Once I hit 40, the propensity to go out with friends went down to zero. I can’t imagine people my age or those past 38 years old regularly going to bars until 3 am. 😵‍💫 That’s inviting 2 days of hangover.

I’ve done all the partying in college and my 20s until before I got pregnant at 32. Nowadays, give me a book, a bed, and some snacks, I’ll be a happy camper.

Meanwhile, I’m happy to report that my garden is yielding pomelos.

I’ll wait for it to go yellow before I harvest them. Hopefully it won’t be too sour. I should wrap them in plastic bags so that they won’t get damaged by insects or birds.

My rambutan tree is also bearing fruits again. ❤️ Twin I saved an avocado seed so we can plant it near the property line. We used to have an avocado tree here that kept on bearing fruits so much that we just leave a lot of them to rot on the ground.

I checked out early today from work. Just because. My girls and I went to SM Sto. Tomas in Batangas because… I don’t know. Maybe because I was thinking the Cyberzone there would be bigger and I would have more choices? I needed to buy my mom a new laptop because the one she is using is so old that whenever my mom runs into trouble (e.g. wifi device missing a driver), I just want to throw it out the window.

It’s so old that it only has 4GB of RAM and I couldn’t upgrade it because the RAM is soldered on the motherboard. It’s so old that Microsoft refuses to upgrade its OS to Windows 11. The security patches for Windows 10 are no longer working for a boomer like my mom, who doesn’t know how to clean her computer of malware and viruses. And she clicks indiscriminately so I regularly had to reformat her laptops because heaven knows what she could have picked up from the interwebs. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Since I was able to choose the specs freely, I was able to buy a decent laptop for a good price. I went straight to the Acer center and picked out a lower level gaming laptop. It has Ryzen 5 with 8GB of RAM. I didn’t go for the upgradeable one since 16GB is already overkill for my mom. All she does on a laptop are word processing, emails, Netflix, and Facebook so she can attend the online novena and mass. It also has 512 GB SSD so it’s pretty quick.

I got so many freebies for my mom like: PHP 3k of credit for Underarmour shoes that can be redeemed at SM dept store, laptop bag, keyboard, flash drive, bluetooth speaker, lifetime subscription of Microsoft Office, and what else? I got 2k discount as well because I paid in cash.

I was over at mom’s to help her set up her laptop like installing Malwarebytes and CCleaner. I need to be overkill with those stuff because she just clicks on things that she shouldn’t be clicking. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

I swear, senior citizens should be using Linux so that they’re less prone to virus and malware attacks. Less problems for me because all I have to do is to just update the security patches and the OS itself. Ubuntu updates the OS every year and that’s about it. The UI of Ubuntu is very much senior citizen-friendly now. But of course, they will often complain, it’s not Windoze… 😩

Anyway, my mom’s new laptop is much, much better than my current one. I feel bad now that I’m stuck with Core i3 with 12 GB of RAM.

Oh well.