in which I write about stuff
* try to avoid the up-tone (sounds like a question: what a girl I am!)
* pause more
* don’t look at the screen
* no earrings, hair up/back
* define Blackboard on first reference
* water!
(a few of my colleagues were good enough to listen to my 3rd run-through of my presentation. I’ve got to do this a couple more times….)
I got to the other B&B downtown (the one by the market) and opened up the laptop, turned it on, and 15 seconds later, I’m online. that’s pretty darn rad. now I can work while watching the traffic go ’round the circle in front of the farmer’s market. for a web junkie like me, that’s halfway to heaven. 😉
the last couple of days have been quite lovely, warm & sunny, both sunflowers and turning leaves. we got a little outside work done, which gives me a sense of relief. this summer was so painfully unproductive, maybe a bit of nice fall weather can turn the tide, so when the rain comes for real (and it will), then I won’t feel quite so disappointed.
I’m starting to envision where I want things to go in next year’s garden, even as this year’s begins its downward slide. a more disciplined approach is in order, I think, so as to avoid this year’s vegetal craziness. a few of the beds need to be bigger, others to be smaller. the veggies will be done entirely differently.
but all that will wait at least another month, while the cosmos and sunflowers burn themselves out, and maybe I’ll get one more crop of arugula, plus the last of the carrots. sometime in early/mid-November, I’ll be out there on a chilly afternoon digging up mud and bulbs and roots, imagining a spring still six months off.
in the meantime, I’ll enjoy this lovely day.
C found her at the pound the day after Boingo ran away (which was also the same day he came back). she is super-cute, but also insanely rambunctious. she fights pretty much constantly with the other cats, particularly Boingo…I think sometimes they actually both enjoy it; he’s still something of a kitten at heart himself.
she only got a name a couple of days ago, and she has the distinction of being the first of our cats that C named. 🙂 I have this way with cat names, I guess.
I just hadta. (when I realized that the laptop has a slot for the same kind of card as my camera….)
# yesterday, sat outside and did some fiction writing. no wifi; bad config on my part, but that was probably a good thing. I’m too distractable.
# today, worked at home with it on the big table in the front room: bright yellow network cable plugged into the router. at some point, I’m going to have to make that a little more elegant, I think.
# also, went downtown to the new B&B. rode my bike down, which was entirely rad; it fits into the “laptop” backpack that C gave me for my birthday _7 years ago_ just about perfectly. no wifi there yet, which was sort of annoying; I did get some offline things done, though. next week, it should be set up. I’ll definitely be going back.
# and now I’m sitting out on the patio, blogging (of course) and listening to KUOW. it’s a bit of a trial to find a spot that works well with the sun and shade of the south yard, but entirely worth it to be typing while looking at a cosmos in full bloom, a pair of little bitty sunflowers, and a little girl riding past on her bike. 🙂
our network is still a little sketchy, though, the DSL dropping in and out seemingly at random, the wifi being frustrating to get working just right, and XP wanting to do whatever it is that it wants to do. (no mac flames, please; we have what we have, and there are (mostly) good reasons why.)
but this is nice, if potentially even _more_ addictive than cable TV was, back when we had such a thing.
although it was not quite so obnoxious as Mark’s experience last summer, spending the evening wiping and reinstalling a friend’s operating system wasn’t (isn’t, as I’m not done yet) the most fun thing.
I learned a few things, tho, and I was very happy to have more computers around connected to the Internet. (I rediscovered Mark’s entry whilst googling on “reinstall windows xp”, btw.)
in any case, now I have a plan for all the little fussy things that ought to be done with all the computers under our care at the moment.
I like taking the bus in the morning to meet the van. it’s quiet time by myself, esp. if I have my headphones.
I’m blogging wirelessly from the back room of the house on a new laptop. this is about the most rad thing EVAR. 😉
so, yay.
(instead of trying to embed it in the page.)
well, that’s odd. it’s not actually uploading the file. (was that a permissions problem?)
the whole sending an image thing is just a mess. three tries with three different method, and nothing is working quite right. (oh, and reminder to self: here’s the one I’m using.) I’m going to have her try a message w/out images, just to see how the text is doing.
