Pandering to my lazy ass

[susandennis]

There's a notice on the bulletin board downstairs from one of the long time residents. He's looking to swap out a main floor parking space for a lower level one. I called him and he's going to go look at mine and see if he wants it instead of what he has.

His parking spot is actually quite a handy one for lots of reasons. There is a flight of stairs between my current spot and the elevator. So, getting hauls of stuff to and from the car is always a bit of a do. We have carts here for use but they don't work on the stairs so I have to roll up the driveway and down the sidewalk and around through the main floor door.

Ann and Ron have a spot on the main floor and while they were in Italy, I used it a few times. It was handy but their spot is very small and in a tight area so if everyone around them is home, it's a bitch. His spot is in a much better area.

I'm actually cool either way. My spot is nice and wide and really fine but the very lazy me says the swap would be excellent.

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I have work today but we're in an imposed break right now while they do something to the servers. Fine by me. I can break anytime they want.

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It's getting warmer again - the sun is out but I'm no longer even worried. I don't think there are enough days between now and Labor Day (when the cool switch gets flipped here) to even work up to a really really hot day. As it is my brother and sister-in-law will think snow when they arrive this week and we're working hard to get a peak at 80. I've been so very lucky this year. I know it and I appreciate it so much.

Maybe my luck will stretch to winter and we will really get snow. My friends from the South Island of New Zealand sent me pictures of the snow they had there yesterday and on G+ I saw where there was snow even in Aukland. Nice.

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I am fascinated by this Google/Motorola news. I can't quite understand why but it just feels so turning point-ish.

I've been so lucky in my 62 years to see so many important things...

I remember the red paper tags they put on us for atomic bomb drills in elementary school. And I remember that my friend, Becky Gantt's neighbor had a bomb shelter so we knew they were going to be the only survivors.

I clearly remember where I was when I heard JFK was shot (in French lab). And I remember seeing Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald live on TV the Sunday morning after. It was the only time I ever remember our TV being on on a Sunday morning.

I was in college very close to Kent State when those shootings happened. We had National Guard at my school and it scared us shitliss.

When I got to college in 1967, girls were not allowed to wear pants except on weekends. There was no booze allowed on campus and the closest beer was 3 miles away. By the time I left four years later, they were glad when we weren't streaking and didn't give a shit what we wore when and beer was sold in the student union but no one cared because we were all smoking pot.

I watched the Watergate hearings on TV every afternoon after work for weeks.

The 3 Mile Island thing happened on my birthday.

I got my first PC - a PC jr as a divorce present to myself. I had no clue what to do with it. I was part of a Chase Manhattan banking via PC beta in 1987.

Work gave me my first cellphone and it weighed about 2 pounds.

One night I was playing bridge on the OkBridge network in 1993 (via modem)when we 'sat' down and exchanged 'where are yous' and one of my opponents turned out to be in an office across the street from my condo. It was night and he flashed the room lights at me.

In 1994 - when I was 45 years old, I got my first job making web pages. Netscape had just come out with v2. There was no IE. Alta Vista and Lycos were the search engines.

Thanks to spiritgirl  I joined Google+ the first day.

It's all very amazing to me.

Comments

[mhaithaca.livejournal.com]

You've mentioned the parking spot often enough that I know how tickled you'll be if this trade comes to pass! Good luck!

And, Jack Ruby wasn't shot; he shot Lee Harvey Oswald. He died of cancer before his death sentence could be carried out.

[susandennis]

Oh!! right.... shooter confusion. thanks, I'll fix.

[howeird]

Thanks for the heads-up and follow-ups on the Google Moto thing. I don't see it as a huge turning point, they are buying an android cell phone business (a business they are already in, a business Moto Central had no idea how to run successfully - so they hired an outsider CEO and made it a separate company with an IPO early this year). The STB side of Moto may help fix the total FAIL which was Logitech's GoogleTV link box. What I'm scared of is they have zero interest in the niche I'll be working in, and we may be sliced off and sold to someone else. Cisco would be in the market. And maybe Harmonic.

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

Your post details why it's never to late to try whatever you can dream .... there's no such thing as dreaming too big. Thanks, Susan, for the inspiration!

HUGS!

[plantmom.livejournal.com]

I agree with this! I delivered my first-ever commissioned piece of jewelry today. The customer's mother was there, and she remarked that I'd missed my calling. I replied, "Erm, well, maybe not, maybe this is my time."

Especially because when I was in college I had trouble doing well in art classes because I had nothing unique to express. Thirty-plus years later, that's all changed. The experiences I've had in the interim have changed me.

[susandennis]

to every thing there is a season...

and congratulations on your sale!

[plantmom.livejournal.com]

Thank you. The young woman who bought them is nearly six feet tall, big-boned and gorgeous. Poly sci major at the University of Rochester. I asked her please not to divulge how little I charged her for the earrings, as I really should have asked for three times that amount. I'm beginning all over again, and I need to be more savvy about my costs. If I'm still low-balling prices three or four sales from now, shame on me, but I doubt I will be.

[viridescence13]

Quite amazing indeed!

[annietopia.livejournal.com]

It is really amazing to think where this country and world has come in the past 50 or 60 years. My grandmother is 86 years old now. I love when she starts talking about the things that she has seen or experienced in 86 years on this planet. I really love that she has taken advantage of all of it. She is a pro on the computer, and she texts her friends. hehe She refuses to Tweet, though. Gotta love her.

Gavin still thinks that GG (she wanted my kids to call her GG instead of Great-Grandmother) was around when dinosaurs roamed the earth. I find it best that he does not share that with GG.

[susandennis]

I knew one of my great grandmothers and when I was Gavin's age, she was probably 8 or so years older than I am now. I would have bet my allowance that she was older than dirt. So I understand his thinking.

But, I love that she knows her technology. That rocks.

[geordie.livejournal.com]

The primary thing Google bought, and which was worth way more than the asking price, is a shield of 17,000 cell phone patents. Plus another 7,500 that are pending. So Apple wanted to play hard ball with Google and block them from providing free tablet software, now Google can probably file a thousand patent suits against Apple if they want to.

What they didn't get is a decent cell phone designer. Mot can about manage to make decent hardware but their software is crippled by their incumbent senior management who want to keep phones looking the way they designed them. They seem to take innovation as criticism.

It is interesting to me that Google now has a major hardware manufacturing capability. Some change for a search engine company.

I am sure they didn't buy a lemon, Mot can achieve, they just haven't had decent leadership recently.

[london1952.livejournal.com]

What a great post !!!
Hope the "very lazy" you gets the best spot !

;-)

[machupicchu.livejournal.com]

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Interesting to see the way the comment threads differ on the very same post between LiveJournal and Google+. I must admit I rather liked the G+ thread with all the people sharing the cultural and technological milestones they also lived through.
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