Category: A Day in the Life
This subject covers things (often events) related to every-day life. They are not necessarily profound, but simply things that just happen.
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A Day in the Life: New Keyboard: Part 2
Previously I wrote about my new keyboard. A good keyboard, but I’ve switched to another with even more buttons (a key value criterion) and an integrated fingerprint reader: the Microsoft Keyboard with Fingerprint Reader. The package includes a wireless optical mouse, with a scroll button. Unlike my previous mouse, this scroll button has a smooth…
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A Day in the Life: Technical Difficulties
I’ve been having technical problems with my PC. It started with infrequent crashes and degenerated into regular crashes during or just after start up. The result was I often had to cycle through several boot sequences before the systems stabilized. I tried to find the source of the problem being reported. Evidently I had a…
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Catching up on my photos
Over the years I’ve collected a number of photos. I’m digitizing them. In any case, I was going through them, uploading pictures from our recent trip to Europe. I came across some that I had taken at Christmas when we gathered at my brother’s place in Georgia. My Dad and Jeanie where there, Eric (my…
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How to iron woolen dress pants
Equipment: Process: Rationale: There are more detailed and complex guides [1] [2], but the above is simple, fast and effective. Shin is a problem with wool pants. To remove the shin, the Woman’s Institute of Domestic Arts & Sciences, by Mary Brooks Picken recommends: Sometimes, in the construction of woolen garments, certain parts, especially seams…
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A Day in the Life: Salt Pills
When I was between 19 and 25 my friends and I would take long bicycle trips, often several hundred kilometers. Frequently we would travel over 130 km per day. Usually the first days were the hardest. This was the time to get back into shape. On these trips I would often suffer cramps, usually in…