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you literally lagged out in eq if you did vista
i banned my guild from installed win8' vista,me
u were only allowed xp or win7
i made good use of my voip phone, in 2000s we still had to deal with long distance charges, so i got some voip box, buying the box was like 100$ something and 20bucks a month for unlimited talk time, by then i had moved so i needed a way to talk to family anyway
probably this
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So it's time for Sunday Random Ass Storytime with Haus.....
After years of scraggly azaleas in the garden bed in front of my house (bad early homeowner decision on my part not realizing that limited sunlight on the northern side of a north facing house) I finally decide to do something about it. They had been planted too far back (close to the house) which EXTREMELY limited light, and I know I could get traditional boxwoods to do just fine in the part shade of the front half of the garden box. But the azalea shrubs on either end of the front patio were getting enough morning and afternoon light they were doing fairly OK, just still a good bit anemic. I get the smart idea that I will transplant those into some large "quarter barrel looking" containers and position in the back yard where they will get plenty of sun and water and should absolutely thrive. So I get the containers and get them ready. I head out front, I have pulled up a dead azalea before and was literally able to uproot it by just a strong upward pull, and this gave me an unfortunately incorrect concept on how entrenched a live azalea root ball would be. Still, I spike my shovel down around the perimeter of the root ball, then a deep plunge to wedge under it and pry it up....
The azalea had other ideas....
Now, some of this is my fault, until this last winter I didn't have space in my garage to keep my shovels and landscaping implements probably stored inside, so they were on wall hangars on the outside of the back of the garage (i.e. the extreme weathering above).
I check online, good new handles (which I could easily swap out) cost within $5 of just getting new shovels. So I decide to hit the local "inexpensive tool market", which for NW Dallas means... The Pawn Shops. To get some newer replacement shovels. I hit 3 and no dice.. on the 4th it's also bare and the chick there asks me what I'm looking for. I mention that I just need some simple shovels. And she says "Dude, you picked the worst time of the year. It's spring and every Mexican in NW Dallas with two cousins and a truck is trying to start their own landscaping company. Come back between Thanksgiving and Christmas and we'll have so many we'll almost begging people to take em."
After years of scraggly azaleas in the garden bed in front of my house (bad early homeowner decision on my part not realizing that limited sunlight on the northern side of a north facing house) I finally decide to do something about it. They had been planted too far back (close to the house) which EXTREMELY limited light, and I know I could get traditional boxwoods to do just fine in the part shade of the front half of the garden box. But the azalea shrubs on either end of the front patio were getting enough morning and afternoon light they were doing fairly OK, just still a good bit anemic. I get the smart idea that I will transplant those into some large "quarter barrel looking" containers and position in the back yard where they will get plenty of sun and water and should absolutely thrive. So I get the containers and get them ready. I head out front, I have pulled up a dead azalea before and was literally able to uproot it by just a strong upward pull, and this gave me an unfortunately incorrect concept on how entrenched a live azalea root ball would be. Still, I spike my shovel down around the perimeter of the root ball, then a deep plunge to wedge under it and pry it up....
The azalea had other ideas....
Now, some of this is my fault, until this last winter I didn't have space in my garage to keep my shovels and landscaping implements probably stored inside, so they were on wall hangars on the outside of the back of the garage (i.e. the extreme weathering above).
I check online, good new handles (which I could easily swap out) cost within $5 of just getting new shovels. So I decide to hit the local "inexpensive tool market", which for NW Dallas means... The Pawn Shops. To get some newer replacement shovels. I hit 3 and no dice.. on the 4th it's also bare and the chick there asks me what I'm looking for. I mention that I just need some simple shovels. And she says "Dude, you picked the worst time of the year. It's spring and every Mexican in NW Dallas with two cousins and a truck is trying to start their own landscaping company. Come back between Thanksgiving and Christmas and we'll have so many we'll almost begging people to take em."
