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ProfessorTomoe
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Let's get this thread started again, as it's an important thing to have in any forum. I'll toss out the first question. Have any of you ever had a system that has problems restarting? My laptop, without fail, will present me with a dark screen on a restart from an active session. However, if I give it enough time to get set up and then just touch the power button (don't hold it for 5 seconds), it will restart normally. WTF would cause this? I have the latest drivers for everything.
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Things That Are Just Annoying
ProfessorTomoe replied to CritterKeeper's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Tom Brady. Urgh. -
Trust me - they're just very, very relaxed.
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Baker, not to be outdone, gets up close and personal ...
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Loudmouth shows himself in all his regality ...
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Loudmouth in all his regality© 2018 Brenda Jackson. All rights reserved.
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Baker up close and personal© 2018 Brenda Jackson. All rights reserved.
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My Ribena Blackcurrant concentrate is all gone. Turns out it was a sugary drink that put a couple of pounds back on me. DELICIOUS, yes. Will I reorder? Not unless they make a sugar-free version that's available in the States. EDIT: They DO make a sugar-free version. I've contacted Goodwoods down in Houston to see if they can import some.
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I remember the first time I saw those on a menu. I asked the waiter what they were, expecting to hear they were some part of the buffalo. I was disappointed to find out they were mere chicken. Didn't order them.
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Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)
ProfessorTomoe replied to ProfessorTomoe's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Thank you! However, this hospital has something against shaving: something about leaving the follicles open to infection or some wild crap like that. Besides, not shaving results in smoother growback on me. No itchy stubble. BTW, that thing we talked about in PM - you still interested? -
Things That Are Just Annoying
ProfessorTomoe replied to CritterKeeper's topic in Off Topic Discussion
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My grandfather and I caught a stone crab off Rockport back in the 1970s—the city that got the direct category 5 hit from Hurricane Harvey last year. Anyway, the catch was part of a slim trap: just one blue crab and one stone crab. He didn't know what the stone crab was, and he knew the blue crab wasn't enough to feed even one person, so we released the lot back into the Gulf of Mexico.
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Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)
ProfessorTomoe replied to ProfessorTomoe's topic in Off Topic Discussion
I'm back! Operation seems to have gone well, although only time will tell. My leg feels better already. Spent a long time sleeping after I got home. Managed to edit some music after I woke up. Mrs. Prof made potato-mushroom soup and cornbread to help my recovery. Now I've got a long dry bandage down my back that's helping the injection sites heal. It comes off at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow. I predict a painful ripping of back hair. -
Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)
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4:45 p.m. CST 20180117. T-minus less than one day until my back procedure. I've got to be at the hospital at 8am tomorrow. Nervousness, anxiety, yadda yadda yadda. You've heard it all before. I've gone through it all before. And I hate it just as much, if not more, than before. I'm making doubly sure to take my anti-anxiety pills today. Hell, I might take another one with my pain pill tomorrow. I hate the pre-op nerves, the borderline hyperventilation. There's gotta be some point where all of this comes to a screeching halt. I can't take much more of this. You know, prior to today, I haven't really paid the procedure much mind. I don't know why it's hitting me so hard today. Oh, on another subject, the hospital pain center finally got "prior authorization" for my oxycodone (which is a misnomer since the prescription was filled back on January 5th). I've filled out and printed the PDF that Blue Cross wants before they'll give me a refund of my portion of the $289 I forked over to get the prescription in the first place. -
Computer General Discussion and Tech Help
ProfessorTomoe replied to ProfessorTomoe's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Gave up on the chkdsk. Turns out Windows isn't even recognizing my drive anymore. I bought a replacement cheap 2TB storage-only drive (WD Blue 5400 SATA 6GB - $71 including tax) and plan to transfer the Clonezilla partition to it as soon as my son can make it over here. -
I bought half of that as well: Didn't buy the fish fingers, though.
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Got one of my rare orders from a purveyor of British foods in the Houston area today. They tossed in a free pack of Chewits orange flavor. Mrs. Prof made the point that they taste like a Starburst. I agreed, except that they're much softer (perhaps due to one of their ingredients: " Hydrolysed Pea Protein." Odd, but last on the ingredients list. To wash it down, I'm having my usual Crystal Light lemon tea, but with a big twist: I've added Ribena Blackcurrant concentrate to make blackcurrant lemon tea. They don't sell the stuff at regular strength. You have to dilute it by one part blackcurrant concentrate to four parts water. Not easy to mix with lemon juice and tea powder, but it sure tastes good when you do. I also ordered something I'm going to use to prank a super-serious Doctor Who fan. I bought a couple of packs of Jammie Dodgers. Next time I go over to his house, I'm going to pull the prank from the episode when the Doctor used one to make the last two remaining Daleks think he had a destruct button for the Tardis. Should be hilarious.
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Computer General Discussion and Tech Help
ProfessorTomoe replied to ProfessorTomoe's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Eleven hours later and it's made progress ... to 8%. -
None here in Garland so far. We are supposed to get down to 12°F tonight (-11°C), and we haven't gone above freezing since yesterday. Gotta hand it to my heat pump and our overall insulation, though—I've actually heard the heat pump turn off occasionally (it just did), and we've got the thermostat set to a tad under 75°F (23.8°C).
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Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)
ProfessorTomoe replied to ProfessorTomoe's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Thank you. The way it was explained to me was that the doctor will be going after my damaged nerve roots, but instead of flooding the area with steroids through the sacrum joint or doing targeted flooding via that way, he's going to go in at an angle to my spine with multiple injections aimed directly at the damaged roots. I think. -
For once, Loudmouth wins a round of the Game of Thrones over Baker (whatever Game of Thrones is, I've never seen it): It is my understanding that the battle did not end here.
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Loudmouth wins this round of the Game of Thrones ...© 2018 Brenda Jackson. All rights reserved.
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Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)
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9:27 a.m. CST 20180116. The countdown starts again. In literally less than two days, I shall be in the hospital, undergoing a Transforanimal Lumbar Epidural injection procedure. I check in at 8:00 a.m. Thursday morning and can't have anything to eat or drink after midnight (except a tiny amount of water with my pain medicine at 4am). The nervousness is about to set in big time, since this is supposed to be a bunch of needles along my spine. I'd probably be taking this out on my computer by writing music, except my music computer is hung at the moment (see the computer thread). It's not going to be cheap, I suppose. I'm back on my regular insurance deductibles again. I'm also not looking forward to the facility for the procedure: it's old and crowded, and there's no room for Mrs. Prof to be with me prior to the shots. Old Downtown Baylor Hospital is not the best place to go for a high-tech operation. I just hope my computer sorts itself out before the procedure. -
Computer General Discussion and Tech Help
ProfessorTomoe replied to ProfessorTomoe's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Good. Freaking. Jeebuz. I'd just finished a bit of composition and decided to run an update for Nero 2018 which had been bugging me the past couple of weeks. Everything ran normally, including the "reboot to complete" prompt. I rebooted and got the Windows 10 logo. I also got a prompt giving me 10 seconds to cancel disk checking on my G: drive (I have lots of data as a composer). No big deal, let's let it run. So it ran until it got to 9%. Then it hung. Then it moved again, extreeeeemely slowly, until it got hung at 74% again. Then it went backwards to 73% and hung. After a total of several hours, I finally got my login screen. Nero Update popped up and said I had updates, but nothing was checked. I then got a warning box from Windows telling me to reboot to fix disk errors. I rebooted, got the logo again, this time with just the spinning dots. At this point I went to sleep. When I woke up, the system was checking drive G: again. As I write this, it's at 6%. I'm glad I did Clonezilla backups of all of my drives earlier in the day. I may need them. -
Changing Medications (Level of Trust Required)
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Oops. I was really out of it when the hospital called on Friday during the sleeptalking event. Turns out the hospital didn't get prior authorization for my prescription. I just got off of the phone with Blue Cross. It was never filed. AAAUUUGGGHHH Now I've got to wait for the damned hospital to start the whole process from scratch.
