And then I found the cucumber

[susandennis]

I nearly killed my back yesterday and added insult to injury last night. This morning I got up and did a swim which helped. But, frankly, my back does not like the old age or the extra pounds. I don't like my back.

Bitch moan bitch moan.

I wrote the above about an hour ago. Biggie would not let me finish. So I got dressed and started doing stuff. I emptied trash and the litter bin and then, with the help of my brother, finally fixed the magnetic door stopper thingie in the bedroom and put everything away and cleaned everything up and now the ibuprofen has kicked in and all is better.

Oh and I found the cucumber.

My volleyball friend, Steve, dropped off a cucumber from his peapatch night before last. I was on my way out and was afraid that youknowho and youknowho would use it for a hockeypuck, I put it somewhere safe. And then, realized, hours later that I had never peeled and cut it up for my pickle jars. And then I couldn't find it. I looked under, along the baseboards, all over. They had hidden the damn thing somewhere. I was afraid my nose would find it.

But, Hooray! This morning I found it, exactly where I had put it. Behind the cookie jar. I peeled it and sliced it and it is pickling as I speak.

Streaming services need to get their shit together. 1. don't make 'my list' or 'my favorites' or 'up next' so fucking hard to get to. ONE click - that's all it should take. 2. give me an easy way to tell what I haven't watched yet. IN ORDER. Hulu does this best. Those series with unwatched episodes are at the top of my 'my stuff' and have little 'new' flags. However, it takes 5 clicks to get to my stuff AND it is very difficult and finicky to tell Hulu where you are in the series and make this work. BUT none of the other services I use even come close to offering things up this way. Netflix can't even remember which episode I watched last. Grrrrrrrr

OTH I am making friends with YouTube. It throws me up the latest jeopardy episode every day and some nice reruns on weekends. And National news at the end of the day. I've been able to nudge my algorithm to provide me with the right music, the right home shows, the right shopping and hacking and tech reviews. So I can now YouTube on the TV easily and enjoyably. yeah.

I think I'll go get a puzzle started while everyone is at church and CBS Sunday morning hasn't loaded onto Paramaout + yet.

Shelf - There's already another gone since I took this last night. But there's a pink bear on the needles now.

Comments

[meowmensteen]

Youtube keeps nudging me to watch stuff I intellectually know I don't want to watch, but secretly do want to watch. It's like the TV version of junk food. I want to watch educational documentaries, but instead it feeds me true crime stories. I know better than to watch those because they make me all depressed and feeling dim about humanity, but Youtube keeps dangling them there for me to click on.

[ringsandcoffee]

I wonder what's with your Netflix. I go for months, if not over a year, between watching Call the Midwife and Great British Bake Off, and it always starts the next episode. Not sure about other shows as it's never long gaps like that.

[yshaloo]

I have always heard that cats are oddly afraid of cucumbers. They seem to think it's a snake and run away from it. My theory is that since they smell like copperheads cats instinctually fear them. Supposedly, if you're in the woods and suddenly smell cucumber there's a copperhead nearby.

Me, I stay out of the woods, so I have to take other people's word on that one.