Yakkity Yak
I’ve been linking alot, but not talking alot. What’s been going on w/ me? Not much, that’s probably why I have not been SAYing much. Lemme see what I can dig up for the curious…
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We’ve had TONS of rain here, all the gulleys are flooded and you can hear a million baby frogs wherever you go.
Have been sorta-busy w/ my web-design business. I love working at home: I get to work in front of the tv w/ my laptop in my jammies.
I burned up my Pencam. M and I opened it up once and put in a volume knob cuz the BEEP BEEP was too loud, giving me away when I was trying to take “stealth” photos. But then we opened it up again to put a power switch in to save batteries (it really only goes into “standby mode” when it appears “off”). But something shorted out and on saturday the thing got HOT!… and died. I’m buying a used one from someone online for $40 and maybe M will take the old one apart and try to fix it or make something out of it’s parts (I want to make sunglasses w/ a built-in camera, ahahahah).
We went to the mall on Saturday and there was an unusually large number of FREAKS there. I’m not sure what it is about THE MALL that brings them out of the woodowork.
It’s hot as hell here, so NOT conducive to exercising. I need to exercise. My weight is bad and my strength is waning (that working on the couch thing may be killing me). I need to exercise more… and so does M. I hate it though.
My cat is so cute.
My life is boring. I have nothing to say. No kids to talk about, no bad times to talk about (THANK GOD!). No news is good news I guess. My life: Weekdays of working on websites from the couch, and errands and sushi bar runs… Weeknights of surfing and Tivo watching… Weekends of shopping (or window-shopping) and lunches w/ mom (my palm-pilot usin’, MP3 downloadin’, loud rock’n'rolling, finger-flippin’ 71 year old coolest mom!)… Trust me, I count my blessings ever single day.
We go photo-ing alot because there’s not much to do in this town besides shop, go to restaurants, and get drunk. We only do the first two. I monitor Meetup.com closely but nothing ever HAPPENS in our town, all the local meetups get cancelled out of apathy. I’d have to drive two hours or more to get to a blogger meetup. I’m almost desperate enough to do it, too. We belong to a Linux User’s Group that never meets. There’s one photography club in town but it’s only “in session” during “season” which means that, a) it’s all old farts, and b) that I forget about it until it’s out of session.
I am hoping to get back into genealogy. I think it’s important to acknowledge the family tree. I could do a whole post on this one. Maybe I will. Maybe I won’t. Since 2 or 3 years ago that I was into genealogy before, most of the good websites have been bought up by one company creating a money-grubbing monopoly. I used Family Tree Maker and liked that software. I have little knowledge of my father’s side of the family and NO connections (no people to ask). I think genealogy is important. But then I think: “why bother, if I’m never having kids?” I have neices and nephews, most of which wouldn’t yank the wheel if they were about to hit me w/ their car and I never even did anything to them. Don’t even get me started on why I don’t want kids. The world today… the schools… my personal sacrifice… the sheer amount of disintigration in my family… it hurts enough that some of my neices/nephews hate me or disregard me and none of it is my fault, I don’t need to go thru the pain/sacrifice of having a child only to be hurt by it in the long run. Enough of that, I better put the cork in THAT topic-bottle right now.
So, that’s all I can think about to say about ME lately.