Tag: boring as hell

Well, I say that Mr. C also pretty much grew up on The Far Side, and that may help explain some things with both of us.

But, there’s also this!

In case Translate isn’t working for anyone on Wikipedia:

There are a bunch of those around here somewhere. I’m pretty sure this particular issue is one of them.

But yeah, seems like the series may have been pretty popular there, if a Far Side themed translated compilation series ran for that long.

(There also seem to be more than a few mixed translated newspaper comics series going. He also has more than a few Far Side books in English, which everybody there has to learn standard. But, I would imagine that the translated complilations are particularly handy for kids and other people who aren’t as fluent. He got started on those, and kept buying several series.)

Anyway, I had to get amused at the whole LARSON! title choice. Certainly a recognizable name, and maybe they added the enthusiastic punctuation to try and avoid confusion with some other Larson 😅

clatterbane:

That last backup reminder did at least prompt me to go ahead and try to find out what’s going on with my apparently stalled WordPress import. (Of this pretty large blog. The two much smaller sideblogs did finish OK, to their own separate sites.)

But yeah, they’re still pretty overloaded checking the support forums a little while ago. Lots of queries about apparently stalled imports from here. A lot of which are just still queued.

Tumblr imports: Long delays (from the day mine stalled, incidentally)

I did end up splurging on a space upgrade out of stubbornness, so I could have used the premium support. But, I really hate live chats. I guess that’s still an option if posting to the support forum doesn’t get a response before too long.

I wish I had gone ahead and run a Python script backup before the 17th, but that probably requires getting Mr. C to do it since I don’t have a working computer right now. (Or admin status on his laptop that I use sometimes, in case it needs the relevant version of Python or whatever. Easier just to get the household professional geek to mess with it anyway, honestly.)

Should probably do that ASAP anyway, hassle or not, especially since my confidence in WordPress imports is not that high atm.

I also really should get another working laptop of my own, cheap or not. But that’s another issue.

Points to their support team, at least. It only took about an hour to get a response. Pleasant surprise.

The importer is now running again. *fingers crossed*

That last backup reminder did at least prompt me to go ahead and try to find out what’s going on with my apparently stalled WordPress import. (Of this pretty large blog. The two much smaller sideblogs did finish OK, to their own separate sites.)

But yeah, they’re still pretty overloaded checking the support forums a little while ago. Lots of queries about apparently stalled imports from here. A lot of which are just still queued.

Tumblr imports: Long delays (from the day mine stalled, incidentally)

I did end up splurging on a space upgrade out of stubbornness, so I could have used the premium support. But, I really hate live chats. I guess that’s still an option if posting to the support forum doesn’t get a response before too long.

I wish I had gone ahead and run a Python script backup before the 17th, but that probably requires getting Mr. C to do it since I don’t have a working computer right now. (Or admin status on his laptop that I use sometimes, in case it needs the relevant version of Python or whatever. Easier just to get the household professional geek to mess with it anyway, honestly.)

Should probably do that ASAP anyway, hassle or not, especially since my confidence in WordPress imports is not that high atm.

I also really should get another working laptop of my own, cheap or not. But that’s another issue.

clatterbane:

The good news: I finally figured out why the doorbell has been going off randomly multiple times a day and driving me up the wall. I forgot that Mr. C had accidentally unplugged the receiver Sunday, and that apparently messed up the pairing. Who knows what it was picking up on before I unplugged it, but it wasn’t our button unit which wasn’t ringing it at all when I tested. (Or any of the close neighbors’ bells, or I would have seen somebody outside another door at some point.)

The not so great news: Fixing that will have to wait until after Mr. C gets home after some office Christmas dinner thing. I’m hoping just pairing them again will do the trick, without having to yank the battery out of the button unit. (Which the manual wasn’t helping me get open…) But, that receiver is far enough from the front door that I need to either grow Plastic Man’s arms, or get someone else to push one of the buttons within the 10 second pairing window 😬

(I purposely got this new doorbell unit with multiple receivers, so I could put another one in the bedroom. That one kept picking up interference and going off inappropriately even with it paired properly, with no obvious way of choosing a different frequency. Which was aggravating enough. Now hoping we can at least get Receiver #1 up and running again, without it doing the same thing 😧)

The “after some office Christmas dinner thing” turned into “…and also an extended pub crawl afterwards with some people from work”. (On a Tuesday 🙄)

I kinda figured the delay was something like that, but I was starting to get a little impatient.

But anyway, he finally got home and that did fix the problem.

The good news: I finally figured out why the doorbell has been going off randomly multiple times a day and driving me up the wall. I forgot that Mr. C had accidentally unplugged the receiver Sunday, and that apparently messed up the pairing. Who knows what it was picking up on before I unplugged it, but it wasn’t our button unit which wasn’t ringing it at all when I tested. (Or any of the close neighbors’ bells, or I would have seen somebody outside another door at some point.)

The not so great news: Fixing that will have to wait until after Mr. C gets home after some office Christmas dinner thing. I’m hoping just pairing them again will do the trick, without having to yank the battery out of the button unit. (Which the manual wasn’t helping me get open…) But, that receiver is far enough from the front door that I need to either grow Plastic Man’s arms, or get someone else to push one of the buttons within the 10 second pairing window 😬

(I purposely got this new doorbell unit with multiple receivers, so I could put another one in the bedroom. That one kept picking up interference and going off inappropriately even with it paired properly, with no obvious way of choosing a different frequency. Which was aggravating enough. Now hoping we can at least get Receiver #1 up and running again, without it doing the same thing 😧)

Climate differences can seem pretty weird.

I grew up somewhere that actually gets decently higher annual rainfall than the British Isles. But, it doesn’t come in the same near-constant drizzle format, for a lot fewer rainy days. The end result here feels so much wetter, with less water involved overall.

(For that matter, it’s apparently not unusual for the nearby city where we lived when I was a little kid to get more total snowfall than Buffalo. It just rarely stays on the ground for more than a couple of weeks before melting off. )

It can still startle me some when there’s no rain for, say, a couple of weeks in the summer here, and that means drought. I guess so, when it’s the equivalent of a huge mist irrigation system over the island breaking down with everything adapted to frequent smaller amounts of water. It’s still disconcerting if you’re not used to that.

So right now I am blathering about weather, instead of putting on some more waterproof shoes to head out to the store ☔

Maybe the weirdest and most frustrating thing I’ve found gluten in:

Yep, dishwashing detergent with “wheat protein”. Another scent didn’t have that listed, but whey instead. I’m not allergic to dairy, but I was wary of the other scent anyway, with the possibility of cross-contamination if nothing else.

Sure, you rinse it off. Not sure I would trust that enough of the proteins would come off your dishes, besides the issues of marinating your hands in the stuff and maybe splashing it all over the place .

Thankfully, I found that when I was doing an ingredient-reading sweep, trying to clear out the kitchen after I found out about the celiac. I liked the detergent, too. (And still use a number of their other products. Only found one so far with a scent that bothered me at all.)

The current ingredients list on their website doesn’t say anything about wheat protein or whey. Maybe they figured out that including major allergens wasn’t a great plan, and/or got enough complaints. I’m still hesitant, though.

clatterbane:

I’m still pretty messed up and feeling jet-lagged from that virus. The continuing blood sugar wackiness is probably not helping.

Now I can suddenly barely keep my eyes open, and would really like to get down for a couple of hours. Here’s hoping that doesn’t turn into 8 or 12 again 😵

And, guess what! 🙄 I did make myself get up with the alarm long enough to take a pill I really don’t need to forget, turn off the fish lights, and use the bathroom. Couldn’t stay awake much longer, though. Only like 9 hours total this time, and I guess my system really needed the rest.

Also, I managed to miss an Amazon delivery this morning by about half an hour. Didn’t expect them to try that early, because they usually don’t. But, the delivery person showed up in the maybe hour window between Mr. C leaving for gaming and my waking up for good. Because of course they did.

Not a huge deal, but annoying. They’re supposed to try back tomorrow, but I kinda wanted one thing today.

I’m still pretty messed up and feeling jet-lagged from that virus. The continuing blood sugar wackiness is probably not helping.

Now I can suddenly barely keep my eyes open, and would really like to get down for a couple of hours. Here’s hoping that doesn’t turn into 8 or 12 again 😵

It also struck me as crap funny in a way, that I ended up with the opposite go-to strategy as a kid in the ‘80s: perm the hell out of it, to at least make it look more uniform and less chaotic, when you have no idea how to deal with naturally curly hair 🙄 Besides just keeping it chopped off.

That only started after I was in school, though, and old enough to somewhat safely get my head slathered in chemicals without immediate meltdowns. And it wasn’t all the time.

(Just as glad it was totally socially acceptable to just keep it chopped off when I was little, though. Because I still hate anyone messing with my hair, and it was Meltdown City any time somebody tried then…)