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the_rckWe've been listening to Rick Riordan's Son of Neptune on CD in the evenings. I checked it out from the library for our vacation driving, but we only got about four hours into it because the vacation rental was relatively close. Scott and Cordelia have read the book before, but I've only heard fragments of it it, enough that I know pretty much who everyone is and what happens, but not enough to satisfy Cordelia. I think we've got three CDs left, so we'll probably finish this weekend. I've had this book on my iPod for a couple of years now, but I never seem to get around to listening to it or to anything else (I'm not sure I even know where the charging cord is for my iPod, it's been so long).
I definitely need to advertise on the Metanews communities for someone to link find on LJ. It really needs to be done. I think we've missed at least fifty links since the person who was doing it resigned, and I really, really can't pick up LJ, too. I want to because there's some good stuff there, but it would add to the time I spend on Metanews in a way that I can't handle. I can barely handle the stuff I'm already committed to doing.
I found another website that posts occasional superlative meta, but that meta comes up once out of every fifty or sixty posts. I'm not convinced that any meta, however spectacular, is worth wading through that many non-meta posts.
I didn't wear my ankle brace at all yesterday, and I ended up regretting it. It's not obvious to me why I need it-- My ankle doesn't wobble at all or anything like that, and I don't walk far when I'm at home. I can get away with a few hours without the brace, but apparently, all day is too much. My foot and ankle hurt all night. They hurt more when at rest than when I was actually walking or standing. I have no idea.
Cordelia is now saying that she wants to go clothes shopping to get some new shorts. Of course, when Scott suggested, right before dinner last night, that we go after dinner, she said no. She was willing to go immediately, before dinner, but not after dinner. We pointed out to her that I absolutely had to eat within the next hour, but she wouldn't budge, so we didn't go. The clothes we ordered online ought to arrive some time next week, so neither Scott nor I feel all that urgent. I think Cordelia is largely reacting to the realization that every pair of shorts she owns and is willing to wear is blood stained.
Scott forgot how old my laptop is and was going to try updating me to Yosemite. I was pretty sure we'd discussed it before and had discovered that my laptop was too old. It seems that it's just barely too old-- The about this Mac thingy says it's from 'early 2008.' Yosemite will run on machines starting with 'late 2008.' Replacing my laptop doesn't make sense. It does the things I need to do fairly well. The main problem right now is that my system is so old that none of my programs (except, for some reason, iTunes) can be updated any longer. Google is complaining constantly about how my version of Safari is too old and 'not supported,' but my system won't run anything more recent.
I have deleted my Gmail address from my phone. I simply didn't see that it served any useful purpose on there. I don't want to get email there. I don't want to chat there. I don't want to cross connect my contacts. I don't intend to access Google docs or anything like that, so all it was doing was giving Google more information about me. This should stop the phone's irritating habit of making noise every time I get an email. I figure I can always put the address back later if, for some reason, I want to. About the only circumstance under which I can see it being useful is if we lose power for more than two or three hours, and even if that happens, I'm likely to be more interested in using the phone as a phone and in conserving the battery.
Cordelia's pediatrician's office is part of a bigger network, and that network just sent us a survey to fill out. The survey is obviously not designed to apply to pediatric visits as all of the questions assume that the person filling out the form is the patient. That makes filling out some of the bits problematic-- For example, I'm willing to talk to them about the survey, but I'm not the patient, and I'm not willing to have them talk to Cordelia about any of this, and I'm not sure if me filling out the survey constitutes the patient having assistance from someone else in filling it out. And, when they ask for education level, do they want mine or Cordelia's? The difference is considerable. I will probably fill the dratted thing out because the office has always done well by us, but I don't feel any particular hurry.
I definitely need to advertise on the Metanews communities for someone to link find on LJ. It really needs to be done. I think we've missed at least fifty links since the person who was doing it resigned, and I really, really can't pick up LJ, too. I want to because there's some good stuff there, but it would add to the time I spend on Metanews in a way that I can't handle. I can barely handle the stuff I'm already committed to doing.
I found another website that posts occasional superlative meta, but that meta comes up once out of every fifty or sixty posts. I'm not convinced that any meta, however spectacular, is worth wading through that many non-meta posts.
I didn't wear my ankle brace at all yesterday, and I ended up regretting it. It's not obvious to me why I need it-- My ankle doesn't wobble at all or anything like that, and I don't walk far when I'm at home. I can get away with a few hours without the brace, but apparently, all day is too much. My foot and ankle hurt all night. They hurt more when at rest than when I was actually walking or standing. I have no idea.
Cordelia is now saying that she wants to go clothes shopping to get some new shorts. Of course, when Scott suggested, right before dinner last night, that we go after dinner, she said no. She was willing to go immediately, before dinner, but not after dinner. We pointed out to her that I absolutely had to eat within the next hour, but she wouldn't budge, so we didn't go. The clothes we ordered online ought to arrive some time next week, so neither Scott nor I feel all that urgent. I think Cordelia is largely reacting to the realization that every pair of shorts she owns and is willing to wear is blood stained.
Scott forgot how old my laptop is and was going to try updating me to Yosemite. I was pretty sure we'd discussed it before and had discovered that my laptop was too old. It seems that it's just barely too old-- The about this Mac thingy says it's from 'early 2008.' Yosemite will run on machines starting with 'late 2008.' Replacing my laptop doesn't make sense. It does the things I need to do fairly well. The main problem right now is that my system is so old that none of my programs (except, for some reason, iTunes) can be updated any longer. Google is complaining constantly about how my version of Safari is too old and 'not supported,' but my system won't run anything more recent.
I have deleted my Gmail address from my phone. I simply didn't see that it served any useful purpose on there. I don't want to get email there. I don't want to chat there. I don't want to cross connect my contacts. I don't intend to access Google docs or anything like that, so all it was doing was giving Google more information about me. This should stop the phone's irritating habit of making noise every time I get an email. I figure I can always put the address back later if, for some reason, I want to. About the only circumstance under which I can see it being useful is if we lose power for more than two or three hours, and even if that happens, I'm likely to be more interested in using the phone as a phone and in conserving the battery.
Cordelia's pediatrician's office is part of a bigger network, and that network just sent us a survey to fill out. The survey is obviously not designed to apply to pediatric visits as all of the questions assume that the person filling out the form is the patient. That makes filling out some of the bits problematic-- For example, I'm willing to talk to them about the survey, but I'm not the patient, and I'm not willing to have them talk to Cordelia about any of this, and I'm not sure if me filling out the survey constitutes the patient having assistance from someone else in filling it out. And, when they ask for education level, do they want mine or Cordelia's? The difference is considerable. I will probably fill the dratted thing out because the office has always done well by us, but I don't feel any particular hurry.
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Date: 2015-07-26 02:42 am (UTC)How many places need to be checked on LJ?
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Date: 2015-07-26 02:51 am (UTC)When the reading list was bigger it generally took me an hour to an hour and a half to get through a week of posts, including checking out all of the possibly useful stuff and writing up what was worth linking. The stuff I cut will mean some time saved, but scrolling by those posts wasn't the primary thing that took time.