amazon is getting creepier if that's possible

We never have power outages here.

This is a new-ish neighborhood with underground power lines and in the last 10 years they've had TWO power outages.

I have a UPS (uninterruptible power supply unit that's a battery and a surge protector all in one package) that I have my PC and servers attached to (servers are super sensitive and if they're not shut down perfectly they throw a fit and sometimes just plain die).

Anyway we had a power outage about a week ago. It was 6 hours long and very odd for this area. I think the power company was upgrading things and didn't want to bother telling everybody ahead of time but of course they just said it was an "unknown cause."

I didn't text about it. Didn't post about it or look up a UPS to replace my own (mine is very good thank you).

Me, mom, and dad didn't say anything about the outage near our phones - we left them in our bedrooms and went out to the living room when the power went out.

But for the last four days Amazon has been trying SO HARD to get me to buy a new UPS.

Like Amazon be a little more careful about how obvious you are with your advertising. At least let me think I searched for something and you're advertising.

Don't LOOK AT MY NEIGHBORS' ACTIVITY and decide what I need.



too many docs

Decided to start catching up on the doc visits/procedures I haven't had my parents do for the past 3 years now that we're more confident about mom's health and how to go out safe-ish-ly with Covid/other shit.

I scheduled no more than 1 doc/procedure per week and alternated between parents.

All in all it's 3 months solid of once-a-week shit.

I thought once a week wasn't bad and totally do-able.

But holy shit I forgot how frustrating it is to do shit for old people.

The medical industry (bc lbr it's an industry) is such a joke when you're over 60.

Everything is super hard, super long, and super frustrating. I've complained about it here before but it still blows my mind.

My shit gets taken care of fairly quickly (it's still America so don't get too excited) and I get referrals and authorizations within a somewhat reasonable period of time.

Mom and dad? Nope.

Everything is a struggle and nobody communicates with each other so with every specialist, every office, every pharmacy, and every SINGLE insurance issue, it's like starting over.

I'm so fucking tired, and I'm 25 years younger than mom and 35 years younger than dad.

Yesterday I spent 4 hours in the ER with mom after she started having spots in her vision (she had a stomach procedure 2 days previous).

FOUR HOURS and there were only 4 other people besides us there only to find out she had her first ocular migraine.

Like thanks dude both my dad and I get them and if you just would've ruled out super dangerous shit with a CT in the beginning we could've been out in 1 hour.

I swear they hope old people will just go home and die instead of trying to keep themselves healthy. Old farts are too tired to do this shit and their kids are too busy with their own lives and kids of their own.

Why not just let them live out the rest of their lives easily? Let them have meds without jumping through hoops. Authorize procedures their docs ask for without a fight -- bc like who is going around getting this shit done for fun?!

Can't tell ya how many times I've gone in for an endoscopy just for funsies amiright?!

my server

Just checked the stats on my server and I now have:

4442 movies
857 TV series
84 stand-up comedy specials
69 audiobooks
1247 musicians with 4250 albums

Family/Friends have watched/listened to this week:
49 hours of movies
108 hours of TV shows
216 hours of music

Considering only 9 people have access (and I don’t watch a lot of TV), that’s a lot of content consumed!

I’m so proud of my little server🥹

happy hamster!

My dad has this super condescending way of talking to people, and if you call him on it, he plays it off like aw naw he was just being cutesy but you KNOW it was meant to be insulting.

When I was a kid, I remember redoing my room. I was so proud of it. My mom helped and let me pick out a lot of stuff and we did a lot of stuff ourselves instead of just buying because we didn't have much money.

I wanted to show my dad (for some reason) and he came in and was like "aww the little hamster got new sawdust for her cage" and walked out.

I knew it was an insult at the time even though I was only 7, but I was also a really stubborn 7yo and I was like well hell yeah it's new sawdust and a new chewy toy and color-coordinated cardboard hangouts and...

So now when I see people post pictures of their rooms -- all proud of themselves and happy in their newly renovated spaces -- I can't help but think about them as a happy little hamster squeeing over how content and comfy their new space makes them.

I recently redid my room (and didn't show my dad btw) and there's so much less stuff and more blankets on the walls but with material covers on them so there's not as much of a chaotic feeling in the room (I have a bunch of hand-me-down blankets from people and none of them match).

Got rid of a bunch of clothes I don't wear anymore, so my closet is organized and only has a few things in it! I don't like having a lot of stuff -- I've always felt overwhelmed by STUFF.

My room is so quiet and calm and there's only a plain bed and a nightstand thingy and did I mention it's quiet in there?!

Happy hamster!!