Just got back from taking the unscramble box back to the cable company office and having them disconnect my television coverage. Will have internet, though. Man, was it ever liberating! The cost of watching continued to go up year after year and I can't afford that when my social security stays at the same level. It took me about an hour to disconnect various cable cords and extension cords in the three places where I have a TV. I never watch in bed but I do have a VCR in there if I decide I want to watch an old movie. The living room has a smart tv which allows me to tune into Netflix, Amazon, YouTube, Pandora music, and several others. I also have my DVD hooked up in there so I can always watch movies that I have onhand. The sewing room/office where I spend the most time now has a tv with a VCR and a Roku device that allows me to get lots of stations like Netflix, Amazon, Crackle, Pandora, radio stations, and others. I'm as happy as a clam. Granted it will take a little weaning to not be able to surf through the channels like I was doing but that was a bad habit anyhow. I seldom found anything substantial. Most of all, I won't be coming across the blond buffoon. It was getting tiresome to be putting the tv on mute every other hour and having to switch from channel to channel and still have his snarly puss staring at me! Jenni has a roku on her tv in her room too but she's used to no tv coverage as she discontinued her cable last year.
Jenni just left to go visit her friend across town who's daughter just had her baby. I managed to do a load of laundry and clean the kitchen so the rest of the day is mine to work on my book. I finally got it edited but I'll need to reread it again to give it another go over and check for typos. Thankfully, I discovered that if I hooked up my old computer and plugged in my old scanner, it had a function where I can change the resolution on pictures. You'd think my newer scanner would do that but it doesn't. Also doesn't take as good a scan; especially of newspaper photos.
Anyhow, the book publisher wants any pictures in your book to be at least 200 dpi (which doesn't mean a thing to me as I've never understood the mechanics of photography graphics) but now I know I can meet that requirement as I pick and choose which photos to include. That's what I'll be doing the rest of the week and probably into next week. Then I'll read up again on everything I need to do to get the book sent off. I'm really glad I'm seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.
I do have periods of insecurity about the book, though. One day I think it's not going to be of interest to that many people but then the next day, I'm thinking it's okay, afterall. Time will tell.
Boy, I hate that feeling when your fingernails are all growing nice and long and then one splits clear down by the nub on the tip of your finger. Hurts. Didn't mean to change the subject so abruptly but it's how my mind works sometimes.
Guess I'll go check the mail and change my calendars. Sure am happy that snow left right away. I wasn't in the mood to put up with being stuck in the house.
Joyce Lee called me yesterday and asked if I'd post on Facebook that her older brother, Alfred (Bud) Lee died in his sleep in Sequim the night before.
Doctor called yesterday and told me to quit taking one of my blood pressure pills and to take 1-1/2 of the other one instead. My BUN numbers have continued to be high when I have blood tests so I was wondering when they felt something needed to be attended to. (BUN has to do with kidney function)
They kept telling me that it was age related but I sure didn't like seeing it "in the red zone" everytime I had a blood draw. I'm getting up there in age so I guess it's only natural that sooner or later, certain health things are gonna' pop up.
I woke up with foot/ankle cramps in both feet at 4 a.m. this morning. So painful. I sure wish they could figure out why those cramps appear and then disappear for weeks on end. Just doesn't make sense. Maybe it's a secret.
And I'm off....
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