What Are You Doing Right Now
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@coliver said:
@Dashrender said:
@coliver said:
My wife and family are still in Florida, they are passively swimming with Manatees today.
I did the swimming with dolphins thing a few years ago...
But it wasn't in the open ocean, or even a very large pool/tank - so I'd like another go in the ocean, get to a faster speed.
I'm not sure how it is going to go. By law in Florida you can't touch a manatee, you can be in the water around them but can't actively interact with them. The way around it is to just float and they, being extremely curious, will just swim up to you. It sounds like a cool experience but it has been so warm lately that they may not be in their winter locations.
We were in the Bahamas. We did dolphins one day and rays another. The rays were a lot more fun, even though it was much cooler, bordering on being cold. I think the dolphins would have been more fun with a larger area though, hence why I want to try again.
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@coliver said:
@Dashrender said:
@coliver said:
My wife and family are still in Florida, they are passively swimming with Manatees today.
I did the swimming with dolphins thing a few years ago...
But it wasn't in the open ocean, or even a very large pool/tank - so I'd like another go in the ocean, get to a faster speed.
I'm not sure how it is going to go. By law in Florida you can't touch a manatee, you can be in the water around them but can't actively interact with them. The way around it is to just float and they, being extremely curious, will just swim up to you. It sounds like a cool experience but it has been so warm lately that they may not be in their winter locations.
We went to the Miami Sea-quarium once. They have a habitat for huge manatees there, so we got to check them out... but not actually in the water with them. I just like to say "habitat for huge manatees".
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@art_of_shred said:
@coliver said:
@Dashrender said:
@coliver said:
My wife and family are still in Florida, they are passively swimming with Manatees today.
I did the swimming with dolphins thing a few years ago...
But it wasn't in the open ocean, or even a very large pool/tank - so I'd like another go in the ocean, get to a faster speed.
I'm not sure how it is going to go. By law in Florida you can't touch a manatee, you can be in the water around them but can't actively interact with them. The way around it is to just float and they, being extremely curious, will just swim up to you. It sounds like a cool experience but it has been so warm lately that they may not be in their winter locations.
We went to the Miami Sea-quarium once. They have a habitat for huge manitees there, so we got to check them out... but not actually in the water with them. I just like to say "habitat for huge manitees".
There is a national park a few minutes from my parent's in Florida. There is a natural hot spring feeding a small tributary, it is where manatees tend to winter. It is really cool to watch them just kind of hang out.
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The hot water is back on. Internet has been out thrice this morning, thus far.
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@scottalanmiller said:
The hot water is back on. Internet has been out thrice this morning, thus far.
How is your hot water supplied? electric or gas? on-demand?
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@gjacobse said:
@scottalanmiller said:
The hot water is back on. Internet has been out thrice this morning, thus far.
How is your hot water supplied? electric or gas? on-demand?
It's provided by the "hotel" portion of the complex. Boiler I'm guessing.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@gjacobse said:
@scottalanmiller said:
The hot water is back on. Internet has been out thrice this morning, thus far.
How is your hot water supplied? electric or gas? on-demand?
It's provided by the "hotel" portion of the complex. Boiler I'm guessing.
Is this at Joe's, or in Galveston?
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Ha ha.
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Latest in the Windows 10 / Edge saga. Now there is no working back button. It's just greyed out, all of the time.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Latest in the Windows 10 / Edge saga. Now there is no working back button. It's just greyed out, all of the time.
even after a reboot?
Did you install any software recently?
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Updated the GeForce drivers, finally. Had to do it manually, the GeForce Experience was never working. That's working now, though. So small improvements.
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Came in for christmas maintenance only to find the place is jumping and full of staff... I'm not sure if they're all hiding from their families or what, but I'm going to start powering shit off like I just don't care
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@MattSpeller said:
Came in for christmas maintenance only to find the place is jumping and full of staff... I'm not sure if they're all hiding from their families or what, but I'm going to start powering shit off like I just don't care
Christmas was last week. Do you normally have the week between Christmas and New Years off?
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@coliver said:
@MattSpeller said:
Came in for christmas maintenance only to find the place is jumping and full of staff... I'm not sure if they're all hiding from their families or what, but I'm going to start powering shit off like I just don't care
Christmas was last week. Do you normally have the week between Christmas and New Years off?
yeah this year was 24 -> jan4 all paid
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@MattSpeller said:
@coliver said:
@MattSpeller said:
Came in for christmas maintenance only to find the place is jumping and full of staff... I'm not sure if they're all hiding from their families or what, but I'm going to start powering shit off like I just don't care
Christmas was last week. Do you normally have the week between Christmas and New Years off?
yeah this year was 24 -> jan4 all paid
Wow, that's a long time.
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@coliver said:
@MattSpeller said:
@coliver said:
@MattSpeller said:
Came in for christmas maintenance only to find the place is jumping and full of staff... I'm not sure if they're all hiding from their families or what, but I'm going to start powering shit off like I just don't care
Christmas was last week. Do you normally have the week between Christmas and New Years off?
yeah this year was 24 -> jan4 all paid
Wow, that's a long time.
Its normal here for salaried staff, and greatly enjoyed
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@coliver said:
@MattSpeller said:
Came in for christmas maintenance only to find the place is jumping and full of staff... I'm not sure if they're all hiding from their families or what, but I'm going to start powering shit off like I just don't care
Christmas was last week. Do you normally have the week between Christmas and New Years off?
Nope. They have 1/2 day Xmas eve, then return to work Dec 26 (if not a weekend) and work full on up to and including Dec 31, off for Jan 1, then back to work Jan 2 (again if not weekend).
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Heading over to the sister in law's house. Last day seeing them till summer.
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We took the 24th from 12pm till this morning off and will do that again for the 31st at 12pm - Monday the 4th off.
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It was nice having time off,.. but so so glad to be back in the office... nice and quiet!!!! Doing my best to 'work' and not kill time on Steam: Vega Conflict or in FO3..
After the beating my wallet has taken the last bit,.. I'm trying to hold off on the NAS and RPi build I have planned... Need to hold off until after the 4th when we return from Virginia.
