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Posted on 03/05/2005 11:51:13 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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Thanks. I've apparently goobered something up with the router, so I've just diconnected it.
I'll figger it out when I get home on Wednesday.
Corin,
Every time my mother has an electrical outage, I have to go to her house to fix the internet, and, nowdays, also the phone line (since she now has VOIP). The directions I gave you work like a charm everytime on her Linksys router.
Before I figured out what needed doing, I would end up spending the ngiht over there cuz it took literally hours to get it taken care of. The woman, who I, of course, adore and respect, refuses to call techsupport! She calls me. I guess it's cuz she loves me and knows I won't leave until the job gets done. (Between you and me, I call techsupport when she isn't looking).
That's worked before. Right now I'm having trouble getting everything wired back together right. And trying to figure out what I've done wrong tonite is making my brain hurt.
I should've tried your suggestion earlier.
Maybe it'll make more sense tomorrow. Thanks for the help.
g'nite
Cool drawings, Sam, but just what is it with art that the woman is nekkid and the man is fully clothed?
They are riding in a train. Most of the time when I try to do something series, it ends up striking me funny, for whatever reason.
Now that I have a digital camera, I can get images of all the drawings and paintings I like and put them there. Hopefully it will be a growing gallery.
Once that is done, or partially done, I am going to try starting a thread that will be a Freeper Art Gallery, since this forum is full of artistic folk. Hoping that could work, anyway, I personally think it would be fun.
I thought of the art classification "Rifle Range Art" at an art fair in Ocala, where I was looking at some really tacky statures and things. I figure Rifle Range Art is any art that would be fun to take to the range for target practice. 'Course I don't think that way of all my own stuff (some of it definitely, though), I just thought it a good name for the site. Jokes that nobody will get.
s'muhjob....
yer askin' the wrong guy...
but the arrow even without a point on it still stuck into the plywood backstop I have set up to keep the things out of my neighbor's yard
kewl...
mmmmmmmm... nekkid...
that's some good stuff there Sam... I mean that... and not just the nekkid part...
Ack... I just got cleaned out at pool by this Belgian dude that I've sparred with from before.
Dammit.
Heh, it's a good name.
Still sore from gardening, still sunburnt, still swamped at work. But the sun is shining, the flowers are blooming, and the sky is blue!
Morning Sam - interesting question; two parts, the first has to do with the force/draw curve, pounds versus draw length. Although idealy it is uniform throughout the draw, there can be variations, whether slight or more noticeable, throughout the length of the draw. If a bow dramatically gains weight in the last several inches, it is said 'to stack'. Although there are many causes for it, it often is design and usually is tiller in wood bows.
The one and half inch set is about average. Some backset in the handle will build in some follow so the bow can end up with zero when at rest. Reflexing the tips sort of does the same thing and seems to give a bit of boost to cast.
It's a series of tradeoffs, durability vs. design vs. wood type vs. cast vs. smoothness vs. shockiness etc. The flat bow is a durable design that has stood the test of time.
Hope this has helped. Experimentation is fun, grab another board and have at it. :-)
Morning!
Yeah, I think the flat bow is a great design, it has to be. I gather from reading the "bibles" that it is also a very ancient design.
The stave I used for this bow was about the last one I had left, has nearly a vertical grain, well, more like a 45 degree belly to back grain, which I'm sure is contra indicated. Shoots good anyway, at least to my uninformed opinion.
Mornin'
Nuther purty day here. I'm fixin' to go out and work in the yard until about noon. Then I'll get cleaned up and drive to my mom's house. Visitation is tonight, funeral is tomorrow.
I guess I ~could have~ gone to the office this morning...but why?
Yeah, it's leave time. But since I'm not going to Tanzania, that's not as much of an issue. And I reckon it just proves muh point that I'd have been needin' that time off anyway.
Does that make me a prophet?
(heck I'd settle for a profit)
Mmmm... profit.
Went outside to drive Joseph to school and it was FREEZING! Literally! It was 33 degrees! We fired up the seat warmers and enjoyed them all the way to school. ;o) This week looks glorious with highs each day in the 50's.
Well, I've put this off for far too long. Need to get out and get some work done.
May sign back on before I leave, may not. Otherwise, I'll likely be offline until tomorrow night.
~May~ try to sign on from my Mom's. But she's got ~dialup~.
[shudder]
The tulip leaves have come up, but they haven't yet begun to bud. I have some early ones and some later ones, so when they start, I have tulips blooming for almost a month!
I love crocuses. Jack thinks they're tasty. I have to plant more for next year... more than he can possibly eat in a spring. :)
Good morning, and corin, I hope you have a good visit with your mom.
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