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- Sun, 18:02: This is my neighborhood!! Lots o' years ago. Very cool. https://t.co/vpMSRyzRSc http://t.co/azrc8wNYon
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- Sun, 20:26: I was trying to think when my grandmother was born. Google delivered in one click. 1897. I love the internet. https://t.co/4Vy0F4TmrX
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Jul. 20th, 2015
Another week another call to Walgreens
Jul. 20th, 2015 08:18 amWalgreens is the mail order pharmacy that my insurance uses. Once you get a new prescription set up, it works nicely. But getting a new prescription set up can be worse than crawling over cut glass... such is my new Spiriva prescription. I have figured out how to bypass their annoying telephone tree and most of the people who answer the phone are sharp and all of them are very nice. But still. geesh. I'm hoping today's call fixed everything but I won't know for at least a day.
I got an email this morning from Misfit - the company that makes my original fitness band. My name is Evelyn and I'm part of the Special Projects team here at Misfit. I noticed that you've been very active with your Misfit device this past month, so I wanted to personally reach out to you and say thank you! As a token of my appreciation, I would like to send you one of our Fitness Notebooks.
This cracks me up. And delights me. I'm sure there are many who would find it totally creepy and violating. Not me. I think it's very cool. My only issue is that I'd really rather have a colorful band than an old fashioned notebook. I am pretty darned obsessive about my fitness bands and I love being surprise rewarded.
My other band is the one that I'm now using for an alarm. And that's working great. I'm usually awake before it vibrates so it's more like a time reminder. Telling my Echo to play NPR is also working perfectly. Except... One of our NPR station has long had a way too long, annoying advertisement that comes on before NPR so I've always listened to the other one. This week the other one adopted the same annoyance. I think I'll probably go back to the one in Los Angeles. I like their local announcers better anyway. I do love my Echos.
For some reason I kept thinking about my maternal grandmother yesterday. I was sitting crosslegged in my bluejeans at my computer at age 66. My grandmother was one of the world's nicest, funnest, sweetest people in the whole world. She was born in 1897 so she was 66 when I was in high school. She was raised in Dallas, Texas and spent most of her adult life in Oklahoma City. Google showed me photos of Dallas in the 10's, 20's and 30's and Oklahoma City in the 40's. So fascinating to think about. She died at 85. I never saw her in jeans or anything other than a skirt or a dress. I never saw her sitting crosslegged or any way other than both feet on the floor.
The summer Oklahoma City got air conditioning on their buses, I was 6. My parents were off on a kid free vacation and we were staying at grandma and grandpa's house. We had many adventures but the very best on is one of my best memories. She marched me and my sister (age 5) and my brother (age 2) down to the bus stop where we got on on of those air conditioned buses and rode it all over town until we were back to where we started. I remember the bus driver who thought the idea was hilarious. At the end of the route we were the only ones on the bus. And the driver and grandma let us sit in all the seats. It was the most fun you can possibly imagine.
I can hear granda saying about my life "my, my, my, isn't that just amazing?" Cracks me up to think about it.
It's supposed to be way cooler today and so far it is. It feels amazing so far. Air conditioner off and door open. Tomorrow is forecast to be even cooler. So nice.
I can hear all the people in the Seahawks Stadium parking lot. They are lined up in hopes of getting one of the few single tickets available for cheap ($62). There are way more people out there than available tickets.
Nothing that has to be done today. There will be swimming, of course. And baseball (at 4pm). And one last episode of House of Cards. Saving it for Summer was a great idea. I hope I remember how great it was and have enough self control to do it again next year.
Oh crap, some dude is out there now on a microphone leading cheers. It is clearly time for me to go swim.
I got an email this morning from Misfit - the company that makes my original fitness band. My name is Evelyn and I'm part of the Special Projects team here at Misfit. I noticed that you've been very active with your Misfit device this past month, so I wanted to personally reach out to you and say thank you! As a token of my appreciation, I would like to send you one of our Fitness Notebooks.
This cracks me up. And delights me. I'm sure there are many who would find it totally creepy and violating. Not me. I think it's very cool. My only issue is that I'd really rather have a colorful band than an old fashioned notebook. I am pretty darned obsessive about my fitness bands and I love being surprise rewarded.
My other band is the one that I'm now using for an alarm. And that's working great. I'm usually awake before it vibrates so it's more like a time reminder. Telling my Echo to play NPR is also working perfectly. Except... One of our NPR station has long had a way too long, annoying advertisement that comes on before NPR so I've always listened to the other one. This week the other one adopted the same annoyance. I think I'll probably go back to the one in Los Angeles. I like their local announcers better anyway. I do love my Echos.
For some reason I kept thinking about my maternal grandmother yesterday. I was sitting crosslegged in my bluejeans at my computer at age 66. My grandmother was one of the world's nicest, funnest, sweetest people in the whole world. She was born in 1897 so she was 66 when I was in high school. She was raised in Dallas, Texas and spent most of her adult life in Oklahoma City. Google showed me photos of Dallas in the 10's, 20's and 30's and Oklahoma City in the 40's. So fascinating to think about. She died at 85. I never saw her in jeans or anything other than a skirt or a dress. I never saw her sitting crosslegged or any way other than both feet on the floor.
The summer Oklahoma City got air conditioning on their buses, I was 6. My parents were off on a kid free vacation and we were staying at grandma and grandpa's house. We had many adventures but the very best on is one of my best memories. She marched me and my sister (age 5) and my brother (age 2) down to the bus stop where we got on on of those air conditioned buses and rode it all over town until we were back to where we started. I remember the bus driver who thought the idea was hilarious. At the end of the route we were the only ones on the bus. And the driver and grandma let us sit in all the seats. It was the most fun you can possibly imagine.
I can hear granda saying about my life "my, my, my, isn't that just amazing?" Cracks me up to think about it.
It's supposed to be way cooler today and so far it is. It feels amazing so far. Air conditioner off and door open. Tomorrow is forecast to be even cooler. So nice.
I can hear all the people in the Seahawks Stadium parking lot. They are lined up in hopes of getting one of the few single tickets available for cheap ($62). There are way more people out there than available tickets.
Nothing that has to be done today. There will be swimming, of course. And baseball (at 4pm). And one last episode of House of Cards. Saving it for Summer was a great idea. I hope I remember how great it was and have enough self control to do it again next year.
Oh crap, some dude is out there now on a microphone leading cheers. It is clearly time for me to go swim.
Back to school treats
Jul. 20th, 2015 03:46 pmMy office/school supply fedish begins to rear its ugly head this time of year as retail outlets start luring me in with Back to School Specials. Fie on you.
Except you, Staples... I failed to snag a cheap large android tablet at last week's Amazon sale but today I found a 13.3 incher - even better - complete with case and bluetooth keyboard on special at Staples for $109. Snagged me one of those puppies. Only after hitting Buy and completing the deal did I focus on the fact that Staples isn't Amazon. If this sucker's a dud, I think I'm probably hosed. But... nothing ventured...
I kept hearing cool and keep thinking cool and kept forgetting that 15 degrees cooler than 95 degrees is still fucking hot. Door's closed, air conditioner on. Speaking of which... I got my first electric bill since I've been running it pretty much non stop. It is 50% of what it was with the old unit. There'$ a lot to be $aid for energy efficiency!
Walgreens website, as dicey as it is, shows that maybe this morning's call fixed things after all. Half the time the website is down. The other half the time it does not give you the correct info. And they send out emails saying we're processing your order and gives me the order number but there's no way to track the order number on their website. The website has RX numbers but the email does not. HIPPA ain't doing me any favors either.
The rest of the day has been a little of this and a little of that and mostly following the shiny. It's a perk of retirement. I killed an hour this afternoon because I clicked on one link just out of curiosity. I took a shopping bag down to the car and ended up cleaning out and rearranging car stuff.
My hair cutter place is Rudy's Barber Shop. Today, they tweeted:
Want a free haircut? Seeking models for get free cuts and color by licensed stylists interviewing at Rudy's. Email jobs@rudysbarbershop.com
I sent an email:
If you really want to test a candidate with a huge challenge, pick me.
I am old, female and I have really fragile hair that is already short but only in places. It's thin and sparse and right now looks like the nursing home attendant forgot the hair cutter's phone number when it was my turn to get a cut.
I'm cool if you want to test them on color - any color. And I have hats if the candidate fails the test.
Oh and I'm retired so I can come any time you need me.
I crack myself up. I cannot believe they pick me and I hate getting my hair cut so why the hell would I do this? No idea. I really have no idea.
Except you, Staples... I failed to snag a cheap large android tablet at last week's Amazon sale but today I found a 13.3 incher - even better - complete with case and bluetooth keyboard on special at Staples for $109. Snagged me one of those puppies. Only after hitting Buy and completing the deal did I focus on the fact that Staples isn't Amazon. If this sucker's a dud, I think I'm probably hosed. But... nothing ventured...
I kept hearing cool and keep thinking cool and kept forgetting that 15 degrees cooler than 95 degrees is still fucking hot. Door's closed, air conditioner on. Speaking of which... I got my first electric bill since I've been running it pretty much non stop. It is 50% of what it was with the old unit. There'$ a lot to be $aid for energy efficiency!
Walgreens website, as dicey as it is, shows that maybe this morning's call fixed things after all. Half the time the website is down. The other half the time it does not give you the correct info. And they send out emails saying we're processing your order and gives me the order number but there's no way to track the order number on their website. The website has RX numbers but the email does not. HIPPA ain't doing me any favors either.
The rest of the day has been a little of this and a little of that and mostly following the shiny. It's a perk of retirement. I killed an hour this afternoon because I clicked on one link just out of curiosity. I took a shopping bag down to the car and ended up cleaning out and rearranging car stuff.
My hair cutter place is Rudy's Barber Shop. Today, they tweeted:
Want a free haircut? Seeking models for get free cuts and color by licensed stylists interviewing at Rudy's. Email jobs@rudysbarbershop.com
I sent an email:
If you really want to test a candidate with a huge challenge, pick me.
I am old, female and I have really fragile hair that is already short but only in places. It's thin and sparse and right now looks like the nursing home attendant forgot the hair cutter's phone number when it was my turn to get a cut.
I'm cool if you want to test them on color - any color. And I have hats if the candidate fails the test.
Oh and I'm retired so I can come any time you need me.
I crack myself up. I cannot believe they pick me and I hate getting my hair cut so why the hell would I do this? No idea. I really have no idea.