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>Sleeping on the sofa…
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I fell asleep on the sofa at 8 pm and woke up at midnight. I felt like I was wide awake. At least I wasn’t in the mood to go to bed, so I turned on the computer and made myself a cup of coffee. I so dislike drinking decaf, that I made regular coffee. Since I’ve discovered the brand of coffee I drink now, I’ve come to dislike the old brand of coffee very much, especially the decaf, but the new brand of coffee doesn’t have decaf, so I’m forced to buy that in the old brand. I never drink it. I save it for when the Exfactor comes over, he seems to like it just fine. I think it is awful and can’t believe I used to drink it. That’s what you put up with when you don’t know better.
So anyway, to make a long story longer, I’m drinking my coffee from a mug that my sister gave me this afternoon and she got it while she was in Greece last week from a place called Mykonos. It’s a wonderful touristy mug and I’m very happy with it, because I like receiving coffee mugs and I can always use more of them, and I like it especially if they are from some place special, which this one is. It’s where she met her Italian boyfriend one year ago and they went back there to celebrate and also to Santorini. I saw the photos today and they were beautiful, just as you imagine it to be.
So, that’s where my new mug came from and, of course, I had to drink from it right away, because you know how I am with new mugs. I only want mugs that have special meaning to me and so far almost all of them do. Well, not that I have a cabinet full of them…
It’s been a most pleasant day, because I’ve only done things that were pleasing to me. That’s how I ease myself into the week. Mondays are for the most part pleasant days. I had creative therapy this morning and worked on my third painting and added second and third layers of paint. Luckily, the acrylics dry fast and I can add the next layer of paint quickly. It’s turning out alright and I think I will be done with it next Friday. I’ll take photos of it then and post the rest of the photos of the other paintings too.
When I came home, I walked the dog and then decided that I no longer wanted to use Ubuntu, which was a tough decision to make, because I really like it, but there were some drawbacks to it, such as listening to my music easily, downloading my emails quickly, reading blogs in a easy to read print, accessing my digital camera and some other minor irritations. So, I uninstalled Ubuntu and went back to Windows, which freed up a lot of space on my computer.
I did, however, have to set new tabs for all my favorite sites, so they would open up automatically when I open up my browser, and my email program started to download all the emails I had received since I started using Ubuntu two months ago. There were more than 3,000 emails that I had to get rid off and I had to sort through them and save some of them. That was a lot of work.
At 3:30 I went to my sister for tea and cookies, or biscuits as the English say, and to see her photos of her vacation. She had bought cookies that were developed especially to have with a cup of tea and I had never had them before and they were delicious, so I had four of them. They were wafer thin and flavorful. They should ask me to do the advertising for them.
My nephew came home from school with a flat bicycle tire and when I left, my sister was getting ready to fix it. She found a piece of glass in it. I never fix my own flat tires. I’ve always had the Exfactor do it, but it’s been a while since I’ve had a flat tire. I suppose I must learn to do it myself if I really want to be an emancipated woman. How badly do I want to prove that?
I had left the dog at home, so he made a big deal out of seeing me and pretended that he had to go out immediately, but I chose to ignore that and fed him his dinner first. He gobbled that down and then took a short nap to help him digest that. I had turned the computer on to check my emails and to see if I could get rid of any of the pictographs that were clogging up my computer screen. I wanted it to look neater than it did and removed a bunch of them that I thought were unnecessary. I don´t think I will come to regret it, but you never know. A lot of them belonged to stuff the Exfactor used to do. Games and things. I think he´s been gone long enough now for me to do that. Isn´t that silly? I almost felt like I had to ask for permission.
Today, because it is now today, I have to do some serious chores. There will be no dilly dallying around. First I have to go see my SPN and when I get home I will dust and vacuum and mop the kitchen floor. Then I will clean the bathroom and do a load of laundry or two. I will just have to prove that it is at times possible for me to be a diligent housewife. I don´t know who I will be proving it to, but only to myself. That should be good enough then, but it is better if there is someone to be witness to it when it is done. I can´t even show off my haphazard housewifely skills.
Well, alright then. This was not my most exciting post, but for one written in the middle of the night it´s not bad. I´ll try to be more entertaining the next time. Just tell me what you want. More drama, more irony, more humor? It´s yours for the asking.
Have a great day. I hope you get the weather you wish for and the events you hope for.
Ciao,
Nora.
>For the hell of it…
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I am sitting here in my leggings and my tank top, the clothes that I slept in, and I have opened the back door, so Jesker can go out as it pleases him. He has been out there twice, but I don’t know what he’s done there. He is sleeping under the desk now and I don’t know if he is expecting a walk. Sooner or later, I will have to get dressed, but I hope it is later, because I feel so lazy and not at all in the mood to do the responsible things I ought to be doing. That’s because it is Saturday and it feels like a day off, almost as if it is Sunday.
I woke up this morning this morning with a terrible pain in my arm and my hand and had to move them in a certain position to get rid of it. I think I pinch some nerves during the night, as I very often sleep on my right side.It’s no fun, anyway, and I do not look forward to those first movements. I very painfully move my arm and hand downward and straight and then all the feeling comes rushing back in and that hurts. During the day I have pain in my elbow and two fingers are a little numb. I’m just dragging this out for all the sympathy I can get, you see. It’s no good suffering without an audience.
As usual, I’m completely unorganized today and am doing things at the wrong time of the day. I woke up at 11:30 am after going to bed early in the morning and then I didn’t take my medicines until 1 pm, when I normally take my second dose. So I am behind myself. Now I’m sitting here writing this when I should be sweeping the floors, but I tell myself I like disorder, that I thrive on it and that it’s the sign of a creative mind. God, I love the way I convinced myself of that just now.
I will always reign over a certain amount of chaos. It is in my nature to have it around me, because I don’t care enough to clean it up when I should. I am not the creator of it, but I am also not the person who can be held responsible for setting it right. Except when my housewife hormones kick in and I suddenly think the vacuum cleaner is my very best appliance and I need to make love to it.
My plants are thriving, so that is a good sign and I’ve stopped drowning the ones with the cute little leaves, of which I don’t remember the names. They are not losing their leaves anymore and have come back abundantly. I don’t dare touch them, in case I do something wrong, but just water them sparingly once a week and that seems to do the trick. The fig plant is turning all of its leaves toward the sunlight that comes in through the window in the afternoon. It gulps water and can’t get enough of it. I don’t know what to think about the little hardy fern. It seems petrified, as if it is just sitting there doing nothing but looking somewhat green, but not producing any new leaves.I just let it sit there, unsure of what it needs. Sometimes it is all a mystery to me. It’s a hit and run situation.
I’ve managed to make my tobacco last much longer than two weeks. Those are over now and I still have a whole pack left over that I haven’t even started on yet, so I’m actually cheaper than I thought I was, which is a relief, because I thought I smoked a lot. I don’t know how happy the tobacconist is going to be with that, after all he has to live on my bad habit, but I’ll also buy some trash bags when I’m in there next and that ought to make him happy, and some stamps. I must not forget them.
I have not yet found a way to reduce my photos in size. I’ll have to ask the Exfactor how he does it. I did open up the photo alteration program, but saw no way to reduce the photos in size. It has a program that is similar to Photoshop built in, so that is very handy. I have to figure out all the ins and outs of that one still.
It’s very funny when you install a new browser on your computer. You become a little bit obsessed with all of its possibilities, but when you can’t get something to work, no matter how insignificant, it will bother you to no end, and you will think about the solution forever. I can’t get it to accept my wallpaper when it just should and I don’t know why, so I have to solve that mystery.
Well, I suppose I’ll put on some clothes and comb my hair. Maybe Jesker will want to go for a walk. It’s a nice day out, not too hot, but pleasant.
I must sweep floors, if it’s the last thing I do. These were my last famous words.
Ciao…
P.S. I just got it to accept my wallpaper. Yippee!
>One of those nights!
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I completely fell asleep on the sofa while watching the 8 pm news and didn’t wake up until midnight. I felt very good when I woke up, and full of energy, and the computer was in its sleeping mode, so I woke it up and checked my emails. Well, you know, one thing leads to another and then you have to make yourself a cup of decaf and answer all your emails and that takes a little time, so before you know it, it is very late and you’re still not in bed. At that point, I figured I may as well stay up a little longer and really break the night. Besides, tomorrow is Saturday morning and I don’t have to go anywhere, I really officially don’t have to go anywhere and I don’t even have to go grocery shopping.
Actually, playing with Ubuntu has taken up a lot of my time, because I’m figuring out how everything works. I have to do it on my own and I don’t have an instruction booklet, which would be mighty handy, so I just work my way through things and figure them out as I go along. Sometimes I’m stumped and sometimes it works. Sometimes the help section really helps and sometimes it doesn’t. Slowly but surely I’m getting things to work, though, like the music systems, which would not play at first, but there is much more I have to work out. I’ll be busy with it for a while yet.
So, I did not go to therapy today and that means that I’ve been home all week this week and I’ve had a whole week off. I’m not going to claim that it was like a vacation, because it was not enough fun for that, but at least I had a break. I become a basket case thinking about it, so I’ll just say that on Monday I’ll go to creative therapy and hope to talk to the head therapist then.
Well, that’s quite enough of that.
Actually, I can’t wait to get an extra table and chair to place in my bedroom by the window so I can start creating art there. That’s what I’m really looking forward to. I’m so excited about doing that and I can’t wait to go out and get the supplies. There is a store close to here called “Action” that sometimes sells art supplies at really low prices so I must go and have a look there at what they’ve got. I also have to remind my sister not to throw out any of the magazines she reads for the images and the texts.
A good blog friend is sending me a box of art supplies from the Sates and I can’t wait for it to get here. That will be the start of it, along with some of the things I still have myself, which are scant.
The weather was beautiful today. The sun was shining all day long, but it wasn’t too hot. The bike ride into town was really nice, especially when you consider that I have a good working bike now and the Exfactor had pumped up my rear tire so I really moved along well.
Some people were sitting at our table, but it looked like they were just about done and just as they were getting ready to leave, I grabbed a chair to prevent anyone else from claiming it. You have to be just a bit rude to get what you want and I wanted that table, because all the tables under the sun cover and on the square were taken. It’s tourist season, so things are always busy.
Von and I had a heated discussion about love and men. Is there another subject more worthy of discussion? We both thought that falling in love was a horrible thing, but loving someone was good. Falling in love is like temporary insanity and makes you behave strangely and do odd things. Things you wouldn’t do under normal circumstances. Loving someone is a totally different ballgame. For one thing, you can think clearly and you don’t make a big mess and you aren’t blindsided by your overheated emotions.
I ordered a piece of apple pie with whipped cream with my second cup of cappuccino, figuring I had deserved it after a week of despair, but I couldn’t finish it nor could I finish my cappuccino.
So, we went shopping instead, first for Von and then for me in my cheap store. We found a see through blousy top that I can wear over a sexy tank top and that Von said I should wear in my boudoir. It was only 7 Euros. I bought another set of matching bracelets to go with it, this time in reds and pinks. I just have to stop spending money on myself!
On my way home I didn’t run over any pedestrians, although several made suicidal attempts by stepping of the sidewalk into the street and instead of using my bell, I still yell at them. People are so oblivious! On the way into town, people were walking in the middle of the street and I yelled at them to use the sidewalk, because it is hard enough to ride your bike over the very rough cobblestones. Yes, they get upset with me and no, I don’t care. I just don’t want to end up face down on the street.
I stopped by the pharmacy to get a supply of drugs, which they gladly gave me and when I rode away on my bike, my necklace broke and it is one of my favorite ones, but luckily, I noticed it and caught it in my hand before it fell in the street.
Jesker was so happy to see me. He had been laying behind the front door again. I always make a big deal out of greeting him as if we’ve not seen each other for ages. He’s so cute.
When I was fixing my necklace, I managed to spill a whole glass of fruit juice all over the table and all over my cigarettes. Guess what I said then? You’re right! I sopped it up with a towel and laid my cigarettes out to dry, which did not even taste that funny when they were. I did fix my necklace. It had broken because of the strap of my purse. It had gotten caught underneath it when I turned my head to see if there was any traffic coming. That’s what happens when you wear your purse across your chest against purse snatchers.
I put on my boudoir top and walked Jesker and I wasn’t propositioned once, which I think is probably for the best. You don’t want to pick up men off the street.
Well, that just about was my day. I am going to try to add some photos to this post, but I have to resize them first and I don’t know yet if I can do that, so we’ll see.
Ciao…
>To wake up well…
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In order to wake up well, and get the day started properly, I always feel that I have to write a post, even if I have nothing to report but my most mundane thoughts. I think, well that will do, at least it will organize my thoughts and get my mind set in the right order and I will have reached out and made a tiny effort at contact, but the latter is not necessarily the most important thing, because judging by the reactions, not that many people read these early morning missives. That’s okay, this occupies my mind and keeps me busy while I drink my coffee and smoke my cigarettes and try to ignore the dog who just ate his bowl of food.
I woke up early this morning and thought terrible things about myself. I thought, this is awful, you’re not allowed to do this, it is unacceptable, where in the world is this coming from? It was like somebody had dumped a whole bunch of garbage over me and I was struggling to get free of it.
Luckily, I was able to go back to sleep and when I woke up the second time, all that garbage was gone and I could think good thoughts about myself again. I had counted on that happening, but imagine if I had gotten up the first time with those feelings and had started the day that way. It would have been a very painful business and I would be sitting here with quite a different attitude.
Waking up that way, covered in garbage, hasn’t happened to me in a long time, but it used to be the story of my life. I always used to wake up with a certain amount of self loathing, sometimes pure self hatred, yet I never let anyone know that I felt this way. I covered it up and did not let on how bad it was.
Due to my childhood, I’m a master at covering up my feelings and very often am not in touch with them myself. I can be in total denial about a state of mind that I am in. That’s because I did it for such a long time, it became my second nature. I totally don’t have a grip on my current mood and have no idea what to think of it. Am I depressed or just tired? I act like a depressed person, does that make me depressed? If it looks like a duck and it acts like a duck, must it be a duck?
I am planning on doing some cleaning today. Luckily, in Ubuntu the computer has a sleep mode, so I don’t have to feel bad about leaving it turned on. It didn’t have it in Windows XP, it just kept running and running, causing my electric bill to go up.
I must do at least three chores today, if not six. I must try to get that feeling of accomplishment. You do honestly feel better if you’ve made an improvement in your environment. I feel extreme discomfort at having things so disheveled. I barely dare walk around on my bare feet anymore.
Jesker has given up on me and has gone to sleep on his blanket, but I will make him happy and get dressed and take him for a walk. It is storming outside and we’ve already had rain and thunder and more is expected. The rains of England finally reached us.
I have an appointment at 2 pm with the head therapist and we will decide what I will do about my therapies. It will be good to get some feedback instead of thinking inside the box all by myself. Well, with all of your input, of course. Which I appreciate. Don’t underestimate that!
I’ve babbled enough and must get going now, I feel some energy that must be spent wisely. Remember, chores of threes and walking the dog is not a chore, so it doesn’t count.
Have a good day!
Ciao…
>Stubbornness…
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By getting up a little early this morning (not intentionally) and by being stubborn in my pursuit to solve a problem, I have managed to get the email program in Ubuntu to work just now and that is a great relief to me, because I was faced with a long wait, I am sure, at the help desk of my internet company’s technical service. I so prefer to fix these problems on my own and I never feel better than when I do. I have two email addresses and I couldn’t believe it when the program worked and started picking up an email for me. It is the first one, I know, bit hopefully others will follow.
Now I can drink my third cup of coffee in all peacefulness and that problem won’t be bugging me anymore. Sometimes things do work out the way you want them to, albeit that this is a little problem in the grand scheme of problems. To me it was a very irritating thing and I wanted it solved. Yes, I know, I’m like a terrier that won’t let go.
I’ve got a dog here that won’t quit either. He has eaten his whole bowl of food and now wants something from me and keeps looking at me and making pitiful sounds that I try to ignore and when I do, he stops for a while. I think he wants to go out, but I’m not dressed yet. It may satisfy him if I let him out back. I think he must have been under the weather when he wasn’t eating well, because his appetite has returned and he is eating his normal portions of food again.
I didn’t sleep during the day all day yesterday, but that was due to the excitement of installing Ubuntu and getting all the add ons installed and getting things to work. I did reach a point of exhaustion in the evening and made myself go to bed when I could hardly think straight anymore. I do have a tendency to overdo it, but now that I’ve got the email program working, I’m much more at ease. That was my main concern, because I didn’t want to have to flit back and forth between Windows and Ubuntu.
Every morning I wake up with a numbed arm and shoulder and pain in my hand. It disappears when I get up, but it’s the same thing every day. Tonight I’m going to try to sleep with less pillows and see if that makes a difference. It’s worth a try. It has gotten to the point that I have accepted that it is so and I dread those first few minutes when I wake up and have to start moving my arm and hand.
Well, now Jesker is sound asleep by my feet. I gave him his pill and a bone and now he is contend. Funny dog! After I stopped putting the ointment in his eyes, they have gotten better every day, so it seems to me that he was maybe allergic to the ointment. It was an antibiotic.
The cats have had their super expensive food, but luckily, one started to eat and stopped halfway through and then the other one showed up and finished what was in the dish. They should always eat this way. It would be a lot cheaper. They can now eat their kibbles, I don’t care. I only started off with this expensive food as a treat and now it has become a habit and I have to stop it. It’s costing me an arm and a leg. I’ll try to find them some interesting kibbles instead. If any of you have any good suggestions, then please feel free to let me know.
We were supposed to have some really bad weather, but so far we’ve seen very little of it. I think it rained once and other than that, the sun has been shining. Maybe it is raining on England and by the time it gets here, all the rain is gone. It must be a very weak bad weather system. I hope I don’t come to regret those words.
It’s very nice for me when the Exfactor is so immediately understanding of my mood and my current position. I like it how it takes so few words from me to explain my attitude to him and my need for temporary help from him. He just steps in and does what he is supposed to do, nothing more and nothing less. That’s all I can ask for and I don’t ask for more, that is enough. He is very uncomplicated that way and I do have to remember that when considering our relationship.
I think he is the only person I know in my real life who needs so few words of explanation and who worries about me as little as he does. That is, in a way, very comforting. He cares about me, but he doesn’t panic. I appreciate that very much. I don’t have to be a “falling apart all over the place woman.”
Well, I think I’ll see what other sorts of damage I can do with Ubuntu, after I have gotten dressed to walk Jesker. The poor dog did eat a bowl full of food, after all.
Hope you have a good day and that the weather is kind to you and you get to decide what that means.
Ciao…
>In the meantime…
>Well, here I am again, somewhat late in the evening, finally getting around to writing a post I have been playing with Ubuntu, which I have installed again on my computer and I’m trying to get various things to work and that is just the kind of job I needed for today to keep me occupied.
Of course, I’m running into also sorts of frustrations, which I can’t solve right away, so I have to tell myself to be patient and just move back and forth between Windows for my emails and Ubuntu for the rest. I’m getting quite good at that. I tell the computer to shut off and start up again and I click on the different program.
I wrote my SPN an email telling her I was therapy fatigued and that I was holing up in my apartment letting the world go by and hibernating and not participating in life. She wrote me back saying that I should contact the head therapist of the clinic where I have my therapies and tell her about my therapy fatigue, so she and I could make some sort of plan of action about that.
So I called her this afternoon and we made an appointment to talk on Thursday afternoon and 2 pm. It may be that I’ll take a break or it may be that I’ll stop the therapies all together, we’ll see. I don’t care very much one way or the other right now. Well, actually, I wouldn’t mind if I were to quit now. I’ve had about enough of it and it shows in the work I’ve been doing lately. My heart’s not in it anymore.
I have to write an email to my SPN telling her about this and explaining to her why I have gone in a hibernating mode, but actually, I’m quite contend and I don’t care if I stay this way for a while. The hard part is explaining to people why you just don’t care very much at the moment and why you are taking a break from life.
The Exfactor came to my rescue and hardly needed any explanation and took Jesker for a walk and then we had coffee and talked about cheerful things, like cats and dogs and animals in the meadows and birds in the sky and bats that fly around at night where he lives. So that was easy.
I wore my leggings and my tank top that I had slept in and hadn’t combed my hair and I didn’t care. There I was in all my glory and I didn’t give a hoot. The queen herself could have come by and I could not have cared less.
This Ubuntu program is fascinating and it keeps you going back to it trying to work it all out. The thing is that it starts up very quickly and has a lot of its own extras that you can add as you need them. You don’t need a virus scanner, as for some reason, nobody bothers to write viruses for it.
I have to download all my music to it with a USB stick and do the same with my photographs. That will be a little bit of work. I’ll be busy for some days yet. Rome was not built in one day. It’s important to keep that in mind. Lest I become obsessed with it and then I’ll have a whole other problem on my hands.
So you see, I’m not in the least depressed. Just antisocial. Not interested in the world around me and not willing to be part of it. One of these days I’ll get back into it, just not right now. I’m taking a holiday and pretending I am incommunicado.
Have a nice evening all of you,
Ciao…
>An Award.
>Diane Clancy has decided with her whole kind heart and everything, to give me an award for which I am very grateful. It has been a while since I have gotten one, because at one point I decided that I did not want to get them anymore, but I have changed my mind recently and become greedy again. I am undecided if I should display the awards that I have gotten so far in my sidebar, or if I should show an award once and leave it at that. It’s a decision I’ll have to make some day. Anyway, here is the award:
Now comes the hard part, I have to give this reward to seven other people and list them here and link to their blogs also and leave them a message on their blogs. This is where it all gets very tricky you see. Try to think of only seven people I would give this award to is hard, so today, I am going for some unusual choices, people you may not have heard of before.
Here they are in no particular order and I am not going to mention the individual’s name, as it is not always known to me. The blogs I am giving this award to are:
- Liebfraumilch and Lipstick
- The Potty Diaries
- Chicken and Cheese
- Her Bad Mother
- The Other Side of Sixty
- Whopping Cornbread
- The Wandering Writer…and her dog
A round of applause for them and for me for getting that part done. Now all I have left to do is go to their blogs and leave them a comment.
Oh boy, I think I am finally recuperated from installing Ubuntu and I am trying to figure out if it was all worth it. I think I will give it a week of working exclusively with it and then decide if I like it or Windows better. I think I have to get used to the way Ubuntu works. It is so simple and bare and not at all cluttered with things the way Windows is. I feel like I am missing things that I should keep looking for.
I think that for my photographs download I will keep going to Windows, unless the Exfactor comes up with a solution like he said he would. He was here yesterday to take a look at it all and to bring me a very small pair of plyers to repair my necklaces with, some of which had started to fall apart. Luckily, all of them while I was at home.
I slept a lot during the day, on the sofa and the Überhund was mighty confused. He does however sleep on his sheepskin rug and shares it happily with the cats, because there is enough room for everybody. It was a brilliant idea to put it under the coffee table, if I say so myself. I think he feels safe there and it is close to where I sit usually.
I have been wearing my high tops almost nonstop, because they are so comfortable and the next time I am in that store, I must look to see if they have another pair in my size, which they didn’t when I got these. It would be good to have a spare pair around in case I wear these out quickly. I think they are cool enough to wear a lot and to safe my boots for when I really get gussied up.
Today I am expecting my last expenditure, a gray long sleeved tunic that is a size 44 and that will hopefully stop my spending spree for now. Unless I find many cheap things at the second hand clothing store. Anything is possible.
Today I must go to the tobacco shop and I really should go grocery shopping, but if I don’t make it today, I can go tomorrow. It all depends on when the package gets here.
We are having some sunny days here. Not quite summery, but pleasant nevertheless. In the mornings it is cold, but when the sun gains in strength, it get positively warm. I thought I had lost that jasmine that I had transplanted to the pot out front, but there are some new little leaves on it, so I am hopeful that it will be okay by another few weeks. It is winter blooming jasmine, so it should be showing some growth this time of the year.
The poor cats have run out of Perfect Fit to eat and now have to eat ordinary Felix cat food and they don’t like it. They have distinguished taste. They have been spoiled by me to think only the best is good for them and they are right. No food additives and no food coloring and other junk. Gandhi is my case in point, the less she barfs, the better the food.
Well, except for the awards, this has not been a very exciting post, but I can’t always be such a sharp and witty humorist. Sometimes, I am just plain dull.
Have a good day people, I think I will yet have a nap or two in me.
Ciao…
>How did I get here?
>I am sure that the last 24 hours have for the majority been taken up with setting up Ubuntu into the tiniest details and I have discovered that whatever Ubuntu does not let me do, Windows will still allow me, like the download program to my new digital camera, which I can’t get to use in Ubuntu, although I am sure someone will tell me there’s a trick to it. I haven’t found it and I’m too tired to try.
I did find a music player that for some reason, unbeknown to me, but very welcome to, down loaded all my music from the real player in Windows and is now playing it in Ubuntu, so that was a nice surprise. It has it arranged alphabetically by artist, so that is convenient too and not all haphazard they way I had entered it. Now, when I want to listen to Björk, I listen to all of Björk until I am sick of it and change to another artist. And so on, and so on.
I did take a nap this afternoon on the sofa for a few hours and that was mighty pleasant. That was after the delivery man brought the Überhunds sheepskin and bag of new food that I had ordered, It is called Dog Chow from Purina and I have never seen him wolf down his food so quickly. That is a definite hit! I stood looking on in amazement as he emptied his whole dish.
The sheepskin is kind of a popcorn fart and doesn’t amount to much. I have to put a folded up blanket under it to give it any substance, but the Überhund seems to be happy with it and the cats too and that is what counts.
I need to go to sleep now or Iĺl fall off my chair.
Have a happy day.
Ciao…
>Early in the morning.
>Well, I have sat here all night fiddling with Ubuntu, getting some things to work and figuring out other things, but having a heck of a time getting onto my own dashboard to write a post and that has something to do with cookies and I can’t seem to get the thing tweaked right. I got in now by a back door, but it may not work a second time. There are still things I don’t know how to do and that bothers me, because I don’t like to not know how to do things. Something stubborn in me rears its head then and I keep going until I have it figured out. I’ll be darned if I don’t find out how to do it.
The Überhund finally gave up on me and went to sleep in the bedroom. He came out briefly very early and had a pity party, but I was not kind to him and told him to lay off and quit the noise and he did, much to my amazement, and then he went back to the bedroom. I have no time for shenanigans, I am doing important stuff here. The future of my PC interaction is at stake.
Actually, when I start up the computer, I have a choice to go with Windows XP or with Ubuntu, if I don’t do anything, it goes to Windows by default. The start up screen of Ubuntu is very pretty. It has a stylized heron on it and a nice color background, very artistic. Ubuntu is an ancient African word that means ‘humanity to others’. It is mine to share with whoever I wish to. Completely free of royalties.
I can’t believe I stayed up all night and I am not in the least bit tired, just a bit cold, so I’m wearing an extra cardigan.
Yesterday, I bought a pair of high tops for 6,95 Euros at a very cheap store. They look like boxer shoes and they are black with black laces and they are very comfortable to walk the dog in. They have zippers on the insides, so they are easy to get on and off. What a bargain, huh? Oh, I love to make a good deal.
My daughter called me yesterday and there was a small chance that she was going to have her electricity turned on again that day after all that time. My grandson has not been to school all this time and my daughter has taken him in to work whenever it has been possible. She said that right after the hurricane, the downtown area looked like Armageddon had happened. An insurance adjuster was going to come by her house yesterday to look at the damage to her roof and see how much it would cost to get it fixed and all that good stuff that needs to get settled on.
Her dog wasn’t in the least bit scared when the storm just kept whipping and howling around their house endlessly. Their cat was in a cozy place inside. My daughter did say that it was as if there was never going to come an end to it, it seemed to last forever.
The Überhund keeps coming out to see what I am doing, but he has not dared to ask for a walk or anything. I must take him out now, though. It is not fair to him if I keep sitting here like a maniac. A fanatic woman. I knew I would get this way once I got started on this darn thing.
Okay, I’ll be good now and take the poor animal out. It will be good for me too.
See you later today, maybe.
Ciao…
>Ubuntu.
>It is 10:30 in the evening, but I have managed successfully to install a version of Linux called Ubuntu on my PC. I am not quite done adding all the fine touches to it yet, but the majority of the work is done and I was smart enough to print out all of the instructions before I installed the CD, which wiped out everything that was on the computer before that. I had also copied all of my bookmarks and printed all my email addresses and I still have to enter all of them.
Ubuntu has a lot of built in programs, so you can look through a whole variety of them and add them as you feel the need or remove them as you see fit. There are several choices of the same sort of programs, so whatever suits you best, you can try.
I got the email program to work. That was my main concern and I have two email addresses and I got them both to work, so that is good. It receives all the mail for both addresses in one place, so there is no hopping back and forth like there was before.
I wasn’t sure when I got the CD in the mail yesterday, if I was going to go through with it, but then I had a memory stick and I started putting a bunch of artwork on it, and when I ran out of space I went to the computer shop and bought another one and put the rest of the stuff that I wanted to save on that one. Once I had done that, my mind was made up, and in between walking the Überhund a few times, I installed the program.
It wasn’t nearly as scary as I thought it was going to be. I mean it wasn’t anything traumatic. The sky didn’t come tumbling down all of the sudden. A lot of junk that was on Windows is gone now, but I won’t miss it. A lot of it is not necessary anymore, like the virus scanner and the add aware program that looked for cookies. I think that, as I get used to it, I will discover which extras I want and which I don’t. It will be fun trying out different things. I am also happy to leave some baggage behind me that I felt was adding unnecessary weight.
So, I’m off to a clean start and I’ll sit here until the wee hours of the night and add all sorts of information and photographs and what not. It will be fun and I don’t have to go anywhere in the morning. And by the way, the Ubuntu CD is free, it costs nothing and no shipping charges either. Mine came from the UK.
Well, now I’m off to add bookmarks to my favorites. Then maybe I wil do email addresses and maybe do the installation CD for my camera. We’ll see how far I get.
Ubuntu to you and a good night too.
Ciao…
Another Splendid Day 