Author: Peg

After 20 years of staying in the same room in the same hotel in Hawai’i it is looking like we might have to move. To another room. Not another hotel. Seems that business has been so bad that “our” part of the hotel is closed. Come Tuesday, Carlton will call them again and see what we can arrange. He called them on Friday – but when he was advised that he could not have “his” room – he just told them that he’d get back to them. I called the night clerk this morning and she confirmed that our part of the hotel is closed.

There are other rooms. But, we will lose the killer view. On the other hand, we might get a room with a “kitchenette”. And, I’ll not have to cook in the bathroom for four months. Change is Good.

In the spring of 2000, I took this picture at JFK’s grave site. The oak tree was a nice mature tree when the Cemetery was Bobby Lee’s plantation/home. But, the supreme bitch – Mother Nature – took the tree out during last weekend’s hurricane.

Nobody – and no tree – is promised tomorrow.

The apartment is all back to normal.

Spent one whole day babysitting the apartment. For some reason Carlton wanted someone here … So, I spent the day organizing my audiobook collection on the new 1TB external drive. Seriously nerdy way to spend a day.

I am trying clean up my digital life.

Mom Nature, the bitch that she is, decided to get even with me for dissing her latest offspring – Hurricane Irene. The maintenance guys showed up this morning and tossed the living room and Carlton’s room. Things are supposed to be drying out. They haven’t a clue how or where the water comes in. All they can do is dry the carpet and replace the padding. Since this is a rental. Works for me. But at this instant – the unit is a wreck.

This picture is from Memorial Day 2009. I took it back into the digital darkroom for more work. Might have over done the clouds. But, there is a cloud over the Capital City these days.

Happy to report that we had a little water that wicked its way into the apartment and dampening the rented carpet. I am so glad this is a rented space. Carlton would be going crazy if he owned the place. Nothing harmed. If this happened a lot I guess it would rot the carpet. But, it isn’t a very good carpet.

It is about 7:15 PM. Just pressed the camera up to the window and got this nice image. Notice that there is nothing to notice. Hope it continues to be a non-event.

But, we are currently filling up one tub. So we can flush. Better safe than smelly.

I spent a lovely rainy day playing with my lovely new 1TB drive.

Having fun poking around the old photos. I can not believe that that mask, snorkel and wetsuit are that old. Time for new water wear???

First an earthquake and now a hurricane. What’s next? Grasshopper plague? Meteor strike? But, I am well into my hurricane prep.

1. Booze and Coffee Supplies – OK.
2. Charge Batteries – Tomorrow AM.
3. Fill Bathtubs – Only if this event really happens.

Wet this afternoon. In fact I got drenched coming home from grocery shopping. The groceries were safe. I was all wet. But, one thing I learned last summer in Japan was that if it is warm you just keep doing whatever you were doing and just get wet.

So, I am taking advantage of the wet afternoon to clean off the little computer. After boot-n-nuke finishes, I’ll load up Ubuntu and Samba and decide if I want to keep this machine around. It is tiny. Too tiny for my old lady eyes. Maybe I’ll find it a new home.

Funny Carlton story. He admires a poem that is on a tombstone. He was sure it was unique. And he wants it read at his memorial service. I told him “Just write down the first sentence and I’ll find it online”… Well, you would believe that Carlton didn’t believe me. He copied the whole thing. And asked me to type it up for him. I entered the first 5 words. Found it online. Had it printed out in less than 5 minutes. I found the poem on a “Dead Dog Memorial” Web site.

If you come to Carlton’s memorial service, or if your dog dies – then you too can share the “unique” poem.

(No, we don’t have the memorial service scheduled. Carlton is just very interested in his memorial service.)

I still hate my snail internet. Maybe, after wintering in Hawai’i – I’ll upgrade to “something” better.

Sad to note that Steve Jobs is stepping down. Nobody is promised tomorrow. But, I hope he has a few more quality tomorrows.

Busy day. I finished a third photo book and while I was on the way downstairs to look at it using one of the buildings fine fast iMac’s – we had a 5.8 earthquake. I checked and saw that the Washington Monument was still standing. And, that the pool was not cracked and headed down to use the computers on the ground floor. Everyone and their dog had left their apartment and were hanging out in the lobby. Which made no sense to me. If I were afraid – wouldn’t I go outside and stand in the park across the street??? Why would I stay in the lobby where 19 floors of building and one swimming pool of water could land on me????

The Shutterfly computer knows that I have a big ass book waiting for printing. So, they sent me a 50% off coupon. That was all the push I needed to finalize my 100 page Japanese book. And, I finished up my “Favorite Fotos of 2007” book. Who knows I might even whip out Favorite Fotos of 2008.

I plan to sit in my rocker and look at these books when I am in Assisted Living! Also, Carlton will look at them, now.

Investing. I am assuming that August 2011 is October 2008 redux. In October 2008, I kept trying to catch a falling knife, thus exacerbrating my losses. This time, sell rallies. And maybe harvest some tax losses.

Why is the new Martin Luther King monument white??

You might have noticed that HP is getting out of the computer business. My one and only HP computer – the HP Vista Whore – melted its own motherboard. And, this weekend continues to haunt me. When it was dying – I backed everything up on DVDs. I decided to see if I really need to save those DVDs – from March 2009. Well, the DVDs mount OK. And list the directory. But, I have not been able to copy a single one. Each DVD contains at least one file that forces me to cancel the copy and reboot the computer.

HP should have gotten out of the computer business 5 years ago – then I would have missed the HP Vista Whore.