Saturday 27: Traffic jams, tension aches and changed plans. Banged my manky (broken) little finger which then started bleeding. One missing Ma and a panicked nurse, but all is okay. She had not absconded!
Walked six miles to loosen up, which did the trick … till I got home. There is still a lot to do but all I feel like doing is slobbing in front of the idiot box.
Meanwhile: LinkedIn is good for faceless unknown contacts. Facebook though is for people to communicate with in a more friendly, relaxed way. I am happy to accept friend requests from people I do not know as long as they communicate from time to time. That does not mean sending endless rubbishy videos to all and sundry! It would be good to have the occasional personal `hello´.
Worse are those people I have actually met at some stage who ask to be friends and then never respond to messages or reply to any comments. So I had a small cull yesterday. Perhaps they think I am unimportant in both their world and the wider one. Probably right.
But I am important to me (well I have to be, don´t I!!!) so ultimately I have to make choices that make me feel good about myself. Being ignored is a very good signpost in making decisions.
Well done Matt Damon for speaking of his concerns about Sarah Palin. I should be more interested in American politics as they tend to ripple affect us all to a great degree, but ours are bad enough. That said, the cynicism of these political muppets is astounding.
Anti-ageism is A GOOD THING and John McCain has as much right, age-wise, as any other Yank to be POTUS. But his inability to see how his choices will affect the wider world is frightening. As is Palin´s overweening confidence in accepting the position. Does she really think she has the skills and experience to deal with big scale politics?
Tech Alert: Is the Service Pack 3 update safe to download for XP? The blogosphere and even a Microsoft TechNet site says `no´. Yet I am getting alerts to download it and I do not want a crashing laptop. What to do???
RIP Paul Newman. Someone who really seemed to add a lot to life in every way.
