Dec28 - Laundry Trolley and the NSA

I slept well. I took two pain killers, and 2 muscle relaxers at 22:00. I sat in my Zero gravity chair and played Sudoku till about 23:30. I woke up at almost 2:00, peed, then went to bed. Up at 6:00 all ready to charge the day.

I think that the advice about the bed being ONLY for sleeping is good advice. Sit someplace else while waiting for sleep to come. That way the bed is no longer a bad thing. It is a sleep thing.

I spent yesterday working on a laundry trolley to move the laundry basket around.
Plan A was to build a trolley out of PVC pipes.
Plan B was to use aluminum and PVC pipes.
Plan C was to just put wheels on the laundry basket.

My friend suggested making is scalable. You don't know what you will want to move in a weeks time. So plan D was to use a refrigerator trolley to be able to haul anything.

First I had to build some steerable front wheels, so I could pull the trolley with a rope. The end result looks like this.

The next problem is hanging laundry up while on crutches, with no available hands :-)
Last laundry day was hell. I came so close to falling a few times. Once I started falling and grabbed a clothes line, and it snapped. Pure luck had a car there for me to fall onto.
I decided to use the American style crutches. They are much more stable. But I could not pull the trolley with them, so I put them on the trolley, and pulled it with my normal crutches.
I then decided to lower all my washing lines. That 2 minute job took 20 minutes. Grrrr. I have 3 lines going between the carport posts. The cars must fit under the lines.
Next was how to hang something like a t-shirt up on a line that is just above head height while on crutches. I moved my car forward a bit, so I could lean on the front bumper. This gave me access to about 1 meter of the one 7 meter long clothes line, while I rested the crutches against a wall. 
Now I got clever. I would hang up one t-shirt nicely, then scrunch it up along the line. Then hang the next t-shirt neatly, then scrunch it up along the line. Soon I had 7 t-shirts all scrunched up in the one meter I could reach. Then I got on the crutches and unscrunched all the t-shirt along the line. That was easy to do on the crutches.
I used the same method for the underwear and towels. I used the crutch tip to unscrunch and slide the clothes along the line.

There is one sock, and a pair of underwear that are drying on the ground in the dirt. That is their punishment for being obstinate and rebellious. I do not accept commands from a sock. I hope it has learned it's lesson.

My home computers all run the Linux operating system, and Firefox web browser. The NSA (US National Security Agency) spy people built a program called SE-Linux to help track bad software, and most Linux systems use it.
  As of today, www.blogger.com ( A Google app) will no longer accept images for blogs from any browser except Google's Chrome. So I tried to load Chrome on my computer.
 SE-Linux refuses to allow Chrome. It says it is malware, not safe. So I have to turn off a security program to allow me to load Google Chrome, to allow Google's blogger.com to accept images for my blog.
That is scary in so many ways. Just thinking about the various ramifications of all that makes want to become a technophobe.

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