Within you and without you
I have been absent from online-ness for the past few days for several reasons, the most exciting of which is that I have a new computer! It is black and shiny. Very shiny. I have named it Obsidian but I might have to change that to Mr Shiny. It's hella fast - it takes me less than two minutes to load Sims 2 with all expansion packs and lots of downloads. It used to take me over five minutes. It took all of Saturday afternoon and evening to pump all my music, photos and other assorted files onto it, and we haven't swapped it over for the old one yet because we've been too busy with other weekend stuff. Yesterday was, of course, Dr Who day, of which more in another post.
I've also been busily working away on a couple of very long in-depth posts; one is a very intense post about religion and personal ethics, and it's not my usual yadda yadda, it's different from stuff I've written before. Over the past year or so I've been very reticent about openly expressing myself here (for various reasons) but I think that should change.
Rohan is going interstate this week for work, which is something he rarely has to do; I think the last time I spent a night alone in my own bed was over eight years ago (whereas I'm away so much that he has to do it all the time). It'll be very weird!
Also this week, my dad had an operation. This is the second operation he's had this month, and this time they kept him in for five days, which is worrying me a little because it was supposed to be just an overnight procedure, but apparently they found that the site of the first operation had become infected and they wanted to feed him antibiotics through a drip for five days. At least I know he was well looked after while he was there; my brother went down for a few days to visit him, and sent me an SMS photo of him looking quite OK. Then while I was worrying about his operation, I forgot his birthday. *headdesk* Fortunately he's not one of the people that goes all pouty if he doesn't get a card or a pressie, but I could have remembered. I'll have to think up something really nice to send him. Shame he won't accept money, since that's what he needs the most.
I've also been busily working away on a couple of very long in-depth posts; one is a very intense post about religion and personal ethics, and it's not my usual yadda yadda, it's different from stuff I've written before. Over the past year or so I've been very reticent about openly expressing myself here (for various reasons) but I think that should change.
Rohan is going interstate this week for work, which is something he rarely has to do; I think the last time I spent a night alone in my own bed was over eight years ago (whereas I'm away so much that he has to do it all the time). It'll be very weird!
Also this week, my dad had an operation. This is the second operation he's had this month, and this time they kept him in for five days, which is worrying me a little because it was supposed to be just an overnight procedure, but apparently they found that the site of the first operation had become infected and they wanted to feed him antibiotics through a drip for five days. At least I know he was well looked after while he was there; my brother went down for a few days to visit him, and sent me an SMS photo of him looking quite OK. Then while I was worrying about his operation, I forgot his birthday. *headdesk* Fortunately he's not one of the people that goes all pouty if he doesn't get a card or a pressie, but I could have remembered. I'll have to think up something really nice to send him. Shame he won't accept money, since that's what he needs the most.