LadyCrimson

...I don't like the centered taskbar, although hopefully you'd be able to change it. ...they will really push MS account login and some stuff can't be used/accessed without it (altho most of that I wouldn't care about/use myself - you can still make a local account to install/most use). ...I'll never understand why some ppl get excited/aggravated re: design elements like rounded corners and window-opening animations as if it's newsworthy updating. ...he does address the possibility it's all an elaborate fake at the video end, and/or ofc even if not, it could change before release.

April article: https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/shortage-of-new-cars-expected-to-last-at-least-a-few-months/ar-BB1gabbR So is this going to feel like the gpu shortage? ...remember when cars (and lots of other things) didn't "need" microchips? Can we go back to those days?

Two things: 1 - Hubby took this week off, so we were going to go up to Sacramento to look at a couple houses. Hotel reservation and everything. Then my car started to act wonky. Long story short we turned around and went home. We'll have someone look at it but I think it's about time for a new car. Mine is still low miles but many things can go 'bad' after years and years and years and it's not a car I love so much I care to spend lots fixing all those things. Anyway, maybe it's a sign the cosmos doesn't want us to buy in Sacramento. 2 - I did cut my hair even shorter. But it's still so uneven - that is, from certain angles/light it looks like balder spots vs. darker spots - so I'm still tempted to actually shave it. Then again I'm just being nitpicky and it's still short enough once it gets to be a few inches I probably wouldn't notice the slight uneven-ness then. >.> Regardless, while I've had "normal" short-ish hair many times. this level of "short" makes me observe a few things: --open car windows are now great! ... because your hair no longer flies around everywhere in the wind --my head is too cold in the morning/it makes me feel chilly. I don't like that. But ... --hats fit/are more comfy and stay on the head 1000% better with essentially no hair. My hair is too slippery or something and hats have always hated that/always fell off within 5-10 minutes. Knit caps now stay put and are fantastic!

...or will it be Win 10.5? Win 21? YourDesktopBelongsToUs? Or TheOSFormallyKnownAsWindows? https://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2021/06/14/microsoft-in-surprise-move-to-kill-windows-10-in-2025-new-version-coming-soon/

Ok, I finally got around to watching Invincible. Never heard of/read the comic etc. The first episode went like this: "Kinda bored ... haha kinda funny ... kinda bored ... kinda funny ... sigh/bored ... HOLY COW WTF?!" Overall the whole series: 75% slightly bored (especially a couple subplots), 25% of holy cow. For my burnt-out tv and superhero mentality these days ... not too bad, show, not too bad. At least it's mostly memorable.

You'd probably at least get tons of free beer/drinks.

^ How is Edge of Eternity these days? I remember playing it some a long time ago (kitty!) when it was still early access. I was kind of liking it although it was occasionally clunky. Then I must've been distracted or decided to wait for more updating and ... I guess it's full release just recently? Maybe I'll download it again.

I wonder when real estate home walkthru's won't have to be by appointment/one at a time anymore. I refuse to buy a home only viewing it via some online "Zoom video tour." Also, I *wish* the vaccine had given me telekinetic powers, even if that meant a cost of, say, a slightly shortened lifespan. I would've had so much fun. Sadly, it did not.

I've reached the point where when it comes to streaming media, I think I watch more YouTube than anything else. Anyone have any frequent posting YT film/TV related faves, reviewers or analyzers? I know of Red Letter already ofc. Or channels that like to analyze companies and their history ( Company Man is an example of that ) or general misc. analyzers of some kind (history, science, tech, economics). Ones that aren't "political" or agenda driven or Facebook/style/Just Chatting like fluff.

Fed up being "held hostage" re: needles/hospital. Looked on Amazon again, there are options now. Last time I looked (months ago) there was nothing, maybe covid had people stocking up or something. The brand the hospital gives me (and some others I looked at) apparently cannot ship to California, but some could (no clue why the difference). Nothing ventured, nothing gained and even if there's an occasional defective syringe out of the 100/box, at least you have some/more than hospital wants to dole out (or if the hospital messes up their refill records....). I mean, c'mon, what if there's a sci-fi apoc. and hospitals are gone? I need at least 1 year of syringes in my doomsday bunker just in case. After that stored insulin would be rare/not-viable - but I'd want the chance to live for that extra year, darnit!

I want to order more needle syringes. have 20 syringes remaining. Note: I only have that many remaining because I don't inject myself twice a day every day (maybe 75% of the time I do just one per day). Thus I feel like there is something badly wrong with this picture.

If my mother had seen a snake in the house she would have screamed and passed out. She wasn't afraid of much, but snakes were her major freak-out thing. I pulled this quick prank on her once as a wee kid with a jointed wooden snake toy and ... well, she did not appreciate it. Edit: also, there are plenty of on-paper attractive moderate homes in Sac, but I'm not sure I like the non-residential/shopping areas and other aspects there. Then again as I've said before I rarely leave the house anyway. But I have a feeling we'd be better off/happier just selling the Bay house in 10 years and buying/moving somewhere else cheap instead. Maybe next door to Keyrock. eh, thinking about where to live in old age is tiring. I'll just plan to die before we have to think about that too seriously. Problem solved.

Yeah...it sucks. I'm in bifocal territory but I refuse to wear those because I don't like if you're walking around the bifocal spot is blurry. And what's the point in distance-vision contact lenses if you then have to still carry reading glasses all the time (like normal not-near-sighted people). So it's peer over your "regular" glasses or tossing them aside for longer close-up tasks. Hence I misplace them constantly. I've tried using a chain but having them dangle from your neck invariably gets in the way of you doing something too often and you toss them aside anyway. Plus chains get caught in my hair ... well, not at the moment but ...

Typical day: "Where are my glasses?" "On the table." "Where are my glasses?" "Hanging from your shirt." "On your head. In the bathroom. On the kitchen counter. On the bedcovers." etc. Today: "Where are my glasses? I had them like 20 minutes ago at the PC." *looks everywhere, including floors, washer, shelves, couches* Hubby: "Oh you did you find them?" Me: "No, these are my other (newer/stronger) glasses. I lost/want my other other (older, weaker) glasses." *still have no idea where they went* This is what happens when you're near-sighted and wear glasses for that, then get old and constantly take them off in order to read.

From what I saw, the 3080 might average 10-12fps more for a lot of 4k gaming over what I have (which is why it was seen as a "great deal" for the original $700(?)retail price). The 3080ti being maybe 5-10% better than that, for that much more, is rather absurd. At least the 2080ti was something more like 25-30% more than the 2080, I think? Correct me if I'm way off. At any rate don't know why a gamer would want to replace a 3080 with the ti version like I see some scrambling to try and do, but many people are rarely logical. Or they're all scalpers. >.> I'm just sitting around praying my 2080ti won't randomly break for at least a few more years - the longer the better ofc. I guess I still have the 980ti in my old rig if I get desperate but...

Conjuring 3: The Devil Made Me Do it. Saw it on HBOMax. ...it was ok. Maybe a B-. More crime than horror, but had the horror moments. For people who like more chr. drama, there's a bit more of that in this one maybe. The two leads are still the main watch-draw, although the young guy playing the "devil made me kill" was pretty good too. Anyway, the first Conjuring is still by far the best - I'd give that an A. The 2nd Conjuring was also ok, and I haven't seen any of the spin-offs.

My good sir, a dragon does not waddle. A dragon saunters.

Post 2: Power tools, rowwarrr! (that plastic shed had sunshine door-warping issues - cutting rebar to insert into them was hubby's fix) Re: tool etc. sharpening - I guess hubby is becoming impatient serious. ( j/k, he'll still use the "stones" too)

Post 1: Those heron's or egrets are still in the street trees and every day I still hear them constantly, sounding like sick cats. I finally sat in backyard and tried to take some pictures. Sadly a cheap 270mm zoom isn't quite enough to cover the distance (eg, the bird shots are cropped some). 500mm would be better. Oh well. Also, I'm badly out of practice re: the big camera, pfft. Perspective: the tree (grey lower right corner is neighbors eave-roof) and one of their nests. You can barely see the nest, but it's pretty big I suppose. A lot of the time the leaves hide them/can't see them at all from the ground but occasionally the perch visibly. I have no idea why the back feathers are up - it was only trying to break off a stick. Maybe it's windy up there. But I quickly grew bored (and my arms tired) of sitting with a heavy camera glued to my face, waiting for them to "do" anything.

Google says you're probably correct - something about the land freezing causing expansion/contraction etc, which causes mayhem to foundations, so they dig deeper to stabilize/prevent such. Dig a little deeper, you have a basement. Possibly for more pipe freezing/access considerations sometimes too who knows. FL's water table in some places seems to be a big reason. I think the general not-having them here is just because they weren't truly "needed" for any architectural reason in most places, and it was cheaper to build without (at least back then?), and then it just stayed that way out of habit. Re: hubby and valley - it was the Visalia area in the early-mid 80's I think - yeah he mentioned nights could be sometimes cooler. It's just the day summer temps were much warmer (and more warmer days) then the Bay. He also lived in Alaska for maybe a year as a kid and he's never recovered from the "endless night" winter blues type stuff. Basically he just hates winter/long nights/temps under 78F, period.

Send me a jar of pickles. If I (or hubby) likes them, can we order a few jars every time you make them? And, uh...today I ate my usual veggie/meat mash mixes. I've grown so tired of them in general (even mixing it up which veggies/ingredients a bit here and there) that I started to toss about half a jar of store-bought pickled "hot!" (as opposed to the "mild!") jalapeno's in each batch. I'm not sure it makes the meals less repetitious, but they are then at least not ... boring. *sweats*

eh, while we don't get 100+ days for weeks or months at a time here I think most of us are aware that typical home A/C does not turn your room/house into a freezer at such temps. Mostly it just takes the edge off so at least you sweat modestly less whilst sitting around in your underwear, maybe still using a floor fan for extra 'breeze.' Hubby spent some years in south central valley - he thinks it's never warm enough or warm often enough in the Bay. I have often wondered why there are so few basements in California in general. Close to the bays I might guess watertable (and building on landfill) could have something to do with it (maybe, I'm no terrain risk analyst or something) but other areas, not sure. And yeah ... I noticed they aren't as strict re: downpayment percent anymore, again, and various other things. Isn't Calif. minimum wage $14 now or something? Won't be long before a double Whopper costs $15 and our fave large pizza is $50. Not that we eat Whoppers. Pizza on the other hand ...

^ Yeah, it's definitely not limited to California/Bay Area. I've seen people say it's getting bad in some places in Canada, all kinds of areas. There are the well known more extreme city/area examples but it's becoming systemic all over, imo. ... hubby's been "predicting" a massive overall (not just housing) inflation spike problem for a while now for various reasons (like lumber costs have skyrocketed for a while now, along with plenty of other things, like ... gpu's - haha) that's only going to make the have/have-not gap worse yet again. I can't say I'd disagree with him.

You inherit, get really lucky in some fashion, or have a top 10-12% household income or something - or share rent with multiple people. It's always been crazy here, but I think the last 20 years it's been extra crazy. Not enough housing, bidding wars, and people no longer looking at homes as very long term forever-home investments but more short-term quick-money get-ahead plans that jack up prices and seller expectations. My parents house: early 1970's, $32k - 2007 or so (I forget), 1.3 million (over 30 years to get that high) - 2021, 3 million (only 14ish years to increase as much again). Our tiny house: 12ish years ago, $575k - 2018/2019, $850k-ish - mid-2021, 1.45 million

That's what air conditioning is for. I mean most of the time I just sit inside and stare at monitors anyway. Fire danger potential is a good point tho, as well as pollution. I personally would rather retire in the middle of a rainy non-tropical forest but there's not a lot of that in California. Typical? Can't speak for Sac. but we're somewhat lower side for our specific area - one of those few "east side" housing blocks that is considered a good starter-home/neighborhood vs. industrial. Most houses are more in 2-4 million range (at the moment). The Peninsula area of the middle W. Bay Area is extra-suburb expensive tho, relative to lot/house size/per foot especially. Atherton, Woodside, Standford U, Los Altos all exist within it, lots of tech giant companies, etc. I went to grade school in Atherton since my parents house was one of the cheaper "middle class" tract house neighborhoods right on Atherton's border, that was probably built to house all the plebs to serve Atherton. Hahaha.. j/k. Kinda. Edit: when I was a kid most of those streets had no sidwalks/were still dirt paths... if you go across the Bay to something like Fremont, it's a little cheaper. Many more (and newer) houses in that 1.5 million range vs. 2.5+ million.