Stijn!!

[GH85Carrera]

But David get to keep doing ISOs in the sate were everything is shut down. Hey, someone has to work!

Actually I have been doing tedium work. We flew a small project for stupid cheap, just to get them to see our product and get them away from another vendor. It is a city with a river that runs through it, a small river that is just mostly drainage. It had some weird anomalies in the water surface. It is just brown water, and nothing to see except some debris and water. When the computer mosaics it together, in some areas it can't really point match because the surface of the water is different in every photo since it moves. It makes ugly little blobs of funny shapes. So I get to Photoshop it back to just smooth brown water. That river becomes longer than the Amazon and Nile together when I go foot by foot.

[RKDinOKC]

Is this like ISO or tedium work?

[Outback Porsche]

I think I’m enjoying self isolation too much

[GH85Carrera]

^^^ In 12 more days the floor will two or three layers deep in empty bottles. Might want to throw some out the window or onto the driveway.

[Jim Richards]

I hear it’s pretty warm and dry in Alice Springs. Jeff, you must be dehydrated...bad stuff if you’re gonna fight off a Coronavirus. Need more beer!

[GH85Carrera]

Rats, I knew this was gonna happen.

I have used Quicken since the 1980s, installed from floppies the first time. I have never upgraded every year, I always skip a year or two until the software tells me I have to upgrade to keep downloading the bank feeds. That day came today. I last upgraded to the 2017 version and a few weeks later the 2018 version was released. It was the last of the download and fixed license versions. In the 2018 version it went to the now popular subscription mode.

So today I bought the new version. Right off the bat, it has three options, new user, changing you install or install on a new computer. Well, upgrading is changing so I pick that. The instructions are go to the help tab, and click on enter activation code. There is no such tab on the old software.

%$*#@@&&$%!


So I will have to call tech support and go through the long and tedious process of getting their help.

*%$^^@@#*@#^&!!!!!

[Outback Porsche]

Haha Glen - this was funny as the missus is working from home at the moment and keeps telling me to bugger off and leave her be

[GH85Carrera]

I just made a quick run to the local store. The bread isle is empty, and not one banana! Now it is a crisis.

I did get some Fuji apples, and some chocolate chip cookies. The cookie will to the substitute naners.

They did say the delivery truck gets there tomorrow morning at 5:00 AM and they open at 7:00 so I may make a morning run to nab some bananas and another loaf of bread. I bough a supply of turkey at the grocery store when we went Sunday. I eat a sandwich most days at home. I have a variety of cheeses to mix it up regularly.

I did get the new Quicken installed. It looks and operates just like the old version. Only they did fix the bug for downloading the investments accounts. Now I can watch my money go away really fast. Sure glad I opened that new IRA a few weeks ago. I am in it for the long term, and I feel sure it will come back.

[Outback Porsche]

I'm down 25% (and likely to keep going south) and thinking it may be time to look for a hobby that gives me a paycheck

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, retirement is great, but income is nice too.

We finally got paid for a big project yesterday that we did back around Thanksgiving. That was nice.

[RKDinOKC]

Yep, my 401K lost 11%.

[GH85Carrera]

Lazy bum mail man we have!

He added one piece of junk mail, a credit card offer that I just tore up and threw out. I have 4 pieces of fist class mail, stamped and addressed ready to go. He just left them in the there. Actually all of them were checks going out. That cash flow thing sure flows out fast. One was the property tax bill, and the rest were payments to vendors for the company. I like to pay my vendor bills promptly. I know personally, fast pay makes fast friends. Slow pay makes for less enthusiastic vendors to provide their service.

So I had to drive the mile to the closest mail box drop and do the job the mailman was too lazy to do.

[RKDinOKC]

Talked to a disability lawyer and would have to be not employed to get social security disability. They said they get 25% of what you are paid in back payments from the date you are classified and when you start receiving payments.

[GH85Carrera]

Phew.

What fun I had. It is 75 degrees and since my mean ol boss made me work on Saturday and Sunday for no extra pay at all, I took this afternoon off to play in the garage. Well, it was not really play. Over the weekend I noticed my turn signals did not work at all. I was suddenly driving like many others on the road with no signals.

I had bought a turn signal relay in the past, but I figured out that issue was a bad ground, so I never used it. Well it is in service now after sweat and blood and lots of cussing.

GM puts the turn signal relay in a location they call (get this) the "convenience center" and of course the convenience center is in a place that might have been convenient for the folks on the assembly line, but one really needs a skinny 8 year old with strong hands to access it. I was once a skinny 8 year old boy, but that was a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. No wait, it was here on Earth, but a long time ago.

Anyway I had to remove two lower panels under the steering wheel, to have half a change to even find the so called convenience center. Using my boreascope I found it located right behind the handle to open the hood. Of course on the back side where it is impossible to see without laying on my back with my head up against the brake pedal, and twisted into a very uncomfortable position on my back. It is vital that the cruise control relay be removed to have nay chance to even get to the convenience center and the turn signal relay.

Getting the old relay out was not too bad. Getting the replacement aligned and clocked properly to make the connectors go in was a challenge. I had my right arm smashed up against something sharp so the back of my arm looks like the Ninjas attacked but I fought them off. (Again)

I am now legal to drive again! I bet there have been at least two tickets for failure to signal in the are in the last 50 years. The cops sure don't seem to mind it.

[RKDinOKC]

Ha ha...back in HS was out carousing as usual and noticed a turn signal wasn't blinking, the dash indicator just came on and stayed on. That usually means a bulb is out. Stopped at a 24 hr parts store, they had 24 hr part stores back then, got a bulb and fixed it right then and there.

One of the friends in the car asked why I fixed it right then while we were out carousing around. Told him I was just not giving any police an easy excuse to pull me over. He said, wow, that is smart.

When I had my GMC Jimmy's there was a GMC dealership that their parts counter was open 24 hours. Only used it once to get a new speedo gear (it was on the connection to the transmission) so it would read and shift correctly for the big o' tires it had. BUT sure was nice to be able to work on and get parts late at night.

[High Life]

Gas in Des Moines Iowa $1.69 a gallon for Ethanol 10% - 87 Octane
Premium $2.09 93 Octane Ethanol 10% (Costco)
Non alcohol 91 Octane $2.18

[GH85Carrera]

Gas is $1.49 in parts of the city for 10% alcohol gas. Parts of the city just a few blocks from me. Incredible cheap.

[Jim Richards]

We’re going to be on lock down here, so getting groceries is ok, walking the dog is ok, but not much else is. If the rain moves out of the area, I can hang out on the patio. Otherwise, it’s going to be a battle between working on my Z or knocking out honey-do projects.

[GH85Carrera]

The morning I got showered and ready as usual. I put the coffee on. I fed the dogs, put on shoes and went to the store. Before I had any coffee! I was successful in obtaining a resupply of bananas and a loaf of bread, even for milk for the Mrs to put on her cereal.

When I got home, wash the hands and COFFEE time. It is just a mile each way to the store, so not an long journey. There was one other customer just leaving the store as I walked up. The have had written signs, the patio area is closed.

Spring arrived last night, and we had a 77 degree day on the last day of winter. Now that spring is here is it 38 degrees so no one wanted to sit on their patio area anyway. We are supposed to have a freeze tonight, and then back to the 70s. Hopefully it will be the last freeze.

[GH85Carrera]

Dang that is funny.