random thoughts of the morning
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lauradi7dwIcon above is from my front yard, a bee in a bloom.
People sometimes make little sounds in their sleep that are not snoring but slightly louder than just inhaling/exhaling. I was barely awake this morning when I heard a sound that was just like such a sound Arthur used to make when asleep. That woke me up completely - what could make that sound? Not a bird outside, not the pillow next to me. WTH? I don't believe in ghosts. It's not windy outside, so it wasn't that.
It was only that once, so I can't record it or otherwise figure it out. I am pretty sure it wasn't one of those weird dreams that one has while basically awake.
There was no Korean class yesterday because the teacher is in New Orleans, adding a few days of tourism onto a biotech conference she was attending. I wonder whether there were a lot of conversations about people potentially losing their jobs. My janggu teacher is a chemist when she's not doing pungmul 1 and home life. I presume everybody in science is worried about jobs, but is it worse for people who moved here for work? If you have a green card or some sort of permanent residence arrangement does that matter? I'm not close enough to either of them to ask such a question.
I am not diligent enough in Korean homework, but I had a tiny brain flash this morning - a phrase one hears in song lyrics that is usually translated in subtitles as "I miss you" literally (translated by me) means "I want to see you." Or maybe look at you? A couple of days ago a drama subtitle said "See you tomorrow." I didn't pay much attention but then realized that I might not have needed a subtitle for 내일 봐요 in the context of someone getting into a cab. Tiny tiny steps.
At some rummage sale (?) decades ago I bought a massive Greek Lexicon. Beyond door-stop size. How can I give it away now? I recently took a lot of books to the friends of the library donation cart, but I didn't take that. I also don't know what to do about books with covers torn off. In the 1970s there was a store (mostly a tobacconist, IIRC) in Central Square Cambridge that sold lots of books with covers torn off. I didn't realize at the time that it meant that the authors would get no royalties. We both shopped there. If they were all put together there might be a shelf full of mostly science fiction and a bit of other fiction. Do I try to give them away? Recycle them? I have a computer tech textbook 2 that was published in 2001. Again, just into the recycle bin?
1 I am not taking lessons anymore, but there is a small group every couple of weeks that I started attending. I think she is hoping for a regular performance group, and I am probably not suited for it. When I signed up for this I was hoping for some sort of jam equivalent, but it's not really that.
2 I am using Windows 10 on the laptop. They will stop supporting it in October, and maybe force Windows 11 on me (?). Someone online suggests switching to Linux before that. Me? Are there classes for old ladies who can't code?
People sometimes make little sounds in their sleep that are not snoring but slightly louder than just inhaling/exhaling. I was barely awake this morning when I heard a sound that was just like such a sound Arthur used to make when asleep. That woke me up completely - what could make that sound? Not a bird outside, not the pillow next to me. WTH? I don't believe in ghosts. It's not windy outside, so it wasn't that.
It was only that once, so I can't record it or otherwise figure it out. I am pretty sure it wasn't one of those weird dreams that one has while basically awake.
There was no Korean class yesterday because the teacher is in New Orleans, adding a few days of tourism onto a biotech conference she was attending. I wonder whether there were a lot of conversations about people potentially losing their jobs. My janggu teacher is a chemist when she's not doing pungmul 1 and home life. I presume everybody in science is worried about jobs, but is it worse for people who moved here for work? If you have a green card or some sort of permanent residence arrangement does that matter? I'm not close enough to either of them to ask such a question.
I am not diligent enough in Korean homework, but I had a tiny brain flash this morning - a phrase one hears in song lyrics that is usually translated in subtitles as "I miss you" literally (translated by me) means "I want to see you." Or maybe look at you? A couple of days ago a drama subtitle said "See you tomorrow." I didn't pay much attention but then realized that I might not have needed a subtitle for 내일 봐요 in the context of someone getting into a cab. Tiny tiny steps.
At some rummage sale (?) decades ago I bought a massive Greek Lexicon. Beyond door-stop size. How can I give it away now? I recently took a lot of books to the friends of the library donation cart, but I didn't take that. I also don't know what to do about books with covers torn off. In the 1970s there was a store (mostly a tobacconist, IIRC) in Central Square Cambridge that sold lots of books with covers torn off. I didn't realize at the time that it meant that the authors would get no royalties. We both shopped there. If they were all put together there might be a shelf full of mostly science fiction and a bit of other fiction. Do I try to give them away? Recycle them? I have a computer tech textbook 2 that was published in 2001. Again, just into the recycle bin?
1 I am not taking lessons anymore, but there is a small group every couple of weeks that I started attending. I think she is hoping for a regular performance group, and I am probably not suited for it. When I signed up for this I was hoping for some sort of jam equivalent, but it's not really that.
2 I am using Windows 10 on the laptop. They will stop supporting it in October, and maybe force Windows 11 on me (?). Someone online suggests switching to Linux before that. Me? Are there classes for old ladies who can't code?
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Date: 2025-05-14 01:02 pm (UTC)If you install an appropriate version of Linux with a nice GUI, using it day-to-day is not very different from Windows -- the hard part is actually getting it installed properly and making sure it works with all your peripherals. If you're willing to pay someone to install Linux on your machine (and maybe answer occasional questions later on if you run into issues) I'd expect making the switch to be pretty straightforward. That said I'm not sure how easy it is to find people to do that sort of thing. (My sister is very good at helping little old ladies with tech stuff, and has done it for pay for people she knew through her UU church in the past, but she's not local to you and I don't know if she's currently doing this side hustle anyway.)
(I am planning to install Linux on this laptop as a dual-boot for the same reasons. But (a) I have enough tech-savvy that I'm not too intimidated and (b) I live with A, who has installed Linux on many computers.)
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Date: 2025-05-16 11:20 am (UTC)