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Woke up at 08:00, got out of bed, noticed that Karen wasn't there... she had gone out to sleep on the couch for some reason.

I thought about making coffee, but I didn't, just went out to get the paper and had some cereal while I read it.

Goofed around for a while, getting stuff ready to take to Mom's... the last trip, heh.

I had four big boxes to take over, plus her 21-inch TV. Not a whole lot of stuff, but enough to work up a sweat as I loaded it up.

I needed to pick up some 'scripts for both Mom and I, so I did go to Walgreens before I loaded up. Dammit, more than half of Mom's SS is eaten up by her prescription medicine. And there is no way that should be right.

Got that stuff over there and unloaded, Mom was again cheerful and peppy. She had three of the four boxes unloaded before I left, so next time that I go over I'll be bringing the empty ones back.

I finally ordered stuff for the waterbed... a mattress, sheets and rail covers. Karen wants me to remove one of the two sets of drawers under the bed, so we'll do that all at the same time.

And I finally ordered another laptop, after years of talking about it. A Toshiba, it is. 80GB HD, gig of memory... I also got 4 HD enclosures and 2 200gig drives.

Man, this shit is so cheap anymore....

And I'm trying to bid on some keyboards on eBay, but their system is soooooo slowwwww. I can't bed on anything.

Karen is marginally better today....

The medication that she is taking for the shingles has a side effect... headaches. And she's trying to figger out which is worse, the shingle or the headaches. She's decided to cut the quantity of the medication and put up with simi-headaches. I feel so helpless, dammit, I really can't help her at all. She is keeping up with the pain pills, though, so she's not really hurting, but she's not getting any better either.

And I've got about 200 gigs of music now, I need to start slowing down. I wonder how many GB of music has been produced? I've got 25,000 songs (goes up about 10 per hour), and I haven't listened to but maybe half of them.

It bothers me that I'm so greedy, but I can look ahead and see a time in my life when having all of this music at hand will be wonderful

And there are a lot of people that I share with that are leeches... they don't share anything. Don't know what to think of that.

But I do have two soulseek accounts... nilky and nilkyii... the latter is fully shared, the former only shared with friends. Seems to be working out OK so far.....