I’ll admit my first excuse is, I’ve been busy. Busy or maybe “lazy”, if you will. The real culprit is… my fucking camera. Well, cameras. I have a pretty nice Pentax ist D. For all the money I paid for it, I don’t use it nearly enough - a running theme in my life. My biggest impediment - ridiculouly shitty battery life. Can’t tell if it is the batteries or the camera. Read the rest of this entry »
Every now and again I run into a passage in a book or an article that says something just so. I have had two in my life that have stuck with me. Strangely, both deal with death and those left behind. One was from the Smith College quarterly, that I will have to find and quote, and then the other day while listening to Story Corps on NPR, I heard the second.
A woman was describing what it was like to live on after her child of 10 had been killed by a reckless motorist. Here is an excerpt:
And the worst part is when you realize you’re going to live, because you just want to die. I thought I wouldn’t live 10 minutes and I was astonished when I’d lived 10 days and mortified when I’d lived 10 months, and not even grateful yet when I had lived 10 years. I was just mostly surprised.
What I find so compelling is her use of the word “mortified” because it’s not what you would expect and yet, it’s quite possibly the perfect descriptor. It plays over and over in my mind and each time it touches something where I somehow understand. I hope I never understand, but just this little makes me know that I could.
Well, I’m hopped up on Paxil, Claritin D, and Excedrin Migraine. Everything’s FINE. (I’m picturing the “FINE” sounding like the “FINE” in Tracey Bonham’s “Mother, Mother” - which, by the way, I totally recommend as my brother’s anthem)
Excedrin Migraine should be classified as an amphetamine because every time I take it, my hands shake. Unfortunately, it’s the only thing that I have found that kicks migraine’s in the ass. My co-workers will notice soon how talkative I have suddenly become. “So what if we do this and this and this… and then that and this and that.”
Whew, I need to slow down….
I won’t expound upon who asks me this question. Just know that it has been several people over the last few years. They ask, “What do you do for fun” as we begin an investigation of one sort or another. It’s a very basic question, but until faced with it, I don’t realize how difficult the question really is.
I wonder whether the simple phrase “nothing” is acceptable. It’s not necessarily that I don’t have fun, but when I do, I’m not really paying attention. And I don’t seek it out. I don’t say, “I’m going to do THIS today and it’s going to be FUN.” Maybe other people are more purposeful about it.
The other day, the question came again after I was assured that I could lead a team of people to figure out what lies behind the great JBot. I declined the offer, but I did answer the question.
What do I do for fun? When am I having fun? Whenever I am wholly distracted. Movies, elaborately themed amusement parks; those are probably the two easiest sources of my fun. I am outside of time and outside of the mundane that is most days. It’s not that the rest is particularly bad, but it has alot to live up to for me to put it into my arsenal of ready-made answers or one day say, “I’m going to do THIS today and it’s going to be FUN.”
I think my blog is going to start melting and/or be tagged on some kind of list, but anyway, check out Cindy Crawford on this Fox News interview. I swear to God she looks like the spitting image of Jackie O.
After some inexplicable code showed up on the ski club web site that I work on and then the seemingly catastrophic event of having all of the pages on that site being mysteriously turned into posts and basically disappearing, I was alerted that I was the victim of an exploit of WordPress called “Magic Shell”. And with that I say a hearty “Fuck You” to all Russian developers.
After making a few tweaks, I went into full-bore attack mode and upgraded from WordPress 2.2 to 2.5. I don’t know how I missed versions 2.3 and 2.4, but oh well. I’m sure I missed nothing.
I think most people will agree that the newest version is seriously sweet and although it doesn’t fix ever annoyance completely, it makes a valiant effort. Built-in image uploading and inserting (closer to what Blogger offers) and a swank new design, make this upgrade, well, pretty exciting.
One new feature is something called the “Media Library”. I had zero idea what this was all about until I found this great video on a fantastic site called “Wordpress training: Free WordPress training videos and blog tutorials“. So freaking cool. Go check it out… now!
Enjoy my darlings.
The title alone says ‘yes’ to me.
I might purchase it even. I’m hoping I enjoy it as much as The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing .
When asked what I did today…
I did finally give up on my lack of food and went to Target. It really shouldn’t be my grocery store but I eat crap and they specialize in crap that’s close together. It’s ideal!
Why Do Catholics Do That? by Kevin Orlin Johnson
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