🌌 well, learning hurts

🌌   oh,boy, another story

M .. managed to get locked out of the shopping App. Despite a phone call to their Senior Help Line, we needd to complete a security form and submit ID photos.
I found the photos in Google Drive but when I used their security form [ click and drag or access files ] , the ID photo wasn't there

On the second attempt - I found a drop down menu that said ' camera '
AND I aimed the camera and took the photo and clicked ' add ' 
the photo uploaded on its own

Yes. Success
BUT more magic than knowledge

our temperature drops a whole bunch [ as in half ] for the weekend and following days - ah , the harginger of winter

💨 a gray day dawns

 💨 birds sing and grass grows [ still ]

from CBC online, a graphic of how El Nino [ this year ] will generally affect the winter

colder blob is greeny
orangy blob is warmer
purply blob is drier
bluey blob is wetter

this is not a prediction but a trend on average

💦 summing up the day

 💦 here in the 'boro

while I ponder dark and dreary [ stolen from E A Poe ]

from CBC [ no - not good news - really ]

Thirty-three states including California and New York are suing Meta Platforms Inc. for harming young people's mental health and contributing to the youth mental health crisis by knowingly designing features on Instagram and Facebook that cause children to be addicted to its platforms.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in California, also claims that Meta routinely collects data on children under 13 without their parents' consent, in violation of federal law.

"Kids and teenagers are suffering from record levels of poor mental health, and social media companies like Meta are to blame," New York Attorney General Letitia James said. "Meta has profited from children's pain by intentionally designing its platforms with manipulative features that make children addicted to their platforms while lowering their self-esteem."

Robert Palmer sang : well you might as face it
you're addicted to love " Meta is saying ' social media '

Canada s inflation rate is 3.8 %. As noted here, that is not the way my stocks are going [ and / or bonds ]

Sorry. that was not good news

good news ??? we both got ultra flu shots for seniors plus a Moderna booster CV 19
good to go 

also. a trip to Skyland for Chinese food [ sushi and a take home lunch ]

💁 two four of octobruminium

 💁in Latin - of course

I'm nurisng a slightly sprained [ ? ] back. Acetominophen or                 ' Paracetamol ' according to the Brits plus gnerous applications of ice - have the pain under control.

the positive side is that something will ease the discomfort. W/ M ... nothing really helps

dull and cold out there - not freezing, mind but dampish sort of miserable

our usual, coffee and toast. Mine had tomato on top plus mayo
M .. does peameal bacon on English muffin

this day was slow - every little thing was later

BUT we aren't going anywhere

or ' ride me high
today s the day day my man s going to come
you ain't going nowhere '  Bob Zimmerman

from Google :

Clouds so swift and rain fallin' in
Gonna see a movie called Gunga Din
Pack up your money, pull up your tent, McGuinn
You ain't goin' nowhere

Whoo-ee, ride me high
Tomorrow's the day that my bride's gonna come
Whoo-ee, are we gonna fly?
Down into the easy chair    

Bob Dylan

oh boy, another mondegreen

to be fair. the version that I recall is by Joan Baez
thus she could have changed the lyrics

🙇 on the XXIII of Octobrus

🙇 welcome

to blessed sun and Sacred steel

the sum of the day.
phone meeting w/ financial advisor. rollover certificates. great rates b/c stocks etc are in the tank

I took left over sausage and bread crumbs [ from Thanksgiving ] re - created turkey stuffing minus the turkey
result, nearly a win. moist, flavourful, a touch salty
at least a seven or point five

💹 certainly not my portfolio

 💹  results for September were ugly. Stocks and bonds all tanked

a prediction for the Great Lakes from a private meteorologist would have colder weather by Halloween [ or Halloween week ]

We shall see said the Zen Master

wind is the gusty order of the day
+ sun and swirling tumbling leaves
shooting up the side of the house

a splendid fall day in the 'boro
I did the Giant Tiger, Sunday run. The ' Good, the Bad and the Ugly '
to wit. house brand [ Tiger ] potato chips were 3 for $ 8
potato salad [ exp Oct 23 ] was 1 / 2 price, of course, I bought it. B/c it meant that we got a free bag of potato chips [ really, solid thinking there ]

quite the mix, at the Giant Tiger. Halloween stuff in one half and Xmas paraphenalia elsewhere. 

⌛ sands of time

 ⌛the grains slip away

luckily our weather is holding. autumnal conditions. actually, rather good

we are definitely, gearing up for Fla.

sadly,
that could be b/c there is so little eventful in our lives
which is alright as well
we chose this life - Double Income No Kids

or as Mordo from ' Dr Strange ' would remind us 

" the bill comes due, it always comes due " 

coming on noon :
we have talked to Whitby, Ont
plus Wadsworth, OH
both people are recovering from cold / lung issues

take your vitamins [ so, I took a Woman s Multi + zinc ]

listen to your own advice, compadre

Oh,  I bought the Woman s Multi for M ... and feel obligated to finish the bottle AND I figure its anti - cold and flu

B/c I am ground zero for colds and flu 

 knew that the gutters were full of leaves. The rain last night sort of ribbled out ofthe back downspout and I knew there was a blockage up htere.
I got out the apparatus [ hose and pipe connectors ] that lts me self clean out even the second storey gutters

Except the wind was gusting and the eavestroughs were awash in water
So, messy, and stinky. Maybe, I'm getting old but that was a workout.
Two passes toeven begin to clean out the troughs. Of ourse ,blow out ten leaves and three are floated in on the wind

Thus, poor job or not -at least some debris was ejected. And running the leafblower at this time of year ensures that it is ready later