Ouch

I got a call from school around 10:15 this morning from the school nurse. Brit had tripped and landed on her elbow. The nurse was recommending an x-ray, so I picked up Ian on the way to school, called the doctor on the way, and arranged an appointment. (Well, it was more of an “Brit may have broken her elbow and needs an x-ray… Where should we go?” call.. totally not knowing if we needed the ER yet, or urgent care or needed to see the doctor first)

We had a doctor’s appointment set for 15 minutes from where we were, which was awesome, since we were in the same neighborhood.

The doctor examined her arm, did a few physical tests, then sent us for x-rays to see if there was a break or fracture somewhere, but luckily, there wasn’t.

We came away with an excuse for gym class for no upper body physical activity and instructions to give her 600 mg of ibuprofen and ice to her elbow for 7 – 14 days.

Crazy day, but it turned out alright.

Nebraska Music Educators Conference

Brit’s school band performed at the NMEAC in Lincoln, Nebraska, where the acoustics were amazing, to suit the the band’s amazing performance.   They have come a long way with their musical pieces, and it was just fabulous to hear them at this venue.

Brit spotted her band director from last year, and she was quite pleased he was there.   The school principal also was in the audience, which as a great show of support for the band.   And the proud moment was at the end when the band got a standing ovation.

Of course, the interesting part was navigating the university’s campus in order to find parking.  Even with a map, it proved challenging.    🙂   I think the satnav needs to have a feature that identifies available parking areas, too.   Maybe someday.

 


Monday..

should not start with finding your IT support work PC dead.   Just saying.

After calling the “support line” for Dell (which happens to be mostly for software support, by the way), being transferred twice and explaining my story and troubleshooting steps 3 times, I have a new power supply on the way.
The Dell Gold Support guy said, “And we’ll send a new one out with a tech to install it, is that right?”, at least realising that I probably did not actually need help, even though we seem to have paid for the super-spectacular bells-and-whistles support plan.

Erm.  No.    You may send someone over with a nice latte, though.

The good news is that one of the workers brought in a kitten.  I love kittens.   They don’t drool too much.  🙂

Conversations

Yesterday, Ian and I were having a conversation about life and death.   He said, “Everyone is replaceable, even Steve Jobs.”

I had to think about that for awhile, and said, “I’m not convinced”.

I appreciated Steve’s sense of design/creativity combined with technology.   “Here’s a new idea, and you’re going to love it” was the pitch.   And when he revealed the next new Apple thing, we saw the cool aspects of it through his eyes.   You knew when he said it would do cool things, it would do thing or two you didn’t think a device would be able to do.

Who else is going to be able to do that?

Amanda Knox Returns Home to Seattle

I’ve been hearing about the Amanda Knox case for several years now, but paid special attention over the last several months while the appeal process finished up. I kept wondering what would happen next as whatever evidence the Perugia police thought they had was excluded.

As soon as the evidence was excluded, the only question was whether or not the Italian justice system would be willing to let someone go when there was no evidence to prove she had even been at the scene.

I could only imagine, as I heard the verdict read, what it must be like to be a young person arrested and held in a foreign prison, thinking you would spend a bulk of your life there.     What if she IS innocent?   The evidence is lacking… entirely.

Then she is set free, and it was emotional, even for me, and was not even involved, except as a spectator.

I could only imagine what it must be like on that long flight home, and even watched the plane land on FlightTracker, because it was momentous, after-all, and someone tweeted the link, so why not?  It was exciting to imagine her finally getting to do what she thought she wouldn’t be able to.  Come home.

Good luck to her, is all I have to say, really.   I’m happy things went her way.

I hope the family of Meredith Kercher find the answers and peace they are looking for. Sometimes, there are not enough answers in the end, and that’s the sad part of all of this.  No one deserves to die that way.

Happy Birthday to “The Little Girl”

Well, she is not so little anymore, even though I still ask her to “shrink back down to around age 2” some days, only because I miss when she was little.

When I brought Brit home from the hospital, I couldn’t help thinking, “Really?   You’re going to let me take a baby home?”, only because I was 36 and had begun thinking I would never probably have a child of my own.

I remember those early days, watching her rock in her swing, eat every couple of hours, turn yellow briefly from a slight case of jaundice (don’t mention the “Mellow Yellow” song to her, ok?) and sleep, sleep, sleep.

I remember the first day she actually had enough hair to put into pigtails.  She was around 2 years old.     Her short stint in ballet at age 4, learning to ride a bike, chasing puppies, talking up a storm and being the sweetest girl ever.

She still is.  She’s grown so much, and now we have band concerts and plays to watch and remember.

So happy birthday to “the one we would always choose for a daughter if we had our pick.”  🙂

Love you, much!

 

From 中文+日韩+欧美电影 9, 2011

 

中文+日韩+欧美电影 11th, 10 years on.

My daughter was only almost 1-year-old when 中文+日韩+欧美电影 11, 2001 happened.    It is a day that will live in infamy, because of the loss of life and the horrendous affects of having acts of terror of this scale carried out in this place I have called home and sworn allegiance to all of my life.   Like so many have said, it left us waiting under dead-quiet skies, wondering when the other shoe might drop.  It was a fearful, uncertain time.

I’m proud of this country.   No matter what is going on, be it upcoming elections, rivalry or disagreement over one thing or another, I believe that patriotism lives on.

It is why many found a sense of closure, at least, when the military took out the ring leader of a major terrorist organization behind the 9-11 attacks.  It didn’t end terror, but there is one less organizer of terrorism.

It is why I look at the cctv of the hijackers about to get on the plane, and mixed in with the horror that there is no way to reach into the past and undo anything, is the small feeling of satisfaction that these terrorists lost their lives, too.   Maybe they thought there were rewards on the “other side” of death waiting for them.  It is that point when I hope the atheists are completely right and there is absolutely nothing, or the Christians are right and they will burn in hell.    Or according to Islam, they will spend ages in Jahannam repenting their sins of taking innocent lives, many of them not American, that day.

It is touching, always, to watch the memorials on 中文+日韩+欧美电影 11th:  The reading of the names of those lost, the moments of silence, and this year, the opening of the WTC Memorial.

May God continue to bless America and those around the world who oppose terror.

 

 

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