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by Typeminer
Fri Aug 11, 2023 6:09 am
Forum: The Main Pub Room
Topic: More Stuff
Replies: 6287
Views: 3973343

Re: More Stuff

Yeah, last few posts, got an error message after hitting Submit, but then found the message had posted okay. Error 500, I think.
by Typeminer
Thu Aug 10, 2023 6:44 am
Forum: The Main Pub Room
Topic: More Stuff
Replies: 6287
Views: 3973343

Re: More Stuff

For mine, this time they sent a tech wearing an Xfinity shirt in an Xfinity van. He determined while still in the van that the modem was not getting good signal, and proceeded to replace an old cable connector and a 3-line splitter outside the house. That fixed it. He disconnected the modem to conne...
by Typeminer
Mon Aug 07, 2023 7:33 pm
Forum: The Main Pub Room
Topic: More Stuff
Replies: 6287
Views: 3973343

Re: More Stuff

I've been having modem/router problems, too. Comcast first told me it was a cable outside my house, then left me hanging 5 days-- I need internet to access my job- --until the "independent contractor" field tech, who was so damn tired or wired that he was about falling asleep on his feet, ...
by Typeminer
Thu Jul 13, 2023 6:07 am
Forum: Daily Wapsi Square Discussion
Topic: Right Person For The Job 2023-07-13
Replies: 2
Views: 14509

Re: Right Person For The Job 2023-07-13

Pun Jar's looking to get a good grasp, too, Dave.
by Typeminer
Wed Jul 12, 2023 4:47 am
Forum: The Main Pub Room
Topic: More Stuff
Replies: 6287
Views: 3973343

Re: More Stuff

Ten years ago this morning, we watched my mother take her last breath. By coincidence, my dad's maternal grandmother had died on the same date in 1965, while I was at summer Scout camp for the first time. I'll be thinking of you and your dad, and too many others as well, when I pour the good whiskey...
by Typeminer
Fri Jul 07, 2023 5:02 pm
Forum: The Main Pub Room
Topic: More Stuff
Replies: 6287
Views: 3973343

Re: More Stuff

Just seeing this, Alkarii. My condolences.

As the others said, it helps to just stop for a bit, breathe, and observe. You've got lots of company in this, and we understand.

We are built to go on, and so we do.
by Typeminer
Mon Jun 19, 2023 6:41 am
Forum: Daily Wapsi Square Discussion
Topic: Old Relics 2023-06-13
Replies: 10
Views: 22444

Re: Old Relics 2023-06-13

Please don't set the Pun Jar on fire.

The Canadian wildfire smoke's been bad enough. :mrgreen:
by Typeminer
Mon Apr 24, 2023 6:35 am
Forum: The Main Pub Room
Topic: More Stuff
Replies: 6287
Views: 3973343

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Sarge: All my condolences. Hope you and his mother are holding up.

Alkarii: Pretty sure the hospital will tell your dad more about his pancreas than he wants to hear. Hope he takes it to heart. Hang in there.
by Typeminer
Wed Mar 29, 2023 8:25 am
Forum: The Main Pub Room
Topic: More Stuff
Replies: 6287
Views: 3973343

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They've gotten real stingy about pain management.

My maternal grandmother had both legs amputated because of complications from adult-onset diabetes. That was about 50 years ago, and she was in her late 70s. Treatment is a lot better now, and I hope your dad will take it seriously.
by Typeminer
Tue Mar 21, 2023 8:20 am
Forum: The Main Pub Room
Topic: More Stuff
Replies: 6287
Views: 3973343

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Alkarii, how old is your dad? Your family seems pretty fraught. Part of the lore from my own old folks was that trying to help some people who don't want help doesn't help anybody. I don't know your situation that well, but take care of yourself first. If this were a civilized country with a healthc...
by Typeminer
Mon Mar 06, 2023 8:01 am
Forum: Daily Wapsi Square Discussion
Topic: maybe new readers incoming
Replies: 6
Views: 17948

Re: maybe new readers incoming

So, another two months without a post, so far . . . .
by Typeminer
Mon Feb 13, 2023 7:57 am
Forum: Daily Wapsi Square Discussion
Topic: Last Day Of Junior Year 2023-01-07
Replies: 22
Views: 47535

Re: Last Day Of Junior Year 2023-01-07

I'm not an orbital mechanic, but the whole premise of a hidden planet on the opposite side of the sun is physically impossible, at least for a planet of equal mass. Resonance with the greater masses of the sun and the earth is what keeps small stuff parked at L1. A full-size planet's another conditi...
by Typeminer
Mon Jan 02, 2023 11:18 am
Forum: The Main Pub Room
Topic: More Stuff
Replies: 6287
Views: 3973343

Re: More Stuff

Hope they got you fixed up, Atomic.

Happy New Year, everyone!
by Typeminer
Mon Dec 12, 2022 8:12 am
Forum: Daily Wapsi Square Discussion
Topic: 2022-12-10-Kimodameshi
Replies: 13
Views: 37864

Re: 2022-12-10-Kimodameshi

Huh. I thought it was either an '80s BMW or some upmarket Japanese sport sedan that was never imported to the US.

Why am I not surprised that the English would brand a sport sedan as a mineral? :mrgreen:
by Typeminer
Mon Oct 17, 2022 12:14 pm
Forum: The Main Pub Room
Topic: Skin Horse wraps up
Replies: 5
Views: 19250

Re: Skin Horse wraps up

I finally started reading Skin Horse sometime around Labor Day, and just finished it. Quite the show!

Guess I'm gonna have to read Narbonics now, damn it. At least it only ran for 6 years . . . . :mrgreen:
by Typeminer
Mon Aug 01, 2022 9:28 am
Forum: The Main Pub Room
Topic: It is done
Replies: 22
Views: 40535

Re: It is done

I remember Graham Kerr doing a version of that joke on Galloping Gourmet (late '60s). I think it was the Russian/Polish border. :mrgreen:
by Typeminer
Mon Jun 27, 2022 7:19 am
Forum: The Main Pub Room
Topic: Skin Horse wraps up
Replies: 5
Views: 19250

Re: Skin Horse wraps up

I kinda don't need another archive dive right now. But thanks! :mrgreen:
by Typeminer
Wed Jun 22, 2022 7:35 am
Forum: Daily Wapsi Square Discussion
Topic: Timed That Perfectly 2022-06-21
Replies: 6
Views: 15709

Re: Timed That Perfectly 2022-06-21

Opus the Poet wrote: Wed Jun 22, 2022 3:33 am I'm terrible with names, just ask my wife Bob, and my daughters Sam and... hang on I'll remember it any minute.
Thought it was funny when my mom did that. Until it started happening to me . . . . :roll:
by Typeminer
Thu Jun 16, 2022 9:07 am
Forum: Daily Wapsi Square Discussion
Topic: Certified 2022-06-15
Replies: 8
Views: 21400

Re: Certified 2022-06-15

We've been calling off-season commercially shipped lycopersicons "ballistic tomatoes" for so long that I don't remember how it started . . . .
by Typeminer
Fri Jun 03, 2022 7:22 am
Forum: Daily Wapsi Square Discussion
Topic: A New Deal 2022-06-01
Replies: 12
Views: 19825

Re: A New Deal 2022-06-01

I read The Whiteboard (and the Tinker's Guild forum, which is way crazier than the strip), QC, Girl Genius, and a whole bunch of others.