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I went to the hospital yesterday for a 6-hour assessment to see if I could get into a new clinical trial that I really wanted to participate in, but alas, I didn't qualify. They talked to my cardiologist about my "incident" in July and, though everyone agrees that it wasn't my heart causing it, they said the trial was too risky for me. Dang.
 

The plumber showed up early at noon, so he has done his
thing and left me a mess to clean on the floor, black junk
from the old seal he replaced...so toilet is okay now...he found
that he p=trap drain pipe for the tub had come apart sometime
and so the tub water was draining to the ground~~~!! Don't
know when that happend, but fixed it so should be all set
for winter.......... (y)
I'm glad to hear that it's all fixed and ready to go.

But.....I'm surprised that he left a mess when he was done. I don't have a lot of experience with plumbers, but lately I've had to call them out to my Mom's house a few times. They have always cleaned up before leaving. I guess I just thought that they all did that. 🤔
 
My desktop lost all power. Probably an IC power rail internal short. Thus bad mother board. Tomorrow will contact HP for warranty repair. Have this old moto g smartphone and a cheap $200 Windows 11 travel laptop. But this will severely impact my web presence for awhile.
 

I finished the reconciliation of my checkbooks this morning. I started yesterday but noticed that my main one hadn't been balanced in two and a half months. I felt very tired yesterday and didn't feel like finishing the task, which is not like me because I love doing financial stuff. I was also on the phone with HS#3 a couple of times this evening finalizing content for Saturday's broadcast and finishing the background information portion of the assessment I took the other night.
 
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Good morning everyone. Another nice day, although it looks like Tropical Storm Melissa is circling around and they are still not sure where it will go. Fingers crossed it will go out into the Atlantic Ocean but some of the islands will be affected at this time in the projection.

@Pepper I will keep you in my thoughts today that all goes well.🤗

Have a good day, everyone. :)
Rae, as of the last night's weather report, looks like you'll be safe from Melissa. It's supposed to linger over part of the Caribbean as a Cat 4 by early next week, then veer right, missing the states. We know tracks can change, but I hope that's what it actually does. My BFF lives in Florida too.
 
My HP Omen 35L desktop is powering up then booting up Windows 11 normally. Uncertain why it automatically shut down powering off while I was away a few hours and then after I retuned, would not power up at all? When I powered it on now several hours later, during boot up, the fan oddly turned at maximum speed for a minute as though some system function had latched a process to do so maybe before it powered down, with a still latched variable upon re-power up, that could mean something had overheated? Hopefully, whatever won't repeat.
 
The giant sequoia grove in that state park is the largest in the north part of the Sierra Nevada and was where the first America from the Angels Camp, Gold Rush community that noticed in 1854 while chasing a wounded grizzly bear, that there were giant trees. That quickly became a national news item. Later, larger groves were discovered far to the south.

It is one of the oldest state parks and had considerable visitor facilities. And that easy 1.1 mile long North Grove loop trail has several wooden boardwalk sections through areas that fill with ground water after storms. Each mid to late October for about a brief couple weeks, the understory Pacific dogwood, cornus nuttallii, tree leaves become very colorful as well as much other vegetation leaves as those on big oak maples, black oaks, and thimbleberry. Walking through such forests during diffuse light cloud overcast conditions is utterly magical with the leaves glowing like neon.

As an old landscape and nature photographer, I can advise any visiting SF members capable of at least minor hiking, of where, when, how to visit such natural areas if they say visit San Francisco during that period. For years on other web boards, I've advised nature seekers, photographers, and backpackers. Likewise, for some uncommon after wet winters, spring wildflower events like blooms in our Southwest deserts. Note there are a few regional bus tours that include visits to that park, Gold Rush tourist sites, and Yosemite Valley.
Calaveras Big Trees State Park

This old non-profit organization for the park has considerable visitor information.

Calaveras Big Trees Association
 
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Morning all....I'm barely awake since 4am, too dang early....oh well....cleaning lady comes today, so got to shower, straighten
a few things up...I'm sort of scatterbrained lately, but I guess
thats the normal now...okay deal with it....all have a great day
okay!!!! ;):cool::love::coffee:
 


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