Author Archives: slackwrdave

gay docs

Brian and I found these Docs on sale for a good price at Zappos. 🦄🌈

getting things directly – news, reading

I still get a lot of news and unfiltered reading by means of RSS (the feeds) and Telegram messenger.

To get RSS feeds on desktop, the Thunderbird e-mail app and Vivaldi browser have a feed reader you can set up, or there are stand-alone apps. On mobile, there are apps, but I find many barely work.

Telegram is available for everything.

They keep me in the reading. Good ways to get things direct.

Direct e-mail subscriptions also good, but I get buried in that.

smalldogclub member jj

JJ, my sofa buddy as I watch Dark Shadows on PlutoTV channel.

chick-fil-a adverts

Chick-fil-A’s advertising on PlutoTV channel is running the diversity spectrum. They do leave the usual one out.

I can at least smile in amusement at the consistency. 😬

They need to bring back that lemon pie with the meringue topping.

dark shadows therapy

An important part of my recovery therapy.

make me do voice call and i’ll hate ya

I like this. In short, whatever method you use to sign up (online, for example), you should be able to unsubscribe just as easily.

I helped two friends get rid of subscriptions to the Greensboro News and Record a couple of years ago. It was Byzantine.

I like that some credit cards have a unique number generator with ability to switch the number off and on. PayPal is also an option. Unauthorized rebills get declined.

café sbux

Treat after physical therapy.

bike ride – first

Five weeks after knee surgery, and look at this. I can ride a bike.

Today was my first street ride. Previously, I only rode the bike on a trainer. My physical therapist coached me yesterday on how to handle it safely getting on and off and street riding. It worked.

This bicycle has made my physical therapy a big success. 🚴

ice cream

Trying to keep ice cream in the freezer. 🍧

You buy a cheap artificially-flavored store brand chocolate or vanilla. It’s gone in a day.

You get a complex premium brand, and it barely gets touched. Aunt Sallie’s Premium Ye Olde Southern Plantation Glory Days Charleston Style 100% organic Butter Pecan. Ain’t NOBODY gonna eat it.

cable company

Spectrum trucks in the neighborhood on a Sunday. Maybe there’s an outage. 😂

Surprising that it works at all the way the cables are loosely festooned all over the place.

So much of their stuff was sheeting off into my yard that I felt put upon. One cable was hanging so low I could have clipped it with a hedge trimmer. Thought about it.