It’s good to be back after 4 months offline. My HP Pavilion gave up the ghost after 7 years of hard labor on February 1st of this year. Then 2 trojans laid Stephen’s Dell computer low. The HD was destroyed, and had to go into the shop. Two warnings: don’t download Whitesmoke and Spyware Doctor, and don’t buy a Dell computer. Whitesmoke bills itself as a translation program, but all it’ll do is translate your computer into a pile of slag. Spyware Doctor also describes itself as a helpful program that claims to get rid of spyware. It’ll destroy your hard drive. Whitesmoke is connected to IMVU, and Spyware Doctor is connected to Dell. We have a saying about Dell: “You can tell it’s a Dell; it smells.”
I should have had a Windows 7 computer by now, but Errol, our late unlamented house mate, had stolen my laptop to pay for his booze. We can’t find it anywhere, so we figure that’s what happened. Never trust a Christian. I also couldn’t afford or find the extra memory to enable the Seshat 4 to run Windows 7. I hope he’s in jail now. He deserves it. Every so often Stephen will get a call from some very irate person looking for Errol. I hope those people find him, and beat him to within an inch of his life.
Now to more positive things. We think we may have a viable house mate after nearly 2 years of searching and running our ads. She’s personable, eager to learn about Paganism, and loves the putties. The putties love her too. But I’m still going to run my ad just in case. According to the manager, she was supposed to meet her here yesterday afternoon, and never turned up. I think I’d better run the ad just in case she flakes out on us. What is wrong with these people that they make an appointment to see the house and then they never arrive? Don’t they realize that the people who live there change around their whole schedules to see this person? Why make the commitment in the first place if you aren’t going to come? And they don’t call to say they’d made alternative plans or that they got unavoidably detained.
Why won’t the Goddess let us have a house mate so we can have a bit more money for food? I’m so tired of merely subsisting. I have no more lessons to learn from poverty, and I have lost whatever small compassion I may have had for those worse off than I; as far as I’m concerned it’s them or me. If you detect some anger there, you’d better believe there is. I try to use the Secret, but it’s hard, so hard. I have to tell myself “I have the money. It’ll be here any day now.” My stratagem for waiting is to get busy with something so I don’t mind the wait. It’s worked for me so far. That’s why I always have a book with me, and have hobbies like crochet and embroidery. People have told me, “You must have a lot of patience. I would do crochet and embroidery, but I don’t have the patience to do them.” I tell them that I do them because I don’t have patience. I like to see my work taking shape under my hands. This way I’m doing something constructive and creative while relaxing with a good movie. Besides, embroidery and crochet are fun!
Last Saturday we went to an art exhibit at our friends’ gallery, Gallery14 at 14th and 60th in Sacramento. If you’re local, look them up and check them out. They have a website Gallery14.com/. The art they have this month is the art of Forrest Robinson. It is unusual to say the least. It’s the stuff of which nightmares are made. I wouldn’t want to look very deeply into his subconscious. His art features ghouls, skeletons, serial killers such as Gacy the gay killer clown, and other nightmarish phenomena. I was very surprised that one of the gallery patrons had brought their 4 year old son. At age 4, they’re especially susceptible to nightmares. I just hope that child didn’t have nightmares after he and his parents got home. I doubt that his parents have the wit to use my remedy for nightmares. It has to do with either a live pet animal or a toy stuffed animal and lucid dreaming. I taught it to my daughter when she was 4. If I get enough requests, I’ll describe the remedy more fully in a future posting.
This is the second posting I’ve done on Google Docs. I’m starting to get the hang of copying and pasting to its ultimate destination. When the doc is done, I just highlight the entire thing, press ctrl-C, then go to my place and press ctrl-V, and the entire stinkin’ thing is posted. I just examine it to make sure there’s no typos then click on Publish! and I’m set. Once I realized it was exactly like on Stephen’s computer, it was easy. I can easily go from Google Chrome, where the document is stored, to PaganSpace.net, to My Page, where I’ll put it on blogs.
We’re doing a lot of groups on dark fantasy and horror. We finished the post for our newest vampire group Twilight for Pagans, our 4th vampire group. Next will come Dark Shadows for Pagans, then Forever Knight for Pagans, Moonlight for Pagans, Blood Ties for Pagans, Hammer Films for Pagans, Lycanthropes for Pagans, Monsters of the Silver and Small Screen for Pagans, then on a lighter note, Nose-Tick Philosophy for Pagans. This group will explore Stephen’s obsession with noses. It will be a sister group to the Order of Humor Magick. I wonder if I can talk Stephen into a group called “Clive Barker for Pagans.” Clive Barker’s films and books are a particular guilty pleasure of mine.
Stephen’s P.O.S. computer will be in the shop for just a few more days, then he’ll be back, and back to his old tricks again. I just hope it won’t be cybernetically risky behavior. Also, if you know anyone in the Sacramento area, who needs a fairly cheap place to live, we’re still anxiously trying to get a house mate. The rent is $400 per month, plus utilities, which will average out to around $80 per month. We can share meals if you are an omnivore. I tend to cook for a gang anyway. Let me know if you find anyone suitable. I don’t want to share my phone number online, but if you send me a personal message, I can reply to it, and include my phone number and hours you can call me. I will, however, include the 800 number, since that is a public number. 1-888-611-7982. Also there are our websites http://abbottsinn.com/ ,
http://abbottsinninternational.com/ and our ning network http://abbottsinn.ning.com/ .
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