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don256us

Uber Folding Senior
Joined
Jul 17, 2003
I'm in Ann Arbor today. Until now, only @WhitehawkEQ has known that my wife is having cancer surgery today. They just started at 8 AM and we should be home by around dinner time tonight. Until her diagnosis, F@H was just something that I wanted to do to make a difference in this world for others who have or get cancer. Now it's personal. She'll be fine. We'll live a normal life in about 6 more months after recovery and it's been 6 months to this point. Cancer will have limited our lives by about a year. For those who have had the misfortune of following my basement remodel, I've kinda hinted at all this. Also fortunately, we have good insurance. Bottom line is that we will be fine in due time and F@H has a stronger purpose for me.

The upcoming F@H race will start in a weeks time. My new power supply arrived at my home yesterday. I expect it to still be on my porch when I get home tonight. Tomorrow I can start to install it and get that machine back up and running. I've been at less than half my production for a while. Hopefully that will be fixed this weekend. If you have machines that you can move into production even just temporarily for the week, lets get that done. If you have a friend that can lend some power to this, get them started early and get them a passkey so that they earn the bonus points. You must submit 10 WU's (Work Units) before the bonus kicks in. Finally, if you can borrow machines at work, school, etc, please do that. WITH permission of course. The entire F@H community is big on obtaining permission. Never "Borg" machines without permission. Build, Borg, Recruit. If you can do any or all of these for the week, lets get 'er done.

So how does the team look this week? No seriously. I'm asking. Okay okay okay. I'll look at EOC stats and summarize below. ;)

We are still chasing EVGA but our time to overtake has risen to 2.5 years. We are still gaining but slower than we were. Curecoin is still avoiding us like an Ex you run into at the store. We'll get 'em soon enough. Our production graph will be fun to describe here. Our trend line is downward trending. Our more immediate graph has a sharp up tick but more recently we are descending again. In other words, we are all over the place. We can remain this discombobulated as long as we take a sharp turn up for the race. After the week long race we can go back to being a herd of cats. It's all good.

World top 100/200:
@HayesK #15
@WhitehawkEQ #26
@Holdolin #27
@dfonda #49
@HayesK #67
@folding_monkeys #73
@P4EE #97
@Farwalker2u #98

Top 200: @torin3 , @orion456, @don256us and @mongogeek.

We are up by 5 active members this week. WOOT! We are 45 strong. King Leonidas would be proud but we will not speak the name of his people while I sit in a U of M facility. Go Blue? Average ppd is 24.3 million. I hope to help raise that number soon.

@jh, @tom_ozahoski , @infinitevalence , @AndrewThomasThomas, @Hitman, @Lowryder, @KenSavage, @Mindmatter, @Norcalsteve , @aviationfrk, @Rezoria, @don256us , @Rpkole and @modd are all earning from 1.4 - 8.6 million ppd.

@harlam357, @gulp35 , @Grub , @Raymond_Abbott, @orion456, @Slayer2003 and @=XAF=AfterShock are earning 12.3 - 16.1 million ppd.

@P4EE is earning 42.5 million ppd.

@Farwalker2u is earning 50.6 million ppd.

@DeputyKovacs is earning 77.2 million ppd.

Hang in here guys. The list goes on and the numbers only get bigger. (and they are big already.)

@dfonda is earning 87.5 million ppd.

@WhitehawkEQ is earning 94.3 millioin ppd.

@folding_monkeys are earning 166.3 million ppd.

@HayesK is earning 201.4 million ppd.

@Holdolin is earning a whopping 275.2 million ppd! Wow!

I'll save further commentary as the numbers say volumes.

@[EsMd]Slayer whom I think is @Slayer2003 (correct me if I'm wrong) just earned 900 million. He and his milestone mate (@modd) will both be in the billionaires club by next week. Looking forward to some "WOOTS" for them both.
@Hitman just earned 500 million.
@Rezoria just earned 300 million.

@Roaddog850 just earned 2 million. We're happy to have you with us. Keep up the good work.

Okay folks. I'm supposed to be napping before the drive home but instead I will seek out caffine. Post below any ideas to win next weeks race and let's make it happen for T32 overclockers.com.

Oh. U of M will not sell sugar soda but will sell diet soda so.... I'm a bit pissed. I guess I will live with that but time will tell.

Until next time:
Build, Borg, Recruit.
 
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F@H has always been personal to me, ever since I was young and learned about it after losing my Grandmother to misdiagnosed pancreatic cancer I ditched looking for little green men and started contributing what/when I could to this cause. I hope your wife has a speedy recovery and look forward to hearing about how ya'll beat this $hit disease. F cancer.

Thanks for the update Don, get some rest! Hehe and yeah I'm the same Slayer. I keep meaning to mention it but figured you had your routine and didn't want to confuse ya. ;)

Looking to add a 3070 ti to my 2 other cards from a local seller, but they've been rather flaky so I'm not sure if it's actually gonna happen. :/ Keeping an eye out though for other potential deals on used gear!
 
F@H has always been personal to me, ever since I was young and learned about it after losing my Grandmother to misdiagnosed pancreatic cancer I ditched looking for little green men and started contributing what/when I could to this cause. I hope your wife has a speedy recovery and look forward to hearing about how ya'll beat this $hit disease. F cancer.

Thanks for the update Don, get some rest! Hehe and yeah I'm the same Slayer. I keep meaning to mention it but figured you had your routine and didn't want to confuse ya. ;)

Looking to add a 3070 ti to my 2 other cards from a local seller, but they've been rather flaky so I'm not sure if it's actually gonna happen. :/ Keeping an eye out though for other potential deals on used gear!
PM me and we can take care of that. Include your address (It does have to be Continental US.)
 
I took a few days to pull my downed machine and clean it; and clean the hell out of it I did. I had thought my issue was a dying power supply but it may have just been dust. I don't mean a little dust either. It was a lot of dust. I took the drastic measure of buying two cans of air and used almost all of them. I hit my server too afterward.

My folding machine had not had the side covers on in years and drywall dust got caked in everywhere. After a good clean, I should be back up and running. I even hooked up the power button. I hadn't done that either since building the rig a few years back. (The MB had a power and reset button built in.)

After cleaning the machine, I took measures to isolate the dust in my construction zone to reduce the issue going forward. I am ready for the race.
 
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