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So, I’m using Linux Mint pretty much exclusively at home now. I love almost everything about it, but one of the very minor annoyances I’ve had is that Chrome wasn’t showing tabs at the very top of the screen. There was an extra menu bar/system bar up there with its own buttons. I couldn’t find anyone explaining how to change this, so I thought I’d post it out there to be crawled by the world’s search engines so others may fix it easier. It’s stupid-easy, but I didn’t know where to look, so presumably others won’t as well.

The solution is to go to Chrome’s settings (click the three line dropdown on the upper right, then “settings,”) then under the “Appearances” heading uncheck the box that says “Use system title bar and borders.”

That’s it. Problem goes away immediately. You don’t even have to save anything. It’s just done.

(This page led me to the right idea, even though I’m not on Ubuntu proper, and it’s Chrome that’s the problem. Credit where credit is due.)

I forgot to update yesterday Monday. I don’t remember everything I ate last week. I’ll put down what I do remember:

About a third of a cup of Dr. Pepper on Wednesday.
1 donut on Saturday date with Jubilee.
2.5 no-bake cookies on Friday.
One no-bake cookie Saturday. 1.5 pieces of chocolate for Sabbath kickoff dinner.
Chocolate covered peanuts on Sunday (normal Sunday Treat).
One no-bake cookie Sunday.0
1.5 pieces of birthday cake for my sister-in-law’s birthday, plus two small scoops of ice cream. Oh, and some icing before.

I think that’s all.

“Not having a fever is not indicative of not being contagious.”

I wrote that over chat to a friend, after researching briefly and finding that I might still be contagious even though I’m not running a fever.

Clearly I’m not [not not?] over this cold yet.

So, last week didn’t go exactly as planned. FB use was definitely diminished, though my sister having a baby increased it (which I was fine with), as was sugar intake for most days.

Sugar intake:
I had soda at lunch on Thursday. Not often do I get a free lunch, and it’s so much better with soda, or so I’ve thought, so I had one with two refills.
Two small cookies on Family Night (Friday evening).
Saturday:
One donut with my son on his daddy date. Only one, though, and I didn’t even eat all of it. I also had a blueberry muffin and half of my son’s leftover one later in the day. One more small cookie after dinner.
Sunday:
Waffles for breakfast (not a usual breakfast), chocolate covered peanuts (our normal “Sunday treat”), a mocha iced coffee, and a piece of Texas sheet cake. Plus a beer and two glasses or wine. So yeah, yesterday was, um, a bit more than I had planned. Oh well. It was a weird Sunday.

Gosh, writing all of that down makes it sound like a lot, and it was–especially yesterday. And yet that actually was more restrained than normal has been. Scary. Writing this down has been good for me; I will do the same next week. But it should be less this week.

I hate, despise, loathe, detest, etc., the new Compose window. It sucks. When I click “Compose” I do not want something itty-bitty on my lower right in which to write a message. It sucks.

Going through my old drafts folder and found this post. I’ll leave it as is and post it.

I like sports a lot. Have since I was a kid, even though my parents never cared for them at all. Recessive gene or something.

Anyway, I have a few thoughts about basketball:

1. I’m very disappointed in Derek Fisher. The way he quit on the Mavericks only to come back 65 days later was, as far as I can tell, extremely lame. His reason that “It’s just about making a decision I felt was best for me at this time” sums him up pretty well in my eyes: loser.

2. Kobe Bryant is an amazingly talented basketball player. One of the best all time. But I think he’s a probably a pretty terrible human being. The rape thing is part of it, for sure, but even considered as a basketball player in isolation he’s a jerk. Just watch this video. Or if that link doesn’t work at some point in the future, just Google “Kobe Bryant dirty.” There are just too many plays where he’s taken shots at players for it to be incidental. He’s had some amazing highlights, but really, he’s a dirty player who should get suspended more often.

3. I’m in no way a Philadelphia 76er’s fan, but you can’t help but feel bad for them regarding Andrew Bynum. Yeah, he had somewhat balky knees before, but hindsight is 20-20. They couldn’t have known things would be this bad. I feel badly for them.