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Blog
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Today’s accomplishment — iPod brought back to life!
For Christmas, Amy and Evan received iPods. About three weeks ago, Evan’s iPod was in his coat pocket when the coat went through the washing machine. Fortunately it was discovered before going through the dryer. I immediately pried the case open (it is held together with a glue strip) and removed the screws holding the mother board in to lift it for slightly for drying. I grabbed a Tupperware container and put the open device in it, covered with a papertowel, then poured two pounds of rice into the container. Next I went to Amazon to order five new adhesive strip stickers
. Today I applied the adhesive strips, replaced all the screws, and snapped the screen back onto the iPod and it started right up! Knock on wood, it appears to be performing as new!
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Today marks a new chapter
I’m turning over a new leaf. Today I walked to lunch. I return to daily exercise, getting things done, and a positive attitude. The future is bright. Good things are happening.
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Last week was a fog
So last week, I worked in the yard Sunday and felt my allergies kicking in…so I thought. Went to work Monday but was so ill that by the end of the day I’d left a couple of hours early. Tuesday I was home asleep except for that trip to the doctor’s office. My doctor confirmed…allergies. I think she was wrong. An attempt at work Wednesday failed half way through the day. Then Thursday I was home caring for sick family members. Friday was a half a day of work before returning home for sick family members. It was a rough week.
In all, we had a confirmed virus, three cases of Flu B, strep throat, and two bad coughs all in the same week.
It’s Tuesday and I’m still drained but finally work is starting to flow and items are falling off my to do list rapidly. Things are looking up!
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Date night
We are fortunate in that the grandparents are very involved in our children’s lives. They typically take them on Saturday nights to spend time which leaves Cathy and I Saturday nights for quality time and blueberries. Our 22 year old typically spends Saturday playing MMORPGs. Sometimes it is easy to forget he is in the house. So…Awkward? Loudly declaring, "More handjobs!"
Funny! Realizing everyone on his voice chat probably heard it.Context? Cathy complaining that she isn’t strong enough to squeeze the foil cutter enough to open the bottle of wine.
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Query of queries reports runtime error
So are you pulling your hair out because your query of queries is returning an error "Query Of Queries runtime error."? The solution is rather simple. In your query that is feeding your QoQ, you probably have a column that is of datatype nchar. Cast that to a varchar and life will be good. Do the cast in the source query not the QoQ. eg. "CAST(foo AS varchar) AS bar" You’re welcome.
p.s. Yes, you can cast it to the same column name eg. "CAST(foo as varchar) AS bar" Case doesn’t matter.
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jqGrid so powerful!
I am loving working with jqGrid. My latest discovery is the ease at which elements on the grid can be changed. For instance, if you want to change the default "View 1 – 10 of 98" you can do it in either the language file or simply by adding a parameter to the grid:
recordtext: "View {0} – {1} of {2} addwhateveryourwant",
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From the mouths of babes
Me: "Noah, do you want to go to your aunt’s wedding?"
Noah, 16: "Uh, I don’t think so."
Me: "Ok. You’ll miss out on going to King’s Island."
Noah: "Why King’s Island?"
Me: "They live there."
Noah: "They do?"
Me: "Yes. You’ve been there."
Noah: "Once!"Dad fail! Perhaps I have been a bit remiss in traveling my children. I’m thinking it’s time to plan a vacation.
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Go away
That music you hear coming out of my nostrils means I’m playing my music into my ears very loudly to not hear you.
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From the mouths of babes
Evan, 7 years old: “Daddy, why do you have spots all over you?”
Me: “Because your grandmother knew it was time to leave the beach when your uncle and I turned red.” -
Metholopy
"Yo I been out there all night slangin’ crystal. Don’t pass Go bitch."
[Source, Methopoly lets you play Breaking Bad at home without ruining your entire life]
