What are you doing today?

[anewbie]

I'd take the salt bath but lately it's the epsom salt bath

Doesn't epsom salt make people poop.

 

[GaryE]

There's one day every Spring when the buds on the trees thicken enough that they're almost leaves. You may not get that farther south, but the buds begin to filter light, and green begins to take over again after a winter of brown and grey. All of a sudden the coarse green of the pines isn't the only version of that fine colour you see. Today's that day. It's running late, but it's arrived at last.

I'll be out in the garden for much of the morning, then in the fishroom come the afternoon.

 

[Back in the fold]

If you want to build some mental toughness, try a Tabasco Sauce bath.

That’s where that really tight fitting pair of rubber underwear comes in .

 

[GaryE]

On the weekend, I passed by the grave of Robert Ross. He was an Anglo-Irish commander of British and Canadian troops in the war of 1812. He personally lit the flames that burned down the White House in 1814. He was killed by a sniper outside Baltimore weeks later, put in a vat and pickled in Jamaican Rum, then shipped up to Nova Scotia for burial.

Pickled in rum. I imagine, that in turn would have made him a very flammable fellow from an incendiary period in history.

 

[Back in the fold]

Was he pickled before or after the snipers bullet croaked him ?

 

[WhistlingBadger]

I knew a guy in college who was pickled in rum most of the time. He also spoke about history a lot, but he made a lot less sense than Gary.

 

[jaylach]

upgraded my ubuntu 20.04 computer to 24.04 and it was 'fun' only took 4 hours. These upgrades never work. The snap stuff is crap and doesn't work and all sort of other gripes but i did get it updated. Only thing i haven't tested is if nfs still works.

Haven't experienced the update issue with Linux Mint.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

I’m hanging out on the stage waiting for my 4-5 kids to show up for rehearsal. It’s going to be a fun afternoon.

 

[GaryE]

I’m hanging out on the stage waiting for my 4-5 kids to show up for rehearsal. It’s going to be a fun afternoon.

To this, I offer the Bugs Bunny theme. It's in your mind, like a spectre, waiting to be called up...

 

[anewbie]

Haven't experienced the update issue with Linux Mint.

But i'm too heavily integrated in zfs and i don't want to go back to building custom kernels.... else i would seriously consider dropping ubuntu.

 

[jaylach]

But i'm too heavily integrated in zfs and i don't want to go back to building custom kernels.... else i would seriously consider dropping ubuntu.

Not saying that you should change. I'm just a bit surprised you are having the update issues with Ubunto as I have none with Linux Mint which is based on Ubuntu and Debian.

 

[anewbie]

Not saying that you should change. I'm just a bit surprised you are having the update issues with Ubunto as I have none with Linux Mint which is based on Ubuntu and Debian.

Not sure - also i have problem with suspend locking my system - it is a rather old mb with a 2500k; and the z68 were not exceptional as they were the first cut for the new generation of processors. I've been meaning to upgrade the mb the last couple of years which is one of the reasons for the jump to 24 (newer kernel); the other thing that has been a real head-ache is snap; it is broken on my system (snap aps won't accept keystrokes); so i had to back those apps out and add in the repository for thunderbird, chrome and firefox stuff like that. The jump from 20-22 the dist-upgrade outright failed but i was able to get into the system via recovery and fix it well enough to go from 22 to 24.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

My kids absolutely rocked their concert tonight. I hoped they would--they really put in the hard work in the music room, and they deserved to experience a great concert and a happy audience. Their opening medley, their original songs, and their finale (a cover of CCR's "Down on the Corner") were all great. Got a standing O, and did "Home on the Range" for an encore, having the audience sing along on the chorus. Great time.

 

[GaryE]

Excellent.

As a teacher, you never know which of these experiences will be important to those kids. You just keep trying things and running things for them, and it sometimes catches' and starts something that becomes part of them.

On Sunday, I got an e-mail from a 35 year old man with a script he wanted me to read. It's really good. He had been in my after school creative writer's workshop in High School. At 16, he showed talent but didn't focus, and I guess life's circumstances have let him decide to develop that. Maybe one of those singers will create something in the future, because their music teacher encouraged them to consider the possibility they could.

 

[Oldspartan]

What do you read? I'm mostly sci-FY and fantasy. I read pretty constantly. In fact I soaked today in a hot salted bath reading for a couple of hours. Actually I do a lot of my reading in a bath tub. After a reading bath I still have to take a shower to get rid of the crud that has left my body while soaking.

I am also a SCI FI fan but find the more recent efforts lacking. I miss Asimov. I read the four volumes of Lord of the Rings annually and also read Beren and Lúthien and the Fall of Gondolin as well as The Silmarillon. I have a couple of his other books on the bookshelf but have yet to read them, will have to fix that.

I read pretty widely though and am currently reading The American by Henry James. Finished a book on Farm Poultry Sunday to refresh my memory, what with Linda's new endeavor.