[wardancer]

Just watched the video of Austin powwow GE ! Wishing I was there ! See several of my old friends there dancing, and a great nephew on the Wild Band of Comanche's drum !

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We've finally got fall weather. Had record setting heat on Halloween-91. Then the temp dropped 30 degrees. LOL!

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You all have any more POW WOWs this season?

[OLChemist]

30th Annual Texas Championship Powwow is coming up this weekend at Traders Village in Houston.

Traders Village

[Spiritflight]

Hierarchy sucks when you're education was better than those you have to work for.

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Dayghter has female surgery this morning. Prayers requested.

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Made it THU OK

[OLChemist]

*Rose blows the dust off the coffee pot and throws away the moldy doughnuts.* Anyone home, Chuy?

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Louisville, KY new location. Indoors. Very nice. Danced for a lot. Then got in street clothes to eat chips and bison frybread and coke. Knee hurt a little so sat it out and took pics. Good to see young dancers doing a good job. Bought jewelry for new girlfriend and ring for me. 20-30 dancers.

[Broken Arrow]

Today a little competition in Bow shooting 18m Indoor today. 60 arrows. Made 1st place. No competitor in my class (Long Bow) Sigh.

We call it "Kreismeisterschaft".

Next competition is December at Bedburg Hau. That competition is called "Bezirksmeisterschaft"

Rheinischer-Schützenbund Regional Divisions in "Bezirke" and "Kreise" within the "Bezirke"

That is not Nordrhein-Westfalen as the tradition of the "Rheinische Schützenbund" is going back to 1872 and is even today covering along the old Prussion Rheinprovinz which political no longer exists.

Not a very good solution to todays political reality. You may compare it to operate as sport union within to states.

Yet the old boundaries exist still today in reality in with the so called "Landschaftsverbände" Rheinland and Westfalen-Lippe. Nordrehin-Wstfalen was created in 1946/1947 from the former Privinzen "Nordrhein", "Westfalen" und "Lippe". It was and is a quite inhomogen new federal state as far as traditions are concerned.

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Having our first chill down the last few days. Down in the 40s with wind and rain. Yuck! Work is nuts with all the remaining snowbirds headed South ahead of that major cold front headed that way.

BTW, I keep forgetting to tell you guys. I'm gonna be a grandma again around the end of the year. Another grandson.

[wardancer]

Yes , been working furiously the last few nice days in the mid 60s !Plastic on windows , put gravel in areas that have been mud all year , fixed fence , hualed brush and cleaned water tanks , put in and hooked up tank heaters , ran electric to them....all the stuff we do to get ready for winter ! Got up today to 30 degrees and snow and ice mix ! Although I'm completely worn out and my joints all hurt , it's all done and we are as ready for winter as we can be !

[OLChemist]

I tried to turn off the water to my studio, since we're going to be 24F in the morning, but the lid to the cutoff box was stuck. My neighbor tore down the fence between our properties. Her contractors have been really vague on where her lot ends and mine begins, especially when plugging things into outside electrical outlets or using my water spigots and hoses. They've trampled all over the plastic cutoff box and jammed the lid. I had to pay my handyman to come out and turn the water off. But at least my pipes won't freeze. (Although I'd hope having the heat on in the studio and the pipes insulated and buried 8" deep would help.)


I need to use a special signal processing framework in one of my programming tasks at work. All the documentation and sample code for this framework is in Swift. While there are mostly corresponding objC calls, they are less than well documented. So, I'm finally having to try learn Swift so I can sit with the cool kids in the programmer's high school cafeteria.

After three days I have learned, Swift is punishment for:

...deciding not everything in life can be done with your thumbs and your phone.
...not getting run over by the beer truck after learning a *real* programing language.
...living long enough to know why FORTRAN has a 72 character per line limit.
...thinking ? and ! belong at the end of sentences and should be used sparingly.

I remember when COBOL was the up and coming cool language. There is an object -- not in an OOP sense -- lesson there for all the nerdy fan boy bloggers.

It would help if there were tutorials somewhere between "this is a for loop..." and "these are the best practices for managing dependencies in server applications..." I keep cracking my skull open on my desk when I fall asleep while working through bonehead exercises writing useless functions to calculate the fibonacci sequence.

It would also help if any of the useful bits of sample code on the Apple Developers Website in Swift were for OSX rather than iOS. It is really hard to learn how to use an API, when first you have to re-write the code for OSX. I'm not running sample code or my early Swift programming efforts on *my* iPhone.

[wardancer]

Hmmmm..... I don't speak that language ! LOL when we got up it was 30 degrees , it is now 23 with a "feels like" of 10.......Brrrrrr.....

[wardancer]

Originally Posted by OLChemist

I tried to turn off the water to my studio, since we're going to be 24F in the morning, but the lid to the cutoff box was stuck. (Although I'd hope having the heat on in the studio and the pipes insulated and buried 8" deep would help.)

Around here nothing is less than 24" underground ! Several years ago it got cold enough that the water meter froze ! But that was sub zero for a week or so. Once in a while if it's super cold for several days , the pipe running to our bathroom will freeze. It's easy to thaw with just a cord and a lightbulb or a few minutes with a heat gun ! Takes more time to get to it thru the outside crawlspace hatch and get everything out than it did to actually thaw the pipes !
Everyone stay warm !

[wardancer]

Well , me and my big mouth ! 9 degrees this morning with a feels like temp of 0 ! Hot water side to the bath in our bedroom is frozen ! Grrrr Now I get to go work outside ! At least it's warmed up to a balmy 18 !

[OLChemist]

Originally Posted by wardancer

Hmmmm..... I don't speak that language !

I don't either and that is the problem, LOL.

[Broken Arrow]

Quite cold where you live.

We are still above 0°C and rainy days. Think dry and cold might be better as long as it isn't 10°C below zero.

[wardancer]

Originally Posted by Broken Arrow

Quite cold where you live.

We are still above 0°C and rainy days. Think dry and cold might be better as long as it isn't 10°C below zero.

9 Degree Fahrenheit = -12.7777778 Celsius LOL

[OLChemist]

I've gotten to be such a wimp. Just reading about those temperatures hurts. *Rose cringes and whines over thins morning's 24F start.*