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You never wrapped the potato in Al. foil?
Of course, what happens when you put the Revere Ware pan in isn't helpful.
I still don't understand why this piece of metal is a wave guide, this is the ( reflecting ) chamber walls, and this is the ( damn! HOT ) fork you left in the stuff while distracted.
Seriously, we used brass window screen as shield - worked fine. Course that was only the 10KW generator at 60%.
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Sending positive energy your way to (not?) help the investigations 
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Picked up any new hobbies due to spending more time indoors?
Canadians are being given tips on how to grow their own cannabis indoors; including contributions from popular mainstream women's magazines.
And the census is coming out.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: Picked up any new hobbies due to spending more time indoors?
Yeah, try and spend as much quality time as possible outdoors.
In the warmer weather, that includes working on my porch on the "outdoor office" - small desk, bring out the laptop and spare second monitor. Theoretically, now that I've hooked up the solar panel and batteries, I can probably power the rig for the day from the batteries.
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Yes; I meant to say "around home" ... we have a month to grow stuff outdoors in Canada.
(Restored the deck last year).
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Marc Clifton wrote: Yeah, try and spend as much quality time as possible outdoors.
exactly.
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Marc Clifton wrote: bring out the laptop and spare second monitor. Theoretically, now that I've hooked up the solar panel and batteries, I can probably power the rig for the day from the batteries.
A laptop and monitor, only getting a day running off of solar (which I'm assuming is trying to keep up topping off the battery while you use the laptop)?
As a non-solar guy (but still rather interested by everything solar), that sounds...disappointing. Can you describe that setup some more?
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Bought a fixer-upper house and have been working on it forever, but getting close to being done. Then start on outside: 1/4 acre bamboo we've been weeding out a little at a time, 3 huge downed trees that I've been slowly turning into firewood, 2 acres 3 mow and trim 2ce a month.
On top of that I've read about 80 books this year.
6 online classes.
A couple of fair size programming projects.
Photography, an on going passion. One of my photos has been selected to be in the Florida Trail Association's 2022 calendar.
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Yes; the other half watches the home channel, then orders stuff for me to install.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Well as well as remodeling it's; honey we could use some bookshelves here, oh and a murphy bed in the office and...
The more I do the longer the list?
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I thought that bamboo are like banana plants in that you can't kill them off. What's your secret?
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We're under the impression that if we keep cutting them back they will eventually die off, at least that's what we've been told.
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Nothing kills bamboo, slow Me.
We burned it, it would sprout. We dug it up, along all the roots we could find. Two years later, it's back.
It has roots that go as deep as hell and alway regrows. In a million years, all trees will be replaced with bamboo.
My secret? A lot of salt. It will kill the bamboo. It will prevent ANYTHING from growing there, but given enough salt, bamboo dies.
All and any patch containing it should meet the fate of Carthage, and be BLOODY WIPED OUT.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I was working from home all through the quarantines in Israel. I had no time for my existing hobbies, let alone any new ones 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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My work load doubled during COVID... Not a single moment left to hobbies, old or new...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Not much change for me, same hobbies: bit of cycling, photography, drinking wine. Also tried a bottle of Tawny Port lately, that wasn't bad either 
We sometimes have a "guest" cannabis plant from someone who wants to avoid the limit of three plants.
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In Alberta, you get to grow 4 plants; in some provinces, none. Or, indoors only. Little idea why the variance.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I learned today how to remove my new artificial eye from its socket, wash it, and put it back in. This is required maintenance every two months, and I got it on the 1st of March.
Pro tip: Rinse the eye in cool water after washing; much more comfortable going back in.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Yep; doing more local walks I spotted some street furniture I'd never noticed before. Researched and found they relate to underground Telegraph cables - the internet of the late 19th century! Got obsessed and am now cataloging as many as I can. UK members please visit gpo-markers.derektp.co.uk[^] and contribute if you know of any! 
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I learned reflow soldering. Also esp32 coding in nanoframework.
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This is one of my favorite hobbies, when I get time to do so. Following old marked trails that have (old) markers is a fun sport, only to see where they lead. This I discovered when my family would make trips to Lake Tahoe (CA.) [This was back in the 60s and early 70s.] We would take US Hwy 50 from Sacramento to Lake Tahoe and from Placerville to Lake Tahoe, the road was marked with tombstones marking the mileage to Placerville. I found it fascinating to follow the mileage as we got farther from Placerville and closer to Lake Tahoe. For those who don't know, Placerville, CA was nick-named 'Hangtown". Most people who were put on trial there we hanged (lynched). The tombstones were a reminder to those who were going to Placerville to face a judge, you would know where your destiny lied.
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Sadly, Initially it was doom scrolling in March 2020.
Then Trump scrolling.
Then Trivia Quizzes.
Then I became a cruciverbalist for the first time in my life.
4 of them every morning.
Then I purchased an E-Scooter.
It is great to be outdoors again.
I have two of them now.
One of them is relaxing and easy and fun to ride.
The other one is busy and sometimes terrifying, but is the best fun to scoot on.
So the new thing for me from spending more time indoors is E-Scooting.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Yeah, I picked up Arduino in earnest.
I just finished installing a Google Assistant voice operated system for individually controlling the 8 recessed lights in my kids' "Game Dungeon". "Hey Google, light pattern 'front half'" will turn on the lights in the front half of the room and the back half off. I have half a dozen named patterns, but they can also be addresses with a bitwise number. "Hey Google, light pattern 162" will turn on 10100010.
I had great fun and taught my kids binary.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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Picked up my old guitar and I'm trying to learn how to play it.
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I started learning to play the day after the Beatles made their American debut on Ed Sullivan show.
It helps to take lessons. I played in various bands several years later. Quit about 5 years ago, tired of all of the "drama". Plus I was "too old to Rock and Roll, and too young to die." - Jethro Tull.
Until you can take lessons, run you scales.
My callouses are all gone! 
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