What's everyone up to right now?

[Angrboda]

The cheese may be slipping off my cracker. Walmart sells a quality Basmati rice brand in a 20-pound bag for $20. The saving grace is the bag has a zipper.

(Eh, I thought better of it.)

[arewethereyet]

The cheese may be slipping off my cracker.  Walmart sells a quality Basmati rice brand in a 20-pound bag for $20.  The saving grace is the bag has a zipper.

(Eh, I thought better of it.)

I thought of you when I made my BIG Prime Day purchase last night.  I ordered light bulbs as the stash I had is now depleted.  LOL

[Angrboda]

Maybe I will get that rice after all. I've got two large plastic tubs and an open shelf in the bedroom that would work just fine for storage. And I just ordered a set of extra-large food storage containers for the pantry (they're ordinary size height, but they're wider and deeper so that I can get my hand in them easily).

[Silver]

Reorganizing my Spotify playlist. You can have a hundred songs on it, and it will play the same damn ten songs over and over without ever shuffling. Shuffling is a premium service, and I'm not purchasing that.

From what I can tell, you can make unlimited playlists. So I'm making them with individual artists.

@arewethereyet

Do you know if Pandora truly shuffles?

[Angrboda]

I pay $9 for Amazon Music Unlimited and $7 for Prime. Because I hurried, I opened a credit card that is tied to having Prime. Now it's bugging me that I'm stuck with Prime. I hadn't a care before now.

[Angrboda]

Weird. Trader Joe's stocks a ton of different kinds of pasta, but they don't carry rotini. I tend to like rotini for chilled pasta with pesto.

[arewethereyet]

Reorganizing my Spotify playlist. You can have a hundred songs on it, and it will play the same damn ten songs over and over without ever shuffling. Shuffling is a premium service, and I'm not purchasing that.

From what I can tell, you can make unlimited playlists. So I'm making them with individual artists.

@arewethereyet

Do you know if Pandora truly shuffles?

It used to but I think they changed something.  I haven't taken the time to figure it out yet.

If I use my phone it seems to be a real shuffle but if I use the TV, it's the same thing every time.  Not sure what I need to toggle to fix that.

[Rev. Rye]

I've decided to work on a little arts and crafts project, inspired by Uncut Gems. To this end, I ordered these:

A 20.9 Carat Ethiopian Opal (Surprisingly, only $18)


And a Bolo Tie Kit


In addition, I intend to find some sort of bezel in which to set the opal, but MichiganOpals4U did not include dimensions, so I don't know what will fit. Though, through cursory searches, I suspect a 25x18mm might fit. And in a few weeks, the Howie Ratner Special Bolo tie will likely be completed.

[Angrboda]

According to the audiobook that I'm listening to, the line for receiving noticeable benefits from mindfulness / meditation practice is 12 minutes daily. I can deal with that.

(Actually, I'll probably do 20-30, and use the timers on my light therapy lamps to keep track for me.)

[Angrboda]

Doctor isn't worried about my liver, so I can drink again. I'm negative on the big three -- HepC, diabetes, and cirrhosis -- so there's no need to pull the fire alarm.

I've got two cans of Liftbridge Breweries' Lime Time beer cooling and I'll have one after lunch.