Allie

Some nights I'm so tired that I have to fight to stay awake, and other nights I tinker on my computer until the sun rises and still feel uninclined to go to bed. Perhaps it's the difference between 5 and 7 hours of sleep, or between 4 and 6.

For some time, I had an issue with my feet. After a day's sedentary work, they would start to feel strange, tingly and sort of swollen in the ball of the foot area below the toes. I felt it when I walked, but the feet looked normal to me. Until one day I finally noticed my ankles were only slightly visible, which did indicate swelling. The bones and veins of the feet were also less visible.

So I switched to sitting on the floor while working. That keeps my feet on the ground. No more weird foot feelings; no more swelling.

I'm not sure I want to keep sitting low long term, but getting a comfortable padded stool would help. Right now I have some thin cushions and a small sturdy box to switch between. There's also a style of cross-legged chair I've considered.

The pretty sun is brightening while I ramble and delete rambles.

You can go to bed, Darkoshi. You can do it. Caw caw from outside. I finished the week of work. I have 2 days. So many things to do.

Only a few can get done. But none will get done if I just sit and ramble and don't go to sleep. Up, up, darkoshi, up and away and dream dream dream

(previously)

The metal mixing bowl made a lovely resounding ring when something touched it.
I tried to recreate the sound, and figured out how.
When the bowl is supported only on the bottom (like when balancing it on my hand), and its side is tapped, ta-da! RINGGGGGG!!!
It is a much lovelier sound than when I hold it lightly by its upper edge and tap the bottom, which is what I'd normally think to do.
I tested it out on a smaller metal bowl. It also gave a nice ring, though quieter and higher pitched.
I tested it on my pasta pot. The same kind of nice ring!
How can I have not known this before!

Note to self:
If there are files which I don't feel are important enough to keep on my laptop, and which to save laptop space, I store only on an external Hard Drive, *** be sure to save it on multiple external hard drives, in case the one goes bad! ***

(There are photos which I can't find, from when I was house-shopping 20 years ago, of all the houses I didn't end up buying. I am sure I deleted most of them. But I find it hard to believe that I would have also deleted photos of the houses I was most interested in; the houses I put in offers for. Yet I can't find them either.)

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I noticed something interesting about Google Maps Street View, regarding properties which are blurred out at the owner's request: the non-blurred imagery that is shown of the surrounding area has a much older capture date than other nearby areas with no blurred properties.

For example, around here most Street View imagery has a capture date of 2025. But near the blurred properties, the imagery has a capture date way back in 2011 or in some cases, 2016.

I used to have Google Earth installed, which let you select the dates of the imagery it showed... I suppose that was only the dates of the satellite photos. I'm not sure if Street View even existed back then. For whatever reason, I uninstalled it and don't have it anymore. Once in a while I think to myself that I ought to install it again.
Do any of you have Google Earth installed? Does it let you view Street View imagery as well as satellite, and does it let you select from multiple dates for the Street View?