I went to sleep this morning at about 06:00, right before Karen got up. She's feeling OK now, but spent most of Sunday and Monday in bed. She said that Lacee was sick along with her, and that Kim got sick Monday night. I don't know what's the matter with these girls.
So I haven't been able to get my twelve hours yet, but the day is not over...
Yesterday going home, JD had a blowout. I really feel guilty about this, because he showed me the tire when we got back from buying the modem; hte sidewall was bruised, and there was a little cut with a slow leak. He said that they hadn't hit anything that he could remember to cut it, and I figgered that it happened when Lisa had he wreck a couple of months ago and JD just never noticed it. So I told him that it would probably be OK, and he trusted my decision.
So then it blew out north of Oklahoma City. And I'm feeling guilty as hell about it.
He replaced it with the donut spare, and they made it to a Wal-mart and bought an new tire. No real harm done, I guess, but I still feel guilty. Blowouts are dangerous, and not fun at all.
When I put Moms' computer together, I put the monitor on top of the box and aimed it down... Mom is not very big, maybe five foot tall, and the damned thing is too high for her, giving her a headache and a backache.
More guilt... in a single day, I mess up both my son and my mother.
Yesterday, mom and I were trying to find an email address for her friend in Enid that has an account with both AOL and Prodigy. We had no luck with that, but then Mom wanted me to put in my name. And of course the search came up with my nilknarf@atheist.com and Mom expressed her
dismay. I know that she knew of my beliefs before (but after all, she's eighty! and may be forgiven...) but she's never been really directly confromnted with them before...
But that's all over now. She's on the mighty WEB, and I can no longer keep secrets from her. Incidentally, her email is mom@nilknarf.net in case you want to tell her what a fine job she's done raising her kids. If you do write her, try not to be too sarcastic...
So... I think that I'll go back to bed. More later, most likely...
20:11...
Wow... I slept until 19:30! I am happy! Unfortunately, I started reading my mail, and I'm running out of time here.
Kim is feeling better, and Karen seems to be OK. Karen got a pizza for supper/(my breakfast)... there are very few things that I like better than pizza for breakfast, and I won't go into that now...
The guys at liquidweb are working on the problems there, but they don't seem to be able to confirm that the files aren't showing up. I hope to find out more tomorrow...