Slosh Slosh Slosh

I got to the pool today and turned on my iPod Shuffle - the one I got exactly 45 days ago - and crickets. It's a tiny brick. I assumed I had left it on and the battery ran out. Turns out that was not the case. It won't charge. It won't turn on. It won't do diddly squat. The Amazon return window has slammed shut. So I sent a Give Me My Money Back note to the vendor. No, I do not want your 1 year 1 replacement only warranty. If it's only going to last 45 days, I want my $$ back.

So... I swam sans songs. All I heard was slosh slosh slosh. At least my ears did fine without earplugs. And, actually I did fine. Having the music is way more fun but swimming without is not exactly a tragedy.

I do have a Plan B. It's an old iPod Shuffle. The only button that works on it is the power button but, hey, that's better than the new one! Probably it's time to try something else but I think I'll wait until I hear from the 45 day people.

EDIT: Before I even finished this entry, I got a nice note back from the 45 day people. They offered a replacement that will still have the one replacement year long warranty OR they said they would refund my money if that's what I wanted. I'm cool with their replacement offer and wrote and told him that and thanked him for the very fast, thoughtful response. I am not nearly as pissed now. Nice.

EDIT AGAIN: Again, before I finish the entry - ok, so I'm not very focused today - it's settled. My new friend, Ivan, is sending me a replacement out on Monday. He asks that I send the broken one back and he'll pay for postage. I get a complete new warranty - including money back on failure - with the replacement. I'm not sure what more I could even ask for. Wow. SwimAudio.Com if you are in the market for great customer service.

There's a very cute, very young girl who swims most Saturdays. The first time we shared a lane she said "My, you swim so straight!! Hi, my name is Jackie!" Yes, she's one who's every sentence ends in an explanation point. She very cute and a serious swimmer. She usually comes in about midway through my Saturday swim or towards the end. Today she came in when I had 2 laps to go. As I was getting out she said "My goal on Saturdays is now to get up and get to the pool in time to see Susan!!" I have a fan club!

Nothing going on today much. Sewing, of course. And TV watching. I think I'm going to buy a year of Acorn. It seems like everything I want to see is on Acorn. I tried the VPN tunnel to iPlayer. It worked ok for a while and then quit. Acorn's only $50 a year and I can get a month's trial to check it out so I think that's what I'm going to do.

On the other hand... I have HBO and cable TV and share a Netflix account with my brother. I don't have enough time to watch what I already have. Maybe I'll hold off til the holidays when the new stuff dries up.

Ok, now I need to finish this off and get going with my day!

My tweets

• Sat, 11:14: Oh crap. I died. Allegedly. https://t.co/hUrrtjJVkV

Mmmmm a good burger

A new burger place has just opened not terribly far from here. I originally thought it had promise but just now, I've seen twitter photos from two different people that tell me it is totally worth checking out. Open every day at 11. So. Go today for dinner or go tomorrow for lunch. The only game in the stadium is a big soccer game tomorrow but that's not til 6:30. (Although there is a rather large (a dozen cars and lots of people) tailgate party going on in the parking lot right now. Very curious.)

I kind of have a plan for dinner so I think I'll may do a late brunch tomorrow.

I mailed off my dead iPod and stopped at Grocery Outlet on the way back. I wanted some avocados but all they had were $2.00 ones. I'll happily take a chance on their $.50 but not on the $2 ones. However, I did manage to fill up my bag with other stuff so it was not a wasted trip. That often happens at Grocery Outlet.

I made a couple of dolls and then watched True Genius. Hokey hokey hokey but, I'm not killing it yet. Nice to see that Divya Katdare got a new job after Royal Pains ended and a promotion to real doctor.

The couple who moved in here this week have a toddler son. Why in the world would you move into this building with a child is beyond me. The units aren't big enough, the area has no child things - parks, schools, daycare. There are a couple of kids who live here but in all cases their parents lived here when they were born. Except for one really obnoxious kid who lives down the hall. Her grandmother owns the place and houses her and her mother. I guess housing prices in Seattle have gotten so pricey that a 'cheap' $600,000 condo in a very child unfriendly neighborhood has become suitable.

And, so ends my Get The Fuck Off My Lawn moment of the day.

Time to get back to TV watching... Here are the dolls of today:

My brain forgets but my lungs remember

I have COPD but over the past 3 years it's gotten so that I would mostly only know it if I look at my medical chart until I annoy it. Like today. Emptying the vacuum cleaner.

At least I was home. Alone. With pills and inhaler and even a can of oxygen (which I always thought would be an instant fix and turns out isn't at all).

I have a mask with a filter. Easy enough to put that on BEFORE I do something like this. Only I didn't think of it until way too late. Nothing like a massive coughing fit to remind you that you smoked your lungs to death. Sigh.

It's all over now and the indoor/outdoor carpet on the terrace (where I vacuumed up the dust left by the dead leaves that got blown onto it) looks amazing. And all the dust is now safely in a plastic bag in the plastic bagged garbage. Geesh.