The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

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We're booked into the over 65s clinic on Saturday morning and will be very glad to have our flu protection.

DigForVictory

Noone's holidaying in [STRIKE]Korea[/STRIKE] Taiwan, are they? Rained so hard a bridge collapsed, [STRIKE]ship under construction launched[/STRIKE] & sunk fishing boats, apparently.

Wherever <blush>, puts our weather comfortably into perspective.

thriftwizard

Re walnuts - WEAR GLOVES! It's not for nothing they're known as Black or Brown walnuts; the hulls contain a very powerful natural dyestuff. It took two weeks for my hands to look vaguely normal again, the last time I went out scrumping walnuts! But luckily there are hazelnuts all over our driveway & down the street & they'll do us for now!

Re the weather: I've just been down West with DD1 for a couple of days. Driving conditions on the Devon/Cornwall border on Monday were appalling; luckily we were in my van rather than her little car, or we'd have been stranded. It came more or less out of the blue; one minute it was a bit grey & rainy, the next, it was monsooning down & the roads just filled up with water as we went along. The van's a diesel, 4x4 and quite high off the road & heavy, so we were fine (driving with due caution, of course) but as she said, it would have killed her car & we'd have been stranded in the middle of nowhere with no phone signal. Good job we'd taken the forecast seriously...

unrecordings

DigForVictory wrote: »

I accepted the last flu jab today because the pharmacist was confident she would get more in. It’s not a confidence I share given the havers they routinely make of our prescriptions, so I have a cool arm & some peace of mind but feel a bit guilty.
Is this a known side effect?!

You work with kids don't you ?
So I'd say good call

boddy

I usually get my flu jab at work. I'm a volunteer in a hospital. They have started giving them. Went up but no over 65 vaccines in yet. Told me to ring occ health next week. Went to doctors when I finished. They have opposite problem. No under 65 vaccine. So booked in for my over 65 one.

unrecordings

Just booked myself & Mrs at the GP for around ten days time (needs to accommodate chemo cycle) - no shortage of slots

grunnie

Just booked ours as well. 9 am on Saturday.

jk0

Anyone ever had the cmos battery go flat in your PC? The one in the Windows 95 pc I do my books on failed recently. Unbelievably the battery is built into a chip, so cannot be replaced.


The old hard drive will not talk to a modern pc, so in order to get back my programs & data, I have had to buy a reconditioned 2004 pc and swap out the hard drive.


I'm not sure how I could have prepared for this problem short of having a spare pc on the shelf. Any thoughts?

GreyQueen

I ran a 2002 PC up until last year and it needed a cmos battery a few years before it died. Easy in and out on the motherboard, my techy guy did it for me. I've checked online and it seems to indicate they just pop on and off? Or maybe that's not for all PCs.

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jk0 wrote: »

Anyone ever had the cmos battery go flat in your PC? The one in the Windows 95 pc I do my books on failed recently. Unbelievably the battery is built into a chip, so cannot be replaced.

The old hard drive will not talk to a modern pc, so in order to get back my programs & data, I have had to buy a reconditioned 2004 pc and swap out the hard drive.

I'm not sure how I could have prepared for this problem short of having a spare pc on the shelf. Any thoughts?

It's difficult. For example when I ran a studio nearly 20 years ago, we had a fantastic mixing console that would have retailed for well over £100k when new, but it was automated with a nasty old 586 (or 486 can't remember), then the automation computer died and we had a hell of a time getting a similar replacement. In terms of pure data though, so long as you don't have any propriety software, then you can buy a little USB adaptor and use your old HD as an external drive on a different machine to transfer your data. The only other thing is to buy/build a completely future proof machine (including replaceable BIOS cell)