November 15, 2011
Random Thoughts.
Here are a few things that have wandered through my mind today. They may or may not be of interest.
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I am apparently incapable of reading labels on cans. Twice this week I have bought the wrong type of tomato for different recipes. First diced tomatoes for a recipe that should have had whole tomatoes then whole tomatoes when it should have been diced. Since I seem to be a just in time shopper nearly all the time now, I bought the cans on the day I was cooking. I think someone else should do the cooking.
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Been tracking our walks with the free Runkeeper app. Once I got it working right, it appears we are very consistent when walking. Not sure if this is good or bad. At least we know. About 14.5 minutes per mile.
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BTW the app above is very finicky. It's a phone only app since it's supposed to use the phone GPS. It took a bit of looking around and trying different stuff to make it work. First off you can't have the wi-fi on... if you have it on it will double your distance whenever you get near a wi-fi signal. A simple pop up when you go to start it would be very helpful... Sheesh! Then I had it in a coat pocket that had a small magnet to close the pocket - threw off the distance enough to enter the realm of hilarity. Instead of about 3/10 of a mile it said we had gone 8 miles.... pace of 37 seconds per mile!!! I love it! We are suddenly the fasted walkers on the planet! Then I tried it in the pocket of another coat. It doesn't like being a pocket, kept losing the signal. I finally got an armband and now it works. Once I get the routes mapped I won't need to run the app while walking. I can save the routes. Thank heaven because it's a PITA to wear the armband over a coat - keeps slipping.
Also found from this app that one of our routes is an entire mile longer than we thought. I could swear I google mapped it and it said 4 miles. Today the app GPS says it's 5. Hmmm. Which one do I believe? Heh.
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Really want to move my stuff to iCloud from mobile me. However this means I have to upgrade my computer to the Lion OS. Since upgrades are fraught with issues I'm waiting for the Thanksgiving weekend. Right now any calendar item I add to the iphone only syncs with the ipad... not the mobile me website or my desktop. Weird.
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I watch way too many episodes of House Hunters. I find some of them hilarious others are pretty interesting. A couple of things I wait for... shows where people say they want to "downsize". As soon as I hear those words I just know they will walk into each place and the first words out of their mouths will be... "it's so small!" Heh.
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Then I watch the House Hunters International shows. Those are mostly people attempting to buy a "vacation house" somewhere. Now people can spend their money however they want, but I wonder how many of them, who are on such "tight budgets" that they can barely afford a shack in the vacation locale, have ever taken a math class. If they spend oh say... $150K on a place. (we won't even include the amount they'll spend in interest over the years or the fees they pay for maintenance - that's fair right?) And let's say they spend 14 days a year at the place. That's 2 weeks total - most people don't have that kind of time for vacations but we'll be generous. Now if you were to splurge on a hotel and food - say $500 per day when you're on vacation... it would take you 21.4 years to spend $150K... and you wouldn't be limited to one place, nor would you have to go on vacations and spend that money if you ran into some lean times.
Yeah, I'm a kill joy. Ha.
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Okay I think that's enough random wandering for today.
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I am apparently incapable of reading labels on cans. Twice this week I have bought the wrong type of tomato for different recipes. First diced tomatoes for a recipe that should have had whole tomatoes then whole tomatoes when it should have been diced. Since I seem to be a just in time shopper nearly all the time now, I bought the cans on the day I was cooking. I think someone else should do the cooking.
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Been tracking our walks with the free Runkeeper app. Once I got it working right, it appears we are very consistent when walking. Not sure if this is good or bad. At least we know. About 14.5 minutes per mile.
****
BTW the app above is very finicky. It's a phone only app since it's supposed to use the phone GPS. It took a bit of looking around and trying different stuff to make it work. First off you can't have the wi-fi on... if you have it on it will double your distance whenever you get near a wi-fi signal. A simple pop up when you go to start it would be very helpful... Sheesh! Then I had it in a coat pocket that had a small magnet to close the pocket - threw off the distance enough to enter the realm of hilarity. Instead of about 3/10 of a mile it said we had gone 8 miles.... pace of 37 seconds per mile!!! I love it! We are suddenly the fasted walkers on the planet! Then I tried it in the pocket of another coat. It doesn't like being a pocket, kept losing the signal. I finally got an armband and now it works. Once I get the routes mapped I won't need to run the app while walking. I can save the routes. Thank heaven because it's a PITA to wear the armband over a coat - keeps slipping.
Also found from this app that one of our routes is an entire mile longer than we thought. I could swear I google mapped it and it said 4 miles. Today the app GPS says it's 5. Hmmm. Which one do I believe? Heh.
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Really want to move my stuff to iCloud from mobile me. However this means I have to upgrade my computer to the Lion OS. Since upgrades are fraught with issues I'm waiting for the Thanksgiving weekend. Right now any calendar item I add to the iphone only syncs with the ipad... not the mobile me website or my desktop. Weird.
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I watch way too many episodes of House Hunters. I find some of them hilarious others are pretty interesting. A couple of things I wait for... shows where people say they want to "downsize". As soon as I hear those words I just know they will walk into each place and the first words out of their mouths will be... "it's so small!" Heh.
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Then I watch the House Hunters International shows. Those are mostly people attempting to buy a "vacation house" somewhere. Now people can spend their money however they want, but I wonder how many of them, who are on such "tight budgets" that they can barely afford a shack in the vacation locale, have ever taken a math class. If they spend oh say... $150K on a place. (we won't even include the amount they'll spend in interest over the years or the fees they pay for maintenance - that's fair right?) And let's say they spend 14 days a year at the place. That's 2 weeks total - most people don't have that kind of time for vacations but we'll be generous. Now if you were to splurge on a hotel and food - say $500 per day when you're on vacation... it would take you 21.4 years to spend $150K... and you wouldn't be limited to one place, nor would you have to go on vacations and spend that money if you ran into some lean times.
Yeah, I'm a kill joy. Ha.
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Okay I think that's enough random wandering for today.
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You know, it kinda helps if you enter the comments BEFORE you hit the Post key. All I was going to say was 'what's a vacation'? Now you know why I need one. 
Posted by: Lemon Stand at November 15, 2011 02:20 PM (nIwJn)
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Having gone through a goodly number of years without such a thing I feel your pain. LOL.
Posted by: Teresa at November 15, 2011 09:14 PM (jxg4K)
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We spend way to many hours watching House Hunters Intl too. I love all these youngish couples who want a $800,000 vacation home in Majorka.
I'm still up in the air on this whole iCloud stuff. I do not want any data online (obviously the email stuff always has been but aside from that I mean) and I need to look at all it entails.
I'm still up in the air on this whole iCloud stuff. I do not want any data online (obviously the email stuff always has been but aside from that I mean) and I need to look at all it entails.
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at November 21, 2011 07:58 AM (OXWdU)
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LOL Mr. Bingley you said it - lots of people spending lots of money for... well, just spending it to say they have something. Pretty weird.
I'm still not convinced I should move to Lion yet. Every time I think I will do it, I hear more problems. So I just don't know. Without Lion I can't move to icloud... it's a dilemma. So I guess I'll wait.
I'm still not convinced I should move to Lion yet. Every time I think I will do it, I hear more problems. So I just don't know. Without Lion I can't move to icloud... it's a dilemma. So I guess I'll wait.
Posted by: Teresa at November 24, 2011 12:02 AM (jxg4K)
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