Random Ramblings

I finally got off my butt and ran the disk defragmenter for my PC.  Oh man, is it faster!!

What is a disk defragmenter?

It is so weird to see y'all talking about freezing temperatures while I'm sitting here in a singlet, shorts, and bare feet wishing I had short hair (or no hair). Ugh!
I think comfort is somewhere in between here and there. Maybe Mexico.   

Jen5 wrote:

What is a disk defragmenter?

It's a computer program that eliminates the blank spaces between files.  The more blank places, the harder the machine has to work; the fewer, faster.

Jen5 wrote:

It is so weird to see y'all talking about freezing temperatures while I'm sitting here in a singlet, shorts, and bare feet wishing I had short hair (or no hair). Ugh!
I think comfort is somewhere in between here and there. Maybe Mexico.   

Starting to warm up again. Should be 60 F tomorrow.

Jen5 wrote:

It is so weird to see y'all talking about freezing temperatures while I'm sitting here in a singlet, shorts, and bare feet wishing I had short hair (or no hair). Ugh!
I think comfort is somewhere in between here and there. Maybe Mexico.   

Our turn will come.  LOL

I have a couple of FB buddies in Cali that like to brag about their temps when the rest of us are snowed in and experiencing extreme cold.  When we get in the 80s in TN, they are often suffering 100 and above temps.  That's when I like to sling the mud right back at them about those warmer winters.

We hit 60 yesterday and our 5 inches of snow and 1 1/2 inches of ice underneath began a fast melt.  Rain overnight has helped.  There are still some snowy spots, but they will be gone soon. I am so glad, too!

Normaniac wrote:

Jen5 wrote:

What is a disk defragmenter?

It's a computer program that eliminates the blank spaces between files.  The more blank places, the harder the machine has to work; the fewer, faster.

Hmm, that sounds very promising. My computer could sure use a break. She's a very hard working machine.  

This is the defrag program I use:  https://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/after-download/

Last week, DFW was in the teens for the highs and today it got up to 80 

Got 70 here.  Huzzah! 

We're gaining on you, Jen! 

Jen5 wrote:

Normaniac wrote:

Jen5 wrote:

What is a disk defragmenter?

It's a computer program that eliminates the blank spaces between files.  The more blank places, the harder the machine has to work; the fewer, faster.

Hmm, that sounds very promising. My computer could sure use a break. She's a very hard working machine.  

I hear ya.  I split the workload between my PC and my laptop.  The laptop handles my writing tasks and more of the day-to-day work; while the PC does everything else.

Thanks Derek, I'll look at doing that.

I'm like that too Brian. I do most of my day-to-day work on a laptop. Certainly any writing I do is on the laptop (or paper). If I'm video editing, I use the PC, but everything else is on the laptop so that I can have it sitting near my keyboard etc. I link it up to a big monitor though so I'm not stuck looking at a small screen.

We hit 71 degrees yesterday!  It was so nice!

It is kind of surreal, though, as we still have huge piles of snow piled up where they plowed a lot of parking lots.

Jen5 wrote:

Thanks Derek, I'll look at doing that.

I'm like that too Brian. I do most of my day-to-day work on a laptop. Certainly any writing I do is on the laptop (or paper). If I'm video editing, I use the PC, but everything else is on the laptop so that I can have it sitting near my keyboard etc. I link it up to a big monitor though so I'm not stuck looking at a small screen.

The true trick is using both computers simultaneously, and trying to remember which mouse controls which computer!! 

Found this the other day. Great stuff.

The Jay Sekulow Band does an even better version of FY, with John Schlitt and John Elefante on vocals!

I've been homeschooling the kids.



What that does mean is that personally... I've brushed up on my maths, have discovered all about penguins, ecosystems, biomes, William Shakespeare, and the main bones of the human body.  I've improved my art, so now I can do shading, have created a pulley system, made a boat move with washing up liquid and have finally (after 47 years) learnt what a noun is. This does mean that my brain has now melted.

Our kids are home but not home schooled. Still doing distance learning. While there are reports that some kids have struggled with online school our kids have thrived. No bad grades at all. Our oldest has one class on campus (Florida State) and the rest are online. I think even one of them has no set time and no professor. It's just a teach yourself course with instructions on what to do (a CSI class). So far she has had to create a crime scene, upload photos of it and made a homemade blood spatter project on different types of blood spatter/splatter. Sounds interesting at least to me but it is making her decide she doesn't want to work crime scenes. They have a digital autopsy coming up.

MikeInFla wrote:

They have a digital autopsy coming up.

YIKES!

Fundy wrote:

MikeInFla wrote:

They have a digital autopsy coming up.

YIKES!

Yeah, sounds gruesome and probably is because it will be an autopsy that's crime related so it's not like it's someone who died of natural causes. And it won't be a real person since it's digital. If she had an actual Crime Lab class in person they use a dummy. When we toured the school they took us thru the crime lab and it was pretty cool but due to covid her lab is now online.

Fundy wrote:

I've been homeschooling the kids.



What that does mean is that personally... I've brushed up on my maths, have discovered all about penguins, ecosystems, biomes, William Shakespeare, and the main bones of the human body.  I've improved my art, so now I can do shading, have created a pulley system, made a boat move with washing up liquid and have finally (after 47 years) learnt what a noun is. This does mean that my brain has now melted.

Mrs. Staybrite was never so smart as when she was homeschooling all three of our children.  You learn some really cool stuff teaching those classes as an adult.

MikeInFla wrote:

Our kids are home but not home schooled. Still doing distance learning. While there are reports that some kids have struggled with online school our kids have thrived. No bad grades at all. Our oldest has one class on campus (Florida State) and the rest are online. I think even one of them has no set time and no professor. It's just a teach yourself course with instructions on what to do (a CSI class). So far she has had to create a crime scene, upload photos of it and made a homemade blood spatter project on different types of blood spatter/splatter. Sounds interesting at least to me but it is making her decide she doesn't want to work crime scenes. They have a digital autopsy coming up.

Cool!
I remember taking an EMT class for certification at a local Technical College when I was in the Army.  They made us fill 1-liter I.V. bags with red food coloring and cut them open over various ground surfaces (grass, gravel, sidewalk, asphalt) so we could see what one or two liters of blood-loss looked like on the ground.

Oldiesmann wrote:

Found this the other day. Great stuff.

Amazing what kids can do these days. I love that he's chosen to work with these kids.

Staybrite wrote:

MikeInFla wrote:

Our kids are home but not home schooled. Still doing distance learning. While there are reports that some kids have struggled with online school our kids have thrived. No bad grades at all. Our oldest has one class on campus (Florida State) and the rest are online. I think even one of them has no set time and no professor. It's just a teach yourself course with instructions on what to do (a CSI class). So far she has had to create a crime scene, upload photos of it and made a homemade blood spatter project on different types of blood spatter/splatter. Sounds interesting at least to me but it is making her decide she doesn't want to work crime scenes. They have a digital autopsy coming up.

Cool!
I remember taking an EMT class for certification at a local Technical College when I was in the Army.  They made us fill 1-liter I.V. bags with red food coloring and cut them open over various ground surfaces (grass, gravel, sidewalk, asphalt) so we could see what one or two liters of blood-loss looked like on the ground.