Remind me

I have started to rely a lot on reminders. I set notifications for everything from doctor's appointments to taking a daily picture (I'll add today's to this post). I set them up on my Google calendar so that they get shared between my desktop computer, my surface and my phone. It's great, and it has really helped me stay organized.

The downside is that I tend to be a bit forgetful when I don't get a reminder. But I don't know if that's because I'm getting older, or if I'm getting so used to having machines tell me when to do things that my brain has stopped bothering to expend the effort of remembering stuff once I set a reminder for it.

I'll need to set myself a reminder to disable reminders for a week and see what happens.

I made gnocchi for dinner last night to use up some old potatoes in the fridge. After some debate, I ended up just serving it with spaghetti sauce.

I warmed up the leftovers for lunch today, but I fancied it up a bit by cutting up and rendering a couple of slices of bacon and de-glazing with red wine before I stirred in the gnocchi and sauce.

The red wine added a nice flavour, and it really brought out the colour.

On another front, I just had a brush with crazy people on Facebook. Somebody posted a meme about Canada Geese to a FB community, and it got taken down.

They immediately blamed the government.

I said, "Uh, no. The law you are citing doesn't exist, and in this case, it was either the community moderators that took the post down or some of their friends reported it to Facebook and they took it down."

This person was not convinced.

Then some of their friends started weighing in about how even with no law in place, Trudeau is personally going to Facebook and ordering them to take down memes that he doesn't like.

These folks are serious.

These folks are bat-shit crazy.

Time to un-follow the crazy.