{"id":54127,"date":"2024-03-14T16:28:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T23:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=54127"},"modified":"2024-03-14T16:28:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T23:28:57","slug":"a-belated-happy-birthday-tomcat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/03\/14\/a-belated-happy-birthday-tomcat\/","title":{"rendered":"A Belated &#8220;HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TOMCAT!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43876\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/TomCat_Politics-Plus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/TomCat_Politics-Plus.jpg 355w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/TomCat_Politics-Plus-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/TomCat_Politics-Plus-111x150.jpg 111w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Like the old Mortan Salt slogan goes: &#8220;When It Rains, It Pours&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I think I whined a bit WRT the steeper-than-anticipated learning curve for using my new Logitech Ergonomic Split Keyboard to help avoiding another carpal tunnel surgery.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>(And if I didn&#8217;t whine, I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">MEANT<\/span> to.)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Then yesterday I was reminded it was time to check for updates, and both MS &amp; Dell had a passel of critical ones.\u00a0 So I downloaded and installed them.<\/p>\n<p>But they both required a reboot to complete the installation.\u00a0 No big deal &#8230; or so I thought.<\/p>\n<p>But three-and-half HOURS later the little &#8220;Restarting&#8221; with the swirling dots were STILL swirling around!<\/p>\n<p>After several attempts at a hard reboot and disconnecting everything and waiting a minute and re-plugging everything back and rebooting again &#8230; all I get is the swirling &#8220;Restarting&#8221; dots.<\/p>\n<p>Since yesterday was a total loss, today I had to drag out the laptop and am getting by.<\/p>\n<p>Thank heavens for my OneDrive cloud!<\/p>\n<p>I worked this morning on trying some fixes for the stuck &#8220;Restarting&#8221; &#8211; but to no avail.\u00a0 This afternoon I decided to switch to finishing my taxes before anything else goes wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Like I said, fortunately I was able to continue w\/ all my work since the OneDrive cloud had everything!<\/p>\n<p>It may be a day late for posting, but I didn&#8217;t forget TC&#8217;s B-Day.\u00a0 So enjoy some birthday cake &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54133\" src=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Birthday-Cake_CAT_OPT.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the old Mortan Salt slogan goes: &#8220;When It Rains, It Pours&#8221;. I think I whined a bit WRT the steeper-than-anticipated learning curve for using my new Logitech Ergonomic Split Keyboard to help avoiding another carpal tunnel surgery. (And if I didn&#8217;t whine, I MEANT to.) Then yesterday I was reminded it was time to <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2024\/03\/14\/a-belated-happy-birthday-tomcat\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5725,4350],"class_list":["post-54127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-birthday","tag-tomcat","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}