Okay, so there’s nothing really interesting to say about this. It’s just freshly ground coffee. But, to me, it’s a thing of beauty … in looks and smell!
freshly ground coffee
unprepared for havoc
Okay, I admit it. Havoc happened. I went out to start the van this morning, and it wouldn’t start. I forgot to plug it in. So I plugged it in and waited. Still, the engine spun around and around, but it didn’t fire up. I used the little Noco Boost Plus battery booster, and it still just spun around but didn’t fire.
havoc (or cold snap)
It used to be the norm here in Alberta – -20-40°C – but lately we have become soft. Up until about a week ago, we’ve been hovering between -2°C and +15°C, but that all changed. Our home weather station said that we got down to -37°C yesterday morning at 8:00am. Are people prepared? You’d think it was the end of the world. The newspaper says,
online shopping (temu.com)
I wrote to the website, temu.com, to share my views. I think companies ought to know why someone passes them by.
As soon as I try to view a product (from duckduckgo.com), I’m immediately brought to a registration page. I’ve tried several times to view something and have to pres the ‘esc’ button to prevent it. When trying to view details, it does the same thing. Either this is a glitch on your website or a heavy-handed approach to push customers to sign up. Either way, it has dissuaded me from purchasing from you. You seem to have a great selection of what I want, but I am unwilling to put up with this. I wouldn’t allow this in a physical store of any kind, a work environment, a church, playing cards with friends, or any other environment. Let ME choose if I wish to sign up.
Think they’ll care?
another one bites the dust (HBC Neo MC)
I cancelled another credit card – this time HBC’s Neo MasterCard. Why? I think 24% is a bit excessive, don’t you? As well, I can’t download transactions into Microsoft Money (my accounting software).
You’d be surprised at how many banking / credit card people who don’t know the difference between transactions and statements. Transactions are they actual purchases, payments, charges, etc. that one incurs, downloadable as digital whatnots that financial or spreadsheet software can read. Statements are paper or PDFs that you can download to view the transactions of a given period.
Scotiabank, Home Depot, HBC Neo, and Walmart MasterCard all have no downloadable transactions. So, I rarely use them … except for Scotiabank because they give me a sweet interest rate.
heat pump explained (with boiler)
I found this while snooping around on the internet. For those of you who keep hearing about heat pumps but still know nothing about them, this is a pretty good visualization.
A fridge but in reverse? The fascinating science of heat pumps – visualised – The Guardian (newspaper in the UK)
…except that boilers are certainly not the norm here in western Canada. Substitute boiler with heat exchanger.
So I’ve had a heat pump at 520 for over a year now, and it works well. To be honest, though, we still haven’t had much of a winter yet this winter. If / when it ever gets down to -40°C, then we’ll actually put it to the test.
fever broke
I’ve been sick the past week or so – chills & sweats, fever (38.9°C / 102.0°F), extreme headaches (like 7/10), lots of sleep, coughing, burning chest, etc. I must have sweated half a litre by now.
I did a COVID test. It turned out to be negative. (I’m not entirely sure if I did it right.) I called Health Link (811). They said go to the hospital – it might be pneumonia. I went. They said it wasn’t pneumonia but lung, nasal, & throat inflammation and a flu. Yay.
The fever finally began to break yesterday evening. I was down to 99.6°F / 37.6°C. (I’m usually 36.5°C.)
Floyd was also ill – he got sick before me by about a day – but he’s not been as ill as me. He sounded like he swallowed a gunny sack full of frogs for a few days. Now he’s out and about, mostly better. I’m still nursing myself at home.
flat
Flip! I got a flat. I knew it was low Friday evening. I borrowed FT’s car to go to Milk River for tutoring. But today it’s flat than a pancake (but only on the bottom, so that’s good).
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 60 years later
Today marks the 60th anniversary that John Fitzgerald Kennedy, former President of the United States, was assassinated. That was before I was even born, and yet it has had a strong lingering effect.
dream 20231119
2023-11-19 dream
I was sleeping in the rear suite at 520, what Floyd and I have been working on, and woke up to find the shed was moving down the alley by itself. I soon realized that the wind likely couldn’t do that, so it had to be pulled by a truck.