Good morning!!!!

[wngsprd]

30 and windy, getting up to 47.

Got a long hike in before opening day. My team got rained out, but watched Yankees and Blue Jays. Found out that Dish just dropped regional sports networks, including MASN out of DC/Baltimore, who played all the Orioles and Nationals games. Spent some time chatting with Dish rep. I guess I'll have to find another source.

 

[daugen]

Wunderground says 29 degrees, my weather station says 17 degrees, quite a difference.
Not looking good for the plants at this temp, when I take that cover off on Sunday I wonder what will be alive underneath.
Next year, I hope....a greenhouse again.

Don, are your potatoes growing back? They should...

 

[Buppies]

Sorry about the loss of games wngsprd hope you have a great day

 

[daugen]

Post-Covid PTSD: the storm after the storm | CNN

Studies suggest that post-Covid PTSD may be affecting up to 30% of Covid-19 survivors. Experts say treatment is available but quick action is needed to avert a mental health crisis.

www.cnn.com

this is worth reading. If we thought there were already enough disturbed folks walking around
the pandemic has now made things worse for a large number of people. Anyone you know who has issues with
depression is particularly at risk.

A study published February 2021 found that 30% of Covid-19 survivors experienced post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, a psychological illness that usually occurs after someone has a life-threatening experience.
If left untreated, PTSD has the potential to turn a hopeful recovery into a living nightmare. And while studies after SARS epidemic in 2003-2004 found similar rates of PTSD at around 25%, the scale of the Covid-19 pandemic is a key difference. With roughly 30 million confirmed infections in the US since the start of the pandemic, some experts say the world should be bracing for a mental health crisis.

Sounds like we will have a lot of family, friends and neighbors to give some extra love to so they stay on the healthy side of life.

 

[Thomas]

19F cloudy with light wind low 30's for high.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...outside work cancel because weather frozen snow ground do couple errands in town for Mrs.,hope hospital calls with time to take blood test before next Tuesday Dr. visit,other than that putter.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

How are you posting images to TBN, Drew? I ask because when I use the Safari web browser on the iPhone 12, I click the little icon that looks like a mountain. It brings up a dialog box that has "Drop image (Or click here), and I poke it with my finger. I pick Photo Library from the resulting pop up, and that takes me to my photos. I pick the one I want, and at the bottom of the display it tells me the size of the photo. When I poke the size with my finger, I get another dialog that lets me pick one of several resolutions to post the photo. Very non-intuitive, but since Jonny Ives came along, that's how Apple wants it. For social media, where the photos are being viewed on computer monitors and hand held screens, anything over 500 KB is a waste of data. I have the camera set to capture images at maximum resolution of 7.8 MB, roughly 16 times what is needed. If I tried to post the actual size image using my crappy satellite connection, I'd be waiting around all night for it to upload, and I'd run into my data cap before the end of the month.

Here are some sample images I posted from my iPhone as detailed above:

49 KB:

177 KB:

397 KB:

To further confuse things, the camera in the iPhone seems to save images at various resolutions. The native resolutions of all three of these images was different, and the four options for posting each one was also different. Regardless, at 397 KB, marked as Large in the image sizing option, you still have the ability to zoom in when viewed on a laptop.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 56F @ 5:00AM. Mostly sunny. High 83F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph.
We're back to no rain in the 10-day, but at least the high temps will be in the mid to low 70s. Yesterday it was 80F when I got back from town. That's nice weather for sippin' a cold one on the back porch at the end of the day, but not so good for workin' firewood and other chores.

Speaking of which, today I'll see if I can get a couple pallets filled with split wood from the rounds that are piling up in the wood yard. And maybe work a little bit on the building permit for the water tank...

TGIF, gang!

 

[Rich B1]

Good morning! 19 now, allegedly gonna get to 40 later? That is what they said yesterday, have my doubts. I never saw above 34.

Mouth feels a lot better this morning. A little tender, but vastly better than when I went to bed last night.

Drew - mental issues after Covid are a real thing. I am aware of multiple people in my sphere of people who have had Covid and are now suffering mental issues. Most are PTSD-like symptoms, but 1 that works for my wife is having major short term memory issues. A co-worker’s mother has become paranoid and is terrified to leave her home. Reality is, I think it has made me less tolerant than I already was of people who don’t grasp the technology I deal with everyday. Including co-workers. People have noticed and commented on it.

I should get some new front tires for my tractor. Been dragging my feet. Guess I need to make it happen.

Have to work Good Friday. We seem to not get it as a holiday like we used to.

Everyone have a good, Good Friday!

Stay safe out there

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Got a long hike in before opening day. My team got rained out, but watched Yankees and Blue Jays. Found out that Dish just dropped regional sports networks, including MASN out of DC/Baltimore, who played all the Orioles and Nationals games. Spent some time chatting with Dish rep. I guess I'll have to find another source.

Dish is in my dog house, too, Bill. Seems like they keep jacking the rates and don't provide any additional programming. And when I call and threaten to change providers, their reply is "See ya!". Probably past time to call their bluff...

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I haven’t been on iTunes in a long time, I back up to the cloud and restore/transfer from the cloud or my old phone. It’s quick and easy. When your setting up a new phone it walks you through it. I usually order my new phones and they come with the SIM card for my account.

I'm jealous, Randy. If I tried to use iCloud for backup over satellite internet, I'd still be waiting for this new iPhone 12 to download what was on the old SE. That SE held 64 GB of data, which I used to think was a lot. By the time it was replaced, though, I was having to shuffle data off of it onto the laptop because it was filling up, mostly with video files. The new phone has 256 GB, same as the iPad. I hope it takes a long time before it fills up, but in another five to seven years, who knows what new data hungry app will come along.