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Good morning everyone. Didn’t get down to 31 last night as forecast, and that’s fine with me. The leaves are finally falling in great quantities here, but we had an awesome weekend driving the mountains and hills around us and enjoying the color.
On the way home yesterday our vehicle beeped its little notification alert and I looked down at the display. It said “Consider taking a break” with a cup of coffee symbol. Good grief. Since when did they start programming cars to tell you how to drive? Will they just shut off in a few years and make you take a break? Will they come with allotted permissible mileage per day, week, or month? Will you have to apply for your allotment based on your job, illnesses, social credit score?
Yes. I’m being paranoid, but them wanting to tax my mileage makes me that way. Along with the fact that there are people out there who think a car should tell its owner how to drive.
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😯 My car is old, but it lets me do the driving…………although it does tell me if a door is left open.
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Mornin’ Menage. Sunny and cool here. About 51*. Cool enough that on our walk I had on a long sleeve shirt with my little light sweatshirt jacked over it and I still got chilled if I wasn’t in the sun.
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Mornin’ Menage!
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Morning Wee!
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Maybe because I buy bottom of the line cars without many accoutrements my warnings are simple: gas, oil, too hot, battery, door open. I have a Ford Focus. Czar’s Avalanche has lots more announcements.
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We just have a Hyundai Tucson. Pretty basic, but it has stuff I could do without.
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We’ve got LOTS of bells and whistles on our new Jeep Grand Cherokee, but I haven’t found a coffee-cup icon yet telling me to take a break! Hands down, the best part is the heated seats and steering wheel. In the summer I turned on the AC just so I could enjoy the heated seat without getting too warm. Saw a meme somewhere that said “You know you’re over 40 when the butt-warmers on your new car are less about the temperature and more about your chronic back pain!”
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Imagine how my friend felt on a 98* day when she picked up her car and drove it home. Not knowing she had heated seats (why a car in FL would have them, I don’t know) and it turned on. What a shock.
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Good afternoon, Menagerie. My new car has a large display on the dashboard with maps and directions and other stuff that I don’t really understand.
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One thing my car doesn’t have is a CD player. I understand that they no longer put them in cars, which is not an improvement in my opinion.
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I almost exclusively use my iPhone for my music, which originally came from my iPod. It all plays on the car speakers. Also, I am addicted to audiobooks and the Bible in a Year podcast. I need to learn how to use some of the music apps that are free, but I haven’t. I really like how you talk on your phone through the car now. It even reads my text messages to me, and answers them if I tell it to. Also, I do like the navigation system.
Most of the rest of it I simply have not bothered to learn. I want to go from point A to point B, not have a relationship with my car.
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I don’t listen to music on my phone, but I do have tons of CD’s. I wonder if I can get a portable CD player for the car? PS: I will never own an iPhone, and I use my Android phone as little as possible.
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I got addicted to smart phones early because of my business. Remember the Palm Pilot? My husband got it in his head that it would be a perfect Christmas gift for me back when I first started my painting business. I really didn’t think I would like it, but he was so proud of thinking of it that I decided to really learn to use it.
Soon it went everywhere with me, just like my phone, which was actually our business number. I kept quotes, detailed notes, paint formulas, customer and vendor contact information, all kinds of business stuff, on that Palm Pilot. When the iPod came out, it took a couple of years for me to justify getting one, but I finally did, I think paying maybe $80 or so for the first one. I loved having it for music on the jobs, and soon I found a way to load audio books from cd’s on it, which was the only way to get audio books back then.
So, I was carrying around a phone, the PP, and my iPod. When Android happened I was able to eliminate the PP and use the smart phone for all my business needs. Eventually I made the jump to the iPhone and had one wonderful device to carry around. In those days my phone case showed lots of hard use and colors of paint.
Now I use it for everything, love how it interfaces with the iPad, which has replaced our laptop, and the grandkids have really had us taking advantage of the camera. Back when I was walking so much I set my Fitbit up on the iPad, tracked calories, as well as miles and steps, and I used to win a lot of walking challenges with friends on the app. When we lived at the cabin I had a sky map on the phone that would identify constellations when I pointed it at them.
Now I have apps that help me examine my conscience in preparation for Confession, pray the Liturgy of the Hours, observe special Liturgical seasons and feast days. And there is a hugely popular app now called Hallow, a Catholic app that has raised a lot of money and offers everything under the sun from so many leading Catholic priests, teachers, authors, even the guy who plays Jesus on The Chosen. It has music, meditations, scripture, the Bible in a Year, Gregorian chant, rosaries. I’ve never seen any apps like it. For a Catholic, it’s like having a library featuring almost everything you would need outside of a priest and Mass, right on your phone.
Chris gets his phones from our son or DIL, who upgrade every couple of years because it’s their work phone. He actually started downloading educational games the kids love on his phone, and got me absolutely addicted to stuff like Wordscapes. I don’t trade my phone in often, I use it until it almost dies. I’m not terribly computer literate, and except for discovering blogs, and finding my friends like you on other blogs, I wasn’t really crazy about what computers could do. The iPhone changed that for me.
I even used the phone on my breaks and lunch times to follow the blogs. I was on a painting job the day the Honey Trail disappeared, and dying of curiosity and concern until I got home and got on the computer, found you at Lucianne’s. I remember that day so well, checking in several times, thinking maybe the site was just down. I still have no idea how I wound up at Luciannes’s, I had never visited that site before. I must have googles something that led me to your comment I think.
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Also, we no longer kept a landline once we moved here. We quit using it at the cabin, and I kept forgetting to check our answering machine.
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I understand why you love your Apple products – because you had a need for them. I don’t have a need and can’t justify the cost considering the way that I live. I am home most of the time, and my laptop fulfills most of my needs (even better than an IPad much of the time I think, considering all of the complaining comments I have seen), and I also have a Kindle, which I don’t use much, and an Android phone AND I still have a land line.
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Looking at forums about the loss of the car CD player, the most-often suggestion is that we should transfer all of our CD’s to MP3. The first time I saw this suggestion, it was in answer to a man who has 5,000 CD’s!! Can you imagine how long it would take to convert them?
Why can’t the car companies just offer a CD player as an option for those of us who don’t want to do that? You can buy a portable one that works with the new technology, but not as well as a factory model, it is external and costs almost $300.
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Ha, ha. I don’t even know what an MP3 is. I am glad my car has a CD. Actually, it still has a tape player, too.
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Actually, that’s what I did with those audio books, via the computer, and then imported into iTunes. I also transferred every music CD I had, which took several weeks of my spare time. I agree with you about the CD player, we still have ours too.
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Yep, ours has lots of stuff I have no clue how to use. And some stuff I figured out how to turn off.
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My friend has a new car and I noticed she was jerking it around weirdly and she said she was having trouble moving into the next lane. I finally figure out there is something that won’t allow you to change lanes easily unless you put your blinker on, so she had to develop a habit if turning it on. There are other things that make us curious.
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I don’t think mine does that, but it does have a reminder if you wander out of your lane, or if something is in your blind spot. Most of those collision avoidance options can be turned off, at least in my car. I do like the backup camera!
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PS: It’s a good thing that she’s learning to use her blinker. I don’t understand why people don’t.
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Yeah, I thought so too.
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One of my biggest gripes about other drivers.
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She can turn all that off. I did. I kept the lane alert on but turned off the whatever it is called that tries to keep you from changing lanes. It’s all in the owner’s manual with really easy step by step instructions. Or you can get someone at the dealer to turn it off for you. New cars, even the not high end ones like ours, come with a lot of junk I don’t want. I’m like Stella, I like that camera too.
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Mornin’ all. I’m up early because I have to go to get blood drawn for my doctor’s visit next week. THAT is the highlight of my day. Hope you all have a nice day.
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Mornin’ Mom!
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Hope it is painless.
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Ended up not going because the one who draws blood was sick or something. So I had to make an appt at another blood place for tomorrow. I have been there before and they are excellent at painless draws.
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Monday again!! Mornin’ kids!
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Still funny! Man, I about died of laughter the first time I saw that.
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Me, too!
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Where did all those clean, funny people go! I could use a Kraft Comedy Hour, Sonny and Cher show, Carol Burnett or Donnie and Marie Show. And Flip Wilson!
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YESSSS!!! Mornin’ Czarina!
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Flip was maybe my all time favorite. I watched a Geraldine clip on YouTube not long ago.
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Good day, Wee!
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Afternoon Stella!
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Man….can you imagine trying to walk in these??? New respect for Ms. West…
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No. I can barely walk in athletic shoes. Good grief. Why can they not make real, hardcore athletic shoes that actually look like dress shoes so that all women can be comfortable? I’m not talking spike heels here, just nice shoes for those of us who can no longer wear dressy shoes, even flats.
I don’t dress up a lot anymore, but I am a little self conscious that maybe on Christmas or Easter Sunday when I dress a little nicer I have to wear tennis shoes.
If they can send that bald headed freak into space why can’t tennis shoes look at least somewhat like dressier shoes? Pre Covid, when women all had to go into the office I bet there was a good market for it.
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I agree.
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I found some Ecco not quite flats which look nice and make my feet happy. Takes some online shopping, since stores have so little to meet our requirements. My poor sister has had multiple foot surgeries, has pain all the time and wears a 4 1/2.
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Can you tell me if they have removable insoles? I have to be able to take the insole out of one for the brace to be accommodated.
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I checked a couple of shoes on their website. Under “product details” it says that the insole is removable.
https://us.ecco.com/women/shoes/flats-and-ballerinas/?pmin=0.00&start=0&sz=20
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Thanks Stella.
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These look pretty good. I’ve never worn them, though.
https://www.vionicshoes.com/womens-shoes
I used to have a pair of black mary janes that were pretty supportive. I think they were made by Easy Spirit. Clarks has some good shoes too that are somewhat fashionable.
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I just bought an inexpensive pair of mary janes for that exact reason – I love the ones made by Taos footwear but won’t pay that much for something from the innertubes that may not fit.
Anyway, the strap to keep it on the foot is one of my main issues.
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My daughter swears by Taos footwear. She has wide feet and has trouble finding comfortable shoes.
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About all I want to wear is sandals with open toes. If I end up moving to MT I may have a problem. Maybe I can talk my DIL out of the pair of worn boots she let me wear when it snowed when I visited once. They were very comfortable………….I tried to talk her out of them, but she wouldn’t give them up. Ha, ha.
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Yeah, sandals aren’t comfortable when it is snowing! Boots are a must.
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I sometimes order from footsmart.com. They carry a lot of shoes with support in them, some are very dressy. The only problem is you have to sell your first born to be able to afford a lot of brands.
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Good gawd….
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I gotta wonder way more about anyone who voted for her.
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Is that Bambi in the snow bubble?
Might be a good time to update the Bambi Meets Godzilla animation.
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Bannon just surrendered to the FBI over “contempt of Congress” charges (well, they ARE contemptible).
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I wonder why it is legal for them to tell any lie they want, yet be able to yank Americans around like this? Who has to pay if you get subpoenas to Congress, your expenses, I mean. And really, I don’t think regular citizens should have to play their fake theater games. We all know it’s just bull crap they broadcast for tv.
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The subpoenas for this particular Congressional committee may not be legal.
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Top of the morning Stella….I regularly shop with a local business and the owner often hires college students. There is a current employee who dyes her eyebrows black, which highlight the rows of piercings among them, she has cut off all but a 5 inch hank on the very front of her head and she believes that she is making some type of statement. Governor Kate Brown comes to mind.
Oregon has had to real ‘winners’ in the Governor’s mansion. I myself thought Governor Barbara Rogers was a political nut job, but Kate Brown is just plain “bat sh!t crazy.”
On the home front, it is a beautiful 65 degrees, there is absolutely no wind and we’re still experiencing ‘fall’ weather in these parts.
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I find the best thing is to steel myself to not look surprised or stare, finish my business and go home to mock them in private. It is purely for attention, and I shall not give it. Nyah!
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Love this.
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Sweet dogs at attention!
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