Who's going to NYINC?

Home after my first laser cataract surgery, in my left eye, early this afternoon. I'll spare you the details of the experience, but if I feel like this Thursday or Friday, no way I could go to NYINC. I assume I will feel better by then, though. What with all the different eyedrops I need to take 4x/ day! Everything's a blur in that eye right now, both without and with my old glasses. Which of course I still need for my right eye. So either I will have to keep my left eye closed, or take the left lens out of my glasses. I tried the latter, but can't seem to get it out without breaking the frame. Way more difficult than removing a coin from a slab!

 

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Be well, Donna. You and the coins will be around next year and can get together then.

 

I am here and I am enjoying the venue thus far. Spent thr day looking at a lot of coins, talking to a lot of interesting people and trying to manhandle this guy alias "Big Swede" All I can say is this 8 Daler weighing more than 14 KG is extremely heavy very awkward and is bigger than a snowboard. Yess the NYINC like going to a museum and getting to play with the exhibits.

 

That piece was so big that the catalog did not fit in my mailbox!

 

And, I have to admit, that my collecting habits blinded me to that spectacular 'coin'. Lifting that piece would have validated the item and my exercise system.

 

Thank you @DonnaML for keeping us up to date about your cataract surgery. Wishing you a very fast recovery; don't put strain on your eye, just rest. The discomfort you are experiencing will be over very soon and your eye will be better than new.

 

I was sent home with an eye covering bandage not to be removed until the next day. Do the drops as instructed. I was also on glaucoma drops then so it made 17 drops a day with at least ten minutes between. One of the drops will probably make you test out for the Olympics so stay home and enjoy the new coins you get Friday. The first couple days are the worst. If you wear an eye patch, you may get a discount on a piece of eight.

 

My feelings exactly.

 

Is anyone planning to be at NYINC on Friday in the early afternoon? If I do go, that's when I'll be there. Judging from how I feel today, there's no way I'll be ready to go by tomorrow, especially not for a $125 entrance fee. (It's not like I'm in the market for the sort of high-end coins that motivate people to go tomorrow anyway.) The left eye is beginning to clear up a little, but only for short periods of time. So mostly I keep it closed. If I open both eyes at the same time, the dissonance and discombobulation make me feel physically ill. So if I'm there, I'll be the short woman with the left lens of her eyeglasses removed, and her left eye mostly closed! And probably double-masked, to do my best to avoid getting Omicron and testing positive next week, which would mean having to postpone surgery on the other eye. I'd rather get it over with.

But I'll still be happy to say hi to any fellow members who are there!

PS: Coincidentally, my old desktop, a Dell Inspiron 620, finally died the other day after 10 years: I accidentally turned off the power while cleaning the tower (ironically enough), and no matter what procedures I followed the power would not turn back on. I decided that it wasn't worth spending money to try to fix a computer that's so old. So for a few days I only had my phone and couldn't really post here. My new desktop, a Dell Inspiron 3880, arrived yesterday and I installed it last night, so I can sort of post again. It's a bit difficult getting used to Windows 11 after using Windows 7 all these years and skipping Windows 10 entirely. My main concern is being able to transfer the contents of my old hard drive, which actually has more than 20 years of files and photos on it, from my previous computer as well as the one that just died. Including all my photos (including of coins), and my personal catalog and every other Word document created since 2000. Including a lot of stuff my son wrote as a child that I wouldn't want to lose. I've ordered an external hard drive enclosure so I can try to do the transfer through one of the USB 3.2 ports on the new computer. It's supposed to arrive tomorrow. I know that I could recreate the catalog descriptions if I had to, and most of my photos have either been posted here or uploaded to the cloud to Google Drive or Dropbox at some point. But it would be a real pain. So fingers crossed.

 

Hopefully you just killed the power supply or the motherboard and so the hard disk will be working. Even if the disk doesn't work there are still ways to extract your data. PM if you face problems

 

As @pprp pointed out, that sounds like a power supply issue and your USB enclosure should do the trick with accessing your data: it would be impressive if you managed to actually destroy your stored data that swiftly! While you could continue using your drive within the enclosure, I'd suggest just bulk copy everything off to a more modern drive and work off of that moving forward.

 

Dell power supplies of that era are non-standard

 

I don't know about Dell power supplies but I think Donna decided wisely as even if she could get an oem supply for 30$ and install it herself, other components would be likely to fail after 10 years of use; let alone win7 is not receiving (security) updates any longer. Unfortunately we live in the time that almost nothing is worth repairing in a cost efficient manner, unless you DIY...

 

Fer sure. 10 years is a more than decent life span for any PC.

My 2014 Desktop was a screamer at the time (Quad-core 3.4GHz i7-4770, benchmark single thread 2172 / total 7031).

My next machine will be a 2.1-4.9GHz i7-12700 which has a benchmark of 3944/33058.

1.8 or 4.7x as powerful. Which matters nothing as both are still more than enough power to run a browser, email, word, and access.

 

I just got my mail, and I was very happy to see that the new mask I ordered arrived just in time. I had stumbled on this while shopping online (some excellent targeted advertising), and when I saw it, I couldn't help but buy it.

If only there was a good occasion to wear it…


Unless something unexpected comes up, I am planning on going to the show tomorrow afternoon. Looking forward to it and hope to see some of you there!

 

I'm still planning to be there in the early afternoon tomorrow myself. The blurriness in my left eye had cleared up quite a bit this morning, at least until I took the first of my 12 daily eye drops! Maybe I'll forego them for a while if I attend. Because I kind of need to be able to see the coins I look at! I must say that the difference in clarity and color and brightness in that eye after removal of what I was told was a quite advanced cataract is astonishing. In essence, I've been functionally blind in that eye for almost the last year. I thought my right eye (surgery scheduled for Jan. 24) was the good one, but now it literally pales by comparison. The only problem is that I don't think my newly clear close-up vision is likely to last long enough tomorrow to allow me to see all the dealers I want to. (I printed out a bourse map and filled in the names of all the dealers I would like to visit. More than a dozen.)

In any event, if we're both there tomorrow, @Shea19, I'll certainly recognize you by your Eid Mar mask! I've already written how to recognize me, even though I won't exactly be at my best.

 

As a first time attendee, I must say that the show was wonderful! I found quite a few things that I was looking for and didn't expect to find, and I got to look at many more things out of my league. I will also be here tomorrow, as I'm still contemplating a few more pieces.

 

Wish I was able to go to NYC now from SF. edited

 

Early Bird produced some interesting things. I am not sure the items I acquired would not be around tomorrow, because I have a strict acquisition focus this year, but I am generally content. I did miss one Really Good Bronze Thing by a half-hour, but my visit would have had to end immediately post-acquisition. At least I got to handle it. Not a bargain year; pent-up demand, big auction prices, higher travel expenses/safety precautions to break even for dealers. I will be back on Friday morning for a social connection and on Saturday for the programs. Many great dealers at the show. Mask (and vax to enter) compliance was close to 100% on both sides of the tables. Probably a good idea to write-out agreed prices among soft-spoken people!