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Good Monday morning Patriot Woodworkers! What did you get done over the weekend, and what have you planned for the week ahead! Inquiring minds want to know. Please tell us what's happening in your shops, your life, and any events going on with you. Thank you for being here folks!

 

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It's not woodworking related, but I just wanted to share a YouTube channel that I find fascinating, the channel is hosted by Townsend's. He is a Colonial Williamsburg preservationist and he has his own YouTube channel showing how we Americans lived in the 18th Century. His main staple in videos is how we cooked in the 1700's, and survived, but he also dives into other parts of everyday life in Colonial America.

 

Here he is demonstrating how we lit our homes and businesses. Enjoy!

 

 

Morning to ya...Got a start on a case for a few wayward chisels...to get them out of the Blister pack they used to call home..

 

MIGHT try to cut some Dovetails, today.

Still working on the magnets. Some new designs. Here is one still forget to make lots of pics.

Just learned something today....on another site.

 

A fellow was having trouble making a cut on his Mitersaw (Electric)  and some of the answers dealt with having a bad square?

 

Have yet to see any square, speed or otherwise...make a cut in wood.....Mark a cut, yes....but MAKE a cut? 

 

But, there were some that BLAMED the square.  Ok...

 

"A BAD Worker will blame his tools...." sort of thing?

 

waiting on Lunch to settle through the system...and then try the shop for a bit?    Called the Boss a little bit ago....seems to be over her 100% Grouch thing...for now..

Busy Saturday. Out early for trip just West of Indy for auction pick-up. A few errands on return trip plus run the Buick through the auto shower. Home for a bit, then off to grandsons 4th/5th grade combined choral concert. Turns out the director was the Director of the Indianapolis Children's Choir among other titles and accolades. Grandson finally got the reward he signed up for; "free" t-shirt and Subway sandwich. He summed up the overall experience with this profound statement, "I'm not doing this next year. I thought it would be more fun." A few errands after then supper at Culver's. Still need to unload auction treasures.

 

Church yesterday, then Mrs. & I enjoyed a nice lunch at her favorite local Mexican. Great quality food, service, atmosphere. After which, we enjoyed a mid-afternoon siesta as the thunderstorms darkened the house.

 

Busy week. Meetings at church a couple nights, youngest grandsons spring music concert, oldest grandsons baseball games weather permitting. Yard needs mowed really bad but rain/ thunderstorms in the forecast TU-FR with up to 3" total.

 

In a little over an hour, the sky will begin to darken peaking around 3:09P, EST here. Our county is split for totality. I'm located just outside the totality path, but I'm staying home. 99% is close enough. Indy TV stations are all broadcasting the eclipse live starting now. Jim Cantore is at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway; William Shatner aka Captain Kirk is at the IU main campus...eclipse mania is in full swing. News reports Indianapolis will host the largest influx of any city in the nation. Dozens of extra flights into Indinapolis International have been scheduled. Got my cardboard glasses, welding helmet and even a solar lense for the telescope/camera if I get really motivated. See y'all on the other side of the moon.

Eclipse has come and gone...made the street lights and my solar powered porch lights come on...

 

Need to go to the store, BUT.....I will wait until AFTER the traffic jam has gone away...need something to kill the time....might make some saw dust?

Well, nobody in our area has to worry about destroying his/her/its vision!

Edited April 8, 20242 yr by HARO50

2 hours ago, steven newman said:

Called the Boss a little bit ago....seems to be over her 100% Grouch thing...for now..

Mine never gets over it

5 hours ago, Gerald said:

Still working on the magnets. Some new designs. Here is one still forget to make lots of pics.

Looks like you are getting the hang of it, @Gerald!

Put some poly on the flower boxes, checked out the eclipse, helped wife's friend figure out her new phone and quick run to Lowe's. Gonna watch the NCIS special tonight about their 1000th episode (I miss Mark Harmon).

Teaser for today..

What groove?

 

 

Even ran a Router, today...

Back on wifes  Windows 10 computer after one of the cats decided on Monday that the Windows 11 computer looked like a good place to spray. 

Luckily I just parted out a computer that was found "Curb Shopping" that had a good motherboard, and cpu that got this W10 computer back up. 

 

Now I need to figure out why the W11 computer goes to BIOS when I try booting it up. 

I got everything cleaned but had to remove the CMOS battery to do so. 

The computer was not powered up when the cat did it's thing. 

BIOS may have reverted back to default instead of UEFI

1 hour ago, lew said:

BIOS may have reverted back to default instead of UEFI

 

Checked that Lew, seems as though it lost my RAID array settings. 

Have to take some time to see if I can work my way through that UEFI BIOS and reestablish them. 

 

 Note to self, next build no RAID array for the OS drive. 

42 minutes ago, Larry Buskirk said:

 

Checked that Lew, seems as though it lost my RAID array settings. 

Have to take some time to see if I can work my way through that UEFI BIOS and reestablish them. 

 

 Note to self, next build no RAID array for the OS drive. 

As much as I know I should, I don't run RAID. I have separate HDDs for file backups weekly and irregularly backup the OS to a USB HDD from W11

2 hours ago, Larry Buskirk said:

next build no RAID

 

50 minutes ago, lew said:

I don't run RAID

I thought RAID "killed bugs...dead"

35 minutes ago, Grandpadave52 said:

 

I thought RAID "killed bugs...dead"

In this case it created bugs

11 hours ago, lew said:

As much as I know I should, I don't run RAID. I have separate HDDs for file backups weekly and irregularly backup the OS to a USB HDD from W11

First time I've had a problem with a RAID array. That machine has two NVME M.2 drives for the OS and two 1TB HDD's for the data.

10 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said:

 

I thought RAID "killed bugs...dead"

In this case it's Redundant Array of Independent Disks. It basically splits the information accross dual or more drives depending upon which version of RAID you're using.

9 hours ago, lew said:

In this case it created bugs

I believe I've got the fix figured out.

It had been a couple of years since I set it up. I think I need to disconnect the data hdd's so the BIOS only sees the OS drives, and then add them back after I get the OS drives reestablished. It's seeing all four drives but doesn't know which to boot from. 

 

I spent most of Monday in Madison helping my cousin assemble a multiple computer order and had to set the UEFI BIOS's on about twenty of those machines.The order was for fifty Workstations, two Masters, and a NAS  (Network Area Server) system. five of the Workstations and one of the Masters are for spares.

Now that my brain is somewhat unfried from doing so, I think I can get the W11 system back up. I hope. 

If not then I'll just reformat and reload the whole system.

 

After doing those Workstations I've got the BIOS settings for the MSI B450M-A Pro Max II engraved/burned into my brain.

Cousin sent me home with one, he bought them by the case. Can't do a Raid array with the NVME M.2 drives on it. It only has space for one.

Edited April 11, 20242 yr by Larry Buskirk

Is it possible your cat got it right?????

24 minutes ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

Is it possible your cat got it right?????

Couldn't have hit a better/worse spot to do so, depending on your point of view.