I will write this after dinner

[howeird]

And now it is after dinner. My diabetes doctor reminded me that it's all in the timing, especially with the new 5x insulin, so whatever evils I am fighting on the Internet, dinner's at 8, insulin at 9. We'll see how long that lasts. I set up reminders on Google calendar, only to discover my phone is no longer syncing with that. Damned AT&T. Have to tell the phone to sync manually. I'll have to check with Google on why that changed all of a sudden.

Found it - Samsung's fault - cleverly hidden in the Data Usage section when you hit the menu button. Boo, Hiss.

Okay, about today. Did all my to-dos with too much time to spare.

- 7-11 picked up an amazon locker delivery of socks allegedly designed to provide better ventillation
- OSH, bought a rubber mat, a squeegee and a pack of AAA batteries
- Sports Authority, found 1 lb and 2 lb mini dumbbells. Looked at shoes, found some nice Asics, but $150? No thanks.
- UPS, piked up a Zappos package with $50 shoes
- Petco, confirmed they give vaccinations tomorrow at 2

Home, tried on the shoes, they fit okay. Kaan helped me tie them. Knot. These are the first shoes with laces he has seen on me. All my others are slip-on or Velcro.

Watched bits of the Stanford game. Poorly played by both sides. Stanford won but not by a lot. Then on another channel the UW game came on, horrible display of inaccuracy by the QB. It was a rout by halftime, final score I see was 53-24. Urp.

Went out on the patio to read, Domino curled up on her chair for a while, but Kaan stayed inside, on my computer chair. He also camped out in the pet carrier, which is good. He's in there now. Should be easy to get him in there for the trip to Petco tomorrow.

Watched an episode of Elementary. I am liking the direction they are taking it. Nuked my remaining The Mentalist episodes & season pass. A shame. Solid acting, pretty good writing, but the producers have decided to obsess on something they should have ended in Season One.

In the mail today were two items: The US Mint's holiday catalog. and a Truth in Lending letter from the CU which is loaning me the $$ for the house. It gave my credit score, from the same source I got mine from 4 days before, and it was 23 points less. Still excellent, but that's effed up. So I went online like they said, and got my free credit report, but it didn't include the score. 16 pages of other stuff, though.

Mfg rep emailed last night that Mon & Tues there were inspections scheduled on the house. During some of my down time this afternoon I read some of the park's monthly magazine, it was 60% canned content, 20% local info from the community association, and 20% ads. The ads were very useful - the park isn't allowed to recommend service providers, but the magazine was full of ads for everything from maid service to re-leveling contractors.

Some friends are in Zombie Prom, a musical opening November Fools' Day at Sunnyvale community theater, I bought a ticket online for opening night.


Plans for tomorrow:
Car wash
Football
Rabies shot for Kaan
Coffee with Janice before she runs off to India.

Comments

[lemmozine.livejournal.com]

I recently had a weird thing happen with my Android (LG - I got it to replace a Samsung with a pullout keyboard that broke, because none of the newer Samsung models had pullout keyboards and the LG did) - the GPS navigator app I was using completely disappeared. I'm pretty certain I didn't delete it. It was one that came with the phone when I bought it. I don't remember the name of the app, but I was used to it and it had settings for my frequently searched places, like finding my way home, etc. I looked through the apps available and didn't see the icon anywhere on my phone or in the playstore.

So, 2 questions: any way of tracking down what it was or where it went?

Any recommendations for a good replacement app?

[howeird]

Every brand of phone has its own set of apps which it bundles. Samsung bundles a navigator, LG probably doesn't. I use Google Maps for that.

[lemmozine.livejournal.com]

As I reall, the app in question was bundled - with my Samsung Galaxy that broke - and transferred along with my other apps when I bought the LG. There were 2 non-Google GPS apps bundled with the either the Samsung or the LG or both. One was TeleNav GPS, which has since been replaced by Scout. The other is the one I was using that mysteriously disappeared. I'm pretty sure I was using it when I had the Samsung. And it isn't the common problem of apps falling off the screen but still available in the apps manager - the app is nowhere on my phone, like it deleted itself somehow.

Are apps bundled by the phone manufacturer, the carrier, or both? I notice there are Sprint apps bundled on my phone; I assume those were added by Sprint. So the app I'm talking about may have been bundled by Sprint, not LG or Samsung.

[howeird]

Apps can be bundled by either the manufacturer or the carrier. Best thing to do is search for it in Google Play.

[susandennis]

what happened about the 1 cat limit?

[howeird]

I only told them about Kaan.

[susandennis]

ahhh. we've had lots of clashes with the pet rules here which is why i ask. so far no one has been able to skirt by.

[howeird]

Well, since this is a detached home and the cats will only be indoors, and the city allows up to 3 pets per household, I'm not feeling too guilty.

[lemmozine.livejournal.com]

So, you're planning to keep the cats indoors and hope no one notices?

I just talked to an old friend yesterday - he has 9 cats (the limit in Denver is 4) plus an array of homeless cats he feeds that frequent his back yard. The city got complaints about the homeless cats and he's been told to get rid of them. He's looking into a couple of "no kill" shelters. I advised him to put an ad in Craig's list. I doubt that will help. So far, the city doesn't know he has 9 cats indoors.

[vasilatos]

It was the RedJon (Red John?) thing on The Mentalist, right? Deathly dull, ruined the show.

[howeird]

Yup