ReSwum

Honestly, I was really surprised that the gym opened this morning. But, it sure did! And it smelled nice, too. Frank, at the front desk, was back. "I was getting a little stir crazy so I'm glad to be back." But my two favorite wait-at-the-front-door regulars were not. Maybe they didn't believe either.

The first 5 laps were weird city. I felt like a 4 year old in floaties. But by the time I hit halfway it felt fine and dandy and lovely. I was slow but I didn't care. I finished up my usual 1,400 yards and it felt good.

I thought I was going to have a hard time waking up when the alarm went off. But, I had The Smalls who started waking me up about 4. He's like a toddler. He wants to bite my nose. So I pick him up and move him away from my face. He goes back to my nose, I move him... over and over and over again. Just now he wants on the keyboard. I pick him up and move him. He goes back. I pick him up and move him. He goes back. I know he will mature out of this and I should enjoy his toddler years but yikes.

The top basket of the tree continues to be prime real estate. The new, lower, basket so far serves only as a place to stand to aggravate whoever is in the top basket. It will be interesting to see how it all shakes out.

I feel like both bowls need padding. Some kind of basket mattress. I can't decide if 1. it really does need it or looks a better without (I'm sure the cats don't care) 2. if whatever it is should be knit or crochet or 3.sewn out of something like fleece.

I cut out a square of fleece last night and just draped it onto the floor of the top basket. The next thing I knew, The Smalls had it in his mouth and was dragging it around the living room.

Right now The Smalls has ADD. Top of the bowl... eating in the kitchen... licking is brother... chasing his brother... top of the bowl... licking his brother... wrestling with is brother...

Then another 3 minutes start. Geesh. He's busy.

I need to take all the packing materials down to the dumpster. And walk at least 15 minutes on the treadmill. The baseball game is at 5. And in between is fielder's choice.

Interesting day

Swimming just simply colors my day. I don't know quite how to explain it but it just makes everything better all day. So weird. Cool and good to know but so weird. And absolutely worth the pain of getting up at 4:30 am.

This morning I killed hours looking for a tool to track my TV watching and then after finding one that kind of does what I want, filling it in. The problem that needs the solution is... I have three services I use the most that I need a consolidated database for. Prime, Netflix and Acorn. Tivo handles the tracking of everything else. I need something that I can use to track what I've seen - saw 2 episodes of xxx and didn't like it, track what I want to see - yyy on Netflix, make recommendations on both of those and give me search - find what what other shows zzz in this show is in and where it's streaming.

Acorn turns out to be an issue. The heavy hitter movie/tv apps kind of ignore it. But, also Netflix is a problem because, apparently, they turned off their api so no one gets updated data. Tract.TV does about 60% of what I want which is twice as much as the rest I found. I spent a long time entering stuff into the engine and then finally decided it wasn't worth the effort. I may still use it a little but the search continues.

I did walk 15 minutes on the treadmill and while 'enjoyed' it is a little strong, I didn't hate it.

Then this afternoon, I fell down the rabbit hole of yet another techy project.

When I did a mini redesign of this condo in about 2013, I was still working - out of my living room. I used a laptop mostly but had a 3 screen desktop that I used for heavy lifting. They were on a giant desk in the living room but I didn't need that big desk so I had the designer build a long narrow one and hang the monitors on the wall.

Then I retired. And the desktop became a laptop. And I really only use my chromebook anyway. The whole set up is kind of vestigial now. But, I don't really need the wall and the desk is kind of a handy work space that doesn't really take up any room so I leave it. I used to have my brother's web cams up on the screens but now I keep an eye on them from a web page I built.

So today.. I assigned the weather to one, the time to another and a pretty picture to the third.



The one on the left is the screen for a Chromebit which is a little chromebook on a stick. The weather is just a web page I built using a Dark sky embed. Works great and I can see it across the room. It updates automagically.

http://susandennis.com/weather

Fresh from that success, I found a chrome extension that makes a flip clock. It failed a couple of times the first hour so I dug out a script builder and created another web page just in case. http://susandennis.com/clock Have had to use it yet. The photos are Bing photos of the day. I'll probably change that.

The cats who were crazed this morning have spent the day asleep so they can be crazed when I turn out the lights tonight.



The Mariners have an early huge lead against Houston. Houston has enjoyed a seat on or near the top of the mountain status in baseball forever it seems like. I'm sure they will win tonight but we sure humiliated them in the first inning. The asshole is announcing on TV so I'll be hitting mute soon.

And, my brother just sent a screen shot from TV of the hurricane at my parents house! It's there on the left. yeah, not a clear shot and they sold it in 1999 but still... That's where they were for Hurricane Hugo which really created havoc.