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As Christine puts it, "We so badass, we can answer phone calls and use paper." It was a very 2005 technology day.
I now have screen recordings of pings of 8.8.8.8 and the modem's DSL 1 & DSL 2 status pages when a call is placed to our number. The pings fail to connect and DLS 1 goes to "poor" and "not available" and we loose internet. Such fun. But our new call screening telephone is plugged in. Callers must say their name and push # before it rings through to us. We have added some known phone numbers who should be able to ring through, as well. And we have a dial tone calling out.
And we have set up a very nice hand-me-down color laser printer from my sister's family and we can print in *color* for the first time since... a decade? Two decades? We gave up on ink jets; getting photos printed at drugstores or online photo printers from digital files was far better quality.
Anyhow, it looks like i will be on calls to tech support at CenturyLink tomorrow. Joy.
I was looking for a readable copy of the surgeon's paper on the butterfly graft this morning, and the Springer Verlag site's preview called out one of the references: Nestor, James. Breath the New Science of a Lost Art, 2020. So, i poked at that on Amazon and thought about acquiring it. One of the adoring reviews is from someone who is an advocate of the "Modern humans faces are all flat because we don't chew enough hard things" which has some fringy elements to it. So, i checked Overdrive and it's available there -- and also Overdrive recommended is a book of what you can do to select your baby's sex. Eyebrow raising, that, while also triggering all sorts of problematic flags.
Among all the... seemingly fringe... health topics was also a Zentangle book -- Krahula, Beckah. Tangle Art Pack, 2012. I checked it out and spent time while Christine watched a troubling Kenneth Branagh Wallender episode reading and actually learning. Best trick was not from the book, but reviving a Helix 0.5 mm pigment pen by leaving it in a cup of hot water. I'm using a notebook i started in 2012 with the livescribe digital pen. Fine, i'll fill it out with these doodles. Ahem, tangles. I have mixed opinions of the Zentangle practice, and it isn't exactly where i want to head. But i suspect it is good practice with line and shading. I have also been reading The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling which is more where i would like to head. I think the Zentangling is complementary.
I now have screen recordings of pings of 8.8.8.8 and the modem's DSL 1 & DSL 2 status pages when a call is placed to our number. The pings fail to connect and DLS 1 goes to "poor" and "not available" and we loose internet. Such fun. But our new call screening telephone is plugged in. Callers must say their name and push # before it rings through to us. We have added some known phone numbers who should be able to ring through, as well. And we have a dial tone calling out.
And we have set up a very nice hand-me-down color laser printer from my sister's family and we can print in *color* for the first time since... a decade? Two decades? We gave up on ink jets; getting photos printed at drugstores or online photo printers from digital files was far better quality.
Anyhow, it looks like i will be on calls to tech support at CenturyLink tomorrow. Joy.
I was looking for a readable copy of the surgeon's paper on the butterfly graft this morning, and the Springer Verlag site's preview called out one of the references: Nestor, James. Breath the New Science of a Lost Art, 2020. So, i poked at that on Amazon and thought about acquiring it. One of the adoring reviews is from someone who is an advocate of the "Modern humans faces are all flat because we don't chew enough hard things" which has some fringy elements to it. So, i checked Overdrive and it's available there -- and also Overdrive recommended is a book of what you can do to select your baby's sex. Eyebrow raising, that, while also triggering all sorts of problematic flags.
Among all the... seemingly fringe... health topics was also a Zentangle book -- Krahula, Beckah. Tangle Art Pack, 2012. I checked it out and spent time while Christine watched a troubling Kenneth Branagh Wallender episode reading and actually learning. Best trick was not from the book, but reviving a Helix 0.5 mm pigment pen by leaving it in a cup of hot water. I'm using a notebook i started in 2012 with the livescribe digital pen. Fine, i'll fill it out with these doodles. Ahem, tangles. I have mixed opinions of the Zentangle practice, and it isn't exactly where i want to head. But i suspect it is good practice with line and shading. I have also been reading The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling which is more where i would like to head. I think the Zentangling is complementary.
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