Button, Button, Who's Got the Button?

My B.F. took me to see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button yesterday. A very well made movie with lots of compelling ideas about life and death that questions all our ideas about aging and puts everything into a new perspective. Won' t say more so as not to spoil it for anyone.

Deep Funk

Still feeling emotionally off. Watched a movie last night until I was too tire to do anything but sleep. Woke up in a really deep funk. The sink full of dishes didn't help. Avoided most of them for now--planning to eat lunch out, or bring carry out in . . . Have been in this funk for a week and a half now. Can't figure out what is wrong, much less what will help. Ugh. Continuing to plod along without much success.

Spent the morning working on a personal project that has been in the back of my mind for a while and finally started congealing last week. Finally had breakfast around 11a, and then went out to the Farmer's Market. Am now at a coffee shop with free WiFi, planning to head to Whole Foods for more shopping and lunch soon.

On-Line Time Line

So I'm experimenting with some on-line calendar software, as a way to keep track of my schedule, and also let others know when I am free. I like it so far. It's not as nice as some I've seen, but its free and it works. What more can I ask for?

Life is o.k. Last night I got home to find a message from a friend on my phone--a nice surprise as I haven't heard from her since last month. I'm in the process of changing how I do long distance calling, which means changing my cell phone plan, and will hopefully result in less cash outflow to the phone giants. :)

Looking forward to a weekend of math, kids, farm fresh produce, and law.

Midwives and Real Estate

On Dar Williams' newest album The Promised Land, she has a song that she says in the liner notes was inspired by an article on how the need for land may have fueled witch hunts. The lyrics of the song are subtly descriptive of a midwife supporting a mother though labor and birth. I was really pleased at the way she used her music to honor these often misunderstood women. Here's an article that mentions the connection--scroll to the very bottom.

The whole album is nice. It's different from her older albums--less ballads, more covers and co-written songs--but I'm growing to really like it. Of course, I like her voice and she still has a wonderful way of painting pictures with words . . .

Worm Hole Window

Got that problem fixed with the mistaken uninstall--found out what I did wrong, too. Used a tool called system restore--unfortunately, I couldn't go back in time far enough to fix the original problem of my computer no longer playing DVD's or Audio CD's properly . . . Oh well.

Have enjoyed a very nice day with my BF, and have returned to some capacity to play DVD's. The speed is weirdly variable, but they play, and my computer can now stand by again, too. It was really annoying when it couldn't stand by . . .

Found out about those knights, too. Sans fog they look like statues or ply-wood stand-ups. Still pretty cool . . . Maybe I'll get a closer look one day . . .

Ren Fog?

So driving home in the fog yesterday, I thought I saw to knights on horseback with full armor and lances. Did they get transported from some medieval tournament? Was there a Ren Fair going on nearby? Did my eyes deceive me? Whatever happened, it was pretty cool!

Mistaken uninstall

Have been trying for over a year to fix a video problem on my computer. Decided to uninstall and reinstall a bunch of stuff, but one thing that I thought was not important apparently was, and now things are worse than ever! Am considering switching to a new OS in hopes of fixing the issue, but planning to try reinstalling current OS first . . .

Ugh!