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Fixing stuff, myself included…
Coffee in the AM
In my reply to an email this morning, I found myself writing about how little things can make us happy/satisfied especially when the big things aren’t going right. One of those little things is my 3 cups of coffee in the morning. It’s not even real coffee; it’s instant, but I happen to be the queen of instant coffee, or so I’ve been told. Well it turns out by the time I finished listing how my coffee has to be:
- in a particular cup
- with a particular kind of creamer
- exactly the right amount of creamer
- just the right temperature
I think maybe it’s not such a small thing after all. Check out spiders on caffeine and the weaving of webs.
What happened to the window?
Luckily the window did not blow out yesterday; I didn’t have to deal with it. I’m reminded of what a friend once said to me about car problems, “if the car starts to sound funny, just turn up the radio”. Apparently you’re only really in trouble if the radio stops working. Suddenly I’m nervous about the road trip I’m making today, because the radio hasn’t worked for about 6 months. Mostly I miss listening to the Diane Rehm Show on NPR. Today I will miss the little known radio ability to drown out car trouble. Since the window is still relatively in place, it joins the growing ranks of things that must be dealt with “someday”. “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it, and if it’s broke don’t mess with it”.
Got anymore radio stories?
Yes, there is another little known radio secret, and that is the old “radio rationale” story. When I was a teenager I was upstairs in my room with my 2 sisters. We were getting stoned and listening to the radio. My dad came to the bottom of the stairway and called up, “what’s going on up there?” and one of my sisters replied, “oh just the radio dad.”
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Wind
Wind is gusty this morning; hoping the damn window doesn’t blow out. On the third floor of my house one of the panes is in pieces and held together with masking tape. It’s been that way for maybe 4 years; I guess I’ll have to deal with it. There are always so many other things I’d rather do. Got to either go back to old way of naming archives, or figure out how to tweak the script so it works in Netscape 4.7. Maybe switch to SSI or PHP for archives. Any minute that damn window is going down or flying in. If you’re feeling really “nutzy koo koo” you can go here to Psycho Studio and edit your own shower scene! aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh
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Tongue in Shoe
That’s somewhere between tongue in cheek and foot in mouth. Then there’s hoof and mouth disease; maybe that’s where putting your foot in your mouth came from. Now we’ve got mad cow disease so goodbye beef tartar and hello well done.
How did we get from tongue in shoe to well done?
By jumping from one slightly off connection to another. Connections/associations are the quintessential wiring of our lives. It is the connections or the lack of connections that determine the flow of ideas, the path of a dream, and the values I assign to them if I am connected in ways that allow me to notice those particular connections. However, assigning a value to a variable doesn’t preclude assigning that same variable a different value at a different place in time or for that matter removing the variable from the equation.
If variables can always take on a different value, how can I be sure of anything?
The “answer” is you can’t! If you can live your life without any expectations, you will never be disappointed. This morning I am feeling disappointed.
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Bumpy Start
Things not running smoothly; only managing to publish through blogger by ftp using my program, deleting existing blogger.html and archive.html and then publishing all again. Can’t figure any other way yet to get around permission to overwrite denied, but what a pain in the wazoola that is!
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Arrrrrrrka
Can’t seem to get things right. Settings = blogger (no .html) and archive.html now, at one time it worked when I had setting on blogger without the html added. I look at my directory on barrysworld.net with my FTP program and things are there. but keep getting no permission to overwrite when I look at the blogger FTP log? If I ever do get it “write” will have to change all my target links, but I would love it if that were my problem instead of what I’m dealing with now!
Have posted a “redalert” to discussion forum so will just concentrate on what I want to say this morning and hope for help from someone. Like Blanch in “A Streetcar Named Desire”, “I’ve always relied on the kindness of strangers.” FYI: she said that as she was being taken off to the “loony bin”.
“What’s going on your ‘real life’?”
I woke up at 4 o’clock am and had a good cry. One of those choked up feelings kind that finally break through, and it wasn’t about my blog problems/headaches. The crying was about being out of touch, out of touch with myself, out of touch with my lover. “Out of touch” is really an odd metaphor, but so apt in my situation.
Deleted ?
Yes, Jan. 27, 2002 I discover that when you type jf cates into google, there’s my blog big as life. Well, this particular post was just too over the top for all to see, thus it’s been deleted by the internal affairs blog police. I will say this, when you’re feeling like things aren’t on track, or aren’t what you want them to be act on that instinct, and don’t look back.
“Feeling a bit cynical are we?”
Actually I’m feeling rather like one of those stereograms that’s quite hidden and unreadable, but only if you are incapable of letting your eyes change focus.
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Moving Again?
I know, I know, I just moved from Angelfire to Geocities! However, I didn’t know about Barry’s World (PHP, SSI, 20MB for free and NO popup) when I made the move; soooooo… I will at least move my blog there if not my entire site.
But, why move now after everything working?
Actually everything NOT working (ie comments removed because of problems for Netscape 4.7 users), and with PHP and SSI which are not available on Geocities I can try other comment codes. Also will be rid of annoying popups.
Probably won’t make the switch until later today or tomorrow as I have pressing real world concerns today, like making faux marble columns look like real marble, and wouldn’t you know the columns are fluted! aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh…
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