More laundry to do today. Sheets, blanket, assorted bedclothes.
After I stripped the bed, decided it was time to rotate/flip the mattress as my grandmother told me should be done. Get it half way around (pulled from long side, stood on long side, held it up, walked to other side of bed to guide it back down) and Loki decides to jump under the freaking mattress!
So, balancing the mattress with one hand/arm, I had to fish Loki out.
Life with pets can be so exciting, yes?
In this heat, what is left in the bird baths evaporate almost overnight. Scrubbed them all out and refilled with with fresh cool water. I could hear the birds in the Jacaranda, gum, bottlebrush and Geraldton Wax trees where it had just been silent a few seconds prior to the fill up.
Went into back yard, give the poor little orange tree a good 'soaker' watering while hanging up the laundry. Then did the same for the potted lime, chilli and catnip plants. Also gave the star jasmine a goodly drink. Really need to get that one into a larger pot.
Got the clippers out, climbed the steps, and trimmed back some 'tendrils' of the boxwood tree. Now the branches are even with the top of the pergola.
With all that done, I decided it was time to re-start doing my laps in the back yard. Got audio book player, and just got into it. Not too long, as it is rather hot out there. Wing said it's 20 meters from pergola post to pergola post.
So 40 meters per lap. Will get up to a kilometer, and then start increasing speed without limping, keeping my steps even. As Wing knows, I can move fast but only if I allow myself to have a limp, and GP/Doc has told me to avoid doing that. Time for some icewater, then go check to see if laundry is dry. In this heat, probably dry by the time I finish typing this out!
The final solution to Adobe CS6 Bridge being slow is this:
Copy the Adobe Camera Raw.8bi v8.3 into the C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-ins\CS5\File Formats folder. This way, you will get all the metadata, AND when you press space bar to preview the images, you get the full embedded jpg view.
You have to right click, "Open With Photoshop CS6" and ACR 8.3 opens without a hitch. But if you right click and select OPEN IN CAMERA RAW you get the "unable to use the Camera Raw plug-in. It is not compatible with this version of Bridge." (leading me to believe if I had really great programming skills, I could remove that version checking that would allow it to launch on a double click. Maybe someone other than me can figure that one out.)
On the rare occasion I really need to tweak a jpg in Adobe camera Raw, I'll just use CS6 to do so.
You put a lens on your camera body, and you get error message "Check status of your lens". You take lens off, check everything, remount the lens, switch on camera, and get the error again. *worry*
Get another camera body, mount lens on that one, and it works just fine. *panicky feeling*. Mount lens on 1st camera body... "Check status of your lens" (panic intensifies) Camera body less than 6 months old! :o
Deep breaths, put on magnifying spectacles, and inspect camera. All good, and other lens works on it. Inspect lens... It's amazing what one small smidge of pet fur can do. Cleaned off, lens working, panic abated.
Ziggy has been licking her leg until there is fur loss. It's a stress thing, so I ordered some Feliway for her. Synthetic "happy cat" pheromone. Diffusers and small spray bottle for out of the way areas. It's helped before, so got it again.
Feliway arrived today, diffusers and spray... *chucklechortlesnickersnortlaughing*
While Ziggy wasn't in the room, I spritzed some around the room in areas Ziggy hangs out.
She came in, sniffing around. She jumped onto the sofa.
The box with the Feliway on the sofa must have startled her, because she LEVITATED and leapt backwards, knocking into the just filled water bowl, soaking her and the rug. Soggy cat went FOOF (or tried to, because she's kind of wet) and shot out of the room like a rocket.
*snarflesnickerchuckle* Soggy Inflated Cat.
As I previously posted about it, if you remove the Camera Raw.8bi from the C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-ins\CS5\File Formats, when you double click on the RAW/ORF file in CS5 Bridge, it automatically goes to the latest Camera Raw (in this case, 8.3), but you wouldn't see any of the metadata (camera make/model, shutter speed, ISO, date taken, etc etc), but you would see it in CS5 bridge after image is saved as a JPG.
Personally, I want to see the metadata of the RAW files. Solution: copied the Camera Raw.8bi from the CS6 version into the CS5 folder, as it has all the camera data info. Now, this means you can't double click as it will kick up the incompatible current version of bridge. But if you right click and Open With and choose CS6, it opens in Camera Raw 8.3.
Takes about an eye-blink longer to do it this way, than to double click to open in Camera Raw directly. Works for me! :D
Halli-fekking-luliah!
In this corner: Ken Ham, owner operator of the "Creation Museum", who believes the world is only 6000 yrs old, and that bible stories are true.1
His Opponent: Bill Nye, Science Guy, who brings out evidence of Evolution, age of the planet, biology and astronomy.
The first 30 minutes of Ken Ham was him showing videos of other Creationists saying the biblical story of creation was true, that Adam and Eve were real, and the planet was only 6000 years old. ("Wait...let me show you 5 more videos of my friends agreeing with me." )He applied this meme as proof of how accurate the bible is:
Every time there was a question without an answer, he would fall back on "There is a book that tells us where this came from." He also seems to want a 4.5 billion year old scientist who was around when the planet was formed to declare it was formed around said scientist.
Ken Ham then decided to label certain scientific terms "Creationism terms". (I could strap a feather duster to on my cat, won't make him a peacock)
Bill Nye: Cited scientific discoveries, proven science, plate tectonics, and basic math to prove Ken's Creationist world was just wrong. There is no way that 7.5 billion people could have been the result of the mating of two individuals (Three, if you take the Adam/Eve story into account, as Eve and her son Seth had an incestuous relationship). That Noah's Ark could not have held even every "kind" of animal (Yes, Fail Again Ken tried to say all species of birds are descendants of one KIND of bird, every species of deer came from one KIND of deer. etc etc). Because if that were true, in a world that is only 6000 yrs old, we would have discovered 11 to 16 new species a day.
Trees that have growth rings, one of them 9500 yrs old. The Great Pyramids, pre-dating the Bible, You name it. And when Bill Nye was asked "Where did atoms come from before the big bang?" he answered honestly with "No one knows."
of course Ken fell back on his book of stolen fables as "There is a book with the answers." which in all seriousness, is no answer.
Then Ken went to bible predictions. Predictions which are so vague that a carnival Tarot Card reader could do better.
Lets move onto the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Creationists like to claim this is proof of creationism, but they're forgetting one extremely important fact: The earth is not a closed system. It's influenced by solar and cosmic energy and forces.
Ken also said "Scientists didn't understand that diseases came from bacteria."... True, but when scientist discovered this, they changed texts and information to reflect this. Whereas there are still Fundie Creationists that still believe that diseases are caused by demons.
Winner: Bill Nye, Science Guy.
Oh, and a clue about the Creation Museum, and why an Australian built it in the US and not his own back yard. He can't open it here as a "Fact Based Museum" because it isn't. Aussie laws state he would have to open it as a Fantasy or Christian Theme Park/Museum, kind of like DINOTOPIA, not as a Natural History Museum.
1Actually, he said only certain ones, ones he has picked, are true, the rest are poetry and stories to learn and live by. Wonder how he decided.
Now, I know of a branch of a tree is overhanging in the neighbors yard, they have every right to trim it back. But THIS particular neighbor doesn't even bother to inform us, so we can make sure the debris they will be dumping into our yard doesn't crush/damage other foliage (like the small orange tree with ripening fruit).
Like it would have been any skin off of their noses to let us know?
