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I keep forgetting to post about this: we've been troubleshooting the "missing notifications" problem for the past few days. (Well, I say "we", really I mean Mark and Robby; I'm just the amanuensis.) It's been one of those annoying loops of "find a logical explanation for what could be causing the problem, fix that thing, observe that the problem gets better for some people but doesn't go away completely, go back to step one and start again", sigh.

Mark is hauling out the heavy debugging ordinance to try to find the root cause. Once he's done building all the extra logging tools he needs, he'll comment to this entry. After he does, if you find a comment that should have gone to your inbox and sent an email notification but didn't, leave him a link to the comment that should have sent the notification, as long as the comment itself was made after Mark says he's collecting them. (I'd wait and post this after he gets the debug code in but I need to go to sleep and he's not sure how long it will take!)

We're sorry about the hassle! Irregular/sporadic issues like this are really hard to troubleshoot because it's impossible to know if they're fixed or if they're just not happening while you're looking. With luck, this will give us enough information to figure out the root cause for real this time.

rejectomorph

There was a Saturday afternoon nap, waking from which I was sure it must be early Sunday morning, but it's only Saturday evening and it's raining. When I first looked out the window it was a sprinkle, but by the time I'd gone to the bathroom to lighten my bladder I could hear raindrops hitting the roof and the wind rising, and by the time I got back to the window a furious wind was lashing the glass with great streams of water and I was startled by their roar.

I had not gone to the mailbox before the nap, and I knew that anything in it would surely be soaked, so I gave upon the idea of making a rescue. I'm picturing the latest issue of Harpers sitting in the little black box turning to pulp, and distressing though the thought of losing yet another issue is, there is no way I'm going out in that mess. The last light is just about gone, and whatever is in the box is surely unsalvageable already, so I will remain indoors and perhaps go scoop up the sad residue tomorrow. Let night fall and conceal the tragedy while I mourn the loss I don't really know is there.

And why the feck have I still not signed up for USPS delivery notifications by email? Procrastinating old geezer with dead executive function! Oh well, it won't be long before I forget altogether that I've even got subscriptions to magazines. That'll fix it.

Fix dinner now. As soon as I eat second breakfast. Brownie bites with Madeleines. Yum.

susandennis

Yesterday I was not at all hungry. I ate fewer calories than most days by quite a bit. Today the scale says I gained a pound. You know how when you are on a strict diet and you go off of it for a few days and suffer no consequences? I think this is the opposite. I have had a long think about whether, if my current trajectory - same or gain - continues, whether or not I'd keep taking the drug. 1. It's not going to continue. I will lose. and 2. I think I'd leave it up to my doctor to decide. So, I'm not going to worry about it.

The baseball game last night was fraught with all kinds o' shit. First of all we are playing the Astros - the cheating Astros - who, this season are the LOSING Astros. Of course the Mariners are also losing but that, we can live with. We are enjoying the heck out of the Astros' slide down. Their pitcher last night walked in a run in the first inning and did not make it to the 2nd. We won but only because the Astros are so bad.

BUT the really good news is that the only broadcaster I like - Dave Valle - does not do a lot of games but did last night's and it was so good. Plus, because they generally use the same color guy for the series and we are playing the Astros for 4 games, we have him for the next 3! He makes the bozo regular guy better, too. So very nice.

Google, can we just agree that any email I get written in Hindi is FUCKING SPAM?????

Volleyball this morning was exceptionally excellent. It was just a very fun game for everyone there. Massive laughs and some good play, too.

One of the players is 96 year old retired OB/GYN doctor, Tina. In the locker room after, she told me she had gotten one of my rabbits (Martha's distribution). And she loved it so much. She gave it to a dear friend who loved it even more. But, now she didn't have one. Any chance she could get another?

I decided last night that the chickens were no longer doing it for me and I wanted to go back to mini monsters. But, now, I will need to stop and do a bunny. I'm sure glad I took pictures because I can barely remember how I made them!

Time for elbow coffee.

rejectomorph

Groceries were fetched today, and a pleasant surprise was the availability of my favorite donuts for the first time in six weeks. Only one item was substituted, and only one other was unavailable. After my niece dropped the groceries off and I got most of them put way I went out to check the mail, and found my issue of Wired, only slightly dampened with water from early morning's rain wicked up from the mailbox floor. It was good timing, as half an hour after I brought it in there was sudden overcast and thunder and the sky opened again for a good half hour.

There is apt to be more rain tonight, and on both Saturday and Sunday. I think I can forget about my climate credit covering my entire utility bill for April. Even when milder days return next week, the highs will be only in the seventies, and and nocturnal lows will mostly be in the forties. The next high of eighty won't be until Friday the 24th. That will be my next shopping day, and the utility bill should arrive by then so I can write my check for six bucks, or whatever ridiculous little sum it is, and get it mailed off in a timely manner. If I were still getting out and about, I might combine a visit to Piggy's (PG&E's) office with a trip downtown. I don't think they can refuse to accept cash payment in person at their office, or charge any kind of extra fee for it. They do charge a fee for paying by phone or online with a credit or debit card. Utility companies are not admirable.

I can't say much about Thursday, because I don't remember it. There is a vague impression that I slept through nine or ten daylight hours, but that was so long ago I can't be sure. It was a troubling time, I suppose. I'm glad those days are gone. I'll probably be glad when today is gone, too, which it will be in about an hour. I think I will make some tea and eat a couple of cookies, then hit the proverbial hay. Maybe the rain will come back to sing me to sleep.

lycomingst

I got my car back after paying a TREMENDOUS amount. Well, the car is 17 yrs old and the back wheels were about to fall off or something. I didn't get the air conditioning fixed because I ain't going nowhere hot. I just suffer driving to Safeway.

susandennis

I ended up making a Costco trip yesterday. They now have this little graphic on my digital card that says, rather loudly, 34 years! And when you beep in, the little lady says "34 years?! Wow and thank you!" They are, clearly, counting the Price Club years which is kind of funny. Google confirms that the Costco/Price Club deal was in 1993. Anyway, I needed coffee and chicken wings and I also got some eggwiches. 3 things. I always consider it a win when I can carry out my Costco purchases in a normal grocery bag. They moved the self service area to the complete other side of the checkout so that you cannot even see it and assume they killed it. I was in line and griped about their removing it when a chipper Costocoian piped up, oh it's just over there! Bite me, lady, I'm already to the front of this line.

It is really ridiculous for me to pay for a Costco membership and I think this may be the last time. 34 years is enough.

I got up this morning and had coffee and an eggwich and was internetting and thinking about not going swimming when I just stopped and put on my suit and went before the not going thought could fully form. It was a very good swim. I've increased my time a little so that I am now swimming at least 1/2 mile without stopping.

My Peacock subscription is running out at the end of this month. I paid $60 for a year which I'd gladly do again except now they want $170. And, honestly, there isn't enough shit there to justify. I like Law and Order and Jeopardy. Are they worth $14 a month? Nope. If their baseball coverage didn't suck so much, I might even consider it but nope. So at least for now, it's buhbuh Peacock. I did resub to Netflix. I haven't had it for nearly a year so I have a lot of lovely catch-up to do.

My cell plan ran out of data yesterday which means once I leave the lovely confines of wifi, I've got a dead phone... until tomorrow when it rejuices. I think I can make it. No plans to go anywhere today.

susandennis

All my Thursday stuff is done.

It didn't flash with me until I opened the fridge this morning. My doctor put in the new Wegovy prescription and NovoCare (the pharmacy I use for it) sent me their text. They send a link for me to use to pay and tell them when to deliver it. I've always picked the first available date and did that yesterday. This morning, when I took out the next pen, I realized that next week, I'll get 4 more pens and there are still 4 pens in the fridge. I think part of my mind believes shortage - like when Spiffikins had to work so hard to find Mounjaro. There is currently no Wegovy shortage and I don't really need to bank 8 weeks! Next time, I need to pay better attention.

The Mariners will be safe from another loss today only because they do not play. I am not happy about the game play but I'm actually enjoying the new broadcast. They gave up their own network at the end of the season and now have all their games on MLB.TV which has a feature that is great and works great. You can watch the TV broadcast and, simultaneously, listen to the radio broadcast and easily flip back and forth. It makes the games so much more palatable.

Nothing much going on today. I'm falling behind in my chicken making. The demand is outpacing the production. So there will be chicken making.

rejectomorph

This was the fifth or sixth day in a row when I let my phone battery go dead and consequently lost Idernet. I've turned very stupid in my old age. Cursing myself each time it happens has not fixed it. I should probably use some sort of second childhood psychology on myself, but I fear I've gotten too stupid to even figure out how to do that. Maybe some sort of reward for not forgetting tp recharge? The problem then would be actually remembering once, so I could reward myself, and it's starting to look like that will never happen again. And if it does, I'll probably forget what I want to do. I mean I'll have Idernet, and that's really distracting.

But anyway. I just thought I heard some thunder, and a short time later I'm sure I heard some thunder. We weren't supposed to get thunderstorms until Friday afternoon, but I guess they got here early. I forgot to check the forecast yesterday, so I checked just now and sure enough, thundershowers tonight and Friday evening, then rain Saturday and Sunday. Weird, but welcome... at least the rain is welcome. Spring lightning can start wildfires. In 2008 a May thunderstorm sparked over a thousand little fires and some of them joined up and kept burning well into autumn. It was the smokiest summer I can remember. I'd rather not have another like that.

Oh, I need to go fix the dinner I've been putting off for three nights. I do hope the power doesn't go out while I'm using my all-electric stove. This stuff needs to cook all the way in one go. Pasta is very unforgiving.

lycomingst

I had to get the car serviced. New oil et al. Of course, I had to vacuum it because I don't want mechanics knowing I really live like this. And also to the car wash I went. That turned out to be a "dumb woman driver" adventure.

The car washes I've gone to have all had two tracks you guide your tires on and you zip through. This one was like a baby car wash, half the size. You have to line your left tire up with a gadget near the curb. Anyway, wash guy had me back up, motions turn the steering wheel, back up. I finally understood the system and we were off.

Then I had to deal with more people at the garage. Left the car there and was shuttled back. Gave god awful directions, like I always do. Now I wait for a phone call on the cursed phone.

Poetry month.

Let No Charitable Hope

Elinor Wylie
1885 –1928

Now let no charitable hope
Confuse my mind with images
Of eagle and of antelope:
I am by nature none of these.
I was, being human, born alone;
I am, being woman, hard beset;
I live by squeezing from a stone
The little nourishment I get.
In masks outrageous and austere
The years go by in single file;
But none has merited my fear,
And none has quite escaped my smile.

And Music Monday.
This the first song of his I heard, he was on some late show. I said, that's my guy.

Watch on YouTube

susandennis

I had my appointment with my doctor yesterday. When last we met, she said that the Medicare coverage of Wegovy was looking like April. Almost immediately that changed to July and now she's saying maybe Januaray and it's based on your BMI. BUT, they are planning on using your BMI as it was when you first started on the drug so if/when it ever happens, I'll be qualified. $350 to $50 will be a nice change but until then, I'm thinking of it like a car payment.

I can get a faster car for the same payment so she's going to increase the dosage for the next go round. I'm still several weeks away from the next go round so I thought I'd go back to tracking my calories for a while. Apparently she has lots of Wegovy patients. During our call, once we decided on dosage, my phone text beeped. Without thinking, I looked down. She said "Oh, that will be me - or my prescription rather." and it was. She said she's done enough of this that she now has a rhythm to how it all goes. I do like that she has good experience with the whole experience! She wants me to exercise more which I assured her was not going to happen. We'll meet again in July.

And so today I start the tracking - new app - Journable. This one really only tracks what you eat. It also can track exercise and weight but it's easy to ignore those bits. Very simple, and easy. The photograph nailed my breakfast.

I noticed yesterday that the Google Play Store has a new feature - AI ask a question about this app. I've been asking "how much does using this app in the US cost?" - it's a lot better than downloading, installing and then digging around for what happens when the trial is done or your xx free times are over, etc. Also it tells you if there is a way around the stupid video ads. Quite nice.

I put the laundry in before I went to swim. And now between swimming, breakfasting, cutting Biggie's nails and generally futzing around, I have 13 minutes til it's time to hang and fold.

The baseball game is at 11 today. The Mariners have lost way more than they have won so far this year. Not pretty. The Food and Beverage meeting is at 2.

susandennis

The Mariners lost... again. Volleyball was good. It's house cleaner day - yeah! Another lovely day at the cult.

Yesterday was the first morning that daylight hit my bedroom before 7. The next few or really few plus months will require sleeping with a blindfold which is annoying but it does the job. I think, today, I'll switch out my comforter to the one that's not quite so thick.

Our wifi, last night, was wonky. I finally had to abandon the library book I was listening to and pick up the audible one. Most of the library books I want to read cannot be downloaded so wonky wifi means wonky listening or no listening. And due to the power outage a few weeks ago, I'm running perilously close to my cell plan data limit. It gets revived on Thursday so I don't really want to pony up the $10 needed to get more data. The plan is for 5 GB. Usually, I use way less than 2. I had already downloaded the Audible book so I just listened to it.

I miss Jim Across The Hall. It's still weird to open my front door and know he's not even there. Not a peep from anyone about his stuff or when they will start moving it. They only have a couple of weeks. They may be able to 'buy' extra time. I don't know.

I have three different yarn projects going. The toys - currently chickens but I could go back to monsters at any time. An afghan - knitted in very large mitered squares and a vest with a funky waffle pattern - crochet. I'm enjoying the diversity. My plan is to do two toys every day and then pick up which ever one of the others I feel like. Both are pretty good for TV watching - I can do them mostly by feel. When I hit a spot on any of them that needs eye, I just turn the TV off and turn the book on.

rejectomorph

Days managing to pass despite my inattention, I guess I don't mean much to them. Apparently I don't know much about weather either, because I was assuming it would be summery from here on out, and now the forecast is telling me more rain over the next weekend. Thundershowers Friday afternoon (shopping day!) and rain on Saturday, with more showers possible Sunday. Chilly, too, with highs in the sixties. More gas for the furnace, I guess, and probably a utility bill larger than the climate credit I'll be getting. I'll end up having to do something stupid, like write a check for three bucks. But at least no hot days are coming up, so I won't have to use air conditioning.

I dawdled so much Monday night that I never got around to cooking the dinner I'd planned, and around midnight I just made a tuna sandwich. Some people call it a tuna fish sandwich, but in English I've never heard of anything other than fish called tuna, so tuna fish sounds redundant to me. In Spanish, a cactus apple (some people call them cactus pears, but I don't want to layer tangents) is called a tuna, but as far as I know nobody makes cactus apple (or pear) sandwiches, and if they did they probably wouldn't be people who call a fish tuna. But where was I going with this? If I ever knew, I've forgotten now.

Anyway, I enjoyed the sandwich, but since then my stomach has given indications that it wasn't as happy with it as the rest of me was. I'm thinking I might just go to bed and see if I can get to sleep before it starts hurting worse. My afternoon nap ended at seven o'clock, and I've been awake about long enough now anyway.

susandennis

I am not going to the pool today. I am taking the day off. For no good reason.

A few months ago, Jim Down The Hall had a weird experience. His apartment is very large and has two full bathrooms but he rarely uses most of it. His housecleaner was working in there one day and came to him and asked "what do you want me to do about the bathroom?" Completely confused, he went to the bathroom she was talking about - his second one that he never uses - and saw that the glass shower door had completely shattered all over everywhere. Weird and Wild.

Yesterday, Bonny came in and said "come see my shower door"... ??? ok. And, yep, it had shattered, but mostly in place. She said she called security as soon as she noticed it and the security guy came up immediately. There was a towel hanging over the door and as soon as he touched the towel to move it, some of the glass fell out so he stopped. So mostly it was all in the door. On a Sunday. Easter. But, maintenance was up there getting ready to at least make it safe to go in. Wild and grateful for quick responses.

She said the security guy was the new one and it was his first day. Welcome!!

I just got a text from Martha. Martha has a daughter I have never met but said daughter is always sharing cute little knitted and crocheted toys with me through Martha. The original bunny idea came from her and at least one other one. Anyway, Saturday, Martha took several of the chickens and took one to her daughter yesterday. When she got there, her daughter has a surprise for her, a chicken she had crocheted! hahaha

Tomorrow I have my first Wegovy checkup with my doctor. I'll be very interested to hear what she has to say.

Wednesday is a Food & Beverage Committee meeting - the agenda is very short. The current jihad is salt. Everyone knows what's best. And I don't care.

The Mariners are playing in Texas which means 3 days of early games which is lovely.

I finished Proof by Jon Cowan. It was a decent story not very well told. The audio book had this hilarious quirk. The reader was good except. One of the characters was a police woman from Scotland and he made her sound like she was from Cape May, New Jersey and had a speech impediment. It was very jarring.

I have the next of the five that the librarian recommended checked out and queued up.

Time to get this day started.

rejectomorph

Today my feet hurt. I have no idea why. I hardly use them anymore. Back when I walked al the time they never got this bad. Perhaps they think they are no longer needed and can do as they please. Not for wrong, really, but still inconvenient.

Sleeping has not gone to four-eight-four pattern. Instead, I slept about nine hours Saturday night, then was up from around 2:00 AM until eight o'clock, after which I had another two hour nap, and I've been up ever since. But I have no idea how much longer I'll keep going. I'm thinking I'll post this entry, fix some dinner, than go soak my damned feet. Totally out of Epsom salts, but I guess warm water alone can't hurt. And it looks like this getting old thing won't be going into remission. Too bad.

( Sunday Verse )

susandennis

One Easter tradition around here is kids. Little ones and big ones. We get a few every weekend but on Easter, it's like a kid convention. There were clearly a bunch in the pool yesterday - it wasn't as bad as I've seen it but clearly... No big deal, just different. The other person there this morning was walking to help loosen up her back "I have very small grandchildren coming today and I want to be able to move." And, also, as I pointed out yesterday, around here, mentioning very young grandchildren is a way to brag about how young you are!

They are having a massive Easter brunch and I walked by the dining rooms on my way back this morning. All the tables are set and ready and they each have a napkin folded into a bunny. Very cute.

Last night's baseball game had a feature... The Angels have an outfielder who is good at the bat but very meh on defense. During the early innings, he caught a fly ball that would have surely been a home run. He leaped up and grabbed it as it went over the fence. Very impressive and he was, of course, delighted. And then later in the game, he did it again!! Now this is a 1-0 game. And the 1 was not ours. We needed those fucking home runs. But, 2 catches like that in a game, ya gotta respect. As we got to the end of the game, our shortstop him a ball out of the park - this time over a low fence with spectators sitting there, but this same outfielder ran and reached and went completely over the wall into the lap of one of those spectators and disappeared from view... and then, rose up... with the ball and a grin that had zero stoppage.

I hate that we lost the game - especially that way - but ya just gotta love that one human, and one who has not had a lot of success, has a night like that. I hope he celebrated so hard that he cannot fucking walk today.

And speaking of walking, I would like to note that my foot - the one that needed two more steroid shots recently - is now enjoying a bout of painlessness. It's such a joy to put on shoes and not have shooting pain. It took longer for the shots to work their magic this time but magic it is. woot!

Time to watch my Sunday Morning TV. Game this afternoon. More hens to make.

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Londonderry Mall was our "mall of choice" mostly because Mom worked in one of the department stores! It boasted a Woolco, Eaton's, and The Bay.

Mall commercials always tend to have low production values, so this one was rather intriguing--and possibly the eightiest 80s commercial that every eighted :-D

I tried to find a version on YouTube, but a Facebook embed will have to suffice.

Dreamwidth doesn't like the Facebook embed code, so there is the link instead: https://www.facebook.com/oldcanada/videos/a-londonderry-mall-commercial-in-the-1980s/2116760189178934/

rejectomorph

No idea what I'm doing today. It feels like I've gone into hyper mode with my sleep schedule. For the last couple of days I haven't been able to get back to sleep when I've woken up after only four hours of sleep. I might be heading for a four-eight-four pattern. I hate those. Getting sleepy after being awake only eight hours is annoying as hell. It always seems to come on at a most inconvenient time. Like right now. I wanted to do some tidying, but can't keep my eyes open. This place is a sty. I'm fit to be stied. Oh, there goes the brain. Crap. I'd better let it go.

susandennis

People around here are really into Easter. About half are religiously into it and the other half are Easter dinner into it. I am so not into it. I like the spring pastel colors but that's as close as I get.

We had to cut volleyball short today - only by 30 minutes - because Wally had to go to his great grandson's baseball game. I took a poll this morning at Elbow coffee. "How many of you every met one of your great grand parents? Joan's last great died when she was 3. Same with Bonny. I had one that lasted until I was 6. And that was it. But, more than half have great grandchildren. And some are teenagers. Wally's oldest great grandson is 15. I just think that is all fascinating. And a bitch at Christmas.

Last night I was borrowing into my comforter when my finger slid into a hole! What?? It's a dark cotton fabric in a very busy pattern so I had not seen a hole and turns out there are several. I'm thinking cat claws. The good news is they are easy to mend and you can't even see the fixes. I like the comforter and I cannot find one that I like better so I need it to last.

Another Google fail - if I search for 100% cotton comforters twin size brightly colored print - I get a vast range of microfiber quilts for queen size beds in ugly muted colors. It's pretty hilarious. Also many many stores label their goods cotton but when you click on contents, it's like 4% cotton. So I patch.

Elbow coffee was good and volleyball was good and now I have nothing on my calendar until 6:30 when the baseball game starts.

susandennis

The other day, I was looking for some granny square chicken ideas. I googled and then clicked on images and fairly quickly found a viable candidate but, on the way, I also spied a very cool looking fish. Made with a granny square base with nose and tail added and then outlined in black. I thought it was an Etsy image but I could have been wrong about that. It was not a professional image. I noted my search terms and figured I'd go back and find it later. Only now, after two days of searching, I cannot find that sucker anywhere! I have googled the universe looking and nope. Nada. Nothing even close. I no longer care about the fucking fish but I am major bummed about my personal fail.

I just tried again and Google suggested I try Gemini. Fair suggestion. And an even bigger fail. Now I need to see if I can stop looking. It's obsessive.

I had the entire pool to myself this morning, not even the sun joined me. It was lovely.

Before I left, I loaded the laundry in and got it started. It's now got about 40 minutes til done.

I made Bonny a welcome home sign.

And that's about it so far today. No big plans - no little plans for that matter. But, probably I should get dressed anyway.

rejectomorph

The furnace came on early Thursday morning. I had just awakened but was preparing to go back to sleep, and I heard the hum of the fan and the slight rumble of the burner engaging. The first rush of air was cold, of course, having been sitting in the ducts, and I pulled to covers over my head, but I didn't find out how long it took the room to warm up at that time, as I went back to sleep almost immediately, and when I finally got up it was late morning and warm. I haven't heard the furnace run again, but it probably will again in an hour or two. Maybe I'll just sleep through it this time.

Oh, I finally got around to fixing the strawberries I got from Safeway last Friday. Half of them, anyway. I didn't get them quite sweet enough, but the whipped cream turned out very well. I'm waiting to see if I get any bad reactions to the rich dessert (there was angel food cake to pile it all on as well.) And something I forgot to mention about the rain Wednesday. I'd expected my allergies to clear up temporarily, but for some reason I sneezed even more, and my nose has been running fiercely. It's a good thing I'm well stocked with tissues, though at the rate I've been using them I won't be for long. Why the rain didn't wash the pollen from the air I don't know. Maybe there just wasn't enough. It was a disappointing rain, though better than nothing.

There was an earthquake in the bay area Thursday morning, but we didn't feel it here in the mini-metropolis. We rarely do. Not that I'm complaining. Some dullness is good. Especially seismic dullness. Among the many things I'm now too old for, earthquakes are near the top of the list.

I do believe sleep is about to hit. As Molly McGee used to say, goodnight all. (Geez, how long has it been since I thought of that? I am way old.)

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