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

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

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UPDATED: Thursday, June 11, 2026 05:42
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Wednesday, June 10, 2026 6:06 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Those shades you put in the bathroom SIX are lovely.

Thanks Brenda.

Yeah... Those were part of my buddy's old bathroom too. They went with pretty much everything I've added or will be adding in the bathroom except for the over the toilet cabinet.

I tried washing them last night, and they looked alright, but it appears in the light that the shade that used to be in the center needs to be taken back down and I'll have to use something stronger to clean it.

Earlier on I mentioned that somebody must have left a candle burning on top of the medicine cabinet and it was burning the wood right underneath those lights. The medicine cabinet was easy to fix with about 1/3rd of a small tub of wood filler, but those lampshades didn't appear to clean up well at all with just Dawn dish soap.

I'm hoping they can be cleaned off proper. The two aren't bad, but the one I've got on the right isn't pretty. I'm hoping that the medicine cabinet kind of hides the backs of the shades and maybe it won't be a problem. But if not, I will have to do something about trying to clean it off better. I don't see any way to rotate them where you wouldn't notice it especially on the one side of the shade.

Otherwise, it worked out great.

Unfortunately, because of the heat, I didn't get much sleep at all since I did all that work. Taking the day off today.

Right now, I'm just hoping the power stays on. Almost the middle of June and we're still having wild thunderstorms.

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Wednesday, June 10, 2026 6:14 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Yeah... I might be losing power here soon, so if I'm gone you know where I went.

It's bad out there. It was 67 degrees 10 minutes ago, now it's back up to 88. The thunder is making my house vibrate.

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Wednesday, June 10, 2026 11:14 PM

BRENDA

Yeah, those lamp shades may have a lot of dust on them and that will take something stronger to get it off.

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Thursday, June 11, 2026 4:22 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Yeah, those lamp shades may have a lot of dust on them and that will take something stronger to get it off.

Yeah... Something is on it. It's beyond dust though.

It just occoured to me that they might actually be burnt. :(

I don't actually know if that's a thing that can happen to glass or not, but I think it would be more likely on these than most types of glass because they have some sort of "frosting" on them.

In my head, I've been imagining that these things were up above the medicine cabinet when it was burning, but if that fire got big enough, maybe it was actually cooking the edge of the one side of one shade and it wasn't just soot that's baked in on it.

I'll be looking into it for sure. I didn't notice it at first when the lights were turned on in the dark, but I saw it when my nightlight was plugged back in and they were turned off last night. I was hoping it wouldn't look bad in the daylight, but it does. I'm sure there's got to be some sort of solvant I can let these sit in overnight that should take it all off.

Pretty sure my main work computer is broken. I went out to my friends tonight and it's obvious the power did go out at some point. When I got home it was on some sort of error screen and I've restored an old point and it still doesn't work. I'm running diagnostics on it now.

I am really, really glad that I literally just wrapped up the end of my project just a few days ago. This would have been a major setback had it happened last week instead of last night.

I haven't tested externals or anything yet since I'll be doing that on another computer, but neither of them sounded like they were acting funny when they were powered on, so everything should still be where i need it to be. From the looks of it, worst case thing would be having to install a new hard drive, and I just happened to come into 4 of them that I didn't realize were wasting away before the dehoard.

Still a pain in the ass, but not the end of the world.

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Thursday, June 11, 2026 5:42 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Yeah... boy. Best case now is that a refresh works. I'd probably be better off with a clone of an image I made with a lot of programs set up, but that was a pretty ancient clone at this point.

I'm going to look at this like a good thing though. Now that I've got my project done, I can do a total refresh of an install on this computer and start from scratch.

It's going to be pretty annoying at first, but I know exactly where everything I would want to reinstall is now, and I'm sure a lot of the things I had on there I don't need anymore, or wouldn't for a long time, so I can focus on a lean build and make a new backup image when I'm done.

Hopefully the drive isn't bad. Won't know that for a little while.

Really fortuitous timing though. Instead of being a little tragedy, it's just a minor annoyance.

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