Contentment has eroded my blogging skills. Instead of using the Internet as nature intended (Blogger and Facebook), I have been using it to order some necessities and niceties from faraway lands (Amazon).
There have been parties, and breakfasts, and lunches, and visits with friends, and civic duties, and in-between there have been glorious solitude and home projects. My friend, John, has been schooling me on the mathiness of solar power, and telling me what I need in order to use the small system already in place.
I have been ordering shelving, and my favorites by a neck, shoulders, and withers are these units from Seville Classics:
About the same price I've paid for flimsy shelves from Walmart and Bed, Bath & Beyond, and super-solid. Unbelievably easy to assemble, and look who's telling you that.
While I'm feeling appreciative of stuff, let me tell you about my new Acer Chromebook:
This is what I really wanted when I bought a tablet - I just didn't know it. Thirteen (13!) hour battery life, charges in a fraction of the time it takes my laptop, does almost everything I want a laptop to do, very lightweight. This is a chromebook with just 16 Gb of hard-drive, so it's not suitable for storing much. However, you can offload pictures to it and edit with Chrome photo editor extensions.
If you're a Firefox user, you can't download the browser to these machines, but you can install a User-Agent Switcher extension if you need a website to see a browser other than Chrome.
Weather here has been lovely. Maybe a sweater during the day, warm blankets at night. I got to volunteer at the local food pantry this week, and even got a little sweaty.
My friend and social director, Betty (Datilady), makes sure I don't stay idle or solitary for too long. She knows a lot (A LOT) of people.
If you're worried that my tires will get square here, I'm off to Arizona high country for Thanksgiving. After that ... uh, I'll have to let you know.
