Wow I ordered a 1TB drive on Sunday morning and it arrived at my door before 10.30am on Tuesday. I'm impressed as it came from
the other end of the
country and the job wasn't processed by someone until Monday.
Wow I ordered a 1TB drive on Sunday morning and it arrived at my door before 10.30am on Tuesday. I'm impressed as it came from
Lucky you.
I ordered something a week ago - that was shipped to me 9km away. It's currently sitting Sydney (910km away), with an esitimated delivery in 7 days time...
Not happy Jan...
Yeah that's pretty poor in this day and age. I guess you won't be using them again.
I ordered something a week ago - that was shipped to me 9km away. It's currently sitting Sydney (910km away), with an esitimated delivery in 7 days time...
That said, 910km is not close. Is that really the closest hub to you, or is your package just going on a trip to see the
sights?
That said, 910km is not close. Is that really the closest hub to you, or is your package just going on a trip to see the sights?
Honestly I'm surprised it took till tuesday. given how small NZ is you could easily (and affordably too) just airmail it from where it came
from to Christchurch or whatever and have it on your doorstep same day
or next day.
Well I'd like to say that my package is going on a sight seeing holiday
- and I would be jealous, since we have been in "lockdown" (cannot leave your house bar an 1hr a day for exercise or to get food) for 4 weeks (or
6 - its all a blurr now), and for the best part of 4 months (might be 6, again all a blurr now).
But the reason is our postal service has been affected by this virus and
(Houston Tx) across state lines to say Louisiana, and then back to Houston. It's amazing they managed to stay in business.
One thing I've been amazed with in logistics is how efficient it can be when you can cram a lot of things into one container.
At which point the inefficiencies mostly come up when you can't pack very much in a container, because there's not that much to send.
On 09-16-20 11:50, Adept wrote to alterego <=-
Well I'd like to say that my package is going on a sight seeing holiday
- and I would be jealous, since we have been in "lockdown" (cannot leave your house bar an 1hr a day for exercise or to get food) for 4 weeks (or
6 - its all a blurr now), and for the best part of 4 months (might be 6, again all a blurr now).
Huh. That seems more intense than the restrictions elsewhere. Probably reasonable, though.
Though now I'm in actual quarantine, where I'm not allowed to go
outside until I get the all clear (which is waiting on me getting my negative test results in the mail), and boy is it draining to not be
able to go for a walk.
But, hey, at least my sleep schedule is getting _close_ to where I want
it for the time zone.
But the reason is our postal service has been affected by this virus and
Ah, yeah, okay. I suppose it does make sense, and is fairly reasonable
for such issues to pop up. Can't really expect miracles, and thankfully the mail is still going, etc.
Those restrictions have brought the new caseload from 600-700/day down to 40/day in 6 weeks. I'm less than 150km away from alterego, but
GPS couldn't track it, and it was slow going, and speed took a hit on
the tight corners. :D
On 09-17-20 16:26, Adept wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Those restrictions have brought the new caseload from 600-700/day down to 40/day in 6 weeks. I'm less than 150km away from alterego, but
Yeah, I'm not saying they're a bad idea; just that it seems more restrictive than elsewhere. Largely because elsewhere people are much
more persuaded by people's hardships, even though it's an open question
on what the best way is to lessen those hardships.
GPS couldn't track it, and it was slow going, and speed took a hit on
the tight corners. :D
Hah! Too bad for RunKeeper (or whatever you used), though a pedometer
on your wrist should've been fine.
My Fitbit numbers have not been good once I arrived at my current
place. I did some yoga today, as I think that's going to be the most-reasonable exercise for me if I can't get out of this quarantine
any faster.
And sheesh it's annoying to have gotten a call 5 days ago saying I had
a negative test result, and still be unable to prove it to anyone.
I do kinda worry that it's lost in the mail, wasn't delivered because I didn't have my name on the box on Monday, etc., but I don't know. Worst case is that I have about 6 days left of this, so not _that_ bad,
but...
Quarantine is not easy, especially when there's no reason for it.
Well, maybe that doesn't impact the ease all that much, but I'd
certainly feel more of a need to follow it if I had symptoms. But I'd rather not risk irritating the German government.
Wrist has a lot of inaccuracy, hips or small of the back are better
places for pedometers.
Yoga is always a good choice., given that it will help with mindfulness, as well as the physical fitness.
What's got lost in the mail?
Asymtomatic people can and do spread the virus.
Yeah, though wrist is easier to just keep on, I think. I used waist-band-or-bra-mounted Fitbits back from when the Fitbit was a new thing (And not in any immediate danger of being owned by Google), and
they were also fine.
I really enjoyed that device as it also had a built in altimeter, so it also counted how many stairs you did in a day.
disturbing your partner. Unfortunately that FitBit took a trip through the washing machine.
for about the first 4 or 5 months, but a firmware update brought that
down to about once every 3 weeks. It now sits in a drawer as nothing
was worse than coming home from a ~15,000 step hike to find your FitBit
Now I just use the Apple Watch and carry my phone with me when on the plant floor as it also counts my steps.
Now I just use the Apple Watch and carry my phone with me when on the plant floor as it also counts my steps.
So, wait, to be precise, you normally _do_ wear a wrist-based pedometer (of sorts), but you still take it off when you're on the plant floor?
Adept wrote to Vk3jed <=-
But, realistically, I don't care all that much. It's a neat gadget that tells me something. I also have the first Fitbit Aria, which is a wifi-connect scale with a variety of issues. I don't know that it's especially more useful than a regular scale, but it can make for some
nice charts.
Yeah - I haven't done mindfulness meditation, but the warmups and cooldowns for yoga that I've done do seem kind of like what I think
it'd be. It's occasionally nice to practice a certain style of
breathing when feeling too wound up.
My Aria died after a couple of years, and when I took it apart to see
if I could fix it, I was amazed at how shoddy the hardware was.
The new scale uses Bluetooth to talk to your phone, and measures BMI.
Not sure how that works since the app tracks fat %.
I've done meditation for close to a year, daily. 5-10 minutes in the
morning can provide increased focus and peace of mind.
np: Nine Inch Nails, "The Fragile"
Yup, once that FitBit Zip went into the drawer I just deleted the FitBit app & went all-in with an Apple Watch. So now I normally use the Apple
My Aria died after a couple of years, and when I took it apart to see
if I could fix it, I was amazed at how shoddy the hardware was.
I bought a cheap, "dumb" scale, and enter my weight manually. I do
wish I could track fat percentage, though.
On 09-18-20 17:34, Adept wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Yeah, though wrist is easier to just keep on, I think. I used waist-band-or-bra-mounted Fitbits back from when the Fitbit was a new thing (And not in any immediate danger of being owned by Google), and
they were also fine.
But, realistically, I don't care all that much. It's a neat gadget that tells me something. I also have the first Fitbit Aria, which is a wifi-connect scale with a variety of issues. I don't know that it's especially more useful than a regular scale, but it can make for some
nice charts.
Yoga is always a good choice., given that it will help with mindfulness, as well as the physical fitness.
Yeah - I haven't done mindfulness meditation, but the warmups and cooldowns for yoga that I've done do seem kind of like what I think
it'd be. It's occasionally nice to practice a certain style of
breathing when feeling too wound up.
What's got lost in the mail?
My negative test result. They informed me over the phone that I tested negative on the COVID test, and generally with a negative test result
one can be released from quarantine a bit sooner.
Asymtomatic people can and do spread the virus.
Sure. However, I'm a) asymptomatic b) have tested negative c) have been fairly isolated d) have been good on mask wearing e) had a nearly empty international flight.
The flight _in_ Germany might've been more of a risk, and obviously
it's impossible to know much of anything for sure when we're talking
about something invisible.
But at some point there's not much difference between me and anyone
else living in Germany, and I think I'm already past that point.
On 09-18-20 14:40, Warpslide wrote to Adept <=-
It was supposed to last (up to) six months on one battery, which it did for about the first 4 or 5 months, but a firmware update brought that
down to about once every 3 weeks. It now sits in a drawer as nothing
was worse than coming home from a ~15,000 step hike to find your FitBit died sometime during the day.
Now I just use the Apple Watch and carry my phone with me when on the plant floor as it also counts my steps.
Jay
... I'm close friends with 25 letters of the alphabet, I don't know y
On 09-18-20 16:32, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Adept <=-
I bought a cheap, "dumb" scale, and enter my weight manually. I do
wish I could track fat percentage, though.
The new scale uses Bluetooth to talk to your phone, and measures BMI.
Not sure how that works since the app tracks fat %.
I've done meditation for close to a year, daily. 5-10 minutes in the
morning can provide increased focus and peace of mind.
Coffee, then meditation, then plan my day.
I actively do not want a smart watch (well, one that is any more distracting than a Fitbit)
as my clothing does not reliably have appropriate pockets for hauling a phone around.
But I know there are some other fitness devices out there. I'll likely just not spend too much time considering them until I am forced to.
I did find another issue with wrist mounted pedometers - watch your step count go up if you're doing a lot of digging, hammering or similar
manual work, or shaking, or... let's not go there. ;)
Oh, OK. We don't get them in the mail here. We get negative by text message and positive will result in a phone call from the contact
tracers fairly quickly.
There are some pros and cons I have found. One thing I LOVE about the watch is Apple Pay. I can double click the side button and my debit
card is ready to be tapped. Here in Canada it seems that each and every
I've never understood that about women's clothing. Why can men have
cargo pants with way too many pockets but women have pants with pockets only big enough to hold one quarter?
Adept wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
But all my complaining aside, I brought the scale with me to Germany,
so clearly I thought it had enough value to justify the space.
Warpslide wrote to Adept <=-
There still seems to be this "if someone looks at their watch, they
have somewhere else to be" mindset, so I have to assure whoever I was talking to at work that - "No, I just had to dismiss a call".
That's a whole different value system! As opposed to Marie Kondo
asking if something brings joy, "Does the joy this item bring merit
transporting its mass with me?"
Though I'd kind of like to mess around with NFC more. But I don't really know what random application I could do with it.
Yeah. Moving is a pretty effective way for figuring out how to reduce the amount of stuff one owns. Moving with a few suitcases does limit things pretty effectively.
I do have a decent amount in storage, but, eh, I have only a little at this point, that I'd probably qualify under the Marie Kondo method, even if I've never quite gotten the, "brings joy" metric.
On 09-19-20 18:52, Adept wrote to Vk3jed <=-
I did find another issue with wrist mounted pedometers - watch your step count go up if you're doing a lot of digging, hammering or similar
manual work, or shaking, or... let's not go there. ;)
I mean, it doesn't really seem like a bad thing to have the pedometer
go up when you're doing manual labor.
Now, going up while you're in a car or something...
Oh, OK. We don't get them in the mail here. We get negative by text message and positive will result in a phone call from the contact
tracers fairly quickly.
That seems reasonable. And I did get a phone call for my negative test
-- I'm just sad that they didn't get my e-mail and send me some
document that way. Since that'd get me out of quarantine.
But, eh, only four more days to go, regardless, and then I can go
outside.
Yeah. Moving is a pretty effective way for figuring out how to reduce amount of stuff one owns. Moving with a few suitcases does limit thin pretty effectively.
I so wish that were the case with my family of hoarders.
How is the new country, place you're living, compared to the US? I've
know how Germany is going? Is the beer better? I hear it is :)
posts as well as I used to as it seems there are 100 new per day. I
Underminer wrote to Adept <=-
Though I'd kind of like to mess around with NFC more. But I don't really know what random application I could do with it.
Unlocking things comes to mind. I was thinking of trying to rig an rfid reader to a gun safe for convenience, maybe adding nfc would be cool.
Adept wrote to The Godfather <=-
I'm sure I could describe a variety of things (like can/bottle
deposits, where it's pretty normal to actually get the deposit back, because there's return things in every store, as opposed to, e.g., California, where there might be one for every million or two in population), but I don't really know what'd be interesting.
So far as I understand, that's not a beer, so far as German law is concerned.
That's how it was when I was growing up, both for those old-school
refillable soda bottles and for aluminum cans. It sure beat having to
find a recycling center, and they're closing down around here. I
guess it's a deposit tax now.
I like my beer to be beer-flavored.
I so wish that were the case with my family of hoarders.
Hah! Yeah, I suppose the amount of stuff my brother has is still quite a lot, as he just paid to have movers move the bulk of it, and use as big
a vehicle as necessary.
Oh, it's not a whole lot different, as of yet, as I'm _still_ stuck in quarantine, thus haven't seen the outside world aside from through a window or at the mailbox as a futily check for a letter that would free
me a few days early.
But the only beer I've actively liked was a Strawberry-Rhubarb beer that was a seasonal thing in Wisconsin.
Unrelated to any of that, I do look forward to going to a
Weihnachtmarkt, but am wondering how COVID19 will impact that.
It might be that I don't really get to experience much of the area until after the pandemic has quieted.
Yeah, it has seemed to be on the upswing, of late. I think the "Why are you here?" discussion caused a lot of messages.
count go up if you're doing a lot of digging, hammering or similar
manual work, or shaking, or... let's not go there. ;)
Yeah. Moving is a pretty effective way for figuring out how to reduce the amount of stuff one owns. Moving with a few suitcases does limit things pretty effectively.
That's how it was when I was growing up, both for those old-school refillable soda bottles and for aluminum cans. It sure beat having to
drink beer much .. I can understand not knowing. I've always heard
that Germany has the best beer .. I'm curious to know why? I too think
Uhg. When my mom died, we downsized by over 1,000sqft. My wife would
not get rid of anything. For 2 years our garage was packed wall to wall
everything. I now have a functional garage. It's hard to let go of stuff, but I like being a minimalist; clutter makes me anxious.
every section. I'm curious, what is the lock down like where you are compared to the states? Can you go to the grocery store? Go to a
park? etc..?
trash. Where does your roommate put each of these seperated items when complete? Hopefully in some form of bag and disposed of? That would
that Germany has the best beer .. I'm curious to know why? I too think
explore. Can you at least go to the country side and see the land?
there were 32 new FSXnet_gen emails to sift through. I almost missed
your and Ogg's reply to me!! lol!
I hope all goes well for you there.
Interestingly enough those Deutches have a reputation for all sorts of ìalcohol... Beer, Cider, Schnapps... once upon a time I suspect they
were all ìregional.. At heart greater germany is made up of four reasonably distinct ìareas/groups... Ich glaubst der Bayern ist der Ort fur beer und Cider... ìthe rest I don't know so much about.
I know my parents have struggled through the years, since generally one parent found it fairly easy to find things of the other parent that
wasn't particularly useful, but finding things of their own was harder.
Heck, I even tried encouraging them to get rid of VHS tapes because they said they didn't have a working VCR, but the solution wound up being
doing some tech support that got their VCR setup again.
I even tried to get rid of some of my childhood stuff at their place,
but was overruled by a parent.
So far as I understand, it's that people have to wear masks indoors and
on transportation vehicles, and are generally fairly good about it.
But pretty well no one has a mask on outside.
But I don't really know yet, at least from actual experience, other than looking out the window and at the airport.
Me in person, though, I'm under a legal quarantine, and while I doubt the penalties would be severe for me, under the assumption that I am not infected, it's still not legal for me to go outside. Technically, I'm supposed to limit my exposure to the common areas, too.
Glass bottles without a deposit are also separated out, as you have to take those to special drop off places (generally one in every neighborhood) where you put the bottle in according to color.
But I suppose I still question what goes in "other recycleables" versus "trash". But I haven't read enough to have lots of confidence on the issue, unlike recycling in the US where half of what people recycle
should be thrown away directly, and much of the rest thrown away because there's no market for it.
Hah! I'm glad I added the, "check for messages to you" bit as part of my login process.
The Godfather wrote to Adept <=-
Uhg. When my mom died, we downsized by over 1,000sqft. My wife would
not get rid of anything. For 2 years our garage was packed wall to wall
to ceiling. I finally just started having garage sales and donating everything. I now have a functional garage. It's hard to let go of stuff, but I like being a minimalist; clutter makes me anxious.
My wife and I paid an organizer to come in and help with our garage,
which was a 2-car garage FULL of stuff. Couldn't find a thing.
We dragged *everything* out into the driveway with her and a helper,
then we had to justify bringing it back in to her.
We're about to do the same thing in our new house, we need to
sheetrock our storage area and fix some rodent issues.
alcohol... Beer, Cider, Schnapps... once upon a time I suspect they
were all regional..
Especially when you move into a smaller location. My last move saw
me get out of a 3br house with double garage into a 2br unit with
no garage at all... whee so much stuff just had to go...
You'd be supprised how much stuff can be stuffed into all sorts of
places!
On 09-20-20 07:59, Spectre wrote to Vk3jed <=-
count go up if you're doing a lot of digging, hammering or similar
manual work, or shaking, or... let's not go there. ;)
So not so good for someone with Parkinson's... :P
thought that if I haven't used and or worn it in a year, I probably
computer parts. I always think I'll combine them into one machine at
some point -- then never do.
won't get rid of the Disney tapes she had bought for our first child, used, at a garage sale. Of course, I'm like, umm .. we have Disney+?
just say she liked to begin but never commit to collecting things:
stamps, beanie babies, etc... She did eventually let me sell it all on
bother too bad as I realize not everyone is weird like me -- I like countertops free of clutter, everything organized, like walking into a freshly turned hotel room. Most I suppose aren't quite that particular.
room. It's been a battle; and he doesn't go for the entire donate
idea at the moment, unless it's a happy meal toy.
How long is your legal quarantine? And is it the case with anyone who travels or moves there from another country?
trees ... so Fresh Thyme at least has a place to recycle the plastic
bags which is nice, but yet one more step within a persons week. But
totally cool; but I figured it was just one more hurdle for them to get
to the game menu from login. I've been trying to speed up that process while still allowing peeps to see what I've changed, as I'm always
adding new ANSi or scripts.
I left out wine too... white in particular I think... where else would Rhein Riesling come from :)
The Godfather wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
What type of rodent problem are you having? We had mice, and after a
few people came to check it out, it turned out to be a small hole at
the bottom of the siding by the sill plate of the foundation. We
stuffed it with steel wool, per their recommendation, and the mice are
no longer an issue.
You'd be supprised how much stuff can be stuffed into all
sorts of places!
Yes but we're not going there.....
avoid. But I imagine their Riesling is good. My wife loves it, I'll
have to find Rhein Riesling at our liquor store for her (?) if
My wife is a wine drinker; all wine gives me heart burn so have to
avoid. But I imagine their Riesling is good. My wife loves it, I'll
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