RantWoman Sleeps--or Not

Bob Dylan and cat vids. I am not sure why YouTube thinks that is what I need but I think I'll take it. The sound on this is terrible and Bob Dylan really can't carry a tune, but who cares. 5.4 hours of sleep. A phone call to deal with a LONG simmering outstanding invoice. I WILL get paid. And more evolution in thinking. I am SO glad for some other news streams besides certain guilty verdicts. Gonna be quite a summer but in the mean time, how about a nice atmospheric river due tomorrow.

Forget the whole summer. Will the weekend be full of: --people demanding peace in the middle east --MAGA acting out after certain felony verdicts???? Somewhere around 5.5 hours of sleep. 4.1 in bed another 1.5 in a chair because moving was not a thing. INCREDIBLY frustrating blind person lobby visit on Zoom. Blind people did not have our acts together and the junior staffer acted bored and inattentive and had a bad mic to mix in. Under the desk exercise feels REALLY energizing but for lunch I also HAD TO TAKE A WALK. Walk also featured both Taco time main course and McD's  OJ AND approximation of mocha. Count blessings.

Of all the piquant themes and pictures of nice quilts, why YES, I need giant feral goldfish to start the day. 4.4 hours of sleep. Wonderful conversation with a mentee very passionate about housing issues. Anotehr IMPORTANT conversation.

Folklife mementos tomorrow.  Slightly gauche parody GO! 5,4 hours of sleep AFTER an hour at the desk. Exercise and social contact make for better sleep.

I snagged somewhere probably around 3 hours of sleep between falling asleep in front of YouTube and a couple other moments of nodding off. .I did not go to bed.  Instead, when I looked at the hour and the sky was starting to get lighter, i...drum roll please...made white bean and kale soup with the pot of beans I had been hot soaking for a few days and a big bunch of kale that was on the verge of not holding up in the refrigerator. And then after awhile I ate breakfast, took a shower, and Went to Folklife, for the first time in awhile with a friend who also had not been for awhile for a different reason. It was SO nice to share the experience and not just fog around solo. Weather was perfect: cloudy enough to deter some of the hordes and sunny by afternoon. I did not know about a Monday afternoon tradition of Seattle Peace Chorus doing a Mozart requiem sing-along. I had not planned to stay but I am glad I did. Now exhausted and hopefully time to plug away at more chores.

Somehow in college when I was taking Spanish literature classes IN SPANISH it did not sink in that Sor Juana was either a mathematician or a nun. 5.1 hours of sleep. NO journeys anywhere and time is flying away. It's hoodie weather. The purple bathrobe hoodie is LOVELY for online worship but now I want one that is lighter than the one with the marvelous design that I have. I am alternately blissed by cleanER floor and vexed by need to clean further. Such problems.

For some reason Youtube has decided tonight that I need a hefty dose of cat vids and other educational material about topics that are not straight from daily news streams 5.1 hours of sleep. I want HUGE housekeeping brownie points: now that my toilet works, I got out my brand new mop and a coupke buckets of ammonia water. I figured cute and elegant mechanism built into the mop that makes wringing it out just a dream. And I MOPPED MY FLOOR. I will have to have a redo.I also took out my trash. So I want massive brownie points. I did not either go to Folklife or get everything I wanted to do in writing. But there is tomorrow!

 Sorry no visuals. Imagine a toilet that flushes normally ALL the time, not just when enough solid material accumulates to shut off endless water running and allow flushing. Also imagine the plumber showing up at like 8:15 in the freaking morning. But after a work order saga that has gone on FOR MONTHS, I can COPE. 5.1 hours of sleep ALSO: I successfully exited OUT THE BACK DOOR OF MY BUILDING!!!! The troublesome door part has been replaced. The earth is not sending us groundwater to make puddles in the basement. Things are ALMOST acceptable. Enough for now. Weekend agenda. --Mop floors --excavate desk --Deal with PAPERWORK. --HOPEFULLY work in some fun, MAYBE a trip to Folklife if schedules line up with a friend.     

Yes, indeed this zebra vid is brought to you by the select drafts option in Blogger because I am a bit of a cluck and still have not figured out how to navigate the photos list with my screen reader. Yes, I know: the above info is of interest to almost no one but RantWoman is certain the whole world needs to hear it anyway. 5.4 hours of sleep. Memo to self: Get face out of phone and DO SOMETHING ELSE in the evening. Last night, it was turn ingredients into food.  It was not mop the floor or clean up desk. Oh well. Narrative about how not to get to virtual meeting with Senator soon. Also court of peeves in session about sloppy blind people, inconsiderate dog people, and the weather, the last just on principle. Some survey results on my mean to read list..... But first, grab a few hits of daily scandals on YouTube. Happy Thursday

4 ish hours in bed and another in a chair. Plumbing and fire alarm test. Oh MY what a morning. More Zooms than average but highly valuable. Dinner was all snacks. I think I will go home and cook.

4.4 hours of sleep. This after clean sheets, clean CPAP and going to bed in time that I should have slept longer. After three evenings in the laundry room basically all that was dirty was a few items for seed. Fruit quirk of the day: kiwi fruit. Buy a box when they are rock hard. Let them ripen on the counter for WEEKS and then they all get ripe at once. First world problems. First zoom at 9:30. I guess only two more but somehow exhausted. Happy Tuesday

I have a friend who happily moves egg cartons on in the universe, presumably to food banks. Friend would drink tea if I had energy for tea drinking but I only had energy to listen to the next chapters of HEROIC and unrelenting struggle to line up all the therapies needed to TRY to right a bunch of interconnected body issues. Therapies include glasses, multiple kinds of vision and other exercises, and I forget what all else. It takes GUTS even to slog through and persist with all the doctor issues. I ask her about payment because I think her insurance SHOULD pay for at least some of the services, but I probably cannot fix the thicket of referral issues regardless. In any case, friend has been wanting to bring over a hat to try on and I had a pile of egg cartons. And Voila! My mom has a new rain hat and I have a lot fewer egg cartons.  The hat really is pink. I have no idea why it looks orange here 5.5 hours of sleep, not counting falling asleep for an hour after compline. And mornin...

Sobering data cited within: 7000 votes going differently in a few races and we would have a whole different Congress. One of those rays of HOPE. Other than that, I generally disapprove of making fun of people's appearance, even in a hypothetical. But this video and all the memes mentioned are HYSTERICAL. Also humorous: Chairman Comer appears not even to be used to listening to women enough to recobnize when rules are broken. Happy SUNDAY. 5.5 hours of sleep! I am spoiled because two rounds of laundry have happened with ALL MACHINES WORKING. Not so this weekend. WHINE.

This picture from a couple days ago does not do justice to the otherworldly feel of really bright sunlight just before dusk. But it's May and it's this sunny at like 8:30 so I'll take it. View of evening sun from breezeway 4.1 hours of sleep. Not enough but I was able to fetch mail before UBS meeting AND hang out AND go for a short visit to mom. Praise god for the liberating reality of CANDOR. Plus 3 loads of laundry. Now all that is left is CHANGING SHEETS.  

 This photo is from an excursion  Saturday to and from Redmond on the 2 line.. The world is entitled to more opinions but for today: View facing out from the bus level at the Redmond Technology station 4.1 hours of sleep I have gotten spoiled because the last two times I did laundry ALL THE MACHINES WORKED. Not so last night. One washer had its perennial problems with standing water. One dry simply refused to let me pick a cycle. Nevertheless, I got 5 loads done and still got to bed before sunrise. Nothing on morning schedule until I read email that says please submit invoice by 11 am. And I hope do finish more laundry tonight. Never mind taking the compost out and the need for a self-mopping floor and the wonky toilet and ... Last night's laugh riot: an older friend reading me from a medical report that used the phrase "grossly intact" several times. SO many possibilities about how to interpret although sending off to a medical professional for advice seems to be a good ...

4.3 hours of sleep I am still wired from #GAAD presentation and 6 hours of everyone else's presentations. THere is also the part about getting dressed up a little even though the event is on Zoom Advocacy committee wound up with plenty to talk about: use the Google about returning to the US with your US trained guide dog. MAYBE I will get around to some laundry. Maybe

I have been crawling around in accessibility matters on different social media platforms. The title is what Facebook suggested for alt text for the photo below. Alt text is an attribute of a photoe that screen readers and translation engines can use to describe the content of images.  For reference, here's the photo! Bus stop in SE Seattle closest to what is about to become a family destination 5.9 hours of sleep. I needed sleep. I will have to watch my fave Wednesday webinar on YouTube.

5.2 hours of sleep. I misread my calendar and the appointment I thought was at 11 is on the 23rd! SUN is always AWESOME. Not enough exercise or vegetables.

This is NOT a comment about lots of things to do with history or politics. This is a just a flash mob because the world always needs more music 4 is hours of sleep interrupted.  The cup of coffee at dinner that I am a grown up about. I dozed off during compline. The music was nice. The words don't always move me. But I startled awake and then went on for hours. No chance of more aurora. It seems the solar flare may have subsided. And I need to re-record my presentation and tweak.

Lest anyone think I have forgotten Russia's machinations regard its own military and Ukraine, here is a short and of course cryptic analysis of some recent personnel changes. Do not worry too much whether they mean anything. They do but I do not promise the full story especially when I am dabbling in all the reasons I do or do not sleep. No, I also did not stay up trying to chase the aurora borealis. I THINK I may have wakened to some last night but it might also just be convenient to pretend. 5.4 hours of sleep not counting the fall asleep in the chair hour before going to bed. Lovely day with Mom and the fam. I got in half a monthly zoom call and will have another one on Tuesday. Just call me I Zoom therefore I am.

4.6 hours of sleep plus naps Lively adventures on the #2Line More to say else where 

Definitely a sleeps or NOT night. Today I finished first run of my #GAAD presentation. I think I should re-record it but VERY cool to see see another program from the city.  Cellphone shot of screen through Black and white Zoomtext scheme 4 ish hours of sleep. If one works until past 2 and then has a video fix and then the sun is rising. Probably 4 hours of sleep total counting a couple naps. Not enough exercise yesterday and also coffee beverage is a mixed blessing I don't want to go into right now. Happy Friday. I am not sure I am ready for it to be 80 degrees, but no one asked me.

 Note maybe elsewhere about wonders and not wonders discovered while working on a #GAAD #GAAD2024 presentation This image contains an assortment of LEgally Blind Person In a Hurry oopses. Please enjoy anyway. Black and White phone screen shot of a Powerpoint slide about a Zebra meme 4.6 hours of sleep. Bacon on pizza makes for WAY too much salt in diet. But getting up and moving around is really good for easing aches and sense of bloat. Having tools I need and NO INTERRUPTIONS is HUGE.

Another photo from last week's outing.  This was about the most cars in frame the entire time I waited for a bus. The land of SPARSE traffic 4.1 hours of sleep in bed but an hour of nap between worship and a bit of a YouTube fix. Trying to rustle together some words about this photo and the subject of autonomous vehicles. Also apropos of nothing, bacon on pizza is just as much a meh idea as bacon anywhere else. Leftovers will make good breakfast for a couple days, but once is enough.  

 Click on this link. Then watch with your eyes closed. Then Consider how many #a11y outrages are present LinkedIn item about a badly behaved guide dog Sorry no cute visuals. I still do not feel super confident about reasonable ways to share material. That and who knows which platforms LinkedIn wants to play well with. 6.4 amazing hours of sleep. Stock up because the next several days are kind of....

#YomHoshoah #AllEyesOnRafah #MathThe4thBeWithYou The song and the last hashtage are for 50 years, 30+ years and two days ago. The other two are for dacades ago and today. Different voices in social media and email yo-yoing back and forth make for a serious news roller coaster, never mind if people are trying to negotiate in those media rapids 4.7 hours of sleep in bed and another in the chair before that. I should TRY to JUST GO TO BED. I think I will aim to do some laundry but first back to my #GAAD presentation due on Friday.

  A photographic souvenir of Thursday's great family retirement community visit expedition. The Retirement community is down a very steep hill and there is an asphalt path on both sides of the street, but the hill is VERY steep and one side of the street is way better than the other. View from a bus stop in far south Seattle 5.0 hours of sleep in bed and a nap before. Awake in time for ARE and LOTS of quakers. Exercise may AGAIN be just the silly under the desk bike but here's hoping for productivity in time for other options. Mom and I talked. She has decided on the more financially sensible of her choices. I WILL make the transportation work.

I can't decide whether to be relieved that the zebra is not on some predator's menu or a little wistful that she is again corraled. But in any case it is a gentle break from protests, police, and college campuses, the other obsession of the last few days. 5.3 hours of sleep plus another hour or so of naps. In any case I woke up early enough to shower and wash hair before blind techno zoom. I feel ALMOST human and well energized after zooms even though I missed one monthly worship. Now, about my floor, and some paperwork, and ...

"Protest and survive" is on my mind. Not sure that's a reason the zebras decided to make a break for it, but this blog needs more zebras just because. 4.1 hours of sleep inbed and another hour before I made it to bed. I went to bed early because I was ZONKED from all the travel yesterday. NO idea why I couldn't sleep any longer though morning schedule has SOMETHING to do with it. And speaking of morning gig: 58 pages of meeting material and a reminder to presenters to give at least one way to get in touch out loud for people who can't read materials in the screen share.

I have been enjoying all the ways the runaway zebra has been popping up all over social media. I have been enjoying this until tonight a friend pointed out that we have bears, mountain lions, coyotes. I now hope the lost zebra finds his way to safety SOON. 3.9 hours of sleep. Too much crossword puzzle. Also today was great day to have more adventure than I had guessed I should expect. By great day, I mean SUN, leafy trees and NOT FRIDAY AFTERNOON. Retirement community trying to seduce mom assigned a staffperson who rides the bus to work to our family. It helped, but ai-yi-yi Now I shall breathe about all the things there are to breathe about and see where things can go from there.

Just doing my part wiht important news items. If it's on the internet, it must be true, right?  A dazzle of zebras? Running free near North Bend? PS the juvenile orca who beached herself alongside her pregnant and now dead mother floated out to sea on a high tide. 4.1 hours of sleep and a day to think about and sleep one before any email.