Guys, I am so so emotionally drained by the news coming out of Canada's Southernly neighbour.
I wonder if those of you who live outside of North America are equally exhausted by it all or if you have a break from the rhetoric with your distance...
I can't engage. That doesn't mean I don't read or pay attention, it just means for my own sanity, I have to stay somewhat disengaged by it all. Because there is so much. And it is so... not good. I know the news has its bias and incites certain feelings to bring the reader/viewership in but I am so exhausted by the back and forth and the dual sided hate and anger.
I sometimes wonder if it's because I joined Facebook recently (within the last.... four? years) and have a number of Americans in my feed... maybe it's always been like this and I just never saw it?
But it seems from those I speak to that it's not always been like this.
And no, I don't want to have a political discussion. I do not want to talk about what's going on, or not going on or any of it. I just want some peace. And I don't see that happening any time soon.
But man oh man I am tired of other peoples' drama.
Whoops. Double Whoops!
I have an (older) Apple laptop, and some of you who do as well, may know the frustration of the charger cords. They are absolutely the weak point of these devices and constantly fray and break. Especially, it seems, for me, probably due to the angle of my cord compared to where it has to plug in and where I spend most of my time. So because this part breaks so much, I get tired of paying the $100 for the replacement I know isn't going to live all that long. Last time I got a replacement I tried to fortify the break point, but it still went. And then I ordered a slightly cheaper one off of Amazon. It didn't come from apple, but arrived with all apple branding, so... I figured it was real enough. *shrug* It frayed as well, and this time the protective coating was only slightly split so I left it for a while, intending to get some electrical tape to seal it up for a while. Which is why I was not so happy to hear and see it spark when I went to plug it in...

