Sunsaver, Livining Off-Grid In Suburbia- Happy Taconight America!

[Farmfresh]

Right now I am using my old stash of lids for things I often give away for gifts, like my jams and jellies. I am using the Tattlers for the acidic things I keep like fruits and tomatoes.

 

[sunsaver]

I need to get some of those. Thanks, FF!.
I have decided that i don't like plastic at all. It's the major pile of garbage that i have to take to the landfill, since i can't afford to pay for garbage pick-up service. I can recycle glass for food storage. I can use paper for kindling (fire starters). Aluminum brings big bucks @ the metal salvage yards, but plastic is just so much toxic waste. It's the junk that gets left over from the manufacture of gasoline. It releases dioxin when heated, and chlorine from tap water can leach out BPA. After a few years it starts to crumble into plastic sand. Glass and metal are much more permanent than plastic. Cancer was a rare thing until the mid 20th century. Baton Rouge, LA, the plastic making capital of America, is also the cancer capital of America. How much more proof do you need? Go ahead and smoke another cigarette. They're good for you!
So now i'm going to get some hate-mail from someone in the plastics industry who takes things too personally. It's a free country. I can hate plastic if i want to, right?

 

[FarmerChick]

yes you can hate whatever you want, plastic included...at least to this point your mind is not controlled, just yet, by anyone truly LOL


how are you feeling?

I woke up one morning with a sharp pain in my side calf up high, a few times it kicked in and did that and then it was sore for about 6-7 days...I constantly rubbed the soreness....then it just went away....go figure, not dead just yet LOL I thought and thought, what did I do? never could figure it out...huh

 

[sunsaver]

I feel better today, but just went for a walk up the street and it started hurting again. There is a small bruise there. Who knows? It's weird that i don't remember getting injured. I've got a job for tomorrow, so i hope it clears up, else i'll just have to work through the pain. I almost never get sick or injured, so it's weird to hear myself complaining about body issues.
I just ate another solar heated MRE. Beef stew. I have to admit that it tasted pretty good. Nice to know our fighting men and women are being well fed. Tonight? I'm thinking nachos. I've got a nice crop of jalepeno peppers, and some good cheese. All i need is those highly processed, gmo frankenfood in a plastic bag corn chips! The only time i eat that junk is during football season. Old habits die hard.

 

[sunsaver]

Enjoyed the nachos and the Saint's preseason game. I rested in the A/C of a relative, took potassium and gatoraid, and the leg felt about 50% better yesterday. So i went to work, and made some money, about $120. Not bad for 7 hours of hard labor. It was the first time i had any money at all in about 2 weeks. I love the smell of money, sort of a cross between leather and vinyl, hotel rooms and cocaine. So i got home about 5:30 yesterday and opened my netbook computer, only to find the keyboard and moniter covered in water. It's dead. My brand new netbook is destroyed and my warranty doesn't cover water damage. But how did it get water in it? The only thing i can think of it that my customer had his water sprinkler on. The windows were down on my truck and the netbook was on the seat. He says the sprinkler was too far away. So why would someone come in my van and pour water on my computer. Wouldn't they steal it instead? The whole thing is just too bizarre. For some reason, God just doesn't want me to have internet. All these strange and unexplainable problems that i keep having that prevent me being or going online are just too much for me. If God is so determined to keep kicking me offline, then i guess i'll just have to give up on the dream of owning a computer. I have no idea when i'll be able to buy another one, and at this point the idea of buying a new computer every month just doesn't sound very attractive. So God wins, i loose. Goodbye internet friends. I'll come to the library when i can just to say hi. But i can't fight the higher power than keeps destroying my computers in mysterious ways.
I'll miss Y'all! Goodbye dear ss friends!

 

[i_am2bz]

Say it ain't so!!!

 

[~gd]

Sunsaver I doubt you will ever see this but most Libraries now have public computers, the ones that kids and teens can use usually have filters and they might not let this Forum be seen, Usually there are a few Adult computers tucked away where the staff can keep an eye on them. If you remember your sign on data you can get back here for free.

 

[dragonlaurel]

I'll keep subscribed to your journal so I wont miss it if you post there. Sometimes the computers dry out and work again later, so you might get lucky there.
Hubby said they can recover sometimes- if you pull the battery before try to use it, then set it in the sun for a few days to dry thoroughly. Then put the battery back in and hope.
If it had been soda or other sugary drinks the odds of recovery would be worse.

 

[sunsaver]

well the keyboard and mouse pad are screwed up but i got the little netbook working again> there"s somthing wrong with this usb keyboard< but i have usb mouse that works> the hard drive is making a loud clicking sound< and i have to turn it on and off several times to get it to boot< but hey< at least i"m back> maybe if i get a new keyboard i"ll be able to use punctuation again> so i guess it was a false alarm> y"all cant get rid of me that easily! smilies aren"t working either LOL!

 

[abifae]

Aren't computers fun?

Amira dumped honeyed tea on my cell phone and it now has issues taking photos. They are even fuzzier than they started out. *sighs*

It was valerian root tea, you see, and she was digging out the dregs at the bottom with her paw, but she was really stoned by then and knocked it all over.

And then she dumped water on my keyboard while I was at work and it shorted out. Once dry, it was fine. Using it now. But...