Right now on Facebook there are a couple of videos of the Dalai Lama making the rounds. Now I’m sure this man is a very nice fellow as he tells people that they need to find inner peace, etc.
But, how does finding inner peace help a young mother with no roof over her head and two kids who are crying with hunger since they haven’t eaten since yesterday morning. I’m sorry, but no amount of meditating is going to solve that.
I have really had it with people who don’t respect my skills as a web developer. I have been creating websites since 1995, so I think I have a little bit of ability at my craft.
In the past few months I have run across two people who just don’t get it about good website design. They both have their own sites which are horrendous and which they think are wonderful. One has to wonder if they have ever really looked at a website.
The basics of a good site to me are: easy to follow navigation, tasteful graphics and colour schemes, and text that explains about the site in the first 15 seconds or so. I tend to be a minimalist (as in this blog) but I also have sites which are loaded with graphics but not overloaded with crap.
It really makes me wonder how some people see the world.
…but that doesn’t sound as good.
I finally pieced together a genealogy puzzle I’d been working on for awhile. Verna Miller shows up in many pictures with my grandmother Hazel and I didn’t know whether she was a relative or just a good friend.
I added to my Wormleysburg page to explain it. Verna and Hazel are first cousins.
I’ve been spending lots of time lately looking at old photos, tracing census links, and that sort of thing. If I had enough $$ coming in I would spend all of my time doing just that.
I did my 200th workout at Curves yesterday.
I’ve been going to Curves for about 16 months now. I was going 3 times a week for the first year but now I try to get there 4X.
Overall I would say I’m stronger than I was 17 months ago. My leg muscles show the most improvement.
I lost a bit of weight at the beginning but now my weight varies by a pound or two either way from week to week. I’ve started walking at the park after my workout to see if that will kickstart some weight loss.
The best part of it is that I have a routine that I actually look forward to. Even on cold miserable mornings I know that once I am finished I will feel better physically and know that I am taking better care of my body.
I’m not much of a movie person. I have a few favourites, but I don’t watch things critically for dialogue or acting or directing.
Before Sunrise and Before Sunset (Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy) are two movies that really touched me. It follows the tale of two people who meet accidentally and then find that the connection between them grows large in the space of a few short hours.
Has there ever been someone in your life who you thought you had a connection with, but somehow through time and circumstance they slipped away? What would have happened if you had chosen differently? Is there such a thing as true love?
I’ve been lost on Shorpy for the last week or so. It is so fascinating to devour the details in the large size photos from bygone years. Combining the photos with current views of an area through Google Streetview provides this family historian with hours of learning.
There are so many interesting things going on in the world. And you have so many interesting things you wish to tell me. And there are TV programs to watch, and websites to visit, and there’s music to listen to, and there are things you want me to do with you and places to travel to. However….
My body hurts. I cannot think. I often want to tell you to fuck off and just go away. I am getting scared because more and more often I forget what I am doing in the middle of doing it. I am losing words. It sometimes takes me forever to get one simple task done. I am fine doing things that are repetitive. I get thrown off by anything different, like my car being in the shop, or a child being here on a school day, or the credit union having lineups.
Things are piling up. I have so many things that I can’t seem to get done.
This laptop on this wireless is working just fine, but my desktop on cable is down. I have no idea why as the modem and all upstairs is okay. Grrrr.
We met and hugged and I said “I’ve missed you.” And then you looked into my eyes and said “I’ve missed you too.”
When I woke this morning I felt good.