A Twist of Things to Come

Some time ago, we bought one of these group deals for a French Quarter Ghost Tour. Last night we took the tour, and we all had a good time. The stories about various hauntings were interesting. My favorite was the Andrew Jackson Hotel, which had once been a boarding school for boys. There had been a fire there, and five of the boys died. The stories about that haunting are prankish and playful.

The worst was the LaLaurie horror. It's a house that no one has been able to hold onto for long since the original owners. Most recently, Nicholas Cage lost it to foreclosure. But the stuff that happened there is truly horrific. Look it up if you want.

Also, certain parts of the French Quarter stink quite a lot. I live in Uptown. Uptown and the Garden District mostly smell really nice, because of all the flowers.

When we got to the first stop on the tour, my boys said, "I smell dead people."

They are such wits. :) I'm a lucky mama. No, seriously. My boys are better than cable, for sheer entertainment purposes.

The hubby says I've been quiet today, and I suppose it's true. (His actual word was "subdued.") I think it was mostly because I realized that nearly all our pictures of my mom are in storage. We didn't think we'd be here this long.

I don't know. I miss my mother. We were always close, and I really don't expect to ever stop missing her.

Our terabyte array on the family computer had a drive fail this week, and a second drive said it failed but we revived it long enough to copy most of our data over. We swapped out the array for a simple huge hard drive, which means no onsite data recovery. So we signed up for internet-based back up, and move all our digital photos and stuff to Picasa.

Then I went through today and organized them all by person, using their face recognition software, which was actually pretty good, considering.

It was a big job, so that is my Thing today.

There are other things I've been putting off that I need to get to soon, like finishing up my transcript of an author interview I did ... a month ago now. *wince*

Also, I broke a nail so now I have a good excuse to cut all of my fingernails short again. :) I like doing that every so often, for the novelty of it.

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My laptop was trying to crack at teh hinge, but the hubby fixed it because he's magic like that. :) We had to go Lowe's for some stuff to fix it, and walking around made me think of when we had a house to do all kinds of home improvement projects on. I can't say I miss that aspect of it, but we did not intend to be renters this long. It's much easier to rent, though.

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My friend Mer gave me two tomato caterpillars for the boys to look after. She thought they would think it was cool. So far, I'm the only one who will touch/feed them, and one of them doesn't seem to be eating. :P It is alive, but smaller and generally not looking as healthy. *sigh*