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Post by soupandstew on Oct 23, 2024 19:04:47 GMT -5
Pretty much the only issues I have had w HPs are the typical nuisance problems of not picking up paper or whatever. I can't help wondering if clogged or worn print heads cause problems with the ink well printers. I have an earlier version of the HPM110w which is about $125. One of the best things about it is there is no need to periodically replace the drum. I use an inkjet for color printing and decided a long time ago not to quibble with myself about the $200 or so I spend on paper & ink. When my HP gets quirky about paper intake, I use a very slightly damp microfiber cloth to wipe off the rollers on the intake feed. Over time a bit of slick residue from the paper builds and removing it restores the rollers' tackiness so the paper feeds properly
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Post by soupandstew on Oct 23, 2024 19:28:22 GMT -5
My printer is a laser jet and is wireless. I've never had a problem with it computer and printer not talking. Black and white only. I have had the printer about 5 years. I don't use it often. Maybe 15 pages a month at most. It has over a half a tank of ink left and it's not going to dry out. I was so tired of ink jets drying out and printers refusing to work if you didn't buy brand name ink, etc. Very happy with my HP Never Stop laser printer. For no more color photos, etc., I print, I don't need to pay for that. We have an ink jet printer that we get frustrated with because we don’t use it often enough to keep the ink from drying out and the cartridges are expensive. After reading here some time ago, I asked Mister about just getting a laser printer. He said they cost a lot. I said I know they use to be expensive but do they cost a lot now? We never decided what to do, but it is an issue for me now, because I do need a printer at home when I’m working my side gig. Well, I can get around it if I have to, but it definitely makes things easier. Which I didn’t even think about until 2 days ago. And of course the ink is dried up in the printer we have. There are a couple of questions to ask yourself before you buy any printer. #1 Do you need color or only black and white? #2 Do you only need a printer or do you need to copy and scan too?(My phone has an app where I can scan a doc and email it to myself so I don't need the scan function) #3 Do you want a wireless printer so you can print from your phone or laptop or tablet? #4 How much and how often are you printing? While inkjets are notorious for drying up if not used frequently, even a color laser will dry up too without use. The color laser CG talked about is $450 or so to buy, the color cartridges for it are sold in a 4-pack for $700. My black-and-white HP laser uses a cartridge that costs about $120 and produces 5-6K copies. Tip, just because the "check cartridge, replace cartridge" light comes on, don't do it. Remove the cartridge, shake the crap out of it and reinstall. On my printer that guarantees another 100 copies or so.
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Post by Pink Cashmere on Oct 23, 2024 19:35:20 GMT -5
Mister was aggravated this morning when I got up while he was getting dressed to leave home. Today was Donuts with Dad, at Kiddo’s school, but it was scheduled for an hour before school started, which I’d never heard of and always thought it was during school hours. But it’s not like my own biological father ever did anything like that with me, or my children’s’ Dad ever did it with them, so I didn’t know for certain. My children’s’ paternal grandmother did go to their school for whatever they call the day with grandparents, and I know for sure that that was during normal school hours.
He was also disgruntled because after whenever he made it to work (late) after that, he was leaving again shortly after he arrived, to come get YD and take her to work at the job she recently started working 3 or 4 hours/day a few days/week and then he go back to work. His job is almost 30 minutes from where we live. That makes no sense to me, for several reasons.
Monday (my regular day off work) her BF brought her home that morning, just in time for her to take a shower and get dressed, for her cousin or somebody to come get her and take her to work. When she left with him the night before, I heard Mister ask her where they were going. I didn’t hear her response, but I heard him say next, don’t lie to me. So she obviously did not say that she was going somewhere to spend the night with him.
So after that and Monday morning, I thought that if her BF is really supposed to be a BF and she can spend nights with him, it is not unreasonable to think that since he has a car, he can help her get to and from work at least sometimes. I refrained from speaking on that Monday evening, because I feel like I need to be careful what I say about the teens, and if I have time to figure out how to try to say something without being overly offensive, I should.
But Mister spoke on it himself, and said the same thing I was thinking, and also said her Mom had the same thoughts and said she was gonna have to talk to YD. So it’s out there, without me being the one to bring it up.
When Mister talks about leaving work to get YD here or there, on days that I am or will be at home, I’m not sure whether is he is doing what my daughter learned to do as a teenager, telling me about a problem and knowing that I will jump in to offer help, even if it’s not asked for. But when DD and I were in a counseling session when she was a teenager, something happened that made the counselor stop me and made me aware of the pattern. It was like a (gentle and kind) smack upside my head, because it was true, even though I’d never realized it, and I have been trying to “unlearn” that behavior and stop doing that ever since.
So even though I have taken YD to school some mornings so she didn’t have to stand at the bus stop for the school bus when it was raining or really cold, and picked her up from school when she has asked me to, I am not volunteering to take her anywhere at this point, after everything that has happened. So I just listen to Mister, and am not inclined at all to volunteer to help him solve those problems, even when it would clearly be more convenient for me to do it. And most importantly, I do not feel bad about it, at all.
Because honestly, even if he or she got over themselves enough to directly ask me, I would still say no. She has said such ugly things about me, and been so rude to me and still is, that even though I still am not rude to her or interested in mistreating her in any way, I’m not going out of my way to do anything for her. I am still stuck on my belief that some conversations need to be had before I go back to being willing to do whatever I can to help. Because she is not a minor child anymore, and how I try to handle minor children is not quite the same as how I handle young adults that want to insist on what they can do as an adult, but at the same time time don’t want the responsibilities of being an adult, and try to insist on having the same privileges and treatment that they had as a minor child when that works in their favor. In my mind, you can’t have it both ways. If you want to assert your rights to the freedom of an adult that can do whatever you want, you have to deal with the flip side of that same coin, when it comes to adult responsibilities. Do something productive like going to school full time or working the equivalent, if you want people to keep helping you and if you can figure out have to get people to drive you wherever to have fun, put that same energy into getting to where you need to be on a regular basis without involving your Dad.
And I do understand that Mister leaving work almost 20 miles away, and coming to run back and forth to get her to and from places that are less than a mile from our house, is on him for doing it, even more than it is on YD for expecting him to do it.
So that is one more thing that I am just a curious bystander on. I am getting to a whole new level of minding my own business, even when people are around me are doing crazy shit that I either can’t fix if I wanted to, or it’s something that I’m learning to not even think about considering trying to fix.
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Oct 23, 2024 19:39:27 GMT -5
If anyone is curious, this is the landscape plan with the plants noted. IMG_0349 by Fl Cheesehead, on Flickr
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 23, 2024 20:02:08 GMT -5
Mister was aggravated this morning when I got up while he was getting dressed to leave home. Today was Donuts with Dad, at Kiddo’s school, but it was scheduled for an hour before school started, which I’d never heard of and always thought it was during school hours. But it’s not like my own biological father ever did anything like that with me, or my children’s’ Dad ever did it with them, so I didn’t know for certain. My children’s’ paternal grandmother did go to their school for whatever they call the day with grandparents, and I know for sure that that was during normal school hours. He was also disgruntled because after whenever he made it to work (late) after that, he was leaving again shortly after he arrived, to come get YD and take her to work at the job she recently started working 3 or 4 hours/day a few days/week and then he go back to work. His job is almost 30 minutes from where we live. That makes no sense to me, for several reasons. Monday (my regular day off work) her BF brought her home that morning, just in time for her to take a shower and get dressed, for her cousin or somebody to come get her and take her to work. When she left with him the night before, I heard Mister ask her where they were going. I didn’t hear her response, but I heard him say next, don’t lie to me. So she obviously did not say that she was going somewhere to spend the night with him. So after that and Monday morning, I thought that if her BF is really supposed to be a BF and she can spend nights with him, it is not unreasonable to think that since he has a car, he can help her get to and from work at least sometimes. I refrained from speaking on that Monday evening, because I feel like I need to be careful what I say about the teens, and if I have time to figure out how to try to say something without being overly offensive, I should. But Mister spoke on it himself, and said the same thing I was thinking, and also said her Mom had the same thoughts and said she was gonna have to talk to YD. So it’s out there, without me being the one to bring it up. When Mister talks about leaving work to get YD here or there, on days that I am or will be at home, I’m not sure whether is he is doing what my daughter learned to do as a teenager, telling me about a problem and knowing that I will jump in to offer help, even if it’s not asked for. But when DD and I were in a counseling session when she was a teenager, something happened that made the counselor stop me and made me aware of the pattern. It was like a (gentle and kind) smack upside my head, because it was true, even though I’d never realized it, and I have been trying to “unlearn” that behavior and stop doing that ever since. So even though I have taken YD to school some mornings so she didn’t have to stand at the bus stop for the school bus when it was raining or really cold, and picked her up from school when she has asked me to, I am not volunteering to take her anywhere at this point, after everything that has happened. So I just listen to Mister, and am not inclined at all to volunteer to help him solve those problems, even when it would clearly be more convenient for me to do it. And most importantly, I do not feel bad about it, at all. Because honestly, even if he or she got over themselves enough to directly ask me, I would still say no. She has said such ugly things about me, and been so rude to me and still is, that even though I still am not rude to her or interested in mistreating her in any way, I’m not going out of my way to do anything for her. I am still stuck on my belief that some conversations need to be had before I go back to being willing to do whatever I can to help. Because she is not a minor child anymore, and how I try to handle minor children is not quite the same as how I handle young adults that want to insist on what they can do as an adult, but at the same time time don’t want the responsibilities of being an adult, and try to insist on having the same privileges and treatment that they had as a minor child when that works in their favor. In my mind, you can’t have it both ways. If you want to assert your rights to the freedom of an adult that can do whatever you want, you have to deal with the flip side of that same coin, when it comes to adult responsibilities. Do something productive like going to school full time or working the equivalent, if you want people to keep helping you and if you can figure out have to get people to drive you wherever to have fun, put that same energy into getting to where you need to be on a regular basis without involving your Dad. And I do understand that Mister leaving work almost 20 miles away, and coming to run back and forth to get her to and from places that are less than a mile from our house, is on him for doing it, even more than it is on YD for expecting him to do it. So that is one more thing that I am just a curious bystander on. I am getting to a whole new level of minding my own business, even when people are around me are doing crazy shit that I either can’t fix if I wanted to, or it’s something that I’m learning to not even think about considering trying to fix. Let me get that right. So Mister drives about an hour just so his daughter does not have to walk 20 minutes to get to work? He seriously has a screw loose when it comes to his daughters and he really needs to look at what he is doing. Raising (healthy) kids is ensuring that they can exist on their own NOT "pre-chew their food for them" until you pass away
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Post by Pink Cashmere on Oct 23, 2024 20:27:02 GMT -5
We have an ink jet printer that we get frustrated with because we don’t use it often enough to keep the ink from drying out and the cartridges are expensive. After reading here some time ago, I asked Mister about just getting a laser printer. He said they cost a lot. I said I know they use to be expensive but do they cost a lot now? We never decided what to do, but it is an issue for me now, because I do need a printer at home when I’m working my side gig. Well, I can get around it if I have to, but it definitely makes things easier. Which I didn’t even think about until 2 days ago. And of course the ink is dried up in the printer we have. There are a couple of questions to ask yourself before you buy any printer. #1 Do you need color or only black and white? #2 Do you only need a printer or do you need to copy and scan too?(My phone has an app where I can scan a doc and email it to myself so I don't need the scan function) #3 Do you want a wireless printer so you can print from your phone or laptop or tablet? #4 How much and how often are you printing? While inkjets are notorious for drying up if not used frequently, even a color laser will dry up too without use. The color laser CG talked about is $450 or so to buy, the color cartridges for it are sold in a 4-pack for $700. My black-and-white HP laser uses a cartridge that costs about $120 and produces 5-6K copies. Tip, just because the "check cartridge, replace cartridge" light comes on, don't do it. Remove the cartridge, shake the crap out of it and reinstall. On my printer that guarantees another 100 copies or so. Well, first of all, I’d really prefer Mister figure all out of that and replace the printer, since it’s “his”. Especially now that I’m trying not to spend any more money than I have to. But I really appreciate the points you’ve given me to consider if I do buy one (or persuade him to replace his), so 1. I mostly print black and white, but I’m the kind of person that if I buy something, I like to buy something that has options, so I would prefer to have the ability to print something in color if I want to. In my defense, I have printed color pictures on my old printer from years ago. 2. yes, I need to be able to copy and scan, because of forms I have to fill out and return to my side gig employer, and also security forms I have to fill out and to fill out and submit to some federal agencies for clearance, background checks and such, to be able to get on the property to do my job. 3. Our current printer has wireless capabilities, and I have learned that that makes life easier when I need to print something. I can send stuff to the printer from my devices, and just go in Mister’s wanna be man cave to retrieve it after it’s done printing. So it’s not technically a “need” if I buy my own printer (Mister set up a user account for me on some of his computers and gadgets in his wanna be man cave, but I’ve never used them and would still rather not ) but I do like the option to print wirelessly. 4. When I am working my side gig, which is really only 2 months out of the year, at most, I use a home printer at least a couple times a week. The rest of the year, I can go months without needing to print anything. I learned about your tip, with the printer I use to have. Many times, shaking the shit out of the cartridge would get me back in business as far as being able to print things. I honestly haven’t tried that with Mister’s printer, but I guess I have reason to at least try it now and see what happens. Thank you so much for taking the time to lay all out for me in your post. The costs and info about laser printers make me think that they may not be the “easier” solution that I was thinking they could be. So thank you again, for your post.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Oct 23, 2024 20:28:20 GMT -5
If he wants to enable her I agree with you Pink, he can drive her.
No way should he be even hinting at the idea you should drive her.
Just wow my dad would have laughed in my face. I was a 90s latch key kid my bitch ass can walk don't call him at work unless I'm dying.
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Post by Pink Cashmere on Oct 23, 2024 21:06:25 GMT -5
Mister was aggravated this morning when I got up while he was getting dressed to leave home. Today was Donuts with Dad, at Kiddo’s school, but it was scheduled for an hour before school started, which I’d never heard of and always thought it was during school hours. But it’s not like my own biological father ever did anything like that with me, or my children’s’ Dad ever did it with them, so I didn’t know for certain. My children’s’ paternal grandmother did go to their school for whatever they call the day with grandparents, and I know for sure that that was during normal school hours. He was also disgruntled because after whenever he made it to work (late) after that, he was leaving again shortly after he arrived, to come get YD and take her to work at the job she recently started working 3 or 4 hours/day a few days/week and then he go back to work. His job is almost 30 minutes from where we live. That makes no sense to me, for several reasons. Monday (my regular day off work) her BF brought her home that morning, just in time for her to take a shower and get dressed, for her cousin or somebody to come get her and take her to work. When she left with him the night before, I heard Mister ask her where they were going. I didn’t hear her response, but I heard him say next, don’t lie to me. So she obviously did not say that she was going somewhere to spend the night with him. So after that and Monday morning, I thought that if her BF is really supposed to be a BF and she can spend nights with him, it is not unreasonable to think that since he has a car, he can help her get to and from work at least sometimes. I refrained from speaking on that Monday evening, because I feel like I need to be careful what I say about the teens, and if I have time to figure out how to try to say something without being overly offensive, I should. But Mister spoke on it himself, and said the same thing I was thinking, and also said her Mom had the same thoughts and said she was gonna have to talk to YD. So it’s out there, without me being the one to bring it up. When Mister talks about leaving work to get YD here or there, on days that I am or will be at home, I’m not sure whether is he is doing what my daughter learned to do as a teenager, telling me about a problem and knowing that I will jump in to offer help, even if it’s not asked for. But when DD and I were in a counseling session when she was a teenager, something happened that made the counselor stop me and made me aware of the pattern. It was like a (gentle and kind) smack upside my head, because it was true, even though I’d never realized it, and I have been trying to “unlearn” that behavior and stop doing that ever since. So even though I have taken YD to school some mornings so she didn’t have to stand at the bus stop for the school bus when it was raining or really cold, and picked her up from school when she has asked me to, I am not volunteering to take her anywhere at this point, after everything that has happened. So I just listen to Mister, and am not inclined at all to volunteer to help him solve those problems, even when it would clearly be more convenient for me to do it. And most importantly, I do not feel bad about it, at all. Because honestly, even if he or she got over themselves enough to directly ask me, I would still say no. She has said such ugly things about me, and been so rude to me and still is, that even though I still am not rude to her or interested in mistreating her in any way, I’m not going out of my way to do anything for her. I am still stuck on my belief that some conversations need to be had before I go back to being willing to do whatever I can to help. Because she is not a minor child anymore, and how I try to handle minor children is not quite the same as how I handle young adults that want to insist on what they can do as an adult, but at the same time time don’t want the responsibilities of being an adult, and try to insist on having the same privileges and treatment that they had as a minor child when that works in their favor. In my mind, you can’t have it both ways. If you want to assert your rights to the freedom of an adult that can do whatever you want, you have to deal with the flip side of that same coin, when it comes to adult responsibilities. Do something productive like going to school full time or working the equivalent, if you want people to keep helping you and if you can figure out have to get people to drive you wherever to have fun, put that same energy into getting to where you need to be on a regular basis without involving your Dad. And I do understand that Mister leaving work almost 20 miles away, and coming to run back and forth to get her to and from places that are less than a mile from our house, is on him for doing it, even more than it is on YD for expecting him to do it. So that is one more thing that I am just a curious bystander on. I am getting to a whole new level of minding my own business, even when people are around me are doing crazy shit that I either can’t fix if I wanted to, or it’s something that I’m learning to not even think about considering trying to fix. Let me get that right. So Mister drives about an hour just so his daughter does not have to walk 20 minutes to get to work? He seriously has a screw loose when it comes to his daughters and he really needs to look at what he is doing. Raising (healthy) kids is ensuring that they can exist on their own NOT "pre-chew their food for them" until you pass away I am trying really hard to not get my nerves too upset by thinking about stuff I have no control over, so I just “liked” your post, so you know I read it and considered it. That being said, I am still okay with you and other posters (respectfully) chiming in on the problems I talk about here, even if I do disagree with your or other posters’ opinions….. and FTR I do NOT disagree with what you wrote, and even if I did, I feel like we could have a conversation about it without being disrespectful to one another. Anyway, yes it’s true that Mister has been taking 2 or 3 hours out of his workday, to take YD to interviews and wait to take her back home, and an hour or 2 to get her back and forth to the the part time job she recently started working. I will be even more of an asshole and say that he did not regularly take time off work to tend to his parents when they were in the hospital and struggling, and I will be yet even more of an asshole and say that the day before his Dad died, he reneged on his promise to go see him that day, because of his job. I would never say that to Mister, because I know how much he still wrestles with so much stuff about his parents dying. And to try to be fair, he did take time off work when there was a real emergency with them. What I’m trying to say is that it’s a big deal for Mister to take off work to do something that needs/needed to be done for me and his parents when they were living, and I have learned to avoid even asking him to take off work if I have other options, so I don’t have to deal with him if I don’t absolutely have to, even though he has been in management for some years now, and has a little leeway with his work schedule. That is why I asked Mrs. T for a favor yesterday, instead of dealing with Mister. But he is willing to use his leeway as a manger to take days off work or leave work to do things for his daughters, so the rules are different for them, and not even the same for Kiddo, who is also his child and still a minor. Which is one of the reasons he is so upset again with Kiddo’s Mom right now, because one of the issues is that Kiddo’s Mom wants Mister to leave work and go to the school when Kiddo’s teachers call because he is misbehaving, being unruly and refusing to cooperate, when Mister works across town, and Kiddo’s Mom doesn’t work a job and his school is literally on the same street she lives on, just a block or so down the street. He has left work sometimes and gone to the school to deal with whatever the issue is, but not without being angry at Kiddo’s Mom and fussing and cussing about doing it. He doesn’t fuss and cuss about taking days off work or leaving work to do things that just make his daughters’ lives more convenient. I really only meant to say what I did in the first 2 paragraphs, but I went on and on despite my original intention. And because I’m not lying or making things up, I’m just gonna post the whole thing and not delete everything after.
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Post by Pink Cashmere on Oct 23, 2024 21:20:31 GMT -5
If he wants to enable her I agree with you Pink, he can drive her. No way should he be even hinting at the idea you should drive her. Just wow my dad would have laughed in my face. I was a 90s latch key kid my bitch ass can walk don't call him at work unless I'm dying. I can’t honestly say that he is hinting at me driving her. It is entirely possible that I even think it’s a possibility, is due to what I’ve learned about myself and my tendency to jump in and try to fix problems even when I’m not being asked to and somebody may or may not just be venting about something they have going on. That is a ME problem that I’ve been trying to correct for years, after it was brought to my attention by a counselor that I do that. I am trying to be fair to Mister, while I work on my own shit and the part I play in creating unnecessary problems for myself. So, to be honest, he talks about that stuff, the same way he fusses about other stuff that it’s obvious that I can’t do anything about to help him. So it really could be a me problem that I think he might be hoping I will offer to help with it. Especially since I’ve made myself clear about some things after the last “incident” with his daughters and how I’m not willing to just try to go back to the status quo that was really fucked up anyway, and pretend that nothing happened, without some real conversations, preferably with some counseling for them and eventually including all of us with a professional present, to try to sort some things things out.
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Post by resolution on Oct 23, 2024 21:33:22 GMT -5
Ugh every time I think I squash the trad wife videos on Facebook they pop right back up. If I am clicking on it to block it that means I DON'T want to see it not give me more! Nothing against that being your thing but #1 Let's not pretend you aren't working by making content and being an influencer. You aren't the single income home you are pretending to be. #2 It ignores the fact that through most of history having a one family income was a HUGE privilege. For most of history in lower income families everyone worked including the kids until there were child labor laws put into place. You didn't discover some magical secret that the rest of us working women are choosing to ignore because we want to pretend we are equal to men. #3 I invite you to travel back to 1950 when you couldn't divorce, have a bank account or any say legally so were stuck at home while your husband drank his paycheck away. You are presenting a fantasy of the 1950s not reality for even a lot of middle class white women. We haven't even covered lower income or minority women's lives in the 1950s. That's what disgusts me about those videos. Then when you toss in that the trad wife fad has attached itself to some of the more sinister attitudes permeating society and being proudly proclaimed by a certain party it leaves a really bad taste in my mouth. And thank you for attending my TED talk today. My niece told me yesterday that she was really excited to see a woman running for president, but her mom told her that it was against God's law and against the Bible for a woman to be in a position of authority, at home or out in the government, because God says a man always had to be in charge. I told her I would like to see a woman president too. I don't want her to get banned from coming to my house, so I told her that I wasn't going to contradict her mother or I would get in trouble, but that there are a lot of different opinions about the role of women and a lot of people believe different things. My niece said she knows that women are pastors in some churches, so clearly not everyone agrees on it.
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Post by resolution on Oct 23, 2024 21:42:46 GMT -5
We got back from our brief trip to NWPA yesterday afternoon. It was a soul satisfying autumn eye candy drive. The maples are really popping. Maples are showing very nicely here as well, but much more muted than the sugar maples further north. Most of our landscaping is done. It will look so much better once the growing season starts again. I am hoping this link works so y’all can see some before and after. Cheesy’s landscaping before and after.Wow that looks awesome!
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on Oct 23, 2024 21:53:56 GMT -5
Feeling some buyers remorse. I just spent $450 on a phone which is way more than I've ever spent on one for myself. My last phone was an S9 I paid $220 for new three years ago, but it is just shot in so many ways and I am a heavy user.
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Post by resolution on Oct 23, 2024 21:58:25 GMT -5
Feeling some buyers remorse. I just spent $450 on a phone which is way more than I've ever spent on one for myself. My last phone was an S9 I paid $220 for new three years ago, but it is just shot in so many ways and I am a heavy user. I paid $400 for a new phone last month. Unfortunately there are so many things that require phones these days that it just isn't feasible to use an older one. My old one stopped getting updates a few years ago, and one by one my apps stopped being supported, to the point where it wouldn't run half the apps that I wanted to use.
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Post by resolution on Oct 23, 2024 22:00:28 GMT -5
One thing that really pissed me off on the cruise is they replaced the daily newsletter with a QR code that you were supposed to scan with your phone. Except we didn't have internet service because we didn't buy the internet package, so we got an error when we tried to access it.
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on Oct 23, 2024 22:36:30 GMT -5
Feeling some buyers remorse. I just spent $450 on a phone which is way more than I've ever spent on one for myself. My last phone was an S9 I paid $220 for new three years ago, but it is just shot in so many ways and I am a heavy user. I paid $400 for a new phone last month. Unfortunately there are so many things that require phones these days that it just isn't feasible to use an older one. My old one stopped getting updates a few years ago, and one by one my apps stopped being supported, to the point where it wouldn't run half the apps that I wanted to use. Mine stopped getting updates two years ago, which actually hasn't been a big problem yet, but the battery is shot (I pretty much have to have it plugged in all the time), the back housing is shattered, the camera is lousy and I'm always playing "what app can I delete" when I add a new one because I'm using most of my memory. The new phone will get updates until 2030. I don't think I've ever had a phone for 6 years, so the updates should last longer than the hardware.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Oct 23, 2024 22:57:38 GMT -5
Here’s what I have to say to your SIL.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Oct 23, 2024 22:59:21 GMT -5
Feeling some buyers remorse. I just spent $450 on a phone which is way more than I've ever spent on one for myself. My last phone was an S9 I paid $220 for new three years ago, but it is just shot in so many ways and I am a heavy user. Ugh…m not sure what I paid for my current iPhone. I got it two full years ago. I’ll be annoyed if it doesn’t last at least another three years. But, I’m in the same boat you are—I am now completely dependent on it.
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Post by Pink Cashmere on Oct 23, 2024 23:31:44 GMT -5
One thing that really pissed me off on the cruise is they replaced the daily newsletter with a QR code that you were supposed to scan with your phone. Except we didn't have internet service because we didn't buy the internet package, so we got an error when we tried to access it. When I was in San Antonio, I ended up in a restaurant on the riverwalk that had QR codes on the table to scan for the menu. I had no idea how that works, so I handed my phone to my “niece” that I met in Pittsburgh this spring, and we started referring to each other as niece and Auntie (which is probably a cultural thing). She’s actually the same age as my daughter, but I like “Auntie” better” lol. I’ve “met” and chatted with her actual Mom on FT a few times, when they were chatting and her Mom wanted to tell me hello. Anyway, my new niece handled the QR code thing for me. She also came to my room the day after we got there, because I couldn’t get my tv to work the night before. It came on, but was just a blank screen even when I tried to change channels. When I pressed the guide button, it just said “Accessing….” Until I got tired of looking at it. I wasn’t paying attention to what “niece” was doing with the remote control to get the tv to work, but it did work, and she said all she did was turn it on. I swear I do know how to turn a tv on and use basic features, but whatever. I told her I wasn’t turning it back off until I went to bed that night lol. The first day we were there, we’d gone to my room for some random reason that I don’t remember (probably so I could pee lol) and when we were leaving my room, I asked for help with another problem. There was a thing right where you come in the door, meant to take the place of a closet (which the room didn’t have), and had a shelf and hangers. It also had a light that I had searched all over, looking for a way to turn it off. I knew that light was going to bug me when I went to bed. She looked and looked too and could not see how to turn the light off either. When we gave up and were walking out of my room, a housekeeper was in the hall getting some supplies off her cart to clean the room next door. Niece thought to ask her how to turn the light off, and it turned out to be a tiny button that we both had been overlooking. The next morning one of the husbands of one of the couples from here, mentioned that same light and how it drove him crazy the night before after he and his wife went to bed and when he couldn’t figure out how to turn the light off, he figured out how to find the cord and just unplug the whole thing. So yeah, it really wasn’t just me lol. Another time, Niece and I were headed to my room just to drop off the materials from the seminar, so we didn’t have to lug them around during our free time (and I probably needed to pee again lol). Somebody asked her where she was going and she said “With my Auntie” and that was it. She was behind me, and I didn’t turn around, but I most definitely grinned when she said that. I am rambling again. I gotta go to sleep goodnight y’all?
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Post by countrygirl2 on Oct 24, 2024 0:27:09 GMT -5
I ordered an HP, it said it is compatible with windows 7, we shall see. It's 3101FDW and was $259. If not I will eventually have to upgrade our old desktop computer. It is a laser printer, black and white. Hope it works, will come Friday, I sure need it to work. It will work with this Lenovo laptop I'm pretty sure.
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Post by countrygirl2 on Oct 24, 2024 0:32:06 GMT -5
It is rather cool in here, once we get blinds up and curtains it will be fine. These are 9 ft windows in here and 5 of them in the living room plus the patio doors, so even with dual panes its cool.
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Post by NastyWoman on Oct 24, 2024 0:54:47 GMT -5
I ordered an HP, it said it is compatible with windows 7, we shall see. It's 3101FDW and was $259. If not I will eventually have to upgrade our old desktop computer. It is a laser printer, black and white. Hope it works, will come Friday, I sure need it to work. It will work with this Lenovo laptop I'm pretty sure. For now, why don't you just send the letter to your son so he can print it out for you. Then you won't be under pressure when you install the new printer
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Post by countrygirl2 on Oct 24, 2024 1:55:28 GMT -5
His printer doesn't work, he said he uses it so seldom the ink is dry. And today systems were down at work. He rarely uses a printer at home. And I don't want him to print my personal stuff at work.
I have more than one item to send. It's supposed to be here Friday, I sure hope its compatible, I asked and it said it was.
I have a headache all of a sudden. I start watching some of these shows and they are just to dumb to watch, so trying another one.
Fed the babies, their food was licked dry and water was almost empty. Smoke doesn't like the fountain I bought, so ordered him exactly one like we had, he would practically drink that thing dry. Now he tries the sink and everywhere, little creature of habit.
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Post by chiver78 on Oct 24, 2024 5:12:11 GMT -5
ahh, gotta love food poisoning. I will say, though. I may have cured my lazy habit of keeping a Bertolli meal in the freezer for nights when I just don't wanna cook. 🤢 this morning has been unpleasant, to say the least.
in better news, today is Punk's 10th birthday. I'm not ready for that yet. 🥺
oh, and my mom is coming down at some point this am. she picked up a prescription for me from my dentist - anti-anxiety meds that will be needed on Tuesday when I have to get a filling replaced. the dentist office said they couldn't just call it in for me, but the office is up near my old condo. Mom said she had nothing better to do, so she would just drive down for me.
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Post by finnime on Oct 24, 2024 5:17:10 GMT -5
Good morning, puckish invisipeeps, wrestling with pertussis possibilities and printers, and prodding young adults into productive lives. Welcome to Thursday. I hope your day is filled with realized possibilities and that you enjoy a delectable snack. I hope you don't stub your toes on anything or anyone. Love that landscaping, Cheesy FL-Vol. It's so graceful. Yesterday went well. Took DD to another flu shot nurse gig, this in Newtown, where I hadn't been in many years. She just had to work in the afternoon. She is pursuing other jobs with great vigor. Two of my pieces were accepted into another exhibit in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Now I need to package them and send them off. They'll be on display for the month of November. Today we need to pack up to leave for New Hampshire tomorrow. We're going to have a spot in a Finnish tori, or marketplace, at a Finnish festival of sorts on Saturday. We'll spend Friday night in Vermont which is just a hop down the road. Need to get things sorted and in place. Yesterday's sunrise was pretty but a bit repetitious. I like this shot I got very early pre-dawn in the fog:
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Post by giramomma on Oct 24, 2024 7:15:23 GMT -5
We don't treat our kids the same. DS was responsible for getting himself to work and back. If the hours were late or weather was bad then we drove him.
We do drive DD1 go work and back. We don't have enough cars that she can drive herself all the time. However she contributes more than a half hour of effort weekly around the house without us asking.
My older two have always done their part to take the load off of us. For DS it was transportation. For DD1 its cleaning.
For us, its easy for the kids to think they are being treated differently. And we have to have that conversation.
There are other factors that explain our choices. Rigor of high school courses is one.
I realize that others can have different reasons for their choices. Not all good reasons.
And I won't lie I'm not sure how I will react when the time comes with my mom. Will I be strong enough to continue to turn the other.cheek? Dunno.
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Post by greenthumb59 on Oct 24, 2024 7:29:03 GMT -5
Ugh every time I think I squash the trad wife videos on Facebook they pop right back up. If I am clicking on it to block it that means I DON'T want to see it not give me more! Nothing against that being your thing but #1 Let's not pretend you aren't working by making content and being an influencer. You aren't the single income home you are pretending to be. #2 It ignores the fact that through most of history having a one family income was a HUGE privilege. For most of history in lower income families everyone worked including the kids until there were child labor laws put into place. You didn't discover some magical secret that the rest of us working women are choosing to ignore because we want to pretend we are equal to men. #3 I invite you to travel back to 1950 when you couldn't divorce, have a bank account or any say legally so were stuck at home while your husband drank his paycheck away. You are presenting a fantasy of the 1950s not reality for even a lot of middle class white women. We haven't even covered lower income or minority women's lives in the 1950s. That's what disgusts me about those videos. Then when you toss in that the trad wife fad has attached itself to some of the more sinister attitudes permeating society and being proudly proclaimed by a certain party it leaves a really bad taste in my mouth. And thank you for attending my TED talk today. My niece told me yesterday that she was really excited to see a woman running for president, but her mom told her that it was against God's law and against the Bible for a woman to be in a position of authority, at home or out in the government, because God says a man always had to be in charge. I told her I would like to see a woman president too. I don't want her to get banned from coming to my house, so I told her that I wasn't going to contradict her mother or I would get in trouble, but that there are a lot of different opinions about the role of women and a lot of people believe different things. My niece said she knows that women are pastors in some churches, so clearly not everyone agrees on it. I am so glad you are there for your niece. She needs you.
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Post by greenthumb59 on Oct 24, 2024 7:31:37 GMT -5
Feeling some buyers remorse. I just spent $450 on a phone which is way more than I've ever spent on one for myself. My last phone was an S9 I paid $220 for new three years ago, but it is just shot in so many ways and I am a heavy user. You need a good phone and you deserve one! I also always bought cheaper phones for myself. About a year ago I got a newer phone that wasn't as cheap. It honestly made my life so much easier in many different ways. Enjoy your new phone!
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Post by greenthumb59 on Oct 24, 2024 7:41:05 GMT -5
I have also handed my phone over to one of the sons with - what do I here? Oldest showed me the wonders of the QR code thing a couple of years ago. Like Pink's story, we were at a restaurant on Lake Austin and could only access the menu with the code. With this latest phone, he had to show me the "fancy" way of adjusting all the different volume levels for media, etc.
My DH is the only iPhone owner in our family. He wants a newer one - I am trying to talk him into a Samsung so we can be in the same club. But no ......
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Post by greenthumb59 on Oct 24, 2024 7:46:14 GMT -5
We have been out of pocket for the past couple of days helping with family stuff out of town. I have got to water my poor yard this morning. It's been just brutal this past week. Hot again and so very dry.
I had several birds hanging around my backyard bird bath yesterday. I realized it was about dry. I put an upright sprinkler next to it and left it for a few minutes. When I came back out to check it, there must have been twenty different birds flying through the sprinkler and splashing in the now full bird bath! There were even a few bluebirds. This made me happy.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Oct 24, 2024 7:55:06 GMT -5
We don't treat our kids the same. DS was responsible for getting himself to work and back. If the hours were late or weather was bad then we drove him. We do drive DD1 go work and back. We don't have enough cars that she can drive herself all the time. However she contributes more than a half hour of effort weekly around the house without us asking. My older two have always done their part to take the load off of us. For DS it was transportation. For DD1 its cleaning. For us, its easy for the kids to think they are being treated differently. And we have to have that conversation. There are other factors that explain our choices. Rigor of high school courses is one. I realize that others can have different reasons for their choices. Not all good reasons. And I won't lie I'm not sure how I will react when the time comes with my mom. Will I be strong enough to continue to turn the other.cheek? Dunno. We don't always treat the kids the same either and have various reasons for it. Fair doesn't always mean equal or the same and that's something we discuss with the kids. They are individuals and we do our best to respond to them as individuals. But if they were in their 20s, got themselves on academic probation, proceeded to drop out of school and then had the balls to expect me to drive them everywhere because they refuse to learn how to my answer would be to buy them a pair of running shoes. Before we found me a car my dad was willing to drop me off and pick me up at IWCC because it was on his sales route. However I didn't act like an entitled butthole. If I spoke to or treated my mom or Lisa like YD does Pink my dad would have been running me over with his sales van not driving me to school.
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