Click images for desktop size: "Figure B" by DesignKingdom.comSo, yesterday I'm coming out of the clinic and I find my housemate waiting for me. Normally I'd be stoked as it means a ride and not the bus, but today I needed more time to absorb and cope with the 2 hour meeting.
It's not good, but it's not the worst news possible.
I've been through this stage before. I wonder if it's that I'm so dumb I have to do everything in my life twice. Like my wife dies and then my fiance dies.
I know what's ahead of me. It doesn't make me happy but knowing what's going to happen worst case is something. I just didn't get to that conclusion right away.
I was sort of rattled and looking more for just a chance to escape everything.
It didn't help that I spotted a huge black vulture on the roadside devouring some road kill. This vulture was different than the vultures in the southwest. The SW vultures look pretty much like they do in those Loony Tunes cartoons. This creature had the features but its neck and head were jet black, which made it look not just carnivorous but fiendish.
My housemate is still totally stoked about the job. She got the details of the contract and it even has a mid 5 figure SIGNING bonus! Rah! I immediately asked to borrow 20 bucks! She can afford it.
She was so jazzed she wanted to take me and our other housemate away to a luxury resort for a week. She was trying to find kennels for the dog and for the cats.
With everything else going on that panicked me. I don't want the animals in a strange place. I want them happy. Even if the cats are plotting my death I figure it's better to have them where I can see what they bring into the house (knives, guns, poisons etc) Out at a kennel they could smuggle almost anything in.
I didn't want to go. Like I don't want to go to a hospice and I don't want the animals locked up in a "Pet Spa". It all relaxed quickly. We get along okay.
I spent last night just getting my thoughts in order and figuring out what is going on and what's going to happen. I start a job on the 13th. I've got a week to mess around.
I finished installing Tiger on my computer. I have to say it's not worth the price. (I got it free, a gift.) The only new things are 3 cool apps. The spotlight search function works nearly as well as the search in BeOS. Dashboard and Automator are like nifty shareware apps. The other changes are not so much or that cool.
It's a nice upgrade but it's not a new OS.
I got a slew of Pooch Cafe strips from a friend. I laughed out loud at least 5 times. Poncho is a cool dog. He wears a wristwatch and frets over a world that contains squirrels and cats.
Then today my housemate and I went to work on his house. It was fun just tearing out interior walls. I like bashing things so this was totally cool therapy.
My server here has finally gotten the problem sorted out with Perl modules so my Movable Type installation is working.
I like WordPress and now I have to decide to keep this one or go back to the old Movable Type one.
Pluses and minuses both ways.
Good Ol' Dog and I found a box turtle! He was very big and yellow and green. When I picked him up he went into his shell so I put him by some shade. I figure the Chinese probably have a saying about a man who finds a box turtle but I'd rather not know it.