Unutterably Silly So what are you doing RIGHT NOW?

[Shades67]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

It is 104 right now.

:'( we are 75 breezy. Partly cloudy with bright blue sky between clouds.

Just ordered a case for the Fire friend sent to me. It is a Beautiful magenta/purple color but so slick I am afraid I will drop it.Needs a case. Bought purple, of course.

Back to cutting rug strips and my crochet. IF I can extract kitty off my ironing board so I can use it. LOL

Stay cool as you can. I love to use my out door shower on days like you are having.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by Shades67

:'( we are 75 breezy. Partly cloudy with bright blue sky between clouds.

Just ordered a case for the Fire friend sent to me. It is a Beautiful magenta/purple color but so slick I am afraid I will drop it.Needs a case. Bought purple, of course.

Back to cutting rug strips and my crochet. IF I can extract kitty off my ironing board so I can use it. LOL

Stay cool as you can. I love to use my out door shower on days like you are having.

Ironing board? Is that the tall folding thing that is good for seams?
Oh wait if you keep it open, it makes a good catch -all.

[Shades67]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Ironing board? Is that the tall folding thing that is good for seams?
Oh wait if you keep it open, it makes a good catch -all.

Hahaha Yes that is the thing. It makes for a good adjustable height table in front of my recliner to cut the strips on. I do seem to sew quite a bit and use it for pressing seams. Rarely for pressing clothes.

One more long side of rug to do with scallop edging and I am done. Need to cut more strips though.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by Shades67

Hahaha Yes that is the thing. It makes for a good adjustable height table in front of my recliner to cut the strips on. I do seem to sew quite a bit and use it for pressing seams. Rarely for pressing clothes.

One more long side of rug to do with scallop edging and I am done. Need to cut more strips though.

Press clothes???? Does not compute.
Though hey thanks. You just gave me an idea. I can use that board to sort cookbooks.
See water cooler thread.

[Rumpelteazer]

Originally Posted by Shades67

Rumpelteaser I think it would be great to watch a TV series all the way through instead of having to wait a week between each episode.

It really depends on the series for me. Some I don't mind watching only one episode a week, there are series I save a bunch of episodes from before watching them in one go and other series I wait for a season to end before starting on it.

Originally Posted by Shades67

I am working on crocheting a rug today. I started it over a month ago. A bit hard on my hands. I can only do so much at one time. Also listening to my book with headphones while hubby watches TV. Walked to town for the mail earlier and about to do lunch for hubby. We had record breaking rains yesterday from way back to early 1900's. I was surprised to see so much rain and not surprised it was record breaking for this time in July. I did have to get out and cut back another tree over my patio because the rains were about to break down the branches.I managed with a good soaking.It was not cold. The sky is getting darker by the moment and I suspect more rains are coming. Fine by me.

We've had a record amount of rain in June, especially in the Southern part of the country. It has caused a lot of problems for farmers and it's been predicted that certain fruit and vegetables will be hard to get. There was also a very hard hail storm in the south. Which caused a lot of damage to roofs, houses, cars and also greenhouses.

I love a thunderstorm, but even I got fed up with them when they occurred almost every night and lasted for more than an hour.

Right now we've got up and down weather: a couple of days of hot (25C+) weather, followed by a week of temperatures that are normal or cool for the time of year, often with rain before temperatures rise again to too hot and humid to be comfortable.

[Cinisajoy]

Hey Rumpelteazer,
Can I come visit? I will bring my jacket.
The high here has been over 40 C for the last 3 weeks.
Your highs are lower than our lows.

[Rumpelteazer]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Hey Rumpelteazer,
Can I come visit? I will bring my jacket.
The high here has been over 40 C for the last 3 weeks.
Your highs are lower than our lows.

You're welcome, you do need to like humidity, though. When it's warm it's usually humid and sticky.

I don't do heat very well, never have. My mother was able to sunbathe for hours on end when my grandparents had a holiday home (they stayed in the smaller boat house and we always stayed all summer in the big house). I never lasted more than five minutes before retreating indoors with a book or getting on my bike and cycle around the lakes.

Three years ago I got eczema (which get worse when it's warm or when I'm stressed) and sun allergy. At the time I was dog sitting and I never spend long in the sun. But part of my skin got a bit swollen, red, flaky and itchy. So even for dog walks or cycling home/the store and back I now use sunscreen.

However, last year when we went to Krakow we had several days of what I would call hot weather (25C+) in the Netherlands and one day over 30C. But it was a different kind of heat. Only on the 30C+ day did I really get hot and when you sat in the shade for 5 or 10 minutes and had a drink or, even better, and ice cream you would feel better immediately. That has never worked for me like that in the Netherlands.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer

You're welcome, you do need to like humidity, though. When it's warm it's usually humid and sticky.

I don't do heat very well, never have. My mother was able to sunbathe for hours on end when my grandparents had a holiday home (they stayed in the smaller boat house and we always stayed all summer in the big house). I never lasted more than five minutes before retreating indoors with a book or getting on my bike and cycle around the lakes.

Three years ago I got eczema (which get worse when it's warm or when I'm stressed) and sun allergy. At the time I was dog sitting and I never spend long in the sun. But part of my skin got a bit swollen, red, flaky and itchy. So even for dog walks or cycling home/the store and back I now use sunscreen.

However, last year when we went to Krakow we had several days of what I would call hot weather (25C+) in the Netherlands and one day over 30C. But it was a different kind of heat. Only on the 30C+ day did I really get hot and when you sat in the shade for 5 or 10 minutes and had a drink or, even better, and ice cream you would feel better immediately. That has never worked for me like that in the Netherlands.

Sounds like you could thrive out here. Except for a few thunderstorms, we are reasonably dry. I live in a desert.

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by Shades67

Thank you. Very valid points Dennis. I remember seeing the magical number of 1250 books in my Library so not as many as most here. Guess I should leave more tags. What was frustrating me was later finding them in so many different tag places. I know this is the whole point.

Whether you should have more tags will depend on the size of your library, the sort of things you read, and how hard it is to identify a specific volume in a search.

My eBook library is much larger than yours, and I consequently need finer distinctions and more tags.

One thing I've been looking at in the background is solutions outside of Calibre for some kinds of searches. Calibre does a wonderful job of searching the book's metadata to zero in on volumes. What I'd like to do in many cases is search the book's content. This is not something Calibre can do, and it's made more complicated by the number of eBook formats out there. By preference, I get volumes in ePub format, and can convert using Calibre if needed to something else. (My old Palm TX PDA has a Mobipocket viewer, for instance, but Palm went away before ePub was designed. I've use Calibre on occasion to convert ePub->Mobi so I can read a volume on the TX.

I also have books in PDF, DjVu, HTML and a few other forms. There doesn't happen to be a generalized search utility that can open all of them and search the content, and I'm not sure individual specialized tools exist for all of them.

What I would probably need to do is use Calibre to convert to HTML, for which search tools exist, but that's only reasonable for a small fraction of the total number I have.

I read mostly simple stupid to calm my brain right now. I have interests in herbal treatments and art, self help for coping. Decor, mystery, adventure. I am not a very deep reader and with so many free books if it does not grab me in the first two chapters it is gone. Too many really good books out there. I am listening to A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and reading a mystery/action right now well not this minute. One in my studio listening and one reading in bed to go to sleep.

An old friend talked about a "comfortable old shoe" feel for books he re-read. I thought that was apt. I have a few volumes I will re-read for precisely that reason. I am already very familiar with the book, and may have read it many times, but it fits a particular mood and gets the nod. (Tolkien's Lord of the Rings is a particular example here.)

Today it is pouring down rain. Woo Hoo. So happy for the rain and also I spent a couple hours after dinner working in the yard instead of putting it off for today. I am hoping to get more meta data for my books in Calibre. I did manage to get all my books there. On my laptop. Need to figure how to save this externally just in case my computer goes for the big crash. I saw some thing about importing/exporting Need to explore more on this. I have the Calibre forum marked. I just need time to play more with it. A few must do projects then play time for me.

My master library lives in a Calibre Library directory on a hard drive. A copy lives on the USB thumb drive. I handle backup outside of Calibre itself. After a session of additions and library maintenance, I use an open source program called Free File Sync, and point it at the Calibre Library directory and the USB thumb drive. It analyzes both, the makes the necessary moves and changes to make the copy on the thumb drive a duplicate of what's on the hard drive.
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Dennis

[cromag]

Right now I'm sweating and panting after spending the afternoon doing yardwork in the steambath outisde.

[Blossom]

It's days like this makes me glad I don't have a yard. In the cool a/c but it's been overcast a lot today. I'm trying to decide between napping or reading. The cats are napping.

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[Cinisajoy]

Watching America's Got Talent and sweating.

[Shades67]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Press clothes???? Does not compute.
Though hey thanks. You just gave me an idea. I can use that board to sort cookbooks.
See water cooler thread.

I will look for it Cinisajoy.

I was catching up on email after being gone all day and playing catch up when we got home from chemo day. I looked up to mentally compose my thoughts and looked out the living room door window and this guy came to dine on the sagebrush on our hill. Even though we do live in the city we are pretty rural.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/5018566...posted-public/

Still more chores to get done before my head hits the bed.

[Blossom]

I'm watching my cats play tag. It's a miracle. Maisy my oldest has been on a Pepcid for three days and it is working. She has kept food down shows no signs of nausea. She's more energetic and she's seems able to get up and down better. She's 14 years old. The vet didn't have any real options. I refuse to give up that easy.

She woke me up this morning because she was bored. It's good to have my girl back.

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[Cinisajoy]

Great to hear blossom.