Reply to Kate and all: Re: Just checking in

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Yes, a little too hot. I *think* summer is over by now, though. Since it started in April this year, the end of it is long overdue I'd say... I am hoping that by next summer, I'll be able to be a little more mobile when it comes to computer use at least. I am looking at used laptops on the Swedish ebay. The reason being (well, apart from that I want one...) that I found a list in an old notebook (the old school paper-and-pen kind of notebook...), when I tidied up my study. It had the headline: "Things I want", and it was written by me during my early college years (a time when money isn't necessarily overflowing...and when life is just starting out in most areas). I remember writing it, and I remember writing it with the idea that if I kept a list of the things I wanted, and goals I wanted to achieve (big and small, shallow and more profound) I'd be able to keep up a positive approach even on days when things were extra hard, because I'd be able to look at that list and see all the things I already had (it's easy to forget about what you have once you get it, and focus only on what you haven't got/still want). And I know I used the list that way for a while, some things were ticked off on it (with different pens, so obviously on different times). But at some point that list must have been forgotten, and the notebook got lost among all the kind of paper junk you accumulate during the years. A fascinating thing with reading through that two-page list this many years later, however, was that I could see that every little thing on it, every thing I wanted when I was 20-something, I now have. With one exception: A laptop... It was a powerful eyeopener as far as seeing what I've actually got. I am now, apparently, at a place and time in life when I have all I ever wanted as a young student (apart from that laptop...). What's more: I thought about what I would add to that list today, if I was to continue it, and I realized that the answer was: Not much. And most of what I might add are things I could tick off immediately, because I already have it. I decided that I should grant my inner youngster, and middle aged self I suppose, that laptop... Even though it is not necessary: We have a stationary computer (actually, we have two, the older one is still functioning, but put away and not used anymore), there are computers at the university I can use, and what I may need to do on the go, I can do on my iPod or the iPhone. But still though...it's the one item that would complete that list. Rational and sensible? No, not really... And to make it less rational I have also decided that it should be an old Mac PowerBook, of exactly the kind (or at least very close to) I was dreaming about in those younger years. Hence ebay. I have since had to bow to reality and adjust to a newer PowerBook, because A) that way I could still use it to work on (it'd be compatible with the software I'd need to use), and, they are easier to come by. But I doubt I'll adjust more than that. I have looked at others, newer, shinier, and in many respects better deals, but I haven't been able to make myself make a bid on them because... well, because they just don't make my heart beat faster... It should be something at least resembling what I thought of when I put "laptop" on that list. Anyway... If things go my way, and I find a laptop that my heart and my wallet can agree on..., next year I won't have to flee the computer just because I am fleeing the heat. is still working in Gothenburg, on the west coast, 4 days a week, yes. But only until the end of December. And the 4-day-week does make it quite liveable. I walk her to the train every Monday morning (at 4.30 a.m....) and I usually (if at all doable) meet her at the railway station when she returns on Thursday evening, too (and then we usually have a late supper and/or drink at one of the nice restaurants nearby). I have visited her in Gothenburg once, and am planning to do so again. It's a bit weird to "visit" with someone you have been together with for close to 20 years...but in a way it could be romantic too. A bit like dating again. Perhaps dating one's wife is something one should do more often... ;-) But it's a good thing it's not supposed to go on forever, I like to be on my own sometimes, but not 4 days (evenings/nights) a week...The hotel where she stays is in a very beautiful part of Gothenburg, close to a marina. I have posted a photo, I think, but I'll post more soon.love/Reb> >> > .Just checking in and worried by Sharon's absence? I sure hope she's okay. I've not been on the computer the last few days because our silly weather decided to hit around 100F which is not usual. I'm having a horrible time with it. This room upstairs with the computer is unbearable.> > > > Also a kidney infection that keeps me up all night, every friggin' 15 minutes. I cut my fluids down at night but still up all the time. And getting very very angry with insurance because still no window or settlement for the floors. Yelling seems to work which is a sad statement because they 'accidently' put my ordered window that had come in who knows when in the wrong place. So they say they'll install it Monday. I sure hope so because creepy crawlies can get in through the plywood and I don't want them!> > > > Akiba, congrats on how your relationship with Yogi is going. But girl, why do you have to fall for someone half a world away???? Somehow I just can't picture you living in an ashram altho my idea of one is the old school kind. Oh and btw, nothing with the Augen, methinks it's toast.> > > > Anyway hope everyone is well and Tina, my gf and 's blood sugar rises quite a bit under stress or with pain. Anyway outta here for now ... hugs, Cait aka she who cannot sweat!> >>