Wing It Wednesday - 4

Wing It Wednesday (WIW)! Sporadic news and commentary of no particular interest to anyone ... WIW! The same ol’ shit is the primary focus of this edition.

Same ol’ shit? Yeah, same ol’ shit. A week has elapsed since the management changeover at the “old folks home” in Waikiki. Nothing has changed. No representative from the new management has even showed up yet. Old notices on Locations letterhead are still pinned to the various bulletin boards. The senior citizen residents are not too happy, but what can they do?

A couple of chance encounters with neighbor Ignacio occurred last week. He detailed various dealings with the young ho’ impersonating a resident manager. Ignacio is now 85 years of age. “I don’t want to die in that place,” he confided, in reference to the “old folks home.” He wants to visit Japan at least once before he passes on.

On Sunday, a quick trek to Ala Moana Center in the late afternoon ensued due to sheer boredom. A new Watch Series 9 sport loop band was purchased for a whopping $50 at the Apple® Store.

Incidentally, there will not be an upgrade to the upcoming Watch Series 10 (or whatever it will be labeled). The new devices are slated to be much larger than the Series 9 models. The smallest Series 9 has been a perfect fit. Anything larger will look like a clown-size watch.

The sleep monitoring function of the Watch Series 9 has now been disabled indefinitely. The algorithm consistently overestimates actual sleep time (as discussed previously in Notes). Aside from that, sleep data is actually quite simple to derive empirically. Technology is not necessary.

Sleep deprivation continues to be a problem because of the numerous garbage trucks. The arrival time is now at 6am every damned day including Sunday. Well, that’s better than the previous 5am arrival time, but not by much. After between 30 to 40 minutes of constant OSHA reverse alarm beeping, sleep is impossible. The AirPods Pro 2 have not been deployed, mainly because its ANC is unable to effectively attenuate the loud beeping. Yeah, it’s that loud.

Why is there so much trash that requires huge dumpsters to be emptied daily? Obviously the rank-and-file peons are engaged in hyper-consumerism. The general malaise and ennui of life in empire causes extreme dissatisfaction and high anxiety. Thus, the easiest remedy is to purchase as much useless junk and consume as much crappy food as possible. Fools desire to purchase happiness. Instead, they create tons of trash and garbage while becoming fat slobs. What can be done to alleviate the problem? Well, get those idiots to keep dosing on the mRNA bioweapon, of course. Otherwise, just “wing it!”

Addendum: The blood-oxygen sensor on the Watch Series 9 has been disabled indefinitely as well, even though much effort was made to specifically purchase the device with the feature available. Unfortunately, the latter feature is only there to placate “super-duper corona” hypochondriacs, as stated previously in Notes.