Posted on October 27th, 2025 by Joy Schwabach
After I put soapy water in the blender, which I placed on the stove to get it out of the way, I turned it on to clean it. Foam poured out all over, which I quickly mopped up. Moments later, while sitting at my desk, I smelled something funny. Then I saw smoke. When pressing down to mop up, I’d accidentally turned on the burners. The base of my blender melted while a dish towel smoldered and threw out sparks. The whole place stunk. What ever happened to knobs on stoves? The air was so bad I had to open the doors to my balcony and front door. Thankfully, I’d just bought the AirDoctor 4000 to clean my condo. In […]
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Posted on October 20th, 2025 by Joy Schwabach
Microsoft Copilot is a great shopping buddy. With its AI “vision,” it looked at the websites I had open and analyzed the options. Not only did it save me money on a satin blouse, it picked out the right shoes. To start, I launched the Microsoft Edge web browser on my computer, then clicked the colorful icon in the upper right of my screen, though I could have just gone to Copilot.Microsoft.com in another browser such as Chrome. From there, I typed questions into the chatbox. That’s how I found out which MBT running and walking shoes had roomy toeboxes but less structural support, and which ones were narrow but more supportive. Copilot also helped me choose an outfit for […]
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Posted on October 13th, 2025 by Joy Schwabach
“If I am sitting in my recliner and decide to make a quick copy of something from my iPad, I would like to do that without having to go to the other room to fire up the printer,” a reader wrote. Like most printers, his connects over Wi-Fi. “So what would be a good battery-operated printer that I could place on a nearby table, to bring the power switch within easy reach,” he asked. I recommended leaving his current printer on instead. Both laser printers and inkjets use only three-to-five watts of electricity in idle mode, much less than other appliances. There wouldn’t be the slightest blip in his electricity bill. What’s more, keeping a printer on all the time […]
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Posted on October 6th, 2025 by Joy Schwabach
According to Mom, I’m part Cherokee. But both Ancestry.com and 23andMe say I’m not. Perhaps neither service has enough Native Americans in their database to diagnose Indian DNA.Years ago, I read that one of these services got the Irish all wrong by only testing for the red hair gene. They forgot about all the Irish with black hair. Wearing my buckskin vest and rattling my tom toms, I turned to MyHeritage.com. It says that my great, great grandfather was born in Arkansas but ended his life in “Indian Territory,” the future Oklahoma. Of course, Great Great Grandpa may have been one of the thousands of white settlers lured by the Oklahoma land rush, which gave Indian land to whites. […]
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