bad or they would not have left me so long.

Got up next morning (Tues) and called 911 with the same symptoms.
They didn't do all those expensive tests, just took blood and vitals.
Gave me a bunch of nausea drugs and told me to go see my regular doc, no indicators that it was life threatening.
Can't get in to doc until Monday.

Can't move much or I get dizzy and empty my stomach.

Next door neighbors came over and offered to go get me something to eat, if I could eat.
Just drinking sips of water and saltine crackers.

Found yer problem!

Glen, we have soft water and it sure helps keep everything from the water heater to shower heads from getting gummed up with calcium and lime. Plus the dishwasher and clothes washer don't have to use as much soap. The cold water to the kitchen does not go through the softener though so that is straight well water with all the flavor of the minerals in it. The soap you think you aren't getting off isn't soap. Soap comes of much better with soft water and that slick feeling is the lack of soap scum left on your body. Unless of course you used a lot of soap, then it can be an issue since is dissolves and lathers up much better with soft water.

Jim, I figure if I start practicing now then I can be as good as you and Jeff when I retire.

[GH85Carrera]

Jim is a long time pro slacker now, and Jeff has been practicing for years, and not went pro. You will have to learn fast.

[Jim Richards]

I was thinking about making instructional videos, but that’s too much work.

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, almost like a job or something.

[Jim Richards]

Back when I was in college...

[RKDinOKC]

You out there in movie land. Have someone follow you around and film it.

Maybe you could call it Pause Stars.

[RKDinOKC]

Brother Tom drove the Cayenne home from Tulsa Monday night. Had to grab the wheel 3 times. He fell asleep and was headed for the bar ditch. Felt like if I drove it would make me dizzy and not only head off the road, but go into the heaves. And my tendency was losing my balance towards the center median instead of the bar ditch. Right wheels just starting the meander across the right line when I grabbed the wheel.

Told me he does not want me to tell his wife.

Every couple of days he drive 20 miles out to the family cabin and back. They are having some remodeling done. Think I may have to start offering to ride out and back with him.

[porsche4life]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Glad yer having fun. They had just finished building the Polynesian Cultural Center when we had some relatives come visit us back in about 1970.

Tell yer kids that you know a guy so old that he lived in Hawaii when it became a state!

Oh, and for a true treat, next trip to a grocery store or convenience store ask for a package of Li Hing Mui. We could only get the original, dried plum with seed when we lived there. Now there are lots of varieties. I have often thought about ordering some on-line just never pulled the trigger.

Have fun!

Oh we know all about Li Hing Mui. Goose loves it! Every day by the valet stand at our hotel they have trays of pineapple coated in it. We found a whole aisle of stuff at Walgreens and he was over the moon! Check the photo I tagged you in on Facebook.

[porsche4life]

Originally Posted by Outback Porsche

Hi all

We have soft water, woohoo!

I need to put one of those in. Our water is so hard in AZ from running over thousands of miles of limestone to get to us.

[RKDinOKC]

Yay! The scripts I've been running on my PC to update Active Directory, 365, and Azure suddenly became mailicious and stopped running this morning. But nobody claims to have changed anything. Sent everyone a copy of the update logs from yesterday. Ot showed they were lying. Changes made to my pc that were not only during the middle of the day and forced my pc to reboot making me start over on several all day tasks *which executives complained were not done quick enough), it removed my admin status to run powershell scripts. None of the other admin's pc's permissions were changed.

Sure like that those other admins don't know how to admin Macs, or Virtual PCs running on Macs. It was worth every penny to fix my Mac this week.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. Another crazy day in the books. The youngest one was given an award at school for his acting last night.

[GH85Carrera]

Richard, getting Windows 10 to NOT decide it is idle and just reboot to update is possible, but not a simple thing as I remember.

We often have a project that runs for a week at a time, and the computer is anything but idle, the CPU can be darn near maxed out, yet Microsoft sees no mouse or keyboard activity and decides now is a good time to close all programs and just reboot, to update some update to Xbox game center, because Microsoft thinks it is vital to have that update right away, and your data is not important at all.

I often wonder if the software engineers ever really use the software as designed.

They so very much need a real "professional" version. Not one game, no social media, no phone apps, or weather, or news, or the tons of other useless garbage. Just something that treats my computer as workstation and my programs that are running as THE important thing. I don't care one iota about an update to Skype, and I don't want one single byte of ram wasted on it.

[flipper35]

We are moving to Windows 10 Enterprise here since Windows 7 support is going away. Lots of options on what to allow and not allow. It also allows us to use the patch management program to decide which patches to install and when and whether to allow a reboot.

That said, I have always disliked Win10. Not as much as 8 or 8.1 but that is like saying it is better than waking up in a bed full of 5 day old fish. The more I use 10 the less I like it and there are a lot of features we are losing and have to go to a third party to replace.

Skype is part of office now. Well, has been for years I guess now.

Today I get a three hour drive after work to a hotel so we can be to the trap range on time tomorrow. Better than leaving early and being tired when we get there.

[RKDinOKC]

Have my win10 and office updates to only install from 11pm to 5am. But it was some kind of anti-virus thing they pushed out with our cloudstrike anti-virus software that disregards all settings and just reboots.

There does not seem to be an option like on the mac to put them off indefinitely and only do updates manually when you want.

It also keeps resetting my screens going to sleep every 5 minutes no matter how long I set it.
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