Maybe Big Stuff Interrupting Life

The big news of the week (it would be nice if some week would have no big news since it always seems to be negative) is the computer may die.  There’s a white line across the screen and friend said the screen may be going out.  Repair?  Expensive, he said, as did another computer knowledgeable soul.  Finding another computer is rather out of the question.  There was an organization that sold used ones.  The aide service sent new, and it’s fishy.  She seemed to think she was a sub. 

The one good thing in the week was that the lunch service was around at a relatively early time on Friday.  Government talk may be done for a while, but that won’t be certain until days from now.  The rent’s due at the end of the week (complicates Friday as both lunch service and the food truck comes).  Most important, the medical situation is such that changes are now in the weblog plans.  At least friend has been by and is into the plant care.  The previous aide over-watered them badly. 

There are actually five weblogs, but only two are “active” at present, this and The Diary’s Blog (link at right).  There is a thought, rather than repeated posting of “sick leave” notes both places, to try to write at least one and publish them on alternate weeks, i.e., do one week here, then next week Diary commentary.  They were combined once before, but differently, and at least that would maintain some activity and possibly a thought or two for someone.  That’s not certain yet. 

The future is always uncertain. 

Northern Winter Solstice 2011–B

This is version “B” of the topic.   Or, maybe it is version “A.”  Time-wise, it is “A” bein’ as it is the first to be composed.  The Diary’s Blog has another version.  As that is supposed to be the more professional thing, technically that should be #1 or “A” in the order of importance.  Maybe in the end it doesn’t matter a lot which is which, it’s just that stuff might be said here that wouldn’t be said there.  And, it all might as well be gotten out of the way to allow for less cluttered commentary on the subject. 

As the sun set Tuesday, the Jewish Festival of the Lights (there are others) began ushering in a new life cycle in the northlands.  It is a time for assessment (at least personally speaking) of the way things are here and now – what’s the situation as the earth shifts to a new year in the natural order?  It’s the time before Christmas to the tune of a week or so.  Christmas preparations are “in the air” many places. People have their minds on the holiday, the legal part being on December 26 this year.  That isn’t when folk want to celebrate. 

The food truck didn’t come as scheduled.  The homemaker aide called in sick on Monday.  The computer quit working.  Gifts for some people didn’t arrive in the mail.  Christmas cards from unknown people did come.  The missing food wasn’t much, but it did make the money on hand a bit sparse.  On the Solstice itself that was set at “okay” by Virginia with a special trip. The missing homemaker, among other stuff, left yours truly sitting amid a week’s trash and laundry. Most, not all, of the trash is now in a big bag.  Someone may get it out. 

Beginnings are important.