A Twist of Things to Come

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*