Spending time with my littlest Love!

sweet baby Tay I call her ...  who will be turning 2 years old in September. She is just the sweetest most pleasant child.  I like to take her to the park to interact and play and run free! She isn't in daycare so she misses out being around other kids. She would say 'hi' to everybody, but especially loved watching a gang of little boys flitting about. She seemed to be totally fascinated and would squeal and follow them around! She has a brother but he's too little to run around yet at only 6 months old! :)  I love hanging out with my little granddaughter, she is now losing her baby fat, and talking up a storm ... anything you say she can say better! :) and getting those hugs and kisses just made my day!

things your cellphone might blurt out ...

when you least expect it ...




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Good its back on

Good

Kinda scary when you're home alone

I hid in a condom

CORNER!

damn autocorrect!

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and one more just for shits and giggles...




oh gracious mercy!  Yep, I guess autocorrect could be your worst enema!

Have a gr8 day ya'll.

Ah! Those Were The Days~

 I've not always been a paleface, actually one summer in particular when I was a young sassy lassie, I had the prettiest golden tan for miles around, thanks to this little beauty.  The electric lawnmower!



I can't remember the color of it per se, but what I do remember was that big long orange cord that you had to make sure you didn't run over! Mom didn't trust too many people to handle the yard mowing with the Sunbeam.  I'm not sure whatever happened to that electric lawnmower! what a novel idea for the times, huh? that was probably the same year we got the silver pom pom Christmas tree with the spinning wheel of color, remember either of these?

This lawnmower even had a flip handle, push it one way and then just flip the handle and back and forths, but it was always having to move the electric cord too! I sweated out the task of our big yard many times with that Sunbeam and kept all my fingers and toes intact! :)

With my small yard here, maybe I should invest back in one of these lawnmowers but considering the price of electricity nowdays maybe not such a wise investment!  ... nah!

however, I'd love to have a silver pompom tree once again,  Everytime I found one on E-Bay I always got outbid, I think its rigged!  I found the tree rather space aged for the times! as far as lights it was a bummer (this was back when they were big and clunky and hot too) but who needs lights, right? when you have a color wheel!  I spent many hours in awe of it.  Also, like the lawnmower I'm not sure what happened to the tree either!

Today's Forecast

sounds like the weather we're having.

SOS (same ole shiz) ... Hot and humid again, with a side of occasional rain!

which only makes things worse.  Its like living inside a dang sauna!

This weather has been way too humid and sticky for my liking, and unless I have to run errands or be at a water source, I'd rather not venture outside the palace gates here!

My cooling system has run nonstop and this window air conditioner unit upstairs doesn't even keep my bedroom cool enough through the day and I find I need to wait until about 10 to even try to lounge there, but the downstairs is butt-ass cold!

I grew up without air conditioning and bunked on the 2nd floor, and then as an adult with two kids moved into a 3rd floor apartment without any air conditioning at all, and believe me ... when the heat index is up like this and people have no air, they get nasty uncomfortable and mean, especially if you are living in an apartment complex like I did for low income housing and HUD subsidized rent.  I was going to radiologic technology school and in the summer months, on any given night you could hear the outbursts and the arguments, people outside all hours of the night, no doubt due to the irritability of having to live in such god-awful temperatures.  At the time I moved in, I didn't realize it did not have central air, and if you put in a window air conditioner you had to pay extra for it and of course that meant you'd have to purchase the air conditioner too, which wasn't in my budget at the time.  I lived my first summer without air conditioner and it was murderous!

At those times in my youth and early adulthood air conditioning was a luxury.  To me its an absolute necessity!

Some like it hot? Nah, I like it cold and frigid!

so what is playin' at The Lounge? ... rainy day jazz ... outside its hot, inside its raining ...

Budgeting CellPhone Data

In these days and times, budgeting, even though we might hate to do it, has to be done to keep your head above water unless you have a rich uncle that just got out of the poorhouse or you're rollin' in dough.  I have everything budgeted as far as bills and such and would choke a dollar bill to death!

However, this year I decided I would get myself a new I-phone and either trade-in or give my Apple 5-S to my granddaughter who as a teen wants to be like everybody else (a whole other post).  My choice?  the Samsung 6 Edge with 32 GB and I got it for a decent price.  I bought it straight out and put myself on a monthly budget plan for 40 bucks, that's it. Daughter-in-law says she rather fight than switch, was never an Apple user ....  but the vote is still out on that one for me.  I do miss being able to voice Siri to call "Sister" while in motion or not.  Maybe Samsung has a comparable app for that.  I'll have to hit up the ever popular Android guy!

So...Bloggers are you an Android or Apple user?

Apple or Samsung?

I was pretty lost when I first got this phone on all its features, which are a lot, and I wanted to ensure that I was keeping within my boundaries as far as data.  The teen always runs over her data in 3 to 5 days (luckily she is not on my phone plan) but is set at a limit on somebody else's plan.  She is allotted a certain data amount and when she runs out, she is restricted to wifi use only.

Apps can certainly burn up your data and quickly, but I find that Pokemon Go doesn't burn as much as some other apps and one would have thought it would.  Yes I play a little, not too much, and usually with the kiddo teen.  About 7 years ago my teen (who is now 24) broke my bank account every payday with overcharges, I'm talking a hundred or more, it was nuts, back then you couldn't even cut them off at a certain point, ugh!  Anyhoo in case yuns didn't know you too can restrict data by turning off apps that run in the background and whether you open them or not, some of these apps (chat, messaging, email) are still burning your data, A lot of people think that if the app is not open they are not using data -- this is not true necessarily, folks!  If you're using wifi mostly and are wondering where all your 'data' goes well consider looking here.

On my phone I go to >>Settings>>Data Usage>>scroll down to By Application where it lists all the Apps I have downloaded and most of which run in the background unnoticed.  You would then go down your list tap each one and turn on "Restrict background data"  ... and believe me this has cut down on the data, in fact I hardly used any data the last two cycles.   Well, I hope this helps if anybody is interested in knowing how to save a little cash on an otherwise not unlimited plan!

Inquiring Minds Wanta Know ...

Bloggers ... 

exactly WHAT gets better with age ? 

hmmm?

Op notes

are the most fun of the reports to do.

Right...

Who knows where the "pouch of Douglas" is ... well that's what it sounds like ...

Its amazing how many new areas of the body I learn ... 

go ahead Bloggers ...take a guess,

top half of body or bottom half a body?

 without Googling ..

go ahead...

My day in QA ...

what in tarnation?!

... so far this morning, has been interesting; what has it been 2 hours and I just got two reports done that were STATs at CS level.  I didn't even log in on time, I slept another 30 in, my bad.  These 2 reports had already gone through one of our QA people and they were both absolutely incredible as far as the amount of blanks and gross errors left in them.

Boss called about the time I was trying to finish up the 2nd one; said that particular QA is being looked at, may be demoted, or take a cut in pay or some of other consequences befall for such gross and negligent errors (she was talking about 2 other accounts this QA worked on).  One would have to see to believe the errors, I kid you not ... off the wall stuff like..."Additional desires for Viagra?  this is a female with all the info dictated but no demographics were placed where they should have been; QA left a note that MT did not finish typing but the last hand that touched it was QA and it is their responsibility to ensure a quality product, this was nowhere close.

Heads are gonna roll on this one.

So I am on the other late file on the system, and I have to chuckle at the "gut & butt remark"...

A 58 year old lady applying for disability (in a far away state) who states she has had diarrhea for 12 years? ...Come on now... states she cannot do anything when her gut and butt are acting up.  That was all the information that she provided. (and that's more information that you or I needed to know too!)    

and that makes me a little queasy...!  reminds me of Morning Fluoro as a radiologic technologist doing barium enemas!  Oh the tales I could tell...

anyway, over and out for now.  :) Have a gr8 day. 

UPDATE:  This particular QA was banned from working on this one account (not the one I found gross errors on...but another very picky client that she was messing up on); we receive all work through poolscripts set up for each individual QA person, so its easy to do just pull the client name out of her poolscripts and she will not pull any work related to that one account! This client did have an in-service yesterday that she did attend, so maybe they'll put her back on the account.  :(