Article about refrigerator storage has plastic containers for eggs. I see these all the time. Eggs already come in a box. Why buy a plastic box and put them in that instead? Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. Right?
Doing a bit better. The horrible pain episode is over, finally, and I am getting ready to go out with my friend Tess to do some shopping. Target maybe? I like Target now that they have rearranged the aisles so it is not like entering a maze with no way out. 🙂
through my blog, one July at a time. Back in July of 2010, I wrote this:
” I sort of figured out why I don’t cook anymore. Besides the energy each individual step takes, I have to think about each individual step…focus on each step. All the things I used to just do automatically are now individual obstacles to overcome on the way to the completed dish. Getting out each pan/utensil/ingredient. Prepping each pan/ingredient. Washing each veg, peeling each veg, chopping/slicing each veg, getting out the oil, putting the oil in the pan, turning on the burner/oven, remembering to turn OFF the burner/oven. Each step takes energy, thought, focus, concentration, dealing with pain caused by standing, chopping, whatever. Having to take rest breaks in the middle of chopping or stirring or whatever. All the things we take for granted and just DO when we are healthy become monumental hurdles to overcome. Even making toast requires remembering to take the toast out of the toaster when it is ready and not just sitting down at the computer and finding cold toast or tea or whatever next time you go into the kitchen for a drink of water. I eat a lot of yogurt and cereal and frozen dinners.”
Now I can add massive amounts of pain to the why I don’t. This is not me, by the way. LOL
They used to bring orders to my door. Then they would text me when an order was delivered, then they would email me when an order was delivered. But those last two were delivered to the lobby, not to me, and many in my building had orders stolen. They didn’t even bother to buzz and put the order inside the security door. Nope. Dumped in the outer lobby open to the street with no immediate notice. Then they stopped even emailing me, but that has started up again.
The other thing. Why oh why did they stop making kindle keyboards? My oldest one died, and the other one is about to, so I bought an Oasis because it has side buttons. Upside down from how they should be, but still. You still have to use the touchscreen, but not to turn each page. BUT, and this is the kicker, it shows every single item in your archive. Every single item. The keyboard has an archive, but you have to select it on purpose. Otherwise, it just shows what you have put on it to read right now. So how do you find what you are trying to read in an archive of thousands. Well, go to ‘manage your content and devices’ on the laptop, and select ‘documents’ and you can delete them. 25 at a time, with four clicks needed for every page of 25. There is no bulk delete. I am deleting several pages every time I get on the laptop, but I still have thousands to go. Definitely unchecking that ‘add to archive’ button from here on out. Just never really thought about it before, because it was not a problem.
I hate touch screens. And I just don’t understand how making things more difficult and inconvenient for users is ‘new and improving’. Delivery used to be great, kindle used to be fantastic, but noooo, let’s make it better. Better for who, I ask you? Not for the user. If I could dump Amazon, I would in a second, but I really cannot shop for myself and even then, you can no longer even find a lot of things locally. They are buying up everything, too, and how is that going to work when there is no competition? They will be able to charge anything they like and we will have no recourse. Humans are seriously not the sharpest tacks in the box. /end rant.
From The Guardian:
“The summer’s heatwaves have been so blistering they have inspired their own names. In Europe, they have been called nightmarish figures from Greek mythology, but one meteorologist in the US has taken a more pointed approach – by naming the country’s heatwaves after the oil and gas companies that have worsened the climate crisis. The heatwave that has baked much of the US south-west in recent weeks, helping bring a record-breaking string of days over (43C) 110F to Phoenix, has been named Heatwave Chevron by Guy Walton, a veteran former Weather Channel meteorologist. The rebadging of heatwaves as being directly the fault of companies like Chevron is “a naming and shaming thing”, according to Walton, who wants weather forecasters and the media to be more explicit between the links between extreme heat and the burning of fossil fuels that has caused the climate crisis.”
And it’s damn scary.
WordPress is not working on Firefox. Firefox is not working at all well on Firefox, so I am using Vivaldi. They have messed with Tumblr and ruined it. Why? New and improved never is.
I had a great day, though. Went out with a friend to do some shopping, and got a butt load of those tiny little cat food thingies, like appetizer size or whatever, Catnip, surge protector, Cheetos Crunchy, which I ate already, but it was not the big bad. I love, love, love those things. Toothpaste. Tom’s of Maine without flouride, the only one I buy. Our water has flouride added, no need to use more. Flouride that is not naturally present in water is really not good for you, but my town voted to add it to the water supply, so there you are. A few other things, too. The local grocery store only had a very limited amount of the cat food things, which is why I stocked up at Walmart. Get them while you can is my motto. Mostly because I rarely get to shop myself, so get it when I do see it, whatever it is, but also because things are getting harder and harder to find. My friend and I played Big Kahuna on the laptop before she had to go home and cook dinner. Fun day. Loads of pain, but fun.
How I feel a lot of the time.
“The bright day is done, and we are for the dark.” Wm. Shakespeare
First, choice. Saw a cartoon where a woman is deciding between a man who attempted a coup and wants to be dictator, and an 80-year-old man. Personally, I completely agree that 80 is too old. We need young people who grew up in the ‘modern’ world, but I would still choose the 80 year old, because he is at least trying to do good for the country, and make life better for the citizens, unlike the buffoon of the other party, who just wants power and control over our daily lives.
Second, what is up with Firefox? Some pages don’t load at all, I keep keep ‘non-responsive’. This is just the past few days. Is it the heat? Has the fox gotten heat stroke or something? Come on, Firefox. Get with it.
A couple more that I have been thinking about for a bit. Well, my brain is drain and I have totally forgotten one of them, but the other is I watched a couple of movies about the Windermere Children, 300 children brought to England when the camps were closed in the Holocaust. They were brought to a facility by Lake Windermere and lived there for four months while they were eased into life without Nazis. It was very uplifting, but also very horrific when it was mentioned how they could see the chimneys glowing and see the smoke 24 hours a day while people, including thousands of children, were cremated. The horrific treatment, the starvation, the hell some of them spent their entire lives in up to that point. Almost all of them had lost their entire families to the Nazis. Here is an article about it:
I see pictures of people proudly wearing Nazi-themed clothing, giving the Hitler salute, pouring out hate and vitriol, and all I can think is, what if it were your children? Is it okay so long as it’s children of people you hate? What kind of human being are you? It is completely disgusting, appalling, horrific to think that it happened in the first place, but more so that there are people who are happy about it and want more.
Okay, remembered the second one. Prince Charles at 70. Five years ago. Harry had recently gotten married. He and William were interviewed for this and the difference between that Harry and the one we are seeing now is remarkable. I am wondering has he been brainwashed? Something has gone seriously wrong in those five years. It is kind of disturbing. And sad. Not sure whether to think he is an utter moron, or feel really, really sad for him.
I, my own little (HA!) self, have been struggling even more than usual. So much pain. The other day I could barely move. Awake all night most nights, and then sleeping in bits and pieces all morning. One day I slept for 15 minutes. Fifteen Minutes. Come on, body, what is going on here. My brain is not working at all well, I have gone pretty deaf in the only ear that really worked, my eyesight keeps getting worse. And we have murdered the planet with our gross greed and stupidity. Parasites, willfully destroying the host we need to stay alive.
On the other hand, loving my new toaster oven/air fryer, got a new battery for my kindle keyboard. I replaced it a few years ago. Both keyboards, in fact. My oldest one has bit the dust. The battery does not seem dead, but the screen is just frozen in a very wonky manner. The newer (refurbished) one is just getting so slow, and I may try the battery in the old one, but definitely the newer one. I also bought an Oasis during the Amazon “OMG, we are having a sale. You know, when we raise prices then mark them down to still higher than they were and call it a bargain’. Because it has side buttons. It is still crap, and if you have ever seen or used a kindle keyboard, you will know exactly why I say that.
Anyway, me and Gertrude are plugging along, gone out a few times with my friend to do a bit of shopping (hanging off a carriage so I don’t fall down in pain). I’d say, in spite of all of it, things are going pretty well. I have really good friends, and something to laugh about on a daily basis. And Gertrude, who cracks me up on a daily basis. She is without a doubt, the stupidest cat that ever lived. Highly amusing. LOL It’s all good. Relatively speaking. LOLOL
strangely peculiar 