Is it wet enough for you?
What is this...water coming from the sky? Oh, wait, we're being rained upon? The crops are saved, Paw! Er, well, no, they're not; the corn around here is fairly short, and I believe the wheat is the same. But given yesterday's high of 37* - a fine temp if the thermometer is in my mouth, a ghastly one otherwise - and the fact that the lying little widget has been promising this storm every day for the past two weeks, I'll very much take it.
This week, though I've been between assignments, has been concerned mainly with fixing the GP's network at their new office downtown, or dealing with my mother. In the former category, I'm setting up a wireless network with some machines which are donations and have seen better days. All the systems need a good cleaning - they're all running that slowed down, brain-damaged thing that WinXP does when it's been compromised beyond belief with malware. In the latter, we're dealing with the diagnosis that the stroke she had years ago may have damaged her more than was previously thought, and her balance is basically shot - which explains all the falls she's been taking. The idea of remaining mobile has long been something of an obsession in our family: my grandmother would routinely walk miles around town, even after landing in the assisted living facility, which either drove the doctors there nuts when she did it or her nuts when she was prevented from doing so. So just saying that she should get a wheelchair is not an option, particularly since she can indeed walk...the problem comes when she gets to any situation where balance is needed. A slight stumble, of the type that you or I make every day, is something that she cannot counterbalance. That part of her brain just isn't functioning any more. She's not taking it well, particularly when the neurologist said there was essentially nothing she could do about it. She's reading that as either she is able to walk or isn't, and I'm not entirely convinced about that; we're going to look into therapy to get her to change the way she walks such that it's not as much of an issue.
Sooner or later, though, I'll really have to have a nibble on the job front. My main contact at Triad wasn't even aware I was out until yesterday, so we'll have to see what she comes up with...in the meantime, I'm pushing The Exchange. Hopefully by this weekend I'll have a start on the Web site, business cards, and brochures, and be able to do an email blast out to the business contacts I've made.
Apropos of nothing else, I found out last night that the guy who played Tyrell in Blade Runner also played Lloyd the bartender in The Shining. Huh. Neat.
* Both cities hit 38 downtown for much of the day; the low last night was 26, and the humidity throughout was something like 8000%, give or take a few.
This week, though I've been between assignments, has been concerned mainly with fixing the GP's network at their new office downtown, or dealing with my mother. In the former category, I'm setting up a wireless network with some machines which are donations and have seen better days. All the systems need a good cleaning - they're all running that slowed down, brain-damaged thing that WinXP does when it's been compromised beyond belief with malware. In the latter, we're dealing with the diagnosis that the stroke she had years ago may have damaged her more than was previously thought, and her balance is basically shot - which explains all the falls she's been taking. The idea of remaining mobile has long been something of an obsession in our family: my grandmother would routinely walk miles around town, even after landing in the assisted living facility, which either drove the doctors there nuts when she did it or her nuts when she was prevented from doing so. So just saying that she should get a wheelchair is not an option, particularly since she can indeed walk...the problem comes when she gets to any situation where balance is needed. A slight stumble, of the type that you or I make every day, is something that she cannot counterbalance. That part of her brain just isn't functioning any more. She's not taking it well, particularly when the neurologist said there was essentially nothing she could do about it. She's reading that as either she is able to walk or isn't, and I'm not entirely convinced about that; we're going to look into therapy to get her to change the way she walks such that it's not as much of an issue.
Sooner or later, though, I'll really have to have a nibble on the job front. My main contact at Triad wasn't even aware I was out until yesterday, so we'll have to see what she comes up with...in the meantime, I'm pushing The Exchange. Hopefully by this weekend I'll have a start on the Web site, business cards, and brochures, and be able to do an email blast out to the business contacts I've made.
Apropos of nothing else, I found out last night that the guy who played Tyrell in Blade Runner also played Lloyd the bartender in The Shining. Huh. Neat.
* Both cities hit 38 downtown for much of the day; the low last night was 26, and the humidity throughout was something like 8000%, give or take a few.