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  1. Thread: Post Race!

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    It doesn't ever seem to end.

    This second woman, playing games with her guy {Get me out of the middle!}, along with others in the group of 12 or so online friends, is trying to goad me into...
  2. Thread: Post Race!

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    Doesn't it just though?

    Who knew senility kicked in so early? Emotional regression?
  3. Thread: Post Race!

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    Turns out this second one really is a co-whinger, she's got a similar situation with her guy. Glad I misinterpreted the signals, I don't need that.

    But another 4 hours long call, this time (egad,...
  4. Thread: Post Race!

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    Ups and downs continue. Still being held off meeting.

    Another person offered to listen to my whinging about the situation. Four hour phone call in the middle of the night and now I have two...
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    Re: Truth Social

    Didn't they just get through the hurdles that Google demanded in order to get their app into the Play Store? Before that only Apple users had access as far as I knew.

    That might double the number...
  6. Thread: Post Race!

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    I'm not sure why people can't comprehend the difference between an education and vocational training.
  7. Thread: Post Race!

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    Always seemed a trivial matter to me.
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    If the make and model are of enough interest, the working tape mechanisms are likely to have value. There are cassette fans out there today and even new releases are coming out on cassette.

    One...
  9. Thread: Post Race!

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    Yeah we've been running into that all day. Late start, thinking we had time that we didn't have between things. A feeling at 4PM that it surely must be 2:00 or something?

    We'll just have to see...
  10. Thread: Post Race!

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    Not yet, but it has been under discussion. Sort of shocked me the other day "Maybe you should sell your house and move in here."

    Gulp.

    I even think she really has given in on being wrong,...
  11. Re: Installing compiled VB6 packages in Win10 / 64-bit

    Add you really need to "turn off" is installing the old MDAC package. DataEnvironment and other powerful features all still work fine.
  12. Thread: Post Race!

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    Actually it didn't carry teen music until later. The content aimed at MTV's core audience (20 to 35) at the time of its debut moved on to the second channel VH1. That made room for MTV to switch to...
  13. Thread: Post Race!

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    I think you're right, though the distance probably factors in as well.
  14. Thread: Post Race!

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    Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
  15. Thread: Post Race!

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    The roller coaster still rolls. If you'd asked me Saturday morning I'd say I'd been ghosted. By Saturday noon friend zoned/dumped for some local James William Bottomtooth III. By Saturday...
  16. Thread: Post Race!

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    I want my MTV.
  17. Thread: Post Race!

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    Some great work there. Congratulations.
  18. Thread: Post Race!

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    I've come close to this even in a face to face meeting, jetlagged from travel. So I can really imagine it occurring on a call.

    It reminds me of a frustrating dream last night. Somehow I'd been...
  19. Thread: Post Race!

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    Sounds like a good time.
  20. Thread: Post Race!

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    A shock to me as well, but I've found that somehow it doesn't take much. I'd casually "liked" a random social media post. It seems I'm watched very closely, this was seen, and it was taken as...
  21. Thread: Post Race!

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    Progress I guess. Cycle time is way down: new breakup late last night lasted maybe 10 minutes. Morning call was close to normal and by 2 PM texting was more "domestic" than ever. Late afternoon...
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    Re: Something UP?

    Is "rate this post" broken too?
  23. Thread: Post Race!

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    Probably some solid hiking boots?
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    Yeah, I read Farmer back in the day. Certain to have some of his books packed away here yet.

    Looks like the waterfall has been avoided. Got invited for dinner, but 800 miles is a walk even for...
  25. Thread: Post Race!

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    For all I can tell right now I'm about to go over a waterfall alone. LOL
  26. Thread: Post Race!

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    Yeah I'll be going alone. Just part of post-lockdown era getting back to normal, it's not some big event. The sort of thing I've been encouraged to do... until it gets real. LOL

    I guess the...
  27. Thread: Post Race!

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    I gets weird trying to guess how the winds blow. She was upset, later claimed she was just pouting and how dare I not call first thing Valentine's Day morning. Later she admitted she actually was...
  28. Thread: Post Race!

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    I need that manual. Apparently I can't distinguish between a tantrum and "just pouting." In any case I find myself in slack water today.
  29. Thread: Post Race!

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    Of "Lewis and Clark" fame?

    Never calm forever? Maybe "Never calm, forever." :p
  30. Thread: Post Race!

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    I spoke too soon anyway. Just a short time later I find myself in white water again. Patience may be a virtue but didn't Lewis get shot in the butt "accidentally" before it was all over?

    I think...
  31. Thread: Post Race!

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    Oh, there are still rocks to avoid as well as caution about standing up too fast and we haven't completely dumped our packs yet. But we are well past where we were when we capsized and started down...
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    It feels like the rapids have settled into Class II with lots of open channels and easier navigation lately. Keeping my eyes open for submerged rocks, but in general it's been smooth rafting for a...
  33. Re: vb6,twinbasic,Just like the drone alien UFO, great invention.

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  34. Thread: Post Race!

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    Geeze, don't put that into my head. Talk about the wrong thing to say at the wrong time.
  35. Thread: Post Race!

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    There are certainly highs to the journey, but at times it can feel Sisyphean too.
  36. Thread: Post Race!

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    I guess it was a daffy thing to do.
  37. Thread: Post Race!

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    Nah, I just sent it normally. Things are going pretty well lately.
  38. Thread: Post Race!

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    I have a 5 foot cudgel or staff. It's a straight length of young redbud tree trunk that had died and seasoned in-place out back. I sawed off both ends and barked it, and it had a lot of...
  39. Thread: Post Race!

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    You can set an expiation and then messages, images, voice clips, video clips all go away after 5 minutes, half an hour, 8 hours, etc.
  40. Thread: Post Race!

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    Well she must be warming up again. She's even thinking about sending me another picture to replace the evaporating one from the secure chat app. She's probably concerned that I've substituted...
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