Today’s moment of panic:

Due my work schedule and the fact that I’m trying to appreciate the thing called sleep, I don’t go to the store on work days.So last night as I was loading my coffee maker, it occurred to me that I will run out of coffee before the next ‘weekend’.That set off a mini-panic until I realized that there was a Wally World right next to work, and I can grab a tin of Folgers on the way home. For about the price of the Venti Sugar Free Cinnamon Dulce Iced Latte that I paid for on Satruday at Starbucks, but I never got (side note for Starbucks: raising your prices won’t drive away customers. But poor customer service will)…

More on the Starbucks fiasco later…

Soon Tuesday will be upon us….

And that will mean a return to work. But I’m ready. Errands have been run. Laundry is done and put away. Thoug hit kinda sucks that I washed my phone headphones too. And dried them. I figured they’re DOA, so I just trhew them out. And I ordered some new ones off of Spamazon. I could’ve gotten them from Worst Buy, but I still have Amazon Prime. And that’s still free 2day shipping….

It’s Tuesdsay tomorrow. And that means back to work. Goodnight.

So I got Marshmallow last night….

So I got around to upgrading my phone to Marshmallow last night. I went with the VenomROM, like I’ve always done with this phone. All the previous ROMs that I’ve had on this phone have been Sense 6.0, and my current ROM has Sense 8.0 (it’s actually a port from the HTC M10), so there are going to be some changes. But I do like the fact that Andriod Pay now works (never worked before because my phone has always been rooted). I do have some concerns about the home screens (bfore I was able to have a 5x6 display on the home screen, but now the best I can do is 4x5), but that’s nothing really to be concerned about. I’m still working my way through setting it up, but I’m sufficiently impressed. At the least the mail app doesn’t crash when I try to write an email…

Candy, anyone?

Nothing special here. I’m just putting Marshmallow on my phone. I don’t know how well it’ll work out, but I also have my KitKat and Lollipop ROMS also stashed away on my phone’s memory card. Hopefully I won’t need them….

He’s in..

It’s finally happened. Ken Griffey jr. is now in the baseball Hall Of Fame. Along with Dave Niehaus. He started his career with the Mariners, and he ended as a Mariner.

Now I just want to see King Felix get in….

Lesson learned today….

Tried getting more than 4 of hours of sleep last night. And I thought it went so well that I skipped the morning cup of coffee. And I was a zombie at work. Needless to say when it came for my morning break, I immediately had a Monster. Lesson learned: caffienne is more powerful than sleep. Though never underestimate the power of sleep…

And in this corner....

According to the news, Donald Trump has been nominated by the Republican party. I'm not saying that as an implied endorsement. As of right now,I have not endorsed any candidate for President. But I am a registered voter. I take my civic responsibility very seriously. I have voted in every presidential election since 1992. My candidates of choice have not always been elected. It's never about vote for who you'll think will when. It's vote for who's the best qualified for the office. For who you think the country needs the most.

Speaking of being a registered voter, I was registered before I was 18. The loophole here is that while I was 17 when I registered, the election took place after I was 18. My senior year in high school, we took a class called government and society (basically civics), and a lot of it dealt with current events (the cold war ended when I was in high school). And I was the only registered voter in class (if I recall correctly).

Many things have changed since those 24 years ago. My civic responsibility has not. Yes, this fall,I will vote. And I will vote my conscience. And you should, too.

It ain’t over till it’s over…

Watching the Mariners game tonight before I went to bed. They were down 3-0 to the Chicago White Sox at The Safe. Bottom of the 9th is when the bats come alive. And Adam Lindh won it with a 3-run shot.

Say what you will about The New World Order (Mind-Control Division). But the game isn’t over until the 9th inning….

What a good day off…

I have sundays and mondays off. Usually Sunday is my recovery day from work. This is the day when I sleep in, and in general try to do as little as possible while I recover from 5 days of 16 hours oout of the house. Mondays are my errands days, and when I get ready for the forthcoming workweek. Today, I didn’t have any errands to run. So, this was an extra day of recovery. I slept in way too late. And then when I got up, I decided I wanted pizza and wings for breakfast. So, I went to Little Ceasers and got pizza and wings. And I made sure to get an extra pizza, so my roommate could partake in the heartburn and indigestion as well…

From an email I was writing...

I was writing an email to a friend tonight, and it just about sums up June for me:

My mother passed away on June 5th. I was the one who found the body. Per her wishes, she was cremated. A memorial is scheduled on the 31st. I've kept a stiff upper lip for the most part, but the past month and a half have been harder than I let on. Losing a parent is hard. At first the thought was not to tell you. This was my cross to bear. And I was going to take it up with dignity and a stiff upper lip.

It's been a month and change, and it still hurts. But as painful as it is, I will not let the pain darken my heart, and will learn wisdom from this. Cherish your loved ones while you still have them. For you don't know when they will be taken from you, and there is no bargaining with death...

I shall overcome....

Not to go to deeply into certain matters, but that's all I can say. It must needs be. And it is very hard to shake my mind off of certain subject of late that are troubling. I keep telling myself that I'm not supposed to have an ego, and yet I still find that which I thought I didn't have getting bruised. I keep waiting for the reply when I've never sent the message. I've tried telling myself to let it go, but it seems like it never was to begin with.

I shall overcome. Yet, I am uneasy...

What was I doing?

Call it poor judgement. Call it another misadventure on the internet. But last night, I was looking for a .apk file for my phone. I thought I found it, but when I went to download it, instead of the file, it was a .exe file. It could be an installer, I thought, so I downloaded it. My first mistake. Then I ran it, and it downloaded another file. And ran it without my consent. Then Windows Defender started going off about detecting malware. And that was when I had the Oh Shit moment. Immediately it downloaded and installed all sorts of crap and set it to automatically run. And then it deleted all of my browser shortcut and replaced them with modified ones that would go through the malware, not the browsers. Of course I immediately tried to clean it up. Windows Defender caught the torjan horse and deleted it. And I found the hidden shortcuts, and replaced the borgus shortcuts with them. But it still had changed my startup home page, and I couldn't get a reset to stick. So I did the only thing I recommend when you have a virus: nuke the system. So now I have to start over from scratch, with a backup that's over a month old.

But there is no virus that can survive the format c: command.....

With all the stuff that's gone on this week...

It's not just Black Lives Matter. Granted that given the history of racism and discrimination, attention should still be paid to that matter. It's not just White Lives Matter. It's not just Hispanic Lives Matter. It's not just Brown Lives Matter.

It's All Lives Matter. All life is precious.  Including yours.

Any questions?

Nothing to say...

I'm not going to comment on the shootings in Minnesota, Baton Rouge, or in Dallas tonight.

Other than to say that the bloodshed needs to stop....

Violence. Is. Evil.

It is Wednesday...

Today is Wednesday. Tell your loved ones today that you love them. Cherish your times with them. Because when they're gone, they're gone. Death cannot be bargained with.

And also Eid Mubarak to those of you who are celebrating today.

The fireworks are over…

I watched the fireworks on KIRO this year. I think this it the first Independence Day that I was able to go without Lee Greenwood’s Proud To Be An American. And that is definitely not a bad thing….

Anyway, enjoy what’s left of your fourth. I’m going to bed. Goodnight.

‘Murica! F*ck Yeah!

Today is the Fourth of July. The day we celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence. By getting drunk and blowing ourselves up. I’ve long since given up. On both drinking and blowing things up. Fingers are undervalued. Keep them while you still can. So I’m celebrating the Fourth by staying home and watching the trained professionals blow themselves up. Actually this year, my celebration is watching baseball on tv (BTW the Mariners swept the O’s yesterday. First 4 game sweep since 2000).

Have a happy Fourth. Celebrate it as you see fit, but keep it safe. And if you drink, then for the love of all that is sacred and holy, please don’t drive…

A better start today...

Today starts better than yesterday. Yesterday, I forgot my phone. So there was no facebooking on my break. No browsing the news on the bus. And I was a little bit cranky without my lunchbreak power nap timer...

What a crazy weekend…..

When I’m at work, I’m at work. Boredom is never a concern. Owing to the commute involved, I can be out of the house for 16 hours or so. I’ve also notice that I’m going to bed a lot earlier that I used to. When I was a teenager, and even when I closed at Mrs Fields, I could go to bed at two, and get up at noon, then shower and be out the door to work. Now I’m working morning/day shifts at full-time, which means I attempt to go to bed by 8 or 9. Sometimes I’m retiring by 7:30. Which is probably why it was decided that I should get mom’s AC, since I have a western facing window, and it sucks trying to sleep during the heat of the day. But I digress….

This weekend was busy. We are still trying to get Mom’s apartment cleaned out (she passed on right after the rent for June was paid, so we’re taking the entire month to do it. Most of the stuff is out of there by now. Karen, by younger sister, has her secretary desk. Which, btw, was in my room growing up (a little background: I had two brothers, and we usually shared the same room. Oldest sister moved out, then moved back in, and it was decided that I would take over the den as my room, as my sisters needed the larger bedroom, and 3 brothers in the smallest room in the house is just plain wrong. Nowadays, I still share an apartment with my little brother, and we’ve made sure we both have our own rooms.) A lot of the items are going to our older sister’s house, where it will be arranged for sale, or for distribution (making sure the keepsakes stay in the family).

Mom has been cremated already. Plans for celebration/memorial are still pending. It’s just one day at a time. Times like this when I feel the most grateful for being so busy at work. At least I have something to concentrate on. We have a couple of more trips to make, and then it will be done….

With all the events of the past two weeks…

I should mention that once you go with a 55” tv, you can never go back. I tried replacing mine with a 32” RCA set that I ordered from Wally World. But within a week of getting it, I was looking for a 55” set. And I found one. Along with no interest financing. I got a Vizio D55-D2. This was the Wednesday before Mom’s passing. Friday, I got the shipment notice. Sunday, we all know what happened. Last week, my TV arrived. And it was set up on the same TV stand as before.

Some things I like about it:

• Wi-fi access. Yes, it is a smart tv. And along with it come:
• Apps. I like one click access to Netflix, Hulu, and Spamazon. Along with Youtube. My Blu-Ray also has them, but it’s easier to access them straight from the TV.
• 3 HDMI inputs. The 55” Sony only had one, and that was taken by the Blu-Ray. I had to get a Cable Box with a component video output. Now, I can connect my Blu-Ray, my HD Cable Box, and my computer with HDMI.
• And finally, the lower power consumption. Only 41 watts. Where my rear-projection set used 240+ watts.

Right now, I’m using it to watch the Mariners beat up on the Tigers (currently leading 6-5 in the bottom of the 7th…).