Magic!

6:35 AM

Dig this! This is, in the parlance of the kids, sick. I set the alarm for 5:30am, and I was setting it at 2:33, so I wasn't happy about that. I grumbled, then thought better of my grumbling, and gave thanks for getting sleep and waking up full of energy, for leaping out of bed full of energy. In the middle of a full on great sleep, I woke up feeling like it was time to get up, but no alarm. I wear strong glasses, so it's difficult for me to see the time, and I don't like to wake myself up with the effort of looking unless I'm really concerned. So I didn't look. Then I turned again, feeling sure that the wake up time had passed. I strained to see my watch by it's light, and it was 5:31am. Wait for it! I jumped out of bed to look at my alarm, wondering why I had missed it, then remembered that my watch is 3-4 minutes fast. It was 5:27am. I had woken up smartly just where I'd started, crashing noisily into the bitter sum.

Adding a New Option to the “send to” menu in Windows 7

I was wondering how to add a new option to the “send to” menu in Windows 7.  It took some hunting, but I finally found it: In XP, you click on the start menu and type run, then send to, but in 7 you also use the start menu, and you type shell:sendto, and open the resulting folder. Then just add your shortcut. How to make a shortcut? That’s another question!

Device Unavailable (in use) In Asio 4 All

I encountered this problem using Sonar on Windows 7 – and solved it when I right-clicked the speaker icon on the taskbar, selected “Playback devices”, right clicked the device I wanted to use, and selected “Disable” – unavailable in windows, available in Asio 4 All!

Karma!

Karma is a Sanskrit word meaning “action”. So it is a way of summarizing the effects our actions have when we take action with a goal in mind. The goal is inextricably connected to the action. Weak action, weak result. Half hearted action, half hearted result. The oak tree sleeps in the acorn. We plant the acorn knowing it will bear fruit, as it almost always does. We must take action with the same faith, as our action ALWAYS bears fruit in like kind.

Well I decided to perform Calypso on the stage. I gave the word that it would happen in February of this year, and didn’t do quite enough to bring that about. Out of the blue I got a call near the end of January, asking me to perform Calypso, on stage, right in the middle of February! In the beginning was the word, and the word was made flesh.

The flower blooms in the seed. The result blossoms in the action. Take action in faith.

…so all our action leads inexorably to the bitter sum.

What a fantastic fool I was.

Left my cousin's house in Surrey (England, not BC) for a bit of a walk. Just after I walked out the door, I thought, I'd better check the number just to be safe. After I walked back to check the number, (9), I went walking along High Street. It's like Main Street of shops. Walked back, and both cars were there, but no one was home! I rang and rang, and even rang their neighbour Wendy's door at Number 10, too, but to no avail. Double checked I was at 9 and rang some more.Went back out and discovered the library. Went online and e-mailed my cousin to say I was locked out, and that I was at the library. Stayed online a while. Walked back, and still no one was home. Went back to the library and read for a while. Walked back and rang and rang, and watched someone coming home that I did not recognize, to number 10. She said no one was home. I asked her if Wendy lived there, and she said, "No...., Wendy who?" I said I didn't know Wendy's last name, and she asked me, "Is she from the states?" Well that I knew and I said "yes" and she said "number 12"!!! So I went over to number 11 and found everyone there waiting for me, and wondering where I'd been all day.

...and all these threads culminate in the bitter sum.

I've been directed to England for my cousin's funeral. Okay, everyone knows the story, here it is, one more time for posterity!

I was reading a magazine on my way to meet with the brilliant minds of GSD (to Get Stuff Done) and I was reading an article about a producer, who mentioned doing some work with Derek B. I thought, Hey! Maybe he did work on Derek's stuff that I helped him on! But that was way back in the 80's! Reading on a bit further, this producer mentions that his first taste of success was the stuff he did with Derek B back in the 80's and 90's (!!). I was very inspired, because I had helped him on that stuff way back, so here was my past self sending some encouragement to my (then) present self!

I told the members of GSD and then told Olja when I got home. She said I had never played her any of Derek's music, so naturally I googled it right then and there. I found an article that said that Derek B was "...the first British rapper to achieve pop success...", a "...bad young brother" indeed! I was so proud and inspired.

A week and a half later, my Mom phoned me and told me that Derek had passed away. I hadn't even called him to tell him how he had inspired me! So here I am to attend the funeral.

...and so, sum is both the end and the beginning...

Katy Harmer's Blog is the best! http://hellokaty.blogspot.com/

Katy Harmer's blog is the best!

Short and always entertaining, and with those friendly flickr photos right beside it. So here I am, posting to my own 'cause she's inspired me.

This morning what a run I had; thought I'd run for a full 45 minutes, and the time seemed to be passing so slowly, till I checked the time and realized the 45 minutes was about to arrive, so I had to turn around and head for home!

Outlook's calendar has failed me. Google's offline accessory GEARS seems unreliable, conflicting with some mysterious background program that I can't find. So it's back to paper and I'll try Outlook 2007, but I don't think I want to buy that. PS don't tell me to try Corel Central (which I have, why else would you suggest it to me or even know that it exists!), 'cause I've tried it and it has the same failure as Outlook (believe it or not!).