Your projects, what are you working on in your free time? Options

[mirocu]

Awesome!

[Decrepit]

Project: YouTube Copyright Claim dispute No.2
Status: The fat lady has sung

Checked email first thing this morning. Was greeted by the following message:

"Hi Decrepit Productions,

Good news! After reviewing your dispute, Dance all Day has decided to release their copyright claim on your YouTube video.

Video title: "Train Simulator ep16: Lenton-on-Sea, Smallbrook Coal Delivery - GWR/BR 4200 class 2-8-0T loco"

- The YouTube Team"

Two down, none to go.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: May 11 2022, 01:10 PM

[Lena Wolf]

Congrats, Decrepit!

[macole]

Project: YouTube Copyright Claim dispute No.2
Status: The fat lady has sung

Two down, none to go.

And for the second time, that's a winner!

[SubRosa]

Great news D!

[Decrepit]

Project: Daily Exercise-walks
Status: ongoing

Did today's walk during a days-long heat advisory. Temp was only in the mid 70s, but humidity was mid 90s. No wind at all. I began immediately after breakfast, around 0550, under a heavily overcast sky. The walk went well enough. I survived it, with no more than minor lightheadedness at the end.

I don't exercise tomorrow, thanks to a medical appointment and errands. I need to finish those as quick as possible, as the advisory continues for some days, and my car A/C no longer cools sufficiently during super hot temps.

[treydog]

Writing Project

Actual Progress!

Book 1- 91000 words. Waiting until I am closer to publication for finishing formatting touches and table of contents and etc.

Book 2- 122000 words (Gulp!). Same notes as Book 1.

Book 3- 92000 words, with more in manuscript (literally in a spiral notebook) awaiting conversion to text file. May well pass the 100000 word mark by the time it is drafted- I think I have an idea of everything else that needs to be written- just have to write it.

And when Book 3 is at final draft, that was my target to consider publication of Book 1. I had planned (ha! As if I EVER "plan") to wait until retirement in approximately 2 years, but that may change.

Crystal ball gazing- there will definitely be at least 2 more books; the way things are going, there will probably be even more than that.

[Decrepit]

Project: daily exercise-walks
Status: ongoing

Though I've not been reporting them here, rest unassured that I've been pounding the pavement when able (which is not always the case).

One item of non-interest: my canine nemesis is no more, or so it seems. Not too many days after my last unfortunate confrontation with the beast, not reported here, while checking the mailbox mid-afternoon, I chanced to glance toward the far end of the street. There, with light flashing, was a vehicle the size of a small moving van, ambulance, or paddy-wagon. It was too hot to hang out at the curb and see what was up, if anything. Whatever the vehicle was there for, the canine has been neither seen nor heard since.

Two days ago I extended my walk by around 1/3rd, its first increase in the three decades I've lived here. The extra distance is no issue for me, physically. However, the new path isn't ideal, exposing me to a bit more car traffic than I'm comfortable with. There are viable alternative solutions, but they have me walking with sun in my eyes right after it clears the treeline. Fried retinas is something I hope to avoid.

Heart Reading taken within two minutes of my return from today's (extended) walk: Blood Pressure 103/62, Pulse 83.

[Acadian]

Awesome numbers for right after a walk, Decrepit!

[mirocu]

New roof done!

This post has been edited by mirocu: Mar 12 2023, 03:20 PM

[Acadian]

Nice to get that roof done before winter really sets in.

[Decrepit]

Project: Established new exercise-walk schedule
Status: Narrowing it down

With the return of autumn, it's become too cold to walk soon after (0500) breakfast. (A younger me might brave it, but that fellow left the building for parts unknown.) Three days ago I tried walking at 1100, at 70ish degrees Fahrenheit. Total failure. I started feeling poorly before the halfway point. I forced myself to stick it out until the end, by which point I felt miserable, and remained so until about an hour after supper.

Next day, I bundled myself in thermal undies, t-shirt, sweat shirt/pants, heavy socks, shoes (duh!), heavy neck-wrap, military field jack, heavy gloves, light toboggan and over that a heavy toboggan, and walked at my accustomed time. This was an improvement, far from ideal.

Today, I wore thermal undies, sweat shirt/pants, light jacket, shoes/socks, baseball cap over which I sported a medium toboggan (to block the sun from hurting my eyes, I major issue during that first walk), and left the house circa 0800. This proved an acceptable compromise. I felt a tad chilled at the start, a tad too warm at the end. While it wasn't one of my best walks, I felt no okay at the end.

As the weather progressively cools, I'll of course need to adjust walk times accordingly. At some point I'll have to cease them altogether until spring. If all goes well, I'll be able to hang in there another couple of months, barring health issues like the "senior fall" that ended my walks late Oct last year.

[Acadian]

Good on ya for keeping up with the walks. The winter enemy here for me is wind. Cold and calm in the morning or less cold but windy later. I much prefer bundling up for the cold and avoiding the wind. The 20's is as cold as it ever gets here and that's rare. Usually dead of winter lows are in the low/mid 30's.

[mirocu]

I'm currently in the progress of putting up boards to cover up the space between the wall/ground.

This post has been edited by mirocu: Mar 12 2023, 03:21 PM

[mirocu]

Edit: link doesn't work.

This post has been edited by mirocu: Mar 12 2023, 03:22 PM

[Acadian]

Nicely done! That should help keep your tail feathers warm.

[mirocu]

Well, it was a fun little project and quite perfect for me


(Btw, did you see me standing in front of the door? )

This post has been edited by mirocu: Mar 12 2023, 03:22 PM

[Acadian]

... (Btw, did you see me standing in front of the door? )

I did now that you mention it! Right near the open crowdoor under the regular door.

[Decrepit]

Project: Buy and install TurboTax 2022 Deluxe Fed & State
Status: Done, but . . .

December's budget kicked in today. I could at last buy TurboTax. (If not for two Mutual Funds, which did lousy this year, I could easily fill out free paper forms on my own. Admittedly, it's good to have TurboTax do the math, and keep me abreast of any changes that might be to my benefit or detriment.) It was easy enough to purchase. Install was as simple as usual. It was what came between that threw me for a loop.

I could not for the life of me find a download button, even after following Amazon's instructions to the letter, multiple times. I finally admitted defeat and attempted to navigate Amazon's automated customer service "feature". That got me nowhere. However, the automaton finally offered an option to speak with a live representative via conventional phone. This is what I opted for.

I was called back within seconds. The rep did a good job of guiding me where I needed to be, despite one dead-end start and me making some wrong assumptions about what she said I should do. Finally, after much bungling, I clicked a link that sent me to a page with desired download button! A page I hadn't been able to find on my own. For what it's worth, the rep said that the DL process had become more complex than it once was. That's as it may be, and I certainly never had difficulty DL'ing TurboTax at Amazon before, but I can't help but suspect that increased senility played a part.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Dec 1 2022, 07:47 PM

[mirocu]

the automaton finally offered an option to speak with a live representative via conventional phone. This is what I opted for.

This in itself is a project these days. Luckily for me, when I had to call a company yesterday I only needed to choose one option and then it was straight to an operator.