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I really liked this episode. Everything Carol did while a captive was just an act. She is a master of psychological warfare.   Her crisis at the end of the show was a realization that she is just like Red, and at any moment could become heartless and unfeeling just like her. I think the fact that she knew her kill number was 18 was something for her to hold on to that lives still matter. whereas Red had just stopped counting.   This business of everyone being Negan is interesting to me. Carol knew the secret, but Rick was hasty to off the guy at the end who said he was Negan. He would have been better off keeping him alive a bit longer. I think he was about to spill it.

  You know, It occurred to me that this happens occasionally on my wife's laptop; the trackpad just stops working. There is a little switch on her laptop to disable the trackpad that somehow accidentally gets set to off. Many times there is a function key combination that will also disable it. You might check the laptop documentation and see if yours has either of these. Perhaps your trackpad is just temporarily disabled.   As an alternative, plug in a wireless mouse. My work laptop has Bluetooth, and I have a mouse that works with it. I've gotten to where I hate using the trackpad now.

  I don't know about the fingerprint scanner, but likely it and the touchpad just need an updated driver. Go to the manufacturers web site, and look up your model laptop and see if they have a new driver for each, made specifically for Win10. You might also look in the system tray, the area next to the clock in the bottom right corner and see if there is an applet running for either of them. You might just discover that the devices are turned off. You may need to click the little up arrow chevron in the system tray to reveal more applets. Hover over each applet and look at what it is. If you find one that looks like it might be for the device, right-click it and see if there is a settings or options menu item.   As far as the networking, were you connecting via a Homegroup? If so, then did you upgrade the computer that was the master? You may just need to recreate the homegroup, and then go to each of the other PC's and rejoin to the new homegroup. I recall I had to do that when I upgraded. Click in the Cortana search bar next to the start button and type "Homegroup". Click on the homegroup control panel and verify your settings. You may need to leave the current homegroup and recreate a new one. If you do recreate, remember your password, and then go to each of your other PC's and leave / rejoin there as well.   Good luck

Run with it for a while, and keep at it. Eventually you'll figure it all out. Google is your friend for trying to find info quickly. Just start all your searches with "Windows 10 How do I ..." and you'll have lot of info. after a while it will feel normal. You'll use an old PS with Win 7 or XP on it, and it will seem archaic and clunky.

  I think it was at the very end of the show. It was Walkie-talkie lady, another lady and a guy, all holding Maggie and Carol. 

The savior lady on the walkie talkie looked familiar to me. Not sure if I recall her from a different show (Justified perhaps) or was she one of the ones that Darryl had a run-in with when he was in the woods that one day. The one where a lady was diabetic and after escaping, he brought her meds back.   The interesting thing to me is, so far the Saviors have been a blood bath against our heroes. Every one of them they have gone up against has been killed, with none of Rick's group getting killed. For all the hype of Negan being such a badass, his group has not proved it yet.

I was convinced (and still haven't ruled it out) that some critter was getting into our hen house and eating their food. I put a game camera in front of the food dispenser and left it there for a day and a half. It captured 1572 pictures! I looked thru every single one of them. Never saw a single critter, but got some great chicken butt pics.

I know the Google Photos app will upload photos and videos taken from your phone or tablet to your Google Drive. It can be set up to do it automatically always, or only when on Wi-Fi. The only thing is, if someone gets the password to your phone, then they likely will have access to your Google Drive area too, and could delete files from there as well.

  The trick you need to know is, once you search for the app in Cortana, right-click it and select either Pin to Start, or Pin to Taskbar. The first one will add it to one of the tiles you see when you click on the Start button. From there you can rearrange the tile or resize it. The second option will add the app to the task bar at the bottom of your screen. It will always be there, whether it is running or not. You'll know it is running if there is a light bar under the icon on the taskbar.

Stumbled upon these guys the other day. Reminds me a bit of Stevie Ray   https://youtu.be/fz2wWwJwzsw  

I'm an IT guy, and I have to keep up with the latest MS stuff, so I forced myself to use and get used to Win8.1. I didn't like it at first, but I learned to get around in it. Eventually when I got the interface kinks worked out, I was OK with it.    I did upgrade to Win 10, and I think it is SO much better than 8.1. I know folks that resisted the Win8 upgrade due to the drastic interface change, and they have been able to deal with the Win 10 interface much better. They just jumped right in and figured it out. Mostly that is due to the Start Button being back.   I've not found anything that didn't work after the upgrade. There may be some tweaking to do to make it more user friendly for me. All in all I really like Win 10. It's what Win 8 should have been. This interface is just enough different than Win7 to make it feel more modern, but just enough like it to still feel familiar in getting around.   I'd say give it some more time and see if you can't work out the kinks.What specifically don't you like about it? Perhaps we can help make it more to your liking.

I would love to see manufacturers start holding the Gov accountable for the price of stuff. Something along the lines of a note on the label that says something like "$0.35 of this can of tuna goes to cover government regulation" or $0.65 of each gallon of this gas goes to tax". or at the very least one of those square barcode link things that could take you to a web site with current info. I think it would open up the eyes of some consumers.   Of course the next thing that would happen is a law prohibiting that practice.  :tinfoil:

Reminded me of this: How to leave your hotel room

If you are just backing up a few gigs of personal data, a free solution like Dropbox, Google Drive, or Microsoft One Drive will probably meet your needs. They all have a program you can install locally. You edit the setting of the program to point it at the folders where your files are and it will automatically backup your files. I personally use Google Drive. They start you off with 15gb of space. The last two years Google ran a "Internet Safety Day" and if you participated they kicked in another two gigs each time. That is plenty of space for me to keep my personal files. I also have my phone linked up to Drive and any pictures I take end up there as well. If I let Google down-convert my pics to something like 12 megapixle resolution, the y don't count the files against my space quota.   Your PC is made of of dozens of gigabytes of files, most of which are Operating System and Programs. Really all you need to worry about is backing up your personal data. If your PC tanks, you'll reinstall the O/S and all the apps. Your files are what is not easily replaceable.    Right-click on the folders that hold teh files you are interested in backing up and select properties. That will tell you how much data you are looking at.

Google for "no ad hosts file". You'll discover a method I use on all my PC's to block all sorts of ads and bad web sites. It's a setting that is computer wide and works on every program that connects to the internet.

  Joe's gotta be one of the hardest working guys in the music industry. He puts out a studio album what seems like every six months, with a live album mixed in every so often, all while touring constantly. I did not know about this new album yet. Pretty stoked to get it.

People who say you have to keep a mortgage for the tax deduction have not thought it through, and are uninformed. Using round numbers, lets say you are in the 25% tax bracket, you earned $100,000 and you paid $10,000 interest on your home last year. With no deductions, you will pay $25,000 in taxes. If you deduct your $10,000 in interest, your taxable income is $90,000, which means you'll pay $22,500 in taxes. So by keeping the mortgage deduction, you are paying $10,000 in interest each year to get $2,500 worth of tax savings. The math does not work. You would be better off, paying yourself $2,500 in a savings account than paying the mortgage company $10,000.   If you just really want that deduction, donate to a charity. You get the same exact tax benefit, and you help out an organization that needs it as opposed to a bank.   Plus, I don't know about everyone else, but I have not been able to use itemized deductions in years, even with the interest I pay on my shiny new mortgage. The standard deduction the IRS offers is better for me than itemizing. Check your tax records and see if that is the case for you as well. That being the case, mortgage interest does NOTHING for me at all. I get the standard deduction whether I have a mortgage or not.

So, recently I did a little thinking about what TGO means to me. I've been here for a number of years, enjoying the awesome service David and the moderators provide. I really enjoy being a part of a community of like-minded folks. The knowledge I've learned, the stories I've heard, the laughs I've had, and even the tears I've cried are a big part of my everyday life. Heck, I get up an hour early every morning before work, just to have time to get caught up on TGO.    All of that led me to decide to go ahead and make a contribution to become a benefactor. I've gotten way more knowledge and entertainment than the cost of the membership.  I've never felt any pressure to donate here, and the service has always been free, but TGO deserves my membership money.   David and staff, thanks for this site and all you do.

  That is exactly what mine does. I met a couple of guys at work that work in the metering department (they measure stuff) and they said that is very common for Fluke meters. They said to open up the case, and find the little leads that connect the LED display, take them off and use a pencil eraser to degunk the contacts. Said it was super easy. I just have not tried it yet.

I have a Fluke that was handed down to be by my dad, who was an electrician before retirement. Not sure of the model, but it's a basic unit. It has an LED that is VERY difficult to read. It is so dim, and you have to hold it at just the right angle to read it.    I finally got tired of dealing with it and bought a cheap knockoff from Amazon for about $35. It works just as well, and didn't break the bank. It even has more features than my Fluke.   If you are in the business and will be using it weekly, then definitely get the quality that Fluke will afford. If you are a casual user then consider saving your money. I'm a Do-it-Yourselfer homeowner, so I definitely fall into the occasional user category. To be honest, I use mine for checking to see if a line is live, and occasionally to test Ohms to see if there is a break in a connection. I could probably get away with a super cheap one. In fact I had a $10 one from Radio Shack for years that I used before giving it to my son, and I saw him pull it out this past weekend.

We started doing the Dave Ramsey plan many years ago and it has worked very well for us:   1. $1,000 to Start an Emergency Fund 2. Pay Off All Debt but the House 3. 3 to 6 Months of Expenses in Savings 4. Invest 15% of Household Income Into Retirement 5. College Funding for Children 6. Pay Off Home Early 7. Build Wealth and Give.  https://www.daveramsey.com/baby-steps/   According to that plan, the house is the last thing to pay off. Your vehicles and credit cards should be what you are focusing on, if you have an emergency fund of a couple grand put away.   If you got the mortgage recently, it's probably a fairly low interest rate, and almost certainly higher than your other debt, so the other debt just makes sense to pay off. Plus the other debt is a smaller chunk, so it will pay off quicker. The satisfaction of knowing you have no debt but the house is amazing. Then use what you were paying on the debt to pay down the mortgage. It'll be more than $100 a month, so you'll get caught right up to where you would have been if you started on the mortgage first.   If you look into how paying off early works, you'll find that it pays off the tail end of the mortgage. If you look at an amortization schedule you'll see that the portion of your mortgage that goes toward principal increases over time. So, a $1000 mortgage payment in the first month pays maybe $5 of principal, and $995 of interest. The opposite is true of the end of the mortgage: your last payment will be $995 of principal and $5 interest. So paying $100 a month extra will take 9 months just to save one mortgage payment. (I made up these numbers because I am too lazy to go look them up, but the point remains, and I'm probably not too far off)   Now I'm not saying you shouldn't pay early, but you definitely should take care of the earlier baby steps first. If you have not read any of Dave Ramsey's books, you owe it to yourself to go get one.The Total Money Makeover is one that I read, and it changed the way we look at money. It's taken a while, but we are on step 6. All debt is paid, including two cars, and we are paying down the house as fast as we can. I'm 15 years away from retirement, and I want the house paid for way before that. I can't imagine making a mortgage payment on retirement income.

Guys who wear a "Man Bun"

Perhaps their time and effort would be better spent coaching local young people to not grow up to be thugs. Instead they harass honest, law abiding folks who likely come in from out of town, buy guns and take them back out of town. I'd venture that few, if any, of the gun show guns actually make it to their streets. 

My question is, is that the standard tactical way of chambering a round after a mag load? Have I been doing it wrong all this time? 

Looks like it skipped right over us here in Oak Ridge. I can still see the grass in my yard. Turned out to be just a light dusting for us.