A Quick Squiggle
10/10/2021 09:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izmeinaFrom 4 weeks to 4 days. The last time I went near this infernal machine was Tuesday and here I am back again. A glutton for punishment. Not so many beach balls today but it's still snailish and sluggish. Sufficiently so to suck out any enthusiasm for squiggling a proper post and catching up on comments. So many interesting things to reply to but hunting and pecking for keys on the Tweet stone is just too frustrating.
Apparently it is possible to post comments and even DW entries using email but I have never tried it. I find that technology is becoming more of a struggle for this ancient luddite serpent of late. Remembering passwords and that sort of thing. Especially for accounts that I access on 2 different devices which means that any passport manager suggestion on the phone will not work on the desk top. On the rare occasion that I have let the android phone do the wacko password thing with a string of 20 characters and it told me it was saving the password, when I went back to the site, there was no such option available so I ended up having to reset the stupid thing anyway. What's the point of using such a feature when it doesn't work when you need it? And as the phone has this strange habit of logging me out of sites even when I ask to stay logged in, being able to remember a bunch of passwords is rather a big deal.
Today was the last day of the school holidays and also the Zoo evenings. I have been 7 times in 2 weeks. Last week it was pretty quiet most of the time but by this Wednesday word had gotten around. The place was constantly packed and the rug rats were staying up later and longer. I had to resort to buying a pair of earplugs otherwise it would be just unbearable. But while at least I no longer had to listen to the critters jammering and squealing, earplugs don't stop the monsters from running around like headless chooks and being totally unpredictable. I will definitely make a habit of visiting the zoo more often in spring.
Last time I did not go for pretty much the whole year. My annual pass was one of the things nicked when my wallet was stolen in January 2020 and I had to give priority to stuff like library cards. Then Covid came and the zoo was closed for more than 4 months anyway and it was not until some festival this January that I finally got around to renewing my annual pass which I have had since 1996 when it was $36 for the year and a one time visit was $6. Now the pass is $99 for an individual. I get a 10% discount as a resident of the zoo's local government area (we call them councils here in the Wild West) Now it costs $34 for an adult ticket. I was amazed at the number of people turning up at 5pm paying full price for the Zoo nights. I guess most of them are using credit cards or Afterpay. I never did get to see either of the new baby giraffes nor their parents for that matter. I guess I will have to come in the morning to catch them.
Apparently it is possible to post comments and even DW entries using email but I have never tried it. I find that technology is becoming more of a struggle for this ancient luddite serpent of late. Remembering passwords and that sort of thing. Especially for accounts that I access on 2 different devices which means that any passport manager suggestion on the phone will not work on the desk top. On the rare occasion that I have let the android phone do the wacko password thing with a string of 20 characters and it told me it was saving the password, when I went back to the site, there was no such option available so I ended up having to reset the stupid thing anyway. What's the point of using such a feature when it doesn't work when you need it? And as the phone has this strange habit of logging me out of sites even when I ask to stay logged in, being able to remember a bunch of passwords is rather a big deal.
Today was the last day of the school holidays and also the Zoo evenings. I have been 7 times in 2 weeks. Last week it was pretty quiet most of the time but by this Wednesday word had gotten around. The place was constantly packed and the rug rats were staying up later and longer. I had to resort to buying a pair of earplugs otherwise it would be just unbearable. But while at least I no longer had to listen to the critters jammering and squealing, earplugs don't stop the monsters from running around like headless chooks and being totally unpredictable. I will definitely make a habit of visiting the zoo more often in spring.
Last time I did not go for pretty much the whole year. My annual pass was one of the things nicked when my wallet was stolen in January 2020 and I had to give priority to stuff like library cards. Then Covid came and the zoo was closed for more than 4 months anyway and it was not until some festival this January that I finally got around to renewing my annual pass which I have had since 1996 when it was $36 for the year and a one time visit was $6. Now the pass is $99 for an individual. I get a 10% discount as a resident of the zoo's local government area (we call them councils here in the Wild West) Now it costs $34 for an adult ticket. I was amazed at the number of people turning up at 5pm paying full price for the Zoo nights. I guess most of them are using credit cards or Afterpay. I never did get to see either of the new baby giraffes nor their parents for that matter. I guess I will have to come in the morning to catch them.
