Journal of a Sabbatical

lifeless life list

May 13, 1997

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lifeless life list Computers are highly overrated. The National Audubon Society Interactive CD-ROM Guide to North American Birds trashed my life list for no apparent reason this morning. I called Random House's technical support line and was told to delete the database and the software, reinstall, and enter the data all over again. Feh! How rude. I tried to upload yesterday's journal entry and discovered the network is a not work again. I can access my ISP (with trusty old telnet - not fancy schmancy Netscape) but it can't access the net. So, I uploaded the files, read the motd saying that there's no ETA on the return of the network backbone, deleted some old mail, and disconnected again. How rude. I started entering my life list into the stupid Audubon program while talking to Kate on the phone. It crashed again. This time the database was intact. Kate said she'd experienced problems with this CD on her PC, so it's apparently not a Mac thing. I was all set to throw this out and get the Peterson or the Thayer one but they only run on PC not Mac. Sigh. How rude. Time to go back to a good old fashioned paper notebook. A life list is too important to trust to software. Computers suck. So other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? The day: Up at 7:30 because the door replacers were doing the Beans of Egypt Maine this morning. Saws and drills and banging at 7:30 AM is not conducive to sleeping in. They're doing my door tomorrow from noon to 4:30ish. Wilbur is going to love this. He was not enjoying the work next door. Wait til it's in his own unit. Trashed life list as described above. Therapy. Walked with Rita - a nice healthy 3 miles and we got it in before the rain started. Lunch with Rita and Joan-east: grilled cheese with onion and sweet red pepper sprinkled with dill and hot pepper. Followed by cheese cake from Mike's Pastry of the North End and espresso. Attempt to reconstruct life list. Dinner with Kate at Rialto - exquisite! I had the spring vegetable plate. Love them skinny asparagus spears! Even with a cheese course, appetizer, main course, desert, and tea we couldn't spend the whole gift certificate Kate had - it was based on dinner for 2 with wine. When you don't drink you can spend a heck of a lot on cheese courses! And I never had a financier in my life. I was picturing a tiny capitalist in a 3 piece suit baked into a pie - but apparently financier is a type of French pastry. Live and learn. At least I know bank swallows don't live in ATM machines. B'day presents: Kate's House to Kate for her b'day. Sting Ray Explorer Lego set to me for mine. I've always wanted my own deep submersible vehicle for ocean exploration. This one even comes with tiny plastic seaweed , divers, and fish. at the end of the day So ends another day. And so to bed. And perhaps tomorrow you dear readers will get a chance to read this - assuming world.std and the net are on better terms in the morning. about Paul Watson Kate tells me the Paul Watson link on the Journal Index page doesn't work so I changed the URL to the main Sea Shepherd page. If/when the net comes back I'll check it out. I hope some readers have been able to access Sea Shepherd, else y'all think Paul Watson is some football player or something and have no idea what I'm talking about.

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