Saturday, October 31, 2009

Halloween

At Nina's. After leaving home. Leaving. That is what I do. Especially
in the morning. I get up and I leave. Except lately I have been
getting, doing other stuff, and then leaving.

Just got done futzing with a Facebook app, Simplaris Blogcast, which
says that it will post my blog updates to Facebook. We'll see about
that.

At Nina's, was hailed by Megan, my neighbor. Don't see each other much
in real life anymore, just via Facebook updates.

Liam babysat last night for her son Cadin. Liam escorted him across
the street to a neighborhood Halloween party, and two hours later,
went back to pick him up. But there was a problem because they
couldn't open the door to Cadin's house. So they came over and got me.
The door was a challenge to open.

So, the mom, Megan, was sitting at a table at Nina's with another
woman, Ann. They were doing a hockey mom waiting thing. Ann's and
Megan's sons went to school with my son, Liam, till Liam left the
French Immersion school after fifth grade. It has been years since I
set up a playdate with Liam and Ann's son.

So next is go home, schlep Liam to his guitar lesson, and then later,
out to Eagan for a Halloween sleep over.

Pissed off Dorothea because I was asleep when it was time to pick up
Lou, our German foreign exchange student, from her school dance last
night.
So I will be doing the running around today.

--
David
www.schons.net

Halloween

At Nina's. After leaving home. Leaving. That is what I do. Especially
in the morning. I get up and I leave. Except lately I have been
getting, doing other stuff, and then leaving.

Just got done futzing with a Facebook app, Simplaris Blogcast, which
says that it will post my blog updates to Facebook. We'll see about
that.

At Nina's, was hailed by Megan, my neighbor. Don't see each other much
in real life anymore, just via Facebook updates.

Liam babysat last night for her son Cadin. Liam escorted him across
the street to a neighborhood Halloween party, and two hours later,
went back to pick him up. But there was a problem because they
couldn't open the door to Cadin's house. So they came over and got me.
The door was a challenge to open.

So, the mom, Megan, was sitting at a table at Nina's with another
woman, Ann. They were doing a hockey mom waiting thing. Ann's and
Megan's sons went to school with my son, Liam, till Liam left the
French Immersion school after fifth grade. It has been years since I
set up a playdate with Liam and Ann's son.

So next is go home, schlep Liam to his guitar lesson, and then later,
out to Eagan for a Halloween sleep over.

Pissed off Dorothea because I was asleep when it was time to pick up
Lou, our German foreign exchange student, from her school dance last
night.
So I will be doing the running around today.

--
David
www.schons.net

Friday, October 30, 2009

Out in the cold rain and . . . #fb

Dressed for biking this morning, but it is drizzling, so I am on the
bus. 84H, so I will get off at Highland Village. Originally thought I
would bike to the YWCA and Nina's.

It has been drizzling or lightly rainy here for days, which has gotta
be good for the planet, but does get just sort of downright miserable.

On the way home on the bus, this woman gets on, wearing one of those
clear-plastic kerchiefs on her head, and on in a loud voice--"why do
we have to have this kind of weather? I hate it. I hate it. Why can't
we have Miami weather?" kind of cute this first time or two, but just
too loud and lost its charm after a while. The driver seemed pretty
accustomed. "It's God," he said. "Say your prayers. People can't do
nothin about the weather."

--
David
www.schons.net

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Kitty's cat retires to Florida

Having a little discussion with Lou about not pronouncing her "R"s as
"W"s. She is sitting at the diningroom table, at her laptop withits
Deutsch keyboard, writing a story, in German for some online contest.

Dorothea and I walked in the rain to yoga at Ramsey Junior High.
Kitty, the instructor, told the story of how cat of fifteen years was
retiring to Florida. An aunt there will take the cat. The cat had to
go because Kitty's grandson, who lives with her, is allergic.

The cat's flight was scheduled to arrived Florida while we were in
class. Right in the middle of a sun salutation, Kitty asked if she
could use someone's phone. Fall asleep in Minnesota, wake up in
Florida, permanently. Doesn't sound so bad.

Frustrated with writing on the iPhone. I charged up the 'ol T-mobile
Wing, with its ample, mechanical keyboard. It is no longer a
functioning phone, but otherwise is working, and does have wireless.
And, to be honest, I like using the little pen-pointer thingy.

Also, it is a real computer. Several programs running at the same
time. Java and Adobe Flash. Mmmmm.

--
David
www.schons.net

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Still looking for a good way to get text into the iPhone as quickly as typing.

Still looking for a good way to get text into the iPhone as quickly as
typing. While this handwriting software is amazing, it is still
slower and somewhat error-prone.

31 degrees F this morning. Walking the dog was also an exercise in
empty beer bottle and can pick up. College students.

We are still without heat at our house. Well, we have heat, but it is
coming out of plugged-in electrical space heaters. On Friday, I
thought we finally had the heat problem licked when the furnace guy
showed up, with the part, and actually installed the part, on the
furnace. But alas, the next problem appeared, a leak in a pipe. I
have calls out to two plumbers. A little hardship is not necessarily a
bad thing, but even a little hardship opens the door to thoughts of
total collapse. A spiritual, psychological, physical exercise.

Today is the Twins game Liam and I put so much effort into for
getting tickets. Go Twins. Please.

-- This message was composed with PhatWare WritePad.


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