No really, it's me!

Y'know how annoying it is when you find a TV show you really like and then it's taken off the air?  Or you LOVE a certain food item and they decide to discontinue it?  These things happen to me all the time.  I'm really thinking it's me.  I mean - do these things happen to anyone as often as they happen to me?  Some omniscient someone, giver and taker of all things, knows when I like something - anything - and takes it away from me.

Not too long ago Google announced they were shutting down iGoogle which I use as my home page.  I haven't bothered to look for something else yet but there - that's another example.  I really LIKE iGoogle and they are taking it away.  It MUST be me.

Now it's Google Reader.

We launched Google Reader in 2005 in an effort to make it easy for people to discover and keep tabs on their favorite websites. While the product has a loyal following, over the years usage has declined. So, on July 1, 2013, we will retire Google Reader. Users and developers interested in RSS alternatives can export their data, including their subscriptions, with Google Takeout over the course of the next four months.

Really, I'm sure I'm the only one who is totally reliant on Google Reader to read all my blogs, right?  No?  OH!  Well then I need to apologize to the other people who will be highly inconvenienced by the demise of their favorite reader.  I shouldn't have liked it.

I'm sorry.

Oh, and I DO like Blogger so get ready all you blogspot people, that's probably next.  I'm really, really sorry.

**added - HAVE I EVER MENTIONED HOW BAD I AM WITH CHANGE????
Ahem.  Just sayin'.

Tales from the road

Some parts of Chicago just aren't very pretty, or very safe.  Tuesday this train blocked my way from getting to a client on the other side of the tracks.  Watching it move slowly past the waiting cars was agonizing.  And then it stopped.  Just stopped.  It sat, and sat .. people were turning around and going the opposite direction. But .. my client was on the other side of the tracks, it was a really long train, which way would I try to go around it??  So I sat.  And sat.  No lie - almost 20 minutes total, from the time the lights started flashing to when those barricades finally lifted.

At least it wasn't the same neighborhood I was in on Monday, with boarded up houses, HUGE pot holes in the streets and a couple guys walking a pit bull and an angry mastiff along the cracked sidewalk.  Yikes! Small favors ..

Maxine Monday

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Out my kitchen window

From cold, wind, and snow to rain, mist, and fog.

These are not black and white photos!

Veggies? What are those?

Doesn't look fabulous but it tasted great!

I'm no cook, take my word for it.  And I don't like most foods that are healthy - although I really wish I did.  Tonight I took some frozen cauliflower and roasted it with olive oil and garlic and season salt.  On a whim.  My son just went into the kitchen for seconds saying "that cauliflower is pretty good .." OMG!  That doesn't happen at my house.  Maybe I just need to find more ways to make the healthy stuff taste better to me.

Sounds like a mission.

Maxine Monday

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Stuck in traffic ..

.. again.

How do you entertain yourself?