LOL I had 4 seeds of that cultivar left from last year, seemed like a shame to waste them...I see at least two unoccupied cells there 😮 Totally unacceptable!
LOL I had 4 seeds of that cultivar left from last year, seemed like a shame to waste them...I see at least two unoccupied cells there 😮 Totally unacceptable!
@geek
Not sure if your a fan but the first EVER PGA golf tournament in the DR is being held this weekend in your back yard!
https://www.puntacana.com/coraleschampionship
https://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/2023/corales-puntacana-championship/R2023522
If you drink some of what's left over in the carboy, betcha you'll fall back to sleep, lol!Couldn't sleep this morning, so got up and racked the 2021 Grenache Rose in preparation for bottling.
In my limited experience, the Tavola are much faster aging. I bottled the PN at 6 months and it was fully drinkable a month later. The Forte kits need more time, but at over a year are quite good.Racked my FWK Tavola Cab Sav that I made last summer. Wow! My plan is to bottle it this fall, but it tasted so fantastic already that I am debating bottling it sooner. Or I may rack 3 gallons to keep aging and bottle the rest. Decisions, decisions...
A bit over a year ago my then 7 yo desktop PC was showing its age, so I replaced the motherboard, CPU, and RAM. I kept my old case and video card for cost reasons.
Recently I decided to replace the video card, as costs had stabilized. However, the one I purchased needs more power than than is supplied through the motherboard, and I discovered my existing power supply wasn't powerful enough to do the job. The PC arena changes quickly, and if you're not building them frequently, assume EVERYTHING has changed since the last time, and you won't be wrong.
I ended up buying a new case (I'll not go into the technical details unless someone needs a cure for insomnia) and power supply.
Even with a tower case, the insides can be cramped, although in comparison laptops are the equivalent of a 1 room apartment with 10 people living there.
The new case is larger with a LOT of interior space, and the power supply is modular, e.g., meaning that I don't have to make room for a half dozen unnecessary cables. I plug in only the cables I need.
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This one has a LOT more space, so airflow is better. I'm going to add more fans pointing up, to help with cooling.
The many cables are on the other side of the what is the "back" in the above photo.
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It's still a snake nest of cables, but none of them is bouncing into a spinning fan, so I call it a win.
This case has built-in support for LED fans, e.g., the fans change color and are programmable. One reviewer got really excited over this, although he was also raving about the colors on the outside of the box the power supply came in, so his review wasn't exactly useful to me.
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Me? I don't care about the colors of the fans, as I'm paying attention to what's on screen, not watching a colored fan spin ...
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As I got into this, I recalled vividly why I don't build PCs all that often .......
Whatever you used to know is no longer current.I used to build them and repair them a while ago.
Whatever you used to know is no longer current.
Get the highest generation of the version of CPU you get, especially with an Intel processor. My last build lasted almost 10 years and still runs circles around my PC at work (which was a dual core Intel), it was a 2 core AMD Castillo black, I kept it to run ubuntu on it for a cheap music server. The new one is only an AMD Ryzen 5 series, but with a solid state hard drive it boots up in about 5 seconds, unreal.Whatever you used to know is no longer current.
A year ago when I replaced the MOBO/CPU/RAM, I researched for nearly 2 months in figuring out what to buy. This year I spent a month looking at cases and GPUs (video cards), then a week looking at PSU (power supply unit). If I was replacing the MOBO/CPU/RAM now, I'd have to spend at least a week or two figuring things out.
The first PC I built was a Pentium-90. Ya decided on what clock speed, and the choices were Intel Pentium or AMD. Now there's probably 30 choices each in both Intel and AMD. It's not for the faint of heart!
Way to find that silver lining! I would definitely get that vinyl flooring. You don’t want mold growing under it. They make smart alarms for the sump put too.AND some of the stuff that got moved upstairs isn't coming back down, which means I have space for more wine racks!
I had a similar but more minor situation. A landscaper suggested putting dirt against the foundation so that the ground within 5' of the house slopes away from the house. It solved the problem -- not 100% perfect, but my cellar gets wet only when it's raining hard enough to float an Ark.We live in a spot where lots of water runs down toward our house from a berm, and so the sump pump is essential.
What do you do for a living? Remote launches of Tesla's satellites?A bit over a year ago my then 7 yo desktop PC was showing its age, so I replaced the motherboard, CPU, and RAM. I kept my old case and video card for cost reasons.
Recently I decided to replace the video card, as costs had stabilized. However, the one I purchased needs more power than than is supplied through the motherboard, and I discovered my existing power supply wasn't powerful enough to do the job. The PC arena changes quickly, and if you're not building them frequently, assume EVERYTHING has changed since the last time, and you won't be wrong.
I ended up buying a new case (I'll not go into the technical details unless someone needs a cure for insomnia) and power supply.
Even with a tower case, the insides can be cramped, although in comparison laptops are the equivalent of a 1 room apartment with 10 people living there.
The new case is larger with a LOT of interior space, and the power supply is modular, e.g., meaning that I don't have to make room for a half dozen unnecessary cables. I plug in only the cables I need.
View attachment 99790
This one has a LOT more space, so airflow is better. I'm going to add more fans pointing up, to help with cooling.
The many cables are on the other side of the what is the "back" in the above photo.
View attachment 99791
It's still a snake nest of cables, but none of them is bouncing into a spinning fan, so I call it a win.
This case has built-in support for LED fans, e.g., the fans change color and are programmable. One reviewer got really excited over this, although he was also raving about the colors on the outside of the box the power supply came in, so his review wasn't exactly useful to me.
View attachment 99792
Me? I don't care about the colors of the fans, as I'm paying attention to what's on screen, not watching a colored fan spin ...
🤣
As I got into this, I recalled vividly why I don't build PCs all that often .......
I'm a little older than you. My first build used a Z-86 from Zilog. Man, those were the days...many happy sleepless nights...The first PC I built was a Pentium-90. Ya decided on what clock speed, and the choices were Intel Pentium or AMD. Now there's probably 30 choices each in both Intel and AMD. It's not for the faint of heart!
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