Hope things are trucking along OK in your part of the globe.
Last night my wife and I attended an Elton John concert at our
Last night my wife and I attended an Elton John concert at our local stadium. The concert was loud (I am getting old!)
Hope things are trucking along OK in your part of the globe.
So far so good. A little white and windy for my liking but that's how it goes..
On 02-05-20 12:17, Avon wrote to All <=-
Hi all
Hope things are trucking along OK in your part of the globe.
Last night my wife and I attended an Elton John concert at our local stadium. The concert was loud (I am getting old!) and sadly the weather was lousy so we were drowned rats when when arrived and then the same
by the time we made it back to our car to drive home. A long day (I was
up at 6am and we got to bed around midnight) so am tired today. Last
day of work this week. Tomorrow is a public holiday and I have taken Friday off as annual leave.
It's noon Thursday and the work day is dragging a bit. Best I eat some luch and get a walk outside done before the day is done.
Used to have a deacon at a church tell me that getting old isn't for sissies. The only thing I hate about getting old is if I'm getting up
out of my chair...gotta turn up the TV to cover the sound of my bones creaking.
I've heard good things about the Elton John concerts, but never went. I know when he was in these parts, I was at the Vic Country championships.
It's noon Thursday and the work day is dragging a bit. Best I eat som luch and get a walk outside done before the day is done.
Hmm, I know you're ahead, but I thought it was only 2 hours, not a whole day! It's only 1:26PM Wednesday here. ;)
As for what's happening here, I've survived the Vic Countries activity "spike", which ended with the fire brigade competitions on Sunday. Now back in full training and trucking along well. It's a month out from my run of major competitions, which starts on March 7.
BBS wise, my system is temporarily down as I type this, as I am doing a routine backup/SD card replacement. By the time you see this message, I'll be back up and running as normal. :)
On 02-05-20 21:23, Avon wrote to Vk3jed <=-
He's back in Australia soon after the next few concerts here in New Zealand. It's his final global tour so if you wanted to see him live,
this is the one to seek out.
Hmm, I know you're ahead, but I thought it was only 2 hours, not a whole day! It's only 1:26PM Wednesday here. ;)
..and that's what happens when you go to work tired the day after a
late night watching Elton John :) Whoops..
Well pace yourself... here we have the NZ Masters Games taking place in Dunedin from 1-7th Feb. The city is buzzing with lots of competition
and athletes. Plus the Elton John concert and next week Queen are
playing here too. Yes I'm going :)
BBS wise, my system is temporarily down as I type this, as I am doing a routine backup/SD card replacement. By the time you see this message, I'll be back up and running as normal. :)
Well done, yep I've just updated Agency and NET 1 HUB to the final
build of Mystic A44, just working on the wiki and hatching out files to nodes in fsxNet connected to the Mystic file bases.
I seem to be in the middle of the next set of failures... SD Card
in the pi seems to be going now...I can still run etch on it to
image it, I can't read it off again after modifying it, and every
time you reboot the thing its dead. Of course, I can't find the
other one I have here somewhere.. So I've had to settle for
backing up what I can, and remembering to reinstall the new stuff
for the thermometer...
Aside from the that and the rest of the "interesting" times, its
all good :)
That's the thing that scares me about the Pi's. I've read from
different folks about SD card failures. I think the newer Pi's can
use an external HD, USB maybe, that is a little more workable.
Hmm I dunno, this is the only card I've ever used in it, truth be
told its probably under rated for the task too, a rather antiqu
2Gb model. I have the filesystem and some programmy stuff, but
data is written back to the file server. Currently streaming
weathercam and logging the current time,temp fairly badly. I don't
write anything to the sdcard itself. So there's system logging and
thats about it.
Hope things are trucking along OK in your part of the globe.
Last night my wife and I attended an Elton John concert at our local stadium. The concert was loud (I am getting old!) and sadly the weather was lousy so we were drowned rats when when arrived and then the same by the time we made it back to our car to drive home. A long day (I was up at 6am and we got to bed around midnight) so am tired today.
That's the thing that scares me about the Pi's.
I've read from different folks about SD card
failures. I think the newer Pi's can use an
external HD, USB maybe, that is a little more
workable.
SD cards work well for data that you write to
them like a filebase but when you use them with
data that gets written a lot (like message
bases) your going to wear that SD card out at
some point.
That's the thing that scares me about the Pi's. I've read from different folks about SD card failures. I think the newer Pi's can use an external HD, USB maybe, that is a little more workable.
Avon wrote to All <=-
Last night my wife and I attended an Elton John concert at our local stadium. The concert was loud (I am getting old!) and sadly the weather was lousy so we were drowned rats when when arrived and then the same
by the time we made it back to our car to drive home.
On 02-05-20 04:16, Al wrote to Spectre <=-
That's the thing that scares me about the Pi's. I've read from
different folks about SD card failures. I think the newer Pi's can use
an external HD, USB maybe, that is a little more workable.
On 02-06-20 00:15, Spectre wrote to Al <=-
Hmm I dunno, this is the only card I've ever used in it, truth be told
its probably under rated for the task too, a rather antiqu 2Gb model.
I have the filesystem and some programmy stuff, but data is written
back to the file server. Currently streaming weathercam and logging the current time,temp fairly
badly. I don't write anything to the sdcard itself. So there's system logging and thats about it.
and even log remotely (syslogd is good for that). :)
On 02-06-20 19:28, Spectre wrote to Vk3jed <=-
and even log remotely (syslogd is good for that). :)
Never had much joy with remote logging...
Last night my wife and I attended an Elton John concert at our local stadium. The concert was loud (I am getting old!) and sadly the weather
PalKat wrote to Avon <=-
Glad you and your wife got to see him! We always catch Billy Idol and Duran Duran anytime they come through, just an 80's thing! ;)
I saw Tears for Fears opening up for Hall and Oates last year. :)
My wife and I saw Elton John about 7 years ago when he came through out here, seeing him was a bucket list item for her and I am glad we did see him! A client of mine also went to the concert but he has connections
in this state and deep pockets so he was stage front right there...He stated that being up front was a huge mistake due to the sound. He
stated it was so loud even with ear plugs they could not enjoy it at
all. On the other hand my wife and I were in the mid range section not far and not too close, our seats were just right! LOL
His concert was great and he came back out for a couple encores!
Glad you and your wife got to see him! We always catch Billy Idol and Duran Duran anytime they come through, just an 80's thing! ;)
Are we dating our selves with these "retro" bands/artist? LOL
On 06 Feb 2020 at 11:41a, PalKat pondered and said...
My wife and I saw Elton John about 7 years ago when he came through out
here, seeing him was a bucket list item for her and I am glad we did see
him! A client of mine also went to the concert but he has connections
in this state and deep pockets so he was stage front right there...He
stated that being up front was a huge mistake due to the sound. He
stated it was so loud even with ear plugs they could not enjoy it at
all. On the other hand my wife and I were in the mid range section not
far and not too close, our seats were just right! LOL
His concert was great and he came back out for a couple encores!
Glad you and your wife got to see him! We always catch Billy Idol and
Duran Duran anytime they come through, just an 80's thing! ;)
It was the loudest concert I had been to and I have seen him once
already. I
am not sure if the high volume was intentional but assume it must have been.
I was about 1/3 of the way back up on one side of the stadium, quite
high but
not right up close to the roof or anything (it's a covered stadium)
He and his band were slick, they seemed to race though a few songs and
give
them an almost rock/jazz treatment to some. So for those of us with a studio
version of a song in your head we didn't get that at the concert...
making it
a little harder to sing along to at times.
Billy Idol has been through NZ in the last few weeks but I didn't get
to him
and I have never seen Duran Duran live but would love to. I understand Simon
LeBon has issues with his voice now :(
Loud? You want to talk loud? I saw Motorhead ten years ago and I still haven't fully recovered. :)
On 08 Feb 2020 at 09:28a, Joacim Melin pondered and said...
Loud? You want to talk loud? I saw Motorhead ten years ago and I still
haven't fully recovered. :)
More so the reason I had my fingers in my ears for quite a bit of the concert
I went to :) I want to still hear well after all the music dies down
:)
Loud? You want to talk loud? I saw Motorhead ten years ago and I still haven't fully recovered. :)
Oh, it's not just the hearing. I had ear protectors throughout the entire gig but I think my internal organs took a beating as well.
Avon wrote to Joacim Melin <=-
More so the reason I had my fingers in my ears for quite a bit of the concert I went to :) I want to still hear well after all the music dies down :)
Loud? You want to talk loud? I saw Motorhead ten years ago and I sti haven't fully recovered. :)More so the reason I had my fingers in my ears for quite a bit of the concert I went to :) I want to still hear well after all the music dies down :)
Oh, it's not just the hearing. I had ear protectors throughout the
entire gig but I think my internal organs took a beating as well.
I've started wearing foam earplugs at concerts, but the damage has
already been done. I hate the muffled sound, usually take them out for
one song.
I've noticed that some venues in San Francisco give away cheap little single packs of earplugs now.
What I *really* need are earplugs that eliminate the sound of the idiots yelling at each other behind me trying to carry on an inane conversation.
Texas at the time to make some extra money. Will never forget the stage mgr telling the concert before was with Joan Jett. He walked around with ear plugs & she gave him a dirty look.
He clearly didn't like Rock and Roll, didn't put another dime in the jukebox baby, nor did he pass go but went straight to jail :)
Being this was his job...he didn't care what it was...just that the
place was in 1 piece when it was done & no complaints of being seated behind beams & such. From his reaction...they could've done Hair or Oh Calcutta there & he would've been back in his office doing whatever it was.
sounds like he was not loving his job... I bet there would have been a
few that would have loved to have done that kind of work. But the hours would bark.
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