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Reset Forty-Nine, Day Twenty
Jun. 13th, 2023 08:32 amMonday concluded with another near-rainless thunderstorm, bringing more evidence that California is turning into some other place. I expect new flora and fauna to soon appear, or perhaps old flora and fauna in some new guise. Maybe there will be dinosaurs. There probably won't be penguins. The snow is all melting.
Anyway, I went to bed before midnight, and then slept until going on six o'clock this morning, so something resembling a normal person's life. But I did not go to bed before I had to reboot my phone because it had lost Idernet again. It is being troublesome again this morning, and I don't know how much longer this aging piece of technology will last. If it fails over the next week or so I'm screwed, as my niece and nephew are out of town through the twentieth. The neighbor whose phone I usually borrow to call them when mine fails has also been gone for a couple of days, and I don't know when she'll get back, so double stranded anyway. Damn, my digital life is tenuous.
Also I didn't notice until someone mentioned it, but yesterday's journal entry was my 10,000th at LJ. I probably shouldn't count it as such, though, since I have a number of entries I didn't write myself— probably a couple dozen. Some time ago I discovered that articles at sites with paywalls will sometimes be fully loaded before the paywall blackout notice comes up, and if I hit ctrl a to highlight and ctrl c to copy quickly enough I can snag the whole page, and then paste it into the LJ entry form and read it there. Now and then I'll decide I want to keep an article to read later so I'll post it as a private entry, and then forget about it, and I've got several such entries in there I've never culled. But I'm sure there are pretty close to 10,000 entries here that I have written myself. If I (and my Idernet connection) survive this month, I'll probably hit the actual milestone before the end of it.
It's so weird being up this time of day. But given my recent track record, I expect I'll re-crash before noon. In the meantime, I can watch some music videos. Here is one from Tears for Fears 1989 album "Seeds of Love." It's the only track on the album with Curt Smith singing lead instead of Roland Orzibal, and it's got Oleta Adams on piano and backup vocals. "Advice for the Young at Heart":
Anyway, I went to bed before midnight, and then slept until going on six o'clock this morning, so something resembling a normal person's life. But I did not go to bed before I had to reboot my phone because it had lost Idernet again. It is being troublesome again this morning, and I don't know how much longer this aging piece of technology will last. If it fails over the next week or so I'm screwed, as my niece and nephew are out of town through the twentieth. The neighbor whose phone I usually borrow to call them when mine fails has also been gone for a couple of days, and I don't know when she'll get back, so double stranded anyway. Damn, my digital life is tenuous.
Also I didn't notice until someone mentioned it, but yesterday's journal entry was my 10,000th at LJ. I probably shouldn't count it as such, though, since I have a number of entries I didn't write myself— probably a couple dozen. Some time ago I discovered that articles at sites with paywalls will sometimes be fully loaded before the paywall blackout notice comes up, and if I hit ctrl a to highlight and ctrl c to copy quickly enough I can snag the whole page, and then paste it into the LJ entry form and read it there. Now and then I'll decide I want to keep an article to read later so I'll post it as a private entry, and then forget about it, and I've got several such entries in there I've never culled. But I'm sure there are pretty close to 10,000 entries here that I have written myself. If I (and my Idernet connection) survive this month, I'll probably hit the actual milestone before the end of it.
It's so weird being up this time of day. But given my recent track record, I expect I'll re-crash before noon. In the meantime, I can watch some music videos. Here is one from Tears for Fears 1989 album "Seeds of Love." It's the only track on the album with Curt Smith singing lead instead of Roland Orzibal, and it's got Oleta Adams on piano and backup vocals. "Advice for the Young at Heart":
