Saturday

[susandennis]

After all that hype, of course, the Mariners lost last night. It was close but no cigar. The postseason thread they were hanging by is now microscopic. Oh well. Yesterday was fun anyway.

Two of my gotos on the computer have changed their rules this week and it's making me a little nuts. I use TweetDeck which is a browser app owned by Twitter but does enable real time scrolling. And also filtering. I can keep one column of all the tweets, one column of ones I want to watch, one column of replies to/mentions of me, etc. But now, for some columns it's mashing them up in a stupid way.

I follow Instagram on the web only. Until this week, it gave me a solid chronological feed of all those I follow. Now they have fucked up that feed so that I see a few entries multiple times and never am sure I see all of them at all. They will, I'm sure, follow this joy by soon including ads. I gave up Instagram once and found I missed it too much. Soon, I'm afraid, I'm going to have to give it up again or pair it back to not much at all. oh well.

And speaking of oh well... my newtome chromebook arrived yesterday. Broken speakers. I could hear the sound with earbuds but not with just the speakers. Happily, they make returns very easy and paid for so it's boxed labeled and ready for the post office.

The email that tells me what is in the mail coming to me today says that my IBM check will arrive way earlier than promised. And continual checks on the website say that next month it will be deposited where it's supposed to go. So. Whew.

I have gotten calls, texts and emails - about two a day - from Macy's reminding me that my chair will be delivered on Monday. Me thinks a whole lotta peops must forget their furniture delivery days. Easy to see why something so minor might slip one's mind...NOT! Geesh.

There are feathers strewn about on the terrace. I am consciously not thinking about the incident that precipitated their being there.

Alexa is getting finicky again. I have to ask twice and loudly. So I've turned the Google Assistant on via my phone and my chromebook. Maybe that will fix Alexa's attitude.

Today I'm going to take another stab at cutting out those ginger cookies. I need the fridge real estate they are taking up. And, of course, there will be a trip to the post office. And the game tonight. Maybe a load of laundry. And who knows what all else!

Comments

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

I heard a rumour that your chair will be delivered on Monday, just in case you had forgotten ;0)

[susandennis]

Oh! really? whew. Cause it nearly slipped my mind. Thanks!! hehehehe

[stainsteelrat.livejournal.com]

Weird. Tweetdeck is fine here. I couldn't use Twitter without it.

[susandennis]

it's not 'unfine' here it's just that in a couple of my columns it keeps hiding shit and making me expand.

HA! I just went to grab a screen shot to show you and it's not doing it any more. You fixed it!! Thank you. And I totally agree. Twitter isn't worth the hassle without Tweetdeck

[onelargecat.livejournal.com]

I look at IG only on my phone, and it's been YEARS since it was chronological for me. I hate that they took that away.

[fauxklore]

When playing Code Names last night, I gave the word "elixir" as a clue. Two people discovered that Alexa responded to it.

[susandennis]

ha! maybe i should try that.

[legalmoose]

I find that I periodically have to unplug and replug my Echo devices or Alexa gets really stupid and deaf. That usually seems to fix it, but man, until I remember to unplug her once she goes all stupid she definitely gets an earload of cursing.

[susandennis]

Well, that's a simple enough thing to try. Unplugging/replugging — plugating? all now. thanks!

[rsc.livejournal.com]

The postseason thread they were hanging by is now microscopic.

But by winning last night they remained alive. The four-way tie is still possible. I, of course, hope it doesn't happen.

But I will say that, if by some misfortune the Mariners advance and the Sox do not, I will be rooting for the Mariners throughout.