I made so many additions to yesterday's page, I thought I'd better put up something here so you'd reload it and not miss anything! Go back and press "F5" to reload!
Well, it's really today now, so I can continue. I really had a burst of writing activity yesterday. I don't understand it, unless I was just really trying to justify not getting stuff done around the house. It sure was fun while it lasted, though.
This is my last full day off, so I'm gonna try to take a long nap this afternoon and stay up all night tonight, so I can be rested starting the work week. There will probably be several more additions here today and tonight.
Something serious here for a change. Karen's son Matt got a DUI 6 or 8 months ago, his second one, and he will be sentenced in July. The recommendations of the counsellor are as follows:
Karen is very upset, she feels that they are being way too hard on the poor boy. My feelings are quite the opposite, of course. He refuses to take responsibility for his problems, and his problems all stem from drinking. His attitudes about drinking and driving remain unchanged; he feels that he is an excellent driver, sober or drunk. The state seems to have a good plan but I'm afraid that it won't work until he wants it to. We need to keep drunk drivers off of the roads. I have friends and relatives out there that I don't want harmed by drunk drivers. I see enough of drunks in the emergency room, and they are all good drivers in their own mind's eye, even if they have just killed someone. They all have someone else to blame. None of this is their fault... shitheads!
I just hope that it works for Matt. He has a good mind and excellent potential if he doesn't continue to fuck his life up with drugs and alcohol. I really think that he would be better off, and have a better chance, if he would go through an inpatient program with some intensive counselling and get completely dried out. Things sure do look different when you're completely sober for a couple of months.
More later...
A long day. No nap yet. I got Tyler's tickets and got them mailed off today. I also went to our new office depot, and Best Buy, and Sams. Just looking around at stuff, I didn't spend a dime on anything. Actually, I was looking at laptop computers, or notebook computer or whatever you want to call them. Willa got one, and I'm just so jealous! I've wanted a laptop for the longest time... but I don't really want to pay the price. All I really need is an old DOS machine, with maybe a 386, Black and White screen and a 300 meg HD. I don't want to do sophisticated graphics or anything really except word processing. OK, it would be nice to have Wordstalk on it too, so it would need to run windows. Maybe 4 meg of ram. And a disk drive. And a battery and a power cord. Five years ago, what I've described would cost about $3500.00. If they made one now, they could sell it for maybe $500.00. So they don't make them. I'm sure that there are used ones out there somewhere, but I have no idea on how to find them.
When I owned a computer store, I bought a Commodore 64SX, a plug-in portable machine with a 5-inch color screen. I still have it. Great little game machine, but I've played all of those 8-bit games to death. I haven't turned it on for a year.
When Karen got home tonight, we had a nice little interlude, described in Natural Tan, which I wrote when we got out of the cool tub tonight. Enjoy it, there won't be any more for a while now. Work, y'know.
I'll probably be back later on tonight. I'm either going to stay up most of the night or take a short nap and get up, so I can sleep tomorrow before I go to work.
Later...