Halloween

Happy Halloween.  

I just spent an hour of my life that I will never get back.  Before lunch I was out on Google Photos examining the number of drawers that the new kitchen does not have.  The software was working fine and life was good.  Two hours later, I discovered I was kicked out of google.  No Gmail, no access to Blogger, no google photos, google did not know me.  I'm on a different PC, I'm sure that had something to do with it, but why was it fine, and then it wasn't.  It was fine on my phone.  After an hour or so of trying to convince google it was me, I clicked on the "recover account" button on a help article, and low and behold it worked, I was back.  So much of my personal history is on blogger in unpublished posts, I put stuff there to have it where I can find it.  The inner workings of Google are a mystery to me.  Of course, I could say the same thing about Microsoft products.

My laptop is at the PC doctor.  I charge it at night, shut it down, unplug it.  Then, in the morning, sometimes the battery is at 0%.  This is the laptop I bought in February 2024 to replace the one upon which the hinge failed.  This is a failed hinge below, you can't close the laptop anymore.  So, he's trying to determine what the issue is.  If it wants a new battery, I'll pay for it.  If it's the mother board, it's going back to somewhere because it's under warranty.

I think this is fairly emblematic of the world at the moment.  First we had a happy skeleton with his jaunty pose next door.

Then there was a windy afternoon.  No one has been out to pick him up. 

The inflatables have been out since September.

We were just visited by quail.  Many quail.  Look left in the photo, just off the grass, tree in the background.  That gray blur is a quail flying straight up.  I thought it was a smudge on the window, but it's a quail.

It rained a lot today, but then the sun came out, so I guess the trick or treaters will be here after all.