Floats your boat? Puts pep in your step?
I love the burst of energy and enthusiasm I get when fall comes, but I need to work on it when the weather turns warm. At the moment I’m doing two things;
Reading my favorite comics first thing in the morning: I subscribe to gocomics.com and have a list of favorites there. It starts the day on the right note.
Andertoons
Remembering my avatar: I’ve subscribed to YouTube and when I connect to it, my favorite avatar comes up:
It reminds me that happiness is a garden:
Pulling the weeds, nurturing the flowers, delighting in watching things grow.
So, do I have pep in my step right now? Am I delighting in watching things grow? Not at the moment. When I stated writing this post yesterday, I kept thinking of
I try to take one day at a time, but lately several days have been attacking me at once.
All sorts of little annoyances have been popping up lately. The biggest one is that our internet is sometimes extremely slow and even briefly loses connection. That’s one big weed! So I decided to face up to it. I’m trying to understand when it happens so I can isolate the problem and talk to a technician about it. I spent a few hours yesterday talking to my buddy, Claude AI, and he told me how to run a program in the background to record every time it goes out. It lost connection 21 times in less than 3 hours last night, so I’ll probably talk to Century Link today.
It’s not fun, but it’s better than feeling helpless. And I will no doubt feel chuffed when/if we get it straightened out. I will let you know!
June 13, 2026
…just waking up in the morning keeps my going.
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I don’t have much pep in my step these days but it’s creating something that brings me the most joy.
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That is so frustrating about the internet!
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My week of being on prednisone certainly put pep in my step. Now to maintain it. Sunshine makes me feel good, but the heat and humidity of summer do not. We had Frontier since the beginning, because we had no other choice. Terrible. A couple of years ago I was able to switch to AT&T wireless and have been surprisingly pleased. Fast and reliable. I had no idea what that is like.
Mostly our internet works great. The repair person is supposed to be here June 24.
Poor Dino just can’t win LOL!
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Good grief! The same thing used to happen to me, and none of the techs could find it. It would take me an hour just to make a single post because of having to wait for the connection to come back. Turned out it was the power cord that would shirt out the computer was even slightly bumped. But I’m thinking you are running on battery.
No, a power cord. The problem is in the Century Link line — the repair person is supposed to come June 24.
Love that one day at a time quote! I have days like that. Even my routines cannot be counted on anymore. Today I took 2 Tylenol out of the bottle and put the bottle back without putting the lid back on it. What?
That sounds like us. 😉
That has to be so frustrating.
I do my best not to get frustrated. Sometimes it takes more work that=n at other times. 🙂
How I loathe internet outages. (First-world problems, right? lol)
No doubt, your research will be like a breath of fresh air to that Century Link tech.
I don’t think it made any difference — apparently he could check to see that there was a problem with the line. But I learned a lot.
OH NO you have to wait 10 days? wow. that is a giant sized weed..
these days I rarely have pep in my step, but I do excercises that do keep me stepping. as for floating my boat, the ducks and Beau do that, also coloring keeps me floating
I’m so happy about those ducks! And Beau and coloring. You are handling so much.
The heat and humidity, unfortunately, make me feel tired and lethargic.
I do love walks in nature, (when it is safe to do so), hearing the sounds of birds chirping and fresh, clean air (such as Spring and Autumn, and yes, even Winter) generally light up my life, as it were.
I wilt in the heat too. I look for projects I can immerse myself in.