Pandering to my lazy ass
Aug. 15th, 2011 02:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisThere'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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
spiritgirl I joined Google+ the first day.
It's all very amazing to me.
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.
---
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.
---
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.
---
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.
