The weather here in Iowa is atrocious. What’ new? It’s sweltering here with humidity through the roof.
To make matters so much worse, the monitor went out on the computer. So I’m hooked up to a 14 inch one, having to reconfigure everything, and most of it won’t work right.
My reader now doesn’t allow me to access individual subscriptions at all, I have to wait until they come up by time on the list. All the individual subscriptions lie beneath the bottom menu now.
Anyway I’m way to bummed to write anything. I had to move everything around on the compose page in wordpress just to write this out.
The Contrarian will be on craigslist looking for another one. No doubt another hulking monstrosity that weighs 40 lbs. Don’t pay attention to me, I’m just feeling rottenly sorry for myself.
We are working a lunch service for kids tomorrow, so don’t expect to see a post tomorrow either. Hopefully I’ll get some enthusiasm back soon!
Be well everyone and blessings.
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Thinking nonstop since April 15, 1950, and expressing a good deal of it. My motto: Never let knowledge get in the way of an opinion. Come join in the conversation. 
Sherry, how much you remind me of me. I can deal with most everything except when things don’t work right. When the computer goes down (as this old goat I ride is prone to do) or the DVD player starts acting up (like ours is now, showing everything in pinks and greens instead of full color) or anything like that, I’m a crazy man. There’s nothing I hate more than when little foxes start messing with my vines!
So I’ll tell you what Walt always tells me: take advantage of your temporarily reduced capabilities and walk away… Breathe. Even in this awful humidity (it’s bad here in Chicago too).
Louis CK recently did a terrific rant on “Conan O’Brien” about how we’ve got so wrapped up in technology that when something goes wrong, we think it’s the end of the world. I’ve gone back to it several times as a reminder to relax. When you get things up and running, give it a look:
Thanks Tim, you are so right. If it’s a video though…lol…I can’t see it. We have dialup and it’s slow, so slow I’ve never seen Utube except on TV! lol…Maybe one day. I was hoping for high speed this year, satellite actually, but finances don’t allow it, so maybe next year!
But yeah, we do live by our technology don’t we? We are still as busy as we were when we had to do everything by hand. Weird.
Sherry…..sorry to hear of your monitor woes. I hope things will be resolved soon. The humidity today is almost unbearable. I hope you are able to stay reasonably comfortable.
Some days we just have to, have to feel really rotten. And its a fair, right, and just thing to do.
Life has sucked here too. I’ve had to reinstall my operating system twice in the last week, and when I did it yesterday, I wasn’t able to archive stuff first. Most of my important docs were on a web storage site, but I lost all my digital photos except for the tiny thumbnails on Photobucket. So you get a lot of empathy from me for your computer woes.
Oh, and in answer to a question you asked a week or so ago, I wasn’t received into TEC this summer after all. The ceremony conflicted with my class, and after talking with my rector, I decided to wait till the next opportunity.
I warned you. This is what happens when you don’t worship Cthulhu.
// Life Sucks!// WHew…. it’s a good thing you believe in an afterlife!
Someone told me that the internet runs very fast in heaven…… but it can take an eternity to get a monitor fixed.
I thank everyone for their kind uplifting words. I’m out of my pity party. Parker is going into CR today and picking up a new monitor. Not as large as the one we had, which was like 21 but a 18, which is way bigger than this thumbnail! At least I can get back to seeing my reader entries again!
the humidity broke a bit, so its nicer. The step broke on the back porch as I was going to the grill and I fell through. NOthing broken, but oh did I scrap up my leg. It’s still aching. Life is fun sometimes.