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elainegrey) wrote2012-11-18 07:53 am
elainegrey) wrote2012-11-18 07:53 am
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Yesterday was a relaxing day. It does make me think about how much "process" i do without achieving much. If it were algorithmic, i suppose i would find tools to do them. I had the time to unsubscribe from some mailings that i usually just delete: that should help a little. I have managed to get most junk snail mail out of my life, but the junk email (not spam, but the commercial messages) keeps coming back.
I have decided i am upgrading my operating from 10.6 to 10.8 this afternoon. I am suspicious that applications i use frequently are looking for resources that aren't available in 10.6 and thus an additional overhead is in play. I could be wrong, and i really just need more memory (also, on the list of things to do sometime soon).
"Facebook is built into Mountain Lion [the 10.8 Apple OS]." It's reading things like this that has stopped me from upgrading.
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I took a walk downtown in the afternoon, snapping some photos. They aren't bad... and my brain fills in a "but."
I am rather certain that going to Meeting will be good for me today.
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I had a lovely chat with my sister yesterday. We are trying to come up with a resolution to a problem. Her family have moved in with my parents. My folks are going to transfer the house to her family, and my brother and i will inherit other things. So far, so good. Even if my brother & i were not going to inherit "equally," having my sister's family with my parents would be a benefit for us both. Now, my brother has been oversees for eight years or so: his furniture, etc, is also in my parents' home. With all my sister's family's stuff, this comes to three households of furniture in one home. It's a bit crowded.
Last time i saw my brother, i applied the clue stick liberally. Apparently, that was enough motivation for him to discover that one of those mobile storage cubes would be $200/month. And that was "too much." So he's not doing anything about the issue.
I calculate he's passed $19,000 in saved storage at $200/month. My strategy, that i shared with my sister, was that she should ask him for money to make the (planned) barn storage more appropriate for his stuff and to get the barn built faster.
If she moves out because of the conflict this stuff issue is causing, my folks will downsize, sell the place, and my brother will be forced to confront his stuff. AND he and i loose the benefit of my sister being with my parents.
Honestly, if he does nothing, the furniture should just go in the barn, weather maintained or not, because really, he's being completely irresponsible.
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Now that i have a new telecom provider, i find overseas calls ... oh, bother... that was to a cell phone.
Sigh. Well, if i had called my brother's landline (1) he wouldn't have been home since he was at the office at 10:15 pm on a Sunday night and (2) i would have paid less.
Anyhow, despite the ranting about his irresponsibility, i have decided i am going to take the time to be a small regular presence in his life. I can do that.
And today was my first call to him.
I have decided i am upgrading my operating from 10.6 to 10.8 this afternoon. I am suspicious that applications i use frequently are looking for resources that aren't available in 10.6 and thus an additional overhead is in play. I could be wrong, and i really just need more memory (also, on the list of things to do sometime soon).
"Facebook is built into Mountain Lion [the 10.8 Apple OS]." It's reading things like this that has stopped me from upgrading.
--==∞==--
I took a walk downtown in the afternoon, snapping some photos. They aren't bad... and my brain fills in a "but."
I am rather certain that going to Meeting will be good for me today.
--==∞==--
I had a lovely chat with my sister yesterday. We are trying to come up with a resolution to a problem. Her family have moved in with my parents. My folks are going to transfer the house to her family, and my brother and i will inherit other things. So far, so good. Even if my brother & i were not going to inherit "equally," having my sister's family with my parents would be a benefit for us both. Now, my brother has been oversees for eight years or so: his furniture, etc, is also in my parents' home. With all my sister's family's stuff, this comes to three households of furniture in one home. It's a bit crowded.
Last time i saw my brother, i applied the clue stick liberally. Apparently, that was enough motivation for him to discover that one of those mobile storage cubes would be $200/month. And that was "too much." So he's not doing anything about the issue.
I calculate he's passed $19,000 in saved storage at $200/month. My strategy, that i shared with my sister, was that she should ask him for money to make the (planned) barn storage more appropriate for his stuff and to get the barn built faster.
If she moves out because of the conflict this stuff issue is causing, my folks will downsize, sell the place, and my brother will be forced to confront his stuff. AND he and i loose the benefit of my sister being with my parents.
Honestly, if he does nothing, the furniture should just go in the barn, weather maintained or not, because really, he's being completely irresponsible.
--==∞==--
Now that i have a new telecom provider, i find overseas calls ... oh, bother... that was to a cell phone.
Sigh. Well, if i had called my brother's landline (1) he wouldn't have been home since he was at the office at 10:15 pm on a Sunday night and (2) i would have paid less.
Anyhow, despite the ranting about his irresponsibility, i have decided i am going to take the time to be a small regular presence in his life. I can do that.
And today was my first call to him.