The Mandelbear's Musings

It is basically impossible for me to listen to music with words, and do much of anything that requires writing. And I now belong to too many Discord servers to keep track of those, either. (Same reason I stopped logging in to Twitter.) I'm told that people who multitask can do these things. I am not one of those people, and in fact never have been. I've cut back somewhat on newspaper websites, and that helps too.

For some reason my zoom client has stopped showing me the gallery view. Which is totally unfair because Judi. (If anyone knows what happened to the desktop zoom client for Linux, let me know. It was working 100% reliably before I upgraded to 20.04.) I've had other problems with the computers -- crashing on suspend and flaky bluetooth -- since the last upgrade (to Ubuntu and Mint 2020.04); these are probably due to the 5.4 kernel. I may have to drop back to 18.04 for everyday use until it's fixed.

The plumber (actually a rooter and drain guy -- he's not a licensed plumber so he doesn't work inside the house) arrived on Sunday with his excavator. Which was much bigger than I expected. I kept expecting to see Mike Mulligan. After uncovering the problem, which was more of a broken pipe than a leak, he came back Monday with the necessary parts and we now have water, and a yard hydrant that should last for longer than I expect to be living in this house. Can't say as much for the PVC pipe; that will eventually have to be replaced, but hopefully not on my watch.

A little more singing than usual, mostly driven by wanting to get my fingers back in shape for Thursday, but it mostly worked. Now to get that momentum back going forward. (It might work...)

( Notes & links, as usual )