Yesterday was a shitty day. A truly, really miserable day. A black day.
If I had been looking out the window, I would surely have seen four yellow cars in a row.
Sometimes, life just kind of reaches up to you and yanks you down to earth. Hard. Just to give you perspective, perhaps. Or maybe I have just had it too good for too long. Maybe it was time for me to hurt like hell. To have something pour over me and kick my heart. When you almost never cry, you will be surprised at how salty your tears taste.
Today is looking better.
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Monday, June 20, 2005
Saturday, June 18, 2005
Away from the Cape
We drove all the way back home today. After a week by the beach. And two months before that in the city. My wife finally got to sleep in a few days in a row. The never-ending sleep deprivation that comes with her work is wearing her down, slowly but surely. On the way back, I saw five red cars in a row. Which I guess makes this a super good day. We stopped in the big city on the way back and had some Vietnamese food. Which was great.
On the way to the coast, we stopped at an airport and picked up one of my daughter's grandmothers. She will be staying with us for almost a month. She is my wife's mother. I used to lock horns with her. We had this weird power-struggle going for years. Then one day, it just ebbed away. It has also helped that I admire her for being always so patient and good to my little girl. That is definetely a sure way to my heart. She intends to spend her days here with my daughter, so I told her daycare not to expect her back until after her birthday, which is coming up on July 1st.
While they spend their days frolicking in the summer, which is finally firmly here, I and my wife will be going back to our respective jobs. She into the people-filled hospital—I into the solitude of my little office. I have to admit, I do dread it. A bit. But somehow it makes me fell better to know that my little girl will be having fun. Funny how that works.
My mind has already started wandering to my next working trip. Which will probably be in September.
This life seems to be in a loop. I wonder if it is a for loop or a while loop.
On the way to the coast, we stopped at an airport and picked up one of my daughter's grandmothers. She will be staying with us for almost a month. She is my wife's mother. I used to lock horns with her. We had this weird power-struggle going for years. Then one day, it just ebbed away. It has also helped that I admire her for being always so patient and good to my little girl. That is definetely a sure way to my heart. She intends to spend her days here with my daughter, so I told her daycare not to expect her back until after her birthday, which is coming up on July 1st.
While they spend their days frolicking in the summer, which is finally firmly here, I and my wife will be going back to our respective jobs. She into the people-filled hospital—I into the solitude of my little office. I have to admit, I do dread it. A bit. But somehow it makes me fell better to know that my little girl will be having fun. Funny how that works.
My mind has already started wandering to my next working trip. Which will probably be in September.
This life seems to be in a loop. I wonder if it is a for loop or a while loop.
Friday, June 10, 2005
Tuesday, June 7, 2005
I guess I am not as much of a Mac zealot as I used to be. The news of them giving up on PowerPC and moving to Intel has not managed to evoke any strong feelings in me. I am neither glad and excited, nor outraged and feeling betrayed. The only thing that came to mind when hearing the news was that my wait for a PowerBook G5 was finally over. Since it is now clear that such a machine will probably never be made. Instead, I can now just buy a bigger internal hard drive for my trusty PowerBook G4, probably something like this one http://seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/marketing/detail/0,1081,681,00.html , and then buy a copy of Tiger to put on there. 10.4.2. is coming out in a couple of weeks, so I guess most of the kinks have been worked out of it. Strange. What to do when you no longer obsess over a computer platform?
Monday, June 6, 2005
This is a 5 day. For some reason, this day belongs to the number five. Consequently, I went to Netflix to find some five movies. And five movies I did find. Actually, six of them, after scrolling past endless rubbish such as Best of Backyard Wrestling 5: Crazier Than the Rest (2003) and Children of the Corn 5: Fields of Terror (1998): Five Little Pigs (2003), with David Suchet playing Poirot; Cleo de 5 a 7 (1961); Five Corners (1987), with Jodie Foster, Tim Robbins, and John Turturro; Five Easy Pieces (1970), featuring Jack Nicholson and the chicken sandwich speech; The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2004), TV adoptation of Alborn's book, with Jon Voight; and finally Slaughterhouse Five (1972), Vonnegut on the screen... Food for thought: If the Allies had lost WW II, the people who ordered the bombing of Dresden would have been condemned as war criminals.
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