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Thanks very much for the reminds about the March Zoom meeting.

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Genevieve, then what you need are some pierced posts, with a dangly stuff loop.
Then it’s simply the same trick as I used with the screw tighten clips.
Find the clip-ons with the nice looking jewellery hanging from them, and transfer that to the pierced posts.
The other way to go, is to use small diameter pierced narrow hoops, and thread the nice looking jewellery hanging from the clip-ons, onto the hoops.

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MacGyver nothing.
All the remounting involved was opening up the wire ring for the ornamentation on the uncomfortable clip-ons, then transferring it to the clip with screw, and re-bending the ring closed again.
It’s exactly the same method, as fixing those wire rings, on necklaces or bracelets.

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Prior to getting my ears pierced, a couple of years after coming out and starting transitioning, I wore clip-ons.
Unlike Caroline, though, I didn’t have issues with the clip-ons being uncomfortable to wear for extended periods. In the early 1990s, when I started buying jewellery, I learned of the clip with screw earring mounts. Those mounts have a thumbscrew pad at the tip of the clip on the back, and the front stud point was usually bare. Some had a mounted diamante on that front point. You’d clip them in place, with the thumbscrew completely backed off, then carefully tighten the thumbscrew till it was firmly holding, but not uncomfortable. They worked very well.
Using tweezers and needle-nose pliers, I could fit pieces of jewellery ornamentation from other jewellery to hang from the mounting ring on the lower front of them. That meant I could go to the el-cheapo shops, buy the good looking earrings with the uncomfortable and not adjustable clip-on mounts, and re-mount the jewellery ornamentation from them, on the more comfortable clip with screw.

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I only thought of this thread, whilst I was doing the breakfast dishes this morning.
I’d managed to injure the toes on my left foot, on the Sunday morning. So as a result, I spent the bulk of Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, lying in bed.
On Sunday evening I wasn’t thinking about the Zoom Meet-up at all

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I figured the question was worth asking, seeing as how we didn’t get any new participants last time, but we’ve had COVID-19 outbreaks in Sydney and Brisbane in the past week.

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Evening Adrian,
Are there any proposed dates for the next TGR Zoom Meet-Up?

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URGENT QUESTION:
What time tonight? You put 2 times in the post.
8:30pm AEST (Brisbane)
8:30pm AEDT (Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney), 7:30pm AEST (Brisbane)

Adrian wrote:

We will be meeting up on Sunday (29th) as planned at
8:30PM AEST
Topic: TgR Zoom Meeting
Time: Nov 29, 2020 08:30 PM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney

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After this week’s COVID-19 cluster in Adelaide, and the spectre of more lockdowns, I really hope we don’t need to go back to the ISO meetings on a regular basis.

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Last week a dratted sore pimple, on my nose, right where one of the nose pads of my glasses normally rests. Without my glasses, no way to read my computer screen.
And then this week’s events, jams me out of being able to attend this evening’s chat as well. Windows 10 updates and live YouTube videos used up an overly large chunk of my remaining downloads for the month, so I can’t afford to go on Zoom this evening, else I’ll forcibly be stuck offline until Monday.

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At present, my available bandwith does not stay stable. On evenings where I have difficulty in watching videos on YouTube, in the lead up to 8;00pm, I don’t even worry about trying to use Zoom. that’s been the way things played out the past 2 Friday nights.

For me, the only way i will be able to ‘put my technology gremlins to bed.’ will be when I am able to move house. Then, I can get on the NFN and at least have a chance at getting stable, full ADSL2+ speed, as that’s the best that the version of the NFN where I’ll be moving to, will let me get.

At present, I have to use my Telstra 4G phone as a WiFi hotspot, because when the NFN finally went live in my street, it took out my working landline phone, and dropped my mediocre performing ADSL2+ internet access down to slow ADSL1 speed. And because I know I’ll be moving, just not when, I can’t get an NFN contract for here. And depending on what everyone else on my cellphone tower is doing, my Telstra 4G speed can vary from usable ADSL2+ to unusable ADSL1.

Hopefully my bandwidth will stay fast and stable tomorrow night, so i can get onto Zoom.

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I was laughing like crazy when you took the pic, Adrian.

Unfortunately, my internet bandwith failed quite comprehensively, after the evening’s chat restarted. i couldn’t even manage to stream 480p video on YouTube without it stuttering a lot.

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Martina wrote:

Just as a matter of interest, how come we were able to do two 40 minute sessions back to back? Were they both free?

That’s exactly how Zoom for free works.
Meetings are 40 minutes max, and you can create a new meeting immediately after the first meeting runs out.
To have a Meeting go for over 40 minutes non-stop, then you HAVE to pay.

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Screen shot from this evening

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This evening’s screenshot