TL;DR if you have an Android phone go turn off the tracking ID: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/how-disable-ad-id-tracking-ios-and-android-and-why-you-should-do-it-nowRead more... )

I continue in this cycle of feeling crinkly and dissatisfied and frustrated since mid-early June -- essentially from the point when "I'm recovering from surgery" ceased being an explanation for anything. There have been many excuses, and on the whole i lean towards accepting that i was carrying things in emotional and social dimensions that limited ( Read more... )

I will admit i am in a bit of a mood ( Read more... )

Such happy news: Dad's exhaustion is gone and i am not taking next week to do respite. Dad has been taking medication for tachycardia for years. Years ago, if i recall correctly, he had an adrenaline attack, and following up found he'd had an unobserved, unidentified heart attack (years before that) and he was diagnosed with tachycardia, and went ( Read more... )

I've tried watching Bridgerton. The first episode didn't grab me. Episodes 2, with the moody Duke's backstory, did engage me, so i found myself binging episodes 3 and 4, which sort of wrapped up an arc of Daphne's debutante season. But, that done, i am less excited about watching the next episode. It is, apparently, a Queen focused episode. A ( Read more... )

There was a somewhat blown out of proportion article about sharing your phone number on the NY Times, so i did a search on mine. I found out a page i had up to provide contact information on LJ was public. Ugh. What other free information was less concerning - the area code is associated with a place i haven't lived for 19 years, the carrier ( Read more... )