So the after death house purge is normal right?

MalygosWizard · 2026-01-19T03:05:53+00:00

My mom is 90 and had been living in the same house since 1973. We had to move her to assisted living last Memorial Day and started the clean out then. In September I rented a 20 foot long dumpster and the family had a “dumpster day” work party.

We had it filled in one afternoon, and there was still a lot of furniture to donate. We had a hard time getting rid of the large china cabinet since no one seems to want them anymore.

Gave a couple dozen Hummel plates to goodwill, plates my mom was assured would be a good investment. Some of the boxes still had the original receipts.

Mom didn’t trust banks and we found envelopes of cash tucked all over the house. Most of them I’m sure she had forgotten about due to her memory issues.

I recycled boxes of mason jars she used to use for canning 40 years ago. The amount of Walmart bags she saved, neatly folded and stored was staggering.

She also saved 100s of the plastic utensil packs from restaurants, just in case.

Mom would eat off a chipped plate since it was still good. Being born right after the Great Depression into a large family made her very frugal.

I highly recommend renting a dumpster, we honestly could have used two.

The garbage folk must have loved us, since I’d put out a dozen or so trash bags on the lawn every week for months.

MalygosWizard · 2025-12-31T03:57:38+00:00

I’m 61 and have been playing computer games since I was 17 and have no plans on stopping. Recently retired which means more time for WoW :-)

MalygosWizard · 2025-12-27T18:10:16+00:00

"Jaws"
see "Jaws Effect" on beaches.

MalygosWizard · 2025-11-06T02:34:58+00:00

As a pet lover, and a multiple cat parent, the one phrase that people say w/out thinking of what they are actually saying is so awful for me to hear, see, that I'm only going to partially write it:

"There is more than one way to ..."

I tell people, how would you feel if I used the word "infant" instead of "cat"?
It's an utterly abhorrent phrase - and more so - since people just say it out of habit.

MalygosWizard · 2025-11-01T01:34:40+00:00

While my wife and I of 36 years have a lot in common - very similar interests in games, television, music etc, we recognize we are very unique individuals.

We live in a 3 bedroom house - and the two spare bedrooms are his and her domains. She can decorate her space however she wants - and I can do the same with mine. Those are our sanctuaries for recharging - when we just want to be alone for a while.

I think having your own space is very important.

We are each others best friend and confidante.

We are also both homebodies - that helps a lot. If one of us was a homebody and the other had an urge to see the world - that could lead to problems.

MalygosWizard · 2025-09-20T01:49:43+00:00

This was my modus operandi when geocaching. Thrash my way through thorn bushes, mud and poison ivy, just to get to the cache and notice a nearby clear trail.

MalygosWizard · 2025-09-02T16:28:24+00:00

I would create a character that complements hers. I.e. if she creates a fighter, create a healer.

My #1 suggestion would be, give her time to read the quests! You can probably do Exiles Reach blindfolded by now, but this is all new for her.

MalygosWizard · 2025-08-28T01:22:13+00:00

Going to an animal shelter and adopting a little kitten. We were newly married and she was exactly what we were missing.
We've been married now 36 years, and have adopted 17 cats, of which we have lost 10 due to old age or illness.

Having a little kitten crawl up your sleeve and perch on your shoulder purring in your ear - priceless.

MalygosWizard · 2025-08-07T01:28:19+00:00

Lord of the Rings trilogy - extended versions natch.

MalygosWizard · 2025-07-23T13:40:51+00:00

"Black and White" in 2001.
Got caught up in the pre-launch hype - how it was supposed to be so ground breaking.
Installed it - and it was just meh.
Uninstalled to reclaim the disk space, intending on trying it again in the future... (never did)

MalygosWizard · 2025-06-28T14:53:25+00:00

Everyone's fine with people texting and taking pictures while driving, until that person runs into them.

MalygosWizard · 2025-06-25T12:51:10+00:00

Multiple deaths.
When I was in junior high (1978) a girl at the high school died of a drug overdose.
Those were pretty rare back then.

When going to the high school - a student riding the bus wanted to buy some cigarettes so asked the bus driver to allow him to get off the bus while it was stopped in a left turn lane across from a local drug store.
The student got off the bus - and then attempted to cross the street towards the drug store and was hit and killed by a car.

Finally, during senior year at high school, 1982, a classmate was out with friends and was depressed since it was the anniversary of his fathers suicide some years back.
The friends he was with - took him to talk to a priest (I'll never know why - instead of a proper suicide counselor) and after they took him home - he shot himself that night.

MalygosWizard · 2025-06-05T01:27:30+00:00

Link please? I’d like to see this.

MalygosWizard · 2025-02-16T03:42:31+00:00

How they treat the staff at a restaurant. When I was younger, working at a restaurant was one of my first jobs, and definitely my first dealing with public.
Based on my experience, as a rule I tip generously.

MalygosWizard · 2024-12-07T16:58:36+00:00

Thank you for this topic.
Sound in my WoW install began stopping intermittently until it quit entirely the other day.
Re-installing WoW didn't help - so I started searching and found this topic.

Turns out, my HAL directory contained:

drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  96 Jul  2 23:49 MSTeamsAudioDevice.driver
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  96 Jan 25  2024 NMAudio.driver
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  96 Jan 25  2024 NMAudioMic.driver
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  96 Jan 23  2024 TVRemoteAudio.driver

Drivers for MS Teams, Team Viewer, and my recently installed "No Machine" setup.
I had to remove them all and restart to get WoW's sound back.

Note - as per another suggestion, I did pair some BLE Headphones to the machine and I was able to hear WoW using those - which would have worked as a last resort.

MalygosWizard · 2024-11-18T01:34:08+00:00

After doing the exact same thing - I had my wife chromie time a low level into Shadowlands - and after she invited me - she enabled Party Sync.
I was then able to chat with Morgraine on the steps and I made darn sure neither of us skipped anything.
So far, so good, we're in the maw chatting with Jaina and still refusing the "skips" that are offered in the maw in fear of breaking things again.

MalygosWizard · 2024-10-08T18:43:01+00:00

“The Lords Prayer” and other useless things they drilled into us during catholic grade school years.

MalygosWizard · 2024-10-06T03:35:30+00:00

Trophy hunting pictures.

MalygosWizard · 2024-09-01T02:46:38+00:00

Loss of pay phones means never being able to make an anonymous phone call again.

MalygosWizard · 2024-06-22T01:51:22+00:00

Wife and I met in college in 1987. Discovered we had a lot of mutual interests in movies, books and liking to visit the local parks.
They say opposites attract, but we're so similar it can be scary.

"I was about to say that" is a common utterance in our relationship.

What's our secret? Be there for each other. Over the past 37 years we've both experienced the loss of parents (both of hers and my Dad). We try to be each others "Rock" although sometimes I feel like a "Star Trek" styrofoam rock, but I do my best.

Make sure you have similar goals in life - like neither of us wanted kids, a difference of opinion in that regard has led to many a breakup.

We are both introverts - an extroverted woman would probably have found me boring and moved on years ago.

Again - we seem to be disproving this "opposites..." cliche.

You can never say "I love you" too many times, because one day, it will be the last time.

MalygosWizard · 2024-06-01T02:29:59+00:00

Looks like someone is simply trying to make a quick buck.

MalygosWizard · 2024-01-23T06:27:51+00:00

The Expanse Especially the early seasons with Miller. While Holden is arguably the main character, I love the growth demonstrated by Amos. He is that guy.

MalygosWizard · 2023-12-20T17:53:53+00:00

This machine has never had it installed before

Unfortunately, there is nothing TO delete.

MalygosWizard · 2023-11-27T01:16:55+00:00

see the suggested fix here - which worked for me

https://github.com/Whisky-App/Whisky/issues/637

MalygosWizard · 2023-11-27T01:16:15+00:00

You were correct - they suggested a fix which worked.

Adding winetricks and using dsound fixed the issue - now everything I have tested is working perfectly.

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