Good things for the week of March 16th.

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OK I’ll try not to do that again. I looked at my last post date, and it was a month ago, holy crap! I basically skipped the month that Richins, the case I’m following, is in trial, but that’s not really a reason, because I usually post on Sundays, so I have no idea why I did it lol!

  1. my Boundaries class at church! A lot of fun, but also very deep. Thankfully, this one is in the sanctuary, and it’s only six weeks long! No more seminary for me!!!!!!!!!!
  2. The case of Utah Verses Kouri Richins. It’s a very interesting case. I think it’s because Utah is a very interesting state. They tend to let defense attorneys get away with twisting around all over the place with their questions, asking compound ones that are really really long, mischaracterizing everything, and just being rather ridiculous. There were really long arguments that were all for nothing, because the defense never put on a case! That is, until the Judge really doesn’t like the mischaracterizing, etc, then he’ll say something, but otherwise nah. The state couldn’t jump up and object every second either, otherwise the jury would get mad. We did have a whole bunch of objections!! Since the defense didn’t put on a case, Closings will be tomorrow.
  3. Although I had to pay for it, having my computer recovered at Staples. It’s so much easier now that I can task switch back and forth!!!
  4. Completely getting rid of threading in thunderbird. I didn’t have to ditch Thunderbird, if I got rid of that ridiculous thing!!!
  5. Streamers who cover cases, and read filings. .My biggest tip is to find the ones that cover trials and hearings, and read filings. This way, you’ll have the cleanest record of a case. If you just find someone reading from a script about a case to you, you’ll need to go do further research. You can also use a clean feed. I’ll very often use clean feeds! If it’s a filing, there’s no such thing as a clean feed of a filing that I can actually use. A clean feed is a feed without running commentary. Here’s my one big tip and condition for that. If you constantly talk over the testimony without pausing. It’s a no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The reason is, it distracts me, and I can’t concentrate on the testimony, I start to concentrate on what the streamer is saying. If you can hold your thoughts in until you manage to pause the court feed, or until theirs a break, then great, we’re good! So,when I’m in a trial, I do prefer something for reading purposes. If you have the style where you put something on the screen, and don’t ask the witness to read it, Thanks but never thanks to the prosecutor in Richins!!! I would like the commentator to read it for me. However, I don’t need and/or want constant chattyness.

Good things for the week of February 15th.

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Yeah, I skipped good things for a while, but I’m back to post them today!

  1. Therapy appointments, especially after getting a new phone, and really having to learn how to use it.
  2. Ditching Thunderbird, because it’s just been a hassle, I can’t stand conversation threading, and as of now, there’s no way to disable it, but not only that, it’s started asking me every time I go to delete an email. Really I just pressed delete, stop asking me if I want to confirm deletion of that message, thanks! So far, I’ve installed Microsoft mail, but if anyone has any accessible alternatives, I’ll take them.
  3. New phones, you might be asking what? It has been an interesting experience, one I put off for way too long, getting to learn the new iPhone, unfortunately I bricked my old one though, so no using it after that. I needed a new phone!

Here’s a slight prayer request, the volunteer who takes me to church told me she’ll be house sitting throughout all of March and April. The church is aware of this, so hopefully they can find a ride for me, if not, it’s back to using rideshare.

Good things for the week of February 1st.

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OK OK so last week’s post failed spectacularly, just like my phone is right now! I tried to put a link in that for some reason, it didn’t like. I still like that service, I’ll put the link in as an URL, or try to this time! I’m now testing two clients, so I intend to link to those as well!

  1. Church worship night! Unfortunately I won’t be able to go this time, hopefully they’ll do it somewhat often. By that i mean, once every few months or so.
  2. https://scour.ing This is a really cool service that filters your RSS feeds for you, surfaces the interests you add, and gives you a feed of the feeds you’ve added. It will also recommend feeds for you. CP went weird on this link, so you might need to copy and paste it.
  3. BlindRSS!!! I’ve been looking for an RSS reader for a decade and a half at this point. I’m not sure if I’ve ever prayed about it, but it would be an answer to prayer!!! Mostly because when Google Reader shut down, it left me without an alternative, I was able to replace it temporarily, but the replacements really don’t work that well for me. In comes a vibe coded app 13 years later, by a random blind dude using AI!!!
    Also, it’s effectively feeds list by default, none of this timeline crap! Your feeds don’t look like new Reddit, or X!! Most people say the feeds list format looks like an email, but I say it looks like a list of feeds. There’s no email involved, or inbox. I can’t stand the river, and I think it’s invention was unnecessary! I’m also linking to a blog post by someone else in the community, who describes what the program actually is, and a bit about how to use it. < Here’s the post.
  4. FastSM. This is a client for Mastodon that’s been recently developed. A better client for Mastodon was in fact a necessary thing because although we do have Tweesecake and TWBlue, they’re the leftovers from the Twitter era, when it was actually still Twitter. They’ve both been redesigned to support Mastodon, which was very difficult for the developers, I’m sure.

My very strange day!

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I attempted to put the day one app on my phone to see if I could journal with it. I have a goal to journal this year, and I really want to get into the journaling habit! I really do enjoy the act of writing literally everything down! I just had a friend ask, “so, are you going to stop blogging,” No, i never intend to stop doing that!!!! This is all private stuff.
The app looks really cool! It does have an email feature, so I thought I wouldn’t have to stop using my current service, I could write my entries via email, and put them up there, until I get used to using the app. For some reason, I really like web interfaces! When it gave me the email address, of course there’s no way for me to get that to my computer! I tried emailing it to myself, I never got the emails! I tried enabling icloud sync, which I do not like, and this is where the problem happened!! In order for me to access the note i took with the email in it on the web, my phone needs a passcode, I always think those are very tricky, and never usable for me! Of course, I said sure, just for this time, and needless to say, like my phone always does it never lets me log in!!!!! Now, I have a passcode, and literally can’t use my phone, because every time I even type it in, even though it’s the easiest thing in the book, it says I failed.

Good things for the week of January Fifth.

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I’ve decided to start posting something I used to do on Mastodon called Three good things, but I’m going to do more than three, so in a sense keeping a gratitude journal, hopefully weekly, but we’ll see if it’s every week. Not sure if I’ll be able to come up with more than three, but I do have a few for this week! I also have an update, so cue a quick take during the good things! OK, here it goes.

  1. Our Wednesday night service. I wasn’t able to go, but I streamed it for the first time this week! It was a different Pastor who normally does the Sunday services, well actually there are two of them, this was a different guy.
  2. The book, Carrying the Fire. It’s by Michael Collins, and it’s about his mission to the moon, orbitting it while Neal Armstrong, and Buzz Aldrin walked on it.
  3. The fact that when I forgot to show up to my Botox appointment, even though I had like two reminders, I was able to get an Uber. I live in a small town, and Uber won’t give me a driver sometimes, even if it’s an emergency. When I did get someone, the driver wanted to wait for me, this was the second time I had this person, and he waited for me during a previous follow-up. Trust me, I just expect them all to take their rides!!! He ended up getting another ride, so he couldn’t wait, but he was the one that accepted the ride home!!
  4. I’m currently testing two services right now, one is for document reading and remediation, it’s called paper2audio. The other one is for use navigating inaccessible websites, and it’s called Guide. I like to test services on a regular basis, I kind of think I should always be testing, or in other words, explore things like I don’t know them, even if I do. I’m not perfect at this, so I don’t discover new features very fast.
  5. The quick take, is that the state has denied my developmentally disabled services application, they said that since I don’t have an intellectual disability, I don’t qualify.

Updates from me.

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Life has been good here lately. As my mom asked recently, “you’ve been going to church every week? the answer is yes! Right now, I’m going every Sunday. The church knows I’m looking for aride. I was able to talk to the assistant Pastor, and someone in the children’s ministry.
I’m also trying to apply for more funding from the state, for a few more hours from me, for errands that i can’t do once a week. I really only need 5 more hours a week, for the errands, and the extra things that I would like to do. I really enjoy baking! I would also like to do a few extra things, if possible! They’re mostly crafty things, like pottery, i like to make clay pots etc, but I was thinking of using an air drying clay, so you don’t have to fire them, I can do whatever I want afterwards with them, hah! Hopefully they accept my application.
I really want to start journaling this year, I enjoy reflective writing . Part of that is my interest in questions and journal prompts, which I really enjoy!
Speaking of baking, I usually never do much for New years eve, but a friend and I baked cookies! It was a whole bunch of fun times, and I was at their house until 10:00 at night!

I went to church today!

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I took a trip to church today, after the events of yesterday. The driver showed up here at just shortly after 8:30 to pick me up. He didn’t call or text to let me know he was here though, so I was waiting for a little while.
I really enjoyed the service! I hadn’t been to church in a long time! I went to a different church, than I went to earlier this year, because even though I liked the sermon format, I had trouble following the worship that was all over the place with the variety of songs they would sing.
I ended up going to a Church of God church that I attended for a time in 2017 and 2018. I’m definitely going to be going back there, because it was a very welcoming atmosphere! Not only that, but the sermon was epic! The pasttor talked about everything I’d been saying for years. It was a message on thanks giving and gratitude, but it was about why we only praise God in the good times, and not when we’re facing challenges. I was agreeing with everything he was saying, because this is my life story in church. I’ve gone to a church that really doesn’t preach this kind of message in the past!

Quick updates from me.

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Just a few quick things from me, because i need to post here more often.

  1. I had an MRI today. My Doctors are trying to determine why I’m losing hearing on one side, and not the other.
  2. I had a yearly routine physical yesterday.
  3. During the Uber trip to the MRI, I think I found a ride to church. The drivers around here offer to transport people privately, as it’s a fairly small town, so a couple of them did so with me.
  4. Next year, I’ll be undertaking at least two blog challenges, if not a third, so prepare for a whole lot more posting!

Reddit is stupid!

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Reddit broke the subscriber thingy on old reddit, and everywhere else. In other words, we can’t see how many people are following the sub anymore! They did this recently, like probably just like sometime last month, and apparently they’re doing this as a thing, just like when they killed private messages earlier this year! Well, Reddit users not seeing subscriber counts.Not seeing your own follower numbers is fine, but we can all see who subscribes to a channel on Youtube, or at least a fairly honest number of subscribers as it is right at the moment. I say “fairly honest,” because we all know what Youtube does with subscriber numbers when a creator is about to reach a milestone etc! Apparently i haven’t been going to Reddit enough to realize that it was actually missing, and not me just doing something stupid. This means probably not a whole lot lately!
Today I actually noticed that it was missing, and then I went hey, someone has to have developed a userscript for that already! guess what? it was created last week!
It’s right here!

Prayers for the Kirk family.

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Charley Kirk was killed on Wednesday, yeah i know, me always focused on something else, didn’t get to it until now! Now was like yesterday.
I’m praying for his family, his widow, and his kids, because that’s what you should do after someone dies, pray for them, and not celebrate! If you aren’t a Christian, that’s cool, but still don’t celebrate, That is if you don’t want me to turn around and do the exact same thing when you, or anyone on your side dies, the next leftist that dies, I’ll be celebrating like crazy!!
That’s just common sense, I’m just stating a fact! I never actually followed Charley Kirk, as far as his content went. I wasn’t even subscribed to him on Youtube, I just had to subscribe. I saw him doing his debates on college campuses a few years ago, and this was like 2018, and I thought the dude wasn’t all that safe! I did watch a turning point event earlier this year when Tucker Carlson was speaking, just for what he mainly had to say about Epstein, I thought that was interesting.
Anyway, I was watching a prayer vigil today, and these are springing up organically, Turning Point workers are organizing a whole bunch of vigils. The one I saw was in DC, and it had a whole bunch of officials there! I also watched Erica, his widow’s statement, and I’m going to link to this!! It’s very powerful!
Erica Kirk’s statement.
A lot more people than normal went to church yesterday! One thing some people might not know about Charley Kirk, is that he was also a really strong Christian! In fact he said, “I want to be remembered for my courage, and my faith.” That’s what many people remember him for this week!