SpaceX launch tomorrow, hopefully

If the weather permits, SpaceX will launch actual humans into space tomorrow.  I'm looking forward to it.

Launch time is scheduled for 3:22 P.M.

This will be the company's first time putting people in space, so it will be a major milestone, assuming all goes according to plan.

Best of luck, guys!  :D

More sun, please

Enough rain already.  Let's bring back the sun.  I've got outdoorsy stuff to do.

Besides... it's starting to smell musty out there.  When you get a musty smell as soon as you open the door, you know there's been too much rain.  I'm shocked there hasn't been a bumper crop of mushrooms yet.

That's far enough, spider-bro

I'm pretty tolerant of household spiders.  They eat other--nastier--bugs, after all.  They serve a purpose.  As long as they confine themselves to the corners, and as long as they're not the dangerous widows or recluses, I'm generally content to leave them be.

On occasion, though, a spider will decide to go a-wandering.  One particular arachnid decided to a-wander up my leg and then rappel off as if it was some sort of fleshy Matterhorn.  That creepy tickling sensation was a bit too much for my tolerance to bear, so the little bugger got his eight beady eyes ground into the carpet.

The lesson here is this: no matter how much you tolerate some sort of behavior, there will always some bold creature that decides to push the boundaries too far.  Spiders, humans, whatever.  Know your line in the sand and stick to it, because you'll have transgressors no matter where you draw it or how far you move it back.

Browser update

Windows 10 informed me I needed an important security update.  That's what it called it: a security update.  My computer was in danger!  Naturally, I told it to go ahead and perform the update.

I had to pause what I was doing, of course, since the update required a restart.  But that's okay.  Just a minor inconvenience, right?

Well...

When the computer restarted, I got the welcome screen for the new browser.  That was it?  The big security issue was just an update for Edge?  *eye roll*

It said it was signing in to my Microsoft account.  It didn't say "trying."  It said, actually and definitively, that it was signing in.  That was a lie.  I don't have a Microsoft account.  I've never had one.  I don't like it when people--or machines--lie to me.  *scowl*

I right-clicked on the icon in the toolbar and selected "close window."  The window didn't close.  That annoyed me.  I don't like it when some program insists on remaining open until I click the "get started" button, or whatever it said.  That's basically hijacking.  *harsh muttering*

After clicking through the intro screens, the regular browser interface came up.  Then I was able to close it out.  But it left something behind: an icon on my toolbar.  I didn't have the Edge icon there before.  I had intentionally removed it a long time ago.  Microsoft put it back without my permission.  That's something non-Microsoft programs always ask about during the installation process: desktop and toolbar icons.  But not Microsoft.  *exasperated cursing*

So, while no harm was ultimately done, I'm still a bit annoyed.  There's no reason to be doing this sort of weaselly nonsense.

Box set sale

Attention, Kobo shoppers!  My Free Space trilogy box set--which is exclusive to Kobo, by the way--is 40% off for the next few days.

Be sure to use promo code MAYSALE when you make the purchase.

https://www.kobo.com/p/may40

Sale ends May 27.

As always, thanks for your support.  :)