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Title: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: thelufias on June 19, 2020, 01:19:56 PM
AND THE WINNER IS:

(https://fontmeme.com/permalink/200625/b08c8b7ab2dc4581f1ff49cab436cfb5.png)

Time to see what McGranpa's new computer will officially be called.....

McG thanks all that took the time to come up with so many great names.

Of course the final say on the name will be McG's, but this will be a great starting place for him....and who knows...he might actually like one of our suggestions  :iminnocent:

You have TWO (2) Votes Each.....We'll let this run until Monday, June 22.....

Have fun votiing and don't forget your  :ichz: :i-voted: :donated:
:perverted: :voted: :i-voted3: :myvote: :AEN01: signs.....
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Aelin on June 19, 2020, 01:27:22 PM
(http://www.thefantasiesattic.net/attic/Smileys/default/perverted.gif)
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: thelufias on June 19, 2020, 01:36:24 PM
:java: :donated: :java:
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on June 19, 2020, 01:55:29 PM
I guess I get to vote too!  LOL!   :i-voted: so I did!   :coffeemaker: :tearlaugh:
There are some great suggestions in that list!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Radkres on June 19, 2020, 02:49:58 PM
 :iminnocent: :i-voted:
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: deeleelaw57 on June 19, 2020, 03:32:07 PM
(http://www.thefantasiesattic.net/attic/Smileys/default/voted.gif) and my computer wept and said to me ' you never gave me a name'. So I named it bye bye because it will be gone before years end.
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: CalieVee on June 19, 2020, 03:53:33 PM
 :myvote:
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on June 19, 2020, 03:59:14 PM
(http://www.thefantasiesattic.net/attic/Smileys/default/voted.gif) and my computer wept and said to me ' you never gave me a name'. So I named it bye bye because it will be gone before years end.
Awww!  Poor widdle ting!   Bless its litte, er, CPU!       

My old "core 3" are in suspended animation for now.    I left the ram and CPU and fan on it, tucked it into the mobos original box and will keep it to make another smaller box like for the living room or kitchen.   (shrugs) 

this new rig is NOT slow nor is it SMALL!    I got to lay down now, but I don't want to!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: FrahHawk on June 19, 2020, 06:18:54 PM
:#1:  :i-voted: :perverted:  :#1:
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Agent0013 on June 19, 2020, 08:36:13 PM
 :myvote:
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Jherrith on June 19, 2020, 08:47:03 PM
"ehem" It made that sound again.
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Wizzard on June 19, 2020, 10:05:39 PM
Was it a squeek? or a pop?
Choice made and logged. heh heh heh

Good luck Mc-G
Cheers
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on June 20, 2020, 04:13:35 AM
Oh oh, can't help it!    :woohoo: :coffeemaker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUQiUFZ5RDw
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on June 20, 2020, 08:25:40 AM
eh?  HUH!?  What sound J?!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: grange on June 20, 2020, 10:47:56 AM
I know I have some nerve  :yeow:  but nonetheless I :voted:
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on June 20, 2020, 12:22:51 PM
Nerve not needed!   Welcome!  :)
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on June 20, 2020, 02:49:55 PM
Hey guys, when do we know when and what its name is?!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Jherrith on June 20, 2020, 03:43:36 PM
Monday the 22nd

It sounded something like this ... :whack:
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on June 20, 2020, 05:28:45 PM
LOL!   thanks!

Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Agent0013 on June 21, 2020, 09:55:45 AM
I know I have some nerve  :yeow:  but nonetheless I :voted:
Been missing you man. Good to know you're still kickin' it. LOL
Have not seen you posting at PFD for a while. Would love having a visit.
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: thelufias on June 21, 2020, 10:02:24 AM
I agree with Agent...good to see you out and about.....

Any visit is a good visit Grange....thanks for Voting.....

Mc-G....I'm thinking you kinda know what the favorite name choice is at the moment.  Don't see much changing before Monday.....but one never knows....
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on June 21, 2020, 08:13:04 PM
I hear ya TL,  same here.    I really like that one too!  Want it to stick?  As Captain Picard says: "Make It SO!"   :woohoo: :coffeemaker:
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on June 21, 2020, 08:15:44 PM
Ooh!  It TOOK!   When I restart, it shall be named "BadMoonRYZEN" !!!   The name thang don't like spaces.
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: MilosGulan on June 22, 2020, 07:13:02 AM
Sounds good, I have voted too :woohoo:
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on June 22, 2020, 08:54:09 AM
Ok today's the day!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Wizzard on June 22, 2020, 10:59:31 AM
*Fanfare for the modern man*
The envelope please,..... and the winner is..................


8 )
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on June 22, 2020, 11:59:09 AM
 :nopanic; :OMFG: :lostme: :crazy:
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on June 22, 2020, 04:07:04 PM
Well I wuz waiting for TL or Jherrith to hop in and say "It's OFFICIAL!", but TL is konked out by now and J is likely cruzing on his anime shows. 

So, guess it's up to us!
IT's official, the voters have spoken!   The one name with the mostest votes is: -    BadMoonRYZEN!   


And So It Is Entered as the Name of this pc to Windows 10 and the World!   :woohoo: :coffeemaker: 
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Wizzard on June 22, 2020, 04:34:03 PM
Good stuff Mc-G, as long as you're happy that's what counts.
8 )     Cheers
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Jherrith on June 22, 2020, 06:26:54 PM
Congratulations

or is that Count Dracula

I was out trying to purchase my first handgun.

Boy, howdy did I ever hit so many snags

Details will be in my work entertainment post later.

Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Wizzard on June 22, 2020, 08:31:41 PM
Gotta chuckle Jherr, try purchasing a black powder replica kit. like..... say.... a .78 calibre Tower pistol. Fun enow, but then it's the flint and powder. 8 )
Walther's a good choice. Good luck.
Cheers
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on June 22, 2020, 10:55:00 PM
Hey folks, thanks to everyone for the help naming my new pc!   BadMoonRYZEN loves ya!
J, just reloaded the Onsen Fairy 01 scene for the first time since you and I were testing out various sets and plants, like the DinoRaul trees that bogged down my rig.  There are three DR trees in this, and several 1971s items, plus the V4 and Thorne's Seasons outfit, the Onsen and a few Thorne Psyche props like the lilly pads and flowers.  Lots of stuff.At 11:34 pm I clicked Render In Background in PP 11.3   I think it took several hours to do on the old rig.  And it ran hot the entire time. 
When it is done, I will post the 5000 x 3000 render if its file size is small enough.   And, good bad or ugly this one is YOURS Denizens of Fantasy Attic.   So Sayeth McG.!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on June 22, 2020, 11:57:58 PM
BadMoonRYZEN is clocking 3.943 gHz, used memory is 16,268 MB (out of 32 MB).  CPU Temp is 128°FGPU (8800GTX) is running at moderate middling load, temp is 167°F.   I wanted to keep most of the workload on the CPU as the old 8800GTX just cannot do the things the renderer is sending out these days.  Pity, he's a FINE old Warhorse!   But, somewhere down the road named "Soon" BadMoonRYZEN will be getting a new video card.   MOST of the power used from the 750W PSU is going to the GPU.   The CPU is a 95W unit.  GPU is a 195W unit. 
Over halfway through the render now, just 23 minutes in.
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on June 23, 2020, 12:22:49 AM
Wow, render completed at 12:05am, 31minutes for this render!  It had 5 lights, 2 are point lights, 3 are Infinite.   Only work done post render is convert PNG (20 megs) to JPG (under 3 megs).  There was no texture filtering done, didn't install that python yet.  OR any of them!   Need DSON installed. 
Well, I do hope you who offered names and voted enjoy this render!



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Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Wizzard on June 23, 2020, 09:49:50 AM
Beautiful Mc-G, and only 31 minutes. Looks like you're all set now my friend.
Cheers and thanx fer the render.
8 )
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Agent0013 on June 23, 2020, 10:45:04 AM
A fine high resolution image as the first rendered by BadMoonRYZEN! As a collector of Fairy images, I have added this one to my collection. It's High Resolution shows detail that would not be easy to see at lower resolutions, and this one has a lot of great detail!
Tell BadMoonRYZEN I'm very impressed!WooHoo!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on June 23, 2020, 12:20:11 PM
Hey  I am right impressed too guys!   It boots up different than the old systems.   When you enter BIOS, it has a GUI, mouse, sounds.  Gee.  I have yet to explore it in depth but everything WORKS so I ain't gonna try to fix what ain't broke.   Hah! :woohoo:   

Thanks for the help with this ALL of you!   I dunno who picked which part of the name but put together is really COOL!   :) 
BadMoonRYZEN!And I am glad y'all liked the render.    It took longer to help Poser find all the missing files than it did to render it.   I've been moving the Runtimes to a different SSD.  But man, those trees and that hair used to bog old George down fierce.  J remembers those things!   

Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Jherrith on June 23, 2020, 08:02:18 PM
Indeed I do
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on June 25, 2020, 10:19:48 AM
And now  I get those in just  a few minutes!   It's cool, watching those little squares doing the 'Centipede' all the way down the page!  :D 
 :#1:

Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: thelufias on June 25, 2020, 04:40:49 PM
Good Name Indeed....Enjoy your new toy Mc-G....
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on June 25, 2020, 06:50:28 PM
Thank you sir!   I am, as much as I can :o)
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on June 29, 2020, 08:00:07 AM
Wow, its only a few days later, but I sit back and think "BadMoonRYZEN" is a beautiful name.Thanks everyone!   Off to play some more!  Poser this time.  :o) 
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on July 06, 2020, 01:16:48 PM
Well gang, BadMoonRYZEN is turning out to be a good, stable and powerful platform.   For all kinds of graphics, 2D and 3D it's a real treat to use.  And for gaming?   Just flies right on through, no bogging down anywhere I have found yet. 

In my humble opinion, BadMoonRYZEN is a worthy investment.   Y'all done great guys!   
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on July 13, 2020, 03:24:09 PM
Oh Crap!   I just realized, I built BadMoonRYZEN in KIANNA's Room!    :whack: :coffeemaker: GAAAAAH!    :yeow: :omg:
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Jherrith on July 13, 2020, 06:22:03 PM
:heeheehee:

Now you know why it is a capable system
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on July 14, 2020, 01:51:16 AM
But I almost got stuck in the  bum!   And stone-a-fied! :nopanic;
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Jherrith on July 15, 2020, 07:01:19 PM
:o_go_on: You act as if that is a bad thing ... come on seriously ....
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on July 15, 2020, 10:30:10 PM
I WUZ Serious !!!   :shj: :yeeech:
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: thelufias on July 16, 2020, 10:59:43 AM
 :iminnocent:
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Jherrith on July 16, 2020, 09:20:54 PM
Seconded
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on July 17, 2020, 03:19:03 PM
harrumph!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Wizzard on July 17, 2020, 07:27:31 PM
Blazing Saddles:
I didn't get a harumph from that guy.
8 )
Cheers
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on July 22, 2020, 01:37:48 PM
Got one from ME!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on August 09, 2020, 11:43:03 AM
Seriously folks, I love the moniker BadMoonRYZEN !!!   It couldn't have been cooler!   Don't y'all agree??
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: thelufias on August 09, 2020, 11:48:14 AM
 :#1:  Agreed....
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on August 09, 2020, 06:30:18 PM
ARRRR!   :woohoo: :coffeemaker: :yippee: :shock:    .   .
BadMoonRYZEN !!!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on September 02, 2020, 03:46:07 PM

 
  "BadMoonRYZEN"I really do like that name!
(hic .  .  .  hic . . . hic  .  . . !!!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on September 12, 2020, 12:36:59 PM
 
BadMoonRYZEN !!!!    :coffeemaker: :woohoo: :havesum:
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on October 27, 2020, 05:37:41 PM
 :woohoo: :coffeemaker: :dancingknight: :funny: :hug2: :mum:
.  :whereizit: :explode: :shock: :yippee:   .  .
 .  :ty02:

Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on August 06, 2021, 04:11:07 PM
Oh Crap!  I just realized that THIS is KIANNA's room . . . and something GOOD happened in here!   GAAAAHHHH!!!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on August 31, 2021, 05:40:50 AM
BadMoonRYZEN is over a year old now.  WOW!  Hard to believe time flies THAT darn fast.   Only glitch is I have two USB devices that frequently bash heads together, and the Logitech Headset wins every time, the Logitech Backlit USB (wired) Keyboard has to reset.  Turns off then on takes 5 seconds.  Sheesh.  Wonder why even changing ports doesn't stop that?

The 4.05 gHz octal core 16 thread CPU is absolute bliss!  And the 64 gigs of DDR4 RAM is just lushness at work!   And despite it being "old" by some games standards, the video card is a whiz with all the 3D apps!  And it's very quiet compared to the last beast.  But then by the time I upgraded, both CPU and GPU were being worked so hard their fans ran at 80% or higher most of the time.  Fair amount of screaming from the old crate!  But now?  All AIR COOLING only, and the Ryzen 7 octal is running 93F case and 100F TJunction, which is astoundingly LOW.  Specially for a 4+ gHz CPU!   GPU diode is 100F and both fans are at 35%   
I studied the available parts a while, and put together my Wish List of components with the thoughts of Air Cooling for low temps, pure unadulterated CPU horsepower, multitasking to the hilt for the normal mode, at least 12 USB ports, and found ONE mobo that has EIGHT SATA ports!   Ok so I spent $300 less for this rig than I did for the FIRST 'PC Clone' I had built in 1985.  That was $1600 and this one was $1300.  Well, I did add a few goodies after it was running, but that is what we all DO right?  :)  The motherboard was literally twice the cost it normally was.   The COVID lockdown hurt all kinds of businesses, and that meant all the little Mom n Pop computer stores/distributors took a horrid beating.   There was this ONE motherboard actually available for immediate shipping, and the price had doubled.  I sprang for it and got this machine built finally.  First real startup was June 27, 2020!  Fired it up and installed Win 10 Pro 64 bits.   Been having loads of fun with it ever since!   

I thank all of you for the naming of BadMoonRYZEN !!!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on August 31, 2021, 06:02:50 AM
Oh, even [UGH] Kianna.  Cause she let me use her room for the adventure, and didn't even try to bite me!   :thud:
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Jherrith on August 31, 2021, 05:56:16 PM
:ummm: How about that, you didn't even notice the nibbling ... she is improving :heeheehee:
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Radkres on August 31, 2021, 08:27:13 PM
 :lostme: Might want to check your usb power settings and see if they are powering down those items. Cause Microsoft just loves to save power :thud: No it just poorly written power management software that they never fixed.
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on November 04, 2021, 05:59:56 AM
Right!  after going through all that in the Device Manager (there is a *LOT* of USB stuff !!!!) I finally had my DUH! (Homer Simpson) moment, slapped me head and collared the LogiTech site/support/downloads/drivers and got this cool little ditty called a LogiTech Device Manager.  And VOILA!  When installed, no more head butting, the Headphones Keyboard, Mouse, Universal Bluetooth dongle etc. are all playing happily together.  And I also have even more control over each device.  I get brief on screen info icons when I activate/deactivate special functions with either mouses or keyboards.  Kewl!   So, that is sorted now.  Thanks!  :oD
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on November 04, 2021, 06:02:36 AM
Yeah what is it with M$ anyway these days?  They flat out chopped out ALL activity with their mobile devices.    I HAD to buy an Android phone in self defense!   I thought there were laws protecting us from that kind of thing!   Guess they don't apply to M$ huh.
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on November 26, 2021, 01:47:48 AM
Just a HU or FYI to folks about  this new 5G thing.   T-Mobile now has their very own High Speed Home Internet.  They had this with 4G too, but it wasn't that great I hear.  Now, however, with 5G it IS that great.   They promise me the ability to stream/watch my movies in HDX all day long if I want, no problem.  They also promised me at least 10 Mega Bytes per second downloads of files.  Like the huge game updates of some 5 to 20 gigabytes.  The ZBrush 2022 update in 2 minutes, it's 1.5 gigabytes  This new home internet is very doable!   I am seeing greater results consistently than they promise.  I really do like that too!    They are not capping me out, the speeds vary, yes.  But normally, the LOW is 150 megabits DL and 20 megabits UL. 
I am a happy camper now.  Seriously!    :happydance:
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on June 30, 2022, 10:19:16 PM
OK!   I woke up at 7:55 with a start.  Yup it's definitely light outside, and hot already.   I start hurrying to get dressed and all the stuff I got to take with me to the Doctor visit today.   I was thinking "What a way to start off my Birthday!"   Yep.  I get all my stuff ready, get out to the car, get it all loaded up.  I get in the passenger seat, as there is no way to drive while wearing that Frankenstein Boot!  A few minutes later, the car is warmed up and happy, the AC has the cabin cooled off already then here comes Alan, smiling.  He opens the door to tell me I am just 12 hours early.  DOH!!!!  "Mike it's 8:45 PM THURSDAY!"   'Oh.  Well, uh, DUH!'   Then I ask him to drive me to Sonic for something to eat, sugar is low.  He did.  I was thinking "Happy BIRTHDAY to mee - eeee!   HAPPY Birthday to me!"  Yep, I was.   G'nite y'all.  I will tell BadMoonRYZEN happy 2nd birthday proper tomorrow.  Sheesh!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: thelufias on July 01, 2022, 10:39:42 AM
It's still kicking and so are you my friend...that's a plus plus.... :grenade: :woohoo:
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on July 05, 2022, 12:57:48 AM
AMEN to that!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on July 26, 2022, 01:49:33 PM
Ah HA HA HA ha ha!   So, doctors and nurses entertain themselves at a bit of some patients expense.  Sort of.   My Doctor is a very pretty young lady, slender and in fighting shape.  Even as tiny as she is.   She is the full on 'continuation' of a true blue COMBAT MEDIC, courtesy of US Air Force to a couple tours Iraq.   Today she is a 'Surgical Podiatrist' and introduced herself to me as a 'Limb Salvage Specialist'.   Considering I almost lost my right leg at the knee, THAT is a humdinger of a great specialty!    Doctor Laura Escobedo is also a Podiatrist, kinda regular height, thick black wavy hair, and a bit more filled out.  Around 7 months pregnant.  And every bit as pretty as Dr. Perez.   They switched patients one day, and I was seen by Dr. Escobedo, whom I'd not even actually met yet.  I consider us 'met' now.  Eh HEM!  They all, doctors and nurses, laughingly thought I would not know the difference.  Well, I definitely knew it was NOT Dr. Perez tending my foot that day!  Sheesh.   All is well, even with a bit of fun tossed in for good measure!  ;o)
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: thelufias on July 26, 2022, 03:24:40 PM
Most of my Doctors were male at one point....but each and every time our Hospital/Clinic changes hands....it get more and more modern. 

So a change of hands brought with it some new Doctors, Specialist, and Nurses...  My Doctor Olivia being one of them....and yes....educated, fun, strict, caring, and certainly not hard on the eyes.  But alas...since she's been here, she has gotten married and being young...she is now expecting her first child....so I won't see her for bit I guess.  Don't know who'll I'll be seeing now....but such is life...LOLOL
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on July 30, 2022, 09:36:05 PM
 LOL!  Right on TL.   I got it wrong about our Dr. Escobedo.   She is right now on maternity leave, with 2 weeks to due date.  BUT, she is "on call".   I ain't asking how THAT is gonna work!   Ha! 
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on September 09, 2022, 02:24:05 AM
Well, Dr. Escobedo had her baby, a happy, healthy, bouncing baby girl!  Mom and daughter are home now, doing well and happy.   

Dr. Odom retired, he is gone.   And with Dr. Escobedo on maternity leave a while yet, this leaves Dr. Perez as THE Podiatrist at our VA.  She has been asking patients if they would like to see other doctors at the main 'civilian' hospital in the area, so some left to get care there.   She didn't want me to go at all.  I said that's great because I really didn't want to see a different doctor.  I trust her, and she truly seems devoted to OUR care and health.  So, no way I want to leave that.   Poor gal has gone from seeing say 15 to 20 patients in one day, to having to try to see 50 or more, IN EACH DAY.   Plus, she was in surgery all morning my last visit.   That changes, week to week.  But every surgery results in another patient with critical needs for a while.  Just like me.   Every one of us that is blessed with either Escobedo or Perez feels the same.   Fiercely protective of our special care givers.   On top of that I kinda fell in (*whatever!*) with Carolina Perez.  I do not entertain fantasies about her.  So THAT is an unrequited thing.  No Problemo!   I Will Deal.
uh-RAH!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: thelufias on September 09, 2022, 12:50:15 PM
The Medical Profession is sadly lacking in qualified help nowadays.  In Wisconsin they are taking applicants into Nursing school with no tuition fees. 
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on September 10, 2022, 09:34:02 PM
There is a lot of that going around methinks, TL.   I kinda had been thinking this COVID mess would thin the population down so existing med people could handle all of us.  Nope!    Not as much thinning as the doomsdayers were thinking!   Good.   Heck we have Dr's and nurses out all the time cause THEY got Covid.  Gee.   To me it was a medium bad case of old flu bug.   True all I wanted was my coffee and some water.  But, that's Flu all over :)
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Agent0013 on September 11, 2022, 01:47:58 AM
There is a lot of that going around methinks, TL.   I kinda had been thinking this COVID mess would thin the population down so existing med people could handle all of us.  Nope!    Not as much thinning as the doomsdayers were thinking!   Good.   Heck we have Dr's and nurses out all the time cause THEY got Covid.  Gee.   To me it was a medium bad case of old flu bug.   True all I wanted was my coffee and some water.  But, that's Flu all over :)
My body was fortified with antibiotics by prescription; 120 tablets over a period of as many days, about 2 1/2 years ago. Since that time I know I've been exposed at least five or six times; maybe more, and did not catch it! The doctor told me that the antibiotics would be in my system for at least two years, and I think it is highly likely that they are responsible for keeping me from catching the Covid 19 virus. Not a bad deal at all, as I am deathly afraid of needles, and did not need the antivirus injection.
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on September 11, 2022, 11:41:53 AM
I'd been exposed to covid 19 many times, so finally I caught it.   I knew better than to ever think I could be immune!   
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Agent0013 on September 11, 2022, 04:26:49 PM
My doctors through the years have told me I have the most strong immune system they have ever encountered. Does not mean I can't catch a disease of virus, just that my immune system is very robust. Of course I make sure to eat foods that fortify that. Meat has several benefits, and certain really yummy vegetables and fruits also contribute. Making sure what I eat or drink has all of the essential vitamins and minerals I need is another way I maintain my immune system. I leaned about how to do these things because I worked in three different hospitals, and had friends among the doctors on call. They were always volunteering medical and health related advice. I always listened and took it all to heart.
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on September 13, 2022, 10:01:21 PM
There are conditions that no living being is immune to.   These are related to your own genome.  Things like what cancers you are prone to develop.  Diabetes.   Crones, IBS and on and on and on.   Every human being has the propensity to develop some bad conditions.  Can't avoid them either.  The more they try to cure, the more pop up!   I've been kinda fortunate, I guess.   My 32 years of smoking prompted my cancer and likely triggered the onset of my diabetes.   I might not have had either at all!   But for that damnable smoking.  I could have gotten far worse man.  FAR worse!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Agent0013 on September 14, 2022, 02:15:02 AM
I smoked from the time I was 16 until I was 45. Got lucky to not get cancer from it, as I started reducing my amount of smoking at the age of 37. By the time I quite, I was down to 2 cigarettes a day. I quite easily from there, just stopping altogether. I had a preacher anoint my head with oil and pray for me to no longer have the desire, and it worked! I am now 65, and have not smoked tobacco for 20 years and a few months now. Others that smoke can blow their smoke in my face, trying to make me want one, and I still don't get the desire. I never developed any problems from my former habit. I have no precancerous cells in my system from what my doctor says, so I got really lucky!

I feel for the people that are slaves to tobacco, and for what they will more than likely suffer because of it. After all that time being free from smoking, I have to say I breathe fairly well. I do have asthma stage 1, but that is a condition I was born with, and it rarely flares up. Usually the onset is triggered by my pollen allergies. I really hate the wicked headaches I get during those spells.
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on September 15, 2022, 07:11:52 AM
My body is different, now, after all the cancer mess.   I started smoking when I was 12 in 66 because I was dared.  I stopped cold in 2010 because a little old doctor got on his knees and begged me to stop, while I still could.   I did.   I didn't smoke daily until June 72, because it was one of the very few things we could do, in Coast Guard boot camp.   Oops.   Comes out to 38 years, don't it?   Gee.   Well, I quit in 2010, then in late 2012 I was diagnosed with cancer, positively.   So in mid 2013 I had completed the chemotherapy, then went in for The Big Op.  It was a Radical cysto-prostate-ectomy.   Bye Bye Bladder, Prostate and ALL the external bits and bobs that went with the prostate.  All gone.   July 2022, a decade after diagnoses, no cancer, no PSA (hormone).  PSA is checked as an indicator for cancer when PSA increases from Low or Negligible amount.    ALL that mess, you can be sure of one thing:  I will not light up another cigarette, nor allow anyone to smoke in my abode.  Even the owner of the property.   If you don't want to fight, don't light up in my presence.
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on September 15, 2022, 07:57:34 AM
My chest, lungs, are clear.   Shouldn't be, I know that.   But still clear.    Big favors eh?
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: thelufias on September 15, 2022, 06:27:10 PM
THAT IS a good thing......
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on September 21, 2022, 07:12:29 PM
Saw my doctor today.  First time in 3 weeks.  She had to cancel last week, emergency surgery.   Kinda like the one where she met me.  I don't get upset when that stuff happens.   She is suddenly the only podiatrist and tending the patients of three.   Helluva workload.   I do what I can to make life easier on them there.   Means not moaning groaning bellyaching about how long its taking to get seen.  I did have to holler a nurse up when my ostomy pouch got full.   Either get me a pee bottle or to a bathroom!  OR we get a mop n bucket.  I had spares with me.  JIC.   Other than that, my 1 o'clock got into a 2:30 o'clock and I kept the peace.  When the doctor did come, she was wearing her scrubs still, and bustling all over the room.  Then she sat down to my foot and focused entirely on that work in front of her.  Amazing.   Foot is still doing good.   She learned the home care people are not doing exactly what she wanted done and my foot is not better for that.   She is annoyed about that.   She said that I will do what is needed at that point if they "see the orders as THIS or THAT" and not what the doctor wants done.
Might just result in a different outfit sending nurses to the house.   I like the people, cannot handle the difference in application.  The supplies are here, no shortage of necessary materiel.    Got to be an addage somewhere, "Where room is left for interpretation, someone WILL get it wrong".   Or something.  Heh!  :)
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: thelufias on September 22, 2022, 06:06:19 PM
Glad all went well....And yup...as mentioned ... Same problem at our clinic...Understaffed and you've become part of the assembly line instead of a patient...  But...more and more folks are avoiding that profession after what happened with covid...Overworked and under appreciated.
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on September 23, 2022, 12:10:12 AM
Where I got to pay something, I don't mind.    Where I have to sacrifice a bit of time or effort, that's ok.   I have seen two nurses in OUR clinic out with COVID, even though they showed no symptoms.  They come to work and get get swabbed, wait for the in-house test to show positive or negative, THEN go to either work or back home.  Same with us now.   I saw where one of our doctors was in the hospital for acute respiratory trauma, and he tested positive on entry to the ER.   He made it, but is dealing with after effects, retired now.   We've learned we don't have to be in direct contact with a COVID infected person to get it.   The few things we have to fight it, *I USE*!   Vaccine, CHECK!   Facemasks ON, CHECK!   Wash hands often soap/hot water, CHECK!   Always wash before and after eating, CHECK!   Pet my cats, wash me hands. CHECK!  Veterinarian doc said our pets CAN get that from us now.   OW!
IF COVID hits you, and it really gets a hold on you, then you will get awfully sick.   Imagine a smoker with nasty smokers cough...and covid takes hold hard... I worry a lot about my brother in law and baby sister.   Only, SHE is down to one or two cigarettes per day, not packs.  HE is down to less than a pack a day, was at 2.5 packs a day.  ME I am still at 00.0000 packs PERIOD!  LOL!    The after effects of my smoking are going to be with me the rest of my life man.   UROSTOMY.   It's a booger folks!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on September 23, 2022, 12:12:55 AM
BTW, if it isn't obvious, TL .... I agree with you totally!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: thelufias on October 04, 2022, 08:33:46 AM
LOL...Obvious it was my friend...
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on October 07, 2022, 09:45:29 AM
This last visit, I got the  doctor for nearly a full hour.   The foot needed the attention, and boy did she give it to it!   OW!  And all she did was see if a bit of skin on the foot was undermining any.   Nup!  Not EVEN a little bit!   And she was talking the whole time.  Either to me, or to one of the nurses present.   Her final verdict was "I don't see anything new, alarming or bad.  I like it.  And, I can SEE you are taking all your meds, and staying off it.  And that you do use the cam-boot when you are up.  You keep that up!"  And she was out the door headed for another patient.   So we KNOW what the foot is doing, we know about the old bone infection, we know about this staph infection, and I am taking all the meds for that now too.   Dr. Perez and I agreed with each other again;  we do NOT want to lop off the ol foot!  :D
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on October 07, 2022, 09:52:09 AM
Christmas time, every year now, will remind me of  the incredible pain I was in,  the horrible mess my foot was in, and then Christmas Eve morning waking to see my Christmas Presents from DR.'s Alzeerah and Perez.  And their whole teams too of course.   That I still have a leg is amazing to me, and I am loving it!   Sure, it hurts sometimes, but that is way better than saying goodbye to it.   So, Christmas time makes me happy again.   :-)
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: thelufias on October 07, 2022, 10:46:08 AM
They did a wonderful job~but you did a lot also to keep the leg and foot my friend...so pat yourself on the back while your at it......
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on October 07, 2022, 10:15:24 PM
It's an ongoing project, always will be too!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: thelufias on October 08, 2022, 06:53:02 AM
Understood...same thing for me with the heart and eyes....Always something to overcome....but we succeed....
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on October 15, 2022, 06:05:31 PM
Here is a new one I wanna speak on:

I remember the Genesis in Poser fiasco. Every thing you owned was exported with the base figure. I forget what G2 figure I purchased and sent to Poser so as to get a workflow for the PFDLives folk years ago. I got a starter stack with G2, a shape (CHR morph), an outfit, and a couple of accessories. Oh yeah, a texture as well. Everything for the character ported over, all the shapes, everything. If the figure was any heavier going to Poser, smoke would have come from my machine.

I see why you want a sandbox to play in. Loading the works to do character dev is indeed overkill.

The "Fiasco" has not changed.   If you use a Genesis and up Figure, then you will see it, still.  That was created by DAZ for the new Genesis + Figures, just as having INJ was created by DAZ (NOT POSER!) for Generation 3 Figures.   DAZ created the method for Genesis.  This does not apply to add on conforming or parented figures and props, only to MORPHS.  But, if you have 123 character sets and morph packs installed, then any Genesis Figure will load with *ALL* of them inside, ready to use in every Figure you load.   This is true with DS and Poser, and all the other programs that DAZ Bridges are for.

With the Generation 4 Figures, you load a Base Figure, then add all the morphs you want in it, then save that out to a .CR2 and use as you want, but those morphs are now loaded and 'baked' with saving that Figure.   This is a manual process.

With Genesis 2, all the installed morphs are loaded and available all the time whenever a Genesis+ Figure is loaded.   This is an automatic process.  As far as I know it's never been changed.   I actually like having that, but that's just me.  I can see where some folks want to load in only what they want to use for that character.   As it is with Gen4 (and Gen3).  BUT, can you even do that, choose the morphs for each Figure you load for Genesis and up?   I haven't seen a way to do that in any version of Poser that can use the DSON Interpreter for Poser. 
The DAZ system for their STUDIO has never exported  nor saved "complete" Figures, like Poser does with it's .CR2 method.  Studio will save the Figure with dialed poses only.   The "FIGURE" it loads MUST have the morphs loaded at the same time.   That is just DAZ method, and that part of it works fine in Poser using the DSON Interpreter.   Poser is BETTER at it, because it saves a .CR2 that has all things attached, parented or conformed OR injected on loadup.   You get the entire Figure back you saved out.  And saving SCENE files gets the same for ALL Figures in the Scene you are saving.   Yeah, I got scenes that are a bit over a Gigabyte.  Got lots of Figures in them.  Big props.  But this rig can handle that, so far.  PP 2014 is the best program to use for all of that.

Poser simply has to use the DS method is all this is.  So y'all are saying that's the beef?   Hmmm.   OKAY.   That's cool.


I saw that day one with Genesis (which I hate, Genesis 2 is GREAT!)   I use Poser Pro 2014 because I can load in a mix of ANY Figures I have, and that's quite a few these days, and no problem with this.   With Poser Pro 11, it doesn't do well with Genesis 2 at all, it crashes quite a bit, and even faster if I also load a Gen4 Figure.   But the DSON Interpreter was not designed for P 11, nor even PP 2014.   I am happy that PP 2014 handles all this well, and wants more!  Heh! 

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I digress, cutting this entire reply and posting it NEW in my own thread. 

   (snip, cut, paste)

OK it is in MY thread now, so I see a thing to address:

For ME , the problem child in ALL of this is Poser 12, and (a certain Person) with their heel rammed onto Poser 12's throat, murdering it.

I quote a response to ME in answer to my request:  "It will be a cold day in hell when Poser uses Genesis 8".   That's because La Femme is supposed to be the "DAZ KILLER" and nobody will even want a Genesis 8.   Well, THAT is a big FIASCO on Poser!  And that is NOT cool!

MY interest in Poser 11 and 12 was from seeing the renders posted around the internet by anonymous POSER users (and anonymous DEVS!) that were using the DAZ STUDIO format and FIGURES *NATIVELY*.   IN POSER!   Tell me how?   Well, my speculation is they definitely wrote a new module that compiled into Poser (I don't know the version dammit!) and it is then able to see all this stuff as installed, IN THE LIBRARY, even as the DSON Interpreter does in Poser Pro 2014 right now for Genesis and Genesis 2 stuff.   Poser Companion Files required.  But evidently not for that new module the (CERTAIN PERSON) refuses to allow to go public.   

The absolute LACK of any support for Genesis, Genesis 2, Genesis 3 and Genesis 8 are why I will not support POSER any more.  I refuse to install DS again too.   It refuses to run Studio without the CMS/DIM packages installed, run continuously at system start, and LOGGED IN to DAZ 3D.  So, I refuse to run it.  Phooey on their data mining garbage!

And yaknow, even IF the "Module" were allowed and Poser 12 could see all DAZ products natively,  the problem with the morphs all autoloading will still be there.  That is DAZ's Fiasco, not Poser.
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on October 27, 2022, 10:47:43 PM
The sole workaround I see to that issue with DAZ Genesis Figures is to simply create separate Runtimes for each character you wish to work up.   Poser has no problem using Figures and Props from dozens of separate Runtimes.   DS?   It will use and abuse the Runtimes, mix stuff up as IT sees fit IF you use the Content Management System.    IT WILL BEFOUL THE RUNTIMES IT USES.   So, I won't use the CMS or DIM at all. 

Alright, that's about enough of whipping a dead horse.   Next subject?
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: thelufias on October 28, 2022, 11:52:14 AM
 :catwoman:
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on October 31, 2022, 02:51:30 AM
drums fingers, rolls eyes, scritches head. . .I got ELEVEN SSD's now.   BadMoonRYZEN has eight SATA ports.  I reckon the smaller ones gotta come out!  Heh!  ;o)
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: thelufias on October 31, 2022, 08:44:12 AM
LOL.....They are nice to have.   Big Boy is down and out for the moment but I'm going to switch hard drives with Slow Boy and see what happens.  No big deal...i keep NOTHING on the computers hard drive so I loose NOTHING.....
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on November 11, 2022, 12:33:07 AM
That is smart, yup.  Though I was surprised at how much "stuff" the programs and Windoze does keep on the boot drive!

Meanwhile, I am still planning this new "Data Move Adventure" so when I shut down and start unplugging drives, I DO have the boot drive properly id'd!   The rest can do the merry-go-round thing.  heh!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on November 11, 2022, 12:58:11 AM
 :td2:  Looks great!  :D

Good place for this one.   Dr. Perez determined I got staph infection in that foot.  She was not surprised at all, and actually seemed relieved that it is doing 'normal' stuff.   Super antibiotics prescribed.   Ahh ... So I am self-infusing potent antibiotics in my new PICC line in right arm.  Every single morning.  The home health nurse takes lab samples from the other arm, and changes dressing on PICC every week.  I have had it two weeks now.  4 weeks to go!   The chronic osteomyelitis is also getting the hammer during this.  When its complete, and labs show 'clear', Dr. Perez is gonna graft the hoodoo outta that wound.   THEN I get to learn to walk on that foot again!   It will be one year on Dec. 21'st that I got on that ambulance to Amarillo VA.  Been a while, true.  But no matter which way the surgery had to go, it would be a long recovery.   I will never forget her getting my attention, to ease my nerves, "yes that catheter is small, it is half a millimeter, about the size of the wire in my earring.  Can you see that?"   SEE it?  I wanted to KISS that cute little ear!  Ha!  I was groggy from everything and exhausted.   The anesthesiologists had already put the IV in.   In my hand.  That was the catheter I was asking about.  But not even making words right.   A few minutes later, and it was Christmas Eve Morning (to me it was, after being woke up after surgeries it was quite a time jump!).  Tadaaaa!  I still had both feets!  :D  Oh crap they hurts. . . but I smiled and laughed, cause that meant they were REALLY there!  Yeah buddy!   I still laugh and smile at that.  And now, when the foot hurts, I smile.  Cause it's ALIVE!  :D
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: thelufias on November 11, 2022, 09:08:35 AM
Keep listening and following their instructions my friend....Glad to see you in here...we get worried when one of our own stays away to long.
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on November 12, 2022, 10:52:05 AM
Aw man I did not mean to stay away.  I thought of The Attic while I was being "redressed" by the nurse, who was also talking shop with the Dr. Perez about a different patient that had come in earlier in the day via ambulance/emergency room.   I am so glad I landed in these peoples hands.   This week is another busy round, at least 3 days of appointments, and then the weekend!  Meanwhile, it IS The Weekend!  LOL! :td2:
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: thelufias on November 12, 2022, 10:58:04 AM
My brother is like you...he is so pleased with his VA in Providence RI....And it's all new...the old one is finally torn down...

Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Agent0013 on November 12, 2022, 02:13:55 PM
In my experience, the best medical care facilities are (or were) attached to the military. When My Pop was in the Navy, I was cared for when needed by Navy doctors, nurses, and staff. All were extremely professional, accurate, and thorough.
When I was 6, and in the first grade, I dislocated my right elbow twice in less than a month. First time I had it reset and put in a cast. Second time was by my idiocy, getting on a swing and swinging as high as I could go. Fell out of the swing, woke up in the hospital. Had a harder cast on the arm with metal to keep it stiff and unable to bend. Had to stay in the hospital for the remainder of the school year, and did my studies there. They had done surgery on my right elbow to clean out the internal bleeding. I had to go each day, twice a day to the soaking room and soak the arm in a vat of medicated hot water. I passed the first grade, even with the absence from school, as I was really thirsty for knowledge.
Now, 59 years later, the right elbow works perfectly, as good as the left. I'm ambidextrous, but because of the complicated injuries, I only write with my left hand. everything else I can do with either or both hands. I chose to be a lefty pitcher when I played Junior League Baseball, as I could pitch a sidearm lefty curve ball that looked like a corkscrew coming at the batter. If it was hit, my spin on it would make it either go foul, or pop up. If popped up either me or the catcher would easily catch it. The season I played, we were undefeated, and none of the opposing teams even made a run off my pitches. Almost all of my games were no hitters for the opposition. A pretty good record, and it got me MVP for the circuit we played in.

But this is actually about my right arm, so things I can do equally well with either arm or hand:
Play guitar, run heavy equipment in a woodshop, shoot baskets, cook, sew, and just about anything that is done using my hands. It has served me well in my work life.
Nowadays, I get arthritic pains in my left arm, but none in my right. I think it's because I favor using the left more, so it gets about 65% of all work I do. Still, I do use the right a lot for many things. Habits form in a short time for sure, as the habit of using the left arm more was instilled in me by the described injuries. I think that is quite understandable.
Incidentally, in the second grade, my teacher would come to my desk and whack the back of my left hand with my wooden ruler, saying that being left handed is evil! I told my mother what that teacher did and said, and she went to the school with me and had a talk with the principal, who called the teacher over the intercom to come to his office. I was present at the meeting, and witnessed the threats my mom made to that teacher. The principal witnessed it too, and agreed with mom. I was transferred to another class that very day. For the rest of that school year, when I saw that teacher and she saw me looking at her, I would stare at her with as stern a look as I could muster, and she would be unable to outstare me. It was a small win for me, but it was enough to make me have more confidence in myself. She most likely learned a lesson herself from that; "How Not to Treat a Young Student".
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on November 14, 2022, 08:11:36 AM
Only thing about playing the same guitar both handed is one way is normal, the other way messes with the brain cell!  ;) :OMFG:
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Agent0013 on November 14, 2022, 11:07:27 AM
Very funny, there McG. You made me laugh, and I thank you for that.
If I play left handed, I use a lefty guitar. I have seen some that can turn the guitar over to to play it left handed, while it is strung for a righty; however I'm not one of them. I have to have the strings in the proper order rather than the inverse. I actually learned to play on the right handed guitar, so to be fair, I play more right handed than left handed. It kind of equals out some of my ambidexterity, somewhat. My left is still used more but not by much.
Again, thanks for the laugh! I really needed it today.
Cheers!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on November 16, 2022, 04:21:09 AM
I was looking for a smile, glad ya laughed, Cleve!   

Um, that don't make that statement any less true though!   :OMFG:
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on November 16, 2022, 04:35:25 AM
I am still happily surprised at times at just what BadMoonRYZEN *CAN* do, and do it pretty quick.    I Set up a single V4/M4 figure, get it all dressed up, posed, de-pokethru'ed and rendered.   Render time is About a minute, depending on the hair set.   Then I Set up half a dozen V4/M4/G2F/M plus dog-horse-birds, spend 4 hours setting up, dressing and posing... and takes about TWO minutes to render.  DUH.   That does make it easy, fixing the Oops and OH NO's forgot something's and hitting the RE-Render button.   A few times.   Heh!   I am very much enjoying my 2.5 year old *NEW* computer folks!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: thelufias on November 16, 2022, 08:59:10 AM
Happiness can be found in many ways....and like you McG...a working computer is one of the things that make me happy LOLOL
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on November 16, 2022, 08:51:29 PM
WHEN the ponk mooches leave, I will build another one for the kitchen/dining area.   I can't now cause the "shes" have flooded the spare room (storage) with HER crappola, and literally buried MY stuff and refused to make a way thru theirs so I can get to mine.   If I got to do it, I will hire someone to carry all theirs to the dumpster.   
 :aaah!:
I am SUCH a nice guy!   Sometimes....
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: thelufias on November 17, 2022, 08:38:48 AM
I'm going to replace the hard drive in my oldie but goldie computer.  It crapped out.  Good news is...I never loose anything when hard drives do die.  I keep nothing on them.  A cheap fix and easy to do.
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on November 17, 2022, 06:25:51 PM
Every drive I have does have some THING on it.   But, the "books" of optical disks still has some empty pockets in it!  And, the BluRay disks are the 25 gig variety.   I use them for everything permanent.   I have read there are 50 gig and even 100 gig disks.  Cool.  Walmart don't sell those though.   The big thing is that I have zero spinner hard drives in use now.  I still have like a dozen of them and they do start up.  But they are empty.  Some of them emptied themselves, sadly.   The nice thing is, like you, I didn't lose anything except my most recent "volatile" stuff, like what we are typing to each other.   But the FILES?   They go on a onboard SSD first, then a removable SSD in the dock, then on to BD disks and into the disk books.   Sound familiar?   I had to deal with my first (and only) 1 terabyte WD Caviar Black spinner drive simply disappearing everything on it, and then the tools found nothing at all wrong with the drive.  IT is supposedly in perfect health.  I removed it anyway.  And, in a test box, it did the same thing again, for no reason whatsoever.  Nothing was recoverable according to all the tools I tried.   Ok, so that was when I bought my first SSD.   In 2012.   And THAT little 460 gig drive?  It still has Win 7 on it, and still working fine.  Not being USED though it is installed in Bad Moon RYZEN.   I will remove and store it, intact, for the Kitchen rig.  :o)  It isn't like I don't have enough SSD's to do that now.  HA!
Oh, I also lost my 480 gig Caviar Black BOOT drive a few years ago.  It lasted to end of warranty plus one month.   That one dying was no big deal, as I  just simply activated the Win 7 Pro 64 bit installation on the 460 gig SSD.  No problemo!   But that one terabyte drive?  It had all my entire 800 gig RUNTIME on it.  I cried about that one.  I never lost any of the original zip files and stuff.  But, I DID lose all my INSTALLED stuff and the set up, posed, worked over FIGURES and scenes I had saved.  That made up some 2/3 of the runtime content!
Nuff said, I back that stuff up, as saved!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: thelufias on November 17, 2022, 07:27:37 PM
I learned that lesson years ago...and like you...before the portable HD's....I backed up all on everything from tapes to discs to exteranal storage sites...you name it...I used it...but glad I have my SSD's now. LOLOL
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on November 19, 2022, 03:29:13 AM
Ain't that the TRUTH man!   LOL!   Darnit, the SSD's prices are getting down to where it's almost feasible to use them in place of BluRay disks!!   I learned I could buy a 10 pack of 100 gig BD writables,  for about $100.   Lessee...nope, while that's nice, the price point for 25 gig writables is WAY lower at $35 for a spindle of 50.   That was what I spent some three years ago for this last spindle I bought.  And haven't even had to open yet!  But, I GOT em!   Then this last 2 TB 3D NAND SATA internal SSD was $179.   Yeah I keep looking around and the 1 TB and 500 GB ones are a LOT lower priced now.   If these things were a dollar per gig, well, no way.   But they are now like pennies on a gigabyte, and THAT is so doable!   :oD
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: thelufias on November 19, 2022, 08:19:39 AM
To me Discs are a PITA so investing in something more usable is a better deal for me.  But still got a shitload of blank discs left LOLOL...and yes, BlueRay  :thud:...
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on November 21, 2022, 03:29:30 AM
Yep, the more usable and reliable the storage means is, the more we are likely to be using it!   I can see us with an old  index card file just full of SSD's, each with a matching index card with proper description on it.  Heh!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: thelufias on November 21, 2022, 01:41:46 PM
Even with the SSD's I back up the backups :tearlaugh: :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on November 28, 2022, 03:03:56 PM
Yuuup!   I remember The First Three Rules of Computing. 

1 - BACK IT UP
2 - BACK IT UP
3 - BACK IT UP
4 - GOTO RULE 1
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on December 06, 2022, 11:28:01 PM
I loved it when Tattoo would stretch out between the keyboard and edge of the desk, and go right to sleep.   That boy slept so HARD too.  He went into deep sleep a lot, around me.   I am really missing him.   G'night Ol Man, love ya!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: thelufias on December 07, 2022, 05:44:28 PM
I bet you do....Right now I have Oz the fat ass on my lap....my legs are going numb....he still thinks he's a kitten and can fit comfortably on my lap....let's put it this way....we try....and like tonight...sometimes it works :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on December 12, 2022, 12:09:19 AM
Mogwai is allowing me to put him on my lap for a bit of easier loving him.   That lasts almost a minute sometimes.   He hops down, turns around and faces me like the RCA dog.  Not as easy to do it that way.   But 10 years is a long time for a cat to get used to a thing.  He is very used to it.   I go to the kitchen counter, and he hops up and OWNS it!   Heh!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Agent0013 on December 12, 2022, 03:13:28 AM
One thing I know about cats is that they live by their own rules! They also think we humans belong to them! LOL, I don't mind it. Their independence is something I love about them.
Cookie Baby is 12, and she is so smart and has a mind of her own. She is constantly thinking up more ways to show me how much she loves me. She now follows me nearly everywhere I go in my neighborhood. She knows to keep her distance from people she does not know, so no worries there. Recently, I started getting her to follow me into the woods near our home. She almost immediately made up a new game for me and her to play. Yes it is an old game usually played by humans with each other, but she came up with it on her own; "Hide and Seek"! She really is an amazing cat. I found a Mallard Duck feather recently, and I gave it to her as a toy we can enjoy playing with together. She loves it! She sees me taking it down from where I keep it, and is immediately ready to play! Pretty good for a 12 year old cat, if you ask me!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: thelufias on December 12, 2022, 09:15:49 AM
I'm the first one up in the morning here...EARLY....and then some.....And the Cat and Kitty Clan always let me know when I'm late getting up....they all jump on the bed and bug me till I get up....and then it's feeding time...and yes McG...they all gather on the kitchen counter waiting for their own bowl to get food in it...and yes...they know which bowl is theirs...though if one of the kittens is quicker then the other....watch out....FOOD FIGHT :thud:
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on December 13, 2022, 04:23:19 PM
LOL!   Hey did you ever notice that even if all the bowls are identical, like of a set, each cat still knows which is theirs?   Learned that kittens are blind and deaf at birth.   But they always latch onto the same teat.   They each know the smell of THEIR teat!   Nobody else gets to use it!   So, even with eyes and ears open and working, they know their bowl by its smell.  Mine did.  And Tattoo would still run over and eat from each of them!
I think Tattoo made that rule up, Cleve!   He definitely had a mind of his own. 
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Agent0013 on December 14, 2022, 12:59:31 AM
When we took McCartney in, he was skinny and malnourished. After two weeks he had put on a fair amount of weight under our care. A few months go by, and he has developed the habit of cleaning all the cat bowls of food that the others did not eat. We had another male cat at that time name Buster Boots. He was a black and white Tuxedo. Now McCartney is the biggest cat in our area, and it's because he catches mice, rats, birds, squirrels, chipmunks, etc. and he eats nearly everything he catches. If he catches a rat or mouse in our home, he eats it leaving nothing for us to clean up. He caught a really big rat two days ago, but did not eat it. It was the size of wharf rats, which he is smart enough to know he could suffer from the harder bones in such larger rats. That one I had to pick up and dispose of. By the time I had discovered it, it was already in rigor.
Concerning Buster Boots, somebody brought some really mean dogs into the neighborhood, and they cornered Buster Boots and killed him. He was about 11 months old. We called animal control, and those dogs were captured, removed, and put down as they had also attacked a child in the neighborhood. Our landlord learned of the incident from our next door neighbor, and evicted the owners of those dogs. We learned later that they were abusing the dogs, which is what made them mean.
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on December 15, 2022, 03:54:07 PM
it is those dogs owners that ought to have been put down!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Agent0013 on December 15, 2022, 10:26:21 PM
I totally agree, McG! Either that, or they be abused viciously like they abused those dogs. I saw the two that were owned by those people. One was a Brennel pit bull, the other was a solid white pit bull.
Someone told me once that pit bulls are naturally mean, but I know that isn't true for most of them. I knew a guy who bred them, and owned four as his pets and breeding stock. Those dogs were as friendly as any dog you'd want to meet. Really good dogs, they were.
It is the demeanor of the owner that determines what demeanor a dog they own will have in most cases. That's any dog, unless it was born with a hormone imbalance. We had a dog that had a hormone imbalance, and he wasn't being mean because it was in his nature. He really loved us, but he was unable to control his emotions. If there was a sudden loud sound, he would bite the nearest thing, be it alive or just furniture or some other object. I watched him bite an iron bar, when some fireworks went off. It hurt his teeth, but he kept doing it until the fireworks display was over. His hormone imbalance was causing other health issues also. As there were young children in the house, we could not keep him. A friend took him in and was able to keep him until the dog passed 8 years later. He had a few issues with the dog, but nothing really serious. That dog loved him fiercely.
As for people that are mean to animals, I sometimes want to take a baseball bat and break them up inside. You can bet they would be unable to ever abuse an animal again!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: thelufias on December 16, 2022, 09:56:09 AM
Here is something interesting I read today.  Not sure about how this will work....but I'll keep an eye on it.

New York City Pet Shops Bill (https://abcnews.go.com/US/new-york-bans-selling-dogs-cats-rabbits-pet/story?id=95374861)
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on December 20, 2022, 07:14:24 AM
Oh man, that blows me away.   4,000 ?!?!?!?!  Those poor poor puppies.   Makes me wanna adopt *ONE*.   But, I better stick with my plan.  A Kitten This Year!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Agent0013 on December 20, 2022, 11:59:59 AM
McG, how is Mogwai doing now. I'm betting he is still missing Tattoo. I'm sure you are missing him too. We never forget any of our beloved pets after they are gone. They have a part in shaping who we ourselves are.
I have had three solid black male cats in my life, all named Sylvester (after one of my favorite cartoon characters), and each of them had their own personalities. Sylvester the first was the one that had the best memory.
He stayed in Abbeville S.C. (my hometown) when I moved to Georgia for the first time. I was gone for more than a year. When I returned to Abbeville, my family had moved across town, and I moved back in with them. I went to work at the Abbeville County Memorial Hospital. Three months later, my family move to Georgia, and left me the house. Walking to the store took me past several alley cat hangouts.
One day I returned home from the grocery store, and was putting my groceries away when I heard a scratching noise at my kitchen window. I went to see what it was, and there was Sylvester, wanting me to let him in. I opened the window, and he came in and was purring loudly, demanding that I pet him. Of course I was happy beyond belief to give him the love he wanted. It had been well over a year since I had last seen him, and that had been at the other house we had lived in. He took up with me there and we had a lot of time together. As he had become an alley cat, I knew he liked his freedom, so I did not force him to stay inside. I give all my pets respect for their preferences. He was healthy, had no debilitating conditions, and he was happy. When I finally moved away again, I did not make him come with me, even though I wanted him to. He chose to stay in town. That was the last I saw of him, but I suspect he lived a few more years. I'm sure he had other homes he could get loving at, because there were a few he knew where the homeowners were cat lovers, feeding and caring for multiple alley cats.
Incidentally, when I first got Sylvester, there were no black cats anywhere in town. After he was grown, that changed gradually, until soon there were black cats all through the city! I think he was the father or grandfather of most of them.
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on December 22, 2022, 01:21:31 PM
I do get that about your Sylvester.   And, if the Vet doc had said it was ok, I would have let Tattoo out every day.   He had no problem coming to either front/back door and clamoring to get in.   But the vet said no, keep him in so he stays away from the worst of the allergens that trigger his outbreaks.   There were just some times he was gonna get out no matter what, that couldn't be helped.   Tattoo was one of the smartest cats I ever had.  And he definitely chose me as his human.   There was nothing he loved more than simply being with  me.   Even if it was to just sleep right by me.   What a cat.  Loved him much.
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Agent0013 on December 22, 2022, 10:18:18 PM
I think Tattoo and you were the best of friends. I'm sure he loved you with all his heart. It was the same with me and Sylvester.  My Sylvester 2 and 3 were also.
Had another male cat chase Sylvester 3 into my home, but that cat did not reckon he would run into me. I picked him up and threw him as far as I could; about twenty yards actually. He went about 15 to 20 feet up in the air too, and was spinning around through the air. Needless to say, he did not come around my home anymore. Sylvester was so thankful for that, because that cat was about twice his size. I think I saved my cats life that day. The people I lived with looked at me with a new kind of respect after that. I suffered some scratches that drew blood from that other male cat, but I did not mind the injuries so long as my cat was kept safe. A few days later I took Sylvester the third to be neutered. He became more docile because of that, like a totally different cat. I was not happy about that. Of all of my cats with that name, he had the best sense of humor; actually pulling tricks on the humans in the house, and doing other things that made us laugh. He earned a nickname: Silly. After he was neutered, that part of him was gone. He was still my buddy, but the fun we used to have never was there again.
I figure you and Tattoo had a special relationship also, and I'm betting you and he had a lot of fun together. I think this because I can tell you and I are of a kind, having a natural affinity for and with our cats. My Totem animal is the cat. Even wild cats, like leopards and mountain lions have been known to be attracted to me, and not in a bad way. They just wanted me to pet them. I was prevented from petting the mountain lion (a zoo animal), but I did get to pet the leopard. Such an exquisite feeling to be able to do that.
Did you and Tattoo play special games together? I ask, because my cat Cookie Baby reinvented an old game she plays with me; Hide and Seek. She just started doing that in the last couple of months. She hides and I seek. It is good fun that she got started with her human. LOL
I'm sitting here typing away, and our male cat McCartney is sleeping on my right leg. He is a lot like Sylvester the First, as before we took him in there were hardly any grey tabbies in the neighborhood. Now he has plenty of progeny that are grey tabbies, and many that are mixes of tabby and other types. He chose us as his forever family, and has endeared himself to us solidly. He is the one that is the Gentleman cat, treating Cookie Baby like a Princess. It is so awesome to watch how he treats her, even when she is feeling cranky. Sometimes he even presents the top of his head to her, so that she can swat him on the head several times. LOL He takes it like a trooper. The two of them have become good friends. She was spade when she first went into heat, even though I though we should let her have at least one litter. I think she would have enjoyed raising some kittens, and it would have helped her mellow out.
She's 12 now and will be 13 in April. I love her a lot and she obviously loves me a lot too.
McG, I know you love Mogwai too; as much as you loved Tattoo. The both of you must be there for each other, in this time of grieving. I'm suffering some grief also, but not for an animal at this time. I just found out my oldest cousin on my mother's side of the family died today of a massive heart attack. What is so bad about it is that he and I had reconnected just two months ago, and now out of the blue he is gone. God rest his soul.
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on December 23, 2022, 02:14:47 PM
I am sorry for your loss, Cleve.    Yeah I too think we (and TL and Aelin!) are like spirits with Cats.   I think I have had an affinity with them, even big ones like our Bobcats and Lynxes.   They come to me, not I to them.  Strange that.  But it has happened more than once.   And even stranger, some of the cats came from a ways off as 4 week old kittens.   Maybe certain cats just have a special affinity with me?  Mogwai is doing better.   I sit on the couch and in seconds he is stretched out beside me on the couch armrest.   Tattoo and the neighborhood.  He ran it.   It is HIS territory.   All other cats will visit going through him first.   There were a few tom cats that were quick to challenge Tattoo.  Most of those died for that effort.   Tattoo turned out to be one tough and very muscular cat.  Yet, he was a gentle natured cat.  He never once bit or scratched a human deliberately.   He and I had a few play time accidents through the years.   But every time, he showed concern over my bleed.  I washed my scratches with alcohol every time.   It worked.   Also, the daughter that brought him to me had him neutered at 4 weeks old by a vet (that is law in Texas for non-breeder HYBRID felines BTW).  But, Chemically.  Not surgically.   He and I always played together, and he loved it.  Often to the point he would bring me the toy he  wants to play with right to me.   That was a wonderful thing about Tattoo.  He was always open with his feelings, to me.    This sharing is why I miss him so much Cleve.
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on December 24, 2022, 03:55:01 AM
  Nurture.   Right!  Cats require nurturing as much as any creature, *IF* we want them to move themselves beyond the natural independent and ALONE place of pure instinct and reflex.   We do want them to develop those areas of emotions, speech, memory and inquisitiveness more.   I kinda think that when a "Felis Catus Americanus" (he he!) is very close to the humans it lives with.  This separates it from all other cats, large and small.   That they even CAN develop so incredibly much beyond the 'reflex' state is not even supported by scientists.  Pah!  Bumhug! on them, phooey!   Their "science" is weak!    But cats can do an amazing job of training themselves to do amazing things.  All with very little encouragement from us.   But positive enforcement is most needed, for cats.   Each of us have already observed this, and will likely observe even more.   We have spoken in here of these things before.
Alan gave me a few of those "Sheba" gourmet dinner cups for Mogwai.   Seems someone has handled one of those with some food on their fingers.  Mogwai would not stop deep-sniffing that cup.   So, I washed the cup, then opened it for him to a pie plate.  He left nothing on that plate.    To be expected, yes?  Heh!   Today, At 2am I woke, did my waking chores and prepared a small meal for both Mogwai and I.   For a bit of dessert, I opened a bag of cooked chicken strips, and gave Mogwai some.   Had to, he refused to get out of the way !!!  So, he and I enjoyed some bits of flame grilled chicken this morning.   He is sound asleep on the back of the couch right now.   And, I see that Mogwai had brought his favorite stuffie right to me.   Reminding me of Tattoo.   I smiled.  "You have done well, little padawan Mogwai!  :oD
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: Agent0013 on December 24, 2022, 11:53:12 AM
Our cats love the Sheba, so long as it does not have much fish in it. The only fish they will eat are tuna and salmon, and it must be combined with other meats. They call those tiny tubs of Sheba "Perfect Portions" But I don't think they really know what they are saying. Our cats like meal about twice what is in one tub of Sheba. What we do with the Sheba and other cat food is pop it in the microwave for just a few seconds, long enough to make it warm, not hot. That get the aroma better for their little noses. When I do the feeding time, I mix a bit of dry into it. If I feed Cookie Baby something that has gravy in it, she will suck up the gravy, and leave the actual meat. Right after she does that, a few minutes later she upchucks every time. So I figured a way out to keep the gravy from being easy to suck up. Mixing dry into it after warming it up works well. I know what her problem is when she upchucks like that. She is a constant shedder, shedding cat hair year round. As most cats are always cleaning their fur throughout the day, they need to cough up the hairballs. Cookie Baby's trigger for that is to drink a lot of gravy. Only thing is, after she coughs up a hairball that way, she loses her appetite. She started getting skinny and her ribs were beginning to show through her fur. So I had to come up with a way to get food to stay in her belly until it was digested and absorbed into her system. Warming the wet food and mixing dry into it is working really well, and she is no longer skin and bones. McCartney only upchucks once every few weeks, except in the Spring and Summer months; but even then he doesn't do it as much as Cookie Baby does. I think my girl sheds a whole other cat in hair every year!
Like you, I don't buy what the scientist say about cats. I think if our cats could talk, they would. They certainly have enough intelligence to do so. Both of our cats are always finding ways to communicate with us, and I'm sure your cat does that as well. From what you have posted in our various threads here at FA, I know Mogwai, and when he was living, Tattoo have  a good share of intelligence. My cat, Cookie Baby has awesome intelligence, to the point of being an inventor. She never ceases to amaze. As for developing relationships with their humans, you and I both know the scientists don't really know what they think they know. I have to wonder how many cats they have had in their lives! Not many, I suspect, other than just for study. They are distant and aloof, and because of that, not right to be the ones studying the feline species. Cats can sense the demeanor of a human, and will not develop a relationship with a cold and distant person. It makes that type of scientist biased in the wrong direction, and they refuse to give credit to the humans and cats that are happy together. McCartney was an alley cat when I first met him. He was not very big at that time. It only took two encounters with me for him to come to our door and decide we would be his forever family. Now he is the biggest cat in the whole neighborhood; the True Alpha, spreading his progeny all around here. He gets let in by some of our neighbors when they have a female in heat. They want him mating with their females. I think it is because of his true gentle nature. They want to produce kittens that will be as much like him as possible. Many of his offspring come to me for some love when I am out and about.
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on December 24, 2022, 07:14:04 PM
So True, for all those words, Cleve!    Tattoo was "scary smart".   I think that if we really sit and observe our furry family, we will discover that each and every one of them, whether a Cat, Dog, Bird . . . *IS* some kind of Scary Smart, in SOME way.   I was so shocked to find that my little budgie (what pet stores call a Parakeet) I had in the late 70's was able to speak English words after a while.   Tattoo would do his level best to mouth words, like "Love you" and "hungry".   But they aren't built for that kind of speak.  Doesn't stop them from trying, does it?  :o)   I hear Mogwai as he wanders through the house, making his usual patrols, muttering, trilling, softly.   But I listen for that, and encourage any speaking he wants to try.  Nearly 11 years old, and still runs and plays like a kitten.  Just not for so long AS a kitten does though.  Then, he is off to his nap.   
Yes, I know he and I will both miss Tattoo, always.    But, we have to pick ourselves up and keep living.   He would insist on that, he would!
As do you, Cleve, as do you!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on December 24, 2022, 07:20:46 PM
Hairballs.    Both mine used to do that, but I found that some cat foods are formulated to actually help control that coughing up thing.   It helps them literally pass the hair out.   Works for mine.   Even as much shedding as Mogwai does, he only rarely coughs one up now.
The vet told me that I should give mine wet food no more than once every other day, and to keep dry food out for them all the time.  So, that is what I do.  Even now.   Though  Moggie does try to talk me into something 'treat' every day!   Doing what the vet said do really helps the digestive system.   Mogwai's output is just right this way.  Ha!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on December 24, 2022, 07:28:03 PM
It is now night time, Christmas Eve, year 2022.   It has been fiercely windy and cold the last few days, with icy snow all around the neighborhood.   Today the temp got into the low 40's for a bit, with clear bright sunshine.  The snow is gone now.   The forecast for tomorrow is bright, sunny, beautiful with low in the 20's and high in the 50's, and no wind.   Promises to be one gorgeous day!

I am hoping you ALL have a wonderful Christmas.   May God Bless each and every one of you,  the Peace of Jesus be with all!  AMen!

Michael S. McCollum
   "McGrandpa"
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on December 27, 2022, 01:05:45 AM
McG. and BadMoonRYZEN wish you all the Happiest of Holidays!
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on January 01, 2023, 01:05:23 AM
It is now Sunday, January 1, 2023!   Happy New Year, everyone!
 :new_year_3:
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: DarkAngel on January 04, 2023, 01:18:15 PM
Hello McG, hope you're feeling much better. I really didn't have too much lurking around here with the problems the site was giving me [hosting issues] but that is over with our move to the new server host. We now get our site mails in a timely manner, changes stay changed, files don't go walk about...LOL

Now I need to get back into the habit of the stuff I used to do...LOL Take care of yourself. :kissie:
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: thelufias on January 04, 2023, 01:22:28 PM
Did you post that in your New Page McG....I'll say HAPPY NEW YEAR there...not here   :sure: :peep: :tearlaugh:
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on January 05, 2023, 07:39:25 PM
Yep!   I clicked your link, got to HERE, and deleted the old one and dragged this one over to the Bookmarks.  Heh!  And it is still telling me at the top of the page it is in:

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Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on January 06, 2023, 08:27:15 AM
Hi Mary!   Thanks for hollering! 

YAWN!

G'nite folks!   I be sleepy...
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: McGrandpa on January 24, 2023, 08:09:32 AM
It was a busy week last week.   Three visits to VA.  I don't mind going to, being at, the VA, it's the 3 hours drive time that's wearing.
Title: Re: Voting Time~A Name for McG's New Puter
Post by: DarkAngel on January 24, 2023, 03:44:42 PM
Since this is an old one I have locked it. So now you will need to use the new link, so if anyone can pease pm him the proper link it should work right.

remember to clear your cache and cookies and delete the old bookmark too.