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)