OK guys, you can be honest. Should I retire the Android? This HTC has served me well but is a pain in the butt to recharge. I have an iPhone 6 ready to spring into action as the replacement device. You might want more details. I'll let you off the hook; they don't matter.
Carol and I finally got out, after the snow day yesterday, her wheely walker and chair both in tow. Last time we started out: battery dead. Call AAA. This time: success in the full mission (the bank, the bookstore, the supermarket).
Speaking of supermarkets, I had no idea Fred Meyer was a Rosicrucian. That came up in this article (screen shot above), which I'm still digesting, about hippies long before anyone had heard of the word. Quakers are prone to experimentalism, I'll admit that's baked in to the jargon.
I didn't fill a whole shopping cart or anything. I wheel Carol around while she keeps the basket in her lap, limiting us to how much we can carry. She had letters to mail as well. The walker stayed in the back seat of the car the whole time. While she sat in Powell's (on Hawthorne) I moved the car from near the bank (also on Hawthorne) to Fred Meyer's (the supermarket).
Carol turns 90 in a few weeks. She's in her 90th year she tells everyone, as when you're 90, you've already done 90 years. We look back on our age.
I'm still in the traffic jam occasioned by the government shutdown, but then a lot of infrastructure is creaky slow, even with offices reopened. We're back to gridlock and things not working, on many floors. I'm not "an overseer" (as Quakers say) who gets privileged access to report on what it's like everywhere. I'm very much in a specific zip code. I do have a restart date.
In the meantime, I have lots to do. I'm experimenting more with Youtube, trying out different variations on a theme, fiddling with hyperparameters. People who go to school to be on camera get feedback from their peers and faculty. Youtube is a different kind of school, but then the first thing is to get noticed. Fortunately, I have a lot of math teacher connections.
Carol wants pretty much the same dinner every night, though I'm not saying without exceptions. There's a default meal plan that's pretty simple, let's put it that way. Simple habits, no frills, that's all encouraged in Quakerism, so I'm not complaining about "too plain". On the contrary, simplicity has many merits.
