Remi

I have furry feet.

No, you silly thing, I do not have a disease of some kind! We’re simply having another afternoon thunderstorm, and Remi is under my desk. She’s been afraid of storms since her mother AKC CH. Heather passed away.

My cousin Larry recently passed away – it was a bit of a shock, even though everyone knew he had cirrhosis of the liver, as it happened within a matter of days. On the other hand, my brother Steve has been removed from hospice care and has actually ballooned up to 125 pounds! At his worst, he was around 90 pounds, a mere walking (falling) skeleton.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling, was terrific. I cried bucket loads of tears as I said good-bye to characters I’ve come to know so well over the last 10 years, and to the series itself. I read somewhere that Ms. Rowling felt true Potter fans would probably be a bit disappointed with the ending, and I was. I won’t give things away – I always hate coming across spoilers! – but will say, I hated the many losses, but understood why they were needed. That was sad, but aceptable to me. The part I disliked, was the epilogue. Granted, it was neat and tidy and finished wrapping up some of the items the book itself hadn’t covered, and gave us some wonderful dialogue and insights… but it skipped some important happenings as well, important enough that I felt a bit, well… cheated.

All and all, however, it was a wonderful series that I’m so happy I followed. And I’ve re-read all of them again, am 2/3’s of the way through the final book again….

Oh! I bought a new (for me) Dell desktop! I’m waiting for S to do his magick to it, get it net-ready and put it into our home network, but I have been playing with it a bit, learning it. Not really truly making it my own, yet, as when S makes his changes it’ll wipe pretty much everything out. But I did install Sims 2 to see what differences – if any – there would be on this Dell, versus my old Dell. Uhh… WOW!!!! I hadn’t realized just how much I had been missing before!

I went into Strangetown and watched an alien abduction – and saw the actual film clip I’d been missing all these years. And, my Sims have actual fingers now! LoL Before, their little hands were kinda like a Barbie’s – you could see indentations for the spaces between fingers, but they were still solid. Now, I can see actual space between their fingers.

Any-who, the point is, my newer Dell is more powerful then my current Dell, so I plan to move my various games and some programs over to it, and reserve this one for use for writing, creating webpages, email – relegate its use more towards work only.

I’ve also been reading some help books, and have been pleased to feel some stirrings from my muse once again. It feels like my long dry spell may finally be coming to an end. Speaking of reading, I’m almost caught up on the “in Death” series by J.D. Robb, as well. I’m finishing my second reading of “Deathly Hallows” before I start “Born in Death” and still need to buy “Innocent in Death” (Barnes & Noble didn’t have it in stock, my last trip there.) Then, I’ll just have to wait for the release of the next book in November – so yeah, pretty much caught up there.