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Nov. 27th, 2025 08:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calimacI suppose I should feel thankful for this outcome. Instead, it's just irritating.
Wednesday afternoon I came home from a long series of errands and took out my wallet to balance my sales receipts against my bank statement which had just come. It was then that I realized my mobile phone was not in the same pocket, where it belongs. Uh-oh. It must have fallen out of the pocket somewhere, which it has done before.
Not in the car. I hopped in and dashed back to all of the shops and libraries I'd been to. No luck. One shop had already closed for the holiday, which I'd known they would, but there were people inside, which I'd hoped there would be. I rapped at the glass door. They pointed towards the hours sign and made "we're closed" gestures. I nodded - "I know" - and kept rapping until someone came to the door and I could shout through it at her.
I came home dejected. Thursday is no good; Friday I'll have to go out and try to find another of those quaint flip-top phones I prefer and then get it set up. Which I last had to do a year and a half ago, so it's not unprecedented. I changed into my house trousers, the flannel ones that cinch up and don't require suspenders.
It was then I discovered that I'd never taken my phone out of the pocket from when I'd been wearing them that morning.
This is why I don't usually take anything out of the trousers I'm using until I'm ready to change them for another pair. Wallet, phone, keys, other impedimentia stay in the pockets where usually I can find them. But that morning I'd been expecting the possibility of a call, so I took the phone and then afterwards completely forgot I'd done so.
Speaking of which, I still haven't found the computer glasses I know I set down in an unusual spot a couple weeks ago, I just can't remember what the spot was.
In other nuisances, I want to watch something on Disney+ on my computer, but the sound doesn't work. AI is no help: it keeps telling me to check the sound settings on my system, even though I keep telling it there's nothing wrong with that, sound works fine for other apps, it's just Disney+.
Wednesday afternoon I came home from a long series of errands and took out my wallet to balance my sales receipts against my bank statement which had just come. It was then that I realized my mobile phone was not in the same pocket, where it belongs. Uh-oh. It must have fallen out of the pocket somewhere, which it has done before.
Not in the car. I hopped in and dashed back to all of the shops and libraries I'd been to. No luck. One shop had already closed for the holiday, which I'd known they would, but there were people inside, which I'd hoped there would be. I rapped at the glass door. They pointed towards the hours sign and made "we're closed" gestures. I nodded - "I know" - and kept rapping until someone came to the door and I could shout through it at her.
I came home dejected. Thursday is no good; Friday I'll have to go out and try to find another of those quaint flip-top phones I prefer and then get it set up. Which I last had to do a year and a half ago, so it's not unprecedented. I changed into my house trousers, the flannel ones that cinch up and don't require suspenders.
It was then I discovered that I'd never taken my phone out of the pocket from when I'd been wearing them that morning.
This is why I don't usually take anything out of the trousers I'm using until I'm ready to change them for another pair. Wallet, phone, keys, other impedimentia stay in the pockets where usually I can find them. But that morning I'd been expecting the possibility of a call, so I took the phone and then afterwards completely forgot I'd done so.
Speaking of which, I still haven't found the computer glasses I know I set down in an unusual spot a couple weeks ago, I just can't remember what the spot was.
In other nuisances, I want to watch something on Disney+ on my computer, but the sound doesn't work. AI is no help: it keeps telling me to check the sound settings on my system, even though I keep telling it there's nothing wrong with that, sound works fine for other apps, it's just Disney+.
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Date: 2025-11-28 10:38 pm (UTC)I'm glad your phone turned up, annoying though it is.
You can set up your phone so that you can ring it remotely. It's how I find Sophia's phone when she loses it, about 8 times per day.
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Date: 2025-11-29 12:55 am (UTC)Browser windows are how I'd been watching Disney+ in the past, up until the audio stopped working for it on my computer. Works on B's computer, and on the tv set, but I have little access to the tv set, as if B. isn't watching something, she's usually practicing viola in the same room. I can watch in the middle of the night when she's asleep, which is not when I like to watch tv, or in chunks on the rare occasions that she's out.
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Date: 2025-11-29 08:08 am (UTC)But if it's nearby and you can just call it then that's fine.
Ah, so other browser windows play sounds fine, but not Disney+? That's odd.