Hey folks, welcome to the new whine/general topic thread. Feel free to use this thread to discuss anything that is on your mind. Caregiving- related stuff, life after a loved one's death, your own emotional wellbeing. Whatever..........anything on your mind.
I would hesitate to find out if the missing have passed.
Not sure I want to know.
Some in my address book are quite elderly. One lady who I had met on a cross-country train ride back in the 1970's, we use to mail to each other once a year during the holidays. She recently turned 100. No card last year, nor this year. Chances are she had passed :(
When my Mom had passed first two years ago, I took my parent's holiday card mail and let them know Mom had passed on. Did the same when my Dad passed last year. Half the people on the list I had no idea if they were relatives or old friends. Some I even wrote "are you old friends of my parents or related to my parents?". One was my Dad's lst cousin. Of course, I realize that not all relatives of a dearly departed would even look in an Address Book and write to those names.
I need to play detective for those missing people who didn't send a card for a second year.
This last week of 2017 is just crying out for organization early.
I remember my last on sale clearance calendar missing a day.
Since I am so interested in the full moon, maybe I will get a full moon calendar from the Farmer's Almanac.
How is your year-end shaping up? Did you avoid coming down with that cold?
Here's a modern idea! Live a life that it doesn't matter if we know the date, day, or hour.
As for christmas cards, I got a single personal one and a handful of the kind sent out by businesses and politicians. Well, I didn't send any either. I also got some emails, a text and some phone calls though..... it's the modern way.
Has not even crossed my mind yet to get a new one-or two.
Placing them everywhere helps with "WHAT DAY IS IT?" when all about you are giving misdirects, misinformation, and the day is right, but the date is wrong....the date is right, but the day is wrong! Teaching myself to no longer discuss the day/date around here.
My senior moments will be just that......mine. No sense letting anyone else know when I am not sure of today's date. imo.
I know it will take awhile to get back up to feeling okay after the flu, going on 17 days now. More candy please.
I put on my detective hat and started digging. I love solving mysteries. My boss said a few years ago he got something similar, and it turned out after he searched down the address and found a telephone number, it was actually a business trying to sell a product.
I think I will take this card photo/envelope to my boss, he tends to be the town crier, so maybe it was someone he knew and they asked for my address.
Did the past Two days and nights at hoca do this ?
She is my age.
Got one today, one of those family style holiday photos. Even that didn't give me any clue how I know them.
Maybe it is one of those "six degrees of separation". I will need to climb back up the family tree to see if it exist there. Then there is the curiously on how did this family get my home address???
Make sure you back up all your important photos and documents before you do, as they'll be lost forever once it's reset. You can ask the repair place to back it up for you if you can't do it yourself.
(Edit: I guess maybe an Apple store for Apple products? Though beware of them telling you it's not possible, as they're mandate is to try to sell you a new one! Anyway, a PC repair shop should be able to tackle a factory reset with no problem.)
2nd, since 2 updates ago, my airplane mode no longer works. I can still access online even though the little ✈️ is showing on the top left corner. Like right now as I am typing this. I tried googling to see if others are having this same problem. It’s dangerous to carry the iPad in public if the ✈️ mode is not working. Easy to be hacked.
Do you maybe my iPad is about to crash and die permanently? This was gifted to me. I checked online and it’s so expensive to buy one.
Also....bumping this up over the troll-y stuff.
Hey can we really talk about anything on here? I've never been in this thread before!
And indeed, in this video of Leon Bridges I just pulled up, they are using some throwback imagery (black & white style, old style microphone, reel to reel music player) to complement the song.
I've heard the name before, Madge, but never bothered to check him out. Thanks for mentioning. I like it!!!
Glad, sometimes computers just gang up on us, don't they? Or rather, software makers gang up on us. I wish they'd test their software first before dumping it on the public.
Veronica, sorry for the long wait for responding to you. My haters know who they are so I won't name names. :P
As I recall, she wouldn't turn up the a/c in the summer and one afternoon we all ended up sweating. So did the computers apparently, as they began crashing.
We were actually sweating in the office.
I personally never bother with logging out, instead I have my browser set to delete cookies and history whenever I close it, therefore I'm automatically logged out.
This laptop drives me crazy. Whether I use my fingers to swipe the screen or the laptop's scroll pad, sometimes that gray area doesn't appear. Tonight, I had to keep hitting those lines over 10 times!!! Does anyone know another way of signing out?
Send, bringing the baby to me would be just a little out of the way, 176 km each way according to google.
Can you take a train, and they will pick you up?
Or, take a friend who can share the driving....friend needs a change of pace?
I understand the driving concerns. You can reassure yourself. Yes, you are not old.
Yes, you are wise to limit driving. Yes, you will be the favorite babysitter aunt.
Can they come get you....or leave baby with you? There has got to be a way! Many parents will go far, very far, for the right free babysitter!
Maybe your years spent hidden away caring for Mom has you reluctant to drive. Understandable.
Start a driving rehab now, take classes on driving. Get your eyes checked. Spend time in line at the DMV, studying just who they are giving licenses to. That will either scare you into never driving again, or boost your confidences, hey, I can do this! Still, I can do this!
It is an excellent thing to be careful! That too is a brave thing!
Music interpretation is in the ear of the listener.
As for the Hotel California: "You can check out....but you can never leave".
Yes, it is depressing. About drug addicts, in a flop house, (maybe in Venice, Hollywood, or Santa Monica). The heroin addicts would shoot up (to check out), but maybe more than a flop house, it was maybe a lock-up to detox, and you could never leave?
Some of us have borrowed the name, calling it HoCa. Because, in memory care, the danger is that they over-medicate to keep the patient calm, but you can never leave.
It would be disturbing, listening to it....when a person feels trapped...and cannot leave, imo. As many of us do at times. It is inherently evil, in a halloweeny sort of way.
Sorry, I have not kept up with this thread, one of my favorites! I will read back.