Drafts I Have Just Deleted

Drafts I have just deleted: 1. Rant about trying to figure out music options in the kitchen, now that Amazon’s Echo/Dot devices have removed the part of the agreement where they say the devices can’t listen to you unless you’re actively talking to them, and can’t record you and can’t use those recordings for their own purposes. Now they CAN and CAN and CAN, and I’m OUT, but my other options suck. What if companies tried making things BETTER instead of WORSE? 2. Wishing I still had a secret blog so I could talk to you about Aging Parents without my aging parents here. 3. Talking about the non-Target shopping options I have been trying—but a couple of those options are non-chain stores in my town. And I could have disguised those (since knowing Exactly Which Store isn’t helpful anyway), but also proofreading it was making me drowsy. 4. This was the whole thing: “You know those bracelets that have rings attached to them with little chains? They were popular when I was in high school,…