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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I saw the most interesting things yesterday on the wall where the roses are.

The first was a baby 'possum cautiously exploring the top of the block wall behind the roses. Adult 'possums are kinda gross looking, but babies are the cutest!

Then I saw a white cabbage butterfly and yellow sulfur butterfly duking it out. They look the same except for color, but they're entirely different species. Despite that, apparently they see each other as competitors or rivals.

Then I saw a butter butt (yellow warbler) flitting thru the shrubs, and a big old fence lizard sunning himself on the wall.



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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Careful with that collapsible stuff, Brenda. Just remember you get what you pay for and sometimes products like that don't stand up well to any abuse. If this is still about the ottoman, just make sure whatever you're getting is going to be able to do what you intend it to do.

It's nice when something you bought that was a mistake ends up working out somewhere else.



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Good luck with the re-org....

I kind of never got around to finishing mine yet.

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Trying to do the math here on this thing... not perfection with the numbers, but just a guesstimate...

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At this rate, that final number will probably be around 1,200 I'm guessing, after the add-backs.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Cool is good SIX. My brain I know could never do what you are doing with numbers. My brain and numbers aren't really friends and that doesn't change no matter how hard I try.

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Cool is good SIX. My brain I know could never do what you are doing with numbers. My brain and numbers aren't really friends and that doesn't change no matter how hard I try.

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I'm good with all the basics. Enough to do taxes and balance a checkbook and keep a budget. I'm good at statistics and holding numbers in my head. But give me anything beyond basic algebra and it's all a foreign language to me.

This wasn't even really about the math, more than it was about the "feeling" of that number being right. In a way, it's about knowing myself, because so much of myself has been poured into it. I'd been working on this part of this one thing, that had the first bricks put underneath it even before I saw Firefly. But this one thing has been taking up most of my waking hours for the last week, and with no real idea what the final number could be, I was just weighing out the possibilities against the numbers I knew I had and even though I was still at least 8 or 9 hours away from being done I came up with a number that was nearly on the head.


And actually, I'm exactly at 1,200 right now. I had a little surprise in there that cost me about 2 hours to work on, but it got me 8 more add backs I wasn't expecting along the way.

I've got enough leverage on the fringes to play around with that number and make it what I want, but I'm not willing it to happen. It's just cool that with still only around 150 more things to go through I'm exactly at the number I guessed that I might be.

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Yay! for you, SIX!!!
If I had to guess, it sounds like you're creating a database- like structure using searchable filenames to allow retrieval?
That's tough, man. Of course, I could be way off, but sounds like a lot of work, whatever it is!

Hey BRENDA, sounds lije you're in reorg/ declutter mode? Good for you! I just have one ??? ... what's a TV pin?

Been mostly absent here, going balls to the wall on finding a resolution for hubby's back pain, and landscaping. The weather continues acceptable for outdoor work so I'm doing as much as my knee and Dr appt schedule permit. Been spending a heckuva amt of time pruning up the climbing roses while preserving the branches with flowers so family doesn't squawk. It's going very slowly bc four of those climbers are excessively thorny, and I have to go really slowly. I wear an overshirt to protect from the sun, and it's got a couple of good sized tears in the back from when I got tangled up, and several "picks"... and several blood spots ... It's kind of a waste of time bc I hope to replace them with other bushes later, but I've already removed about 2 70-gal bins of material and will probably remove one more before I'm done.

Well, on with the show!

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You are a head of me. I learned how to do taxes in high school but no way would I try that now. Tax rules have changed up since then. I can do banking and budgeting.

But you've seen how well I do with computers. So , no. My brain can never go there.

I also have been known to screw up my counting in mah jong.

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