23: Happy Sunday
This is the church Wil and I sometimes attend.
It is made of red sandstone and has windows created by Louis Comfort Tiffany.
I took this photo from my eye doc's office across the street.
Downstairs from his office is the office of Dr. Judy Steinberg Dean.
It is made of red sandstone and has windows created by Louis Comfort Tiffany.
I took this photo from my eye doc's office across the street.
Downstairs from his office is the office of Dr. Judy Steinberg Dean.
That is such an interesting structure that I felt compelled to look it up, listener. Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, it was easy to locate from Dr. Dean's office address. It has several interesting features both inside and out, but the one that dominates is the bell tower; it seems so large that I wonder if it might house a carillon.
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And here's a bit of local news via Mother Jones:
Democrats Think They Can Flip Three Districts in California’s Heartland. But Will Latino Voters Get to the Polls? [Click] "The battle for the GOP’s farm-country stronghold."
I'm a wreck! a simple task that should have taken five minutes, if that, took several eons - well, at least twenty minutes. The task: Upload a video to YouTube, pick up the link and post it in a Facebook group. Easy peasy, right? Wrong!
ReplyDeleteFirst I made the video, basic variety with just an album cover and song. That went fine. Then I went to upload the video and it wasn't there. I knew the Movie Maker project was safely saved, and I could have sworn I "saved movie," but after wasting several minutes searching, I realized that I hadn't in fact done so. Got the 'movie' saved. Then had started the upload process when I was called for supper.
After supper I went back to the computer, confidently telling Sis I'd be with her in just a few minutes. Well, the video had uploaded all right, but when I tried to pick up the link from Creator's Studio or from Video Manager, it kept giving me a screen to edit the video, not the video's own proper page. And the first time I tried going to my channel, I got some strange screen I'd never seen before.
Finally got to my channel and clicked the link to play the video, which played fine, but then I kept hitting a button to save video instead of to share. Finally hit the right button and picked up the link, which I dropped on my song challenge list on the way by, and tried to post it in the song challenge group...to no avail. Twice I tried, and twice the link didn't look right. All this time, I was becoming increasingly frustrated and upset.
Just as I closed the browser, Sis left. Of course, most of the frustration was displaying such rank incompetence in front of her. You know damn right and well, had I been alone, everything would have gone at least moderately well.
At last, I re-opened the browser, pasted my link and its accompanying verbiage, and pressed "Post." The evil spirits or whatever it was that had been bedeviling me thumbed their noses at me one last time - the post took much longer than usual to take, so I thought it wouldn't after all. But, it did. And the post got three 'likes' in the first five minutes. But, I tell you, I simply can't cope! It all probably sounds piddly, but the frustration and anxiety were epic. I still feel terrible, anxious and keyed up. Think I'll go get some ice cream. Surely, that will help.
I should suggest Rocky Road, but your preferences may differ. [grin I have had some considerable problems with searches on Ancestry.com, which occasionally I somehow get past. Speaking of Rocky Road ice cream, when I was a kid, it was popular in only a small area in the [very] general vicinity of San Francisco. Anybody here familiar with it where they live?
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It sounds like a flavor I'd like but, strangely, I've never had it. To answer your question, yes, I've always known it existed. Hmmm... Well, maybe not always. Certainly it had impinged on my consciousness by my early teens, living in the Virginia suburbs of D.C.
DeleteHaving Ben and Jerry's Half Baked, which is actually a pretty accurate description of yours truly.
DeleteI can't tell you how many times something I thought would be quick and simple turned out to be lengthy and complicated. Usually because things didn't work the way I thought they would, which seems to be a description of what you encountered.
DeleteMy favourite Ben & Jerry's is Cherry Garcia (the light version)...!!!
DeleteWhat frustration you suffered, Cat! Yikes!! Good for you persevering. I'm impressed!!!
Is Senator Dianne Feinstein Really Vulnerable This Fall? [Click] She's safe--I voted for de Leon, and as my good wife notes, whomever I vote for loses. [grin] One of these days, though...
ReplyDeleteSchwarzenegger Is Back in a Fight Against Gerrymandering [Click]
--Alan
I am more than ready for some recreational reading, and I think I will re-read Clifford D. Simak's "The Visitors" [1979]. I understand that the recent encounter movie "Arrival" has a number of similarities, but one of the nice things about Simak's story is its setting in a United States that I remember but is no more.
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I got hold of a volume of Simak's short fiction a few years ago, and thoroughly enjoyed it. The talking book library didn't have any of his novels, though, as I recall.
DeleteHere is my response to Park Service's proposal to stop protests in front of the White House:
ReplyDeleteWe have a "President" who is under the false impression that he can simply discard the parts of the Constitution that he doesn't like. Our First Amendment right to free speech and freedom to protest is under attack because of one man's fragile ego. He has made it abundantly clear that he wants to be a dictator in the style of Kim Jung Un. We the People don't want that.
The White House is the People's House and he is a temporary resident. I wonder if he ever thinks about the fact that if he weren't such a failure as a President there would not be so many protests? Or maybe that's why he wants to outlaw protests, so he doesn't have to face the truth of his failure.
The First Amendment gives us freedom of religion, of speech, of a free press, the right to assemble and the right to petition. And we're stuck with a failing president who doesn't like any of that - who constantly screams "fake news" and bullies journalists who do not kowtow to him.
You MUST NOT destroy our Constitution and the freedom of the American people just to pacify an incompetent bully who is upset by the visible proof of his inadequacy.
FABULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!
DeleteYou have come straight to the crux of the matter and stated it so well, reasonably and with firmness. Thank you SO MUCH, Susan!!!
My letter pales by comparison, Susan...
ReplyDeleteI have never protested in DC, but I support the right of We the People to free speech as is provided for us in the Constitution. If it makes our President and Congress feel uncomfortable, that is really the point, isn't it, to wake them up to what We the People need and, for very good reasons, sometimes must demand? We do not serve the President and Congress, they serve us. Protect the right of the People of this great nation to protest. It is an essential part of what sets America apart from dictatorships.