Anti Sally Fields?

[susandennis]

At work, I use Outlook Express for my personal email (Outlook for workstuff). I had checked email on the bus and saw that I had two emails - one from my brother with a link to something I wanted to see so I fired up Outlook Express and it gave me a POP3 error. Hmm? Can't get to my pop server? I checked the web version and it was fine. I checked Treo again and it was happy to talk to the pop server. Outlook Express was not. I tried another pop server on an entirely different host. Nada.

Then I did some actual work for awhile and at a break tried again. Oh and then it was time to update LJ and Semagic says my password is invalid?

All of a sudden I am getting the digital cold shoulder. No one likes me at all! A reboot set Outlook Express back to working but Semagic took some convincing. I finally must have said the magic words because it let me in but geesh. What in the heck was all that about?

Happy Monday Tuesday, I guess.

On the other side of the parking lot out my terrace is the international district (read Chinatown but with with now an equal mix of Japan, Viet Nam, Korea and the rest of Asia, actually). And on about any Summer weekend you can hear firecrackers from over there. In past years, July 4 just expanded the renegades. It's pretty much illegal to even say 'bang' in Seattle and has been for years but come 9 p.m. (at 10 p.m. you could throw in the bangs from the legal shows nearby) it always sounded like a war zone from my living room. Until last night. Nothing. Not even a car backfiring.

At 10 p.m. you could hear the muffled sounds of the legal show over the bay but that was it. Very strange. Wonder what happened?

There should be action at my house today. On the agenda (which is often very different than what actually happens) is:

- Dinah starts the mural today.
- Sheri brings over lamps and lights and fabrics.
- John starts the installation of the first hallway shelves.

The fabric is or fabrics are for

- Covering the pillow and seat of the green chair.
- Covering the seat and back of the computer chair.
- Covering the valance made to hide the top of the blinds because they never stack right.
- And maybe covering the top of the yellow ottoman.

But, this is all just what Sheri has said will happen. I'm sure all of it will. I'm just not sure all of it will today. We'll see.

At Mom's there is a lovely formal dining room in her section. Everyone is assigned a table that they eat with all the time. The first table Mom got assigned to included a woman who was annoying and one who was just offensive. Finally Mom had enough and got moved to another table. This one was better. Two nice women and one who is kind of out of it.

But, since she's been able to get back to the dining room the two nice women have not been there - both sick. So she's stuck with the one who is out of it. She (Mom) kind of mentions this every day. But, this morning Mom got specific:

<td>Everyday she comes in and says "oh, I forgot my sweater" and then she complains that the air conditioning is blowing on her. Every single day. Finally, yesterday I said "so, why don't you put your sweater in your walker basket so you'll always have it?" And she said "Well, because I don't have a lot of sense in left in my brain."</td>

Can anyone relate? Show of hands, please...

Comments

[frl.livejournal.com]

Re: Mom - hahah, that's awesome.

Re: Your site/icons - are susandennis.com and susandennis.org on different servers? The reason I ask is because none of your icons are showing up and I can get to your .com site, but not your .org site. Just FYI.

[frl.livejournal.com]

Never mind - after waiting for like 10 minutes to even post this reply, now that I *have* posted it, your sites/icons all come up within 2 minutes of me posting. hah! Damned Internet!

[susandennis]

You get big points for paying close attention!

susandennis.org houses a lot of my graphics - especially the ones I use for LJ.

susandennis.com is on a different server (different company)

susandennis.net is on yet a different different server at a different company (it's an NT server - the others are Unix) and houses my database pages (mainly books)

and... you thought that was plenty for anyone, right?

karolene.com is on the yet another server - same hosting company as .org but different server - that's where all the kingdome pictures are.

Excessive? You bet!

And, yep, .org had a moment this morning - it was all part of the digical non-love that greeted my day. sigh

Angry digital gods

[nezbitthecat.livejournal.com]

I have had a share of digital hiccupage myself this morning. A client of mine is cursing SBC (rightly so) because of intermittant outages. T-mobile's gateway has been down all weekend. Funny how these outages coordinate with "long" holiday weekends.
I blame NASA for colliding with that comet!

Re: Angry digital gods

[susandennis]

I can work with that blaming NASA thing. I 'get' guys wanting to crash stuff and blow up stuff but not when it screws with my computing.

[nezbitthecat.livejournal.com]

Oh yes! And just where is buzznet?

[susandennis]

I'm a leeetle worried about buzznet - not today's outage particularly but in general. I keep hoping somone with some sense and attention will buy them out but then, maybe, that's what they are waiting for, too... hmmmmm

And, what did NASA do to them today?!

[rsc.livejournal.com]

I think something is weird with Semagic today (or perhaps every day?). I composed a post with a pointer to an earlier post of mine that was friends-only, and when I previewed it to make sure the link was correct, I kept getting told that I had to be logged in to see the target of the link. Nothing I could think of would persuade it that I was, in fact, logged in. Finally I said the hell with it and posted it anyway, and from within LJ I have no problem seeing the linked post.