I’ve made a big decision. In the first week of December, I’ll be moving WickedMobility.com over to WickedWordCraft.com. I’ll be combining my two separate URLs into a single site. This is step one in a revamping plan for the rest of my work, business and life.
I need a bit of streamlining in my life and, after much deliberation, I’m going to take this leap. I think I can easily offer the same content on a single site simply by organizing by topic.
Ok, I’m a Scrooge. I’m NOT in the holiday mood. I’m decidedly all out of holiday cheer. When holiday good tidings were being passed out, I must have been working. Or sleeping. Or maybe I was just absent that day. I look at the whole holiday sham and I just have to shake my head. It bothers me. People going in debt to buy things for people that don’t need or appreciate the items, so they stress out for months after the holidays while trying to either pay off the bills or deal with the fact that they are saddled with goods they must now determine how todisplay so no feelings are hurt. Geeze!
Ok, I did it. While I was working on another computer, I converted the
Sims 2 Pets expansion pack to a virtual CD (using Virtual Drive 9.0).
Now, I have a great little smooth-running copy of Sims 2 Pets running
on my Tablet PC.
I think I’ve determined that the hardest thing in the world is parenting adult and/or nearly adult children. When you have tiny babies, you feel that life will be better when you can actually SLEEP again, then it will be better when they are potty trained, then when you send them to school (although you are probably all teary-eyed and sad) — at least you feel that you will have some time to call your own again. Then, you think once the puberty drama is over, life will calm down. Later, you think it will be better when they begin their own lives. You think the stress and the worry will lift.
You would be wrong…I visited my son this weekend in Georgia. He’s just completed basic training and he’s on crutches with injuries that may heal and may not. He’s also had the flu for the last couple of weeks and I had to return him to base with a fever of 103.6 and rising. We got his fever down for a few hours, but it was back on the upswing during the trip back to base. He was pale, thin, in pain whenever he moved and he was feverish and exhausted. I think sending him back, stopping the car to let him return on his crutches to the next phase of training was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done.
I got my first glimpse of the new voting machines this year. My son had already seen them (he’s 16 and not old enough to vote, but saw them at school when they were setting up for Election Day). The good people at the polling place gave me a quick tour of the new machines — which are going to be replacing the old “stand up” models I’ve grown to love over the years. Apparently, in this particular arena, I’m pretty old school. If you are interested in learning a bit more about the voting process here in America, you may want to watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/v/TtPiGIqSljE
I discussed with the poll workers that I was looking forward to being able to vote ONLINE rather than having to get out and run to a polling place. But, they assured me, that it wasn’t safe to do that… then I watched “Hacking Democracy” (part one above) and read this…There’s a known issue with the new little voting boxes. It has been described to poll workers who are troubleshooting the machines (or those that bother to read the manual). Hmmmm…and I was told that voting online wasn’t safe…. Haruummphhh!
Want to watch the rest of the videos that comprise this HBO special? See below for parts 2-9. (A couple of the sections are “skippy” but the bulk of the show is here. It’s no longer available on Google’s Video search, it’s been removed.)
http://www.youtube.com/v/nwBGgoLcTuU
http://www.youtube.com/v/ilq-KoQUMRw
http://www.youtube.com/v/nPFUNYtvg5M
http://www.youtube.com/v/-az3g0jgNqM
http://www.youtube.com/v/T3BtLxH5ACk
http://www.youtube.com/v/qUVfovXfw4o
http://www.youtube.com/v/Z6Juvpik8ks
http://www.youtube.com/v/70bR4eRwL8s