Sunday Miscellany

 

A good reminder in these times. 

I saw this sign at the local library after leaving a training session for Idaho Open Primaries volunteers yesterday. 

This particular cause seems to go well with the STOP sign message.

It's easy to look at headlines each day and lose a lot of faith as they blast our brains with disheartening news, but there's good stuff happening pretty much everywhere and every day if we just refocus and look.  

Meanwhile, this morning I'm suddenly hoping to have faith in my iphone. 

 I experienced a "first" a little earlier when I picked up my phone, and the screen was black with the message that the phone was unavailable and to try again in 15 minutes. 

My first inclination after looking at it again and seeing "14 minutes" was to turn off the phone. 

When I turned it back on, the message had reverted to 15 minutes of waiting. 

So, I waited, and, much like when we download items, the last three minutes zipped by really fast. 

The phone opened up, and I immediately googled to see what the problem was. 

The explanations say that this happens when you've typed in the wrong passcode six times. 

Well, since I hadn't done that, there's still a mystery. It's rather unsettling to think that this can happen any ol' time and that sometimes it may not be convenient.

If anyone else has had this experience and knows how I can avoid it in the future (I do not type my passcode wrong six times in a row), I'd love to be enlightened.

I'm wondering if my phone has been compromised.  

The tech methods of disordering our minds, along with the hacking and spam and all the other outside, uninvited nuisances are unsettling and getting beyond exasperating. 

On a bright note, my phone was working a moment ago when it flashed a message from Annie reporting that she's about to land in Copenhagen, so her latest European adventure begins. 

Annie had a layover in Iceland. 

 She landed.  The train station in Copenagen. 

She'll visit Sweden and Norway and then spend some time in Northern Germany before coming back to Copenhagen for a geocaching event. 

Another bright note: when I went to the Idaho Open Primary volunteer training session yesterday, I saw folks I knew and was also thrilled to see that some of the 80-plus volunteers are letting no grass grow under their feet. 

That's really cool and inspiring that folks at ages like 86 care enough about the future of this country, state and county to put in their time gathering names on petitions. 

The group during the time I was there represented Sandpoint, Clark Fork, Hope and Priest River, so there's enthusiasm across the county. 

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It looks like we'll be feeling the heat for at least two more days before the fall cool down begins. 

So, good luck to all in dealing with it.  

Stay cool.  Happy Sunday.