the minor frustrations of everyday life with computers

Yesterday afternoon Hotmail stopped working for me -- or rather, Hotmail stopped working in Chrome, which is a problem since Chrome is my default browser. After getting an unhelpful response to a support ticket (basically, 'the problem isn't us, it's all Google, go bug them'), I did some searching and determined the issue was probably one of my extensions... which is annoying since I hardly have any extensions in the first place and they're all doing important things.

It turned out to be my ad-blocker. We are all completely shocked and surprised. So I tweaked the settings to make it be nicer to Microsoft and whaddaya know, I can access my email again! (Fortunately the tweak didn't make the extension stop working; it's just gone back to blocking only the sidebar ads instead of, apparently, the entire domain. *sigh*)

stuff done: Saturday-Friday

I think from now on, work is going to become one of the background events I don't bother to mention. Just take it as read that I am working three days a week unless I specifically say otherwise. :)

Anyway, the list!

1. Drove down to NJ on Saturday to pick up Dottie for another stint of dogsitting. Drove back on Sunday with the dog in tow. This time I remembered to bring Aunt Cara's present with me -- Mom had it sent to my apartment when she pre-ordered it, because the shipping date overlapped with one of their summer trips.

I have been feeding Dottie twice a day, walking her twice a day, and piddling her in the afternoon except on Tuesday when Upstairs Neighbor E took care of that for me so I didn't lose my lunch break at work.

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14. Mixed a new batch of dental hygiene water for Dottie after the old one ran out today. I also made several new meal additive containers, by combining little blobs of frozen wet food with some of the pre-cooked vegetables Mom also sent along. At the moment, I am two containers short of what I will need to use before my parents pick Dottie up next Friday. I have a whole bunch more wet food blobs (Mom packed them in a large Tupperware, in layers separated by wax paper) but I ran out of pre-cooked vegetables. So I think I will buy a bigger yellow squash than usual when I go grocery shopping tomorrow evening (I have made a list) and use a few slices as Dottie-food instead of putting the whole thing into a batch of veggie sidedish.