January 8, 2010
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1 I've been finding out HARRIBLE things about AOL lately! Reports are coming in from the global four winds that AOL is messing up emails, fonts, and much other stuffs.
2 "Much other stuffs". Haha, me students have a huge grammar test today, and I'm rollin' around launchin' such piffle as "Much other stuffs"!
3 Who knows why the grass grows? ; ) <-----sideways cool winky dude
4 Uh...
5 Dude. <pronounced in the surfer vernacular, "dould", rhymes with "should" and "hood"> " Remember this? "Are you Jamaican? 'Cuz Jamaican me crazy!"
6 That was intended to be pop-deep.
7 Incidentally, I always loved the word "pop". Traditionally, it has implied "mainstream", yet is SUCH a cooler word!
8 AnywayZ...
9 My instincts are pretty poison, lemme tellya. I was raised with three wimminz, and am still in a house with three wimminz. My life has perpetually been, The View!
10 So my throwing AOL under the bus has with it a modicum of Truth. AOL has been spamming emails, cutting people off group mailings, and not knowing WHAT its current colors or logos are. It's like a person who has suddenly gone wonky. It turns pink some days, and has shamrocks at Christmastide. That's not technically a modicum of Truth, when you get right down to it. It's simply Truth, pure and simple.
11 Not Absolute Truth, mind you, which was secured in a jar in my own personal senior year in high school, but the venerable newTruth, that somehow manages to work its true magic to the truly aware in the illustrious world of <twennyten>. Ah, goin' deep! When I was in high school, my Humanities class had a jar of Absolute Truth sitting in a little room with pillows and incense. Quite Delphic.
12 Moving on, Part the First: Isn't it gnarly how Californians sort of measure and weigh earthquakes, and usually decide that they need to ride it out like a gnarly wave, and then get back to work?
13 Dude.
14 That's what we do.
15 Californians are pretty Zen about earthquakes. And yesterday's was truthfully akin to a cosmic fart, only without the smoke and air stuff.
16 We got right back to the bizznisssss of livin' within seconds.
17 Moving on, Part the Second: Dad goes in for some strange boushit today that will somehow enlighten all of us to what is really going on.
18 On the other hand, I talked with him the other day, and we looked to some realities, and then talked some baseball, football, and walkin to church.
19 Dad has an appointment with the VA today at around 11:30 a.m. The bottom line is that he has to go through a buncha tests to see what the heck is going on with this stange happening.
20 I'm guessin' there will be pretty much NO answers as of this day, but I sure as heck loved having him near me, and talking about everything and nothing the other day.
21 So today he goes through a plethera of tests, and of pokes, jokes, and artichokes.
22 Sidebar: "artichokes" was clearly an attempt at establishing a cheap rhyme in the amazingly poetic world of the DN.
23 Well, all this rambling is making me have a headache.
24 "Making me have a headache" is immediately my daughter Caitlin's childhood complaint regarding anything even somewhat confusing. She would declare, in a firm and constructive active voice, "This makes me have a headache!"
25 Good ol' Caitlin!
26 You rock, pretty girl!
27 Meanwhile... Grades are due next Friday. I've been working on all my papers, which are, as an English teacher, a ha-YUGE project. I teach some amazingly talented students, and unfortunately, they ALL do their homework lol!
28 Fookin' lol. When did we ever come to this? Nobody talks anymore. It's all texting, messaging, emailing, twittering, and ignoring.
29 Hooked up with me old friend and confidante Thuy Ann yesterday, and we actually held an intelligent conversation for hours. This very subject came up, and it was amazing actually looking at someone and conversing. She's off to Washington D.C., Brazil, Africa, and Vietnam to do some research, and won't have any means of communicating electronically with people. That's a suggestion by the people who run the program she's in.
30 So we talked about how all the amazing electronic communications' sources have in many ways alienated many of us, even though we seem to think that we are all somehow closer.
31 What was cool about it was that we concluded this through a few short hours of real communication, talking, laughing, and enjoying a true friendship.
32 Funny how rarely we are able to do that these days, and how truly important it is to do in order to enjoy friendships that are real.
33 Lovely night, and I want to send her birthday wishes and a huge bon voyage. She'll be on a four-month tour of duty, and I thought I'd like publicly to wish her a great trip. We laughed last night about actually communicating through the traditional snail mail.
34 Awesome idea.
35 AnywayZ...good luck to TA; you are an inspiration to all of us.
36 Moving on, Part the Third: So I'm back to trying to see if AOL will once again launch the DN to me email folks. Evelyn stepped up yesterday and sent me a list of the DN folk, so here's hoping. And I SURE as heck hope that AOL doesn't spam it! TA told me that my emails were in her spam. AOL, lemme tellya.
37 So here's hoping we get the DN back up to speed today.
38 Well, gottago, Friday you know!
39 Have a grand weekend!
40 Peace.
~H~
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