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Unfortunately, when you use the TV as white noise while you sleep, music tends to be incorporated into your dreams. I have to put my annoying sound out of reach, too, so I have to get my feet on the ground to make it go away. By then, well, hell, I'm up anyways...
Yes, I don't trust leaving the TV on as it can too easily go into stuff, not necessarily music, that isn't white noise to me and it does get incorporated into my dreams or it wakes me up. The movies I choose to be white noise don't do that.
I never could sleep with talking or music going on. I find it too distracting. I can sleep with other types of noise just not talking or music. I usually sleep with my fan on because the noise drowns out other noises and actually helps me sleep. If you knew how much electricity your TV eats up, you would hardly ever leave it on. Lol.
I was outside a couple of weeks ago near my electric boxes, and I noticed that mine was spinning SO fast, so I went inside and turned off some things so I could see what it was. Well, when I shut off the TV, it was only spinning 1/4 as fast, even running my dishwasher or my washer or dryer doesn't make it spin that much. I used to leave my TV on during the day sometimes, for background noise or just in case something interesting came on,whatever. Now, I hardly ever have my TV on.
How big is the TV? We only turn on the big screen TV in the great room when we are actually watching. But we do run a smaller screen TV in the bedroom from the time we go to bed until we get up.
I always thought it was the electric oven or large refrigerated air compressor that made the electric meter run at blurring speed.
It's a big TV. I think it's like 45 inches or something? Not really sure but it's big.
Ours is like a 60" but it is a smart TV that are supposed to be very energy efficient. Not that there is always truth in advertising about things like that.
It turns out that my problem logging into my class site was because of the merger my school went through. I saw that we are using a new email, but I either missed or wasn't informed that we use a new login for the class website. I was given that information in a reply to my email, and I can now get to my classes.
Of course I have to tease you about starting school! 
It turns out that my problem logging into my class site was because of the merger my school went through. I saw that we are using a new email, but I either missed or wasn't informed that we use a new login for the class website. I was given that information in a reply to my email, and I can now get to my classes.
Good night darlinks, I really do love you guys.
And we continue to pray and/or send good vibes and/or positive thoughts and/or keep vigil for
Harper (Save's granddaughter),
Pogo’s friend Pat and special comfort for Pogo,
Nosmo's mom,
Rod, GW's partner,
Kat's sister,
Ernie!!!
Boedicca, her dad, brother, and family,
Kat & Mr. Kat in transition,
Sherry's Mom for treatment to be successful,
The Ringels in difficult transition
Dana!!!! (Foxfyre's friend recovering from heart transplant.)
Mr. and Mrs. Gracie in difficult transition
Ringel's injured shoulder and general wellness,
Special prayers and/or positive thoughts for Mr. Peach and Peach143 in the coming days and wellness for them both.
Hossfly's knee surgery,
And for our students, job hunters, others in transition.
And the light is left on for Noomi, Freedombecki, SFC Ollie, and all others we hope are okay and will return to us.
Beauty in the storm
If you knew how much electricity your TV eats up, you would hardly ever leave it on. Lol.
At the cost of 4 or 5 Happy Meals a year, I would think that is pretty reasonable...
OLED and LED TV Power Consumption and Electricity Cost
Well, the turning of the year moves inexorably forward. The moon is waning, the nights are darker and longer, temps are falling lower every night.
But endings have a way of segueing into beginnings. The girls made it back to Okinawa in one piece. The flew over in a C17. They'll be settling in, getting ready for school, unpacking and claiming their pets at the pet-sitter's.
I look around and it's almost like they weren't even here. Life goes on and Wed night I'll return to work, re-assuming my own routine. I'm a little "down" right now because I really do miss my daughter and her daughters.
Virginia's a pretty big Commonwealth so I'm thinking they were in Northern Virginia which is a couple of hours north of Charlottesville far from the trouble.Well. my kid is home from Virginia. He and his friends saw nothing of the ugliness; they were far from it. But I'm still glad he's back.
Both of my kids have gone traveling recently. They are really growing up.
Virginia's a pretty big Commonwealth so I'm thinking they were in Northern Virginia which is a couple of hours north of Charlottesville far from the trouble.Well. my kid is home from Virginia. He and his friends saw nothing of the ugliness; they were far from it. But I'm still glad he's back.
Both of my kids have gone traveling recently. They are really growing up.
Tournament?Virginia's a pretty big Commonwealth so I'm thinking they were in Northern Virginia which is a couple of hours north of Charlottesville far from the trouble.Well. my kid is home from Virginia. He and his friends saw nothing of the ugliness; they were far from it. But I'm still glad he's back.
Both of my kids have gone traveling recently. They are really growing up.
Yeah, but since my son wasn't driving, when I asked him where he was, he couldn't give me any better answer than "at the tournament."
I said, "what city?????" and he said, "uh, I don't know....".
And yes , I gave him a piece of my mind for being so clueless.
Well. my kid is home from Virginia. He and his friends saw nothing of the ugliness; they were far from it. But I'm still glad he's back.
Both of my kids have gone traveling recently. They are really growing up.
Tournament?Virginia's a pretty big Commonwealth so I'm thinking they were in Northern Virginia which is a couple of hours north of Charlottesville far from the trouble.Well. my kid is home from Virginia. He and his friends saw nothing of the ugliness; they were far from it. But I'm still glad he's back.
Both of my kids have gone traveling recently. They are really growing up.
Yeah, but since my son wasn't driving, when I asked him where he was, he couldn't give me any better answer than "at the tournament."
I said, "what city?????" and he said, "uh, I don't know....".
And yes , I gave him a piece of my mind for being so clueless.
Yes, I've kept a 250 Gig Windows 10 partition. The BIOS settings were being saved just fine, but HPs are set up to boot with EFCI by default and in 3 years with 2 different HP laptops, I haven't been able to get past that. If I just hit the power button and leave it alone, it boots Windows. To boot Linux, I have to hit F9 at post and choose to boot from the hard drive. That brings up grub.Then for some reason your boot from CD/DVD setting is not being saved. Is it a dual boot?Screwing it up is easy. I've screwed up dozens of times, but I've always enjoyed the challenge of fixing the problems I've createdI bought a new HP 17" about a month ago. I just couldn't get past the EFCI garbage that Microsoft forces manufacturers to put on their machines in order to install Linux. I tried several distributions and finally got the thing to boot up Linux Mint in what they call "compatibility mode" OK it WILL boot Linux, now I needed to figure out what "compatibility mode" was and pass those options to Kubuntu that I've been using for 5 years or so.My Kindle appears to be dying. It started resetting itself yesterday (which has happened before), but did not want to finish loading after the reset. It was caught in a loop of restarting, beginning to load, and freezing. I eventually got it to work by plugging it into my PC. We took the little one to karate, and it started resetting itself again. This time it went to a completely black screen, which I've never seen before. Then, when it did eventually go back to normal, it moved on to a completely white screen. At this point, it seems as though I need to plug the Kindle into my PC almost every time I want to turn it on. Once I have it on, it works fine, but after I turn it off, turning it back on is an issue.
I went on ebay and bought a Kobo reader. Apparently they are made by Barnes & Nobles. The one I got is new, but an older version. It will require me to convert all of my mobi files into epub files, so I'm doing that on the second PC right now. It comes with 100 "classics," such as Pride & Prejudice, loaded on it; I'm curious what those books will be. It has less memory than my Kindle keyboard, but 1GB should be plenty of space, and it can take an SD card to expand the memory.
Mostly I'm just hoping that it will not cause issues when I load my books onto it, that the screen is as easy to read as the Kindle, that it is relatively comfortable to use, and that the battery doesn't drain super fast. I don't need extra features in an ereader. It only cost $27, so if it works well and I can use it for as long as I have my Kindle (just over 6 years), it will be great.
Luckily I still have a bunch of paper books if I continue to have ereader problems.
I think my laptop may be dying. A few times now when I've turned it on, it has lines going across the screen, as if my monitor is ready to kick the bucket, then it clears up and will be fine, but when I go to turn it on again, same thing happens. Could be time to invest in a new laptop.
I'm happy to report that I am currently running a fresh install of Kubuntu 17.04. Now I just have to move a couple hundred Gigs of data from the old laptop HD to this one.
I am sure not that computer literate. I just use Windows. Lol. I would not attempt to install a complicated program on my computer because I would probably screw it all up.
I had adjusted all the BIOS settings and by hitting F9 at post, I could chose to boot to the CD drive and choose the boot options on the DVD .iso image, but after the first crude low resolution graphic, I would see a few red and green lines and the screen went dark.With EFCI you have to boot into BIOs and change the boot options to allow it to boot from the optical drive, unlike Dells HPs make it rather easy to do that.I do need Windows for one site that's written in Silverlight which is a proprietary Windows Java-like system for vector graphics. My County Assessor's site uses it. It's obsolete and Linus and the boys stopped working on a fix a few years ago.I bought a new HP 17" about a month ago. I just couldn't get past the EFCI garbage that Microsoft forces manufacturers to put on their machines in order to install Linux. I tried several distributions and finally got the thing to boot up Linux Mint in what they call "compatibility mode" OK it WILL boot Linux, now I needed to figure out what "compatibility mode" was and pass those options to Kubuntu that I've been using for 5 years or so.
I'm happy to report that I am currently running a fresh install of Kubuntu 17.04. Now I just have to move a couple hundred Gigs of data from the old laptop HD to this one.
You couldn't just format the HD? Or were you setting up a dual boot?
So, yes, the machine is dual boot, but irrelevant. The EFCI garbage is in BIOS and was loading a graphics system that Linux couldn't cope with. The work around was to let the install use native graphics at boot. and once I was into the installer, everything worked.
Haven't moved the data yet. My schedule is kicking hell out of me the last few days. My partners are on vacation and I have a lot on my plate until the 22nd.
Great night at Doc's last night! The Jason Abel project played 2 sets and rocked a full house. They closed about quarter to 11 and Heavy Funk was up and running in about 15 minutes. They are loud and Metal, not exactly what we usually have on stage. What was amazing was that about 1/3 of the folks that were there for J A P left and were replaced by an equal number of people wanting to see Heavy Funk.
The night was actually pretty calm except for the guy who told me to get off HIS bar stool. I assured him he could take his seat when he was through dancing (by himself) but he insisted I get up right then and there. I politely informed him that is was not HIS bar stool, it was MY bar stool, just like every other stool in the house.
Confused him for a while, but the bulb did eventually light up and a while later when he was starting some crap with 2 bad ass biker dudes, he informed security that he knew the owner.
Yeah, well, not all that well. When I told him that he would NOT be buying any more alcohol, he left, quite angry. My bouncer walked out behind him and saw him take a swig from a bottle in his truck, put it in reverse and run backwards into an SUV.
He then pulled forward hitting another car a bit more gently. I grabbed him up through the driver side window and unlocked the doors. My bouncer hopped in, shut off the F 150 and grabbed the keys.
Since there was damage to a customer's vehicle, I had to call the law. The idiot left in cuffs and the pick-up, belonging to his father's company, left on a hook.
No loss of business due to police in the lot and everyone but the idiot and his dad left the bar happy.
I will have to check my records, but if memory serves, the night was in the top 5 highest gross nights since we opened.
That told me it was a graphics driver problem.
A nomodprobe option allowed a text post boot and the right drivers got loaded later.
I still have to hit F9 to bypass EFCI then choose the "notebook hard drive" option to get to grub. This is the same process I had to go through to boot the old HP.
They have big tournaments in both Fairfax and Alexandria, either one's about two hours northeast of Charlottesville. Charlottesville has a population of about 50 thousand, not huge not small, Northern Virginia is made up of The cities of Arlington, Alexandria, the counties of Fairfax, Prince William and Loudoun and Fairfax county alone has just over a million residents.Tournament?Virginia's a pretty big Commonwealth so I'm thinking they were in Northern Virginia which is a couple of hours north of Charlottesville far from the trouble.Well. my kid is home from Virginia. He and his friends saw nothing of the ugliness; they were far from it. But I'm still glad he's back.
Both of my kids have gone traveling recently. They are really growing up.
Yeah, but since my son wasn't driving, when I asked him where he was, he couldn't give me any better answer than "at the tournament."
I said, "what city?????" and he said, "uh, I don't know....".
And yes , I gave him a piece of my mind for being so clueless.
He's a gamer. Video games.
I don't get it, but he works and he is a good kid, so I can't judge his hobby.
They have big tournaments in both Fairfax and Alexandria, either one's about two hours northeast of Charlottesville. Charlottesville has a population of about 50 thousand, not huge not small, Northern Virginia is made up of The cities of Arlington, Alexandria, the counties of Fairfax, Prince William and Loudoun and Fairfax county alone has just over a million residents.Tournament?Virginia's a pretty big Commonwealth so I'm thinking they were in Northern Virginia which is a couple of hours north of Charlottesville far from the trouble.Well. my kid is home from Virginia. He and his friends saw nothing of the ugliness; they were far from it. But I'm still glad he's back.
Both of my kids have gone traveling recently. They are really growing up.
Yeah, but since my son wasn't driving, when I asked him where he was, he couldn't give me any better answer than "at the tournament."
I said, "what city?????" and he said, "uh, I don't know....".
And yes , I gave him a piece of my mind for being so clueless.
He's a gamer. Video games.
I don't get it, but he works and he is a good kid, so I can't judge his hobby.
