The Anchorage, Part 3

[Dreamer]

Duck? More like run! You dare mention fresh prawns for dinner and didn't save me any?

 

[Mythocentric]

Sad to say Dreamer, you and I both had a bit of competition:

1: She's called Lucy!
2: She's 6 years old!
3: She loves prawns!
4: She apparently has a bottomless stomach! Especially when it comes to prawns (and crab!)

 

[Dreamer]

LOL Myth sounds like me with my boy, he likes the same foods I do and has ten times the capacity for inhaling them. He's 9 and very fast

 

[Lorraine]

No prawns here but no worries, there’s new season Granny Smith apples straight from my son’s orchard so crisp, so juicy, so yum!

 

[Terre]

Good whatever-time-of-day it is where you guys are.

 

[Lorraine]

Hello from Friday and Sans Souci, just before I make my way to bed where I shall go to sleep knowing I don’t have to get up early. It took four separate alarms going off to get me up, coffeed, dressed and ashore to meet my friend at 11.30...I am SO not a morning person! Night all!

 

[Miss B]

I know the feeling Lorraine. I absolutely abhor getting up early. I am so NOT a morning person either.

Rest easy.

 

[Satira Capriccio]

Miss B, I'm surprised it's been that cold at night up in NYC. I've been sleeping under a light throw for the last week or so, and that's been too much a few nights. I ended up throwing it off a couple nights last week.

March and April are usually pretty rough here because the temperature outside isn't high enough for the heat to kick on, and with a north and northwestern exposure, it's usually late April before I start getting any sun (and consequently, heat) through the windows in the late afternoon. Tsuki has been enjoying that the last week or so. It's been a couple weeks now since I've had to turn the heat on to take the chill off when I'm working at the computer.

While I love being in an end apartment, having two walls exposed to the weather sometimes keeps my apartment just too cold in the spring and fall months when it's not cold enough outside to justify turning on the heat.

 

[Satira Capriccio]

Update on my computer. The hard drive has indeed failed. So ... a new drive (SSD 2TB) is on order from Amazon, and is supposed to arrive tomorrow. Then it can be installed in my computer.

While I could reinstall my runtimes, I'm hoping he can recover them so I don't have to reinstall. Of course, I can't remember where exactly they are ... other than in My Documents. But I can't remember if they are inside the Design 3D folder and whether there is another folder inside that one. Of course, I can't just open Explorer and look, because ... 1. The computer is in the shop. and 2. The Hard Drive failed!

I need to take screenshots and store them in Google!

Since I had to have my hard drive rebuilt some months (or has it been a year now?) ago, I have all my documents, whether text, Poser, Photoshop, Silo, etc., backed up with Google Backup & Sync. So, I've not lost any development work (or that runtime). I also now backup the AppData / Roaming folders, so I will also be able to restore the Photoshop and Filter Forge presets and filters.

 

[Miss B]

March and April are usually pretty rough here because the temperature outside isn't high enough for the heat to kick on, and with a north and northwestern exposure, it's usually late April before I start getting any sun (and consequently, heat) through the windows in the late afternoon. Tsuki has been enjoying that the last week or so. It's been a couple weeks now since I've had to turn the heat on to take the chill off when I'm working at the computer.

While I love being in an end apartment, having two walls exposed to the weather sometimes keeps my apartment just too cold in the spring and fall months when it's not cold enough outside to justify turning on the heat.

That's exactly my problem as well. I don't have much of an issue during the day, as a long sleeve shirt, instead of a t-shirt, will work, but at night, my bedroom has one window facing north, and a double window facing west, and when the wind is blowing 30-40 mph, it's just totally unbearable. I had opened one of the double windows a few weeks ago, because it was comfortable enough to utilize the cross ventilation, but the past few days, I've had to close it, AND the single window I usually have open all the time.

They're predicting weather up in the 60s during the day next week, so the nights should be more comfortable, hopefully.

 

[Pendraia]

Hello all, wintery here in Melbourne too!

@Lorraine installing the solar panels sounds painful but worth the cost I hope! It has been for us. Our summer quarter power bill was a total of $61 dollars which was very cool...unfortunately the winter one is still higher...need an alternate source of power for winter.

 

[Dreamer]

I wish I could put solar in here too but renting its not an option
Its actually slightly warmer today than yesterday but not by much lol. The one thing I do like about it getting colder, being able to burrow under the biggest pile of blankets you can imagine every night without over heating

 

[Pendraia]

My daughter likes to do that...she prefers the weight of the blankets.

 

[Dreamer]

yep, there is just something nice about the weight of nice warm blankets over you

 

[Lorraine]

Hello all, wintery here in Melbourne too!

@Lorraine installing the solar panels sounds painful but worth the cost I hope! It has been for us. Our summer quarter power bill was a total of $61 dollars which was very cool...unfortunately the winter one is still higher...need an alternate source of power for winter.

So worth it, Pen! My petrol cost for the gennie was nearly zero during the summer, and that was only for the computer if I needed it at night. I want 330w more in panels which is the max my regulator can handle...the gennie would then only be for extended rubbish weather periods.

 

[Pendraia]

Sounds good Lorraine...I hope you get the extra panels you want.

 

[Terre]

Lorraine, I hope you can get that working the way you want it.

 

[Dreamer]

Morning. Looks like another sunny but cool day here. Trying to wake up enough to at least try and be productive

 

[Mythocentric]

Good morrow, good morrow
Oh sweet Hivewire dreamers,
Have joy and be free from all skivers and scheamers,
Glance out of ye window to check on t' weather.
Oh bugger, it's raining,
Oh dear! Well I never!

 

[Miss B]

We're supposed to have rain most of the time over the weekend. I'm not too happy about it, but you can't change Mother Nature. She'll do whatever she wants, no matter what we would prefer.