What are you doing today?

Haven't done much yet today -- did shoot a few photos of the Hooded Mergansers, who were again frolicking and fishing in front of my deck and around the area of the pier. Later will probably go to the library to pick up three books which are being held for me and to return the four that I've read.
 
Thomas Veil said:
As for me, I was watching Ohio State-Michigan State until the score got so lopsided it was a snooze fest. I don't know why they didn't pull CJ Stroud. It was getting embarrassing. Plus, Meeeeshigan is next week. 😁
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I wasn't able to watch it, but as I kept checking scores, that one stunned me. Was not expecting a blowout like that. :eek:

However, the game I did get to watch (Oregon-Utah) certainly doesn't help OSU's strength of schedule.

As for me today, I will be tiling the shower in the guest bath. Hope to finish it today, at least all the tile up.
 
I've been doing a lot of shooting this past week and today I really need to sit down and cull the files so that I can discard the images I won't be doing anything with and set aside the images that I will edit at some point even if not right now, etc. I tend to skip the culling, which really should be done BEFORE I even think about editing anything, but often after shooting I tend to quickly skim through images, find a few that I edit immediately and then the file sits there filled with many images which will never see the light of day and this takes up valuable storage space in my external SSDs and archival drives.
 
Celebrating a very smooth port of my cellphone number from one carrier to another (in the end, after a rough patch during some of the preparations, involving conversations with 9 AT&T reps over the course of five hours, yeah) after taking my line from an AT&T postpaid to an AT&T prepaid and finally to an existing T-mobile postpaid setup.

Turns out that there is no normal course of communications whatsoever between AT&T postpaid and prepaid account systems, even if the phone number and gear involved are one and the same. Idiotic. Truly idiotic. Also at least their prepaid back-end system is positively archaic, I think those poor souls must actually still be looking at green screens hooked up to machines running at 12MHz.

The last bit, though, the actual porting request and its fulfillment, occurred in less than one minute during a three-way conversation among myself and both carriers. Sometimes porting can take a month but I was careful to ensure there was no reason to delay, which can happen over need to issue a final partial-month bill for a postpaid setup. Hence my transition to prepaid for a month and then to the T-mobile postpaid. Party time!

And I'm saving about $35 a month over my AT&T postpaid plan with much better customer service. I know this from having established the T-mobile setup a while ago with a temporary number. So now the budget supports some high end popcorn with the movies... and Netflix can quit wondering if I'm going to bail just because I watch more HBO Max these days than Netflix originals or Spanish telenovela series.
 
citypix said:
Thinking about doing an unboxing set of photos of an IMSAI 8080 computer that I've had stored in a box underneath different houses I've lived in over the years.
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I've been thinking about unboxing some gizmo that came in a box the size of a basketball that supposedly hooked up to one or both of the RS-422 ports on a Mac512k and provided extended functionality... that gizmo and I are both so old now that I can't even remember whether the "extra function" was for better telecomms or external storage options.

So I just laugh every time I look at that box now and move it out of my way while cleaning closets.

See I was monumentally busy at work downstate when the package arrived, so I just tossed it in the car and brought it up here and put it in the spare bedroom since that was one of the few rooms not being gutted for renovation....

Meanwhile about six weeks after I had bought that thing, Apple pre-launched the MacPlus with the then wondrous DB-25 SCSI port, so of course I went out and looked at the odometer of my rat car and figured it was good for at least another 100k miles, so I went for the MacPlus and never even opened that box of capability-extender I'd bought for the 512k Mac. Of course I spent the next four or five years learning how to curse in eventually fluent SCSI-voodoo. Well at least the rat car I was banking on did last me to the 245k mark, so there's that.

If I do unearth that gizmo next spring when I'm deep-cleaning again, I'll open the thing and post the pics!
 
I’m down in the Hudson Valley area of New York for a few days. We met up with my MIL at an Airbnb to spend Thanksgiving at a halfway point between our homes. Seems nice here.
 
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