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Two good pieces of mail

tcr! · Dec 6, 2017 at 6:56 pm

I’ve had a borderline shit day and then I was opening my mail which I hate doing because it’s always bills. But then these two things came that tickled me to death.

Maggie on the High Honor Roll
Maggie’s on the High Honor Roll again. I never achieved such feats.


Nissan Cube is paid off
And the Nissan Cube is finally paid off!

#photos #maggie #financialnews

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Cat on the dining room table

tcr! · Dec 6, 2017 at 8:47 am

Cat on the dining room table

She knows she’s not supposed to be up there so she waits until I go to work.

#photos #cats

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Almost two years have past

tcr! · Dec 6, 2017 at 8:01 am

Audio (MP3): 20171206 - Almost two years have past

Not long after my ex-wife moved out I couldn’t stand to be in the house alone in the morning. Like after Maggie went to school the stillness was unbearable. I couldn’t wait to leave to go to work.

Now that almost two years have past I’m sitting in the family room, just watched Maggie get on the school bus, and physically I’m in the same place but emotionally I’m a 1,000,000 miles away. I’ve made the house my own, got rid of furniture, replaced it with new things, and now I’m okay just being here by myself in the morning.

In fact, I really don’t want to go to work this morning. I’d rather sit and dink around with the Christmas lights than drive my work desk.

Anyways, we make it through the hard times. Let go of what once was and embrace what now is. The pain of the present becomes the fading memories of yesterday.

If we do the right things for the right reasons, when all is said and done we’ll be okay.

#lettherebehope #diariespodcast

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Brownie pan with spoon

tcr! · Dec 5, 2017 at 10:10 pm

Brownie pan with spoon

I didn’t do this to the brownies all on my own. I swear.

#photos #brownies

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Dual cat nap

tcr! · Dec 5, 2017 at 5:27 pm

Dual cat nap

This is what happens when I try to take a nap. I don’t know where they come from but they’re here within minutes.

#photos #cats #napsarespiritual

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Altered Carbon has got me excited

tcr! · Dec 5, 2017 at 12:34 pm

Netflix fills a sci-fi hole in its originals lineup with Altered Carbon

Netflix quietly acquired the rights to Altered Carbon at the start of 2016, but this sprawling story required a larger production than your average original. Canadian outlet The Province reported that Netflix moved into a state-of-the-art studio in British Columbia that could accommodate hundreds of staff, and Gizmodo wrote that per-episode spending could end up in the millions. If aesthetic and visual believability matters to you in your sci-fi decisions, evidently Altered Carbon will fall into the Westworld-y higher-end of that spectrum.

Mark your calendars: Altered Carbon will hit Netflix on February 2, 2018.

#netflix #alteredcarbon

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Morning stoplights

tcr! · Dec 5, 2017 at 8:08 am

Morning stoplights

Some days on the way to work I curse the stoplights at Prairie and Riverside in St. Charles.

Other days I’m grateful they force me to pause for a moment.

#photos #telephonepoles #blueskies

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Sara with burger at Denny’s

tcr! · Dec 4, 2017 at 7:05 pm

Here we go… 🍔

Sara with burger at Denny's

❤️ #photos #sara #dennys

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Brownies with a spoon

tcr! · Dec 4, 2017 at 4:43 pm

Brownies with a spoon

I’m eating brownies with a spoon right from the pan. On a Monday. Before dinner. Because I’m a grown-up and I do what the fuck I want.

#photos #brownies

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Don’t change the Excel

tcr! · Dec 4, 2017 at 10:50 am

When I have to send a third email I start TYPING IN CAPS.

🙄 #worknews #email

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keamoose keamoose · Dec 5, 2017 at 10:33 pm

Maybe lock the spreadsheet? People don’t listen.

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tcr! tcr! · Dec 6, 2017 at 10:15 pm

Oh, I need him to fill it out and then return it to me so I can import the data into his website. I wish you could lock the header row. Maybe that’s a thing. 🤔

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keamoose keamoose · Dec 6, 2017 at 10:28 pm

You totally can! You can pick which cells are locked and which are able to be filled in. Finally my excel skills are coming in handy.

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tcr! tcr! · Dec 6, 2017 at 10:32 pm

Yes!! 🎉 I’m totally locking that shit down.

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keamoose keamoose · Dec 6, 2017 at 10:58 pm

😁🎅🦄
I actually kind of love Excel. Every time I wonder whether it can do something, the answer turns out to be yes. Plus if you’re good at Excel, people look at you like you’re some kind of wizard, so that’s nice.

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tcr! tcr! · Dec 8, 2017 at 6:45 am

After your latest Excel insight I look at you like you’re a Wizard++

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keamoose keamoose · Dec 8, 2017 at 7:42 am

😊😊😊
Watch me pull this conditional formatting out of my hat!

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tcr! tcr! · Dec 9, 2017 at 7:27 am

Ooohhh conditionals! 🎩

My favorite was when I wrote QUOTIENT(F3,30). I was pretty proud of myself.

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keamoose keamoose · Dec 13, 2017 at 10:59 am

An Excel thing happened yesterday, wherein the best long-term solution was for me to learn to code Visual Basic and write my own functions. And I guess that sounds a little extreme, but it’s actually exactly the same as when I decided to learn Danish because I couldn’t read something on Facebook, or the time I liked Dave and therefore ended up living in the sub-Arctic. So I guess that’s just how I am. Anyway, Excel is the best.

vbfunctions

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tcr! tcr! · Dec 13, 2017 at 11:54 am

VB was the first GUI-based programming language I learned. I wrote a basic web-browser in it once. Why? It was my own reading-Danish/Dave-liking experiment. 😊

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keamoose keamoose · Dec 13, 2017 at 12:12 pm

Haha, awesome :)
Do you remember any of it? I’d like to know how to make my function check whether the input is non-numeric, the issue being that the lab data it’s working with will sometimes have gaps in it, so the input cell might be blank or say ND (non-detectable) or something like <0.001 (less than the lowest amount the lab can measure). Right now I’ve settled for making the cell only accept numbers, but that will be a pain in the ass for entering the lab data because it won’t let you paste it in if it happens to be non-numeric. So, e.g. I have =COPPER(A1) and cell A1 is restricted to numeric data only, but I’d prefer that the COPPER function be able to check and return an appropriate value if A1 has something that isn’t a number or if it’s blank.

…I’m not a programmer. I know just enough to get myself in trouble. :P

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tcr! tcr! · Dec 13, 2017 at 3:47 pm

I think you should be able to do something like…

Dim HardnessCheck As Boolean

HardnessCheck = IsNumeric(hardness)

If HardnessCheck Then
  Copper = 👍
Else
  Copper = 👎
End If

But keep in mind I haven’t been on Windows intentionally or in VB for literally years.

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tcr! tcr! · Dec 13, 2017 at 3:50 pm

Also, getting oneself in trouble is half the fun!

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keamoose keamoose · Dec 13, 2017 at 4:07 pm

Cool, I’ll give that a try!

I’m in deep trouble right now with a 2-dimensional lookup where I have to round the input in order to look it up. I AM LEARNING SO MUCH.

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keamoose keamoose · Dec 13, 2017 at 4:27 pm

You know what’s REAL FUN? Realizing that for the past 2 hours the entire problem has been a typo in a cell reference. Ok, back to the copper thing.

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keamoose keamoose · Dec 13, 2017 at 5:14 pm

By the way, your IsNumeric code worked great, thanks :)

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tcr! tcr! · Dec 14, 2017 at 7:13 am

I do my monthly payables/receivables in Apple’s Numbers.app. I have formulas to calculate my monthly budget, how much I can spend per week, day, etc. based on what’s coming in and what’s going out.

So one month according to my calculations I could live pretty high on the hog. But then when my bank account overdrew I soon realized a formula typo had given me an inflated sense of financial luxury.

I shallwould forevermore pay much closer attention to when copying and pasting cell formulae.

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keamoose keamoose · Dec 14, 2017 at 10:15 am

Ouch. Funny thing with this one is, I did copy and paste it and there is no reasonable explanation for how it could have changed.

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tcr! tcr! · Dec 14, 2017 at 11:30 am

I have a reasonable explanation: Excel.

😉

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keamoose keamoose · Dec 18, 2017 at 4:13 pm

I started this on Friday and just finished it.

=INDIRECT(CONCATENATE(“’”,C$7,”’!”, ADDRESS(ROW(),MATCH($B$1,INDIRECT(CONCATENATE(“’”,C$7,”’!$A$5:$P$5”))),1)),TRUE)

It’s a goddam masterpiece and is going to save me days and days of tedious manual cell referencing. I think I leveled up in Excel.

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tcr! tcr! · Dec 19, 2017 at 6:59 am

And that critter lives all in one cell? I think you skipped three levels with that puppy.

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