Category Archives: rambling

dark shadows yule

TOTALLY our thing. PlutoTV app has Dark Shadows 24/7, plus I have some DVD’s.

web browsing

Some sites won’t let you pass if you have an ad blocker on.
Sometimes I can switch on “reader view” and keep going with those important stories like this one about pay phones in Japan. 📞 🇯🇵
Reader view is called simplified view on some browsers.
By the way, the pay phone story wasn’t much. It was content that one can predict before reading it. A few interesting usage stats in there, though.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/11/18/national/disaster-pay-phones

war on christmas holiday nog

I was hoping for Silk (brand) soy nog which is excellent. Target didn’t have any so I got this Good&Gather (store brand) oatmilk holiday nog. It’s not very good. I don’t think it could be helped with rum or Southern Comfort.

holiday trees

Satanic-holiday-tree-war-on-Christmas-why-do-you-hate-America lot being installed at Target.

well done please

Funny how I like things.

A restaurant kitchen sent out my order one time and had the server ask if I thought it was overcooked. “They couldn’t decide whether to remake it or not. We can quickly get you another one, no problem.”

I said, “looks perfect! Yumm.”

Some dishes I don’t mind hard cooked even to the point of being burned.

In a cafeteria serving line, for example, I’ll sometimes ask for the charred corner of some dish.

so many gone

While I have time off from work to recuperate from something, names from the past keep popping into my head.

I’m running lots of searches. One after the other: dead, dead, dead, whole family dead.

I’m not THAT old.

shameless lies

Such horrible lies.

Some goof Tweeted: “$6.53 for a coffee at Starbucks. I’m done with that shit.”

I pulled up the ‘Bux online and priced a 16 oz coffee in what his profile says is his area. $2.75, $3.00 including tax.

I can get a 20 oz Caramel Brulée Latte to price almost that high but not quite.

Only 20 Tweets down does he admit that it was “some kind of latte.”

Coulda been airport, but I get things all the time in airports and coffee doesn’t top $5, usually less.

If you’re going to cook a narrative, stick with it. I always do. 😀

christmas music

Mariah Carey should be featured more prominently.

telephone

Just a moment ago I was thinking about how long it has been since somebody opened the door of the house and yelled to somebody else in the yard, “TELEPHONE!” 🗣️📣📞

passwords

I groan when I have to create yet another username/password account for some diddlysquat thing. Yep, love keeping track of it all.

Most password managers and web browsers will now generate and save one for you. If not, this works well:

https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm

You can mix/match/modify things from the three boxes partway down. I also date every creation and reset to know when things are getting old. Keep a safe backup somewhere in case of device failure.

Some people also like complex, yet memorize-able, pass phrases. There are many methods.