Try to do the right thing

Wing came home with a nasty cold a week ago this past Friday. Over the past week, Alan and I have managed to avoid catching it. Unfortunately, Alan has caught it, and now he's keeping distance, staying in his room, wearing mask, using hand cleaner.

I am also wearing mask again, using hand sanitizer, etc etc.

With how nasty this cold virus is (yes, cold. Tested negative for Covid, RSV or Flu), I called the cleaning service this morning before 11, because Alan woke up coughing, and just sick. BUT, because I didn't call 24 hours ahead of time, only 22, they were going to charge anyhow if I cancelled. Fine, she can come here, we will be wearing masks, have hand sanitizer around.

We don't have the time or equipment to sanitize a house. I hope cleaner doesn't catch it, or blame us if she does.

I probably pissed off his mother, but I don't care

I really don't. There is a time and a place for everything. That being typed, if your 10yr old son is bouncing a basketball up and down the aisles in a grocery store, not under control of the ball at all, coming close to tripping people, and you say nothing, I will.

Hubby and I were shopping at Coles. This boy had his basket ball in the cart his mother was pushing, but decided to take it out, and started running up and down the aisles, bouncing it (can't say dribbling, as he had no control and kept chasing it)

This boy ran into me (I'm still using a cane to get around), after almost tripping other two people, I told him "This isn't the time, nor the place." 

He replied "What did you say?"

"This isn't the time, nor the place for that. (pointing to his ball). He picked it up and ran to his mother to complain. A woman that worked at Coles thanked me.  I told her I was probably going to get my ass chewed out by his mother, but it would be worth it. 

Oddly enough, nothing.

I keep up the mantra

Because it's good for me, because it's good for me.

Tough session at exercise therapy today. Treadmill pushed to not quite running, but walking at one helluva clip. 
Because it's good for me.

Then, it's was off to the weights.  I really don't like lapping the gym while holding onto two 4kg weights. I busted my ass losing a lot of weight, so lugging 8kgs of weight at the end of my arms isn't a whole helluva lot of fun.
Because it's good for me.

Then push-up, followed by lifting weights straight up over my head.
Because it's good for me.

Gawd, I wish I had a spa tub.

The Great Camera Clean Up!

Eh, not great.  Been wiping down and dusting 4 cameras. Two pocket sized point and shoots, and one slightly larger one, and a micro 4/3s, and one mirrorless full frame.

One of the little ones is an Olympus SH-1. Easy to clean, but a pain to charge the battery. Have to have it plugged into a USB port. Very slow to charge.

The other small one is a Canon S95. Comes with a battery charger, and charged them up very quickly. 

The slightly larger one is an Olympus Stylus 1. Cleaned up ok, but the zooming knob would stick. A very careful application of liquid silicone on it, and it works as if brand new.

Next one, Olympus E-M1mII.  Just needed dusting and a battery swap out.

Last but definitely not least, Canon R5. Didn’t need much, but I did give it a good going over with dust brush, and microfiber cloth, and checked battery status. All good.

It's never simple with software, is it?

I have switched from Chrome browser to Brave. I ditched Chrome because of their habit of disabling addons that were no long on their webstore, or didn't have adware it.  Brave installed, and install all those addons, even the ones they no longer have because the violate their policies (aka no adware, no paid for content etc).

Then came the fun part; having to figure out which one was screwing up page layouts.  Turns out it was Google's 'new' addon replacement for the one they took down.  Disabled the new and improved, installed the 'old and lousy' , and everything's working perfectly.

And internet history repeats..

Yeah, they said they sent out emails, and posted it on their own blog, but I got it, and I looked through all my email accounts, including spam folders.

With no warning, TypePad closed up. I found out by trying to post to it, as usual, and got some error message. I clicked on link to my blog page, and got this huge CLOSED graphic, with lame-assed excuses as to why we could no longer even archive the weblogs.  If this sounds familiar, it's because this was exactly what 6Apart did to Vox blog back in 2010.

So yeah, I am pissed off.

Love me some nostalgia

Starting back in the 1990s, there was a comic strip, titled "User Friendly". I would visit it every day, and submit "Links of the Day".  A couple of times, that site would get overloaded. Good times.

A while back, I decided to check it, to see if there was anything new. True, I hadn't visited the site for a long time, but I was surprised to find out it was gone. Defunct. 

But all was not lost. Someone, before UF vanished, archived every comic strip.

Never underestimate the joy of nostalgia. (clicks to another strip)

The weekly grind

And if only it meant what coffee we chose, instead of this shit-show that is currently my life. Wing has decided to push up our photo jaunt from next year, to next month. So, instead of having 6 months to get myself physically ready, got about six weeks

Two exercise therapy sessions a week, one physio session every two weeks. I keep working with the weights, including walking with them, at home. What this means is I'm in an almost constant state of ouch. Hence the use of the term 'shit-show'. I'm hoping that all this effort will pay off in the short and long run.

Massively annoying

With Chromes latest update, too damned many of my extremely useful extensions were disabled for the 'crime' of not being filled with adware or trackers. And none of the 'replacements' on Chrome Web Store even close to being as useful. I have had enough of it.

After a few hours of self-tech support, I have installed BRAVE browser, exported all my Chrome extensions into their own directory. Then proceeded to install each and every one of them into Brave. There are some slight differences, but if you're tired of the BS that is part of using Chrome, Brave is a very good alternative.

I still don't know whether to be embarrassed or happy

The elder care person I've been assigned. She is such a sweet lady.  Seems without lose of energy, to vacuum, then mops, and then select an area I haven't been able to tackle.  Sometimes, she exhausts me with her energy. 

Don't get me wrong. Prior to her coming here, you didn't want to wipe your feet after you left, but it needs a good cleaning. Alan and Wing tidy, but they don't clean things. And by the time I manage to get one area cleared/cleaned, I feel as if I have been stretched on rack.

So, she's cleaning my house. I dusted off cobwebs from three room, including the walls and ceilings, the doorway, too.

I'm happy I have the help, but embarrassed I need it.

Physio and Exercise therapists might be on vaycay

But I'm not. For the past two weeks, I have been keeping up with the scheduled exercises at him, as much as I can. I don't have the reformer, or pulley set up, but I do have free weights. 3 sets of 10, every other day.  Not just Monday, Wednesday and Friday. But also Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. 

I might take the up coming weekend off as I had one helluva painful shoulder blade lock up post exercise shower. It hurt to breathe! I managed to loosen things up (and breathe), and get myself sort of ready for the day.

Ah, the humor of marriage

Hon, you have your underwear on inside out.

He does the appropriate removal, turns them right side out. Then proceeds to put them on backwards.

Marriage can be fun, and funny.

My first for the year

Today, after my exercise therapy session, which was rather intense, I had a light lunch.  After that, I felt myself drowsing off, no matter how much I wanted to stay awake.

I managed to get to the bedroom, changed into jammies, crawled into bed and the next thing I knew, it was 5pm. I woke up in the exact same position I had laid down in. I hadn't moved an inch.

I haven't been that wiped out in a long time.