Weekend open thread - Friday February 21 2025

GeekGirl1 · 2025-02-21T12:36:33+00:00

It's Friday! An indoor pickleball facility opened near me. I'm playing every weekday.

GeekGirl1

I feel like I'm in a bit of a pickle here.

Guy54435

GeekGirl1 Maybe puns are not your Bread and butter.

broknsymetry

GeekGirl1 I feel like I'm in a bit of a pickle here.

No matter how you slice it.

Guy54435

@Guy54435 Thinks to myself, I wonder who is looking in the fridge for a pickle.

egeezer

Guy54435 wonder who is looking in the fridge for a pickle.

Me. Claussen Kosher Dill spears.

telcodad

Sparkchaser Woke up to see the ground covered with snow. Fortunately, it was about 1/4 inch and mostly melted by noon. Still some ice patches.

This February seems to be more a nuisance than normal.

Yeah, here too (Monmouth County, NJ)!

At least the forecast for this week shows high temperatures getting into the 50s (degs F.) with no more snow in sight!

So maybe the local groundhogs were right in predicting an early spring after all! 🙂

Guy54435

telcodad Is way to early to say that here for now, suppose to get cold again after this warmup.

telcodad

telcodad At least the forecast for this week shows high temperatures getting into the 50s (degs F.) with no more snow in sight!

So maybe the local groundhogs were right in predicting an early spring after all!

Guy54435 telcodad Is way to early to say that here for now, suppose to get cold again after this warmup.

Yeah, well, after that brief dip down to the 30s on Sunday and Monday here, temps are supposed to get back up to the 50s once again! 🙂 I still say it will be an early spring here (NYC/NJ) this year.

egeezer

Saturday, breakfast with the guys at the local eatery. I've been going to Sat. breakfast for 40 years, all but two others of the group are gone. At one time there were a half dozen or more WW2 vets in the group. Now, just me, a retired friend/neighbor and my friend/lawyer. Sometimes a Korean war Navy vet makes it here.

I dumped the cane and pain meds for my self inflicted back injury yesterday, getting back to normal. Spring is coming!

Sparkchaser

egeezer I dumped the cane and pain meds for my self inflicted back injury yesterday, getting back to normal.

Happy to hear!

GadgetsRme

egeezer I had five of us at breakfast. A lady came in and we thought she paid us a compliment. She looked at us and said, "Ah, a bunch of Romeo's". Just as we were feeling pretty good about that, she popped our balloon.
Really
Old
Men
Eating
Out
LOL

Sparkchaser

Turned on the monitor this morning and saw a black vertical line about 4in from the right side. Started checking monitors available locally but a couple hours later in fixed itself. Will look for a monitor, intermittent failure.

GeekGirl1

Sparkchaser If it's an analog monitor, I'd say you were losing horizontal sync. 🫤

Are you sure it's not your graphics card or intermittent corrupted RAM / motherboard timing issue?

Sparkchaser

GeekGirl1
Thanks for the comment.
It's a digital monitor and it does it on other computers, as well.

Somewhat-Reticent

GadgetsRme So not taking note of your footwear then.

egeezer

We called our lunch group in Naples the ROMEOs for
Retired
Old
Men
Eating
Out
All of them have passed except myself and one retired Collier Parks guy.

Tonight has been Murdoch Mysteries binge night.

GadgetsRme

Somewhat-Reticent If she'd looked at our footwear and judged our age by that she'd have thought us a lot younger. Most are either avid walkers or hikers. We've all slowed some but still dress our feet like we're ready to head out.

real_aurgathor

Sparkchaser
My secondary monitor (27" Dell 2709W) is doing something similar, except it's many black lines an inch from the right edge, and they no longer disappear as the monitor warms up. (about half of them disappears, but the rest stays)

A few years ago I actually figured out which connector it was, but I was warned that removing and re-seating the connector usually make things worse.

HooRU

A good weekend. I've tested and almost completed a project that is complex and time consuming. I talk about it in the Music Forum. I haven't fully finished, but my pedal works and is awesome.

I had couscous with sausage (I would have rather had it with Seitan) and it's good. Kinda uholy/unclean putting sausage into couscous, but I cook what I have.

Donoreo

We drove the girls 2.5 hours, there and another 2.5 back, to university after their reading week yesterday.

Blackbird

Donoreo to university after their reading week yesterday

Wow. I had to look up 'reading week' to find out what it was. A long time ago in a university far, far way, our "reading time" preparing for midterms and finals in Engineering classes were the hours between the last pre-test class and the next class session - which, in many cases was the next day. I guess times change...

Donoreo

Blackbird "Spring Break" at many universities is officially a "reading week" because midterms usually follow. Ideally, you are supposed to be studying.

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