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way to poison the well, Facebook
Sunday, January 8 2017
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I did the last of the scraping and cleaning of the half-floor to be resurfaced in Gretchen's library. The portland cement I'd used in the divot repairs had been old and lumpy, and there were little ridges and clumps that needed to be removed before the flooring could be laid. But after I'd done all this prep work, I didn't feel like transitioning to the fussy business of measuring and cutting tiles. It's easy work once you get into the rhythm of it, but I was afraid I was going to experience something of a cold start and make mistakes.
Speaking of cold, it's become brutally so. There's no reason to go outside except to bring firewood in from the shed. I've been more of a wuss about using the brownhouse of late, and I don't think I went to it even once today, though it's not like my vegan bowels didn't move.
In other news, my smartphone is like a completely rejuvenated device since I rooted it and removed the Facebook app. Now it's much more responsive and the battery seems to lose its charge at a rate so negligible that I thought my battery indicator wasn't updating. I'm pretty sure most of the improvement I'm seeing is from the Facebook app not being there, though there were probably also improvements from having gotten rid of a few trivial examples of manufacturer-installed bloatware. Way to poison the well, Facebook! Knowing how badly your stupid app has degraded my phone's capabilities has put something in my brain that will take years to shake loose. It will be a long time indeed before I install a Facebook app on any of my devices ever again. It boggles the mind that Facebook would willingly launch such a terrible product; why couldn't they have made an app more like Slack, which seems to have the same networking behavior and yet doesn't drain the battery or monopolize all the computational power?
This evening I made another big pot of chili for dinner. Gretchen likes it when I make dinner on Sundays when she works at the bookstore.
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