why it's important to watch the news

(I'm not sure from what news source this came from.)

The first divorce directly related to the September 11th terrorist attacks has been filed in New York. It appears a guy with an office on the 103rd floor of the World Trade Center spent the morning at his girlfriend's apartment with his phone turned off. He wasn't watching TV either. When he turned his phone back on at about 11 AM, it rang immediately. It was his hysterical wife, "are you okay? Where are you?" He said, "What do you mean? I'm in my office, of course!"

damn computers

My mom's disk floppy disk drive failed. She expressed some concern that using the warranty to have it fixed would be a hassle, so I told her I would get a replacement from my friend Drew, who builds and fixes computers. It took me quite a while to get it from him. It turned out not to be compatible, plug-wise. By this time the warranty had expired. So I took the drive out and told my mom I would get a replacement for her. Well, I haven't had a chance to find a store and take it in. In the time I've had it, I've gone to a store exactly twice. I guess I could have made a greater effort to find the time, but I figured it wasn't that essential to her. If she needed to transfer files to or from work, she could e-mail them, and most things come on CD's now anyway.

So now she signed up for internet access from a local provider and they gave her the package on a floppy. She didn't remember at the time that she had no floppy drive, and didn't know she could ask for it on a CD. She's pissed at me for not getting her computer fixed. I took the disk to copy it onto a CD, but then I e-mailed the installation file to her, and the stupid e-mail lost the attachment. That happens to me once in a great while, but WHY NOW?

She just sent me an e-mail saying she wants her disk back because she is going back to the place to ask for a CD. I can copy it onto a CD, but she's just pissed, now. She can't even install it until I have time to help her with that.

lack of war fervor

I don't hear many people talking about this impending war on Iraq like it is a good thing. A few, but not many. You don't hear much about it, though. Could that be because most people are in favor of it, but they realize it might not be a good thing, so if they keep their mouths shut, they don't have to ask the hard questions? Or that they don't bring it up, hoping that we go to war, and then when it fails miserably, they can say they didn't support it?

mom

My mom stopped by to pick up that disk for her internet service. She was standing in the lobby when Jim, my boss walked in, so I introduced them. Suddenly my mom looked very old and small. I don't usually notice that, because she's my mom.