Feel Like Complaining

Friday afternoon, Faith and I left for Odessa. We ended up taking her car because mine was in the shop, with it's ongoing problem. It was already hotter than Hades and her car never really cooled off. We packed some food for our dinner because there is NO restaurant in that town! There was a small gathering at a classmate's house to set up tables and chairs for Saturday but I didn't feel up to it. We just stayed in our air conditioned room for the night. Saturday morning, we had a little breakfast that we had brought. My brilliant daughter brought oatmeal packs but no spoon so she had to scoop semi firm liquid with coffee stir sticks into her mouth. I had brought our mini Keurig maker, but it failed to brew. The water got hot but no brewing happened. Having to make the crappy motel coffee just sucked. I took it outside anyway and enjoyed the morning under a shade tree. I could smell real brewed coffee close by and I saw a woman come out of her camper with a beautiful pot of...

I'll write about my class reunion next week, but I wanted to share something first. I had been seeing a lot of ads for Big Cartel, a place you can sell your wares, without the big cuts taken out by Etsy and other selling platforms. I decided to go for it; first going with the free version, then went up to the first level of paid one.  It was not easy; much harder than setting up a blog. There were so many aspects, such as pricing, taxes, shipping, etc. I needed help with the AI chat a few times, but it was always helpful.  I've been adding my paintings slowly and have many more to go. That involves measuring, then figuring out the price using pre determined standards. Most importantly, I will have to keep painting! Take a look; I hope you like it, and please feel free to share! Dreaming In Watercolor

Last week was pretty busy leading up to the day of my birth. Wednesday my friend took me out to lunch at Red Lobster. It was the best meal I've had in a long time. She really spoils me; and her and her husband are some of the kindest people you would ever meet. They're the ones taking care of Abe for our vacations, and not being naturally born cat people, they are enjoying it. Probably because he's not a turd with them, ha. Friday, my dear daughter and I went to get tattoos at a place she's been to before. It's a really nice shop and has won several 'best of' awards for Spokane. We just wanted simple line works to represent San Francisco. We've been wanting to do this for a year-and-a-half and she finally made it happen. Both of them only took an hour and were pretty reasonable. I could totally do more of this style, didn't hurt at all. I've mentioned that our new neighbors manage a restaurant downtown. I told her my birthday was coming up and sh...

Abe turned 5 over the weekend and is still doing well health wise. My mental health regarding his weirdness is still suffering.  He can still break into my room at 5 am, no matter what configuration of baby gate placement I can come up with. Faith and I discovered that he has acquired another habit, only in my room though because of the easy access.  We were in my room one day and noticed that 3 photos on my wall divider were curled up like  cigars. The only way a photo curls is by being exposed to moisture. I put them in a drawer under a book not knowing the cause. A day or two later when he was trying to get me up, he was at the end of my bed reaching up to lick a photo. I had another cat that did that, but didn't realize it was a 'thing'. One of the reasons a cat does it, is to seek attention or stress relief. I believe that fits him to a T! It's just another thing added to the list of things he does to drive me crazy. I'll show you some pictures now to counter b...

About a month ago, both of our Ring cameras went offline and I tried every fix I could find. Even Ring chat and a live agent were no help. My little tech guru Faith couldn't get them back online. Funny thing though is that her wireless printer did the same thing.  The main denominator is that we were now on a 5G network and our devices are no longer supported; but that happened probably a year ago so why the problems now? One fix was to split our network into 2 parts, 2.4 GHz and 5G and put the printer and cameras on the 2.4. That just seemed too daunting so I decided to upgrade the camera. Hooked them up and.....the same thing happened. Faith and I were ready to stroke out!! On a whim I decided to do a chat with Century Link. All I said was that our cameras wouldn't connect to our 5G. He asked some questions, then the internet went down. When it came back, I noticed that our network name had a _5G added on to it. I hesitantly connected the cameras and it worked!!! I don't ...