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Protecting young tree from deer
PNW Oregon Willamette Valley
You can do this out in the field in late summer if you see a tree with the size of trunk that is attractive to deer wanting to scrape their antlers. (If you don’t have t posts and fencing in your back pocket. )
Wind or drape a long blackberry vine around the trunk. The thorns will deter the deer. Zoom in to see the dried up vine and undamaged trunk of one from last year.
How often does it autosave?
If someone is playing along in camp or events, is there a specific amount of time between saves?
Edit: Not talking about cloud save. Want to know how often the game saves locally while playing. Going to world map triggers a cloud save, but my game has crashed immediately on clicking the world map icon without opening it, causing loss of progress.
I’m looking for the timing of local autosave. My game crashes frequently and items I recently made will be gone.
Don’t know what variety
They were there when we got the place
Copilot chathelp hallucinated that it fixed OneDrive
Long story short there was a subscription issue, OneDrive got red Xes. Went to chat (turns out it’s copilot) for help and next thing I knew we had uninstalled Onedrive but it wouldn’t reinstall.
It had me deleting registry keys, files, tasks, running power shell commands. Nothing worked. Keeps getting an already installed error.
Came back later and asked for a one-page summary of the steps we had taken and step 8 was how we had verified it was working, the blue icon reappeared and the red Xes went away.
When I reminded it that it hadn’t installed at all, it said we would use the real truth and not the optimistic narrative.
I realize I kind of got sucked in and went too far with it but it kept saying this next step will finally fix it.
Almost got me in a gmail scam
Got an email from a friend I hadn’t heard from for quite a while. [Friend name] has invited you to an event]
Like I said I hadn’t heard from them for a while and I got excited. Oops, emotion triggered. But there was no info on where, when, the purpose, etc
[RSVP to see details] so I clicked on that button. It wanted my gmail, and the email had come to one of my gmail accounts, so that seemed to track. I typed in my gmail and proceeded to the next screen [enter password].
I just started to type when all of the scam podcast advice, stories on this sub, articles, warnings on social media kicked in. Brain said “check it out first” so I texted them and sure enough they said to ignore it, it’s a scam.
Not sure what the scammers could have done without the 2FA device but they are pretty clever so who knows. Tried to trick me into giving them the code maybe.
I thought I was so savvy but it’s true, emotion cuts through a lot of the rationality. I am grateful for all the times I’ve heard “slow down, check it out first.”
I had to go to the ER and multiple providers have billed.
I have brand new medigap HD plan G and am sorting out the claims and liabilities.
The medigap insurer shows the medicare approved/paid amount on their EOBs, and myChart is billing me, but there’s no EOB on the Medicare portal. Is this normal?
How come the medigap insurer and the providers can see this information but Medicare hasn’t posted it on my portal?
A week or so ago, I postponed my tests because Quest had run out of some kind of vial or tube needed for some of the tests and I would have to return to complete the testing. Also, they were running behind and I had an appointment elsewhere.
My rescheduled test is tomorrow, and I heard from someone who tested today that they had gotten the last set of vials and the technician didn’t know whether they would be able to restock by tomorrow.
It is a long drive to the lab, along with the fasting/stop supplements thing, so I would like to know if I will be able to complete the tests tomorrow.
I contacted the Function AI chat on their website (not the app), and it wrote that I needed a concierge and gave a link. But that link gave a connection error. Reconnect, retry” etc. gave no response. The bot then said to try a direct button to concierge chat, but that didn’t exist.
Next I tried the AI chat on the phone app and it said they were having a high volume of messages and someone would email me. I guess I will reschedule again rather than risk it.
I long for the time when medical supply chains were intact and you could call a number and talk to someone to sort things out, or at least get information.