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Our Neighbor Joe's roofer info

RG Roofing 218 Church St. South Amboy, NJ 08879 Specializing in all types of roofing.Replacement windows, doors & gutters.Siding, decks, kitchens, baths & all interior renovations Free Estimates RichiePh. 732-721-3431Cell. 908-217-6025 Heard he had heart attack so now his kaki … Continue reading

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MS Access 2007, 2016 run-time error 48, error in loading dll

A Windows 10 machine cannot open some function of a 2007 Access database. Giving the above error. This appears to have something to do with VBA > Tools > References pointing to Microsoft Word 12.0 Object Library vs. Microsoft Word … Continue reading

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Form Fields in MS Word have 255 character limit

So with my school database that generates a word document for Final Report for students, it hit a wall with narrative/comments from teachers that's over 255 characters long. Instead of complaining long winded commentaries, I just had to fix this. … Continue reading

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Carport Project

Since Nadia keeps talking about it, to put a roof above our car when parked in our driveway, I figure this is a good project to look into and build it myself. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=build+carport Youtube has many good resources above. Considerations: … Continue reading

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Roof Project - Rid of critters nest

Looks like there's a hole in the soffit near the mudroom. Critters/birds? movement could be heard in the mudroom on the ceiling sometimes. I went out from the master bedroom's window all the way to the roof of the mudroom, … Continue reading

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Outlook Preview PDF failed

First of all, to preview word/excel, etc. in Outlook, the Office apps must be all in the same version, so said google. Solution: Now, for PDF preview, Office/Outlook does not provide this, it's said to be provided by Adobe. Therefore, … Continue reading

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Is Google Drive View-Only PDF really protected from being copied?

Of course, nothing can escape Snipping Tool screenshot. But what about the shortest way to convert to a pdf document file? Because Google Drive somehow, giving the ability to restrict viewers from downloading if the owner so chooses, convert the … Continue reading

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Windows Language Input Hotkey keeps changing or being cleared

It seems that some app is changing the hotkeys I set for Chinese/English input. This solution that apparently helps is: After setting the hotkeys, go to Region > Administrative > Copy Settings... > check all.

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2012-2016 Honda CR-V Oil and Oil Filter Replacement

We did oil change today, at Edison Pep Boys (the one nearest to us in South Amboy was understaffed and they refused service, hence no Bubba meal). We ate at Penang Restaurant, drinks from Gongcha. They were supposed to get … Continue reading

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Logical operators for Boolean indexing in Pandas

Boolean Indexing - passing a series of list that satisfy the specified boolean condition. The operator &, | instead of AND, OR, are the only ones that work with boolean indexing here because it's an element-wise (like bit-wise operators) operator … Continue reading

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