Ooh, shiny....

...When and why did you leave a small plastic squeeze bottle of lemon juice in the bathroom cupboard?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Fondly,
Present-me

Well, I'm now 28 hours post-vaccine, and the worst that's happened is a sore arm. Whew!

For those of you who have yet to go, my mom had some suggestions she'd heard - to the best of your ability, when you go for your vaccine, be:

- well rested
- well fed
- well hydrated

Supposedly, that may help your system cope better. And even if it's just Fake Science, it's not like any of those things will hurt you, so why not? :-)


P.S. Thanks for the good wishes yesterday!

I just updated my OS from Mojave to Big Sur. Aside from a bunch of undefinable "Hey, this doesn't look like it used to" things, it's mostly been pretty smooth.

However (and you knew that was coming, didn't you?), I have over many many years become accustomed to using the "Random Extra" screensaver module. It allows you to choose from a checklist of screensavers installed on your machine, assign relative frequencies, and a couple of other nifty things. Alas, it doesn't work correctly on Big Sur. Some screensavers don't show up on its checklist, and others fail to run when selected by its randomizer, even though Big Sur's screensaver module runs them just fine.

Now, Big Sur's screensaver module does include an option to use a random screensaver, but it chooses from the full list of all of the installed screensavers, and most of them are either uninteresting or actively annoying to me.

My question is: is there any way to limit its selection of screensavers? The interface doesn't seem to allow for deleting or deselecting any of the installed ones. I would love to find a way to have it choose from among my favorites.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

There I was, at home, sitting peacefully at my computer and doing customer support over the phone (as I so often do), when there was a loud crashing/rattling/...swishing...? noise from outside. After I got off the phone, I went to my front door to see if I could tell what it was.

( Here is what I saw... )

I just finished watching the last of my backlogged episodes of Person of Interest! \o/

( A couple of snapshot reactions: )

So I'm all set to watch new eps, yay! And thanks to those of you who supported me in this endeavor. :-)

I work doing customer support and user training (and software testing, and documentation, and...) for a small software company in Utah. Wednesday night/Thursday morning, we released a bunch of new features and enhancements to existing features, and I expected there to be a number of support requests related to the release.

Not a single one. Which is a good thing, I guess, in that people weren't reporting problems, but still. Kind of an anti-climax, I guess?

On the other hand, I have escaped Friday the 13th unscathed, unless something terrible happens in the next 5 hours and 20 minutes. ::tempts fate::

How was your Friday?

- Hair: cut! First impression is that she did a really good job, though I'll be able to tell better once I've washed and dried it. It's maybe a little long on the sides, but I can fix that myself, and she may actually have achieved what I thought was impossible: a hair cut that can air dry and not leave me with the Ducktail of Doom in the back.

- Groceries: purchased! The store had a 2-lb bag of small avocados on sale for $1.35 or so; I went gimme. Plus milk and ketchup and other boring stuff like that.

- Laundry: in the dryer. I just did the crucial stuff today, will need to do another load in the next couple of days. But for now, there are socks and undies - or will be as soon as they are dry. \o/

How did y'all's weekends go?

I've been seeing many of my friends committing themselves to posting once a day for a month. Here I sit, having just passed my 10-year LJ-versary, and only ever having posted 26 times. Ever. I think a post a day would be too much of a shock to my system, but once a week may actually be doable.

So: My plans for the weekend:

- Get my hair cut. It is Dreadfully Shaggy and driving me nuts. I have been procrastinating, since I didn't like my last haircut and want to go somewhere else. Of course, this has a whole other set of associated issues - what if they do a terrible job? eek! plus, omgCHANGE eek! eek! So, wish me luck.

- Go to Target to return the athletic socks I got, mistaking them for plain old ankle socks.

- Go to the mall to get a new battery for my watch. I've been procrastinating on this one, too. I have been able to do this by the good graces of the old-school winding watch my parents gave me for Christmas when I was 12, which after a multi-year span when it would not run, decided to run again. Seriously - I got it out to take it with me to get the battery for my usual watch, figuring it probably just needed cleaning, and it started running when I moved it around. So it has been enabling me in my procrastination! It's all my watch's fault! ::kof:: (I would probably continue using it indefinitely, but the watchband is driving me nuts.)

- The obligatory grocery shopping, whee.

Now, we'll see how many of these I actually convince myself to do....

I've been reading the VVC accessibility conversation in many places on my reading lists over the past several days, watching as the discussion gets more and more heated, to the point where someone is actually threatening a class action ADA lawsuit, and I keep wondering:

How many actual people with disabilities who have attended VVC, or hope to someday, are watching all this and thinking, "Thanks anyway, but PLEASE STOP BEING ON MY SIDE."

God knows I am.

giglet kindly pointed me towards the gardening community, where they apparently get mystery plants all the time. And yay! regality3 swiftly identified it as a Justicia carnea, aka Brazillian Plume, among other names. Apparently, it's a variety of Acanthus.

I only wish I'd been able to get a picture of the whole plant, rather than this one offshoot, but my lame-ass camera flaked out before I could. The wretched thing won't stay powered up for more than a minute before it shuts itself off, complaining of low battery, and I've tried three different sets of batteries in it. Argh!

I'm back! and moved! and, thanks to the good graces of a local friend, re-connected to the Internet! Yay!

It was very disconcerting to be offline for an entire week, and I'm very glad to be back.

So... what have you all been up to? :-)

So, for those of you who don't already know, I'm moving! The apartment complex I'm in is doing renovations on all the units and therefore kicking people out, woe. I've found a new place I really like, but found out yesterday that it won't be ready in time -- I have to be out of here before November 1st and the new place won't be ready till November 10th. (Though I'm hoping they may be able to get it ready a bit sooner than that.)

And on top of that? I don't have any moving crew lined up. My life is woefully short on muscular people who can load moving vans with sofas and waterbeds and such.

Might any of you who are local be able/willing to help out? Do you have friends/brothers/cousins/co-workers who might be willing to help a total stranger move? I promise faithfully to have everything in boxes when they show up, and I shall reward them with donuts and pizza or sandwiches or something. And possibly Evil Death Brownies.

Halp?