#iphone complaints #askFedi for help
1. Highlight text is not very noticeable. Seems like it could be a more effective contrast. Is there something that I can do?
2. Similar problem: when I click to place the cursor the phone selects a word. Used to have to double tap for that but now it "helps" me do what it thinks I want (that I don't want). Any way to turn this off and go back to tapping just putting the cursor down?
Cada día estoy más cerca de mi sueño de vivir en México.
Quiero ser sensible a las problemas de gentrificación. No quiero una vida estadounidense en México. Quiero conocer la vida mexicana. Es por que quiero vivir en México, por sus valores como los míos.
En unas semanas volaré a Cancún y después voy inmediatamente a una ciudad menos calurosa: Puebla, Guadalajara, o CDMX. Planeo alojarme en varios lugares durante meses hasta que regrese a Estados Unidos para pasar la Navidad con mi familia.
I didn't sleep last night & didn't get to today because I was sent 2 helpers from noon to 3:30. Fortunately this move has me wired & I haven't crashed yet. The person who's helping me sell possessions sent her son & his friend to help me. They're in college. They helped so much that I added about 50% típ onto their very low hourly rate. It's still less than I budgeted & I'm hoping to encourage them to return 1-2 more times. I feel 500 kilos lighter!
The move is happening; it's doable.
I'm watching World Cup in my condo commons. I never talk to any tech but since tv is foreign to me & the #WorldCup is huge I spoke "World Cup" into the remote. I was given 2 options for viewing. Some Fox channel. Or Tele (short for Telemundo, I presume). Pues estoy viendo el #Mundial en español. Ads in my non-native tongue annoy me less & it's all good practice & the same goes for the sports announcers' endless jabber. Plus I'm not supporting Fox—tho this network's owners are likely evil too!
I'm resting, unsure if anyone is coming over today & when. My moving & selling angel will contact me, I feel sure, once it's a little more of a decent hour.
The most anxious part of #moving for me is the fear of losing something important. The other day I couldn't find my wallet & I freaked out & made a mess turning things over. It wasn't that I thought anyone took it, but people had been packing & trashing that day. I can no longer put things in their regular place. I'll go into travel mode.
+realistic. I'm redefining my goals. If I don't have energy I can do less & let paid helpers do more. I've sorted most but not all of my belongings. Some things are going into free storage. I can increase the % going there if I can't sort it all. It's ok. Gives me an excuse to come back here & visit folks. I know that usually stuff in storage is never looked at but I think that in my new free lifestyle I might be ok with it.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But I'm not going to push myself; I'll rely on paid help.
I didn't do any moving work yesterday & I have a week to get so much outta here. I ran out of my prescription Monday & didn't get an appointment until Tuesday afternoon, didn't get the refill until last night at 8. So after strenuous days I didn't have any medication & felt immobilized Monday night to Tuesday night. But it's not that simple because now my sleep is disrupted. It's not Wednesday morning & I haven't slept since a couple hours Tuesday afternoon. I'm not catastrophizing but being+
Update on dealing with AT&T: I logged in, again tried & failed to change my PIN. When I enter identifying info & press the Next button the website is unresponsive, on multiple browsers & phone. That's disconcerting. The phone agent said I had to know my PIN to authorize cancellation. While online I opened Chat to request a new call back appointment. I told AI I want to cancel Internet. It had me wait for a live agent who was able to cancel my account over chat. They should tell their phone reps!
"Feeling well enough to feel bad"?! I wonder if others who struggle with physical & mental ailments will relate to the oddity of feeling bad & anxious when you start to feel better. I've been so beleaguered for so long that I've been frozen in survival triage mode. It sounds counterintuitive to fear getting better, but that's when variables increase beyond mere survival. If I free up more time & mind space then I have the pressure of choosing what to do! & facing what I've put off.
:/
When I say "Feeling good is job 1" my mind wanders to 2 ad campaigns! Carefree gum serenaded us, "feeling good about yourself... feeling carefree!" And I believe it was Lee Iacocca who insisted to camera, "quality is job 1" & that may be the only time I've heard the construction "job 1." It's important for me to acknowledge the capitalist colonization of my mind with these phrases. I'm inspired to build my own philosophy, humanissome, specifically to combat pervasive dysfunctional messaging.
Feeling good is job 1.
That's the basis of my life philosophy that I call humanissome. At https://humanissome.org I hope to convey my values over time, depending on my health improving.
As I'm uncovering old items from my life I'm remembering a job I considered in my 20s, to assist an independent author. His manuscript verged on manifesto & was full of "only I know the truth" & "my views apply to everyone." I hope to avoid giving that impression as I don't believe it. & I didn't take the job!
I'm having interesting memories spurred by items from across my life. Not sad exactly. But sometimes heavy. Maybe more than I'm able to feel. I found these tigers in a box where it's been for maybe 20+ years. At some point I displayed it in Princeton & it came from my Mom's. So they're probably from the 60s, when my dad went to Princeton & then they ended up with me. It makes it hard to part with but at the same time it isn't practical & I have mixed feelings about every noun above except tiger.
A snip of the video shared above.
Beautiful video of a US woman living alone with her 2 dogs in a beautiful & misunderstood part of Mexico:
https://youtu.be/b9hJhw4bgtk
I socialized briefly today (which I rarely do) & something someone said stuck with me, annoyingly. I really dislike imprecision, & especially erroneous confidence. This person said that "the Pacific Ocean is always cold," & I hypothesized that it couldn't be cold everywhere. They insisted that it was. How can someone think that? It's huge! So since I can't fall asleep I just looked up coastal temperatures in Mexico & their Pacific temps are slightly warmer than Caribbean ones, surprisingly. 🌊
Phew! I finally found the right helpful people. I'm feeling lighter as they declutter my home & prepare to sell what they can. Phew!
This is disgusting
I just wasted 40 minutes on a call with att without accomplishing my goal. I need to go outside or something.
+on the street, at least some of them might just be moral people who cannot adjust to living in the cognitive dissonance of US capitalism. I'm fleeing the country because I can't deal with it & I have just enough, just barely enough that I think I'll be ok elsewhere. I can't be sure & I'll still have to find income eventually. I have a sense that I will be able to earn money in a community that's less mercenary. We'll see. If I get healthy I'll create & share more. I'm taking a risk for health.
Some people are coming later today to help me with my move out & liquidation of stuff. They're coming to help because they are financially motivated to sell stuff. But they do seem genuinely nice. I've posted a lot lately about how my anticapitalist & humanist values make it hard for me to navigate this world. I don't want to understand those whose motives are financial; I want to run from them. Yet I gotta function with them. Been a struggle my whole life. I sometimes wonder, of those who live+