Dave Nicholson

 Current jigsaw puzzle count is 7029. I use Jigsaws Galore on my PC to make and play them. I tend to make more than I play so the list keeps growing. Anyway, this is the list.

Facebook scam ad. All I'm seeing right now is scams and literal pornography. Just WTF Facebook? And it's been going on for a week now. This one is claiming there is some benefit from the government you can get if you are in my age range. The thing here is they will claim you need to pay them to get it, because if you apply on your own, you won't get it. The fact that there is literally no name of this benefit, so you can't go look it up, is not slowing people down from handing them their money. Sigh. It's not real and you are a sucker for falling for this. Some of them are claiming you can get up to $100,000 from the government on this one, but this one is fare more vague. Lets look at this photo shall we? It's from a news article in the UK where a man is complaining he was given a parking fee of £65 when he was not actually parked in the place the bill says he was. You can LITERALLY see what he is holding in the photo and that is has F-All to do with the Govern...

YouTube is incredibly bad at keeping out spam and scams. I've literally seen porn spam where it literally says it's a porn link. Sigh. This is the latest thing. It's a scam that is showing up as replies to comments on big name YouTubers. They are smarter than the usual, as it has the channel icon of the person who posted the video, but the name is not the same as you see. Seriously, when this shows up 200 times in 2 minutes and YT still does not think it's spam, you got to shake your head.  

Always I have the coffee in the morning. The tattoo you see above is a reminder of mental health issues in my life. It's never far from my mind, and I'm grateful that medication works so well. Mandelbulb3D is a very fun hobby. It makes 3D fractals like the one above. Always nice when it's mostly sunny and I can sit outside in the sun.  

Been eating a lot of lentil soup the last few days. I am however almost out of spice to put in it, so that is going to stop. I need to make more of my bean mix today as well, I'm all out. Might not even eat today, not that I'm lacking in hunger, but I just have an upset tummy and I want to skip it. Maybe I'll just do up some veggies to eat and be done with it. I'm about 90% vegetarian at the moment. I do still eat some cheese and meat on occasion. I seem to feel a lot better eating less meat. My pain levels are down and my joints are not as stiff. My blood work seems to be coming back great since I went veggie as well. So it's been good for me. It is dull as hell though, because I can't afford fresh stuff, only frozen.  

Ya know, this stove is only 2 and a half years old. There seems to be rust on the one burner. It's the one I use to make coffee with my Moka pot. That's just not quality I'm telling you. It's an "Amana" if you are wondering the brand. They also gave me a nice new Frigidaire fridge. This thing makes more noise than an old truck on a washboard road. I mean when it cuts in the defrost, it sounds like someone dropped a plastic cup from a great height. Seriously, you can hear it in the hall when it does it. They tell me this is normal. Got to wonder how they make appliances these days. Are they made to be replaced or have parts changed in a couple of years? It freaking seems that way.  

So my doctor is leaving and abandoning me to die. Seriously though, I took a year to get her as a doctor, and now looking at the list of doctors in Moose Jaw, there are literally only 2 that are taking individual patients that are not pregnant. If I was a woman, a child, had a family, or was trans, I'd be able to find a doctor right away. But I'm a single male who is not trans - so I have extremely limited options. I'll have to phone the 2 places that have doctors taking individuals tomorrow and see if one will take me or not. Sadly the one that I am more sure of getting is on the other side of the city, and if I need a cab, it's going to be a fortune. The worst part is, when I got on with this doctor, she told me she planed to stay in Moose Jaw for the rest of her time as a doctor. That did not happen, I did not even have her as a doctor for 7 months before I got this letter. Sigh. It's like the health system is trying to screw people over. And why the hell is ther...

Once again, I use Jigsaws Galore on my PC to make and play puzzles. It's rather become an obsession over the years. For the past 3 years or so, I've been saving the puzzles I've played, and keeping track of them all - just because I can.  

This is a screen cap of the YouTube Android App, with 2 different accounts. It's my device (same device) and the same Wi-Fi. So why is my Tag channel account getting a nicer looking player than my Vlogging account. Should the "Premium" not have the nicer looking player? Just so strange there is even a difference. Same app, same phone, same Wi-Fi.  

  Q: Is it selfish if a couple decides to have pets instead of children?  A: I don't think so. I'm 55 and never had any children and seeing the state of the world, I'm rather glad I did not have any. As well, the world literally does NOT need to have humans keep breading out of control. We are using up resources very fast and it won't be extremely long until we have run out of a lot of things we need for our technology and so on. Not to mention what we have done to the planet, in my estimate, we have about 100 to 150 years until most of the planet it too hot to grow food. So no it's not selfish to have pets instead. The only people demanding you have children seem to be religious leaders who want to win some kind of race with other religions, as to how many followers you can get.

I've gotten a bunch of these. First off, it does not even know your name, so it's not Amazon. Second off, they are looking to get your login information so they can steal stuff with your credit card. Amazon will not text you, if anything goes wrong, they email you. This is literally a blanket text sent to thousands of people at random hoping someone falls for it. My phone has a Smart Call thing on it, it knows potential scammers and blocks the numbers. The phone does not even ring, it goes right to voice mail. I get almost no actual phone calls, but they do happen now and then. 90% of the scams are texted to me.  

OK, Samsung Voice to Text is literally almost useless. So here is how to turn it off and use Google instead. Go to settings, tap "General management". Tap "Samsung Keyboard settings". Turn off "Samsung voice input" and turn on "Google voice input". You might want to turn this CRAP off as well, as it's supper annoying to be censored by it.  

Skinned my knuckle. Not done that in ages. Got blood work 12 days ago and there is still a bruise for some reason. Never had one this long after blood was drawn. I typically bruise after, as I'm very hard to get blood out of. The last 6 months, I've had these red things popping up all over me. The doctor tells me it's nothing and as I age I'll get more. They could have been popping up for years, I just noticed them in the last 6 months. On my legs they are bigger.  

I ordered 2 200g bags of these and the shopper tells me he's getting a bigger bag as the 200g are out. Well I'm thinking her getting the 450g bag. NOPE. He got me the walk-in size LOL. Alexa tells me "It might be time to order coffee" - Well, I think she is wrong. This is carbonated Saskatoon Berry Flavored Mead from the Prairie Bee Meadery. It was EPIC. I keep spelling it "Whisky" and people keep telling me I'm wrong, well here is the label - so... I'm right. Having a sip of Alberta Premium Whisky while I listen to classic rock.  

OneDrive is back online, but with great effort. They never fixed a dang thing, I had to literally delete all y stuff then save it to OneDrive again. It took 9 hours. I've got 100mb/s upload speed, but there is a massive time between files and now and then it just pauses for up to 2 minutes. Very big pain in the butt. However, I complained that I was going to switch to a different company and they gave me a free month. So I saved a massive $8.88 this month LOL.