What else is new around here. Not much of anything really. Both Danny and myself still have our same old jobs, although in his business things seem to be suffering a bit. Not so many folks are leaving home and vacationing at Lake Tahoe these days. Not even the filthy rich who can afford it are staying as long when they do come. Hopefully things will improve in the coming months.

Around the house I have a multitude of things that I should be doing, like picking some of the peaches that our trees have produced this year. Last time that I went out to get some not many were ripe enough to bring in. I suppose the whole lot will be ready all at once and then I’ll be overloaded with them. I’ll have to give a ton of them away just to keep up with it all. One can only make so much peach jam and peach cobblers without not wanting to ever see another peach.

I’ve tried the Facebook thingy, found Kitty there and also a neighbor of mine too. Overall, I really don’t think it’s the thing for me. I don’t check it much at all. My time is better spent elsewhere it seems. I also tried out Twitter but couldn’t make heads or tails of it. Such a waste of space and time trying to keep up with that whole act.

I still have my websites to keep me busy, although I haven’t added much of anything to this one in a very long time. Besides cooking (the peaches are not included yet in that endeavour), I somehow manage to get out of the house fairly often to go shopping, see a movie (only about once a year since it’s rare that a movie is good enough), and have dinner out about once a month. We don’t really have much excitement around here and that’s fine with me.

I hope that you’re having a wonderful Easter. I got a little ducky and here is a photo of him. He’s so cute!

A little purple ducky in an egg shell.

Anyway, the weather is great today with clear skies and a cool but not too cool temperature. I saw someone’s kitty in my backyard earlier trying to figure out how he could get at some birds up in a peach tree. He gave up after a while.

I don’t usually remember my dreams. I figure that they’re just not interesting enough or that nobody I care about was in them. I do wonder if the unremembered dreams have an effect on me in some mysterious way, affecting things I do or want to do. I suppose it doesn’t matter much one way or the other.

I come to you in a dream, to see what you see, feel what you feel, know what you are…

I have to go into work tonight although I’d rather not. Somebody has to be there to feed the printers and make sure that if a job goes haywire that the right person is notified. At least the equipment can’t catch my cold.

Could it catch my headache that just got started? Guess I’d better go take something for it.

Guess I’ve never mentioned that we have a thing about naming our equipment at work. It keeps us somewhat entertained. We have three laser printers that my partner named Eeny, Meany and Miney because we don’t want no Moe. Then we have one printer that I named Spike because he broke his tractors one night and it reminded me of those pointy, spiked dog collars. Another printer got named Sassy because she can be a bitch, and one has the name of Trixie because she’s always pulling tricks on us. For the heck of it I named our burster Buster and our shop vac Snake Face. Fun in the computer room, huh.

The first computers I ever worked with, a DEC PDP/1120 and a DEC PDP/1140 were named Bertha and Big Bertha. No, I didn’t have anything to do with those names way back then.

Not every piece of computer equipment that I’ve worked with has had a nickname, at least that I heard about, and they have been many. A Sigma 7 that I spent a couple of years working with was only ever referred to as the computer. It’s printers didn’t get any special names either. The Univac and DataPoint computers that crossed my path also never got named to the best of my knowledge although they were in the same environment as the Berthas. However, the disk drives that were attached to the DataPoint were often referred to as the MayTag’s due to their size and configuration.

For what it’s worth, I’ve never named my own computers, printers or anything else. They just sit and do what they’re supposed to do unless I try something tricky and screw something up. Thank heavens for system restore as it’s been a life saver. Or at least, a headache preventer.