@variablepulserate I find the tea in most McDonalds stores to be acceptable, provided you can fine one where the servers don't put the milk in while the teabag is still steeping. They use a very popular brand of Sri Lankan-sourced tea which I often buy myself. Unfortunately it's a lot easier to find places that fuck up a cup of tea than to find ones that make a good 'un.
// @jws
@variablepulserate No, I just don't have the energy at present, since my last bout of hospitalisation I've been finding it hard to sleep.
// @matigo @jws
The Men's Shed . group had its Xmas party yesterday, we rent premises at a retirement village, so we booked a section of the dining lounge for the show. We approached the villages kitchen staff to cater for the event & accepted their quite cheap offer.
The head chef, Cassie, is an amazing person, used to be a nurse but decided on a career change and applied for the vacant position after the previous chef retired. Cassie will be 23 in a few months, she's very talented in that kitchen. We had hot chicken pieces with chips (aka fries) & gravy plus three great salads (I kept going back for more of the potato &n egg one).
In addition there was the most spectacular fruit salad I've ever seen, and it was made without pineapple, which pleased me no end. This is because my tongue gets ulcers instantly upon exposure to that fruit.
She also supplied four cherry cheesecakes which the group of 34 folk quickly demolished. Cherries are in season at present & these were sweet & juicy, most impressive. We had a great time, although the Secretary & his wife were called away earlier to attend to their son who'd been seriously injured in a traffic accident earlier in the day.
@variablepulserate Mattresses on the floor are completely useless for people like me who have mobility issues: once down it's extremely difficult to get up to a decent working height. I have extreme osteoarthritis in one knee and a degenerative lower back condition. I'm never totally without lower back pain.
// @matigo @jws
Some 15 hours ago my car collided with the next one ahead of it in very slow-moving school-pickup-time traffic. Sufficiently slow that the plastic bumpers of both vehicles absorbed the entire impact force without sustaining any damage to vehicles or passengers.
@whoisashygirl So, while NBN to me means National Broadband Network, to you it's No Bloody Network? I used to work for Telstra & still have the old superseded microfiche plans of the area. Using those I was able to determine that my conversion from ADSL 2+ to FTTN was only going to have 135 metres of phoneline – including internal wiring – downstream of the node. That's about as good as one can expect. I'm averaging around 99% of the connection speed I'm paying for, again quite acceptable.
@hybotics Perhaps this app could help? It turns an Android phone or tablet into a keyboard over wifi or Bluetooth.
https://www.netmediablog.com/use-android-tablet-computer-keyboard
// @axodys
There's an app on Setapp called Unite, which I tried using to create Site Specific Browsers, or SSBs. I tried it but didn't like the size of the resultant web-apps.
Today I noticed another similar app, also on Setapp, called Coherence Pro. It allows for much more control of web-apps it produces, So it looks like I'll be converting some of my Fluidapp apps over to Coherence Pro ones.
