Is it still a cold when it’s hot out?
This week has seen me on assignment at a Physical Therapist’s office - the place from which my journal entry was made the other day - but…the place that is also infested with a nasty cold/flu bug going around. One that I caught. One that made me miss Tuesday and today. (Made it in yesterday, didn’t feel that well, but the office was so slow that they sent me home at like 2pm since there were no patients scheduled until 4pm {and I get off at 5}) Lucky for me, I didn’t get the down-and-out sickness that seemed to run amuck with the rest of the ladies there, but I did end up with the tired/achy/sore/stuffed-up head/can’t sleep worth a damn kinda sickness. Just enough to feel like shit, not really enough to seem sick. The good thing is that since everyone there was sick as well, they didn’t think it was a big deal that I called in. (my recruiter was actually apologetic on the phone when I called saying she was sorry she got me in there just in time to get sick!) It was nice not to feel bad about feeling bad…
--little…break…8:46pm-
Silly ideas while daydreaming
I just had this silly thought. There’s some show on UPN in the background (we don’t have cable yet, so there’s not many channels we can pull even with an “amplifying antenna” aka plug-in rabbit ears) where these ladies just rob a bank. Made me get an idea that money should have unique bar codes on it like grocery items. Banks could scan the bar codes whenever they get money in and when you spend it, they would scan it as well. This way, you’d always be able to track stolen money…also, you could scan the contents of your wallet and verify when you lose it how much was in there and things like that. I bet that’d be a major hindrance to money theft since there would be so many ways to get caught with money that’s not yours. Ever get an idea you’re sure is a good one then wonder how you could make it into something real and make money off it? But you’re afraid to tell people about it because they could steal it and you’d get squat, and in the meantime your great idea doesn’t get anywhere? Sucks. It’s about $1400 for a patent I think and there’s tons of paperwork to fill out and that’s pending that you can even finalize the details enough that you’d have a working model. Some things I think of I don’t have the technical/mechanical/scientific means to make it in real life, but I know it would work. How do you go about finding someone to take you seriously without taking your idea in the first place? You get into lawyers (the bane of existence) and legalities and things get so complicated (not to mention expensive up front with no promise of being able to reap any reward later) that you just say, “Never mind!” and there goes that idea. Sucks, doesn’t it?
See you, see me?
I was in BestBuy today drooling over some PC items. I’d love to upgrade my PC (it’s a PII-266 w/128 megs of RAM) but…that’s an expensive undertaking right now. What’s not as an expensive undertaking is a web cam. I’m convinced that I REALLY want one. I just think how cool it could be to include all sorts of pics of me, pics of things that I’m talking about in my journal, pics of anything I want…I admit it, I’m a ham. I’d be more then happy to sit at my pc and do things “live” on webcam. (but no…I don’t mean ‘naughty’ things, that’s why it’s called a personal life), but I do mean being able to wave to people in chat, or other such things. Have a M’s Pic with my M’s Mood. It’d be so cool. I just can’t afford one right now (hell, if I had the cash I’d be online first and getting my domain second), but man would that be great. Anyone who happens to have an extra one can drop me a note if they don’t mind parting with it - webmaster@memoryanddream.zzn.com - I’d be soooo grateful. (I miss my sister’s…it was too cool) That being said, anyone having anything they wish to contribute towards the site that they don’t want to do via credit card (see the link to PayPal for credit/check/bank fund donations) can also contact me. I DO need to get a domain registered and money to host it before December. (Yes, my dear friend Orb said she’d host it on her domain, but she’s already running really tight on her bandwidth and I’d hate to impose…it’s GREAT to know that it’s an option if all else fails, but…I’d really rather not have to make things more difficult on her.) Anyway, just reminded me that time’s starting to get short and I’m starting to panic. *nervous laugh*
Needing a fix
Gods I miss the net. I swear I thought that it’d get easier the longer I didn’t have it at home. I was so very, very wrong. It just gets worse. I swear I’m getting to a point where I sit and daydream about the things I could be doing if only I were online. Jeez…it’s bad. Then again, you have to understand that for three years I had a cable modem which let me be connected 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year! It was just ALWAYS there. ARG! I’m such a junkie I’m typing this from home, waiting on a phone call from a friend to see if he’s home if I can come over on a Friday night to check in on my forum, publish this entry, read up on my friends’ journals, and generally be online. *sigh* I’m so needy for the net it’s sad. I could have RoadRunner again too if it weren’t for the fact that they say I owe then $220 from my last apt. (I can’t turn on new service until I pay the remainder of the old). Dammit, not only do I not have $220, but they’re trying to charge me for an extra month and I really only owe them $110. (not that I have $110 either) *sigh* again.
Yeah! My cell phone rang…my friend is on the line with me as I type this. Maybe I can get some internet time afterall! Whoo hoo! Let’s hope this gets published tonight…either way, I’m going to close. Hope everyone is well - and not sick like I was - and remember, you’re always welcome to leave me feedback. I like feeling like someone’s listening! *smiles*
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~ flowers bloom near Memory and Dream
at 9/28/2001 10:11:35 PM ~
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