Ramblings of a Slightly Sane Woman

As green as a desert city can get, that is. https://tinyurl.com/DubaiGoingGreen This article is utterly fascinating!

Two high profile examples of douche bags

I'm always trying out apps. Trying to make the most of my cellphones. On monday I downloaded an app called Blogo in order to be able to make blog posts on my Google-owned Blogger account (this very blog), that I set up BEFORE I found out that Blogger had killed off its dedicated app last year. Blogo is someone's answer to that problem. I like it fine as an app. Has a couple of annoying quirks, and I have not yet checked if it definitely publishes to the web based Blogger account I made. (This has been a test of the "quotes" formatting.) I will look on the computer to see if this post and this formatting carries through. Formatting is FUN! Yesterday I downloaded an app called 2Do, in hopes it might make a good reminders app to help me remember to do things. It seems extremely overcomplex but I do really really like the ability to have very granular custom set up of individual reminder alerts. In example, I was able to set it up to remind me to "Do Laund

I worry about my son. I worry about my parenting. Sometimes I think I'm doing okay. Other times I feel a complete failure. It's so hard to protect him from the bad influences of this world. A couple of weeks ago, he translated for me, in sign language fingerspelling, what a video game player was saying in a YouTube video. My son fingerspelled the word "fucking". Yes. My 6 year old spelled that as part of the sentence. I don't even remember the rest of the sentence. I was so stunned by that one word. My boy was smiling because he thought it was very funny. He truly didn't realize this is a word that he is not supposed to know. But he very quickly dropped his smile when I said with a very specific and sharp tone of voice and face expression, "Please repeat that." He knew that wasn't my happy tone and face. He is a clever child. He then repeated the same sentence, BUT this time he wisely dropped the word "fucking" from the sentence. Kid di

What the title said. What more do I need to write? You got it from the title alone! Bazaar in Palestine