I'm using my mother's computer; not really news, been this way for over half a month, but I bet it's news to you...since I've been absent for over 3 weeks...did you miss me? No? Ok.
My sister's friend came with her to visit me and Mom, and my sis' friend is a computer repair dude, so I asked him what might be wrong with my computer and he observed that it was probably something that related to the graphics card. Buying a replacement part is relatively cheap, but having someone install it is out of my price range. If my uncle Eddie hadn't worked on my mother's computer - which occurred apprx one month ago as of this writing - I would just have to deal with not having a computer to use.
I'm listening to I Heart Radio. Seems to work better with my computer than Pandora. And it's free, without requring me to think of something to listen to.
I've been fluy, with my nose trudging through all kinds of snot, and my insides freezing without any overt provocation. I was taking generic Airborne, but I ran out of that, right around the time I started getting the hang of taking it right away. My mother used her Amazon acct to order a similar product that looks like it would work even better than Airborne/generic Aiborne. I don't remember the name of it ):
Because of this, I have not been able to donate blood. If not for the flue(?), I could have my third donation coming up since the last time I actually did donate blood. Instead, a follow up to the last blood donation has yet to materialize. I have one scheduled for the 5th. I'll probably need to reschedule it. For the 5th? time...
My outpatient therapist (she's called a CRPC worker, but if I referred to her as that, I'd confuse 9/10th of the human population) is scheduled to arrive on Friday the 5th at 1pm. That same day at 10:30 or thereabouts, I am scheduled to donate blood. And I haven't used the Southeast-Missouri Alliance for Disability and Independence (known as SADI) shuttle service at all since I applied for the option to use it when needed. If I don't use it before June, they'll assume I don't need it and cross me off their list of shuttle riders. So I scheduled a shuttle ride for Friday April 5th, since it's half off the normal $6 to and fro fee on Fridays provided you have shopping to do. They're supposed to whisk me from my residence at 8am and whisk me back home around 9am.
The funny thing is I probably won't do any of these things. Ashley (CRPC) probably won't be able to make it, I'll probably reschedule my blood donation just in case I'm still sick, and since I only have $8.92 after I pay my mother back for the purchase of the Airborne competitor + a few other things I owe her $ for, I probably would be better off postponing the usage of the shuttle service. After all, what kind of shopping can I do with $8.92? With $11.92, I could do a little more, but that's if I were to spend money at Hastings, Cape Girardeau's ENTERTAINMENT SUPERSTORE!, which is within walking distance from where i live, and why neglect my heart and pay money to do so? Beyond Hastings, there's nowhere I can think of where I can spend $8.92 (or less) aside from restaurants, which is not where a person goes to "shop". And a decent restaurant usually costs at least $8.92. Even a decent size fast food meal would cost that much or pretty close (I sound old, don't I?)
And the great news of today is...(drum roll)...TOMORROW! Yep. Tomorrow: I will have the aformentioend $8.92. Why is that good news? Helk if i know.
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Friday, March 8, 2013
I HEREBY CHARGE YOU...
...with unlawful misuse of a brain. You are a danger to yourself and, most importantly, human beings around you who have not let their brains turn to ant feces. You shall be confined to a room where you will not be able to misuse a handgun, medication, or otherwise cast grim shadows on the faces of perfectly useful items.
Probably not the way the law would write it. But it ain't hapn'n, so whatever. I saw a photo on some news story ad that where someone was holding a protest sign that said "Disarming me will not protect me" and I was just like "DUH!", but there are people that would beg to differ, citing individuals that don't know how to use a gun. If you don't know what you're doing, you should at least know what you're dealing with. Everybody knows guns are dangerous. Yes, the criminals and legalized madman (kings, dictators, etc.) are the reason they exist in the first place; you can't change the past. They exist, and the criminals aren't going to quit using them just because they're illegal. Problematic drugs have been illegal for like half a century at least (well before I was born), and they're still being sold. If guns were flat out outlawed, it'd probably be the same deal with them.
And the fact that people take antibiotics for 3 or 4 days when the Dr. says TEN is a social injustice. If the doc says to do something, either do it or don't. Doing it halfway is a biological disaster waiting to happen. You don't just screw up your own immune system, but you ruin the drugs' performance capacity for EVERYONE! What will scientists do when all the medicines we have available cease to work b/c people don't listen to their dr? Why the heck would anyone think they know something their doctor doesn't? Anyone care to answer? "Oh, well I Feel better so what does it matter?" Is that a rhetorical question or did you think to ask your doctor before you assumed there was no logical answer to that question? You know that IS a question, correct? And yes, these are rhetorical questions b/c I already (think I) know the answer, but I could be wrong, so feel free to answer if you have the time and inclination.
Probably not the way the law would write it. But it ain't hapn'n, so whatever. I saw a photo on some news story ad that where someone was holding a protest sign that said "Disarming me will not protect me" and I was just like "DUH!", but there are people that would beg to differ, citing individuals that don't know how to use a gun. If you don't know what you're doing, you should at least know what you're dealing with. Everybody knows guns are dangerous. Yes, the criminals and legalized madman (kings, dictators, etc.) are the reason they exist in the first place; you can't change the past. They exist, and the criminals aren't going to quit using them just because they're illegal. Problematic drugs have been illegal for like half a century at least (well before I was born), and they're still being sold. If guns were flat out outlawed, it'd probably be the same deal with them.
And the fact that people take antibiotics for 3 or 4 days when the Dr. says TEN is a social injustice. If the doc says to do something, either do it or don't. Doing it halfway is a biological disaster waiting to happen. You don't just screw up your own immune system, but you ruin the drugs' performance capacity for EVERYONE! What will scientists do when all the medicines we have available cease to work b/c people don't listen to their dr? Why the heck would anyone think they know something their doctor doesn't? Anyone care to answer? "Oh, well I Feel better so what does it matter?" Is that a rhetorical question or did you think to ask your doctor before you assumed there was no logical answer to that question? You know that IS a question, correct? And yes, these are rhetorical questions b/c I already (think I) know the answer, but I could be wrong, so feel free to answer if you have the time and inclination.
Monday, March 4, 2013
browser wowser
For the past few or so months I Have had to pay $4.99 a month to hear music albums w/ a little bit of radio functionality courtesy of Rdio. Which was fine for a couple or so months, except albums are not normally the kind of thing someone such as myself would seek out w/o having any real reason to. Until I got accustomed to having and using the internet, album listens were typically something I would experience after being propelled to buy the album via hearing one or two songs from it on the radio. So, unless the album is something I'm already at least somewhat familiar with, i.e.: one of the dozens of worthwhile albums I used to own but sold b/c I "needed" the $ or an album by a band who had made one of those albums, then it's not something I will seek out. Amazon has recommendations for albums, but most of them suck. Rdio has recommendations too, very seldom updated, and most of them suck too. So, many times I end up with absolutely nothing to listen to, except some artist mix, which is usually a ton of b.s., b/c there's no "artist" who consistently makes worthwhile music.
But things got REAL hairy on Mar 1, when, after a few days of account expiration, I re-newed my Rdio subscription and it couldn't even playback music that I had paid $4.99 to hear.
So, out of desperation, I uninstalled Google Chrome, "The fastest browser"...and since I can't get IE off my computer, I tried that, and if it weren't for its constant freezing, I would have been fine w/ it. But it couldn't go more than half an hour w/o freezing up for several minutes.
So I am now using Opera. Wow. I can now listen to Pandora!!!! I always loved Pandora. I couldn't listen to it b/c Chrome would not work w/ it, at least not on a steady basis; the songs would chip and chop, and then sometimes they would skip after having only plaid only a few seconds if that, and of course if the stuttering and sputtering had kept up, I'd be stuck on some song, which i may or may not like, and if i did like it, that's not necessarily to say I'd be interested in hearing it at that moment.
So yeah. I had Opera on my computer a while back, a couple years ago? idk, but it wasn't real compatable with a lot of web sites. Aside from Google websites like the one I'm at now, gmail, and etc., most of where I go has no problem with Opera or v/v.
Awesome-ness, at last!
On the downside, I found a TV a week or so ago that seemed like it could run off of battery(s), but it needs a car battery, which means I have to own a car to watch TV, and if I don't, I need electricity. If I don't have electricity, I'm sure as heck not going to own a car, which means, as far as I can tell, TV (movies) will be a no-go once the economy falls out from the federal gov't's deficit.
But things got REAL hairy on Mar 1, when, after a few days of account expiration, I re-newed my Rdio subscription and it couldn't even playback music that I had paid $4.99 to hear.
So, out of desperation, I uninstalled Google Chrome, "The fastest browser"...and since I can't get IE off my computer, I tried that, and if it weren't for its constant freezing, I would have been fine w/ it. But it couldn't go more than half an hour w/o freezing up for several minutes.
So I am now using Opera. Wow. I can now listen to Pandora!!!! I always loved Pandora. I couldn't listen to it b/c Chrome would not work w/ it, at least not on a steady basis; the songs would chip and chop, and then sometimes they would skip after having only plaid only a few seconds if that, and of course if the stuttering and sputtering had kept up, I'd be stuck on some song, which i may or may not like, and if i did like it, that's not necessarily to say I'd be interested in hearing it at that moment.
So yeah. I had Opera on my computer a while back, a couple years ago? idk, but it wasn't real compatable with a lot of web sites. Aside from Google websites like the one I'm at now, gmail, and etc., most of where I go has no problem with Opera or v/v.
Awesome-ness, at last!
On the downside, I found a TV a week or so ago that seemed like it could run off of battery(s), but it needs a car battery, which means I have to own a car to watch TV, and if I don't, I need electricity. If I don't have electricity, I'm sure as heck not going to own a car, which means, as far as I can tell, TV (movies) will be a no-go once the economy falls out from the federal gov't's deficit.
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