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Well that’s neat. Blogger’s post editor is now showing a visual makeover, much like the Pages and Stats sections.

Seems like the formatting and such is all still here, but it’s a refreshed design.
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It’s been so many weeks since I really got any rest at all, I think part of me began to forget just how amazing a restorative crash on /dev/couch could be.

It’s an experience less like dozing off, and more like being a sedated sloth until the batteries recharge a smidge. Sadly, I find my batteries recharge at a minuscule rate compared to my youth, but the effect is still pleasing. Or as I like to remember eventually one must have rest, or death like effects follow.
In my case, not only was a feast-sized meal followed by much crashing on the couch, but also some good viewing. Finished watching last night’s movie (The Patriot) while catching up on my reading. Then thoroughly crashed. For landing, I went with the Milim / Charybdis arc of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime. TenSura is full of pleasing characters, Milim is one. I love that her personality is a very energetic and playful one, yet at > 10 x Rimuru’s strength, her punch packs a wallot fitting the title Demon Lord. And there’s also characters like Gobta, whose comic relief bounces between useless clown and champion hero.
I kind of like spirited characters who don’t align with obvious expectations :P.
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Most nights, I cook dinner at home. And then there’s times for ordering a delicious food coma.

Plus there’s enough leftover for dinner tomorrow, after filling my dinner plate.

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Mean manipulative human:

  1. Eat my snack.
  2. Give glaring dogs some treats.
Soft, squishy kind human:
  1. Give hangry doggos treats.
  2. Eat snack, and share with doggos.
  3. Give doggo some moar treats.
Willow, Misty, and Corky dislike that I’ll usually go with that first version when all of us want a mid day snack….
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Shocking things: when you see Blogger UI refreshed with a small bit of Material coat, and wonder what when was the last time someone actually pushed a change to the “Main”, or heck, even the “Draft” version.

And there’s now a “Back to classic Blogger” under the menu. For some reason the default view has shifted to the Stats entry, which was the last thing to get a face lift. The Posts entry now has faster card like elements instead of a dense list of text, and there’s a floating + button; operations that were in the over the top Gmail-esque menu bar are either gone, or relegated to buttons over the card view.

If I didn’t know better, I would think someone at Google actually cared :-o.

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For the most part, the dogs are comfortable wherever they choose to roost. Somedays though, I am tempted to ask, “And what bricks have you been busy chopping?”

And sometimes we have family nap time, and I am tempted to use a dog (or two) for a pillow, lol.

They are sweet, lovable, little goonie birds with fur.

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One of the metrics I have for software is encountering bugs. That is to say if you really use a program a lot: you will eventually find bugs, even if they’re not epic ones. For really good software that you really use a lot: these things don’t happen often.

Well, somewhere in between a nice little repeatable for the Crunchyroll app on Fire TV. In the queue view (haven’t tried others): if you click the tile for a show, and then quickly hit a movement key on the remote: you’ll get the episode information, but the background art will be for the show last selected; hitting view series details will also go to the last selected show rather than the clicked one.

I’d be drunk to ever claim Crunchyroll’s apps don’t tend to suck more often than not, but I did find this bug amusing.

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The other day, I decided to plug in my old Thor model HDX7, since I couldn’t remember the last time I had bothered to charge it. Was surprised to find it with 6% remaining. But, my relationship with it regarding battery life has been kind of like the Energizer Bunny commercials with “Going, and going, and going”; or whatever it is they use as a slogan. I don’t think I ever managed to really ding its battery, aside from leaving it idle for a couple weeks.

Extra surprising: the last update it got for Fire OS was 4.5.5.3 installed February, 2019.

That’s really not bad for a device I got free from a Dolby developer raffle. Still running a form of Android 4.4/K, but considering the device came out around 2013, and had internals on par with the Nexus of the day—I’d say the little thang has faired pretty well.

I suppose one of these days, I should probably finish turning it into a digital picture frame, or something.