I’ve made it into a game. When the infestation gets too bad, I go into the bathroom, lather up my hands nice and good with soft-soap and go around snatching them out of the air and then crushing them. They stick to the soap on your hands rather than just bouncing and flying off. Have to add a tiny amount of water to your hands every couple of minutes as it dries out.
Have to keep moving from spot to spot to give them a chance to re-congregate. Snatch over the garbage can, kick it a couple of times to roust them, then move over to the sink, then over to the garbage can by my desk, then the bathroom, then back to the kitchen garbage can…
So, my old keyboard Kindle began to experience a drastic drop off in battery life and it would drain in a day if I didn’t recharge it. So I figured…time to replace.
Amazon claimed their “Paperwhite Kindle” would run for 8 weeks on a single charge with the backlight running. I’ve owned a bunch of different Kindles and I know these claims are greatly exaggerated but I’m taking a week’s vacation in another country and thought it would be nice not to have to deal with charging the thing. In my experience I get really good battery life on anything new and then it falls off a bit after a couple of weeks so I thought this might work
So I get the Kindle. First off, their “it’s not a backlight so it won’t strain your eyes reading light” made my eyes hurt. So I turned it down to 5 ( on a scale of 1-20) which punched the background a bit without hurting my eyes.
I charged it up and then began the painful process of setting it up. The archived books cannot be sorted into collections and I have lots of archived books. It doesn’t work well if you are downloading more than one book at a time because the list shifts every time a download completes which meant I would touch a title to download it and the list would shift a millisecond before my finger hit the screen.
So I decided to clean my archive by permanently deleting some items. I went online to “manage your Kindle” and attempted to do just that.
So when I go into Manage Your Kindle I have 175 pages of items. I select an item to delete it, then it takes about 3 seconds to delete then it drops me back to PAGE 1.
FUCK FUCK FUCK ME
But back to battery life
I set this thing up on Tuesday night.
On Thursday morning I hit the menu bar and saw the battery was down to somewhere between 30% and 40%. After 36 hours.
So I then find out that the 8 week estimate is based on 30 minutes of reading a day. REALLY ??? Can you imagine if someone sold a battery operated DVD player and based the battery life estimate on 30 minutes of movie watching a day?? Gee Amazon, why don’t you base it on ZERO minutes of reading a day??? Because you know, people don’t really READ these days, in your head they just buy Kindles to make people THINK they read.
But even with 30 minutes of reading time a day the 4 hours or so of reading I did in 36 hours shouldn’t have dented the battery.
FUCK YOU AMAZON. Well, Christmas is coming and my Mom wanted a paperwhite so I can probably unload it on her.
backnote: my parents moved into a “new” HOA where there are a lot of families. So, I figured, she’d be getting lots of little ghouls at her door.
Me, to my mother last night:
“So, didja get a lot of kids for Halloween?”
Her: “Oohhhhh. We don’t like to open our door to strangers. So we go elsewhere on Halloween. That way, we don’t have to deal with those kids.”
And people wonder when I say I had a f-ed up childhood.
Where is a pointy, liquid dripping typeface in shades of green when you need one? That statement of you mother’s sounds like it came from the cauldron of Snow White’s stepmother…
My local school nurse is a fucking moron. She sent my ten year old home for a cough. A cough. Not a fever or nausea or any other symptom. A freaking cough. She’s bouncing around the house right now only coughing once in a while. She should be in school. She isn’t contagious. She was sitting down a few minutes ago reading a Lemony Snickett book and sipping some tea. She’s fine. It’s the nurse who should go home because she has no brains.
Goddamned auto-flush!!! Give me a minute, will ya??
It flushes the second I stand up. The very second! I get no time to wipe, and I do not wipe whilst seated. No man does!
Not sure if I could find it on youtube, but in Guild Wars 2, in caves some cave spiders slowly drop off the ceiling on a strand of web. I was sitting at my desk at 0300 in the dark in a cave and a real life spider slowly and gently drifted down into the field of view in front of my main monitor …:eek:
I remember my ancient sony had amazing hang time on the battery. PRS500. Sometimes the ancient stuff is worth having. I now normally read on my phone, a first generation droid.
No shit! My mom loved Halloween and trick or treaters, and we always put together some fun costumes for my brother and I. Here are some possible fonts
My current office floor potties auto-flush too quickly, and at the drop of a mouse cough. So I get a flush once (while in the process of standing) and another (while in the process of re-pantsing & opening the door) so I feel like I’ve laid down a log when I haven’t. Also, I think other women think that of me, and we can’t have that, now, can we?
I’m still not getting the part where people want spiders in their houses. My husband wants to keep spiders in our house to eat the other bugs; the way I figure it, if I see them, I kill them.
I get pills for my cat’s hyperthyroidism; I read the insert on these pills, and they say, “Do not crush.” My choices - have a fight to the death with my cat every day to shove a pill down her throat, or crush the pill up in her food so she will eat it with no fuss - tough choice! I would like it if the vet’s office took their clientele into account - or maybe I just need to ask for crushable pills. If they don’t have them, then my Pitting will stand.
See if a compounding pharmacy can help. When (RIP) Clint needed some stuff, the choices over the phone were, “Chicken, beef, or fish flavor with that, ma’am?”
Sit down, place cat on lap facing away from you, then pull up so spine is against your stomach with head below your chin. Use your legs to kind of smoosh cat’s butt into place and your left hand on throat and under chin. Raise their head up so they’re looking straight up. Use right hand holding the pill to open mouth enough to drop in pill. Hold cat, right hand holding body still, left hand stroking throat /preventing spitting/maintaining that upward facing/looking to encourage swallowing.
This is how I’ve managed to give my cats pills without assistance over the years. If you have two people, one person can hold the cat upright against them, one hand holding legs, the other holding throat/chin upright, and the other person holding head and inserting pill.
Release afterward and both praise and reward the cat, assuming it actually swallowed the pill and didn’t spit out. Bonus is that if it is immediately given tasty canned food, if a partial pill is still in it’s mouth it will be swallowed along with the food.
When you first set up your Kindle, it has to index all of your books. This burns up the battery like crazy. I left mine plugged in for 36 hours after I first set it up. Once it completes indexing, you should notice a big improvement in battery life. (It still won’t last 8 weeks, though.)
