u/I-AM-Savannah

I'll try to keep this brief.

I'm into genealogy. I often find old grainy pictures of people. I have started using ChatGPT to make the old pictures clear and am honestly impressed. I used to spend days with Photoshop and not end up with pictures that look like ChatGPT can.

Having said that, today I started with an old tombstone picture that had moss growing on the front of the stone, making part of the last name unreadable, and the date completely unreadable.

When I ran that picture through ChatGPT, the software changed the name. I thought it was just a glitch, so I tried it again and again. Finally I told ChatGPT that it was changing the name on the tombstone. I don't remember the exact verbage, but ChatGPT told me basically that I needed a different version of ChatGPT to NOT change the name on the stone.

Was it trying to tell me that I need to purchase the monthly version, rather than the free version?

Thank you for your time and help.

The thing I keep wondering about: When Duane was alive, it was my understanding that he owned BFR... so he would have (probably) signed a contract that would allow filming on his ranch... and he would have probably been the one who received payments for the filming...

But now that Duane has passed away... has his estate been probated yet? Who will inherit the ranch, or who HAS inherited the ranch? It's probably tied up in legalities, but I am somewhat surprised that filming has continued. There must be something in the contract that covered filming, in the event that Duane ever passed before the show was over...

Thoughts?

I bought a brand new Kenmore BU4050 Intuition Bagged Upright Vacuum. It arrived a couple days ago. I let it sit while I gathered enough nerve to get it out of the box and put it together.

I just used it for the first time. I am loving it --BUT-- it makes a very loud high pitched humming noise.

I'm as old as the dirt I'm trying to vacuum up and have used mostly Shark uprights (that I have loved) but thought I would try a vacuum with a bag. I am NOT loving the dust that flies out of my Sharks when I empty them.

Is it normal for the Kenmore BU4050 to have a loud high pitched noise? I can't imagine that I put it together wrong... it's a pretty simple machine to put together.

Thoughts, please?

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I just tried to log into my Amazon Prime account, and now I need to solve this puzzle in order to be able to log in. I do NOT understand how to move things from the right side to the left side. Nothing moves! HELP!

I've got to admit that I have been a lurker on this sub for a while, and have a couple different Sharks, and am fairly happy with them, EXCEPT when it comes to emptying the (small) dust/dirt container... when I end up with dust (and cat hair) flying everywhere.

I'm seriously looking at the Kenmore BU 4050:

https://www.amazon.com/Kenmore-BU4050-Intuition-Eliminator-Handi-Mate/dp/B08NPBCG97?th=1

But I am trying to figure out the difference between the Rose Gold version and the Red version.

Thoughts, please? I don't understand the difference between the two, except the color and the slight price difference. Thank you all.

Edited to add: I'm as old as dirt. I don't have a price range in mind. Most of the house is carpet, but it's low (not shag) carpeting. I have a cat. That pretty much says it all. I need a vaccum that will vacuum up cat hair. I want to have a vacuum that won't tip over all the time when I am using it, which is what happens all of the time with my Sharks. I want a vacuum that I can easily find bags and filters for.

I am a volunteer helping an adoptee, born in 1966 (USA) determine who her biological father is/was. Her closest DNA match (Ancestry) is 544 cM which is likely a 1C1R or Half Grandaunt. That closest DNA match was born 1940.

I think the biological father is likely from a HUGE Peterson family, originally from Sweden but settled in Iowa.

My husband has been in and out of the hospital so many times recently, I think my tiny brain is gone. I am trying to wrap my brain around which generation to look at to find this father, based on her best DNA match who was born in 1940, while she was born in 1966. The DNA match has a private tree and has not logged on in about a year (I haven't found an obit for her, but she could easily be in a nursing home or living with an adult child, although in the two marriages I have found for her, I'm not sure she had any children.) I should add that once I figured out who that DNA match is, I built a tree for her, so I know who her parents and grandparents are, and how she fits into that huge family.

Would the possible father be a brother of the father of the woman born in 1940? I'm not sure if my brain is even working these days, racing back and forth to the hospital. It's a huge family, but the thing that bothers me is that the adoptee's biological mother was born in 1946, so I am probably looking for a man born roughly 1946ish. NONE of the brothers of the father of the DNA match born in 1940 were even born close to 1946. The last brother was born 1914. The father of the woman born in 1940 (the best DNA match) was born in 1906.

Your help is greatly appreciated. I have worked so hard on this and just hope to be able to tell this lady who her biological father was, but every man I look at as a possibility seems to be too old, so I would have to look at men in the next generation down (born roughly the same time as the DNA match).

Now that I have talked this out, I think this is what I need to do, is look at the next generation down.

Does anyone agree with me?

I asked the PCP to put my Parkinson’s husband on a Dexcom. We ended up with the Dexcom 7.

Husband is type 2. I am his caregiver.

I still do a fingerstick on him every morning before breakfast, just to make sure it’s within a normal range.

i am just not happy with it. He is currently in the hospital. The nurses still fingerstick him before every meal because they don’t trust it either.

Do I just contact Dexcom to send it back? it is creating more work and doubt than I want to deal with.

Not trying to start a fight. I just want to be rid of it.

I just want to give a big THANK YOU to our firemen and EMS. My husband was carried out of the house this noon (bad UTI and couldn't walk.) They got him to the ER. He had turned septic, so if it weren't for these great people, he probably would have died in the house.

In case you are wondering why I waited so long, I did take him to our PCP on Wednesday. Our PCP gave him a prescription for a strong antibiotic, but he didn't get any better on the antibiotic. I found out, in the ER today, that the hospital had cultured the urine after realizing he DID have a UTI, but the antibiotic the PCP put him on wasn't the right antibiotic for whatever is brewing in his bladder.

My husband used to be the cleanest man on earth. He would shower every day before work, wash his hair every day, brush his teeth, well, you get the picture.

Once he retired (age 55) he stopped the daily showering and everything... but here we are, MANY years later. He is now 80 and was diagnosed with PD 3 years ago. Something seems to have changed in his body chemistry after PD, because he has the worst body odor, especially arm pits. My grandpa out on the farm used to talk about "civit cats" and their smell. I have to admit that I have never smelled a "civit cat" but a skunk's smell isn't all that far off from hubby's armpits.

When I can get him in the shower, all he has to do is sit on a chair in the shower, and I do the rest for him... but we have to have a drag out fight for every shower. I don't understand. If I can get him in the shower once a week, I am doing great. I usually just give up because the fight that we have to have just isn't worth it. He has this continuous "greasy" smell, but those armpits are something else.

We have a walk in shower (I had the old shower pulled out and a new shower installed about a year ago. This shower has all sorts of built in grab bars so that all he has to do is walk into the shower and sit down. I shampoo his hair and rinse it off and wash his face and body. I wipe him down and help him in and out of the shower and dry him off. I put Vasoline on his arms and legs after the shower, so he doesn't get dry skin... I do everything I can to make his life easy, but it's a big fight to get him in the shower. Early in the day, he will say that YES, he would like a shower, etc... but when it's time, there's just one more television show he wants to watch... until then he's too tired for a shower. It's one excuse after another.

If anyone has any ideas on what to do, please feel free to tell me how to make a shower any easier on him. I even had the shower door taken off to give him more room to get into the shower. I stand in the place of the door, so I end up soaked in the process, but that's okay, because after his shower, I put him to bed and then I hop into the shower.

He does admit, after he's in bed, that he's glad that he had the shower, and that he feels so much better and cleaner (I always wash the bedding on his shower day, so he's getting a clean body into a clean bed) but many times, the fight just isn't worth it.

I have tried getting him into the shower right after he gets out of bed, in case he's just too tired in the afternoon, for a shower, but now he sleeps until 11 am, so he misses his breakfast and just gets up barely in time for lunch. I don't know if this late sleeping thing is another tactic so I won't ask if we can take a shower, or if it's his PD getting worse. I'm afraid it's probably the latter.

I am about ready to just get the things to clean his arms and legs and give up on the shower, but I don't know how to get his hair clean. I have tried the cap things that SAY they clean the hair (to replace getting his hair wet) but the ones I have tried really don't get rid of that greasy smell, and he still scratches his head like his head itches from the greasy scalp...

So my main question that I should have asked right up front: What do men use for deodorant? Hubby has a really BAD underarm smell (that he didn't have before PD) and that's even after coming right out of the shower.

Thank you for anything that can help that underarm smell. It's BAD. It seems to be worse some days, but never very good.

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I have one DM that I can't find... Is there a way (hopefully an EASY way) to find it?