Thud said:Just eating my lunch & listening to a couple of your links......Amberwolf, you just blew my mind a little bit LOL.
I would call it contemplative music but its produced way past my expectations...
Doesn't matter where in AZ he is, single males can't get state help or most of the other assistance programs. They changed the law a few years ago, screwing a lot of people like him and me over. I think both he and I have pointed this out a bunch of times but nobody ever listens.dnmun said:that would help if he was in phoenix so he could get on food stamps with regular address
I know--that's why I intend to use a different drive to ghost to, not the actual one that's in there. I probably wasnt' clear on that. Then I just have to physically swap it out; those drives are easy to change out as the tray slides out after teh big screw is undone, then just the four tray screws on the drives. (Not that it necessarily means anything, but I used to be an IBM-certified tech in a previous work life, although I've not worked on thsi specific model, all of theirs are quite similar. )bigmoose said:Amber DO NOT GHOST the Laptop drive unless you want to loose all the IBM specific features. I reloaded that drive from the IBM Source CD's that have all the "unique IBM" Features and drivers that make the built in things in the IBM work. If you Ghost it, you will loose all those features forever. Of course, it is yours to do as you please... just be fore warned what messing with that hard drive will do.
At least the pre-norton versions of ghost used to clone even those hidden partitions pretty well, even on Sony Vaios. If not, PING (partimage is not ghost) might do it. Easy to test, just takes time to set up and run, then swap cloned drive in and see what happens. Easier to do once the desktop arrives, as I can use it to run the drives with laptop-size HDD adapters I'm pretty sure survived, and boot from CD or USB stick.Also you cannot "Ghost" the internal IBM drive onto a larger drive. It will not copy the "proprietary" IBM hidden partition... it is a royal pain in the keester to clone those.
that's more or less the plan, but I need windows and various programs configured in a very specific way to properly use a computer, especially visually, and it takes months or even years to do it all and get it just right. If I can clone my setup over and just fix drivers then it is far less time to get to using a stress-free computer setup.That is why I sent some auxiliary hard drives with a USB dock to hold additional data. If I were you I would consider using the desktop as the large data storage machine, and the laptop for portable computer use and communication.
And I have a number of harddisks of various sizes that weren't in the fire, mostly old backups or smaller drives that used to be main drives in the system. Most of them probably still work. Some are IDE and some are SATA. I think I even have a board that converts from one to the other, somewhere. I had almost gotten to that part of the old bedroom when the looter interrupted the rest of my night. But I didn't go back yet today so not sure what's still there.I put a brand new 80 GB in the desktop, and an other 20 GB. I know there not huge by any standard of today... but it is easy to add another drive to the desktop.
RTFM? Me? Really? :lol: I just tend to poke buttons until they do stuff I wanted to happen....I went over everything on the X31 and all the features should be working and the system stable. Be careful with the proprietary IBM stuff until you read up on it.
I dunno about that...but I am doing better. Trying to focus on moving forward, because there is no other direction to go when your pants are all tangled in the pedals and chain; if the wheel rolls backwards you just get eated up!Good luck, you are doing well!
Ok. Then I guess you should be getting into town by the time I finish posting this. :lol:mdd0127 said:Please don't wait for me as I am waiting for others. Do what you need to do. I'll be there tonight for sure. I just got the pedal that I needed to get done finished and am waiting to hear back from the owner. I'll call you when I get into town. Most of your neighbors have seen me around before so if I get there before you can or after you're gone, there shouldn't be any issues. I'm hoping to roll out of town before or around 5pm so I'll be there around 6:30-7ish.
bigmoose said:Just have to say thanks to Bill and his family! He sure is a great friend for doing all he is to help and support you. Please let him see this and know that "your friends across the globe" are very, very appreciative of what he is doing!
amberwolf said:I won't put you thru all that; i'm pretty sure help will continue, even if timing doesn't work the way i want it to cuz people still have jobs and lives and existing plans. Any help is still help.dogman said:Your mulberry trees will grow back very quick, in fact, the pruning will help them grow more this season. but it's a real shame you had to lose some shade right now. Crazy hot yesterday.
Good that you had a lot of help yesterday.
Hang in there, and if you run out of help, let me know. I'll come out and pitch in.
The trees...it's not really anything except the emotional trauma of yet more major change right in front of my eyes (but would have been much worse to suddenly come back to that drastic a change). I don't do well with changes to my routine or environment, and it takes me a long time to readapt. Just moving my bedroom from one room in the house to another was so hard on me that only a few months ago did I finally settle into it and feel safe and at home, about the time we had the cold snap I guess. And now...EVERYTHING is different, or gone.
I know it is not easy even for normal people, but for people like me it can be almost traumatic just to have to get up at a different time than usual, or not have my favorite spoon to eat with, or not be able to eat the things I'm used to, etc. Sometimes when these sorts of things happen I get so upset I can get hysterical if I don't keep myself calm; usually the dogs would know I was panicking and help me out. I know that hardly anyone here will really truly understand that part...but that's just how it is for me, and autistic-spectrum people like me.
But to have all of this happen at once? All I can do is cry it out, talk about it, suck it up and go on, though. What else is there to do? I want to retreat into a corner and rock myself into oblivion, and I think I almost went that way, that first night, but it won't change anythign or fix anything or make it any better, and it won't help anyone else either. If this were ten years ago, twenty...I'd probably still be rocking in the corner right now, not having said a word to anyone after coming home to that.
I guess I usually have Slime Soul Liners or something. But these thorns are more like tent stakes, so if it weren't for the patching all of you and others have been doing, and pumping me back up, I'd've gone flat already and fallen off the wheel.MitchJi said:A very wise man once told me (paraphrasing) that life is like a road, it's impossible to remove all the thorns from the road, but it is possible to wear strong boots. I hope you have the inner strength to make it through this ordeal as easily as possible.
I doubt that even one in ten thousand even thought about doing it, probably less than that. I get shocked looks from most people I've discussed my "efficiency" and "cost control" methods with because it never even occured to them they could do those sorts of things.dnmun said:does everybody use their grey water to water the bushes?
Most people have automatic sprinkler systems and the like, or just stick a sprinkler on a hose, etc., and never even think about saving water like that.
I havent' had time to discuss it with the landlord but I wanted to see if they could alter the plumbing to put the grey water outside instead of down the drain.
No, but I guess it must not be clear from the pictures that show it sitting on the metal frame against the side of the house. Too much tree in the way still I guess.is the swamp cooler mounted on the roof?
That sounds like a nice cool summer here. Just remember; at least it's a dry heat.marty said:Last summer we had a family vacation in your neighborhood. It was 120°
I am off now to get ready and ride over to the house to start screwing shed parts together for a couple hours before it gets too hot. Meant to get up earlier but I keep forgetting I don't have my usual alarm clocks anymore, and I am not used to keeping the celphone with me to use it as an alarm yet. I still have to read the manual to figure out how to set that (and turn off a lot of other thigns that annoy me). (I did it accidentally when trying to figure out how to set the clock when I first got it, before discovering there is no way to set the clock because it is automatic as long as its connected to the cel net, but I havent' found the place to do taht since then).
amberwolf said:as it got dark we needed to shut off the genrator, it's pretty loud and we didn't want complaints from the neighborhood. i went back over and the neibhgotr did reset teh breaker this time but said that one has popped before even with nothing on the outlet so i decided i coudln't trust the power suply to the fridges, and had bill come down so i could take the food up to his place and had to buy a small chest freezer from frys grocery, $150 isn't too bad as i wanted one anyway, and it is a bit more than the space i ahd in my fridges' freezers combined. .