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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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I'm getting tired of the local tv news "team" using the term "cup of Joe" in their daily banter.

I gave up on all TV news some time ago. Outlets have news apps that optionally provide national/local/ international news. It allows me to quickly sift through what I want to see and read. It took me a while to get used to not watching TV news but avoiding it is way less stressful.

One reason why I gave up morning radio was the banter. The fake forced laughter during their comedy bits tells me the even they were bored. After not listening for years, when I do hear it, it's the same old stuff, same people, same bits, same commercials.
 
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I gave up on all TV news some time ago. Outlets have news apps that optionally provide national/local/ international news. It allows me to quickly sift through what I want to see and read. It took me a while to get used to not watching TV news but avoiding it is way less stressful.

One reason why I gave up morning radio was the banter. The fake forced laughter at their comedy bits tells me the even they're bored. After not listening for years, when I do hear it, it's the same old stuff, same people, same bits, same commercials.


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I thought you were really proud of that post.
Actually, last night I ran into a problem when the browser decided to update. I don't know technically what happened but it jazzed the computer to the point where it had me worried that some sort of virus made its way in. Subsequent hard reboots did nothing. The cursor was freezing up, traveling on its own across the screen, etc...
Finally managed to use a program called 'C cleaner' that must have cleared out a bunch of files used to transfer the new browser data or something but it came back to life. But, just now when trying to post it started to stall out again. I hope that this is not a 'coming attraction'.
 
Actually, last night I ran into a problem when the browser decided to update. I don't know technically what happened but it jazzed the computer to the point where it had me worried that some sort of virus made its way in. Subsequent hard reboots did nothing. The cursor was freezing up, traveling on its own across the screen, etc...
Finally managed to use a program called 'C cleaner' that must have cleared out a bunch of files used to transfer the new browser data or something but it came back to life. But, just now when trying to post it started to stall out again. I hope that this is not a 'coming attraction'.
I think TB does that as a occasional problem. Your post won't post...you hit the post button...it won't post...you hit the post button...etc.

I've seen it happen in the past. Even to me. I repeat myself when I'm under stress...I repeat myself when I'm under stress...
 
Subsequent hard reboots did nothing. The cursor was freezing up, traveling on its own across the screen, etc...

These things always happen at the worst possible time.

I recently had a problem on my mac with the keyboard acting up, some keys felt dead, they wouldn't move when pressed. I fixed it by resetting some system RAM. You wouldn't think that software would control the physical movement of the keys.

Sounds like CCleaner is a good thing to run from time to time.
 
I'm getting tired of the local tv news "team" using the term "cup of Joe" in their daily banter.
Do as beasnsdid. Stop watching that stuff, you'll be a much happier person for it (not that that worked for me....... :woot:).
I gave up on all TV news some time ago.

Nothing more fun than rolling around in fresh snow.
Come on over, you'll have lots of fun over here.
Our disco-ish version was ~2/3 the tempo of your version.
Got recording?
 
I think TB does that as a occasional problem. Your post won't post...you hit the post button...it won't post...you hit the post button...etc.

I've seen it happen in the past. Even to me. I repeat myself when I'm under stress...I repeat myself when I'm under stress...

Sometimes TB is like that. I find that today there is a delay when I click on the Post, Reply, and Like buttons.
 
Do as beasnsdid. Stop watching that stuff, you'll be a much happier person for it (not that that worked for me....... :woot:).



Come on over, you'll have lots of fun over here.
Got recording?
Somewhere on cassette; might be dubbed to a CD. I'll see if I can figure out how to upload it(not too good at that [stuff]). We usually did it as the second half of a medley with "I Just Wanna Be Your Everything".
 
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