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lenora_roseI'm now almost a full week behind it seems on the friendslist. The folk festival of course put me four days behind -- but the rest is the trickle-effect of trying to catch up during a busy week with little personal computer time and all the other issues below.
I'd like to post something about the folk festival -- which was generally fabulous -- but, well, I currently don't have the time, or if I do, I don't feel comfortable. See the last whine below.
Whine #1: I want it to rain eversomuch, please! A good full out thunderstorm wouldn't hurt, but rain in any form = good thing. This parched summer is wrong, and troubles me in its wrongness. of course, I've never been one to mind rain unless I have to walk in it for hours, and even then, I've usually been fine, but this is more than that.
Whine #2: I cannot wait until we have central air. That is part of the basement refurbishing planned. Right now, my study is too cold most of the time (Which I can at least alleviate with a cup of tea and a sweater, and I turn the music up a bit, so I don't usually mind that much), and the multitude of fans spreading the cold out of that room still don't seem to drive it adequately into the rest of the upstairs. Our bedroom does get cooler, just enough to sleep, but not comfortable.
Whine #3: I want the house to myself and my husband again.
Whine #4: I WANT MY STUDY BACK. I'd like the option of being in there at hours of my own choosing, and not stopping for someone else's behalf. That's the point of a room of one's own; my music. My door. My time.
Whine #5: The new flat widescreen monitor would be wonderful, anf the space ift frees up on my desk fabulous, if it wouldn't stretch everything to fit, because either the driver or the video card need upgrading. But Colin hasn't had time, and it's been pushed back behind higher priorities.
Whine #6: I ALSO WANT MY OWN FRIGGING INTERNET ACCESS. I Don't think anyone really seems to understand how maddening it is to need permission, or access to someone else's computer, to do things like, oh, read e-mail. Post on my own personal journal. I don't have access to most of the e-mail addresses in my address books, I can't set filters. I can barely surf. It's frustrating enough not being able to be on my own computer at my own leisure; it's worse by far to be driven even from that, to someone else's computer, more constantly exposed to someone else's entry into the room (My computer is sensibly not visible from the doorway of my study. Colin's computer is set so my back is turned to the whole room, and anyone who comes around the corner can see what i'm doing before I can see them. Ask my mom and my brother, I've ALWAYS hated having someone behind my shoulder.). It's stupid to have to cross rooms to do a piece of minor googling for the story, and if I want to take a break and surf casually? No bookmarks. No familair settings. Everything that's logged in is in someone else's name. But Colin hasn't had time, and it's been pushed back behind higher priorities.
I'd like to post something about the folk festival -- which was generally fabulous -- but, well, I currently don't have the time, or if I do, I don't feel comfortable. See the last whine below.
Whine #1: I want it to rain eversomuch, please! A good full out thunderstorm wouldn't hurt, but rain in any form = good thing. This parched summer is wrong, and troubles me in its wrongness. of course, I've never been one to mind rain unless I have to walk in it for hours, and even then, I've usually been fine, but this is more than that.
Whine #2: I cannot wait until we have central air. That is part of the basement refurbishing planned. Right now, my study is too cold most of the time (Which I can at least alleviate with a cup of tea and a sweater, and I turn the music up a bit, so I don't usually mind that much), and the multitude of fans spreading the cold out of that room still don't seem to drive it adequately into the rest of the upstairs. Our bedroom does get cooler, just enough to sleep, but not comfortable.
Whine #3: I want the house to myself and my husband again.
Whine #4: I WANT MY STUDY BACK. I'd like the option of being in there at hours of my own choosing, and not stopping for someone else's behalf. That's the point of a room of one's own; my music. My door. My time.
Whine #5: The new flat widescreen monitor would be wonderful, anf the space ift frees up on my desk fabulous, if it wouldn't stretch everything to fit, because either the driver or the video card need upgrading. But Colin hasn't had time, and it's been pushed back behind higher priorities.
Whine #6: I ALSO WANT MY OWN FRIGGING INTERNET ACCESS. I Don't think anyone really seems to understand how maddening it is to need permission, or access to someone else's computer, to do things like, oh, read e-mail. Post on my own personal journal. I don't have access to most of the e-mail addresses in my address books, I can't set filters. I can barely surf. It's frustrating enough not being able to be on my own computer at my own leisure; it's worse by far to be driven even from that, to someone else's computer, more constantly exposed to someone else's entry into the room (My computer is sensibly not visible from the doorway of my study. Colin's computer is set so my back is turned to the whole room, and anyone who comes around the corner can see what i'm doing before I can see them. Ask my mom and my brother, I've ALWAYS hated having someone behind my shoulder.). It's stupid to have to cross rooms to do a piece of minor googling for the story, and if I want to take a break and surf casually? No bookmarks. No familair settings. Everything that's logged in is in someone else's name. But Colin hasn't had time, and it's been pushed back behind higher priorities.
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