People of the Fediverse, I need your advice.
My FIL undergoes dialysis every other day. He reads on an ereader during the therapy to pass time, because he can hold the device with a single hand and it is usually lighter than a book.
He's also an eldery person, he has issues adapting to touch interfaces.
I have collected all the button based kindles I could from fleamarkets. I repair them where possible, but their batteries are all dying.
I need advice on a button based ereader that is either economical (risk of drop is real) so I can buy spares, or resistant enough to survive drops. #ebook #ereader #kindle #accessibility
The more I look at the #C64U, the more I think it's a very nice bundle. Great potential.
Hopefully I'll be able to buy one sooner or later. More probably later.
I'll content myself with looking at videos of it for now.
Well, guess all plans for the year's end will go fuck themselves as I wait for surgeons to do their job, hoping an emergency doesn't turn into something worse.
pet loss / sad
In the last months, he started suffering from some health related issues. We had him checked, didn't seem anything fatal.
Until last night.
See, last week I couldn't go back to find my parents. Had to urgently bring one of the cats I have here to the vet.
No biggie, sometimes I skip I week.
Yesterday in the morning I got a call from my mother. She told me they had to euthanize Norman.
He had sudden and very serious complications during the night. They went to our local vet. I'll spare you the details, but he was suffering too much for them to wait. 2/...
pet loss / sad
I was devastated.
They did the right thing, of course. But still, I lost my chance to say goodbye.
Took a while to handle the blow. I got lucky I received the components for the keyboard yesterday: It helped me keep my mind busy.
I'll take months to properly elaborate this, hoping something else doesn't happen yet again, even though I am tending to another cat that is probably terminal. So I expect have to make other hard choices soon.
Fuck, this year is shit.
pet loss / sad
I want to present you Norman. He's been with me for ages, my family adopted him 18 years ago, still a small kitten kitten, from a rescue.
He suffered an accident before being rescued, and one of his hind legs had to be amputated. No one wanted him. So home with us he came.
He grew up to become the boss of the house. Took a habit of staying with me for hours when I was busy studying or programming at a desk, sleeping inside my sweatshirt.
When I moved out, I left him with my parents. Came back to visit him (and them, and the other cats!) every week.
1/...
pet loss / sad
In the last months, he started suffering from some health related issues. We had him checked, didn't seem anything fatal.
Until last night.
See, last week I couldn't go back to find my parents. Had to urgently bring one of the cats I have here to the vet.
No biggie, sometimes I skip I week.
Yesterday in the morning I got a call from my mother. She told me they had to euthanize Norman.
He had sudden and very serious complications during the night. They went to our local vet. I'll spare you the details, but he was suffering too much for them to wait. 2/...
pet loss / sad
I want to present you Norman. He's been with me for ages, my family adopted him 18 years ago, still a small kitten kitten, from a rescue.
He suffered an accident before being rescued, and one of his hind legs had to be amputated. No one wanted him. So home with us he came.
He grew up to become the boss of the house. Took a habit of staying with me for hours when I was busy studying or programming at a desk, sleeping inside my sweatshirt.
When I moved out, I left him with my parents. Came back to visit him (and them, and the other cats!) every week.
1/...
Onions. Time to plant some.
When you say it like "one man's treasure is another man's trash" it hits differently.
hkz