Never a dull computer moment for me this week... For reasons passing comprehension, I now can ONLY receive mail via my computer and send mail via my iPhone. I look forward to next week when my new computer will arrive and I can get everything back on track again! That will likely mean a visit to youngest in NH, as he originally set up my iPhone and Mac and will need to unscramble the issue. To have the local tech guys do the deed, they said they would need to take my computer for 6 DAYS! No Way!! It has my banking info and so much more! It only takes a few hours at best to do all that’s needed.
AND! I can Admin from Brave, on my phone!!!! This is HUGE!! I haven’t been able to do this for YEARS!!! And just in time, incase for any reason I can’t Adnin from my computer once we get the new computer running. =Whew!=
I have always HATED exercise for the sake of exercise, but I have had pain and restricted motion for a long time. Massage and analgesics (internal and external) weren't much help. The past two mornings I did some modest lower-body stretching exercises that I hadn't for a long time, and the results were striking. Starting today I shall resume some modest upper-body exercises with barbells. Fingers crossed (figuratively). ----Alan
Yes, no fingers crossed while lifting. 😁 I am the same as regards exercise for the sake of it… Yet I find I feel much stronger and lively when I make myself partake of it. I need it for cardio health and am currently doing 10-12 miles per day on the elliptical. That, along with no added sugar at all usually gets me in good shape ahead of sailing season.
It seems to be working; too soon to be sure, though. Don't want to overdo. listener writing about exercise machines and getting ready for sailing season gave me another one of my great ideas for inventions that will never happen because I am not a businessman: an exercise machine designed to simulate a capstan! [Way hey, and up she rises; way hey and up she rises.. . ] -----Alan
I've been extra stiff and achy lately. Unfortunately, our elliptical is currently encumbered with cleared away stuff midway between one place and another, which will take a little while yet to all get where it's going. Looking forward to being able to use it again at some point.
Yes, and it would be typical if the Coroner's lab should take far longer than necessary to do carbon monoxide testing on the decedents' blood. Another hint that they wouldn't mention in public is that when the tissue samples are placed into formalin (preservative), the next day they will still be red; in non-carbon monoxide cases they will be brown. I had missed the bit about the space heater being knocked over--- another strong bit of circumstantial evidence. In Japan kerosene-fueled space heaters are commonly used in the winter (central heating is rare), but they are designed to automatically turn off if they should fall over. -----Alan (who did a lot of work for coroners over decades)
I’m utterly disgusted with having a toddler in the WH.
CNN: “Hostile meeting: After a heated Oval Office exchange between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the White House said an afternoon news conference has been canceled. Trump said Zelensky can come back to the White House “when he is ready for peace.” The meeting devolved into a shouting match, with the US president telling Ukraine’s leader “make a deal or we’re out” and Vice President JD Vance questioning whether Zelensky had demonstrated enough gratitude for US support during the three-year war.“
“ Olga Tokariuk, an academy associate at the Ukraine Forum of British think tank Chatham House, said President Donald Trump was “siding with the aggressor” following his tense Oval Office exchange with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“Total bully tactics by the US president and VP. This is not diplomacy. This is not neutrality. This is siding with the aggressor and trying to finish off the victim,” Tokariuk said in a post on X.”
“A member of Russia’s state-owned news agency gained access to the Oval Office on Friday to cover President Trump’s sit-down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky — even as the AP and Reuters were barred from the high-level meeting. The White House said the journalist was not authorized to be in the press pool.
“A correspondent for TASS, a Russian state media organization, was among a group of hand-picked pool reporters present in the Oval Office for the leaders’ meeting, which is part of the US’ efforts to end Russia’s war in Ukraine. The testy Trump-Zelensky sit-down may yield a signed deal that would exchange US access to Ukraine’s mineral resources for security guarantees.
“Though the group of pool reporters in the Oval Office was hand picked, the White House has denied the TASS staffer was permitted entry.”
One military officer, who goes by the call sign Aleks, said on Telegram he doesn’t “give a damn” about the kind of peace Trump offers.
“It’s better to fight to death than to freeze the war and then be drained again in three years,” he said.
“Trump understands the aggressive manner of negotiations and is trying to crush Zelensky. There would have been no heated talks if Trump had offered at least a ceasefire on the contact line with minimal amendments,” said Stanislav Buniatov, another Ukrainian military officer, in a Telegram post. “We are talking about handing over Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and a number of cities in the Donetsk region to the Russians,” Buniatov added.
“How do you imagine giving away cities with people? Trump does, because we are not people to him, he is negotiating on behalf of Putin’s interests, so don’t stoop to that,” he added.
European leaders rush to back Zelenskyy after fiery meeting with Trump at White House [Click] The Russian economy is past the point of no return, the US is no longer the leader of the free world, the US stock market is headed down, and the US is losing its armaments export business to better products from Europe, Brazil, and South Korea. ——Alan
~Susan. Zelensky has been standing with his people and facing Russian guns, tanks and bombs for three years, and Trump thinks that screaming at him will sway him? Trump is a fool.
DT is a malignant narcissist, sociopathic toddler with dementia. And this was a setup. DT and Vance planned to bully President Zelenskyy which is clear because they let in a reporter from the Russian news service Tass. That is a first…and treat reporter isn’t supposed to be there. But the press present were hand picked. This was a photo op fir DT’s supporters, so DT can claim the problem is Zelenskyy.
Trump and Vance are evil and, in addition, working to oppose American interests, dismantle the American government and hurt or kill as many Americans as possible, vis. placing RFK Jr. at HHS, running a steamroller through the VA, MEDICAID, Food Stamps etc. and now that hurricane and tornado seasons are almost upon us, gutting the National Weather Service and NOAA. Can't work out what Musk's beef is with those last two, same as the Park Service and the Forest Service, but I'm sure at some point, someone in one of these services pissed him off. I can't wait for Tesla stock to crash once and for all, so maybe Musk will go away. Trump and Vance definitely need to go away right now!
I had been thinking I would go out to a local restaurant tonight. That is a small business. But I'd have to take Lyft to get there and pay with credit card, so I'll make do with dried fruit and nuts at home.
😳😲😢OUCHY! Awww, nordy…I’m so sad that happened to you!!! (I am just now seeing your post!) Broken ribs hurt like crazy! 😿 I hope you heal swiftly. 💝 Any idear how long they plan to keep you? Will you have help when you’re back home? 💐 [If it helps to know it’s not just you…I once fell getting off a bus and rolled my ankle pretty badly. And I was only 19.]
Naomi helped me renew my [expired] passport. Nowadays it is done online, but for this non-digital native it seems incredibly complicated compared to going down to the main post office, like I used to. Checking my height, we discovered that I had shrunk THREE INCHES since my salad days! Where did it go? ----Alan
Repost from above: European leaders rush to back Zelenskyy after fiery meeting with Trump at White House [Click] The Russian economy is past the point of no return, the US is no longer the leader of the free world, the US stock market is headed down, and the US is losing its armaments export business to better products from Europe, Brazil, and South Korea. ——Alan
And did I tell you that on top of my resolving my own email storage issue, the EarthLink Support folks granted me an extra 2000GB of storage space at no extra charge?!
On my iPad, I have a game called Royal Match, that includes in app purchases. The money I waste on that damn game! Though, I suppose better that than vodka. *sigh*
After explaining to Sis how important today's boycott was, I was frittering away time on the game and unthinkingly made one of those in app purchases, sending five bucks or whatever to Apple, knucklehead that I am.
BTW MAGA had their nickers in quite a twist about today's boycott. No doubt when the numbers come back their will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Apple says it’s fixing a speech-to-text bug that briefly replaces ‘racist’ with ‘Trump’
ReplyDeleteNever a dull computer moment for me this week...
ReplyDeleteFor reasons passing comprehension, I now can ONLY receive mail via my computer and send mail via my iPhone.
I look forward to next week when my new computer will arrive and I can get everything back on track again!
That will likely mean a visit to youngest in NH, as he originally set up my iPhone and Mac and will need to unscramble the issue.
To have the local tech guys do the deed, they said they would need to take my computer for 6 DAYS! No Way!!
It has my banking info and so much more! It only takes a few hours at best to do all that’s needed.
Wow! I’m posting from my phone using the browser Brave, and it sees me as listener!!!
ReplyDeleteAND! I can Admin from Brave, on my phone!!!! This is HUGE!! I haven’t been able to do this for YEARS!!!
DeleteAnd just in time, incase for any reason I can’t Adnin from my computer once we get the new computer running. =Whew!=
Never heard of Brave before; will investigate.
Delete-----Alan
Unlike Google and Safari, Brave doesn’t mine one’s data for advertisers. Has nice background photography too.
DeleteVermont is not calling federal workers back to the office “hybrid work is here to stay”
ReplyDeleteState workers,not federal. Vermont has nothing to say about federal workers.
DeleteRight. I read it too fast.
DeleteBut that is the culture here…remote work, especially in Winter!
I have always HATED exercise for the sake of exercise, but I have had pain and restricted motion for a long time. Massage and analgesics (internal and external) weren't much help. The past two mornings I did some modest lower-body stretching exercises that I hadn't for a long time, and the results were striking. Starting today I shall resume some modest upper-body exercises with barbells. Fingers crossed (figuratively).
ReplyDelete----Alan
Yes, no fingers crossed while lifting. 😁
DeleteI am the same as regards exercise for the sake of it…
Yet I find I feel much stronger and lively when I make myself partake of it. I need it for cardio health and am currently doing 10-12 miles per day on the elliptical. That, along with no added sugar at all usually gets me in good shape ahead of sailing season.
Good lu k, Alan!
DeleteIt seems to be working; too soon to be sure, though. Don't want to overdo. listener writing about exercise machines and getting ready for sailing season gave me another one of my great ideas for inventions that will never happen because I am not a businessman: an exercise machine designed to simulate a capstan! [Way hey, and up she rises; way hey and up she rises.. . ]
Delete-----Alan
I've been extra stiff and achy lately. Unfortunately, our elliptical is currently encumbered with cleared away stuff midway between one place and another, which will take a little while yet to all get where it's going. Looking forward to being able to use it again at some point.
DeleteGene Hackman and wife suffered no external trauma, first autopsy results show [Click] Absolutely classical circumstantial evidence of carbon monoxide poisoning.
ReplyDelete——Alan
I think you are correct, as a space heater had been knocked over, Gene Hackman fell near a door, and the dog died in its crate.
DeleteIt is said it was days before they were found. By then, couldn’t the CM related fuel have burned out and the CM concentration dissipated?
DeleteYes, and it would be typical if the Coroner's lab should take far longer than necessary to do carbon monoxide testing on the decedents' blood. Another hint that they wouldn't mention in public is that when the tissue samples are placed into formalin (preservative), the next day they will still be red; in non-carbon monoxide cases they will be brown. I had missed the bit about the space heater being knocked over--- another strong bit of circumstantial evidence. In Japan kerosene-fueled space heaters are commonly used in the winter (central heating is rare), but they are designed to automatically turn off if they should fall over.
Delete-----Alan (who did a lot of work for coroners over decades)
Well, Carbon Monoxide has been ruled out! It gets weirder, as the German Shepherd that died was fund in a closet.
Delete* found, not fund.
DeleteAlso, two other dogs were there too, alive, one inside and one outside.
I’m utterly disgusted with having a toddler in the WH.
ReplyDeleteCNN: “Hostile meeting: After a heated Oval Office exchange between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the White House said an afternoon news conference has been canceled. Trump said Zelensky can come back to the White House “when he is ready for peace.” The meeting devolved into a shouting match, with the US president telling Ukraine’s leader “make a deal or we’re out” and Vice President JD Vance questioning whether Zelensky had demonstrated enough gratitude for US support during the three-year war.“
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
“ Olga Tokariuk, an academy associate at the Ukraine Forum of British think tank Chatham House, said President Donald Trump was “siding with the aggressor” following his tense Oval Office exchange with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Delete“Total bully tactics by the US president and VP. This is not diplomacy. This is not neutrality. This is siding with the aggressor and trying to finish off the victim,” Tokariuk said in a post on X.”
Big Brother was in the room…!
Delete“A member of Russia’s state-owned news agency gained access to the Oval Office on Friday to cover President Trump’s sit-down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky — even as the AP and Reuters were barred from the high-level meeting. The White House said the journalist was not authorized to be in the press pool.
“A correspondent for TASS, a Russian state media organization, was among a group of hand-picked pool reporters present in the Oval Office for the leaders’ meeting, which is part of the US’ efforts to end Russia’s war in Ukraine. The testy Trump-Zelensky sit-down may yield a signed deal that would exchange US access to Ukraine’s mineral resources for security guarantees.
“Though the group of pool reporters in the Oval Office was hand picked, the White House has denied the TASS staffer was permitted entry.”
One more…
DeleteOne military officer, who goes by the call sign Aleks, said on Telegram he doesn’t “give a damn” about the kind of peace Trump offers.
“It’s better to fight to death than to freeze the war and then be drained again in three years,” he said.
“Trump understands the aggressive manner of negotiations and is trying to crush Zelensky. There would have been no heated talks if Trump had offered at least a ceasefire on the contact line with minimal amendments,” said Stanislav Buniatov, another Ukrainian military officer, in a Telegram post.
“We are talking about handing over Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and a number of cities in the Donetsk region to the Russians,” Buniatov added.
“How do you imagine giving away cities with people? Trump does, because we are not people to him, he is negotiating on behalf of Putin’s interests, so don’t stoop to that,” he added.
Russia and China are trying to recruit disgruntled US federal workers.
DeleteEuropean leaders rush to back Zelenskyy after fiery meeting with Trump at White House [Click] The Russian economy is past the point of no return, the US is no longer the leader of the free world, the US stock market is headed down, and the US is losing its armaments export business to better products from Europe, Brazil, and South Korea.
Delete——Alan
Multiple crashes close I-89 in Central Vermont
ReplyDeleteYou know it’s icy when a tow truck crashes into a fire truck and cars.
~Susan. Zelensky has been standing with his people and facing Russian guns, tanks and bombs for three years, and Trump thinks that screaming at him will sway him? Trump is a fool.
ReplyDeleteTrump is senile.
Delete----Alan
DT is a malignant narcissist, sociopathic toddler with dementia.
DeleteAnd this was a setup. DT and Vance planned to bully President Zelenskyy which is clear because they let in a reporter from the Russian news service Tass. That is a first…and treat reporter isn’t supposed to be there. But the press present were hand picked. This was a photo op fir DT’s supporters, so DT can claim the problem is Zelenskyy.
But the US emperor has no clothes.
Trump and Vance are evil and, in addition, working to oppose American interests, dismantle the American government and hurt or kill as many Americans as possible, vis. placing RFK Jr. at HHS, running a steamroller through the VA, MEDICAID, Food Stamps etc. and now that hurricane and tornado seasons are almost upon us, gutting the National Weather Service and NOAA. Can't work out what Musk's beef is with those last two, same as the Park Service and the Forest Service, but I'm sure at some point, someone in one of these services pissed him off. I can't wait for Tesla stock to crash once and for all, so maybe Musk will go away. Trump and Vance definitely need to go away right now!
DeleteI had been thinking I would go out to a local restaurant tonight. That is a small business. But I'd have to take Lyft to get there and pay with credit card, so I'll make do with dried fruit and nuts at home.
ReplyDeleteThanks, W.A.!
DeleteOur small sacrifices matter.
Tuesday I was trying to get off the bus when I fell and broke three ribs. Still in the hospital and won't be around much for awhile. -- nordy
ReplyDelete~Susan Oh, nordy! So sorry to hear that! Hoping for a speedy recovery.
DeleteOh, gee! Did you slip on snow/ice? No that it really makes any difference. Recover soon!
Delete-----Alan
Gosh, Nordy! Get better soon♥
Delete😳😲😢OUCHY!
DeleteAwww, nordy…I’m so sad that happened to you!!! (I am just now seeing your post!) Broken ribs hurt like crazy! 😿 I hope you heal swiftly. 💝 Any idear how long they plan to keep you? Will you have help when you’re back home? 💐
[If it helps to know it’s not just you…I once fell getting off a bus and rolled my ankle pretty badly. And I was only 19.]
I'm also just now seeing the post. Geniune sympathies
DeleteNaomi helped me renew my [expired] passport. Nowadays it is done online, but for this non-digital native it seems incredibly complicated compared to going down to the main post office, like I used to. Checking my height, we discovered that I had shrunk THREE INCHES since my salad days! Where did it go?
ReplyDelete----Alan
Three inches is significant.
DeleteI sometimes come up a half inch short, sometimes not.
I attribute much of my 5 inch loss to dowager's hump.
DeleteZelensky at the White House: It Was An Ambush [Click]
ReplyDelete——Alan (Who figures that Trump and Putin are both playing politics on borrowed time.)
Repost from above: European leaders rush to back Zelenskyy after fiery meeting with Trump at White House [Click] The Russian economy is past the point of no return, the US is no longer the leader of the free world, the US stock market is headed down, and the US is losing its armaments export business to better products from Europe, Brazil, and South Korea.
Delete——Alan
A coward who is Vladimir Putin's puppet': Rep. Moulton on Trump's meeting with Zelensky
ReplyDelete^ That was me
DeleteI forgot that with the Brave browser I sometimes have to identify my account as I begin.
DeleteAnyway, Rep Seth Moulton (who is PhD*Son’s age) spoke my sentiments exactly!!
DeleteYay! Youngest has agreed to set my computers and phone to rights the weekend after this one! It sure is good to have a techy son!!
ReplyDeleteAnd did I tell you that on top of my resolving my own email storage issue, the EarthLink Support folks granted me an extra 2000GB of storage space at no extra charge?!
DeleteThat shouldn't be too hard to take!
Delete------Alan
On my iPad, I have a game called Royal Match, that includes in app purchases. The money I waste on that damn game! Though, I suppose better that than vodka. *sigh*
ReplyDeleteAfter explaining to Sis how important today's boycott was, I was frittering away time on the game and unthinkingly made one of those in app purchases, sending five bucks or whatever to Apple, knucklehead that I am.
BTW MAGA had their nickers in quite a twist about today's boycott. No doubt when the numbers come back their will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
At least Apple isn't on the naughty list!
DeleteI suppose that if the Maggats don't like it, they could order some Tesla Cybertrucks!
Delete-----Alan
USAID freeze hits American manufacturer of product that saves babies' lives
ReplyDeleteSo, we all need a bedtime story after this harsh day.
ReplyDeleteA toddler in Moore, Oklahoma. Playing with an old cell phone dialed 911 and said he needed “emergency donuts.”
So the police brought him some!
(Too bad David Letterman isn’t still doing late night!)