Now I feel better; this has to be it.
Good news, everybody! [/Professor Farnsworth] A hawk actually took none of my chickens. I guess what my husband saw was a hawk attempting to grab a chicken, accompanied by a lot of noise and feathers flying. (They’re so dramatic). However, I counted heads at lights out, and all heads were present and accounted for.
And attached to a body?
As much as they usually are. 
I’m going through chemo right now and my housemates are getting divorced. Not because of me, because the wife revealed herself as a triflin’ so-and-so and her husband (one of my best friends) isn’t having it. As he shouldn’t. It’s better this way for many reasons, one of which is because Triflin’ is a selfish bitch and she would hate the fact that I, as someone with a legitimate medical issue, would be getting more attention than her since Friend has been the one driving me to my appointments and keeping an eye on me to make sure I’m all right. You know, the kind of things friends do for each other in hard times.
My actual rant is that Webex on my work computer has been crashing since it installed an update last week. I called IT today and got Goofus on the first call. Lost him when he rebooted my computer, so I called back and got Gallant. She poked around for about thirty minutes before acknowledging defeat and kicked it up to the next level. Now I don’t have any Webex on my computer at all. I’ve installed it on my phone for the time being, but I suck at typing on my phone. This is going to be a fun day. At least my other best friend is coming back from Canada tonight to stay here in NC permanently. 
Me too. I am amazed that most people can type so quickly using both thumbs. I type very slowly and can only use the index finger of my right hand. I am unable to copy or paste on my iPhone.
very mini rant. i am about to go on a trip and I like to have cash on hand just in case there is an issue with my debit card. This has happened twice to me, probably becasue there are merchants from all over the world, maybe. That is what happened last year. I had cash enough to get home and straightened out the issue on Monday. I use a crestit unionand have for many years, they however work less hours than I do and are not near where i work so hard to get to when open.
So I realised my cash supply was a bit lower than I wanted so I stopped Sunday at my credit union but the ATM didnt have an option for making a withdrawal,just depists and transfers. Weird. So I went monday after work to another ATM and it was out of service. I went on Tuesday to yet another Credit Union and their ATM worked but said I could only get $5. $10, $20 and $100. I wanted more than that so i thought well I would try and if nothing else spend my whole lunch break going to the bank on Wednesday. However, it gave me my money without a problem. So one more thing crossed off my list of things to do.
Two mini-rants (or one rant and an expression of confusion).
Rant: Recently the door on my mailbox decided to disconnect itself from the box. It’s attached with two rivets which act as hinges, but the rivets have pulled out of the holes in the box itself. They’re still firmly attached to the door, but they no longer serve their intended purpose. I can get the door to stay in place, but when you try to open the door it pops loose. The obvious solution would be to remove the rivets and replace them with nuts, washers and bolts. Except that there’s no way to remove the rivets from the door. Online instructions say to either drill or pound the rivets out, except I don’t have the necessary tools to do that. I’ve looked online to see if I can just buy a replacement door, but the online one I can find would cost $40. Fortunately, my postal carrier hasn’t (yet) refused to deliver my mail with a semi-functional door.
Confusion: I have an old laptop which is running Windows 10. The Windows Update section informs me that it doesn’t meet the minimum system requirements to run Windows 11. It is willing to update to Windows 10, version 22H2, although it did require me to connect to an external drive with at least 20G free memory. So I plugged in a thumb drive and started the update. That was over 5 hours ago. during that time the Status description keeps switching back and forth between downloading and installing, with the percentage of each fluctuating. I’ve never had that happen with past updates, and I have no idea why this is happening.
Nooooooo!!! There’s a silverfish in my bathroom. I thought I was safe. I live in a humid climate, but I have an air conditioner so the humidity shouldn’t be high enough for those little bastards. Now I’m worried about all of my paper things. I hate silverfish! 
Silverfish are horrid little things but I think they’re mostly harmless.
On a different topic, I think I’m getting too senile to be allowed to operate a computer safely. For the past couple of days I’ve gone into the computer room in the morning and the computer was still running – it had not gone to sleep like it usually does. I poked around for a possible cause like some unusual running process, but couldn’t find anything.
Then I checked the power options. Turn off monitor: 20 minutes. Put computer to sleep: Never. Hmmm – maybe I found the problem! Apparently I had turned off sleep mode as a precaution while doing a huge backup a few days ago, and due to incipient senility had forgotten that I’d done it.
I use a rubber-tipped stylus. Well, it’s actually a pen, with a rubber tip on the non-ballpoint end. It works, but it is slow. Still, even though I have fat fingers, my stylus allows me to get my message across.
Such pens are great promo items for businesses, so maybe check out local realtors, accountants; hell, even auto shops and tailors and the like. Mine came from an investment counsellor friend, who has hundreds to give away.
The other day while lazing in bed and surfing the Dope on my tablet, and (slowly) tapping away a response to something on the virtual keyboard, I tapped on the microphone icon just for fun. By golly – it was speech-to-text that actually works remarkably well. It’s far from perfect – I don’t know how to make it handle punctuation, and any kind of pause makes it think that you’re starting a new sentence, but it can be quite a useful tool for encoding a large amount of text, provided you’re willing to go back and make edits.
[grumble mumble expletive] Windows update! Busted three of my favorite Chrome extensions somehow. I did manage to force-keep one (Daily Links for my webcomics) and find an alternative for ad-blocking. Still gotta sort out auto-start media, which I want OFF.
What the hell is the deal with “if it’s working in a way that suits the user’s preferences and purposes, break it ASAP!” thing with software lately?
This is Good! I’m very happy for you (and for your side hustle). From what you have described you actually have the room and the space for such an enterprise.
In my town, some of the ‘newbies’ want to change the laws preventing raising farm animals in back yards. The problem is, the lots are just too small for this: 50 feet by 75 feet with maybe 10 feet between houses. It’s just too confined a space for the sounds and the smells involved. That and with how chicken coops can draw the unwanted attention of preditors and vermin… and how H5N1 has jumped to rats… if it jumped to pets/people it would run through the town like fire chasing gasoline.
Again, I admire your business.
The little squishy bastards eat paper. I have seen the results of bad silverfish infestation, and it is not pretty. I have a lot of books and photos and other paper things that I don’t want to be savaged by silverfish.
I have to order some rubber tubing for work. Here are the specifications listed for what I’m looking at. This is from a scientific supply house.
External diameter: 18 mm
Internal diameter: 31/100 in
Hose barb: 0.37 in.
Seriously, how have they managed to use 3 different standards in one spec?? People suck.
I don’t think a silverfish now and again in a bathroom is anything to be worried about. Living in the northeast I occasionally see one running around the tub, it has never been anything more than that.
I cannot give expert advice. The following is only my personal experience.
I saw silverfish in the bath tub fairly often in my first apartment. I never saw them any where else in the bathroom and nowhere else in the apartment. None of my many books (they overflowed the bookshelves into large piles on the floor) were ever harmed.
ResearchGate Document: Silverfish (Lepisma saccharina): An Overview and their Management
Common silverfish (Lepisma saccharina) are primitive insects that owe their survival to their secretive life in damp and cool places. They are pests, belonging to the order Zygentoma formerly Thysanura and family Lepismatidae. They eat food materials that are high in protein, sugar, and starch such as paper, the glue on wallpaper and bound books, cereals, and dried meats. They also damage some natural and synthetic fibers and may leave yellow stains, especially on linen (Sloderbeck, 2004).
Another Maintenance Rant
I thought I heard somebody at my door. I went off active status on my work computer. It turned out to be somebody from maintenance painting the outside of my door. There was no notification of any kind that this would be taking place. I asked whether he needed to get inside. He said no. I went back to work.