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Trying to get the WoW patch on still. The download completed, according to Scott, but when I restarted it it did not recognize it. So I tried copying from the other machine which does appear to be working for the moment. It didn't at first and I was getting frustrated, but then I noticed that while I didn't have a file with the patch name, I did now have a folder with that name. Duh! So we'll see. It seems like it should work at this point since it's applying it while I type this.
Barn cats fed, birds fed, mail collected. Did a load of laundry that needed doing also. Must do dishes next time I'm out there, I think....
At any rate, I went looking to see what other family memories I could find. Quite a lot of letters that I believe Mom kept, some photos, and - Mom's folder of articles! I didn't even know there was such a folder, but apparently she'd done a couple articles. Also in that folder? Copies of her letter to Ford about the Escort station wagon we used to own, the lemon. The letters that Dad had said he didn't think we had copies of any more because they were a couple computers ago. I'd resigned myself to not having them - but there's a hardcopy of them still in existence. I am so glad. More stuff to scan, though, aie, but still cool.
I have often felt guilty for my level of clutter-bug-ness though I know my parents (Dad especially - Mom tended to confine messes where she could hide them from company, at least most of my life) share it. Well, one of my bad habits is picking up puzzle magazines and never quite finishing them, so I have umpty-zillion magazines I don't get rid of because they aren't quite done. As I was looking through stuff (and basically skipping anything that wasn't immediately obvious sentimental value - my goal was letters, notebooks, pictures, and that sort of thing), I found a couple stacks of Mom's puzzle magazines, some solved, some not solved. Some date back to the late 1980s but most are from the 1990s (I think she did eventually stop buying them since she had stopped doing the puzzles, so I don't really expect to find any in the past 4-5 years). I was so amused - and at the same time felt such a connection with her, about that.
I ought to resume scanning stuff. I don't really want to do the scanning but I do want to have it done, because I want to share Mom's recipes, and those are the current project. Presumably this means I should clear the stuff that's accumulated on the scanner lid off to some other location....
Read Hoffman's Spirits that Walk in Shadow last night, and very much enjoyed it. I wish it didn't have to go back to the library - I would like to have Scott read it but it took me too long to start and it's due Monday, and there's a hold so no renewing it.
The Japanese Gardens called me sometime in the past two weeks about a photo CD that I had made for them, trying to find out what rights I'd given them. Silly people! I put that in a readme.txt file on the CD. At any rate I told them and they are happy. And I am happy because they want to use some of them. (Short form: if they're not selling it for money, they can use my images, with credit. If they are selling it for money, contact me and we'll sort something out. Mostly I want a donation receipt for the last case!) I'm pretty pleased by that, though there's the little twinge of "I wish I could tell my parents". So I told them - though if there's an after-life, presumably they already knew if they wanted to and can watch us, anyway. Told them anyway because it felt right, and it helped.
I'm not sure how fond of me the cats are just now. I think they've mostly gotten over it, but they both got dosed with Advantage to deal with fleas less than two hours ago and they were sure not amused at the time!
Barn cats fed, birds fed, mail collected. Did a load of laundry that needed doing also. Must do dishes next time I'm out there, I think....
At any rate, I went looking to see what other family memories I could find. Quite a lot of letters that I believe Mom kept, some photos, and - Mom's folder of articles! I didn't even know there was such a folder, but apparently she'd done a couple articles. Also in that folder? Copies of her letter to Ford about the Escort station wagon we used to own, the lemon. The letters that Dad had said he didn't think we had copies of any more because they were a couple computers ago. I'd resigned myself to not having them - but there's a hardcopy of them still in existence. I am so glad. More stuff to scan, though, aie, but still cool.
I have often felt guilty for my level of clutter-bug-ness though I know my parents (Dad especially - Mom tended to confine messes where she could hide them from company, at least most of my life) share it. Well, one of my bad habits is picking up puzzle magazines and never quite finishing them, so I have umpty-zillion magazines I don't get rid of because they aren't quite done. As I was looking through stuff (and basically skipping anything that wasn't immediately obvious sentimental value - my goal was letters, notebooks, pictures, and that sort of thing), I found a couple stacks of Mom's puzzle magazines, some solved, some not solved. Some date back to the late 1980s but most are from the 1990s (I think she did eventually stop buying them since she had stopped doing the puzzles, so I don't really expect to find any in the past 4-5 years). I was so amused - and at the same time felt such a connection with her, about that.
I ought to resume scanning stuff. I don't really want to do the scanning but I do want to have it done, because I want to share Mom's recipes, and those are the current project. Presumably this means I should clear the stuff that's accumulated on the scanner lid off to some other location....
Read Hoffman's Spirits that Walk in Shadow last night, and very much enjoyed it. I wish it didn't have to go back to the library - I would like to have Scott read it but it took me too long to start and it's due Monday, and there's a hold so no renewing it.
The Japanese Gardens called me sometime in the past two weeks about a photo CD that I had made for them, trying to find out what rights I'd given them. Silly people! I put that in a readme.txt file on the CD. At any rate I told them and they are happy. And I am happy because they want to use some of them. (Short form: if they're not selling it for money, they can use my images, with credit. If they are selling it for money, contact me and we'll sort something out. Mostly I want a donation receipt for the last case!) I'm pretty pleased by that, though there's the little twinge of "I wish I could tell my parents". So I told them - though if there's an after-life, presumably they already knew if they wanted to and can watch us, anyway. Told them anyway because it felt right, and it helped.
I'm not sure how fond of me the cats are just now. I think they've mostly gotten over it, but they both got dosed with Advantage to deal with fleas less than two hours ago and they were sure not amused at the time!
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There are some Japanese Garden photos I've taken - not probably all the same - at http://www.flickr.com/photos/kyrielle/sets/173478/ though.
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I'm getting a lot of friends turning pro photographers around me. It's very cool, as long as I'm not a subject too often.
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