23 Things #??

I don't know where we are anymore. I did my "linkdIn" thing. Touched base with Lynne, Carol Westcot, NJB, etc. Got alot of catching up to do.

Goodbye Nana

It's always a sad thing to lose your mother. Mine was 89 years old and well-loved by everyone who knew her. She lived with me the last six years of her life and was a joy to come home to every day. She deserved not to suffer at all but she was very ill for about a month before she died and I am grateful that that is over for her and also that I had the chance to care for her and comfort her near the end.

My life is changing again.

Another weekend

Busy busy busy! The only enjoyable thing I did was visit my new grandbaby with the punkin children. Blaed and Ariel are pleased with their new cousin and Olivia seems to have accepted him completely. Lindsay is feeling good and Andy is glad to have the family home and settling into the new routine.

It was all downhill after that visit. Saturday morning I met with cases managers at Loretto to get Omi settled in to her temporary digs. She's still mad at me for making her stay there. Then home to poor Nana who is still in alot of pain and still not eating enough. In between changing dressings and administering pain pills, I painted some more of my house. This was complicated by rain showers off and on all afternoon.

Weeded my garden and mowed the lawn. What a drudge I am!!!

I'm looking forward to work tomorrow. My great escape!

23 Things Post #3

I set up a Meebo account today with a little help from Elaine. It was not very difficult to set up but now I will have to fool around with it in order to see what I can do with it. I sort of remember Instant Messaging from a long time ago when my family bought our first computer and we had an AOL account (dial-up!!) Other than that, my only experience with IM is when the little pre-teen girls used to come into the library, get on the computers and furiously IM nasty things back and forth to each other.

I have Skype on my "booklet" at home but the only person I actually "skype" with is my son Andy and my little granddaughter. They live all of three miles away so it's not such a big deal for us. We are trying to talk my sister who lives on the west coast into loading the program onto her laptop and then I'm sure I would use it often.

2nd 23 Things post

Ok, Ive commented on a couple of my co-workers blogs. It's really cool to check out everyone's progress. Annie's blog is the most fun so far. I'm working on the RSS feeds. Is it possible that I had some feeds set up a long time ago somewhere?? Maybe on my library account on the OCPL web site? Sounds so familiar. I've got the Twitter thing goin' on too.

It's just so tempting to overwhelm myself with info though! Is this a problem for anyone else? I wonder if my biological cpu - otherwise known as my "brain" is too slow and just not up to the job? Sometimes I feel like I need to empty a recycling bin in my mind in order to free up disk space for the new stuff. But I have a hard time deciding what to get rid of PERMANENTLY because I know darn well I'll need whatever I delete as soon as it's gone.

Holy Cow! I just blogged my way into an answer to my dilemma! Google docs! Cloud computing! The ever-evolving world-wide web! This stuff gets metaphysical fast. Hmmm? Anybody know where I can score some weed? Lol.

I miss my Dad

When I read Tom Brokaw's book I kept waiting to turn the page and find the chapter about my Dad. He was such a typical Greatest Generation guy. He was born in 1917, grew up in Syracuse, got his business degree at S.U.married my Mom and then went to war for four years. When he came home from Germany he got a job with a finance company and hated the desk work so much that it affected his health. He went to work training tractor trailer drivers for the Atlantic-Richefield Oil Co. and stayed there for forty-five years. He had four children. He never ever talked about the war.

Dad bought the house I still live in in 1952. He left for work every morning before I was up and came home for supper at 5:00 every night. His favorite dinner was hot dogs with fried potatoes and stewed tomatoes and his favorite television program was the Jackie Gleason Show. He loved watermelon. His dream was to see the country in an RV and he did that in 1977. When he retired, he and Mom wintered in Florida where he took up golf. He cared for his elderly parents and later for his widowed sister. He died at the age of 79 on the fourth hole at his favorite golf course.

And this very ordinary life is what made him (and all of those other men just like him) so great. They experienced the epic event of their century - maybe the epic event of all centuries and then came home and got on with their lives. They raised their families and did their jobs. They paid their taxes and helped their neighbors and they never seemed to be afraid of anything. My Dad grumbled about his boss and complained about crooked politicians but I never heard him tell a dirty joke or use a racial epithet. He drank beer at family gatherings and company clambakes but I never saw him drunk. He loved to talk but he also loved to listen and he knew alot about alot. He read the Readers Digest and the Saturday Evening Post but he also read James Hilton and John Hersey. He taught all his children and grandchildren and most of their friends how to drive (I told you he never seemed to be afraid of anything). He taught me how to do my own tax return, replace a washer in a leaky faucet, create a budget and swim. He was a good bowler but terrible at cards and he never went to church.

It's Fathers Day and I really miss my Dad.

A sad tale from Library Land

WOW! Somebody probably told her she had to have her library card to use the computers!

From the AP:
BOISE, Idaho — Police in Idaho think they might have solved a yearlong condiment crime spree. Authorities said a 74-year-old Boise woman arrested after pouring mayonnaise in the Ada County library’s book drop box is a person of interest in at least 10 other condiment-related crimes.
Joy L. Cassidy was picked up Sunday at the library, moments after police say she pulled through the outside drive-through and dumped a jar of mayo in the box designated for reading materials.
Cassidy was released from jail and faces a misdemeanor charge of malicious injury to property.
Boise police say Cassidy is under investigation for other cases of vandalism that started in May 2009. Library employees have reported finding books in the drop box covered in corn syrup and ketchup.