I love Luigi with my whole entire heart, but he does not get to be around children. Kids show up, he goes into his crate. Hell, adults who he doesn’t know intimately show up, he goes into his crate. It wouldn’t be fair to our guests or to him if we didn’t do what was possible to keep him from being in a bad situation. He’s an old man with some messed up brain chemistry and some real bad habits from before he came to us, a puppy definitely has the ability to learn the proper behaviours. It is shameful of those people to not take his actions seriously.
I like this distinction. OMD is good for my mental health (I would have been a lot worse off this past year without y’all) but Facebook I keep limited because it never ever stops wanting my attention. Reddit I have to remind myself is technically social media even though it feels more like it’s just a place with content where people happen to be talking with each other. It feels sort of like the mall. Facebook feels more like a giant house party/neighborhood block party (depending on what group/list I’m looking at), and OMD is more a series of peoples’ living rooms. The expectations I have for meaningful conversation are very different in the different spaces.
I think we’ve talked about these before, but I have another ereader question.
I think I’ll get one for Mr. Meer for father’s day potentially but I have done next to no research. Ideally I’d just get our existing tablets to be an ereader but they’re too old for Libby to work properly.
Thoughts thus far:
Being able to make the font bigger would be really nice. Right now he’s reading ebooks on his phone so even if he could change the font size it’d be a handful of words per screen.
Something used is fine/preferable for cheapness (ideally <$100 but I have no idea how realistic this is)
Probably also needs to be able to surf the internet? Or maybe this is a nice to have, I don’t know how much this would reduce the options.
He’s currently reading a graphic novel so it will need to be able to do color
Probably something in the neighborhood of a 7" screen would be fine.
We don’t have a Prime membership so I dunno how great a Kindle would be without that.
Suggestions? And will buying used actually be helpful to keep the cost down?
I think you don’t need prime to read books on Kindle, especially from the library.
I have an old kindle sitting in a drawer if you want to have/test it out to see what your thoughts are on it. No colour or internet surfing equipped. But it’s great for reading on a sunny day!
My brother bought my mom an Amazon fire which I see on amazon are like $50 to $90 depending on the gb you want. I read on my iPad using the Kindle app but I’m sure that can be on anything.
I love my kindle paper white but I don’t think it meets the requirements listed - it is not in color and does a terrible job browsing the internet. It’s really easy to borrow books from my library using overdrive though. There are often sales from Amazon for $80. I also have a kindle fire for watching Daniel Tiger with my toddler. For the requirements listed I think a kindle fire makes sense - they’re often on sale for ~$50, and you can browse the internet.
I will say that I find using the kindle to be much closer to reading a physical book compared to a phone or a tablet. I’m not sure if it’s the e-ink or lighting, or what is is, but I don’t feel the eye strain that I get with anything else.
My husband had a nook but ended up switching to the kindle due to difficulty of borrowing library books.
I have a boring samsung tablet that I read books on. It doesn’t have e-ink, which I would like, but it does have a browser and candy crush. I use it to show me recipes on a screen bigger than my phone and to read or play.
A dedicated e-reader is nicer to read on but can’t do anything else in any meaningful way. A tablet’s screen isn’t as good to read on but it’s a mulutifunctional device. There is no compromise device as far as I know.
I personally find it easier to read on a tablet screen than an e-ink display, unless I was regularly reading outdoors in which case e-ink is much better.
On either type of device font resizing is easy. A pro for tablets is borrowing from a library using the Libby app, which is very nice.
I have two e-readers - one for Amazon books, and because at that time they were cheaper for better, and a Kobo because they can handle library books here. I vastly prefer reading on an ereader and not being able to do much else. I’m not sure about graphics and colour
Really random question, but I’m about to use up a bunch of gift cards on a piece of art from Etsy, and I can’t settle on a size since it can be custom ordered in any of them. Did a scale diagram of that end of the condo (it’s a little weird, but basically the ceiling is on an angle and I’ve got two cabinets on either side of a sliding glass door on the bottom and an antenna in the upper right). Trying to figure out which size of bright blue square above the glass door/greyish-blue box looks sized better…I don’t want to make it too big and crowd everything, but I’m also worried I’ll go too small and regret it later which is the issue with the picture I have up now.
My rule of thumb for art over furniture/a thing is to aim for 2/3rds or 3/4ths the width. 3 looks the closest to that.
Edit: can you post a photo of the current setup? That might change things based on the colour of walls/ceiling and how the other objects play off each other.
Crazy deal on a Kindle Fire tablet just popped up in one of my deal groups.
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For those of you who have experienced very painful menstruation, what remedies helped you? I have had my share of cramps and feeling not good for a day, but my darling daughter seems to have it worse than I’ve ever experienced. So far she has taken both Ibuprofen and Aleve, and she’s still suffering a lot. She wants none of the things that have made me feel better when suffering cramps (besides pain relievers), such as a warm bath or a heating pad. Suggestions?
Red raspberry leaf tea. I found it 20 years into menstruation and it is a game changer. You can brew it with a flavoured herbal tea, or just alone it tastes like boiled leaves.
Ice, changing positions, snarling. Wine is maybe not an appropriate suggestion and she’s not allowed pot until she’s 26.
But the thing that I’ve barely ever gotten for them and really works… Morphine.
