Sometimes a bit of verse comes your way by the most unexpected means. I don’t know the name of the lyricist so I can’t properly attribute it – but it was definitely not written by me!
Poor child.
16 spring this way April.
Ah, what lies you here quiet.
Along the side of the way.
(Arm kind. 16 lentes zo pril. Ach wat lig je hier stil. Langs de kant van de weg)
Well I’ve finally flipped over to the non-carnivorous side of life. Actually, I shouldn’t say ‘finally’ because I was a vegetarian as a teenager. Somewhere along the line Big Macs got the best of me. But that’s all finished with now.
The main reason I’m vegetarian now is because I simply cannot bear to watch any animal suffer – let alone cause them to suffer. So if I can’t do that then it seems unethical to me that I would contribute to that suffering.
Seeing that I don’t like pork, fish, and especially chicken – it’s no big deal. I’ll miss my mother’s meatloaf and the aforementioned Big Macs (although for all you out there going through withdrawal, Harvey’s makes a mean veggie burger).
But I gotta say some of the best things in life are vegetarian!
I have been so busy lately…new friends, old friends, new camera, training at work, shopping, reading, and writing! Seems like I never have time to stop and smell the roses. I’ll be posting some new photos soon. I’m having a bit of trouble with the software that came with my camera and in the interest of keeping my sanity I have put it away for a few days.
It has come to my attention that my DVD player does not play burned DVD’s. It’s a shame really, but what did I expect for $30?
It hot and humid here. I really wish I were elsewhere but now is not the time. The cats are doing well. Daisy’s stitches are almost healed – although not without a great deal of worrying on my part. Note to self: do not check stitches every day or you’ll drive yourself mad!
I hope this posting finds you all well and happy.
I would have to say that at this point in time I am very happy. Work is going okay, I’ve met some nice new people online, and I am accomplishing goals I have set for myself.
I really like the type of feedback I’ve been getting online. It’s amazing to me just talking to people who live worlds away. Finding out who they are and what their culture is all about is a fascinating adventure every day. Of course, the older generation is still somewhat cynical about online relationships but from my own experiences I have found this negative outlook to be somewhat unfounded. Not that there aren’t bad people out there, I just haven’t met any (online) yet.
I look forward to continuing my exploration of cyberspace. There is so much to see and do. It is interesting to me the people who don’t use computers and are in fact opposed to doing so. They don’t know what they are missing.
I like to think of myself as an ever-evolving personality always on the look-out for new ways of seeing things, new ways of thinking about things. Thus I have changed my pet peeve. It’s a pet peeve that wouldn’t have been possible 20 years ago. After all, not many people hang up the phone without giving some indication that they are going to do so. Unless they are angry but that’s not what I’m talking about here.
My pet peeve is people who you are chatting with online and are suddenly gone. No goodbye, no ‘I have to answer the door’, no explanation at all. They are just gone. You write a sentence and there is no response. They could be dead for all you know. It is the height of rudeness.
I know a charmingly arrogant person whom I occasionally chat with and even he has the decency to say goodbye when he signs off (one should not be arrogant unless they have good manners!). But others who I will not name are just gone – poof! I ususally chat with them again to see if it was just an oversight on their part but it usually isn’t.
Apparently to some people chatting online is not really talking to a person, it’s just venting ones thoughts and ideas to a computer that has the strange ability to understand what one is saying, and then leaving when they’ve had enough.
And before you go and think that it’s perhaps something I said, please believe that it’s not. Usually my last sentences are just as innocuous as any other during the ‘conversation’.
So for all of you who have the good manners to tell someone when you are signing off – thank you. It’s appreciated.
Good-bye 
