Meh

Feeling so-so today, a bit better than yesterday. I still have some sinus issues present but at least my teeth aren’t hurting, which is a good thing! My gum is still irritated by the tooth that was worked on but I hope that with a little bit of time it will get better. The mouth seems to heal it’s self rather fast but it’s also quite vascular. I feel a bit warm but just noticed that it’s getting a bit hot in here.

Gator started crying last night and spending time in my bathroom. I don’t know what was going on. I woke up at 5:30a from a confusing dream and she started. I also see evidence this morning that she was in the basement at some point over night. She ate like a starved little girl this morning, so maybe she was just hungry but it seems rather odd. Marv didn’t want to eat at all this morning, par for the course but by dinner time he should be chowing down. Turkey seems to have fallen out of favor here, no matter when I serve it or what else is flavored with it, neither of them like Turkey anything. Got to love picky appetites, it keeps you guessing and frustrated.

Last night I was playing with my ear buds trying to get the audio pause out of them. When I am on a call just when someone is about to say something important or funny the audio drops out for a short bit, enough to where you miss what they said and can’t put the pieces together. I looked online for fixes and tried everything that I could find but it seems that perhaps I just got a defective pair. Considering the price point I have opted to return them, sad to say. I am upgrading though to a pair that costs even more. The new pair will be here on Friday, they have an app so you can install firmware updates, check the battery and do more. It’s more visual control. They also have Alexa & The Google Assistant built in (but I could careless). I am getting them to be able to listen to music and talk on the phone. The game plan is to maybe start walking on the treadmill and what better way to pass time than listening to music, an audio book, podcast, etc. The talk on the phone part is where work would come in. What I am returning are the JBL Tune 120 TWS and what I am getting as a replacement is the JBL Live 300 TWS. The music experience on the 120 TWS is great and I’d keep them if it wasn’t for the audio issue. Both come in different colors and I of course chose Blue. Something to look forward to on Friday! If the new pair gives me any trouble at all I am done and will opt out of the ear bud game entirely.

On the work front I got word yesterday that my two weeks of vacation have been approved. I have something to look forward to in the middle of October and then again at the early part of December. What will I do with that time off? That’s a very good question and right now I have no idea and no plans, other than my follow up doctors visit in December. Would be nice to sail away from reality for a while though.

This week seems rather light at work and I’m thinking that’s because next week is when I am next on-call and usually that is when all of the preverbal shit hits the fan. I hope I am wrong and next week is just as easy breezy as this week has been thus far. I also realize that there are two more days left in this week and that at any moment things could go south. I just hope that doesn’t happen as everyone can use a break. I’ve got a video meeting in a bit that will drone on for about an hour and then the rest of my day is wide open. Put the phone on DND and take a nap, that sounds nice. Then throw in some TV and lunch, wow what a nice afternoon. Let’s just see if that comes to pass.

I found a freeware program called Winaero Tweaker. It lets you modify a lot of things in windows from large to small. One of the many tweaks I made was I put seconds on my desktop clock. By default, seconds aren’t shown just the present time. Now I can see seconds and it’s really neat. Give it a google if your interested. There are some settings in there where you can wreak havoc on your system but you can always click the undo button to remove all tweaks. I did make a couple minor tweaks but the clock one by far I think is the coolest.

Keeping with Technology News, Apple apparently pissed off a bunch of people by saying that it’s releasing IOS14 today along with other OS updates. Normally the Apple products roll out and then everyone else gets the OS updates after the fact, this year has been nothing but different for everyone and I guess Apple thought why not be different. I’m looking forward to it but also kind of don’t want to upgrade just yet in case there are bugs. With Apple you can’t easily if at all rollback to the old version if you don’t like something or if something goes awry.

Well that’s all I know at the moment. Hope your doing well and staying afloat in this crazy world. Hard to believe it’s the middle of September! Each day closer to the election – at least the political ads will stop after that monumental event is done, regardless of who wins. I really dislike political ads in general. Take care and I’ll talk with you peeps again soon!