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Wednesday January 17, 2001
"Many of us forget that nature and society are one." Jerzy Kosinski , Being There
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rain, rain, and cold, too A bitter day. Sometimes it drizzles, sometimes it pours, sometimes it's just cloudy. It's cold. Well, it's winter. Thankfully, in Austin, we rarely have ice and snow and there are bonus sunny, warm days. I wish one would come soon. I stop by my Mom's and find the computer locked in a startup or shutdown mode. I finally extricate it. She isn't exactly sure what happened. I think WinME automatically updated something, asked to shutdown. I think this because if I go to the update page now, it says that there are no critical updates for the machine. Hmm. Probably she agreed to an install and a shutdown with a mouse click. All speculation, of course. When everything is rebooted (a couple of trys with a blue screen with a pointer and CTRL-ALT-DEL showing a couple of tasks) it works again. At work, I try to pick up the pieces of the things I'm trying to accomplish, prioritize them. I send a few e-mails, trying to involve myself in projects I need to learn about. This means I create meeting opportunities for myself. I also work on my presentation for a May conference, trying to figure out something fresh to say about my one narrow area of expertise. At lunch, I share my parents' meatloaf, spinach casserole, and potato casserole. The latter made with leftover gravy from pork chops. Good. Then I show Mom the Greeting Card kit that came with her printer. (Card stock and a disk with a few illustrations and inside messages.) We print a Valentine for her secret pal from some church group. I help her get an e-mail message off, encouraging her typing which is improving all the time. I help her start another one. It's a long road, but she's learned a lot. The evening is a ballet lecture on what is classical. modern, comptemporary. Then another addition of Ken Burn's 'Jazz.'
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