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On a day that’s been filled with tunes I haven’t heard in a while, I was somewhat fortunate, and oddly emotional, hearing this old favorite come on the car radio. While the things I miss aren’t always, or perhaps even often, what I had imagined growing up, I’ve always been fond of this Trace Adkins song.

She was staring out the window of that SUV
Complaining, saying "I can't wait to turn eighteen"
She said "I'll make my own money and I'll make my own rules"
Mama put the car in park out there in front of the school
And she kissed her head and said, "I was just like you"

You're gonna miss this
You're gonna want this back
You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast
These are some good times
So take a good look around
You may not know it now
But you're gonna miss this

Before she knows it she's a brand new bride
In her one bedroom apartment and her daddy stops by
He tells her, "It's a nice place"
She says, "It'll do for now"
Starts talkin' about babies and buyin' a house
Daddy shakes his head and says, "Baby, just slow down, 'cause"

You're gonna miss this
You're gonna want this back
You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast
These are some good times
So take a good look around
You may not know it now
But you're gonna miss this

Five years later there's a plumber workin' on the water heater
Dog's barkin', phone's ringin'
One kid's cryin', one kid's screamin'
And she keeps apologizin'
He says, "They don't bother me
I've got two babies of my own
One's thirty-six, one's twenty-three
Huh, it's hard to believe, but"

You're gonna miss this
You're gonna want this back
You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast
These are some good times
So take a good look around
You may not know it now
But you're gonna miss this

You're gonna' miss this
Yeah
You're gonna' miss this
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On one hand, starting off Christmas break with a pulled hamstring kind of sucks. On the other hand, there’s a great upside to being home: not having to walk a lot.

Of course that also comes with the downside of hauling my ass up and down the stairs, lol.

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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

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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.

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

Menus, someday menus

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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.

Google + Robots = SkyNet?

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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 😅

Attrition in charging

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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!

One eye, two eye, blue eye, red eye

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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!