Wow, spring storms are in full effect as of today. We actually had a tornado warning, and took shelter downstairs for a while at work. 20min later we came back to our offices.

But the air is different. It’s cool and charged, and the wet earth smells from hail and rain pelting against the building. I’m on edge, energized, and stir crazy.

I’m getting to take a course next week at the DOIT center downtown on Dynamic Web Sites using PHP and MySQL. I’ve used these things for years now, but I look forward to some more foundation and understanding in them.

Writing and Art nights went very well this week. Projects are moving forward.

So is spring.

Wow, spring storms are in full effect as of today. We actually had a tornado warning, and took shelter downstairs for a while at work. 20min later we came back to our offices.

But the air is different. It’s cool and charged, and the wet earth smells from hail and rain pelting against the building. I’m on edge, energized, and stir crazy.

I’m getting to take a course next week at the DOIT center downtown on Dynamic Web Sites using PHP and MySQL. I’ve used these things for years now, but I look forward to some more foundation and understanding in them.

Writing and Art nights went very well this week. Projects are moving forward.

So is spring.

My parents, just back from a trip to Ohio(8 hour drive each way), spent enough time in town with us so we could celebrate my father and grandfather’s birthday, before returning to Ohio (8 hour drive each way) to pick up my Nanny( my dad’s mom).

My Nanny has dementia, and has been living alone in the house she raised her four boys in. When my parents went over to her house last weekend, they found carpenter ants in her house, that her clothes washer was broken and full of smelly water, and no real sign that she has eaten in the previous 3 days.

The family(s) down there is supposed to be checking in on her, but since we saw her last(my uncle’s funeral), she has lost twenty some pounds. She really needs to be taken care of.

Family politics down there are apparently very stressful. Lord knows our family up here doesn’t need more stress, but we can’t leave her there, not eating and alone all day.

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In other news, my husband is looking for a new job.

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In other other news, I now have an iPod Shuffle 1gig. (So the hubby can use my laptop for looking for a new job, and I can have tunes.)
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In other other other news, my lj account is expiring this week.
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In other news, I finished some great artwork last week, but the recipient doesn’t know, so I can’t show it off yet. I am pleased with the way it came out though.

My parents, just back from a trip to Ohio(8 hour drive each way), spent enough time in town with us so we could celebrate my father and grandfather’s birthday, before returning to Ohio (8 hour drive each way) to pick up my Nanny( my dad’s mom).

My Nanny has dementia, and has been living alone in the house she raised her four boys in. When my parents went over to her house last weekend, they found carpenter ants in her house, that her clothes washer was broken and full of smelly water, and no real sign that she has eaten in the previous 3 days.

The family(s) down there is supposed to be checking in on her, but since we saw her last(my uncle’s funeral), she has lost twenty some pounds. She really needs to be taken care of.

Family politics down there are apparently very stressful. Lord knows our family up here doesn’t need more stress, but we can’t leave her there, not eating and alone all day.

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In other news, my husband is looking for a new job.

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In other other news, I now have an iPod Shuffle 1gig. (So the hubby can use my laptop for looking for a new job, and I can have tunes.)
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In other other other news, my lj account is expiring this week.
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In other news, I finished some great artwork last week, but the recipient doesn’t know, so I can’t show it off yet. I am pleased with the way it came out though.

Isn’t it funny? I haven’t played my Viola since college, and yet I think about it almost daily. Strangely enough, all that Wisconsin Youth Symphony stuff has embedded itself into my psyche. I feel like I was trained by the muse of music, and have broken off to follow the muse of visual arts, with a bit of writing, on weekends. How do the muses arrange for custody, anyway?

Andre Norton died yesterday
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/03/17/obit.norton.ap/index.html

I’ve read many of her books, and was reading one of them just yesterday as well. I can remember binging on her books at the old library which is now a family video store. She’s always been a creative inspiration to me.

Her last complete novel, “Three Hands of Scorpio,” is set to be released in April. Norton’s publisher, Tor Books, rushed to have one copy printed so that the author, who had been sick for almost a year, could see it.

“She was able to hold it on Friday,” Jewell said. “She took it and said, ‘What a pretty cobalt blue for the cover.’ “

Norton requested before her death that she not have a funeral service, but instead asked to be cremated along with a copy of her first and last novels.

She was 93.

Andre Norton died yesterday

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/03/17/obit.norton.ap/index.html

I’ve read many of her books, and was reading one of them just yesterday as well. I can remember binging on her books at the old library which is now a family video store. She’s always been a creative inspiration to me.

Her last complete novel, “Three Hands of Scorpio,” is set to be released in April. Norton’s publisher, Tor Books, rushed to have one copy printed so that the author, who had been sick for almost a year, could see it.

“She was able to hold it on Friday,” Jewell said. “She took it and said, ‘What a pretty cobalt blue for the cover.’ “

Norton requested before her death that she not have a funeral service, but instead asked to be cremated along with a copy of her first and last novels.

She was 93.

Advise from the moo on scrollback:
libella [to you]: you’re beautiful
pong [to you]: find a job that lets you be creative

I had left myself idle all night, and it seems like some very interseting things were in the /more.

feels a little like
penguin [to you]: Slide.

Advise from the moo on scrollback:
libella [to you]: you’re beautiful
pong [to you]: find a job that lets you be creative

I had left myself idle all night, and it seems like some very interseting things were in the /more.

feels a little like
penguin [to you]: Slide.

I don’t usually get to indulge in art from Friday to Sunday, it felt really great.
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