BronxWench

You can tell it’s spring, the plot bunnies frolicking and blooming all over the place.

Are you sure that supercrazybonkers and something working are mutually exclusive? Maybe you need to be supercrazybonkers to make it work?

Thank you, guys      
I spent the evening at a stand up comedy show with my sisters, and it was absolutely brilliant. They are both mothers, so getting a night off in the city for themselves isn’t an easy thing, especially not on a school night, so it was even more fun to get to spend time with them alone, with no kids, even though I absolutely adore my nephews and nieces   

Happy birthday to you! 🎂

I’ll second this motion.  🎂

For all who have given their lives in service to the United States, you are not forgotten.

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.

I switched cards with my other machine (same make & model GPU), and it still had issues.  (One of my monitors would lock onto a solid color until it decides to go away or I reboot.) So I’m rebuilding the OS to see if that sorts out the issue.  It’s a recent development, some quirkiness, so it could easily be a driver problem.
As a fall back, yes, new card, but that’d also mean new power supply and possibly a new circuit to handle the increased demand.

Time to look at the newest gen boards?

JG Melon’s burger was genuinely the best burger I’ve ever had, and that key lime pie was sublime!  btw, we wouldn’t call anything like that a pie here, we’d call it a tart.  A pie is only something with a filling inside a pastry thing, like a meat pie.

If you wind up back this way, we’ll go to JG Melon’s again, for a good burger and perfect Key Lime pie  

If you wind up back this way, we’ll go to JG Melon’s again, for a good burger and perfect Key Lime pie  

I don’t care for restaurants where the food is pretentious, precious, or both. Now, I am a complete foodie, and I did work in restaurants when I was young (and spent my free time watching the chefs and asking questions), and I appreciate creativity and flair, but it needs to taste as wonderful as it looks, and I don’t want to leave a restaurant and feel like I need to stop for a slice of pizza on the way home because I’m still quite hungry.
And nothing beats a good pizza place, especially one of those little neighborhood places.

I don’t care for restaurants where the food is pretentious, precious, or both. Now, I am a complete foodie, and I did work in restaurants when I was young (and spent my free time watching the chefs and asking questions), and I appreciate creativity and flair, but it needs to taste as wonderful as it looks, and I don’t want to leave a restaurant and feel like I need to stop for a slice of pizza on the way home because I’m still quite hungry.
And nothing beats a good pizza place, especially one of those little neighborhood places.

I don’t mind fancy restaurants for a big event, or for a get-together with people I haven't seen in ages, but I’m much happier at local places and diners, to be honest. As long as the food is good, I’m going to enjoy myself even if the ice cream didn’t come from certified organic milk brought to me by a cow named Jessie, with a bit of gold leaf on top so I won’t mind paying $100 for that scoop.  

I don’t mind fancy restaurants for a big event, or for a get-together with people I haven't seen in ages, but I’m much happier at local places and diners, to be honest. As long as the food is good, I’m going to enjoy myself even if the ice cream didn’t come from certified organic milk brought to me by a cow named Jessie, with a bit of gold leaf on top so I won’t mind paying $100 for that scoop.  

I don’t mind fancy restaurants for a big event, or for a get-together with people I haven't seen in ages, but I’m much happier at local places and diners, to be honest. As long as the food is good, I’m going to enjoy myself even if the ice cream didn’t come from certified organic milk brought to me by a cow named Jessie, with a bit of gold leaf on top so I won’t mind paying $100 for that scoop.  

Drugs are your friend, at least in these situations! lol

It’s like like feeling as if you’re choking for half an hour, or however long it was, because you are choking.  They told me the worst part of it is when they’re trying to get it to go past the back of my throat.  The worst part of it was actually from the very start right through to the very end.

I’m going to hope that this was simply one of those “Oh, you’ve reached a certain age” procedures, and not anything more serious!  

Hopefully, they can identify the cause and get you on the mend quickly!  
And I can empathize with the biting down very hard = achy jaw thing. It’s brutal, but a bit of warmth helps for me. (Tea!)

My body refuses to store iron now – ferritin iron – and they’re trying to work out why, so they put that thing down and did some biopsies from different locations.  I know they found at least one polyp but I’ll get the results of it all some point later.  Just as an FYI, my haemoglobin levels are just fine, only my ferritin iron levels, which are single digit.  My throat is getting better, but my jaw aches and it hurts to open my mouth.  That’s due to me biting down on the thing they put in my mouth to keep my mouth open, biting down very hard for some while.

Good luck, and I hope it goes quickly and as painlessly as is possible!

Good luck, and I hope it goes quickly and as painlessly as is possible!

Mmm key lime pie… 
And thanks, everyone, I appreciate it