Part Zero: Introduction
Without privacy, you can’t have anything for yourself. Saying you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say. –Edward Snowden
The modern world being what it is – a public-private partnership surveillance state – it behooves us to be mindful of our digital privacy and security. Unfortunately, few people are. How often have you signed up for a new online service or installed a piece of software and clicked “I Accept” on a user or license agreement you didn’t read? If you’re like most people, probably the majority or entirety of the time. Contained within those rarely-examined agreements are the terms under which you may use a service or software, spelling out what you must give up in exchange. If you’re not paying any money, odds are very good you’re paying with your data and your privacy. Even if you are paying money, you are very often giving up your data and privacy in some measure. The amount and type of data and privacy you are exchanging for the goods or services you receive may range from trivial and innocuous, to extremely invasive and chilling. Everyone must decide for himself if that exchange is a good value. Enter the privacy schizo.
The privacy schizo is the type of fellow who values his data and his privacy highly and is unwilling, or at least far less willing than most, to exchange it for convenience and/or gratis services. “Normies” – the type of people who click “I Accept” without reading – often deride the privacy schizo for his paranoia and pedantry. “Why should I care if Google knows what kind of porn I like?” “I want Amazon to know what products I buy so they can recommend me new products and give me good deals!” “I’m not a criminal, I have nothing to hide!” Being on the autism libertarian spectrum, this audience will likely be cautious about government surveillance, but even many libertarians are worryingly comfortable with private surveillance. However, living in a panopticon has its downsides, even if it is an ostensibly private one. What you are giving away in data and privacy is valuable, and worth considering carefully.
That’s the end of the lecture as such. On the Normie-Privacy Schizo continuum, you will find me further towards the privacy schizo end, although the more fanatical privacy schizo would likely consider me too normie. As in any fringe community, performative extremism abounds. As I said, each of us must decide for himself if what he receives in exchange for his data and privacy is worth the bargain. What works for me and my workflow may not work for you. There are some things that you just have to live with in order to function in a job, for example, or certain conveniences that, for you, may be too good to give up. Perfect privacy is an unrealistic expectation unless and until you’re ready for the Kaczynski shack innawoods, but it is possible to at least mitigate some of the worst excesses of surveillance capitalism without becoming a total hermit. What will follow are some basic and non-exhaustive examinations of mainstream software and services that are not privacy-respecting, and recommendations of alternative software and services that I use, or have used, that are more privacy respecting. Whatever part of the continuum you occupy, I hope you find something useful in these recommendations, and that you will be inspired to pay closer attention to your privacy and digital hygiene. Feel free to roast me for my choices and add some of your own as well in the comments. Lastly, while this audience comprises mostly very tech-savvy readers – many of you far more so than I – I have endeavored to make this article accessible to the less tech-savvy as well. I hope it will not be received as oversimplified, arrogant, or condescending because of that. I am no sort of an expert, this is just a collection of what’s worked for me based on my own experiences and observations. At the end of each section will be a very brief TL;DR rundown of the software and/or services recommended in case you want to skip the admittedly long-winded expository.
A Brief Note On Proprietary vs. Free and Open Source Software
Before we begin, I should advise the reader that I will not be recommending any proprietary software. In brief, there are three basic software licensing and distribution models: proprietary, open source and free/libre. Proprietary software is software whose source code is not made public. Only the developer has access to the source code. Open source software is software whose source code is made public. This doesn’t always mean that you as a user will receive a copy of the source code along with the program executable, or that you are free to modify the source code to your liking, but the source code is public and can, at a minimum, be examined and audited by anyone. Free software, sometimes called “libre” software in order to better capture the nuance of “free as in freedom” vs. “free as in beer”, is a narrower subset of open source software that must additionally comply with the four freedoms defined by the Free Software Foundation. All free/libre software is open source, but not all open source software is free/libre. I prefer to use free and/or open source software everywhere possible, for both ethical and practical reasons.
Editor’s Note: There are seven parts to follow. Next week, “Part 1: Desktop Operating Systems.”
I’m probably way more on the schizo side than most people, but I’m not very good at it. So I look forward to the rest of it.
#metoo
I’m probably too much on the opposite end. I do like my conveniences.
I have a pretty fair idea what most of the recommendations are going to be. I’ve tried many of them, and given up on most of them out of frustration. I’m looking forward to seeing where this goes.
Dude…I edited (minimally) and scheduled all of the upcoming pieces….you all are in for a treat!!!!
“Next week, “Part 1: Desktop Operating Systems.”
On that not I plan on doing a Manjaro build in a week or so, if I’m not too busy. What’s a good lightweight desktop? Xfce?
*On that note
Stupid haunted keyboard.
My limited experience, xfce has very low requirements for number of required packages to get a minimally functional desktop.
Yeah, that was the lightest one I can remember from back in the day. I wonder if Enlightenment is still around – I remember digging that one.
Enlightenment is still around, but badly showing its age.
LXQt has largely displaced LXDE as the go-to lightweight desktop, but Xfce is still a great choice. Because of GTK it’s becoming a bit more Gnome-ified though.
I am looking forward to this. Nice start, Pat!
Ditto.
Ditto+
As well you should! *cheese eating editor grin*
You’re on the internet, you’ve already given away too much of your information to get here.
I hope it will not be received as oversimplified, arrogant, or condescending because of that
Speaking as an extreme Tech smart deficient Normie, I appreciate whatever dumbing down you do. In fact I probably still won’t understand some of it.
You? I’m still a kindergarten trainee. I won’t understand anything beyond the “Good Evening”
You and me both, boss.
I’m really paranoid schizo in comparison to my peers. I don’t have as much knowledge as I should. I’m looking forward to the rest. Thanks.
many libertarians are worryingly comfortable with private surveillance
I was once one of those. Then the scales fell from my eyes.
I liked “Oath of Fealty”, but it seemed a bit sugarcoated concerning the arcology and surveillance.
Do I really care that COSTCO knows we really like their cheese.cake – or anyone else for that matter?
I do know that I’m glad the state trooper that stopped me for gioing 80 in a 70 zone didn’t know how fast I was going five minutes before he stopped me. For sure I wouldn’t have just gotten a warning then.
I’m actually reluctant to say how fast I was going here. Or where or when.
Interesting – Apple changed my fat fingering of “that” into “Tarth”
I care about the data brokers that assemble what COSTCO knows with what other corporations know and proceed to sell it to people that will only fucking annoy me. But that isn’t as big an issue as the govt saying they can access any and all of that on a whim. Well sir, you have no privacy interests in any of this extensive data about you, it is the corporation’s data to decide what to do with as they please. And it pleases them to give to us whatever we want.
It’s the government part that worries me.
This. And so many companies today are enthusiastically handing it over.
Yeah, I don’t give a shit about advertising because I block that shit. My concern is BigCorp gladly handing over your data to BigGov.
The Department of Health has noted your love of cheesecake, citizen. Repent…NOW.
Perfect privacy is an unrealistic expectation unless and until you’re ready for the Kaczynski shack innawoods
Reminds me of a poster a former coworker had up on his cube wall back when I worked on a firewall product.
“If you want perfect network security” was the caption underneath a scissors cutting a computer’s network cable.
So say we all.
I always use Chrome’s incognito mode so I’ve got the privacy stuff covered.
Ummm, about that…
Stop by if you can. You left too early to get a jar.
Looking forward to this. My schizo needle bounces around a lot . Looking for a level of care that makes me feel “comfortable” whatever that means.
I figure if someone powerful Really wants to know about my midget porn fetish they’ll be able to find out no matter what I do. On the other hand, I don’t think i’m important enough for anyone to care enough to find out. On the other other hand I’m not so sure about that.
All over that map is pretty much where I am.
It’s only for if you ever become important and go against the grain so you’re probably good. It’s not so much whatever someone’s particular fetish is, within reason of course, but the fact that the laws are so convoluted that everyone has a few felonies under their belt whether they know it or not.
+3 felonies a day
Also looking forward to this.
I have also been intrigued by the encrypted thumb drives (ironman?) that supposedly was secure.
As for ‘Open Source’ there are a couple of things I’ve been meaning to link for anyone interested in public domain media.
Online Library of Liberty– “The OLL is a curated collection of scholarly works that engage with vital questions of liberty.”
Thanks!
Cool. Thanks for sharing CPRM.
LibriVox– Free audio book readings of public domain works.
That must be amusing. I want recordings of books read by an old New York native. Tarzan, etc…
Archive.org– “Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.”
Tundra….why no pass on a 3 on 0?
Lol.
Adrenaline, most likely. Still, almost always the wrong decision.
What game?
Blues Kings…thought you were Blues fan…
Lol.
By fan do you mean that I hate then with the heat of a million suns?
Then yes! 😁
Speaking of being paranoid (as in not paranoid enough) … The feds work with the social media companies is far more extensive and than previously reported.
It wasn’t just COVID that DHS wanted to make sure “official” information was the only information the public got.
That’s a huge story. I’m a cynical and paranoid bastard so none of that surprises me but maybe the normies will get something out of it.
I had several comments in mind but in the end I can only admit that there is no way to solve this. It is decades too late to do anything.
I’ll bet Alex Berenson and/or his lawyers are combing through those documents.
Looking forward to this series, Pat. Thanks!
OT: Project Veritas Action latest, something that should not surprise anyone:
NYPD Whistleblower Claims Mayor’s Office Ignoring Court Order that Reinstates Unvaccinated Officers with Back Pay, Continues to Fire Employees Even with Valid Claims of Religious Exemption … Says City Officials Fear ‘Lawsuits’ if They Reverse Course
They should fear lawsuits. However, I am sure ignoring the court order will just bring more lawsuits….
If I were a city worker fired for not being vaccinated why would I want to go back? The city already shown what they think about you
Back pay and sabotage.
Now they can fear lawsuits from the fired workers and a contempt hearing from the court.
The court order – if it’s the same one that was discussed a few days ago – only applies to 16 (17?) garbagemen.
And we all know what they think of religious exemptions.
Religion is the opiate of the masses. You can only use opiates on our streets.
/Eric Adams
Essentially I made the decision to give into the Borg (aka Google), but very few others. So if Google has a shitty third rate version of a service I use that rather than start a new relationship with a vendor that does it better.
Also the next time Brandon and the green lobby tell you go “electric” just point out these production numbers.
https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/yikmbx/a_visual_illustration_of_teslas_head_start/
Overall passenger car sales were 14m for same period. The supply isn’t there even if they were a perfect substitute.
The raw materials aren’t there to meet any reasonable goal.
I’m not an electric car guy, but here are Tesla’s annual unit sales:
2018 197,517
2019 195,125
2020 292,902
2021 301,998
2022 396,069
for reference, here are top models: Camry US sales are typically 400k, F150 are 800k; Tesla is extremely solid
The numbers are solid as a compeditive brand.
The numbers are laughable for any of the attmepts to replace real cars. So either the greenies are lying to themselves, or their real goal is still the elimination of private transport. That is what the numbers are saying. Especially given the states banning real cars from future sales.
They are only going to eliminate private transport for people that aren’t important.
attmepts to replace real cars
“I’m not an electric car guy” is how you know that wasn’t a point I was trying to make. @Sensei gets the point: industrializing a car is a massive undertaking, and to do it with only fractional IP and from zero infrastructure is quite impressive. Take it from someone who has considerable automotive experience: it’s an achievement worthy of acknowledgement even if for no other reason.
Not everything has to be an identity-politics potboiler.
Not everything has to be an identity-politics potboiler.
But that’s no fun at all. “I wanna be outraged” He outraged.
I take it your states haven’t banned the sale of internal combustion engines by the end of the decade. It’s already been done here, which is why the supply impossibility comes up so often – it’s not some theoretical problem to be handwaved at with a ‘to each his own’.
Tesla finally has true volume production. Also it finally matches their cost structure.
Kia and VW with Ford third are the only other people putting out much volume.
But Tesla can’t fill all demand. Also if BYD ever comes to the US it should be really interesting.
I’ve no idea how their cars hold up in a crash or quality. Domestic Chinese brands ain’t know for either.
But they are excellent at delivering user data to the CCP.
Similar but I chose Microsoft as the slightly lesser of multiple evils.
#metoo
If people want battery cars, it’s no skin off my nose; just stop trying to mandate them and/or price ICE cars/fuels out of the market.
As an avid Tesla driver, I couldn’t agree more. To each his own!
Also don’t use my tax dollars to build charging stations. If a company can find a way to make a profit without reaching having the government reach into my pocket, I have no issues. You want my money? FY!
At this point I wonder if taking privacy measures would be like telling my proctologist to look away while I get dressed.
Pretty much. I just assume everything I do can be discovered by anyone who really wants to know. It might matter some day… but not quite just yet.
My first trip to Moscow, we were in a conference room as a meeting was breaking up for lunch. We were the last to leave.
My coworker and I were packing up our gear and deciding where to go to eat. The back of my chair broke (all the office furniture looked like it had been salvaged from dumpsters). My coworker said we need to tell someone, and I said nah don’t bother. It’ll be fixed when we got back. He gave me a puzzled look. So I gave him a short version of a standard joke:
A business man checks in to hotel in Moscow. He was jet lagged and grumpy because he had shitty flight. He popped into the bathroom and noticed there weren’t any towels. The businessman made several derogatory remarks about the service at the hotel, then headed out for dinner. When he got back, the bathroom was well stocked with towels. Moral of the story, you are always being watched.
I chuckled at my own story, then we went out for lunch.
Of course, when we got back, the chair was fixed.
Russia, China, Europe, the US . . . . . Doesn’t matter . . . . .
You
Are
Always
Being
Watched.
My guardian angel is no longer a fan.
So you’re saying The Pee Tapes are real?
LOL but I can guarandamntee you that if and when I bitch about office equipment before lunch in New Jersey, it will NOT be fixed when I get back.
I use a VPN, always private browsing, and scrub everything with BleachBit routinely.
Am I schizo ?
Don’t forget to wipe with a cloth.
This is the type of highly informed, totally tinfoil, article which this site is happy to publish.
You should see the “Miss OS/360” illo which Pat dug out for the next installment. Think of a fan dance performed with punch cards.
Hubba, hubba.
Aw just a little before my time. I cut my teeth on System 370 – MVS and VM.
So wrong I want it.
https://soranews24.com/2022/10/29/trying-on-amazon-japans-low-rated-tattoo-shirt-to-feel-like-a-showa-era-punk/
Needs to be a Glibs tattoo shirt.
MNF needs to retire those yellow jackets. They look fugly, not retro.
Also, did I hear Ace of Spades as they came back from a commercial?
OMG my mostly Cleveland-based co-workers are going to be insufferable tomorrow.
JK, rooting for the dopes.
3-5 and they’ll brag?
Heh I didn’t know they were doing that bad. First time I’ve seen them this year.
But it’s an institution there, in a way that, say, the Jets and Giants never will be where I live.
Yes, it’s for Miller Lite. “I saw the sign” in reference to signs saying Miller lite has only 1 more calorie than some other beer.
I don’t get it but I fully support any reason to play Motörhead in a stadium.
They can be pretty clever with the music.
I heard 10,000 Maniacs during the Buffalo match yesterday. They were a “local band” before they moved to… Boston?
I don’t remember them relocating. I listened to enough Boston radio to tell you it wasn’t there if they did relocate.
Very good start, Pat. I eagerly await the rest.
https://archive.ph/cSwvj/1490db3a9247b0cc5453b25ba7a5cc03af2f3919.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/kMBIS/f473e14bda2ce6155bacc77e33a6ea1c267db735.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/ylcRT/7235b5ab33d05ac2c5821da35b2cf97d0af54f5d.jpg
NSFW.
https://thumb-p5.xhcdn.com/a/UgS973mZ59Aal1pwaU_xxw/000/427/086/445_1000.gif
NSFW.
I’d be paranoid with her.
I fully applaud this post. Thank you for taking this project on. Privacy and cybersecurity is one of my most passionate topics. I’ve wanted to see a series like this on the site but I haven’t had the bandwidth to take it on. THANK YOU and your series has my full support.
Good to see you here WedDom. I eagerly await your pictorial of OMWC dressed for Halloween.
He didn’t dress up. He’s lame.
He could have at least stripped down to his tighty whiteys before answering the door.
I can’t believe no one linked Halloween music. Here you go. You’re welcome.
https://youtu.be/vFwYJYl5GUQ
I’ve been preoccupied today. 🤘🏻 My fav creepy metal tune.
I don’t know them at all other than I like being type O- myself.
Is that the type that any other type can take in an emergency?
If you mean type O negative is the universal donor, then yes. The Red Cross won’t let me forget.
Of course that’s what I meant. How much more clear could I be?
No problem. I love you to death.
https://youtu.be/xD5No_JRrZw
I’m surprised. I thought you enjoyed goth music as one of your phases.
https://youtu.be/NJ3aiM8K6D0
That’s more rawk than the circles I hung out in.
Not bad, tho.
It can’t all be Bauhaus.
Wow. That one hits home. My aunt, my Mom’s youngest sister, has gone into renal failure and hospice. Going to say goodbye tomorrow.
That was hard to type.
Sorry Mike. That’s terrible news.
FWIW, the backstory to that song may help connect you with other people who experienced loss.
Thanks. After losing Mom in January, and my aunt soon, Christmas this year is gonna suck bad. She’s been coming to Christmas Eve at our house for 20-30 years. fuck
Sorry to hear that little buddy.
Thanks, Jimmy John.
🤘🤘
Not “Creepy” but the best B Movie Monster tie-in song ever.
That’s good. Never heard it before. I’d push bass up higher in the mix. Make it sound less Meatloafish.
That’s not very Christian of you.
https://youtu.be/3sMALbhJU6M
For anyone wanting Halloween music AND a classic monster movie: Nosferatu with a Type O Negative sound track
That’s fantastic. I had seen some homemade videos cutting in pieces of Nosferatu to Black No. 1 but that doesn’t compare to this. Thanks for sharing.
How about this Halloween flick?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBHVTfpvhMg
Looking forward to this, Pat.
I figure I’m completely watched at all times as a cleared fed employee/contractor. Still would like to protect against greedy advertising and such.
Also, now I know why Pat won’t meet up even though we live in the same town. I’m a security risk. 🙁
Your post is noted. We will contact you soon.
It’s not you, it’s me! I keep meaning to message you and then forgetting. We’ll set something up at some point before I leave for sure.
I really want the full story.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/california/painted-perp-popped-265730
Never had a tweet go over 1000 likes before. It’s weird what hits a nerve and what doesn’t.
?
Did Elon reinstate you or did you just make a different account again?
Nothing I do, that’s for sure.
I noticed your YouTube channel recently went over 10,000 views. Movin’ on up!
You are more observant than I.
I served my suspension like a good little boy.
Red rum! Red rum! Red rum!
When are these museums going to wise up and not call the cops until after the activists soil themselves?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy-environmennt-german-activists-glue-themselves-dinosaur-display
Ask me again after this winter.
Meteors, CO2, they really are the same if you don’t think about it.
Leave them attached and provide them no food or water. If the museum wants to fund raise, sell tickets for people to whack the idiots with pool noodles, for days.
Off yourselves first, fuckheads.
Thank you, Gustave. By AOC’s count we’ll all be dead in six years. Show us your dedication and off yourselves since the global Cthulthu won’t eat you last.
Honestly I’m still a bit surprised some vaguely charismatic nutball hasn’t taken over a cell of Extinction Rebellion and gotten them to kill themselves. It seems so perfectly culty that it doesn’t seem like it would be that hard.
Somebody dig up Manson.
Belated thanks to you all for the warm welcome.
Mornin’ y’all.
Morning.
How’s things behind enemy lines?
I had wicked insomnia. So now I’m drawing visio diagrams of the changes we made to fix the problem over the past week (culminating with yesterday)
You guys waking up at the crack dusk. Weirdos!
Yeah…that’s what makes me weird… 😉
Today is a very busy day, but I’m gonna pick just one:
https://nationaltoday.com/national-cinnamon-day/
Cinnamon is excellent when used sparingly and not so excellent when it’s not.
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/phillies-astros-game-three-postponed-rain-world-series/
Sportsball.
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/10/emotional-pa-mom-admits-conspiring-to-starve-to-death-her-2-young-daughters.html
Don’t read that.
Yeesh, it’s a cruel world.
suh fam
whats goody
Don’t ask me, my sleep was really off kilter last night.
“Potentially Lethal New Super Strain Of COVID Created In London Lab; Report”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/potentially-lethal-new-super-strain-covid-created-london-lab-report
Maybe it’d be easier to just compile a list of research labs thar are NOT engineering highly transmissible and extremely deadly frankenviruses. Anyone involved with performing this kind of research should be drummed out of their profession and locked in prison.
You are too kind.
I’d lock them in a lab with their creations. Either the virus or dehydration will take them.
Reading that article I had a flashback to this scene from Jurassic Park.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e6FXdloCUOM
Speaking of privacy, this site has begun shitting on my VPN. If it’s on it just spins and spins; cut it off and it works just fine.
For me, this site keeps spinning ‘waiting for fonts.gstatic.com’ on any article page. I don’t know what it wants from there or why it refuses to serve it up, but it’s a mild annoyance, as that is the last thing it trys to load.
Do you ever see the page proper?
Sorry, I should read more thoroughly. I guess my question should have been – does the page show up properly before you stop the spinning?
Sometimes yes, sometimes times out. If I cut off the VPN it works as normal though.
Any other symptoms? I’m not coming up with a good approach to try to narrow down the cause.
Now it seems to be working fine. Go figure…
Good morning, U, Stinky, homey, Sean, and (somewhere up-thread) RoaT, and good…evening?…straff!
First of the month, so it’s time for month-end reports. At least I have a head start on a couple of them, and the draft of last month’s Board meeting minutes is done. On the down side, we have a quarterly financial meeting this afternoon that I DO have to attend and take minutes for. 😒 On the up side, I have water “aerobics” after work! 😁🏊🏼♀️
3 organizations accepting donations of unwanted Halloween candy in DC area
With WFH, leaving it in the break room isn’t an option.
If you have one of those houses in your neighborhood you already received a toothbrush.
Mornin’, reprobates!
Looking forward to the rest of Pat’s series. I have one claim to “fame” in this realm – a single line of code in a wireless driver which I tested back in the days when it was sometimes necessary to compile things like device drivers. My patch is still in the Linux kernel (introduced in 2.6.23)
I’m predicting a crushing sweep for the pachyderms today. The last time I had a kidney stone I spent the night of election day 2016 in the ER, watching the live results on CNN which along with morphine made the pain go away. Renal calculi have more predictive value than polls.
Good morning, ‘patzie! I hope this year you can spend Election Night at home in greater comfort and watch the election results…not come in. (Funny how all the early voting and whiz bang fancy schmancy new electronical voting machines are apparently making it take longer to count the votes. Hmmm… 🤔)
(BTW, unless things are very different in NJ, you DO know today isn’t Election Day, right?)
We have early voting here, I voted at the senior center yesterday. Also, I may be confused because it is Election Day in Israel, where they are closed. I had to take care of an issue at 5:30 this morning because they are not around and the support team didn’t t bother to assign someone here to cover. I stand by my prediction, the stones know all.
I do, indeed, trust your renal rocks more than most pollsters and pundits.
Also of potential significance, if one lends any credence to that sort of thing: Election Day this year coincides with the full moon. 😳
(Now I’m imagining tossing kidney stones I Ching-style to divine the outcome of the election…)
Nerd.
Why, thank you. Thank you very much.
Mask-only commuter railroad cars shot down by New Jersey Transit. For now.
https://www.nj.com/news/2022/10/nj-transit-knocks-rider-idea-to-designate-mask-friendly-cars-on-trains.html
a petition drive spearheaded by rider Adam Reich, asked the agency to test a “mask only” car which would allow riders with compromised immune systems to return to the trains and not require enforcement by train crews.
Go fourth, Adam, the strong will prevail.
VRE August 2022 forum
Covidians asked for the same thing on the VRE.
A Karen-car. I like it.
Then they could leave the rest of us alone.
Nosophobia should be treated not reinforced.
Don’t coddle them, they’ll only push for more.
How do I go to the store for Apple Fritters and come back with Taco Fixings (and no fritters)?
You’re forward thinking and jumped ahead to lunch, overlooking breakfast entirely?
Now I want apple fritters! I wonder if Tim Horton’s ever has them…
Oh, now I remember. The store was out of fritters.
I’m now sad again.
I’ll probably have to settle for apples & cinnamon instant oatmeal when I get to work. 😞
I had to settle for cold leftover chicken dipped in honey mustard.
Sounds like one of my typical shopping excursions. Mrs. Patzer asks similar questions when I return.
How is she doing by the way?
A bit better, thanks for asking. No horrible episodes yesterday.
Good to hear. I hope things keep improving, even if it’s just a little each day.
Good Morning crew.
Started cooking lasagna sauce this AM. Anybody coming to chicken show in Norman this weekend?
This weekend? I’m afraid not.
Don’t forget the clocks change sunday.