On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Needed to clean off almost 100 CDs after getting home from the doctor's office after work. In trying to avoid a puddle, I stepped on what I thought was solid snow and earth and landed in a slough. Water, and bits of plants from that soaked through the storage case I was using to take the CDs between work and home.

And this accident happened en route TO the doctor.

Job alerts that I've subscribed with other purposes in mind - say, "clerk - Ottawa" - getting clogged with notices from Uber looking for drivers. Or for "newsperson" and getting notices of jobs at banks.

Not appropriate. Maybe I need to do some additional editing on my saved searches' parameters?

Is anyone having trouble uploading pix to LJ Scrapbook via Safari for Mac?

Okay, so here's the issue: my regular MacBook Pro has a cooling fan problem. The replacement's been ordered, but I fully expect that to take a week to arrive via the post office. Possibly longer, but miracles have been known to happen despite the war of sabotage waged by the right-wing parties of the USA and Canada against our respective postal services. (Yes, I wrote that. I believe it to be true. If they sue me over it, they won't get much in either a judgement or settlement because what I have ain't worth much. Even on eBay.)

That aside, the day-job search will be slower than usual in the meantime, since the backup machine has its own issues. Hardware bottlenecks in particular - I suspect RAM and CPU limits of a ten-year-old machine - mean checking LJ out for job leads, gossip, and mental health news/advice (among many other things) will be...problematic for that next week. This can't be helped. So I'm likely to be logging into LJ from public library terminals in the meantime.

Just so you know.

More as it develops...

I just got one of those "in order to help you improve your experience, what do you mostly use our services for?" interruption screens in the midst of my log-in to GMail.

Nosy overmuch, Google-People?

And don't remind me to believe that "privacy is dead". It's not. We're just in the process of reworking what works well enough for most of us most of the time. I'm still old/young enough to understand that.

That, if nothing else.

(The rest of you that I've been doing business with for internet services, please take note. Wherever on Earth you happen to be at the moment, okay?)

Hearing one of your calls on my smartphone when I am trying to budget my phone usage time carefully and get dinged for incoming calls is a good way to earn my emnity.

A bunch of little things:

The Hallmark/Davis Agency store at Place d'Orléans Mall is shutting down after this week. Purged via rent hike, apparently. Not the first store I've liked doing business with to suffer such a fate this year either. Nicholas Hoare Books, Collected Works Bookstore and Mayfair Theatre Orléans both got nailed over rent issues of one sort or another. No conspiracy theory involved, but it's just plain annoying.

Lost a glove today. Probably en route to the day job. Recent and expected weather being as it is, this may not be much of an inconvenience, but again: just plain annoying.

Two of my friendlisters are down with ailments of one kind or another. Long-term continuing issues in both cases, let's call it. Hoping for better days for both of them. Soon, please?

Speaking of medical stuff: had you heard? Ontario's delisting the annual checkup from the list of medicare-covered services. Retroactive to New Year's Day 2013. What the Frak?

Cell phones: trying to check my account's status on the cell service provider's website is a bit of a pain. Long story, not sharing as it's too close to sleep time.

More as it comes to mind...

...is looking more and more like a "nice to be able to go to" luxury item.

After all, it's a long-term career-building necessity. And I'm a temp worker right now.

Therefore: luxury item.

Seems like some of the computer issues are solved as of tonight with leroux's help. Not done with the backing-up yet, though, so I'm putting Time Machine through its paces for the first time tonight, for real. Just in case. If things improve further, I may consider a reinstall of the OS.

I do not like the flickering of the display that's cropped up.

Yes, still using the old iBook to post entries such as this tonight. And it's expected that this will continue for at least another day or two. Or three.

Could also do without the continued sinus issues, of course. *Whine*

Yep, lots of First- or Second-World problems for this lad, tonight...

Okay. The Discovery launch has been postponed yet again. Until Tuesday.

This makes it hard on a spaceflight fan. It truly does.

I spoke of smaller annoyances than that. Or perhaps not so small, per Heather Mallick's latest column at CBC Web News. She comments on an organization whose members' thinking on a number of subjects truly vexes me...which I will leave to her to name.

Also on the annoyance list of the day...well, more like a concern. Here's an opinion piece on the recent federal heritage committee report re: media concentration and the state of the CBC.