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Betty Widerski (aka Betty4Cats) @bettywiderski.com · 1d

Things you do not knowing how useful it will be later: thankful @dreamwidth.org allowed me to import my old LiveJournal content before I ditched LJ because I just used it to look up something that happened around 2004 before I had a cloud email archive (was still on Eudora).

Betty Widerski (aka Betty4Cats) @bettywiderski.com · 1d

If IKEA was fashionable you can see all their old catalogs: ikeamuseum.com/en/explore/i...

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Betty Widerski (aka Betty4Cats) @bettywiderski.com · 4d

Yeah - BABAM and Good Trouble are playing the suburban rallies on the assumption Boston has music coveted.

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Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 6d

I look forward to explaining to my non-musician offline friends why the fact that they felt threatened by the *clarinetist* is the funniest possible outcome here

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7d

"Federal agents had just exited the fortified facility and appeared to be chasing a protester when the protester and officer collided with band members, most of whom were wearing banana costumes."

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Federal agents barrel into band at Portland ICE protest, arrest clarinetist, accuse her of assault

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

www.oregonlive.com

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Betty Widerski (aka Betty4Cats) @bettywiderski.com · 7d

Put a reminder in my calendar to get it on 12/18 from either your store or Smashwords.

Betty Widerski (aka Betty4Cats) @bettywiderski.com · 8d

Note: create an account on Gig-o-matic.com if you don't already have one, then ask to join the band Boston For Fun. I will approve you asap :-)

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Betty Widerski (aka Betty4Cats) @bettywiderski.com · 14d

Apple Watch: Check your Vitals! They are far from normal!
Me, checks Vitals: yes - my pulse rate is 10 bpm less, and my sleep time 2 hrs more. It’s called being on vacation.

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Betty Widerski (aka Betty4Cats) @bettywiderski.com · 15d

1st LTC insurance payment for y wife arrived - but they also still took out this month's premium from my acct, which should have been waived. Had to get the Policy side to talk with the Claims side. And now the refund will be a check in J's name even though my acct is what paid it >:-/

Betty Widerski (aka Betty4Cats) @bettywiderski.com · 15d

It's too bad eBird protocol says my nocturnal flight calls need to be logged under a separate account from my regular birding - else I'd be really increasing my overall life list, like this Yellow-billed Cuckoo from 4:15am

A spectrogram of an audio file. Silence is dark blue, sounds are various shades of purple/pink with loudes sounds spots of yellow. The frequency of the sounds increases from bottom 0k to top 10k. towards the bottom is a series of yellowish dots.

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Betty Widerski (aka Betty4Cats) @bettywiderski.com · 16d

Well, I knew this time would come: work has announced my work-paid cell phone will end in December. Fortunately I will be able to keep the #. AT&T isn’t the best choice but keeping with them for the moment makes transfer easier. Not gonna upgrade the iPhone 12 immediately assuming I can keep it.

Betty Widerski (aka Betty4Cats) @bettywiderski.com · 16d

I am thinking of going back to/adding a visible paper list- phone apps aren’t in my face enough, though now I am manually making a lock screen list daily. Mad my current “steel” fridge isn’t actually metal on the front for magnets! I should look for a glue-on steel plate if such exists.

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Betty Widerski (aka Betty4Cats) @bettywiderski.com · 17d

Not only did the local Stop & Shop have the expected Halloween candy, they apparently had Xmas candy left in storage so put that out as well

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Betty Widerski (aka Betty4Cats) @bettywiderski.com · 18d

@ckshowalter.bsky.social sorry my monthly ko-fi donation failed - PayPal decided I was evil because my account name didn’t exactly match my ID so cancelled it with no way to appeal :-(

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Betty Widerski (aka Betty4Cats) @bettywiderski.com · 21d

I learned my lesson last year going to my timeshare week: check planned Saturday stops ahead of time for interfering events. So now not planning a stop at the Wellfleet Audubon sanctuary to bird- they are having musicians playing on the trails!

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Betty Widerski (aka Betty4Cats) @bettywiderski.com · 23d

I didn't skeet anything at the time, not wanting to alarm a performer about to go on. But as the performance organizer asked for feedback today I *did* report the totally unsafe handling of the performer's onstage instrument by guys who decided it needed to be moved back for lighting.

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Betty Widerski (aka Betty4Cats) @bettywiderski.com · 25d

Nora keeps experimenting and developing cool new shapes and colors with fused glass! Check them out regularly and buy some for yourself and friends. (They also regularly support trans folk with gifts & donations too!)

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 25d

hello blueskies! i am nora and i have a fused glass jewelry shop. i would love to send you something beautiful!

nora.jewelry

#bsnm

ad for the dichroic collection featuring a bolo tie, earrings and a pendant

ad for the collage collection, which are made from various overlapping patterns. some of the patterns are transparent so you can see a bit of the ones behind them. the actual pieces are 3 pendants and a bolo tie

ad for the cluster collection, which all look like groups of psychedelically colored fish eggs. these ones are pendants

ad for new earrings. they're simple dangly round earrings in swirling patterns

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Betty Widerski (aka Betty4Cats) @bettywiderski.com · 26d

The people for whom I was getting together all the documentation said they'd never seen such organization and they'd hire me anytime >:-0

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Betty Widerski (aka Betty4Cats) @bettywiderski.com · 26d

A combination this week of an HR class on preparing for nonfinancial elements of retirement (e.g., "what will I do?") plus arranging extensive medical documentation & treatment research for my wife gave me the idea I could do that sort of documentation help for other folks as a job or volunteer!

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Betty Widerski (aka Betty4Cats) @bettywiderski.com · 27d

Love someone calling me from a phone while driving and saying "why is that person so close to me?"... whereupon I say "call me when you are stopped!" and hang up.

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Betty Widerski (aka Betty4Cats) @bettywiderski.com · 27d

Drying? Do you rinse them when the come out?

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Betty Widerski (aka Betty4Cats) @bettywiderski.com · 28d

Hope plumber is not creating seecrit caves in the wall - a friend just had to get her cat out of one with a sawz-all when he got into the room where maintenance folks were accessing something.

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Betty Widerski (aka Betty4Cats) @bettywiderski.com · 29d

I read that quickly as "to prevent the frog from escaping" and didn't think twice because it's you...

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Betty Widerski (aka Betty4Cats) @bettywiderski.com · 29d

THe Hulu account I cancelled was only $0.99/month. I usually swap it for another email at that rate during November black friday offers.

Betty Widerski (aka Betty4Cats) @bettywiderski.com · 29d

I didn’t bother putting out the NFC bird recorder tonight.

Screenshot of the Birdcast dashboard reporting only 100 migrating birds have crossed my county so far tonight.

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Betty Widerski (aka Betty4Cats) @bettywiderski.com · Sep 22

Zoe doing PT exercises with me last night.

A calico cat with a purple collar lying on a bed in a mostly rolled on back position head upside down and looking to the right, where there is a black exercise mat and a bit of green stretchy exercise strap.

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