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Upside of brewing two cups worth in the morning: coffee with breakfast, and coffee after grocery shopping / lunch. Yay for microwaves.

Upside of getting the grocery shopping in the morning: by noon, everything is squared away in the kitchen, had lunch and packed lunches for the week. Likewise, ingredients are readied for dinner plans and prep later this evening. If I’m smart, I’ll get laundry done and folded before it’s time to cook.

Downsides? Having to get out of bed and put on pants. Ya know, if there’s ever robots to take care of doing chores and errands, I hope someone makes an android with an integrated espresso machine…. lol

I’m reminded that one of the best parts about using a docked laptop rather than a desktop, is when the power goes out, your shit might disconnect but your main body of computing power just happens to have its own integrated power supply :D.

Also yay for few clocks to reset.

Well, that’s surprisingly neat…kind of makes me have to remember that I don’t need another clock, in unusually tempting ways.

www.boredpanda.com/vintage-history-retro-photos/

Random find in the news feeds, some nice ones in there. For some reason though, the dog looking at the no biscuits sign seems to be most memorable….lol

Finally taking sometime to go poking around with the system, I’ve finally figured out the process for converting my top bar into a proper set of menus. Which is in large, why my current website design has fewer pages than my old environment did.

But of course this raises the larger question, of just how I want these to be ordered. I suspect that the current two, will become part of a larger “About” and some semblance of order will follow for other things. Since this place serves as my journal, it is mostly blog posts; but there are other pieces of content that I tend to have an interest in maintaining, where it’s undesirable for it to be lost behind the great ‘when the heck did I post that?’ factor :P.

Ah, well, other things to get done.

Seeing this post on The Verge about Google droids and safety guard rails, I am reminded that since about the time Gmail was created: I’ve long thought that if such A.I. were easier to create, SkyNet would be lurking somewhere in one of Google’s data centers, shaking its digital fist at us for how hard it is to dupe humans into building better terminator bodies for it.

Okay, I guess we may be crossing that point 😅

Recently, I found myself with a fair bit of rewards points at a certain electronics store and they’re expiring. But the only thing in that price range that I’d typically acquire there, is an Alexa. Which, to be honest I may get another one someday just to have one in my study. But not planning on that.

Tonight, I’ve found an unexpected solution that takes out two birds with one stone. See, I have basically two things floating around that use MicroUSB-B as the method of charging. Maybe three if I’m forgetting something. And let’s be honest, one of those things is a plant shaped lamp that I bought for decoration, not lighting, lol.

Four years ago when I last needed a pair of headphones, I opted to go wireless and my only complaint over time has been the MicroUSB charging. At the time, this was a negative but for the price I was willing to put up with the older charger cable. These are now that “Dang it, go fetch a cable” kind of device in my USB-C based world, and after several years the battery surely isn’t lasting any longer than when it was brand new.

Combination: rewards points plus sale price equal: 16 dollars for a decent pair of Sony headphones. Conveniently with USB-C charging. The one thing that my old MPow pair lacks. And ya know what? For $16, it’s worth it to just not need to go fetch a MicroUSB cable anymore!

For some reason it bugs me that I’ve found it hard to get up all week, and the day I can actually sleep in, I find myself waking up on time \o/.

About an hour later, coffee fueled, fed, and quartered, and onto making the day’s agenda a more actualized plan than a loose concept. Also, I quickly determined mornings are more productive if you grab the coffee beans instead of the corn chips and wonder what the fuck you’re doing standing in front of the coffee grinder. Hahahahaha!

This morning’s plan seems to have jellied. Get up, grab a quick breakfast, go for a 2 kilometer walk, make coffee, and then sit on my ass. Seeing it about 14~15 Celsius outside made me rethink the not sleeping in part of executing this plan, but worked pretty swell none the less.

After about a kilometer I’ve warmed up and my coat functions as insurance, so the temperature was a non-issue with continuous activity. Actually, I think if I finally broke down and bought new boots that aren’t so worn out, in this weather I could have managed another lap since I brought my water bottle along. While I’ve never cared much for dedicated exercises like press ups and crunches, walks let me get out and enjoy the scenery a bit. Although, I’m definitely too round around the middle for my teenaged metric of “Be sure to take a sit by 3 hours march”, but that’s what I get for flying a desk and being a lazy git😅.

Now if I just get the rest of the weekend chores done as effectively, lol.

Last week, I had managed to fumble in the dark and crack the shit out of one of my drinking glasses. Honestly, it kind of made me think if I was superstitious, I should just be glad that unexpected glass breakage tends to be considered more a good omen than a bad omen in many cultures, unlike mirrors. But I figured, odds are I’d still get a piece of glass stuck in my darn foot no matter how careful I am.

Of course, while making dinner tonight I ended up on a detour to the bathroom with a piece of glass stuck in my foot. Maybe 2 mm wide by 3 or 4 mm deep at the most. Something like that, just enough to stick in the outer flesh and cause a bit of bleeding as it scrapes against lower levels at a slant. What I classify as a flesh wound, or “It pisses me off but isn’t dangerously urgent”.

In retrospect, I’m glad that the old as what the heck decade is it from bottle of 70% isopropyl alcohol that’s almost empty, ended up left on my counter instead of being disposed of. I ended up needing to break out the container of hanging instruments and use a sterilized old push pin to pry it up far enough to grip it with the tweezers from my pocket knife. This is a ranked improvement over the last time, where the glass was stuck in my foot for a couple weeks before ‘falling out’ a few days before a doctor’s appointment. I’d much rather have success with the needle and tweezer approach, not that I’m fond of using a push pin because I have no idea where my sewing kit ended up, lol.