Desiderius Price

It’s harsh.  But, it’s far better than the alternative.

Yep, with as long as the story was on hiatus, there was a very strong possibility it’d go abandoned too, until I decided to pick it back up a few years ago.  A fast re-read turned into a rewrite, and so it’s now ballooned over that 1.5M word mark.

Any “foolproof” plan just hasn’t met a big enough fool.

Absolutely, @GeorgeGlass!

Also, the ability to make a plan “foolproof” is always outstripped by the Universe’s evolution of fools.

Good to know. Apparently you have to restart your browser after installing it. So I will have to wait to do it until later.

That was me, trying to convince myself to do the right thing, mission failed, the cookies got devoured.  TBH, I don’t make them all too often, so not a huge deal (aside from my doctor saying otherwise if I told her).

Adulthood is knowing whatever you stick into your gullet when you wake is breakfast.

Adulthood is also being on medications which force you to wait at least 30 minutes between waking up and having breakfast

Final goodbye is always the bit that sucks.  I know, he couldn’t move without it hurting, and it was only going to get worse; nothing short of torture would delay the inevitable.  No, it was time to let go, let him join his brothers & sister(s) across the rainbow bridge.

Of the original six in the litter, I finalized on the three brothers after two sisters were adopted out and a third sister was killed in the road at a very young age.  I’ve not kept track of those two sisters, so they might still be alive, but also possible they have the kidney disease too.

so sorry for your loss Des. Hes in a better place now! *hugs*

It’s the little things that one starts to really miss.  Going into the bedroom, still expecting him to be on the bed or in the laundry.  Or, wanting to go to the back door to see if he’s on the deck waiting to be let inside (I never installed a cat door).  Or, even him knocking my chair’s lever so it’s locked back into it upright position.

I know   It’s a sort of family joke, baby sister’s birthday is on December 22^nd. When she was a kid she refused to be excited for Christmas until after her birthday despite all the stores filling up with Christmas stuffs. Needless to say, she used to get a lot of Christmas stuff for her birthday 

Thank all the gods we don’t have to deal with Yule decorations in stores, although it might be nice not to see Christmas decorations until after Yule…   

Those with Christmas birthdays—yeah, their birthday celebrations tend to get merged in.  (A trick I heard years ago is to celebrate the ½ birthdays instead, still give the kid a special distinct day.)

Your reasoning makes perfect sense.  Unless you loathe gambling, if you stop in a casino and you start gambling, it’s really easy to lose track of time, though the 51 hours you cite is rather extreme.  Then again, most if not all records are an extreme of one form or another, for good or ill.

While I ended up with something else (way better), yeah, always fun what you do come across.  Casinos are designed to help you lose track of the time, to keep playing.  First time to Vegas, I intended to gamble, but was actually put off by all the glitz, so I didn’t.  Opted for a show instead & the star trek experience.

All things considered I think you made the better choice. Last time I went in if it wasn’t for my phone alarm I set before hand I’d been there for more than a couple hours.

Overall, this machine has been very stable, rock solid, to the point that I’d only have to reboot due to power outages (ie not on battery backup) or kernel/driver updates.  That’s why it was odd to be in a position to have to reboot daily/hourly when I was used to 60/90 days.  Fingers crossed the driver downgrade works, lets me defer pricey upgrades.

If your computer started acting up without you doing some other change to it first, I wouldn’t have my hopes raised too high.  And if the problem stuck around on your main computer after a card swap, especially if the removed card worked on your other machine (you never said,) then I would be looking at something on the main system board.

If you did a software patch or driver update to the O/S recently, rolling that back will hopefully roll the problem away.  Otherwise, hope for something “cheap and stupid,” like a memory module or different accessory card starting to go bad and impinging on system resources needed by the video card for the video to work correctly.

Good luck, whatever it turns out to be.

Luckily, it did start acting up after an update (which IIRC included video drivers).  As the notes mentioned g-sync, and my issues had sync issues in them when piped through my KVM, my shrewd guess is that it was a bad driver (or something not properly configured).  So, downgrading the drivers back to the old ones will likely fix it (at least for now).

Well you’ve got a fair amount of time then.
 

Shh!  I was trying to spook everybody else!