I have lost a lot of my thought I have written due to deleting it by accident on Sunday, March 31, 2024, when I was trying to copy and paste it to my Dear Diary this morning at 7:56 AM! UUGGHH! I am not retyping it today. I will write it in today’s journal…maybe…
My Day
My day today has been great. I am still up and updating my day before 9 PM. I have been watching Downton Abbey all day except when Ken and Tanya have been here. They were here from 2:45 PM to 4:00 PM. We watched Home Restorations where homes in Britian were being restored to their former glory or being remodeled to better the building. As a renter of an apartment, I do not have the luxury of remodeling a home or building, but my dad has the opportunity a few years ago to two homes he lived in in Janesville, Wisconsin. The second home dad bought and lived in for a few years was gutted out completely and built back up from scratch on the inside of the home. New kitchen appliances and counters, and a kitchen counter table to sit at for dinner leaving the dining room for company and family gatherings. I lived in the new home for the last two weeks of high school before graduating, and left home in December 1989 to be in the UCP Apartment Living Program until it closed down in 2020 and was renamed IDS (Independent Disability Services because our new Executive Director changed the name and were no longer under certain affiliates anymore) I was okay with the name change and the new executive director being Gayle at that time, a friend of Nancy’s who retired as executive director s once UCP Apartment Living Program opened before I became a member of the program in December 1989. Now, let me remind you that I was reminded about this last December that I was kicked out of the house about my sisster finding by the time I moved out because I kept dropping my pills on the floor where their two-year-old picked them up and put them in her mouth. To be honest, I did not know that my little sister was finding my dropped pills on the floor. I would have remembered a horrible experience if I saw it for myself, but I did not see it for myself. Now I am not saying it did not happen, but my relationship with my dad had always been a love/hate relationship ever since I was a teenager, and I did not measure up to his standards throughout my lifetime this far and age of 53 ½ years of age. I will be 54 on July 3rd and if God wills it, I will see July 3, 2024, and turn 54 years old.
Thoughts on Chromebook
I am an Apple user. I have an iPhone 12 Pro Max and an iPad. I use them faithfully on a daily basis. I play my games on my phone and iPad everyday while at home or at my dialysis treatment for two hours and forty-five minutes. But lately I have been reading from books from the public library just down the street from my apartment building while I have been at dialysis treatment. The story I am reading now is A Ghost in the Machine by a British author Caroline Graham. Her character she has in her books is a gentleman by the name of DCI Tom Barnaby who has his way of solving a mystery—a canny way of figuring things out for the mystery at hand. As a matter of fact, the gentleman who plays Tom Barnaby is an English actor named John Nettles and his trustworthy sidekick and partner is Sargent Gavin Troy. Daniel Casey is Troy. Tom Barnaby was thirteen seasons and from season 14 – to season 21 is John Barnaby played by Neil Dudgeon and is Tom Barnaby’s cousin, and he had a role in season 12 as a different character not Tom Barnaby’s cousin. Neil’s character was a man who worked in a garden and took plants to the Barnaby’s she and her husband Tom Barnaby’s wife. My thoughts om Chromebook are moot and positive and is rarely used because of my iPad and iPhone. I do like my Chromebook, though. My thoughts are not necessary. I prefer Apple products anyway. I also have a series 5 Apple Watch for the past year now. It was my mom’s until she got a newer iWatch from Papa Lon. Lon is the very man who got me into electronics back when I was ten years old, and my first computer system was a Commodore C64 at the age of 17 at Christmastime in 1987, the year I learned I needed a kidney transplant, and the following year on March 12, 1988, I had my first kidney transplant at UW-Hospital and Clinics and was in the hospital a lot during 1987 and 1988 because of some complications that dealt with my blood pressure or twice regarding my transplanted kidney getting sick a little bit but turned around for thirty-one years before kidney disease grabbed it in 2016. I, then took medication to slow the disease from progressing fast, and I am notopo w dialyzing since May 7, 2019, at the dialysis clinic. Now, starting May 24, 2024, i will have my first meeting over the telephone tele visit with faculty at Froedtert Hospital and Clinics in Milwaukee, Wisconsin since I will not be going to UW to be on the kidney list. Covid vaccines have been required…
Anyway, as far as having my Chromebook, I just wanted something different and Apple products are more expensive now. In fact, Apple products have always been more expensive. Getting my Chromebook from Amazon.com was done in January. With Chromebook not being an Apple product, I do have to admit that I need to refresh my memory about Windows operating system versus Mac iOS (Mac operating system). It has been a few years since I have had a Windows operating system in my presence minus a Fire TV in my bedroom since January now. Alexa versus Siri is a change, and I must remember some things between the two operating systems sometimes, lol. I watch my living room TV that has a Roku box, and my bedroom TV has Roku on it, but it is a little different. Anyway, the Chromebook is something I’ve wanted for some time, and it is a nice product. Steve Jobs versus the other guy does not mean I doesn’t mean I like one over the other—preference—get it? I do…I think.
With the Chromebook Pro I have got in front of me right now has a computer keyboard with the letters being in small capital letters when a normal keyboard has capital letters on the keys. Otherwise, the keyboard does have all the keys in their regular spot I have learned the keyboard in eighth grade using their computers for the first time. Mr. Rotar was my eighth-grade homeroom teacher and science teacher while in eighth grade at Milton Middle School.
This weekend, I have decided to use my Chromebook laptop to get some use of it, and the battery has a long life because I did not have it plugged in and charging for a couple of weeks until a couple of days ago, and the battery percentage was 88%. The other day it was at 78% and has been unplugged for three weeks when the computer was unplugged four weeks ago the first time. Amazing battery life? Maybe, so. I do like my Chromebook, but prefer MacBook Pro series muc
