I’m actually writing this on Sunday evening. I guess this post is inappropriately named.
So sue me. 
The weekend was full of the ordinary, in a sense.
The saga with the stoles continues. We went from plan A – which would not work – to plan B – which had issues – to plan C – which… well, I think you all get the picture. I think we’re up to about plan M. We did take a little “adventure” on Saturday to another nearby town which promised a sewing supply store via the Google. We actually found two. The first did not have what we were looking for, but the owner was very helpful in directing us to the second. Bingo! We had the supplies. But when we got home, we discovered that, although the supplies were what we wanted, they would not work the way we had planned. It is a good thing that I do not have any more hair to pull out.
Along the route that we travel to go back to our previous home area, there is a small car dealer who seems to delight in posting the most ignorant, hateful messages on the changeable-letter sign for his business. Really, some of his stuff moves me to nausea. On my last trip I noticed that he had a number of political signs for the local candidates for this election in the grass around this sign. My thought was that if he supported them, they cannot be on the same side of the issues that I am. Today as we passed the sign, we noted who those candidates were. I will investigate their positions and their careers between now and Tuesday, but my suspicion is that I will find them far removed from my own.
By the way, *VOTE* this Tuesday!! A large number of voters do not consider the “off year” elections to be of any consequence. Nothing could be further from the truth. We need to start at the local level to elect ethical, responsible, and capable persons to every office. Then we need to work so that such persons work themselves up the ladder.
Another task for me for this weekend, while some of you were salivating over Windows 7, was to upgrade the Ubuntu OS’s on my PC’s to the new version just released (9.10 – Karmic Koala*). Long term readers will know that I generally am a champion for the Ubuntu flavor of the Linux OS. I must confess that I was a bit distressed at a couple of changes as I upgraded the first of the PC’s. But with a bit of Googling, I found my answers and I am again a happy Ubuntu camper.
BTW, the total monetary cost of my upgrade was $0. The only cost was in time and effort, and from what I’ve been reading already from Windows 7 installers, my cost (and frustration) there was also less.
*For those of you who may be unfamiliar with Ubuntu releases, there is a fairly consistent naming convention. The release is numbered by the year and month of release. This latest release is 9.10 – released October (10) of 2009. There is usually a silly name attached made up of two words that begin with the same letter. With each release they advance to the next letter of the English alphabet, hence Karmic Koala for this release. There are two major upgrades each year: one in April and one in October.
I just know that some of you were simply dying to know that!
Next weekend I have another gig in my former life. It will be “back to the future” in more ways than one. I have been invited back to one of my former haunts in the hinterlands to speak at an anniversary service. If they knew what I expect to say to them, they’d already be warming up the tar and gathering the feathers. Maybe they are anyway. I’ve been seeing some black smoke arising over the mountains. Part of the message will be about the need to change and the need to be open to others who are different. In some parts of them thar hills, them’s fightin’ words.
Well, I guess that’s all for this early edition of Mondayne. Have a great week everyone!
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That’s a wrap.
Sending HUGS to all!
