It’s nice today. Nice enough to walk on the beach without a parka. There was a chilly wind half the time, and then suddenly it was like someone flipped a switch and the breeze got warm. It was like spring. Except with the cheerful news that the polar vortex is making a comeback. Would this winter kindly give up the ghost already?
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Inbox zero-ish
Back at the beginning of August, I resolved to try out Inbox Zero, in which one aims to have zero emails in the inbox. The idea is to keep on top of stuff. Respond to what needs a response, read what needs reading, ditch what you don’t need.
Slightly over six months on, I am pleased to find I am still at inbox zero-ish. On a day to day basis there are usually a few emails in my inbox, mostly things that have not been moved yet as a reminder to myself not to let them slide. My Gmail account tends to get a little messier (on occasion inbox zero is more like inbox 25) mostly because it’s more tedious to sort emails on my phone, which is how I usually interact with that account. So I need to figure out something to do about that so I don’t keep stacking up emails I don’t need.
But otherwise, I am pleased. I no longer wind up with things buried in the chaos, and I feel like I’m dealing with most things in a timely fashion. What’s more, the habit seems to have solidified.
P365 enjoys the sun while it lasts
Spent the entire afternoon enjoying the sun- and almost stepped on this before I knew it was there. Seems a few of them are still alive and kicking.
Growing strong
It seemed like a good idea at the time…
New swim bag and new fins arrived today, just in time for my trip to the pool. Turns out the new fins work different muscle groups than the old ones. (Also require working harder. Because fluid dynamics.) My whole self is going to hate me in the morning. My butt has chosen to get a head start and commenced hating tonight.
If you were wondering, today’s P365 photo has been duly taken, but is still on camera instead of on Flickr.
Things I learned today
First and most importantly, I learned that macular degeneration is all kinds of not fun. Not that I wasn’t already aware, but the more details I get, the worse it sounds.
I was at my grandmother’s house, trying to figure out how best to make something to help her remember how the new CD/tape player my uncle got her works. I thought color coding the buttons would be a viable thing, but it turns out she can’t see colors so well anymore. I never realized that the ability to see color was part of the degeneration of vision.(Not long after that, ‘help with the CD player’ turned into ‘completely rearrange the living room- why didn’t you say you couldn’t see the TV from where your chair is??’)
This leads to the next thing I learned, which is those little plastic and foam sliders for moving furniture WORK. My wee self was able to move a sleeper couch around no problem. Reducing friction for the win!
Finally, while on an expedition to Lowe’s*, I learned that Pantone now does paint. This I did not know. I did, fortunately, know that they also venture to declare a ‘color of the year’, otherwise I would have been considerably more sarcastic about the display set up in front of the Pantone paint samples for the color of the year. (Radiant Orchid, seen below at left. Not to be confused with Wild Orchid, shown on right.)
Though I rather resent the notion that only pinks and purples should be called orchids, because my favorite orchids look like this:
*Also, I learned that some businesses are slow in the face of competition. Lowe’s, the Home Depot across the way and the local Tractor Supply both have their seeds and seed starting stuff out already. Get with it!
Note to self
Going to the post office the day after a long weekend which was preceded by winter weather and Valentine’s Day is a really bad idea. Don’t do that again.
P365 – Another Thing From the Beach
Not everything I found at the beach was strange and unusual.
Help from the hive mind?
Does anyone recognize this- or know someone who might? I’m insanely curious about what it actually is. I found it on the beach yesterday, and it’s pretty unusual- most marine debris on this beach is along the lines of plastic bags, sunglasses, hats, shoes, kids toys, and food/drink packaging with the occasional bits of fishing or crabbing kit. This does not appear to fall into any of those categories. I’ve appealed to Twitter, but so far, nada. Thoughts?
Oops
Turns out that if you forget the password to a website, rather than dither about what the password is, you should just re-set the silly thing. This is why everyone gives you that nifty little password reset link. (It gets more ridiculous- when I did finally reset it, I realized I was re-setting the password to what it was in the first place.)
Which is all a long-winded way of saying that I didn’t forget this place. Will work on posting P365 photos sometime this evening.