Coding Bumblebee

oh dear this has been in my inbox for a several weeks and I keep meaning to draw a dinosaur and answer it but i will just answer it now with some quick bullet points

getting out of bed means you can go eat a food, and time is no concern at the moment so breakfast can be anytime at all.

it can be nice to move your leg muscles around even if you don’t want to.

I stayed in bed about 4 hours longer than I meant to this morning so I am not the best at this advice.

if you feel like getting up and working on things then it is a thing you should do no matter what time it is because time isn’t much of a thing right now (as long as you’re not making noise when roommates are sleeping).

Did I mention you can go eat a food? Good to drink water also.

Edit: Oh and tea is a thing that is not in bed also! Sometimes there is hot chocolate in the kitchen where the bed isn’t too.

if your roommate has a dog like mine does then you can go pet him, which is good. If there is no dog or cat then you can pet the houseplants I suppose.

Getting out of bed means you can go back to bed again later and that’s nice.

That is all I can think of, but also I am better at getting out of bed if I go to bed early. but that only works if I actually sleep well.

Oh! Also it is good to limit your news intake, as suggested by this lovely @rubyetc drawing:

So today my parents and I went to The Circle Of Orange. There’s a lot of antique stores down that way. What we were looking for was a chair for mom. We’re trying to find an old fashioned manual recliner, Queen Anne style, because the doctors want her to sit with her feet elevated and the modern ones, besides being ugly, are too hard for her to get in and out of and she doesn’t like the motorized controls.

No luck finding a chair but I found yet another phone to add to my collection and mom insisted on getting it for me. 

Funny thing is, I never would’ve found it if not for the fact I desperately needed a bathroom and the store I got this in was one of the few with a public one. It was in the hallway where the bathrooms are on a bottom shelf tucked into a box and slightly hidden by stuff piled in front. I think some of the various booths nearby store their overflow in there. I happened to look down so I wouldn’t trip on anything coming out of the bathroom and spotted it.

It’s an old payphone from a motel. Check out all the instructions and limitations. Can’t you just imagine all the husbands on business trips who called their wives from this phone - and how many afterwards called the special number slipped to them by the desk clerk for some “company?” Newlyweds on their honeymoon calling home to tell their parents how lovely everything is and cooing? Families on vacation calling to check in with older relatives? Folks who broke down far enough away from home they have to spend a night or two in the motel calling into work or to home? 

Most of my phones are personal home phones. Though I do have a ship-to-shore phone, a telephone pole repairman’s phone, and a phone from Europe that apparently was for a stock market trader’s office or something like that. But this is my only payphone and the only one that could’ve been used by hundreds of strangers through the years before it became obsolete. And I never would’ve found it if I didn’t have to go to the bathroom really badly. 

I am kind of curious about the physical logistics of the pay portion of the phone, because if you put a quarter in the slot at the top but the coin return is down in the front, the coin would be travelling through the phone under the keypad or the circuitboard, right? And there’d have to be a coin reservoir that Housekeeping would empty every day which, seems to me, would fill after one or two “deposit 6 coins” long-distance calls.

JollyLook Auto - an antique look in a modern instant camera.

This Kickstarter has reached 10x its goal so expect to see this in production!

1-18-2020