Both Dylan and car returned undamaged AND he made bacon for lunchtime BLTs. I think this kid's a keeper.

Both Dylan and car returned undamaged AND he made bacon for lunchtime BLTs. I think this kid's a keeper.

Dylan is absolutely crushing Tuesday!

Hey, Shir!

I have the frustrum. Matilda needs a new laptop.

As you may recall, JZ got a new laptop right after she retired last July. But as soon as she logged into it, her work IT somehow (they could never figure out how/why) claimed her personal laptop as a UCSF machine. This was never resolved despite several visits back to UCSF IT.

Because of this UCSF issue, Jacqueline's computer was not allowed to get on the internet even though she was logged into our router. Thus rendering her shiny new computer fairly useless.

I've been loathe to do a factory reset on her computer because I wanted to make sure I had everything off it that I needed, but now I'm at that point.

Tried to do the Factory Reset and I get an error. The error is because.... the computer is not connected to the internet so it can't Factory Reset!

So I guess I'll haul it down to the Apple Bar and try to get them to do something.

It's a spanking new MacBook Air but it's just a shiny paperweight with cartoony Out Flag Means Death stickers on it right now.

If you shut off the Mac, and then press and hold down the power button, it will give you an option to reinstall Mac OS. (You might have to wipe the disk first).

I do argue with them, but only as long as I enjoy it. If something really *hurts*, then I'm done(Which doesn't really happen that much now...not sure what that means) or if they're dumb enough to pursue it over days or something like that--not because I couldn't hang, because I am, almost officially, the stubbornest bitch in my state. But it's because of that I do have to remind myself that #shepersisted should have a weight limit or course prereqs or something.

If you shut off the Mac, and then press and hold down the power button, it will give you an option to reinstall Mac OS. (You might have to wipe the disk first).

I'll try that but Apple support chat is telling me I have to get the profiles removed by UCSF.

Bah!

So I'm on the phone with Apple help and they're trying to help me reinstall MAC OS through the Start Up options that Tom suggested.

And I'm most of the way through and there's an Activation Lock noting "this Mac is linked to an Apple ID and password previously used on this Mac."

Except the Apple ID is her old work email at UCSF which has been discontinued. So...we're stuck again.

I've had to submit a request to remove the Activation Lock.

How infuriating -- this is a computer you legitimately own, too.

Work had a ballroom dancing instructor for the residents (they're really GOOD with the elderly infirm, and a couple of the men and women had The Moves back in the day) so there was fun dance music while I worked on my paperwork, and finally gave in and took a spin. I'm pretty terrible, but no toes were stepped upon and I was laughing hard, too.

Oh, and while I was out shopping for the residents, there was an amateur marching band practicing up and down the shopping mall sidewalks. It might have been School of Honk, I know I've seen that polka-dotted tuba before. Just loverly random!

(Still angry and want to argue with someone, but Reminded There Is Hope Still.)

I just keep crying, then get snippy with people. People are being really annoying though.

I had to take Scrappy to the vet. Mystery wound/infection/thing but he got his rabies updated. And early this morning he did allow me to pick him up and cuddle him some.

I also discovered that I have been paying for Spectrum Essential TV since Jan and haven't used it. $30 a month just gone. I cancelled it. Then I got a call from a debt collector, apparently I hadn't paid a medical bill and was ignoring the mail.

And then I looked at how much I spend on food during my work day and working where I can just buy stuff easily makes me forget how much I'm spending. I need to seriously cut back. I'm acting like I'm made of money.

I also bought a few things from Amazon Prime day but I got some things we needed (new electric razor for M, new electric toothbrush for me) plus I got a few. So maybe not kind of up and down on the financial responsibility scale. One of the Loop ear plug styles was on sale so I want to try it , especially for around the house. What I have now isn't comfortable if I'm trying to lay on my side.

I've been trying to stay off social media as much as possible and while I miss some things it has done wonders for my mood. So as much as I miss certain accounts on IG (mainly the dude who found the cat in the parking lot near a nature trail and immediately bonded with the cat and then everyone has kind of bonded with him) and the Kendrick/Drake beef that keeps on giving and a few others I need to stay off of it. I just ended up with algorithm feeding me more and more conservative content. I have tried to correct that by engaging in very not conservative content but it hasn't worked and it just feeds me more and more home school, raw milk home steading nonsense.

Speaking of social media I'm reading ADHD is Awesome by Penn and Kim Holderness and it's really good. You can tell it was designed by someone with ADHD because it has infographics, doodles, random quizzes, color coded chapters.

It's a good mix of personal anecdotes and solid information and a good balance of the struggles and benefits of ADHD.