Monday, 23 March, 1998 16:21
Sunday was a long day... fairly warm, sunny... and I had a good long nap in the middle of the day. I'm sitting here trying to remember what happened yesterday, and I'm drawing a blank. I remember talking to JD in Texas, and keeping Karen from killing the grandkids... but beyond that, the day was a wash.
And today's been pretty much of a wash too. I've spent most of the day on the computer, as usual, messing with photoshop
and downloading Netscape 4.04 or whatever it is, to see if I could read Gus's journal, and it worked. I was kinda meaning to find out what he was doing to blow MSIE up(I don't think that Gus is a Microsoft-hater, but you never can tell...) but I didn't go look even after I remembered that I wanted to.
and downloading Netscape 4.04 or whatever it is, to see if I could read Gus's journal, and it worked. I was kinda meaning to find out what he was doing to blow MSIE up(I don't think that Gus is a Microsoft-hater, but you never can tell...) but I didn't go look even after I remembered that I wanted to.
Well, I had to go get the link, anyway, so I looked at the source code and just got confused. I'll just have to leave netscape on my system until he gets tired of whatever he's doing...
Karen is off all week, and today she went to Lawrence to pick up Brian; she'll take him back in the morning. She also got Patrick out of school at 11:30, and Lacee stayed home today too. So they're all three here tonight, what fun!
Karen talked to Brian's mother, Jacinda, several times over the weekend. Jacinda blames everything that is wrong in her life (and that covers a whole lot!) on Karen and on matt, especially stuff pertaining to Brian, Matt's son. Neither of her other kids have fathers present either, however. Karen does her best to see Brian whenever she can, but Matt is not interested in seeing him at all, and Karen is getting tired of the hassle of arranging visits with the alcoholic and neurotic Jacinda. A bad situation all the way around, unfortunately. Some people spend their lives finding someone to blame their misfortunes on without ever realizing that they are responsible for most, if not all, of them.
I rummaged around in the fridge and found some chicken and ate it for lunch... and then Karen tells me it's about three weeks old... I'm starting to feel queasy. Which word reminds me...
Piqued is a very good word. However, it is not the same as Peeked or even Peaked. It is used most often as in "My curiosity was piqued" which is how I used it before I looked it up; now I know that I will probably never use it again, because what I now know conflicts with what I have known all of my life, and that confuses me, so I shall henceforth avoid the word.
| pique (pek) n.
pique oneself on (or upon) [Archaic] to be proud of
Etymology (C)1995 Zane Publishing, Inc. (C)1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc. |
On the other hand, looking the meanings over more closely, I guess arousing one's curiosity would fit in there OK, wouldn't it? OK, I'm not confused any more, but I'm piqued that I have so little faith in my general knowledge...
While I'm on the subject, another mis-used word ( and this one I'm sure of) is sight/site.
"Hey, man, whaddya think of my sight?"
"Well, ya look a little myopic there..."
Even funnier is the reverse, which is much more infrequently used: "'Hey, Man, you're outa site!"
This is presumably only used after ones' server crashes...
"Well, ya look a little myopic there..."
Even funnier is the reverse, which is much more infrequently used: "'Hey, Man, you're outa site!"
This is presumably only used after ones' server crashes...
Which reminds me, someday I'm going to find an english primer and find out how to use apostrophies with posessives...
I think that it's entirely psychosomatic, but that three-week-old chicken is begging to be released, and I'm not sure which way it's going... more tomorrow. I will have the answer by then, I'm sure...