As noted with the 'Tap tap tap' message, things have been pretty quiet around here.
Maybe we just need something to talk about??

So, what have you all planned to do this March?

I know for me, I have a ton of work to do on my cars. My wife's car has a bad emissions sensor that needs replacement... my 87 Mercury and 78 Ford both have some rust issues I need to take care of..

I also have some code changes for my BBS as well, but the car stuff is priority once the weather gets nicer.

Anyway, how about you?



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slacker wrote to All <=-

So, what have you all planned to do this March?

Anyway, how about you?

March got much busier than we expected.

We got a deal on getting our walls painted, so we're dealing with that disruption.

Then our chest freezer died unexpectedly. So that's getting replaced Tues.

Hopefully the rest of our March is less "interesting".


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slacker wrote to All <=-

As noted with the 'Tap tap tap' message, things have been pretty quiet around here. Maybe we just need something to talk about??

So, what have you all planned to do this March?

I know for me, I have a ton of work to do on my cars. My wife's car has
a bad emissions sensor that needs replacement... my 87 Mercury and 78
Ford both have some rust issues I need to take care of..

I also have some code changes for my BBS as well, but the car stuff is priority once the weather gets nicer.

Anyway, how about you?

March is the beginning of "yardwork season" here. I've got plenty of
tree limbs to trim up, sticks to gather, and general cleanup outside.
Late in the month will be the first grass mowing and fertilizer
application.

Since it's starting to warm up enough to be tolerable outside, I'll also
be heading to the shooting range more often, for rifle/pistol practice
and Skeet/Sporting Clays fun.

Probably will need to do some pressure washing of driveway/walkways too.



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slacker wrote to All <=-

So, what have you all planned to do this March?

Uncover the barbecue and make a steak. Been jonesing for meat in a house
full of vegetarians.




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So, what have you all planned to do this March?

I have a ton of old tech in the attic that I want to get on eBay this month. A bunch of old ISA can AGP cards.

Going to try and finish my training on Ansible, I'm halfway there.

Was hopeful that we saw the last of winter, but it snowed today. >:(

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On 01 Mar 2025 at 06:43a, slacker pondered and said...

Maybe we just need something to talk about??

So, what have you all planned to do this March?

Well for me March is the slide towards Autumn. Daylight savings ends here in early April.

This weekend I have been painting a section of my house which was overdue for attention. It's a fiddly area that requires time spent on the roof in order to reach some of the weather boards.

It's slow but steady progress, spent about 5 hours on it y/day but paying the price today... my aches have aches :)

There are other home maintained things I should/could be doing before the daylight hours and temps drop again... a garden shed roof is rusting so it needs some rust killer on it and a paint... and there's a bit near out kitchen that needs some roof paint applied as well.

All of which I am planning on doing but taking a one job at a time approach.

Next month I'm traveling to help my Dad de-clutter his place as we prep it for sale, he wants to move to a retirement village... it's something I have been helping him with over recent years while my mums health declined... but now that she has passed (last Oct) I think the push is on to get the place listed in the coming year and make the move.

While I am looking forward to seeing my Dad the notion of watching your family home of 50+ years get slowly de-constructed is not one I relish.

There's also some family birthdays this month, one tomorrow in fact so we have some kids around today for a shared lunch that will be nice :)

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Well, hopefully this cold weather will break. I have had both my knees replaced over the last 2 years. I'm going to put them to the test this year. My goal is to ride 2,500 miles on my bike in 6 months. So Hopefully, I will be able to start in March!

-Scuz

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Anyway, how about you?

Working on a kitchen remodel that we are mainly doing ourselves.

Just finished getting the island built and installed.

Tomorrow will be finishing up the panels on the back and side of the islands with some handles, then trimming the bottom front...

Oh joys.... :p Been working on this house since August 2024, since move in date.

Once the kitchen is complete, I have to start on the basement and my office. I'm actually looking forward to getting my own office space that's behind a closed door... Hoping to get some of my computer stuff on display, and doing a L-shape desk.....

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I just rented a carper shampooer - we had an older dog pass away a while ago and fostered a dog with Nervous Pee Syndrome.

It's always amazing how much dirt those things pick up. The house smells FRESH!

The girl at the counter rang it up, and under RETURN BY, she put 2/29, 3pm. We could have kept it until 2028!
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Re: March Plans?
By: niter3 to slacker on Sat Mar 01 2025 08:39 pm

Once the kitchen is complete, I have to start on the basement and my office. I'm actually looking forward to getting my own office space that's behind a closed door... Hoping to get some of my computer stuff on display, and doing a L-shape desk.....

I hate my office wall color, it's a pale blue along with the rest of the house. I'd like to go for a neutral gray, especially with me working on camera from home, but I have an antique armoire I had to screw into the wall and wouldn't be able to paint around it. I'd like a door, have a doorway but nowhere for the door to go.

It's not too bad, I'm alone during the day so there are no interruptions, but it opens up to the living room and noisy keyboards aren't appreciated after business hours.
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As noted with the 'Tap tap tap' message, things have been pretty quiet around here.
Maybe we just need something to talk about??

So, what have you all planned to do this March?

I know for me, I have a ton of work to do on my cars. My wife's car has
a bad emissions sensor that needs replacement... my 87 Mercury and 78
Ford both have some rust issues I need to take care of..

I also have some code changes for my BBS as well, but the car stuff is priority once the weather gets nicer.

Anyway, how about you?

Wait - I'm supposed to do something different because March? Gosh - I'm still not over February - have I paid all the bills? NO!?!?
OMG. I'm behind the 8ball..



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Re: March Plans?
By: slacker to All on Sat Mar 01 2025 06:43 am

Me and a friend of mine have started collaborating in music so I guess my plans for March are to release something with said friend of mine... Other than that I don't really know. I'll just let things come I guess.
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I hate my office wall color, it's a pale blue along with the rest of the house. I'd like to go for a neutral gray, especially with me working on camera from home, but I have an antique armoire I had to screw into the wall and wouldn't be able to paint around it. I'd like a door, have a doorway but nowhere for the door to go.

It's not too bad, I'm alone during the day so there are no
interruptions, but it opens up to the living room and noisy keyboards aren't appreciated after business hours.

Got'cha...

My plan is to re-stud to put in new plugs, run ethernet, run new lighting, sound proof between the laundry room and office, and put a door on the office as I mentioned.

We have 3 young kids at home, and they can get loud at times....

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niter3 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

My plan is to re-stud to put in new plugs, run ethernet, run new
lighting, sound proof between the laundry room and office, and put a
door on the office as I mentioned.

We have 3 young kids at home, and they can get loud at times....

I've got the opposite problem - I'm the one making the noise. :)

If I do any work to the office, I'll want to build a server enclosure
somewhere so I can put my noisy NAS somewhere.



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Re: Re: March Plans?
By: Uber-Geek to slacker on Sat Mar 01 2025 11:53 am

Going to try and finish my training on Ansible, I'm halfway there.

You just training on ansible itself, or for something like RCSE that requires ansible knowledge?

I've been doing some myself over the last two years. That exam is a difficult one in 4 hours.

Good luck with your traning however you doing it.
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If I do any work to the office, I'll want to build a server enclosure somewhere so I can put my noisy NAS somewhere.

Luckly, I managed to put my server rack in a small utility room in my basement.

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niter3 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Luckly, I managed to put my server rack in a small utility room in my

basemen

t.

I have a storage area - I used to run the BBS on bare metal in there
over PowerLine Ethernet. It wouldn't take a whole lot to run a couple of Ethernets from there to my bedroom, where the modem is...



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Re: Re: March Plans?
By: poindexter FORTRAN to niter3 on Thu Mar 06 2025 07:00 am

I have a storage area - I used to run the BBS on bare metal in there over PowerLine Ethernet. It wouldn't take a whole lot to run a couple of Ethernets from there to my bedroom, where the modem is...

I used to use powerline ethernet as well. When I had lived in my house (which I sold in a divorce), the powerline ethernet connection dropped every so often; the wiring in that house may have been spotty. In the apartment I live in now, I used powerline ethernet for a while to connect my fiber ONT to my office room, and it seemed fairly reliable in my apartment. I was using fairly fast powerline ethernet adapters (some of the fastest rated on the market), and at the time, I think I was getting around 150 megabit through them, which I felt was plenty, as my internet was 100 megabit at the time. But I've since upgraded my internet speed (I have gigabit for the time being), and I bought a very long ethernet cable and ran it down the hall to the closet in the other room where the ONT is. I bought some small cable ducting/raceway pieces for the ethernet cable too, so it doesn't look too janky down the hall, and some pieces which have sticky sides which go up the door frame & on the wall... I'll have to remove all that when I move out, and I hope it won't cause much of an asthetic issue when they're peeled off..

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Re: Re: March Plans?
By: poindexter FORTRAN to niter3 on Thu Mar 06 2025 07:00 am

I have a storage area - I used to run the BBS on bare metal in there over PowerLine Ethernet. It wouldn't take a whole lot to run a couple of Ethernets from there to my bedroom, where the modem is...

I used to use powerline ethernet as well. When I had lived in my house (which I sold in a divorce), the powerline ethernet connection dropped every so often; the wiring in that house may have been spotty.

My house has 2 breaker boxes. As long as the powerline adapters were on
the same breaker box, they were rock solid. Cable modem to BBS was rock
solid, around 120 mbps. Cable modem to my office was dodgy, same thing
- you'd need to reset them once a month or so, and I only got 40 mbps
through them.




In the

apartment I live in now, I used powerline ethernet for a while to
connect my fiber ONT to my office room, and it seemed fairly reliable
in my apartment. I was using fairly fast powerline ethernet adapters (some of the fastest rated on the market), and at the time, I think I
was getting around 150 megabit through them, which I felt was plenty,
as my internet was 100 megabit at the time. But I've since upgraded my internet speed (I have gigabit for the time being), and I bought a very long ethernet cable and ran it down the hall to the closet in the other room where the ONT is. I bought some small cable ducting/raceway
pieces for the ethernet cable too, so it doesn't look too janky down
the hall, and some pieces which have sticky sides which go up the door frame & on the wall... I'll have to remove all that when I move out,
and I hope it won't cause much of an asthetic issue when they're peeled off..

Nightfox
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Re: March Plans?
By: niter3 to slacker on Sat Mar 01 2025 08:39 pm

I hate my office wall color, it's a pale blue along with the rest of the house. I'd like to go for a neutral gray, especially with me working on camera from home, but I have an antique armoire I had to screw into the wall and wouldn't be able to paint around it. I'd like a door, have a doorway but nowhere for the door to go.

It's not too bad, I'm alone during the day so there are no interruptions, but it opens up to the living room and noisy keyboards aren't appreciated after business hours.
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For Your doorway, would a Pocket Door do?
Ed
P.S. when I sectioned off my builtin garage I put a Pocket Door to one area . Slides in and out.
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Ed Vance wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

P.S. when I sectioned off my builtin garage I put a Pocket Door to one area . Slides in and out.

I wish it would. My office has a weird wall, the door opening is on a
cutout at an angle to the main wall with nowhere for the wall to slide
into.



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Same boat here
Multiple noisy racks - new property has two dwellings, so I claimed the
second one as my office, tech / server room, and the workshop will be the
other end (once I get it emptied from the piles of boxes and stuff still packed)...

Wife does have a desk in the office - which is great! But until I sort out
the noisy rack (closing up the wall, adding doors, sound reduction, and additional AC), she doesn't use the space that much.

Many renovations to happen - many dollars and hours required... Just working though some debt reduction at the moment before I start spending $$$...

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