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Highways, sidewalks, driveways etc. were all cement when I was growing up too. But, to build something that needed real strength, like bridge supports, high rise buildings and such you used concrete - a much stronger material, at least in my mind back then. For some reason I thought of them as two distinct products. Similar to the difference between cardboard and wood.
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i agree. it was just something I noticed as a kid. Didn't know the real difference.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Uncomfortable. Don't like things between my toes. Flip-flops here in Michigan, BTW.
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isn't that sandals? I think the spanish name for it is chanclas, some people I know call it sliders, I am not sure if that is just a nickname they gave.
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In New Zealand they are jandals.
I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly
"I have sexdaily. I mean dyslexia. Fcuk!"
Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife
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The hosting company is migrating servers, and for some reason it turns out they didn't migrate any of the email passwords so they need to be reset manually.
I'll deal with that when I've waded through the 642 emails currently sitting in my inbox so see if I missed anything important ...
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I feel your pain Webhostinguk just did a similar thing to me
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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And the little buggers upgraded SQL server to 2019 and ... didn't migrate those user passwords either ... same fix means my DB's are working, and the regular system monitors didn't lose any data during the outage, which is good.
Gawd I hate working with support in the US: I get one email a day from a script-reading chimpanzee and have to tell them what the problem and the solution is.
Now I have to decide if it's worth updating my dev SQL server from 2012 to 2019 to match. Probably should.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Is your dev server local or remote ?
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Local: it's on my desktop PC, and always has been.
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Same here I use the Developer version - no restrictions and free.
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I recently needed to start taking a medication 3 times a day.
Well I'm terrible at remembering that and I keep irregular hours anyway so I need to set some alarms.
I used my "smart" phone for one alarm at night with no problems.
Set 3, and none of them remain active, and sometimes they just don't fire.
See, this is super high technology, very delicate, and requires supercooled silicon to work.
Or at least that's what I've come to understand based on how difficult it is to actually make an Android device do this.
If I ever meet an Android developer in the wild, I will make them eat their iPhone.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I use Google calendar with four recurring events: one for each of Herself's pill times: 08:00, 15:30, 19:30, and 23:00.
It feeds me (Android) phone alerts and an email half an hour before it's due, and works fine - has done for years now.
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I'll give that a shot. I was avoiding things like that because of the number of "moving parts" involved - more to go wrong, but it can't be worse than my current situation.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Never had any of these issues and I have 6 alarms active, some active only on certain weekdays. It may depend on the maker of the phone, Samsung is pretty good but only on their S and Note series, other not so much. I had HTC and Huawei and at least my models were absolute crap.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I have a Samsung that has been pretty reliable with the alarms ... except today. Today my 07:00 alarm did not sound. I know not why. I was getting a lie-in anyway - just a tad longer than I had intended!
So - may be related to updates?
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Yeah mine's a cheapo motorola - i don't believe in spending a lot on phones. I wouldn't have thought the make would have anything to do with it, but my phone does get updates way more often than I'm comfortable with. I guess it could have something to do with my provider's android setup? *shrug* or maybe i just have bad luck.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Yeah, Herself has an old, cheap MotoG - but I've got to replace it with a newer phone before the end of the year as they are turning off 3G here in Jan and it doesn't support anything else.
That'll be fun: she's only just stopped grabbing the nearest five year old and getting them to use it when she wants to make a call ... 
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Android setups do all the difference. Also I had a Motorola flip phone a lifetime ago and it was the worst phone I ever owned in my life, and I owned two Nokia Lumias.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I have a Moto G Stylus running the Microsoft Launcher and alarms work like a champ.
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as others have said. I have a Samsung and it works wonderfully for this stuff.
Or like Griffs for some of my things I use the google calendar account. Especially if I have to share with others. Herself likes when I let her know something on my calendar.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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seems to work OK on iphone. Can notify with sound. Just need to pay attention.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I have as frayed a memory as any other late-middle-age codger, but I remember to take my meds reliably. I learned to hate alarm clocks when I was a kid and delivered a Sunday morning paper. I had to be up at 5:00 a.m. to have them all delivered by 7:30. The only time I use an alarm now is if I'm traveling, or have something else going on that absolutely requires me to be up at a specific time.
The other part is that my ophthalmologist told me that her male, middle-aged patients weren't very compliant using their glaucoma eye drops. Challenge accepted, doctor.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I used to be fine without alarms. Now I do not sleep for more than 4 hours at a stretch and after a meal (no matter how small) i must lie down which can end up for anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours.
It blows my schedule all to heck and I need alarms just to keep my head above water.
Apparently this sometimes happens to people when they get old. I'm just getting old more quickly, apparently.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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