The remnants of a hurricane are expending themselves over STL for the next few days. Scruffy isn't fond of the rain.
I'm not fond of our soggy, irrational, and angry political and economic climate. Apart from personal frugality, and voting, there seems to be little I can do.
The estate saga is over. A headstone miraculously appeared on my Mom's grave a week after I photographed a piece of broken ground, and no headstone. I forwarded it to my attorney, and my sister (the executor, who had already closed the estate) There is now some grass and sod on the grave, now.
Somebody expected that I would never visit my Mom's grave.
I also broke my own personal discipline of not buying the latest tech toys. I bought an HTC 4G Evo from Sprint. It was a *wonderful* toy. But, like many another all-in-one device, it wasn't worth the hype- and the price per month. $100 a month for what is still a cell phone is too much. I have since changed carriers, and have a Milspec-tough cell phone. Not nearly as cool, but reliable, and about 1/3 the cost per month. I also managed to cut my landline cost, and get cheaper internet service in the bargain. The 32 GB ITouch serves well as music player, and toy. No monthly fees. A Kindle, or equivalent might be in the next calendar year.
Adopting Scruffy has been a milestone. I'm now moving on. No more estate worries. I'm free of my dysfunctional family. I still grieve for Mom, but the leaden weight is lessened. It seems appropriate that it is the start of a new school year. Fall has always been a start, not an ending, for me.
The time spent reflecting on the past has been somewhat useful, but all too painful. As I was asked, what do I want to do with the second part of my life? Not be miserable is an obvious answer.
I'm organizing my life better. The time spent caring for Mom, and the madness of the estate, is now being spent on friends, getting rid of clutter and excess, and a new doggie. As usual, it takes me much more time to adapt and change than the "normal" person.
The re-doing of the front bedroom into a home theater has been very successful. Slowly, the living room is being redone into a space that I can entertain in. I still need more exercise, and I need to get out more. Walking Scruffy helps.
I've gone back to the old forum occasionally, and found that it's simply not very rewarding. I can post information here that would draw howls of pettiness over on the forum. If I find something interesting, I can post it here, saving the hassle. Why should I function as an unpaid netzine editor for somebody else, when I can be properly ignored here? :)
As I said, re-visiting the past isn't worth it. I only have so much time. Expect the blog to be more active, and on more current events. If I had only started a diary, or an IRA when I was younger...
Wally.
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Tell me about your cellphone - the one you have now - and the iTouch. I had so much trouble with my smartphone - a common Blackberry - and the interaction between Verizon and hotmail (talk about interfering with each other) that I asked for a plain vanilla phone.
Scruffy is darling; I'm glad you're free from last year's burdens; and I gave my opinion on links over on 4T. That is: link plus *brief* statement of what it's about. (Having been burned by Tim Walker's naked links once too often. Blah. For this I sat through "loading....loading...."?)
Anyway, may everything go well in your new life.
Mine was a Sprint EVO 4G. Lovely device, but with many limitations on memory and battery usage. Now, I have a Samsung "tank" 3G phone, built for sturdiness (MILSPEC). The screen is far smaller, but as it will be used only as a phone, this is OK.
It can survive a drop in the toilet.
I have a 32 GB ITouch with Wi-Fi (free). The ITouch is an IPhone without GPS and a phone. It, too, has a smaller screen than the lovely EVO, but it does not cost $100 a month to run, and it performs most of the EVO's functions save GPS (grrrrrrr).
Given the wide availability of Wi-Fi, and the Apple's superiority as a synching music player, I've lost little functionality. I have 2 portable GPS's for the car and outdoors work. The downer is that I must carry three boxes. The upper is that I don't lose all functions when one of them dies.
Ruff! from Scruffy.
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