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In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)

POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Sunday, April 26, 2026 22:05
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Saturday, April 25, 2026 6:01 PM

BRENDA


Quote:

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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Cool on the critter spotting. Bird wise all I see are pigeons, crows and sea gulls. Can hear robins and another bird but not sure what it is.

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Saturday, April 25, 2026 6:05 PM

BRENDA


All done for today. Groceries and I got the measurements for that collapsing storage box at Walmart. It is 15 by 15 and my card table measures 27 by 27, so I can easily get it.

Was going to get something for my nails and such then move them so I can reach them. Well, I realized that I had something I had bought at a local dollar store. It didn't fit what I wanted to do, so it will work perfectly for that.

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Sunday, April 26, 2026 1:02 AM

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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Sunday, April 26, 2026 1:06 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Still not getting much faster at what I'm doing. Part of that is because I veered off course today and to do some landscaping here and trim off the really bad parts first. Things that needed to be moved into their own spot, were rather infrequent, usually came in large batches when they did pop up, and completely derailed my momentum whenever they did.

But now that I've gone back through the normal route, there's still another annoyance that is popping up often enough to ruffle my feathers when it does, so I think it's time to veer a little off course again.

Though what I'm doing isn't ever going to go fast, I think once I take care of this other thing it will be as fast as it's ever going to get.

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Sunday, April 26, 2026 1:39 PM

BRENDA


Quote:

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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It should be able to hold up until I can think of something better. My files are going into it, so that should give it a bit more stability.

It is nice. Now, just finding the five minutes to get that done.

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Sunday, April 26, 2026 1:40 PM

BRENDA


Quiet Sunday with clean up and some music. Email I still haven't sent I really, really, really need to get to today. *fingers crossed*.

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Sunday, April 26, 2026 8:19 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Just trying to get as much done on the project as possible over here. My dad is coming for a few days next weekend and I won't be able to do anything with it while he's here. I'm going to have to mow the lawn once before that, and spend a little time cleaning up around here too. Also have to get my follow up CT soon.


My progress has picked up pace a bit, but it's still too much to be blowing through without taking time to verify things. The minute you start trusting yourself too much is the minute you let your mind stop working and you just go through the motions without your head involved. Can't be falling asleep at the wheel now.



Fortunately there seems to be just the right amount of jank here. Not enough to bring the process to a literal halt with what still needs tweaking, but just enough speedbumps along the way to keep me from mentally dozing off while I'm sorting through it all.

It's just so much... Sometimes the computer project isn't like it is in real life work. Whenever I'm getting ready for a project in real life I joke that I always seem to take 3 times longer to do the job than I thought I would going into it. It could be ten times as much with this computer stuff. This is one of those times... I thought this thing would take me 2 or maybe 3 days at most. I'm going on day 4 and I think I'm not even 1/3rd of the way through it. It's hard to tell exactly because I've been moving and removing things along the way, I forgot to look at my numbers before I started, and even though I've taken things away I've added about half that number back already, with notes to add other things back when I'm through to the end. I think it's going to take me another 2 days just to figure out how long I really think it's going to take to finish this part.


But at least it isn't shy about showing me the fruits of the labor. This is the digital equivalent of putting finishing trim on a room, so it should be. That's what's keeping me motivated right now. I don't want to delve too deeply into the mess I have yet to go through, but just at a glance the difference between what I have and haven't worked on yet is stark.

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Sunday, April 26, 2026 10:05 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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


One folder/category with exactly 300 things from 3 sub-categories...

But that data put up against many other folders, making certain that all items within which share a certain variable with the data of all the items in these 50 or so other folders are notated as such, and then making time to verify that all data is correct across each hit, or only differs when it is supposed to differ.

And the "virtual" folder I'm doing the comparisons against with the initial data started off with roughly 1,460 virtual items being pointed to it for having this variable. So far that number is down to less than 1,250 because of removals, but there have also been quite a few additions along the way with at least 50 more coming during a later step. By that time it could be 150 to 200 add-backs. Probably not that many... I'm expecting somewhere in the area of just around 100 if a little south of that. At this rate, that final number will probably be around 1,200 I'm guessing, after the add-backs.

The sheet says I'm almost 600 into my folder which was originally only 300. This gets me roughly halfway through the alphabet. That 2nd half is always pretty fun to blow through except for S and T.


I'm probably only a few hours away from halfway finished. There's still more to do after this step, but all of that should be pretty straightforward and quick. I've gotten a good deal of the easy stuff out of my way already and probably got as far as I'm going to get to streamlining the process at this point. The 2nd half should theoretically go faster than the first half has, barring any surprises.



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