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This site is a member of WebRing. To browse visit here. Tuesday, October 02, 2007 This is so cool My mother is on Ravelry now too! I wonder how many other mother/daughter pairs there are on Ravelry. I'll have to post a question to one of the groups and see what turns up.I'm halfway through the Wavy Scarf and another repeat of the Clapotis, but haven't had much time to knit today. Clarence and I will hit the road early tomorrow morning for a three day swing through Richmond, the Northern Neck of Virginia, Washington DC and environs, and then head straight out to West Virginia. So I've spent most of the day getting ready for the trip, and much of the rest of it fixing a system for someone who called out of the blue and wanted to know whether I still worked on computers.I'm not sure how I feel about that. I said I'd tackle it, and indeed I did fix it. It had about twenty different viruses and Trojans on it, and once those were removed, it worked fine. But I'm not certain I want to go back to doing a lot of this. For one thing, I don't want to sell hardware any more, but sometimes you can't fix a broken computer without replacing something. I haven't had to fool with collecting, reporting and turning in sales tax for several years now, and have no wish to go back to it.Another reason is that I'm not really up to speed on XP, and certainly not on Vista, which I've never even seen. I held out on using XP until I had no choice, and I'll do the same with Vista. In fact, when things slow down a bit more, I'm going to put Linux on my other computer and work toward dumping Windows altogether. So I don't have the facility with Windows that I did with 3.1, 95 and 98. I also don't have all the fancy diagnostic tools that I had when I was working on four or five different computers every day. My workbench is a big computer desk that I was planning to get rid of in favor of using the laptop on the kitchen table.And then there are the nasty little surprises you sometimes get when you bring other people's things into your home. I wouldn't have worried about this woman's computer, but we took one in to the shop years ago that turned out to be full of roaches. As soon as I realized that I carried it outside, called the owner and asked her to come get it. She was thoroughly snotty about it, insisting that her computer couldn't have had bugs in it. But it did, and we were twitchy as all get out for a couple of weeks after that, waiting for the anticipated onslaught of roaches in the store. We were fortunate that time, because there wasn't much food for them to eat. If something like that happened here, it would take me forever to get rid of them.So this is going to take some thought. I have to ask myself whether the money I'm going to make for a couple of hours work on this computer today is worth the time it took away from knitting and housework, and I suspect that it isn't. That's a strange feeling, to be willing to turn down income. posted by Liz @ 5:31 PM | The template is set to display 10 posts. To see all the posts for this month, click on the month name in the Archive section RSS Feed PERSONAL Send email toliz at life-as-a-spectator-sport.com Home I'm a mother, grandmother, a computer professional, Democrat, Christian. I welcome politely worded comments and email, my spam filter throws the rest away, so don't bother to flame me WHY 'LIFE AS A SPECTATOR SPORT' "If you're lucky not to live in the gutters of a slum, but still can't afford to take vacations in the Alps, you're part of that enormous middle class who lives life through the medium of the television, further separated from "real" life by air conditioner, by automobile, by dishwasher, microwave and ice-in-the-door refrigerator, by automatic washer and dryer, and all the other appliances and conveniences that make it possible for America to live life at second hand. I'm not sure why Americans decided that televised drama was better than the real thing, that cardboard microwave food containers were an adequate substitute for real dishes, and their contents for real food, or that cooking, dishwashing and face-to-face conversation wasn't worth the effort and time it required. Someone fed this nation a plastic crate of out-of-season tomatoes and told us it was life and we took them at their word, and we're so much the poorer for it that it's hard to know where to start to list the shortcomings." I wrote this a couple of years ago, but I have to admit it's much less amusing than I thought it would be to see the artifical construct falling apart. 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My mother is on Ravelry now too! I wonder how many other mother/daughter pairs there are on Ravelry. I'll have to post a question to one of the groups and see what turns up.I'm halfway through the Wavy Scarf and another repeat of the Clapotis, but haven't had much time to knit today. Clarence and I will hit the road early tomorrow morning for a three day swing through Richmond, the Northern Neck of Virginia, Washington DC and environs, and then head straight out to West Virginia. So I've spent most of the day getting ready for the trip, and much of the rest of it fixing a system for someone who called out of the blue and wanted to know whether I still worked on computers.I'm not sure how I feel about that. I said I'd tackle it, and indeed I did fix it. It had about twenty different viruses and Trojans on it, and once those were removed, it worked fine. But I'm not certain I want to go back to doing a lot of this. For one thing, I don't want to sell hardware any more, but sometimes you can't fix a broken computer without replacing something. I haven't had to fool with collecting, reporting and turning in sales tax for several years now, and have no wish to go back to it.Another reason is that I'm not really up to speed on XP, and certainly not on Vista, which I've never even seen. I held out on using XP until I had no choice, and I'll do the same with Vista. In fact, when things slow down a bit more, I'm going to put Linux on my other computer and work toward dumping Windows altogether. So I don't have the facility with Windows that I did with 3.1, 95 and 98. I also don't have all the fancy diagnostic tools that I had when I was working on four or five different computers every day. My workbench is a big computer desk that I was planning to get rid of in favor of using the laptop on the kitchen table.And then there are the nasty little surprises you sometimes get when you bring other people's things into your home. I wouldn't have worried about this woman's computer, but we took one in to the shop years ago that turned out to be full of roaches. As soon as I realized that I carried it outside, called the owner and asked her to come get it. She was thoroughly snotty about it, insisting that her computer couldn't have had bugs in it. But it did, and we were twitchy as all get out for a couple of weeks after that, waiting for the anticipated onslaught of roaches in the store. We were fortunate that time, because there wasn't much food for them to eat. If something like that happened here, it would take me forever to get rid of them.So this is going to take some thought. I have to ask myself whether the money I'm going to make for a couple of hours work on this computer today is worth the time it took away from knitting and housework, and I suspect that it isn't. That's a strange feeling, to be willing to turn down income.
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WHY 'LIFE AS A SPECTATOR SPORT'
"If you're lucky not to live in the gutters of a slum, but still can't afford to take vacations in the Alps, you're part of that enormous middle class who lives life through the medium of the television, further separated from "real" life by air conditioner, by automobile, by dishwasher, microwave and ice-in-the-door refrigerator, by automatic washer and dryer, and all the other appliances and conveniences that make it possible for America to live life at second hand. I'm not sure why Americans decided that televised drama was better than the real thing, that cardboard microwave food containers were an adequate substitute for real dishes, and their contents for real food, or that cooking, dishwashing and face-to-face conversation wasn't worth the effort and time it required. Someone fed this nation a plastic crate of out-of-season tomatoes and told us it was life and we took them at their word, and we're so much the poorer for it that it's hard to know where to start to list the shortcomings." I wrote this a couple of years ago, but I have to admit it's much less amusing than I thought it would be to see the artifical construct falling apart.
THE NON-ELECTRIC HOME
Cleaning, 1 Cleaning, 2 Cleaning, 3
KNITTING BLOGS
Extravayarnza Knitting Heretic Mind of Winter Pie Knits Persistent Illusion See Eunny Knit The Keyboard Biologist Taleweaver's Ramblings TECHnitting Wendy Knits
FINISHED PROJECTS
SELF-RELIANCE AND THE FUTURE
POLITICAL BLOGS and SITES
BOOKS I'M READING
How to Grow More Vegetables, etc. Small Scale Grain Raising
ARCHIVES
February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 August 2008 July 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 November 2003 October 2003 September 2003 August 2003 July 2003 June 2003 May 2003 April 2003 March 2003 February 2003 January 2003 December 2002 November 2002 October 2002 September 2002 August 2002 July 2002 June 2002 May 2002 April 2002 March 2002 February 2002
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