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I found this fabric at an Etsy shop today. It’s perfect but I don’t have any project in mind to use it for. I was just looking for poinsettias. I’m posting the picture so I can see it again and again. I especially like poinsettias around the winter holidays.
I’m going to use the image as wallpaper for my desktop computer. That will help to cheer me up over the next few months.
In no time at all my computer desktop, even though I have a big screen, gets cluttered and disorganized with files, shortcuts, and things I have pinned. It bothers me. I haven’t found a really great way to fix it and tidy it up. Keeping everything really isn’t a long term solution, but it works short term.
It is easy to make folders you can keep on your desktop for moving files into. Label them with whatever works for you: House, Bills, Family Photos, Work, etc.
You create a new folder by right clicking your mouse. Then find “new” and click on “folder”. Very easy. I doubt it is any more complicated with other operating systems, like a Mac.
Once you have folders you use your mouse to drag and drop files into the folders. Put your mouse on the file/image/shortcut, hold it down rather than clicking to open the file. If it opens just close it again and try again. Once you have a hold on it, move it to the folder you want it in and let it go. It does need to be fairly centred on the folder or it will just move to beside the folder. The folder will have a halo/ highlight when the file is in range to drop. So it isn’t tricky, once you get used to it.
You can make folders inside of folders. Same process to create a new folder. So you can sort everything into smaller topics/categories inside each main folder.
Important to note – Having all these things on your main desktop will slow things down. Unless it is something you use everyday, or often, move all these folders off the main desktop and into Documents or Pictures which already exist in Windows. You can use the File Explorer or just drag and drop your files and folders into the existing Documents or Pictures folders. using File Explorer you can create new folders also.
You can have all your files and folders just as you want to use them, without taking up space or bandwidth on your computer desktop.
Eventually you should clean up all the files and folders. There will be things you no longer need, those are easiest to choose to delete.
Delete any file by right clicking and choosing “delete”. You may have a long list of options but delete will be there.
Once your desktop is cleaned up think about adding a new wallpaper. There are an endless supply and variety of them online.
I do not understand the popularity of mobile/ cell phones.
Today my brother phoned twice. I think it was him, he didn’t say much other than hello once and then hang up. I phoned back, once. Did not hear from him again so far. But another call came which was junk of some kind, not my brother.
The caller mumbled something I could not understand at all and then was gone. I don’t think it was a wrong number. We keep getting phone calls from some ad someone posted somewhere online, something adult I think. Most of the calls are late at night and all have been men. One of them I talked to said it was something adult, I didn’t ask for details. This has been going on for more than a year, since before the start of the covid pandemonia. (I know that’s not a real word, but its my site).
I kept the phone near by for over an hour in case my brother phoned again. It was annoying having it hanging around while I tried to get laundry done, dumped coffee grounds outside, made coffee, and all the other little things around the house day to day. Why do people choose to live like this? A slave to a telephone.
When mobile phones started they were sold as something you would need in an emergency. There were commercials with people (often young women) stranded on the side of the road calling their parents. Very effective advertising. But, the truth, the reality, is very different years later. When did anyone last have an emergency they needed a mobile phone for versus all the times it is used for silly little things they could have done with or without a mobile phone which costs an arm and a leg each month?
I know of people who spend hundreds of dollars each month on their phone and packages. I balk at paying another $50 a month for a phone along with what I already pay for the Internet and TV. Instead I use MagicJack and pay about $20 a year, including the phone number.
What do people use these phones for, in reality? I see people watching videos, playing games, etc. What I seldom see people using them for – phone calls! Now they want everyone to send a text, not to call them and expect them to answer. I can understand not wanting to feel like a slave to your phone, having to actually answer the thing every time someone calls. But… why not just use email. If you’re reading texts on your phone and paying hundreds of dollars each month, think of all the money you could be spending on fancy coffee, travel, clothes you don’t need, etc instead. Email doesn’t cost anything more than you already pay to access the Internet. How is it worth spending so much more every month to basically read email on a mobile phone? Did you laptop/ desktop die?
Maybe you never bought a desktop or laptop or any other kind of computer. I could understand choosing a smaller phone versus a larger computer. Except for the fact that they cost about the same and the phone has a much smaller screen which makes it harder to see and any websites you look at are smushed up to fit the tiny screen. How is this an advantage? Buy a tablet and check email, at very little extra cost.
Stop being a slave to your mobile phone.
Still haven’t heard from my brother today. I put the phone away back in its cradle ages ago. Likely I will hear from him in email sometime today, at his convenience.
My favourite are the misty roses. I especially like the colours. But, at this time in my life, I don’t have anywhere to hang it. So it seems a waste to buy one of her limited edition prints. I can make it desktop wallpaper for my computer and enjoy it that way. See more from the artist, Jill Louise Campbell, from Salt Springs Island, BC, Canada.
I found this map for sale in an Etsy shop, civicatlas. With shipping, it would cost over $50 to have a print copy. Sure, it would be a nice size but more than I can spend. If you have the resources I recommend getting it for any Toronto history explorers. As you can see, there are excellent images of old architecture, likely gone or very different looking now.
To see more of it myself, I searched online and found it Historical Maps of Toronto, with a link to the source for the full map at the University of Toronto. Here are screenshots, to give you a preview. I would like to have this covering an entire wall of my house. But, I will settle for keeping it as wallpaper for my desktop computer. Meanwhile, I did download the full file and I can see what it would cost to get it printed. Possibly a local business where the photographer reprints and fixes old photographs, might be just the place.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up – Picasso
You have to love your work or you become alienated from your life – Brad Roberts, Crash Test Dummies
I came across these two quotes this week. I kept them on my desktop and nearly deleted the file without saving it tonight. But, here they are safe and posted to the site!