Misc

[susandennis]

LJ stuff

I hate LJ Cut.  Extra clicks are not my idea of fun.  So I set my friends' pages to ignore LJ Cut.  I mention this because melodysk has been, apparently, harboring the delusion that the stuff she tucks behind cuts is safe from my prying eyes.  Ha!  (The tricks for cut stuff can be found here.)

I don't do memes or those tricks, toys or tests that everyone is big on.  No value judgments there, I just elect to not include them in my journal. (And, I don't click on them - see paragraph #1 above.)

I do get peeved when people write obscure entries.  I shouldn't, it's their freakin' journal... but I do.  But people in glass houses.  This morning I got a comment from estis nicely and cleverly pointing out that one of my entries might have bordered on the obscure...  Bordered on???  Hell, I couldn't even get all the facts out of it and I knew the story. 

Other stuff

Life without the internet would be soooooo hard.  The latest is pre-threaded needles.  Mom wants to hem some pants.  She can't see to thread the needle.  Her cleaning person told her she should go to Walmart and buy pre-threaded needles.  Mom thought she was just being mean because 1.  There is no such thing and 2.  The sewing stuff at Walmart is way in the back of the store.  Mom can't get back there easily.

Google found me a picture of pre-threaded needles (first search term tried, first item returned).  I slapped that picture into a note and told her they probably had them at Walgreens (which is a much easier store for her to get to and into and around in than Walmart).  She was shocked but now believes there is such a thing. She does not believe Walgreens will have them. 

Note to self:  next time I'm there, thread needles.  Oh, wait, my brother will be there first and his wife would love to do something like that.

The dark side of summer...  I have taken very few pictures this summer because of light - everything has too much to too little.  Outside has too much.  Inside, I live in the dark in the summer.  I turn on a light only when absolutely necessary.  I select my clothes out of the drawers of closets by feel.  At night, the only light in the kitchen comes from the fridge if/when I open the door.  My only window faces east.  Unless we have a cloudy morning, I keep the blinds tightly drawn until the sun is at least overhead.  Around here life has far more light in the fall, winter and spring!

I am reading a book about an assassin who works for the US Government.  I read it for about an hour before I went to sleep last night.  This morning listening to NPR, a couple of times I've wondered why I hadn't heard anything about the latest bombing in Hebron - then I realize that that bombing was in the book and NPR is really not on the hook to report fictional news....

I really would like to get into the air conditioned car and drive to Target or Fred Meyer or somewhere big and bright and cool and full of stuff to buy.  BUT, #1 I don't need anything.  Well, I could probably use another power strip but I'm going to wait until I'm sure I need it before I go buy it.  And #2 I don't need to spend money on shit I don't need.  Really, I don't. 

I think I'll go back to bed - under the ceiling fan - and see how my assassin is getting a long.