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#2551851 29-Aug-2020 11:14

Just received the Shipping "Survey" for my Tempest Weather Station that I backed on Kickstarter last year.

Shipping logistics must be a nightmare for them at the moment!

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#2552199 30-Aug-2020 05:51

Having a visit to the International Court of Justice in the Netherlands. Very impressive. Let's see who is gonna be accused next.

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#2552201 30-Aug-2020 05:58

Having the cache drive sh*t itself on my Unraid server and all the dockers got backed last night

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#2552217 30-Aug-2020 06:53

Handle9: Having the cache drive sh*t itself on my Unraid server and all the dockers got backed last night

That's why I won't use Unraid. ;-)

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#2552591 30-Aug-2020 19:39

Watching the reactions and tears from folks trying my wife's Chilly Sauce made from various chilies including Ghost Chilly, normal Chilly and small black chilies. Apparently it is rather warm.

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#2552761 31-Aug-2020 06:56

Handle9: Mrs Handle had PRK (a form of laser eye surgery) on Monday. Today she got through the day without pain killers and her vision is getting clearer. The bandage contacts come out tomorrow so she ( as am I by extension) is very happy.

The first couple of days were pretty unpleasant so it's great to see her coming right and not needing glasses after wearing them for 30 years.

My wife went for her 2 month follow up today. She now has better than 20/20 vision. I'm so very pleased for her.

She also was tested as COVID negative today (just a screening test) so will return to teaching at school this week. It's been 6 months of being at home (4 months of distance learning and 2 months of summer holidays). Our kids will go back as well which they desperately need. It's looking like a pretty great week.

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#2552834 31-Aug-2020 08:31

Handle9:
Handle9: Mrs Handle had PRK (a form of laser eye surgery) on Monday. Today she got through the day without pain killers and her vision is getting clearer. The bandage contacts come out tomorrow so she ( as am I by extension) is very happy.

The first couple of days were pretty unpleasant so it's great to see her coming right and not needing glasses after wearing them for 30 years.

What made her decide? I'm coming up on 40 and have worn/glasses and contacts my whole life. My only concern with corrective surgery is the natural deterioration of vision as I hit this magical age. I'd be annoyed to suddenly have my vision improve (I'm short sighted) only to have to start wearing glasses for reading.

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#2552837 31-Aug-2020 08:40

I had cataract surgery only because I had to in order to renew my driver's license. I was short-sighted all my life but it never interfered with anything. I wore glasses to drive and visit the cinema. The rest of the time I was perfectly happy with my blurry vision.

Now I have better than perfect distance vision. I can see individual pine needles on the trees around our house. But I can't see anything at all close up. I need glasses to see the computer. I need stronger glasses to read food labels. I need glasses for everything except driving. I liked it much better the way it was before.

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#2554172 31-Aug-2020 15:09

mudguard:

What made her decide? I'm coming up on 40 and have worn/glasses and contacts my whole life. My only concern with corrective surgery is the natural deterioration of vision as I hit this magical age. I'd be annoyed to suddenly have my vision improve (I'm short sighted) only to have to start wearing glasses for reading.

A combination of things. We have talked about it for some years but the stars never aligned.

The surgery here in Dubai is very inexpensive, with excellent clinics. Due to the impact of COVID on their business many clinics had some very attractive promotional offers. The procedure cost around NZD$1400 for both eyes. It was also the start of the summer holidays (my wife is a teacher) and we were unable to travel on holiday and I work from home full time so could support her and deal with the kids.

She was around -2.5 on both eyes so her vision wasn't very good at all. She is absolutely rapt with the result.

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#2555997 2-Sep-2020 21:40

Working from home giving me a great excuse to buy a new monitor.

Hello 27 inch 144Hz QHD goodness.

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#2556741 4-Sep-2020 09:41

Receiving email confirmations from Emirates this week that COVID-related cancelled flights have been approved under their voluntary refund programme.

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#2556805 4-Sep-2020 10:28

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/drone-drops-hundreds-of-bags-of-cannabis-dropped-in-tel-aviv-640981

Strange twist on the forever failing "war on drugs".

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#2557300 4-Sep-2020 21:24

Winter is coming...

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#2557309 4-Sep-2020 22:51

Handle9: Winter is coming...

That's relative for you though isn't it .... or are you actually going to be breaking out the winter woolies?

Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21

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#2557311 4-Sep-2020 23:10

elpenguino:

Handle9: Winter is coming...

That's relative for you though isn't it .... or are you actually going to be breaking out the winter woolies?

Midwinter here is magnificent. 19-27 every day with maybe 4 days of rain over 3 months. It's like NZ summer but a bit warmer, less humid and with much much less rain.

The weather is getting better now, it didn't get over 40 degrees until 11am today. This will sound insane but after 2 years in the middle east I find anything under 40 is quite ok and under 35 is "cool".

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