A waste of bits and bandwidth

I’ve been giving some thought to the future of this blog. I’m thinking about going dark. At least for a while anyway.

I’ve been feeling obligated to write entries and lately, I just haven’t been in the mood to do it. Either that or the only blogworthy events are of such a personal nature that I wasn’t about to blog about them. I guess that means that they aren’t really blogworthy.

I’m not into blogging about work as that’s a good way to get fired and who the hell cares anyway. Next time I get laid off, I’ll blog about it. Actually I doubt that I would be fired for blogging where I work now, but no one knows. No one knew at the last place until after I left and even then it was only 2 people that I totally trusted.

I’ve been thinking about making it a more technical site. I like writing about cool software that I find useful. Maybe I’ll do that but it’s not as if there aren’t a million other better sources of information out there.

So if there aren’t any site changes for a while it’s because I’m trying to figure out what to do. May I suggest that you grab the RSS feed and watch it for changes. That’ll work unless I dump MT…

Who knows, who cares… In the meantime, I’ll be playing Grand Theft Auto.

I don’t normally get too personal here. Maybe once in a while but never too in depth. I guess today is a first.

My grandfather had been sick for a while now and had been admitted to the hospital last week. On Thursday morning I rented a car and drove to Kelowna, hoping to see him before he passed away.

I went straight to Kelowna General when I got into town and relieved Mom and Dad. Everyone had been taking shifts staying with him in the room. I stayed until 8PM when my aunt arrived to stay overnight as she had been doing since Gramps went in. They did their best to make sure he wasn’t alone.

Friday morning I returned to sit with him again. There isn’t much to do. You just sit there and hold his hand in hopes that he knows that someone is there with him. If he looked uncomfortable, I’d go get a nurse and they would give him some medication for pain. “They’re gonna juice you up Gramps.” After the nurse would leave I’d tell him that the nurse was a hottie.

Early Friday afternoon, Gramps passed. I held his hand and looked into his eyes and told him that I was there. “How we doin’ Gramps? Don’t worry, everything’s fine.” It was all very peaceful. When I was sure it was over I got a nurse and asked her to confirm it for me.

The doctors and nurse’s at KGH are absolutely first rate. They fought hard to keep him in the private room and they did it. They did everything in their power to make sure he was taken care of and comfortable. They are under appreciated and over-worked but our family really appreciates the work they did.

It’s been 83 years Gramps. We’re all gonna miss you but you’ve earned the rest. Tell Gramma that everyone says hi.

I’m having an uneventful but enjoyable weekend. Nice to see that the rainy weather has discouraged the yahoos from invading the downtown core like they normally do on weekends.

I’ve gone on a number on longish rides this weekend including a trip around the park yesterday. I got totally drenched until I emerged from the park into brilliant sunshine. Sometimes life is like that.

I failed to mention that I met up with Oanh and her boyfriend Ben last week. Oanh is the girl that I bumped into on the train in Seoul. We met up for a beer and talked about Korea and stuff. They’re natives of San Deigo and Ben is here while he goes to UBC. Very nice folks; hopefully we get together again soon.

I’ve decided to finish off the last of the loose stuff around here. After three weeks I figured it was time to polish it off. I’m doing the same with the server after this post. There are a number of pages that never get viewed so they’re toast. Not like I need to worry about space after my hosting upgrade; I think I have 250 MB’s to play with.

I don’t know what the deal is with my lack of posting. It never enters my mind to do it anymore though I don’t want to shut it down. It’s not writers block either; I just don’t sit down and do it.

To that end…

RLD

Hi there,

I know we have a bunch of new people so here is a reminder again.

DELETED policy is for you to put your dishes in the dishwasher, not in the sink.

When the dishwasher is full, turn it on.

If the dishwasher is clean, empty it before you put your dirty dishes inside.

Distribute cutlery throughout the dishwasher, not all jammed in the first few baskets.

This isn’t just a request; contravention can lead to dismissal.

Thanks,
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Hmmm…. been a week since I’ve blogged. Am I ever glad that I upgraded my hosting account. I’m getting good use out of that money spent…

I finished the Asian trip pages, so feel free to have a look. I’m rebuilding my box today so this will be short. Nothing of a blogworthy nature going on. Nothing I want to post here anyway…

Check out this page on Apple.com for their weather widget. They’re using a screenshot of a storm. Over Redmond. That’s funny.