Cool? Maybe if the front comes through, but otherwise, the forecast calls for clear. I’m betting on warmish too. And moist? Oh we’ll probably get moist. It was pretty dang hot yesterday but in the shade and with a breeze it was comfortable to just sit.
Spent the day not doing much. After making breakfast at 2pm, my day was pretty shot. So I read for a bit, did auction stuff, called my mom (who seems to be doing well), and didn’t cook a big dinner. Maybe tonight.
Today I’ve got a scrap and trash run to do, some pickups, one of which needs to happen today, and a couple of which I will grab if they are on the way, and the list. Always stuff on the list.
The kids are busy with end of year testing, and their activities are winding down, but there is an increase in parties and get togethers to counter that. Social stuff. Hopefully good memories for them. It’ll be very important if things get anywhere near as sh!tty as I think they might that the kids have some good memories. That sounds dramatic, but I feel like it’s the 1930s and bad times are headed this way, followed by war and disruption. It’s the pattern of mankind, so why should this time really be much different?
I’m doing what I can to prepare. Stacking up the good stuff should help.
nick
Highlight if my weekend was making breakfast burritos and getting some frozen. Need to do a big round to stock the freezer.
They’re always on the horizon. The only question is how far away the horizon is, and that’s a moving target.
(Yah, yah, go ahead and make fun of me for getting all poetic and metaphorical, five minutes after getting on my computer.)
Sympathies.
Is there a power-assist lift to help get from the chair to the bed, so that it’s not a struggle and she’s not inclined to sleep in the chair? Alternatively, maybe a sensor system which can detect that the chair is being sat in but hasn’t been moved in over an hour, and send an alarm to the assisted living facility (?) staff?
M-i-L has good and bad days. I tell The Child to go up to talk to her whenever she comes here from college. Two visits ago, Grandma was having a good day and they talked for almost half an hour. Then, last time she was here, Grandma was having a bad day and didn’t even recognize her. This upsets my daughter. After the next good visit, I’m not going to have her talk to Grandma unless it’s pre-confirmed that she’s having a good day. We’ve already seen how the memory of the bad visit overwhelms a lifetime of living with and being cared for by Grandma.
Over the next couple days I plan to cook several things and freeze them for The Child. She’s living on campus over the summer (which hurt my wallet) because she doesn’t want to be around her grandmother (see previous comment) or mother (unrelated reasons mainly involving not wanting to be around her at all) but the cafeteria is closed and her cooking facilities are limited to a low-power microwave. Circuit breakers are set too low for hot plates or toaster ovens, which kind of impresses me. I’ll freeze one-meal size packages of chili and what-not.
Monday! Good morning.
Getting ready with sibling to travel. Car is packed, just time for coffee and a slice of cake before we go.
I remember how distressing my late mother’s bad days were for me as an adult. It must be so much worse for a child or young person. Best wishes for stamina and patience to all dealing with a dementia sufferer.
@SteveF
Highly recommend breakfast burritos. I use sausage, bacon, or ham, alternate cheddar and monterrey jack, and add crumbled tater tots double-cooked in the air fryer, chopping them in-between so they get crispy. Some sautéed onions and peppers are optional.
Biggest technique is getting them rolled. I let them cool before wrapping in plastic wrap.
Show her the process and she can make her own choices.
Sandwiches can be a staple but become boring. Good bread or buns and a generous amount of leaf lettuce helps.
68F and not actually raining. Sometime between 1am and 3 am the temp dropped to 68F and stayed there. Then there was not so distant thunder and the occasional drop falling. And currently there is the occasional grumble and flash of lightning.
Lunch is made, and I’m waiting for the kids to get ready so I can go back to sleep.
n
Getting old is not for the weak.
MIL #1 (wife’s mother) is 78 and packed up and moved 15 minutes away from us after her husband died almost 2 years ago from complications with dementia. I wouldn’t wish that disease on anyone. She is in great health. She had a hip replaced late last year and bounced back extremely well. She is still like she was 20 years ago, just a little slower and not as much stamina.
MIL #2(wife’s step mom) and FIL are in assisted living in CA. He is 85 and she is 80. They are both lucky to be alive. She and the boy are out there visiting right now, and while we thought that the last 5 visits would be the last one, this time my wife said it feels different.
My dad turns 80 in a few months. He is also still very active. He works (for free) at his church 5 days a week. He’s done that since he retired (25 years!). He still moves around fine and is in good health. His memory isn’t great, but I don’t think it’s early signs of dementia. He has always had bad memory and I hope it’s just a sign of getting old. After seeing what my FIL wen through, I know the signs and am watching closely. Well, as closely as I can from 300 miles away. I’m gently suggesting he relocate by us, but those suggestions aren’t received very well.
drwilliams, if she weren’t such a picky eater, that would be a great idea.
When the cupboard gets down to a package of ramen and a can of chicken noodle soup, picky eaters start to evolve.
Maybe give her a package of tortillas or other “wraps” and tell her to think of it a a blank canvas: Go to the store and buy what you want in it.
@SteveF
It seems to me that freezer space might be an issue. The van life people have a wide variety of powered portable freezers and refrigerators that don’t draw much current.
Is she working over the summer? A restaurant job may augment her food budget. Or she could play piano in a bar/restaurant for tips and food. It helps if she sings, too.
@Lynn
Steady on. I’ve been through this, sort of, and the second-guessing really got to me. It seems from what I’ve read here that you have a well-reasoned and stable approach to all the decision making that needs done.
+1
Sibling and I just arrived at the BOL hungry. What’s there to eat? We found a can of pea and ham soup (BBD 2024) and a package of flour tortillas (2025). Diced half an onion, finely chopped some sliced ham, and added grated cheese. Toasted the tortillas in a dry pan to give a few brown spots, then layered the tortillas with the cheese, ham and onion filling, and threw the stack in a hot oven to melt the cheese.
Slice into wedges and enjoy with the soup! Nothing at all wrong with peasant food.
My daughter has a car and a credit card (both paid for by me, which in theory will be ending soon). She can get her butt to the store for food any time. The problem that I have with that is that canned soup and such isn’t the best thing to be eating, long-term. The limited options for cooking limit the options, though.
The best I’ve come up with is I (and/or she) will cook something here to bring up. Yes, the freezer space in her apartment-sized fridge is limited, but between freezer and fridge compartment, she can store at least a dozen meals made from real ingredients. Plus the jerky I’ve been making, plus the fresh fruits and vegetables she willingly buys and eats, plus the occasional can of soup, package of ramen, crackers, etc, and she’ll probably survive. And if she doesn’t, she was weak.
As for working in a restaurant and getting a few meals there, maybe. We looked at how she’ll earn money over the summer and it seems that she’ll do better doing data entry and other remote work from her dorm room. Having several income streams would be better, of course.
What about a meal plan at the school? Might be a better option if there are several tiers of plans available.
Cafeteria is closed over the summer. I paid for her to have the dorm room while school is closed, but she’s on her own for meals.
@SteveF
Does the dorm pet policy cover
chickensreptiles?I already asked her about that.
More to the point, I asked if she could identify as a chicken. Then run around the dorm, pooping wherever she wanted to. In particular, in front of the door of the girl in the room over her, who played loud music at all hours.
who played loud music at all hours.
– https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pNxjOquqJPI?feature=share
not that I’d ever advocate messing around with spectrum, since intentionally causing interference to licensed users is a crime, but then 2.4ghz is unlicensed….
n
Hmm. I think my linux mint install for my NVR is subtly borked.
The controls for monitor sleep/power save don’t work.
The theme changed. Again.
I no longer have to log in on reboot.
It seems to be running the NVR software just fine.
When it runs out of disk space for the NVR things get REALLY slow and the file manager sometimes doesn’t work right, or stops responding.
For a while I couldn’t delete files with a zero size that were created by the NVR to store video but then there was no space for the video, but the most recent reboot solved that. I deleted them, and a bunch of then just no longer showed up. Maybe they were cleaned up automatically?
n
Uh-oh…
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia5-ww17C-nczviOhI3uFlqLXDAs97XJXOMSp-Qau-C_Htu0VRvVhxxubwLFeabb_RgExGRnFV9xlJkHuhEg8hKevipR0MAItuDpg7_p3uVfVFdXG0rfrZoO0p2D400fsYftUkpw_7hcqA66TjmO98gABno935b-sXtJjzs-_rljceY-N_CqQ08wfi9-8/s550/Meme%20-%20toilet%20paper%20holder.png
I just chuck a six pack into their bathroom when I get one for the master bathroom. I’ve taught them to look for paper before getting started… and it only takes one or two issues to hammer that point home.
They also have been informed that in an emergency they can use their underpants and go commando afterwards…
We’re supposed to use our hard won knowledge to ease the learning of our kids, right?
n
Teach them to embrace the diversity: poop in the street, then just stand up and walk away.
Monday bedtime. Sleeping in my own bed again. Bliss.
Forecast is for rain turning to snow. I hope that stays away when I get up to bash Bambis.
Goodnight!
What about a rice pot?
A microwave powerful enough to pop popcorn is going to be ~1000-1100 W. A coil hot plate will be in about the same range.
The specs for our Zojirushi rice pot say 500 W.
They might be checking power factor on the circuit. That would be impressive.
The mostly blue sky yesterday is nothing but a fading memory. 100% cloud cover pretty much all day. Currently sitting out with the chickens to give them their freeeeeeeeeedom and it’s a bit chilly: low-mid 50s, no sun, wind from 5-15 MPH. They’re having a good ol time, scratching in the garden for yummy worms and looking disapprovingly at the nets my wife put around the plots with seedlings? Plantlings? Sprouts that she either started indoors or got from a nursery and planted a few days ago.
… Except that as I was typing that, one of the hens found a gap and was diligently inspecting the three or four kinds of plants that she now had access to. Was reluctant to abandon her treasure and left only when threatened by the waving stetson. (The broom was placed elsewhere, under cover for protection from rain.) Chickens are naughty. And surprisingly good at getting in trouble, given that their brains are the size of peanuts. I guess they don’t waste their intellectual capacity on remembering the names of all of the Kardashians.
Hmm. I think I’ve just convinced myself that chickens are smarter than a sizable fraction of Americans. All too plausible, really.
Does the Linux Mint installation upgrade in the background automatically?
Linux Mint 11.3, right? That distro is old and should be past EOL. It shouldn’t receive many updates.
Do you have separate root, home, and swap partitions or does everything go into one partition?
Newer versions of Mint install Timeshift, which is like Apple’s Time machine but for portions of the file system related to the system.
IIRC, the college said 800W limit. IIRC, the microwave I got her the day before she drove up is 850W and it hasn’t tripped any breakers or gotten any nastygrams. It’s good enough to heat up a bowl of canned soup, boil water for a cup of tea or (shudder) instant coffee, and so on.
As the saying goes, I’m so old that I remember when college dorms had small kitchens. I don’t know if her dorm doesn’t have one for fear of lawsuits if a precious darling burns her hand on the stove or because the filthy little animals didn’t clean up after themselves.
Just ‘cause they’re in America doesn’t mean they’re Amercians. Just sayin’.
Common kitchens for the floor? Dorms were built that way in the late 60s and a lot survived through the late 80s/early 90s, when we were in school.
I don’t think it was a question of liability as much as needing space, especially when universities started mandating that students live on campus for freshman year.
That’s the way it works in our new Colonial masters’ homeland.
@greg, I haven’t updated it since install, and I have updates turned off. Running the update manager, there are quite a lot of things that want to update. n Not sure of the distro version, or where to look.
I accepted the default partitioning when I installed, and later added an 8TB drive for the video storage. I don’t look at it often enough to remember how to see past all the obfuscation and links to see what is actually where on the hardware. I hate when the OS hides where stuff is, like ‘Libraries’ on windows or the symbolic links for ‘downloads’ or ‘program files’. Freaking mount points confuse the hell out of me.
n
“Found Out”
https://areaocho.com/found-out/
“The people in this thread siding with the spitter are what I was talking about with the dude grabbing your wife’s ass- there are some actions which should merit an immediate and violent response. You can add spitting in my face to that list.”
Unreal. Mr. Bus Driver teaches Mr. Face Spitter a serious lesson.
“Buc-ee’s Charges into Six New States, Proving Americans Still Crave Excellence, Cleanliness, and Old-Fashioned Service”
https://jdrucker.com/buc-ees-charges-into-six-new-states-proving-americans-still-crave-excellence-cleanliness-and-old-fashioned-service/
“With so many American institutions seemingly content with mediocrity, one Texas-born phenomenon continues its relentless march across the map. Buc-ee’s, the beaver-branded travel center giant famous for spotless restrooms, endless snack options, and unapologetic Texas-sized ambition, is set to debut in Arizona and Arkansas later this year, with Wisconsin, Louisiana, Kansas, and North Carolina to follow in 2027.”
“What began as a regional gas station has become a cultural emblem of what happens when private enterprise pursues quality without apology.”
Man, one wonders how much Bucees can grow?
“Under My Heel (The Kurtherian Gambit)” by Michael Anderle
https://www.amazon.com/Under-My-Heel-Kurtherian-Gambit/dp/B0CHL96YD8?tag=ttgnet-20
Book number six of a twenty-one science fiction and paranormal fantasy series. There is also an eleven book follow on series and several other books related to the The Kurtherian Gambit Universe, over 200 books in total. I read the well printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback self published by the author in 2016 that I bought new on Amazon in 2026. I own the next two books in the series already. The related series are listed at:
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?46598
The series is a cross between science fiction and paranormal fantasy. A thousand plus years ago, an alien space ship crash landed in the Baltics. A man, Michael, found the space ship, went inside, and was forever changed into the first vampire using alien nanocytes. However, there were werewolves and werebears already existing on Earth and they still exist.
Michael has sired vampires and they have sired vampires. But only one of the vampire “children” is a daywalker like Michael. And Michael enforces strict rules among the vampires and the weres, no blood drinking, no letting humans know of them, etc. Violators of Michael’s rules face swift termination.
But it has been thousand years since Michael was changed and he now sleeps for years at a time. Michael’s helpers found a young woman named Bethany Anne working for the USA government who is dying of a rare blood disease. Michael took her to the alien space ship to become the second first generation vampire on Earth. Now Bethany Anne is cleaning Earth of the evil vampires and weres but, they are fighting back. Michael was missing for a while but Bethany Anne found him and freed him from his prison. And there is more cleaning to do.
This series is real pulp like old science fiction with lots of action and dialogue. I love it !
Warning: this series might be damaging to your savings account since there are so many books.
The author has a website at:
https://lmbpn.com/
My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (4,277 reviews)
Lynn
Clean restrooms … and tax concessions.
Based on what I saw in Hillsboro, Texas last weekend, the Geico Gecko has a bullseye on the Beaver’s “moat”.
Coke products will most likely disappear completely from Buc-ee’s. The Gecko has 400 Million dividend-generating shares.
After my expensive fancy giant convection over microwave burned out I received an emergency used 900w apartment microwave from a friend.
Unsurprising to anyone that knows the hillbilly in me: several years later I am still using it, it works fine for coffee and popcorn and burritos and microwave pizza, you just have to prorate the times by 1100÷900.
@Nick: There have been several nasty zero day Linux exploits in the last couple of weeks.
With so many American institutions seemingly content with mediocrity…
Similar to In-n-out, there is still a demand for excellence., tho business schools will deny it.
Wisconsin has Kwik Trip stores which have product selections at least as interesting and stores as clean as Buc-ee’s.
At least, the stores we saw.
I sometimes refer to myself as a hillbilly made good. The poverty of my youth – and we were poor even by 1970s standards, and 1970s America was an impoverished nation compared to 2020s America – shows in my reluctance to throw away things which can be salvaged or repurposed. I have a coffee can of screws and bolts, containers of chunks of 2×4 and plywood, a pile of scrap plastic which can be melted in place for repairs, and so on. My wife is constantly bitching at me about it … but is oddly silent when I go to the garage or shed for a few minutes and come back with a repaired whatever-it-was-that-broke.
Re: dorm cooking:
You might consider recommending a rotisserie chicken from the local grocery store (or Costco, if nearby). You can get three or four meals out of that.
Also good is the Hormel microwave-ready bacon. There are multiple four-slices packages that crisp up well in a microwave in about 3 minutes. Add tomato and optional lettuce (although some types of lettuce don’t keep well in the fridge). Deli meats and presliced cheese works for quick sandwiches.
If you have a toaster, you can do grilled cheese sandwiches: take toasted bread, add a couple slices of cheese, and microwave for under a minute until the cheese melts. Add a slice of deli ham and/or a tomato before zapping for some extra flavor.
All of those items don’t take up much room in a dorm fridge.
You can even do single servings cake in a coffee cup in the microwave. One way (have not tried it) is four Oreos in the cup, add a bit of milk, and zap for a minute.
Another choice is fully cooked chicken breast strips; good for 2-4 meals per package. Add a bottle of BBQ sauce for dipping. Small salt-pepper shakers don’t take up much room.
1970s America mostly lived within its means and still had a significant manufacturing base.
Grocery stores and McDonald’s didn’t take credit cards.
Buc-ee’s and In-n-Out are both privately held and not run by DEI C-suite hires from “good” schools.
Menu / System Information
Says I have Linux Mint 22.3 – Cinnamon 64-bit. Plenty of other stuff that I’m too lazy to discover “what’s that?”. Update Manager tells me of updates. I know what some of the updates are. I don’t think I use any beyond FF and TBird. So I tend to not update.
As for partitions, I just let Mint do what it wanted to the drive. I figure install knew what it needed.
What? Without private equity firms telling restaurants to buy from Sysco, how will that last drop of profit be squeezed out?
And what about the Harvard MBA full-employment act? Surely you don’t want all of those highly credentialed experts to have to go through life without telling people what to do???
I encountered a problem using the automatic update process going between point releases of Linux Mint 20, but I haven’t seen any issues since then.
Linux Mint has a lot of attention right now, with Windows 11 making obsolete a lot of perfectly good hardware and Ubuntu’s growing obsession with Snap packages and Rust rewrites of core utilities. Any misstep will be quickly corrected.
A lot of FOMO is involved with Zero Day issues. This article didn’t surprise me when I saw it.
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/11/anthropics-bug-hunting-mythos-was-greatest-marketing-stunt-ever-says-curl-creator/5238111
My career is based on libcurl right now. That’s probably how my paid professional life will end.
A vulnerability in curl/libcurl would be huge. I can’t think of a code base which has received more scrutiny over its lifetime, including the Linux Kernel.
Also, extra sauce packets from your favorite fast food places don’t take up much storage room. Although some places hide those behind the front counter, it’s easy enough to ask for extras.
I also noticed that the Zon has 700W two-slice toasters, which should work OK in a dorm room.
Many fast food places have special deals if you use their app to order, including two for one deals. One for now, one for later. Many places will deliver, but the food is usually priced higher than walk-in/drive-up, and there are delivery fees.
Since I’m cooking a brisket this coming weekend, I need to make room in the fridge. That spiral cut ham I scored a couple three weeks ago? I finally unwrapped it. The ham is still sealed but the mylar wrapper and the components for the glaze mix are gone. Nice looking ham. Use by date is June 26.
I gave the glaze mix to the septic system. It’s almost all sugar. Might as well feed the system instead of throwing away food. The wet part of the glaze mix has a bit of molasses mixed it. Tastes pretty good. Probably great for a pecan pie or cookies. I can’t think of anything I would cook needing ¾ cup of Karo.
I got the decorative shroud off of the string mower. That took a while. One of the recessed holes was full of horrors. Mud dauber horrors. Two screws and yeah, I poked a hole in the nameplate label thinking there was another screw. Nope, The cover snaps onto the engine and then two screws. The gas tank seems to be another snap on item. Without the cover it’s much easier to see the carburetor. Tomorrow’s project.
Tonight’s project is either watch a movie. F1 arrived with the carb. Or vac seal the ham.
Vac sealing it is.
Our go-to in uni in the 70’s was that popcorn popper with the stir rod in it (a plastic knob held it on). Take out the stir rod and a steak/eggs cooked just fine in it. There wasn’t much room in the dorm fridge for fixins’ since it was filled with beer at all times. The drinking age in WI at that time was 18.
“BREAKING: Supreme Court Clears the Way For Alabama to Throw Out Current Rigged Congressional Map – Sotomayor Fumes:”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/supreme-court-clears-way-alabama-redraw-congressional-map/
You know, every time a liberal fumes, a devil loses their wings.
My nuker died about 2 and a half years ago. Acted normal, sounded normal. Did not heat.
Off to Wallyworld. They had a machine I liked. $90. But all they had was the floor model and they won’t sell it. Ok, your loss.
I came home and pulled the nuker we bought to take when we used the pop-up camper. And then we used it in the SeaRay. It’s an Emerson. Does that brand exist anymore? Anyway. 600 watts. 15 minute mechanical timer. One power level. No clock. No potato or popcorn buttons…. but it says how long to cook a potato.
Works fine. And no clock.
I have a little 900 watt air fryer. Works great for a handful of french fries. And or with a couple of Gorton’s fish planks. But that all need freezer space.
Or get the little bacon wrapped steaks. They keep in the fridge. 8 minutes, flip, scatter a handful of fries or tater tots and give it all another 12 minutes. Shake it a couple of time to “fluff” the fries.
The basket/pot has some kind of non-stick coating and it’s real easy to wash.
Do you at least have a VCR with the time blinking “- -:- -”?
I had one of those, gave it away to our friend son who was living in a little RV. I believe it actually won an award for the (lack of?) UI interface.
That RV is still in his father’s backyard, I wonder if the microwave is still in there?
Available on Kindle Unlimited. Given how much I read, it’s the way to go. The Kindle is absolutely wonderful.
Today’s Tyler Durden cowardice protecting reporting on another powerful American male getting involved with a Bang Bang.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/billionaire-bucks-co-owner-alleges-1-billion-blackmail-plot-after-affair
What is the Chinese Government’s interest? Wes Edens is part of the ownership of Brightline, arguably the only successful high speed rail project in the US, coming soon to link Las Vegas to California.
“Tyler” forgot about that angle.
I didn’t think the Redumblicans could hold the House in the midterms. But, they are using the Dumbo rule book and Constitutionally redistricting to get enough seats to hold, maybe even gain seats. The three libs can suck dead bunnies. They should have let “Skidmark” Jackson write the dissent. “You six are raycisssss mofo’s!”
It is. Amazon’s “you don’t own the book” policy is what sucks.
The Dems will pack the court the next time they have the House, Senate, and White House, filibuster or not.
Kennedy and Grand Kleagle Byrd wouldn’t let them do it in 2009, following the Immaculation of The Chosen One, when they had enough votes in the Senate to override the filibuster, but the party won’t let that opportunity pass again.
The US Senate seat in Texas will go Dem, but the really crazy race right now is for the Republican nomination for Attorney General. At 1 AM last night, local Faux News still had Chip Roy and Mays Middleton commercials at every break.
I had a colonoscopy today so I had to be up to take the last dose of the prep at 2 AM.
It is. Amazon’s “you don’t own the book” policy is what sucks.
This is why I use Kindle Unlimited to borrow books. I hit the maximum reguarly and disgard those I don’t care for. I know they won’t let me own them but I don’t care as I read dozens a month for a minimal charge.
“F1” was the most entertaining flick I saw last year. Classic Jerry Bruckheimer, who seems to have found a new directing partner in Joseph Kosinski.
“Frankenstein” deserved Best Picture IMHO, but, unlike “F1”, that film isn’t for everyone.
Apple spent $200 million on “F1” and it shows.
I really like the kindle unlimited. I’m reading LitRPG series with 9-13 books, and they are generally pretty quick reads. I spent a couple of hundred bux on the Illona Andrews series…
I try to keep the last book in ongoing series in my ‘unlimited’ library to keep my place in the series, but sometimes I have to give one up if I’m sharing with the wife and she’s a book or two behind me.
Which, btw, amazon messed with. Now I have to share each title individually, and it takes about 7 clicks per title. I forget and don’t share stuff, then wonder why she isn’t reading it when I ask her what she thinks.
With the genre I’m reading it isn’t unusual for the author to do 4 book packages, and that only counts as one unlimited title. I take advantage of that when I can.
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n
I had a post and it’s not showing. I guess I forgot to click Submit before refreshing the page to see new comments. Not the first time.
The ham is partitioned and in the freezer. Five or six bags of a pound or so. I didn’t weigh anything. Plus a bag with the bone and plenty of fat and “heavily marbled” ham. That’s to make stock for a batch of potato soup.
Nice ham, almost zero gristle.
Buddy the Beagle got a snack. I fat fingered a chunk of ham and well, he had a head start because it landed right in front of his face. About half of a Snickers candy bar…. chomp chomp and then that beagle smile.
Mint? I don’t even know file system format. FAT32 and NTFS were options. But I went the default of “I don’t know but it was highlighted” when the choice presented. Hey. I’ll never know this OS like I know Windows. And that’s fine.
@nick
I’m reading LitRPG series with 9-13 books, and they are generally pretty quick reads.
I’ve been enjoying JR Mathew’s the last year or two. Currently working on the last book of his Nova Roma series. A chapter a day via his Patreon channel. My reading speed got trashed by my 2014 crash though it’s much improved. Chapter a day turns out to be nice because I savor each sentence. Compared to what I grew up reading (Steinbeck, Twain, Dickens, the russians) his stuff isn’t much, however I’m really enjoying it. The plot is engaging and his characters experience growth. He gets a little wordy for no purpose and could use an unsympathetic editor. They’re fun nonetheless.
Thanks Jenny, they had an “omnibus” three volume set of the first three in the series so I only had to give up one title… I’ll see about reading it next.
Both the wife and I really liked the ‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’ series. It’s not finished yet, so that kinda sux because I can’t wait…. There is a lot of humor, even some pathos, and the two main characters are engaging.
n
Mint has quirks. Sometimes T-bird won’t open. But I can r-click the taskbar icon to “Compose New Message” or “Contacts” and that works. Close that and then the main program opens on my second click of the taskbar icon.
Firefox doesn’t minimize. It just closes. Then reloads tabs from a week ago. In a window that is ½ of the screen.
Text Editor seems to close instead of minimizing. But it restores with the file I was looking at plus a new blank tab.
The picture viewer is sort of stupid. Xviewer. Open a picture and the window is sized to that picture. Normal? Right? Click the next picture button and I get scroll bars. Sometimes. Usually a very tiny picture and I have to drag corners to resize the window.
Celluloid for videos is odd. Video ends? Why does the window pop up to cover half of the screen? I like VLC better, the audio seems better.
Document Viewer, for PDF files, opens full screen. But you can minimize it to a rather small no way to read the file size window.
Yeah. I need to poke around and change some of the default programs. At the same time, I’m finding the quirks interesting.
Mint seems a lot faster on the same hardware. I like it. It just does some things that Windows fixed way back in the days of 3.11.
Looking at the Pi-hole, Mint isn’t phoning home that I can tell. I don’t have pages and pages of blocked Microsoft sites for junk like Teams and Office and Outlook and Xbox and etc.
Preach it, sister!
Oh, you aren’t talking about David Weber?
The US Senate seat in Texas will go Dem, but the really crazy race right now is for the Republican nomination for Attorney General. At 1 AM last night, local Faux News still had Chip Roy and Mays Middleton commercials at every break.
I think and hope that you are wrong about the USA Senate Seat in Texas.
@lpdbw
Preach it, sister!
I admire the skill it takes to tell a story well in few words. The quality of writing suffers when writers aren’t weighing each word carefully, judging them harshly and questioning their value to the story.
@lpdbw
Preach it, sister!
I admire the skill it takes to tell a story well in few words. The quality of writing suffers when writers aren’t weighing each word carefully, judging them harshly and questioning their value to the story.
But you’ve got to admire an author who can stretch a story into tens of books, making lots of money from readers who are demanding more and more books. Authors have to eat too.