Busy Day, lots of Computers

Well, I was busy today — and look to have ample reasons to remain busy tomorrow — working on computers. I have three from church or a related organization that need help, plus I had been planning for a long time to help a family friend get a new computer (which we accomplished today). I think its getting to be time for church to hire a part time IT person or something — we have too many computers that keep breaking (thanks to Windows).

sigh I like to help, but those three computers staring at me are more than I was looking for right now. There are days I wish I didn't know how to do computer repairs…

Away

Back tomorrow.

Moving Forward

The bad day that I cannot really talk about continued on through the rest of the week. One component of that day has to do with a problem that I talked about earlier this year (but won't bring up specifically here because there will be nothing gained by it), which has grown and a new set of back stabbing — as Ed perceptively picked up — has ensued.

The far worse part, the one I was directly referring to in the other post is totally unrelated and doesn't have anything to do with backstabbing or the like. The impact of it will reverberate for sometime, although I have come much more to terms with it over the past few days. God will have His timing to wind things back up for me, and I am confident that He will. That is sometimes hard to tell one's self, but I believe it to be true. In the mean time, I'm attempting to use some of the resulting meloncholy as a “muse” for writing — so far, it has helped, albeit not on any writing of any real use at this time.

Bad Day

Nothing serious… I'm sure in a few weeks it will seem trivial. But today, it seemed bad — its one of those aching, raw, in the pit of your stomach feelings that just moves in for awhile. Unusual for me — I'm usually the kind that bounces back from undesirable occurrences pretty quickly. But for now, I'll just have to deal with it without even being able to post on what led to it. sigh You know, it strikes me how important blogging has become to me — now I feel lost when I run into something important I can't “chew on” by writing a posting about.

Sorry to be depressing. It was a mostly good day, in actuality, just overridden by one disappointing event. I was going to go back on the blog-based campaign trail tonight, but I just don't feel up to it.

Oh, in happier news, GO CARDS! I was worried when it got into the twelfth inning tonight — we couldn't be defeated by those “nasty Texans.” I may not be a sports guy, but even I can't help but root for the home team.

Dizzy... Almost

I'm not sure what it is, but about three o'clock today I started feeling sort of like my head was kind of floating and by five o'clock I felt kind of the same way I do sometimes when I take a Pseudoephedrine-based allergy medicine (although I've never clearly established whether it is the Sudafed/Tylenol Allergy or the allergies themselves that make me feel that way). But I digress. Today, I felt “almost dizzy” and my eyes didn't focus completely if I moved my head too quickly, but I felt fine other than that, so I don't know what that was.

After drinking lots of caffeinated liquids (namely coffee and tea) I started to feel better and I'm almost back on track by now. Of course, it ruined my plan to work on the confirmation lesson I'm suppose to teach on Wednesday. Tomorrow, tomorrow…

Nordstrom's Iced Lattes

In my quest for an Apple iPod case that would provide decent protection, I wandered across town to the Apple Store West County today. They didn't really have anything very good, but I did happen to try an Iced Latte from Nordstrom on the way out. It was a bit cheaper than Starbucks and quite good — not maybe quite as good as Starbucks, but better than any other espresso drink I've found outside of Seattle.

Not Much To Say Today...

…but there should be more tomorrow. For now, I'm still seeking iPod case stories; please go over and comment in the last post if you have tips.

I'm excited about SpaceShipOne wining the Ansari X Prize. It is especially nice to see considering that the X Prize is based in St. Louis and sponsored mostly by St. Louisians going under the name “The New Spirit of St. Louis.” I find it especially interesting that they are planning an “X Prize Cup” each year where the latest space craft can compete. I doubt that will have the draw of $10 million dollars, but perhaps some of those who didn't manage to get ready before SpaceShipOne will decide to show there wares there.

As aside, SpaceShipOne's $30 million dollar cost is yet another proof that government can't do things as well as the private sector. Of course, I'm sure asisaid readers already took notice of that.

Crazy Week.

Sorry, you'll have to wait another day to hear anything from me. Aren't you disappointed?

Gone Fish'n

Well, not really, I have just been away from the computer a lot this weekend. Thanks to everyone who wished me happy birthday. With y'all it was even happier. And to answer the big question Ed asked, do I feel wiser or just older, you will just have to go read my comment in that post.. Yeah, I know that's mean.

Moving to other topics, has anyone had their printer stop to let the ink dry before? My HP PSC 2210 told me on its little status screen that it was doing just that tonight. Bizarre? At any rate, I think my ink is getting pretty low in it, leaving me with two printers almost out of ink — I guess it is time to make a trip to OfficeMax tomorrow…

Happy Birthday to Me

Well, today was my birthday. It was a nice, mostly peaceful day, interrupted only by a literature test. Right now I am stuffed from pizza and cake. Woohoo!

(As a side note, check out my latest OfB article here if you have a laptop and you want to protect that investment with a low-cost, high quality case — the RadTech ones I reviewed are excellent.)