Today's Keyboard Smash
Nov. 21st, 2020 05:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scrubjayspeaksAnd it was another good day! The new iPad arrived and I managed to go through the setup process more or less successfully. Because the old one is SO old, the process of transferring things from it to the new one was slightly harder than it might otherwise have been. But I did it!
The one thing that pisses me off, though, is that the backup/restore process doesn't actually backup or restore the apps themselves. I mean, it loaded onto the new one the...the idea of those apps. But it still required all of them to be downloaded anew. On my shitty internet, that's one thing I was really hoping to avoid. This is more than just a petty annoyance, though. I discovered that some of the apps are actually obsolete now. As in, they no longer exist in the app store. Which means they CAN'T be downloaded anew, for love or money.
This blows huge donkey balls, because a couple of the now-inaccessible apps are ones I used constantly. I still have them on the old ipad, which means its new lot in life has been secured. It will be my alarm radio. It'll stay plugged in by my bed to wake me up and serve as a little radio. I can load music on it and keep some of the media apps that I might want to have on such a thing. I'll strip out the games and such to make more room. Still. Annoyed.
Anyway! NaClYoHo cleaning report! I had planned to clean the freezer, but I hadn't been anticipating the iPad arriving shortly after I finished with that. So the freezer ended up being the only thing I got to today. Mum helped with that, which was good because it was really a two-person job. It's now all sorted out, with things assigned to their proper shelves. One of those shelves? Exclusively tomato storage. We have--and I shudder to even think of this--FIFTEEN gallon bags of regular tomatoes and another three smaller bags of cherry tomatoes. Fuck. God. It's a whole tomato-based lifestyle we've got going on here. Tonight we're making dubious soup out of old vegetables to clear out some of the elderly stuff. That'll be something, won't it?
It was six out of seven days again this week, with Thursday being the off day. I just flat ran out of energy at the end of the week. It was an assortment of areas this week. I worked on cleaning off the window sill and fixing some of the things displayed there. Cleaned under the clothing rack--the clothing will be a later project. I dusted the glow-in-the-dark stars suspended from the ceiling and the moon lantern.
This week marked the first forays into cleaning beyond my room. Expanding my territory! The freezer in the house got partially cleaned, as did part of the spice cabinet, just because there was an urgent need for space. The area where my backpack and shoes live got a spinny rack installed in it (purchased for the high price of nothing at all from the storage container full of furniture that will one day be tackled). The dvd rack area has been started, but that will take all of next week to finish off. The table next to it got sorted out, but I put a lot of stuff back on it again. Some of those things will, hopefully, find a different permanent home eventually. But we're getting into areas where things have to just be shuffled around, because permanent homes are contingent on cleaning out other areas first. But hey, at least I know exactly what I'm going to focus on for the coming week!
Six and a half hours total, which is a big jump thanks to a weekend of dedicated cleaning time. Listened to King Falls AM #40, Hidden Almanac Feb. 19-March 9, and some music. Toward the end of the week, I either couldn't get any time alone to listen to podcasts or I needed to run the vacuum too much to enjoy them. Hopefully I'll get back to them during the week.
The one thing that pisses me off, though, is that the backup/restore process doesn't actually backup or restore the apps themselves. I mean, it loaded onto the new one the...the idea of those apps. But it still required all of them to be downloaded anew. On my shitty internet, that's one thing I was really hoping to avoid. This is more than just a petty annoyance, though. I discovered that some of the apps are actually obsolete now. As in, they no longer exist in the app store. Which means they CAN'T be downloaded anew, for love or money.
This blows huge donkey balls, because a couple of the now-inaccessible apps are ones I used constantly. I still have them on the old ipad, which means its new lot in life has been secured. It will be my alarm radio. It'll stay plugged in by my bed to wake me up and serve as a little radio. I can load music on it and keep some of the media apps that I might want to have on such a thing. I'll strip out the games and such to make more room. Still. Annoyed.
Anyway! NaClYoHo cleaning report! I had planned to clean the freezer, but I hadn't been anticipating the iPad arriving shortly after I finished with that. So the freezer ended up being the only thing I got to today. Mum helped with that, which was good because it was really a two-person job. It's now all sorted out, with things assigned to their proper shelves. One of those shelves? Exclusively tomato storage. We have--and I shudder to even think of this--FIFTEEN gallon bags of regular tomatoes and another three smaller bags of cherry tomatoes. Fuck. God. It's a whole tomato-based lifestyle we've got going on here. Tonight we're making dubious soup out of old vegetables to clear out some of the elderly stuff. That'll be something, won't it?
It was six out of seven days again this week, with Thursday being the off day. I just flat ran out of energy at the end of the week. It was an assortment of areas this week. I worked on cleaning off the window sill and fixing some of the things displayed there. Cleaned under the clothing rack--the clothing will be a later project. I dusted the glow-in-the-dark stars suspended from the ceiling and the moon lantern.
This week marked the first forays into cleaning beyond my room. Expanding my territory! The freezer in the house got partially cleaned, as did part of the spice cabinet, just because there was an urgent need for space. The area where my backpack and shoes live got a spinny rack installed in it (purchased for the high price of nothing at all from the storage container full of furniture that will one day be tackled). The dvd rack area has been started, but that will take all of next week to finish off. The table next to it got sorted out, but I put a lot of stuff back on it again. Some of those things will, hopefully, find a different permanent home eventually. But we're getting into areas where things have to just be shuffled around, because permanent homes are contingent on cleaning out other areas first. But hey, at least I know exactly what I'm going to focus on for the coming week!
Six and a half hours total, which is a big jump thanks to a weekend of dedicated cleaning time. Listened to King Falls AM #40, Hidden Almanac Feb. 19-March 9, and some music. Toward the end of the week, I either couldn't get any time alone to listen to podcasts or I needed to run the vacuum too much to enjoy them. Hopefully I'll get back to them during the week.
