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It is already freezing and snowing here. I thought about clearing the car a short while back, but the ice is already formed. I need to go out tomorrow to take my wife for an urgent check up with the quack but not until 10:16. If it is too iced up I can dig, (figuratively dig) the other car out of the garage and use that, but I do not like using the new one on short, cold runs.
Ed, don’t coin collectors have their own way of expressing the condition of coins? Unless it is something truly unique and sought for that reason alone, the slightest imperfection, which an ordinary observer may not even see, can decimate any potential value. Unless you are really clued up you are almost certain to get done.
I made some test calls, finally after five offers of a programme about ‘After 20 years spent in Europe a place to call home’ I achieved a success. After my telling Google what to do with its stupid suggestions (hint it ended up showing Rodney one of the characters from only fools and horses), I found that; Call home was a failure but.. drum roll please; ‘telephone home’ worked first time.
Flushed with success and wanting to stop while I was ahead I stopped. I just hope that next time if I try to call my wife on her mobile I do not get Obama’s wife… or the owner of a local cafe…
It’s chucking it down. Not drifting like it did last time. It’s supposed to continue all day. Son is due to go back to Bath later. Trains still running but the local buses in Bath are operating on “main roads” only. The biggest problem is outside of the centre you have to go up massive hills and he will need to to get home. I suspect we will have a house guest tonight too.
In conditions like those, better a house guest for another night than some of the alternatives, from what you said you might have your guest for the whole day. ‘Out west ‘ when it decides to snow the weather does like to show off and hang onto the white stuff a bit too long. After one historic late snow storm I heard there were accounts of ‘harvesting’ snow and ice from the moors to cool summer drinks in June or July. I guess that was before refrigerators become common place.
Height is my problem. At 19 on Army entrance, I was 5 feet 7 inches, so no giant then! However, life, age, spinal problems have all combined to reduce that to 5 feet 5½ inches, taken at the last measurement at Castle Hill yesterday. SWMBO asked where the missing 1½ inches went, at which I pointed to my bald spot. I don’t think she believes me, but at 4 feet 9 inches she does not often catch sight of the top of my head. ??
My wife has lost at least two inches in a short period and while she has lots of other problems spinal issues as such have not yet been one of them. I understand that the inter vertebra disks can suffer more in some people, though I know many of mine have shrunk, one appears to have left altogether leaving two vertebra fused together, happily they have joined without trapping any essential nerves. That has not been the same case everywhere.
The thermometer now says minus 0.1 which is ‘cool’, just not in the fashion sense! However, it is the wind that will really get you. A wind proof garment and a layer or three below that will be needed in most areas today, even taking the recycling to the bin at the side of the house was not really a shirt sleeve activity.
At least the snow was a bit feeble and apart from dusting the outside car and a bit on the grass, most appears clear of ice ad snow.
Warning, some areas will certainly have some ice and probably snow as well so care is essential.
John, I hope that your pipes have survived so far, our boiler drip pipe froze, backed up and shut down the boiler until I cut the pipe and ran a relief pipe. I have now set in a new set up, I hope that your repaired set up is going to be more weather proof. This weather should not last as long as mark 1.
Steve, I had heard some of your story before, but the more complete account does make sad reading. I suspect we have all lived long enough to know some who have fallen, been pushed or perhaps even jumped through the net in that or a similar way. However, it is not the same when they were someone who was very closely related.
Tippon, you may well be right the instructions were rather crap and the need to talk s l o w l y and break things into chunks might be the answer as in ‘OK Google —- Call Home’ as you said.
The problem is that with the old phone none of this was needed, it was just press the button and demand the call; clearly user adjustment is needed to this slower style of trying to work.
Steve, you are right; sometimes the voice bits work really well as in dictating a text, but then they fail and it is a real splat on the floor affair.
Quite early on a frosty, wet, mushy Sunday morning is not the best time to try things; out the dog and bone is curled up in its basket being charged anyway. So developing a new working style will have to wait for now, but I think you two have put your finger on at least the main issues.
The need for internet access in one form or another is fairly clear though not usually for manually typing and sending a text, at home we almost always have texting access but not mobile voice or mobile internet as such. If the mobile’s internet fails when using voice interaction, then I do get a verbal message. At home mobile coverage is rubbish so the phones can only really use data with Wi Fi which in the areas the phones live is quite good. However though voice is very iffy, all of the mobiles can still send and receive texts most if not all of the time, its a quirk of the signalling system.
No it was always unlocked and used for a while on Tesco mobile where it did get updates. I then obtained a new EE SIM and a large monthly allowance but in even in a busy month I do not go above about 50Mb out of a 5.5Gb allowance. Since using EE application updates have flowed but the OS remains stuck back in the dark ages, or so it feels. I guess it is probably not worth losing sleep over its decaying state but I doubt that I would go Motorola again. Samsun do appear to have things better set up in my very limited experience.
I have toyed with the idea of getting another Tesco SIM and seeing if it makes a difference but the weather is too cold and my motivation wanes too much.
Tanking you for taking an interest.
Nolan, I am with EE and I guess that could be the issue. My daughter has a Samsung and that was updated a long time ago, but she uses it for very little, and even that is mostly via home Wi Fi. Her needs and her capabilities do not cover the likes of banking, even texts of more the a couple of words touch can unfamiliar boundaries.
Yes the snow has continued with a little more enthusiasm again and the temperature has dropped a little more. Not a great night to be out and about – so I won’t be going out. The car is getting a new white blanket and this time it can stay there.
Bob, I will not comment very much on your story, except to say that was a really lovely story about your grandfather and I think it has defined much if not all of your attitude to life. I guess my Paternal grandfather died when I was about the same age as you and pretty much about at the same time. However I have few memories of him or my paternal Grandmother either.
Tippon, thank you for the thought. What I am now going to say might sound daft but bear with me. The daily food intake is not the issue, but after trying days it is the evening wine or port or maybe even sherry accompanied by sundry nibbled crap that does the harm. The junk boosts a 1500 ~ 1800 calorie day to a 2700 calorie one, or more. The really stupid thing is that the original problems are still there but my desire and ability to cope with them of course get degraded. Still today has not yet seen any issues disrupt the flow, so tonight I might, just might break the drink and nibble cycle.
Up to Christmas I had lost a couple of stone and have ‘only’ put back about 6 or 7 pounds, bad but not the end of the world; yet.
Yes it is cold and unpleasant here as well. A grocery delivery left out one item so I drove out to try to buy the missing item. Sadly the shops was totally without, I think the freight movements have been halted for a while so daughter will have to settle for a different item for her breakfast tomorrow – and probably for a day or so after that. The snow had left a bit of ice on the car and removing that took a few moments which were all wasted but no harm done. At least the car park was empty and the shop was not exactly packed.
Yes Steve it is a Moto 4g Play and given a good wind it will voice call, one or two destinations appear to give it the screaming whatnots. Though it should update to Android 7.x it has not had any OS updates since February’s 2017 version.
I don’t put much on it, only a few numbers. Putting emails was a step too far though the mapping function and driving instructions are useful if I have a passenger who can use the thing. Last Thursday saw me wife break her fear of the dog and find it useful. So I guess it is not all bad. It did manage to call home after the third attempt, I guess it got bored with messing about.
Big problem is the width, it’s really narrow and I’m not a big bloke, 66kg and 5′ 10″. 2 large people next to each other would be very good friends very quickly.
Not a big bloke! Frankly I wish I could win the fight to get anywhere near that weight. I am probably an inch or two less, depending on the rate of vertical shrinkage I am currently enjoying but at and oscillating weight about 88 kg I do consider my self well above the optimum. Laid up over Christmas due to my eye operations and a few other issues I renewed my drive to reduce recently and was pleased when a couple of pounds went. However, then other family health issues once again reared their tiny(?) little, horrid heads and I slipped back a notch or two. Once, many years ago I stayed at 72Kg and it is a dream to get back there ‘one day’ but like other dreams I doubt that it will ever become reality.
I have heard about odd effects like these. It is true that a circuit does require both legs but sometimes different frequencies can cross barriers that others will not. Remember that ADSL is carried by different frequencies to voice which if I recall does require a little more DC energy. Having said that noise, a normal result of poor connections plays havoc with both voice and other signals so it is a real non-jackpot lottery as to what will happen in any given case. Sadly it is probably impossible to explain apart from saying weird stuff sometimes happens. One leg plus earth used to be a real odd ball case that happened in the past and might still cause issues.
If you set something up to blow through the radiator it is worth putting a filter in front of the fan as it is a whole lot easier than trying to clean out the radiators. If you put a sucker fan on top, then a filter below is still easier to clean than a radiator. We had a Labrador and often look after our daughter’s Husky. The Lab used to shed from time to time, but the Husky dumps fir and will still shed on a daily basis. The kitchen radiators had more fir in them than a CSI vacuum evidence collection device.
I admit that I use a Netgear router with a USB capability and this does appear in file explorer as shown by the big reversed out N.
Are you using ‘\\routerIPaddress’ or \\ipaddress\nameofsharedfolder as Dave suggested?
I did have to turn on the USB readyshare function in the router to allow the DLNA function to exist. Apart from having a brief play I have never actually used it for anything.
Well Steve today I tried calling the home phone using the freshly redefined home number as ‘Home’. the first try of
‘OK Google call home’
That told me about a television programme (I think) called ‘A placed called home’ set in Australia.
‘OK Google call home’
This second try asked me where I wanted to call, forgetting that I had told it to call home.
‘OK Google call home’
This third try did manage to get a call to the right number.
I was sat in the more or less silent office at home actually inches from the phone in question. So Tippon I have to say hands free it ‘sort of is’, frustration free it is not! I agree that the locking habit is a pain, it is not supposed to lock when carried about or when using Bluetooth, but it often decides it knows better and locks anyway. Generally it is very slightly better when using the car’s hands free blue tooth, but it is a close run thing. Though the handset was supposed to be upgradeable to Android 7 it has never achieved that great leap, though the (unused) applications do appear to get one or other upgraded almost every day.
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