Chronologically scattered updates
Aug. 31st, 2009 12:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greatbearI had a colonoscopy a little over a week ago. It did not go well, nor was the news good. At least it was expected. More on this later*.
Jeff and I did some camping the past few days. I mostly kept to myself. I just don't like being around people I don't know.
On Monday, Jeff and I took his mom to the beach. In all her years, she has never seen the ocean. It was even bigger and more impressive than she imagined. While Jeff and Mom walked on the beach with their shoes on, I shed my BigAnnoyingStompyAircastFromHell and walked barefooted. The Atlantic, seeing Jeff's mom for the first time as well, could not contain her glee and made a perfectly targeted high-tide greeting right where we were standing, swamping all our feet on what was dry sand not a moment before. Those two had to endure the rest of the day in waterlogged, sand-soaked shoes. I had my BigAnnoyingStompyAircastFromHell. I don't really know who was better off.
What was to be Jeff's first actual week off from work since all the canceled vacations and ruined weekends was, almost predictably, ruined by some very high drama phone calls barely two hours into his time off. This practically wrecked our time off once again. Jeff had an ace up his sleeve this time. More on this later*.
I've continued in my efforts to eliminate various profiles on the few remaining social websites I no longer use. Some, like Classmates.com, leave me unable to do anything worthwhile on the site because I am not a paying member, yet use profiles such as mine as a means to attract paying members. Not to mention the increasing amounts of bacn and shady business practices took me from just ignoring my profile to finally eliminating it. Facebook is going next, since I had enough bad experiences there as well. The spew of apps and unending memes killed it for me. And from the Department of Just Plain Stupid, Bearciti.
*My LJ is currently on life support. I've lost interest here for the most part and will probably not be posting much, depending on how things stack up here in coming months. I've gone out and deleted comments I had left where I had come to the conclusion they were no longer welcomed, and will no longer make comments in those areas. I'm going to leave this as is, keeping it as a final outpost for contact aside from email and a couple IM services. I've reverted back to my mostly private existence, which served me well for all those years. No one really needs to know intimate details of my life, and I certainly don't need such minutiae mined by corporate interests.
Jeff and I did some camping the past few days. I mostly kept to myself. I just don't like being around people I don't know.
On Monday, Jeff and I took his mom to the beach. In all her years, she has never seen the ocean. It was even bigger and more impressive than she imagined. While Jeff and Mom walked on the beach with their shoes on, I shed my BigAnnoyingStompyAircastFromHell and walked barefooted. The Atlantic, seeing Jeff's mom for the first time as well, could not contain her glee and made a perfectly targeted high-tide greeting right where we were standing, swamping all our feet on what was dry sand not a moment before. Those two had to endure the rest of the day in waterlogged, sand-soaked shoes. I had my BigAnnoyingStompyAircastFromHell. I don't really know who was better off.
What was to be Jeff's first actual week off from work since all the canceled vacations and ruined weekends was, almost predictably, ruined by some very high drama phone calls barely two hours into his time off. This practically wrecked our time off once again. Jeff had an ace up his sleeve this time. More on this later*.
I've continued in my efforts to eliminate various profiles on the few remaining social websites I no longer use. Some, like Classmates.com, leave me unable to do anything worthwhile on the site because I am not a paying member, yet use profiles such as mine as a means to attract paying members. Not to mention the increasing amounts of bacn and shady business practices took me from just ignoring my profile to finally eliminating it. Facebook is going next, since I had enough bad experiences there as well. The spew of apps and unending memes killed it for me. And from the Department of Just Plain Stupid, Bearciti.
*My LJ is currently on life support. I've lost interest here for the most part and will probably not be posting much, depending on how things stack up here in coming months. I've gone out and deleted comments I had left where I had come to the conclusion they were no longer welcomed, and will no longer make comments in those areas. I'm going to leave this as is, keeping it as a final outpost for contact aside from email and a couple IM services. I've reverted back to my mostly private existence, which served me well for all those years. No one really needs to know intimate details of my life, and I certainly don't need such minutiae mined by corporate interests.
