TheBanyanTree: What I do on a Saturday

[tobie at shpilchas.net]

Saturday, January 18, 20202020202020202020202020202020 (that’s EXTREMELY good eyesight)


Shabbat Shalom folks,

	I am locked in the house over the weekends.  I don’t leave my mom alone in the house. There has to be someone smart here in case of emergency.  She’s going to be 100 in March.

	So here I am getting her lunch ("Tobie, the ratio of noodles to soup was wrong. Next time, more noodles, less soup"), and when I have someone to spell me, then I can leaved the house and what I do is run like crazy to get supplies, do errands, take care of business, because my job is doing all the household chores, shopping, cooking, fixing things, or having others fix them, household management.   I said I’d take care of her when she got old and here I am doing the right thing.  On the down side, I have no life.  At all.

	On the other  hand, some exciting things do happen.  This is today’s excitement.  I had to write an email to our friend, Tom, who’s the Mac expert. I just wanted to share this email to let you all in on the  thrills.  To be thorough, this is just the text. There were illustrations that do not travel in the Banyan Tree sphere. But you all have active imaginations (the proof is legion) and I know you can fill in the visual details with the images of your choice.  



Saturday, January 18, 2020

Say Tom ——


	I know I’ve asked you this before, but here it is again:  Every once in a while, the magic mouse (curse its existence) suddenly stops working. It’s the battery needing to be charged.  First of all, why can’t it warn me just a bit in advance instead of just suddenly not working?  Why isn’t there some icon with the status of the mouse battery showing, maybe up in the menu bar?  Or at least in the preferences with the mouse?

	I’ve looked it up:  "How to tell Magic Mouse battery life?"  and I come up with advice saying that if I go into the preferences and click on mouse, I will see a window that looks like this:





From the Apple menu, select System Preferences.

Click Mouse. The window shown below appears.



Check the Mouse Battery Level in the lower-left corner. This is the percentage of battery life left in your Magic Mouse's batteries.






	The thing is, I don’t see a window like that with the mouse battery level in the lower left corner.  I see this:







	which pertains to the regular old mouse with a tail that we all so know and love.  But there is no battery status shown.

	As I recall, when I last kvetched about this to you, you instructed me to do exactly what I had been doing, which is to go to the menu bar and click on the strange blue tooth icon, choose magic mouse and there it would be.  I’d done that dozens of times and there was no battery status showing. In fact, I’d see exactly the diagram you see above.  No help whatsoever.  But when you told me to do it, the battery life suddenly showed, making me feel like I must be crazy.  After we hung up, the battery life disappeared and I couldn’t figure out what you’d done that was so, well, magic.  And curse you, Red Baron!  It’s like what my father used to do when any mechanical device broke. We’d call him when the smoke stopped billowing out of the dryer (for instance). When he walked into the room, the dryer would work.  "Nothing wrong with the dryer." and he’d walk out.  After he’d left, the dryer would burst into flames.


	I am now charging the magic mouse and have no fracking clue as to the progress of the charging.  What the frack!!!???

Help me now.


Tobie



And that was the letter, the highlight of my day (so far).


	I remember when I was very young, wanting fireworks and excitement, grand happenings and revelations! Even turmoil was preferable to lack of sensation. And yes, I learned a whole lot from that attitude.  Now, when I am not very young, what I want is far less pyrotechnic.    But damn it, not THIS FAR LESS!


Help me now.


Tobie






"I'm Jewish.  I have OCD; and I'm not afraid to use it."    THS


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