What You've Done Today...or yesterday...or what you are doing RIGHT THIS MINUTE!!!

[Malcador]

That also should be a day off. 

[rjshae]

9 hours ago, Malcador said:

That also should be a day off. 

Future holiday proposals:

• National pizza day -- celebrating Italian immigrants
• National donut day -- celebrating Home Simpson
• National taco day -- celebrating Latin immigrants
• National fish and chips day -- celebrating Anglican immigrants
• National French bread day -- bon jour

[LadyCrimson]

Hubby's back surgeon appoint. was canceled, because the surgeon apparently had some emergency surgery-ing to do. Rescheduled 3 weeks. I wonder if at that time, they'll do it again. A method to keep patients slightly less aggravated and on the hook vs. "first appointment available is 6 months from now" and risking the patient trying to go elsewhere.

[LadyCrimson]

Hubby's doc appointment may have been canceled/shifted, but his away-trip wasn't, so it's still 

....meaning I'll probably deep clean the house to really loud kpop music. Cause I know how to have a good time!
...I'll also be cooking a kimchi/super red-peppered vegie and marinated chicken stir fry. Hubby wouldn't like it anyway.

[Malcador]

Nothing like missing key emails on my dental insurance due to sheer noise in my inbox  Ahh, **** 

[Gorgon]

I jumped on my bike and kept going until I ran out of road and had to circle back.

Before and after I ran out of city.

+ an obligatory instagram shot of the cold beer i thought i deserved for my troubles.

 

[Malcador]

Canada Day here, at least it's a day off.  Still babysitting some process, amazing idea we had to chuck cache files in ONE S3 bucket. So trying to remove a day's worth has to be done pretty brute force. Windows also sucks for not having something as simple as nohup. 

[LadyCrimson]

Was watching some videos re: Trump/stripping naturalized US citizenship etc.
I am a naturalized US citizen, since I was adopted in early 1971.  I think they altered some laws 20-30 years ago where adoptees can be US citizens without actual naturalization process, but only applies to those adopted post-early 1980's, with certain requirements etc, or something. I don't know details on that.

Anyway, while watching it occurred to me I should go doublecheck all my adoption/citizen paperwork/records, because moving a few years ago is chaotic + my memory/organization gets worse every year. Looked in file cabinet, closets, looked in some boxes (still packed re: moving homes), couldn't find them, started to panic. Then remember the "mom" box. I had put them in there. Phew. New safer place for those again.

Hopefully, since I'm almost invisible to everyone but the DMV/taxman (haha), as long as I don't try to become a drug kingpin or accrue 1000 parking tickets in a few months, Trump won't notice me.*
 

*Not really worried about my personal status/self, mind. Not what he's (currently) chasing after.  But it's Trump - and things are crazy. I think I won't leave the US for vacation/anything for a while. Trump might not let me back in. 

Edited July 3 by LadyCrimson

[Gorgon]

^^

****ing insane is what it is. 

[Malcador]

Happy Independence Day to you Americans. 

[Gfted1]

Since we had the 3rd and 4th off we drove out to Nashville to see family over the long weekend. Blew up a bunch of fireworks (theyre legal there and available for purchase on almost every corner) and went to the party district: Broadway Nashville Information Guide

[LadyCrimson]

Yesterday, while leaving CostCo and putting our stuff in our car:

---A woman nearly as tall as hubby and about our age approaches, says "don't worry I don't want money" then looks mostly at hubby and proceeds to say she has a bad back plus still recovering from recent surgery or something - could we help her get a giant watermelon/other heavy items out of her cart and into her car.
---I said "Sure, I'll do it" -- and pointed at hubby -- "He has a bad back too." and walked over to her car.
--Watermelon was maybe 15+ pounds but easy. Stuff like that is hard on hubby/others because bending/pulling up out of an extra tall/deep cart is stressful - she kept asking if I was sure/was I ok etc - remember I'm super short and not 20 anymore either etc - I made the usual "I'm the strong one now" jokes.
---She and hubby then had a long convo re: backs, surgery/options/doctors as I unloaded our own full cart into our car.

It was all rather amusing, from my point of view. Plus hubby was pleased to find someone else in near the same position as him to bounce off of. 

Edited July 10 by LadyCrimson

[uuuhhii]

headphone keep getting cut off and need to be pull out and plug in again

happen with last 3 headphone so it is likely something wrong with pc

 

[LadyCrimson]

On 7/14/2025 at 3:29 AM, uuuhhii said:

headphone keep getting cut off and need to be pull out and plug in again

happen with last 3 headphone so it is likely something wrong with pc

 

Maybe the plug connector is dirty/oxidized/loose or something akin to that, so if you plug into the PC case itself, say, replacing that piece is all you'd have to hopefully do. Assuming it's not welded on.

I get something similar but opposite re: phone/tablet charger cables where they work great for a while but eventually the plug part of the cable gets too "loose" and stops connecting well enough re: "fast charging" ability, so I have to keep jiggling/plugging it in and out. And any motion of the tablet may make the plug lose solid connection again (so charging would take days). Sometimes I crimp the cable plug a little with pliers and it works better for a bit. Or I buy a new charger wire and repeat.  >.>

Edited July 16 by LadyCrimson

[ShadySands]

I left a citronella candle outside last night after using it, because the container radiates heat like nobody's business. This morning, I woke to find the container contained more Japanese beetles than candle, so into the trash it went. Strangely though, the beetles aren't that bad this year, but the earwigs are a different story.

[LadyCrimson]

Doctor told hubby he can either go for (quite invasive/long recovery) spine disk fusion/rods and metal, that is like a random crapshoot re: actual patient satisfaction/results, or try this less invasive thing where they remove/deaden nerves around the affected vertebrae, to at least reduce/eliminate the pain.  The latter is only being done by a single Kaiser (insurance) doc in California, apparently - in San Fran. Which, while we're farther from SF than we used to be, at least it's not in, say, Los Angeles. So now gotta wait for him to call re: referral.  Hopefully it won't be a year.

[Gfted1]

11 hours ago, LadyCrimson said:

I get something similar but opposite re: phone/tablet charger cables where they work great for a while but eventually the plug part of the cable gets too "loose" and stops connecting well enough...

Take a toothpick and dig the lint out of the charging hole.

[majestic]

Moved the really important parts of my digital life to a new e-mail address. I've had the same mail account at a small non-profit for almost thirty years, but the service has since become unstable. I have toyed with the idea of migrating for the better part of a year now, but talking to another user of the service raised a major red flag beyond some instability a few days ago. He has - or perhaps more apt to say had - the pro subscription (once upon a time this was for unlimited timeslot access to the BBS part of the system, which no longer matters, as there are barely any users left and no one ever runs out of online time) and said they've stopped charging his account for the subscription fee.

They no longer react to support requests either. We don't really have any idea if someone's left working at the non-profit or if the service is just running because the hoster's been paid in advance. How old the non-profit is can be gauged by its name, it is mostly a BBS and mail service provider calling itself Club for the Promotion of Youth Communication. As if the youth of today would even know what a BBS is, or use e-mail to communicate outside of work.

[Bartimaeus]

What finally made me leave Google a few years ago was when I was suddenly and inexplicably logged and then locked out of my account from my home PC on my home IP address...and I realized that the whole system is completely automated and that it's impossible to get any actual support in the event of system error. No matter what information I gave them, they thought my log-in attempt was suspicious and just kept asking for more information until there literally was nothing else left to ask and I still wasn't allowed back in.

I ended up switching to ProtonMail where I can log-in from any device on any IP, and where you can setup TOTP 2FA, which is pretty much the only type of 2FA that I want - texts, phonecalls, emails and the like are all dumb, as are Google's random security and account history trivia questions. ProtonMail isn't perfect from a UI standpoint, but at least I don't have to worry about getting banned by some automated system for completely inscrutable reasons anymore.

[LadyCrimson]

I still use my own webhost re: email addresses. I sometimes wonder what will happen if the owner of the severs dies - will I even know outside of it all suddenly not working one day.  I have no idea how old he is and it was years and years ago I found him, back when personal webhosting wasn't everywhere/EZ-fied and super cheap. I have this feeling, outside of his 'real job' clients, if he still has those (public webhosting was a small side for him), that I and maybe a few others might be the only ones using/remaining on his no-longer advertised webhost servers at this point.