UNIX

is good to know I am rusty on it.

I had to set up my aunt's new Mac.  For some bizarre reason, I either mistyped or miswrote down the administrator password.  I have a suspicion as to why...

This is a disaster because resetting the administrator password is not easy.  To reset it, I had to go the command line interface and delete stuff.  And I couldn't remember the right commands.  :P

Time to brush up I think.

My Dewey Decimal Number

Tina Fanetti's Dewey Decimal Section:
714 Water features
Tina Fanetti = 09416145009 = 094+161+450+09 = 714

Class:
700 Arts & Recreation

Contains:
Architecture, drawing, painting, music, sports.

What it says about you:
You're creative and fun, and you're good at motivating the people around you. You're attracted to things that are visually interesting. Other people might not always understand your taste or style, but it's yours.

Find your Dewey Decimal Section at Spacefem.com

Creepy

I took Adventure Buddy to the Butterfly House.  Adventure Buddy always says courage is a virtue and you get virtue by doing virtuous things.  So if I want to be courageous, I have to do courageous things.

At the Butterfly House, you now have the opportunity to feed roaches.  They stay in their cage by the way.  There are hundreds of them in the cage.  You just drop the flakes into the cage.  Then they swarm and make chittering, creepy bug noises.

Ugh.

I'm not feeling courageous.  I'm feeling the need to wash with bleach.

Depressed

I was reading this article about a woman who was depressed.  I found myself nodding along.

I'm having a hard time getting out of bed now.  I'm having a hard time coming up with reasons to get out of bed or to stay out of bed.  It's what I miss about having a dog.  I had to get up or I wasn't going to like what happened next.  The smell of dog pee doesn't really help the depressed state.  Especially when you know if you don't take said puppy out, you'll have lots more work you don't want to deal with.  Or, if you have irritability issues, know that you will most likely yell at said puppy for your laziness.  Better just to get out of bed and take puppy outside.

I'm almost positive now I'm suffering from PMDD, which is premenstrual dysphoric disorder.

Last week was the perfect example.

On Monday, I went to the doctor, who told me there was nothing wrong with me that losing weight won't cure.  Normally I just roll my eyes.  That day, I just cried all day and I was irrational.  I was quarrelsome as well.  It was just awful.  I was like stop being crazy and I like couldn't stop.  By Wednesday I had stopped crying all the time but was still unhappy.  I started my period on Friday and was fine.  

I'm wondering now if that's what the problem has been all along...

My Fortune

I've been cleaning off the desk my family's computer sits on.  It was thoroughly disgusting and I have nothing better to do....

I found a stack of fortunes from fortune cookies.  I thought I'd post them...

You will win success in whatever you attempt.

You will have many friends when you need them.

Your first choice will bet the wisest to follow at this time.

You will soon get something special because of your charm.

Others love your dramatic side.  

You will be unusually successful in an entertainment career.

Your present plans are going to succeed.

This Offends Me

I can't decide what's wrong with this image. The focus is a bit off, but I didn't take any more pictures of it to correct focus. The image is wrong somehow.

Which Crop?

I can't decide...
Should I crop the image or not?

This is the crop with the focus on the petal with water drops.

This is the full image.

Should I crop somewhere else?

Money (That's What I Want)

Peach Pie

I was at a Farmer's Market and was able to get some bruised peaches on the cheap.  There's only one thing to do with bruised peaches...make peach pie!

Health, Wealth and Happiness

The people I used to work with graciously got me a birthday cake...

I've never had health, wealth and happiness as a birthday wish...

is a hater.

Unless you have been living under a rock, you probably are familiar with controversy over Chick-fil-a.

I have a wide variety of facebook friends and I think my facebook experience and life in general is all the richer for it.  Life is pretty boring and unchallenging if you are only surrounded by people who think and feel as you do.

Yesterday, I lost one of my facebook friends, a former classmate.  On the surface, we seem radically different but I suspect we are more alike than realized.

Yesterday there was a post about how those that support Chick Fil A are on the wrong side of love.  I posted about how it had nothing to do with love and everything to do with being able to express opinions and potentially having businesses barred.  I was informed I was wrong.  When I asked why I was told that I was not fully informed and it was too much trouble to catch me up.  Furthermore I was being a bully.  I apologized as it was not my intention to be bullying.  Then I was told to suck it.

Civilized debate no longer exists.

All I can think about is the Catholic Church.  I'm not necessarily a big fan of it.  However, I've never had anyone in the Catholic Church tell me I was not fully informed and then refuse to explain to me because it was too much trouble or I was too far behind.  I'm thinking of a specific instance where I misunderstood a Church teaching and Fr. B spent an hour explaining it to me so that I could understand.  I think of my social media contacts in the Church who patiently explain or answer questions.  Sure they tell me I don't get it, but they usually explain why they think I don't get it.

I do notice a difference in the quality of the arguments.  I see lots of emotional ploys and current statistics to sway people to this issue.  I've never liked doing the popular thing.  EVER.  Case in point:  this article.  I happen to know gay couples who have divorced rather quickly as well.  My favorite is the gay couple I knew that got married even though they had ceased to love each other.  They believed marriage would fix all that.  They separated 6 months later.  Oh the irony.  The other one I like is that the couples seem so happy.  How could we deny them?  Easy.  We deny many things in the country that people think they need to be happy.

In contrast, my Catholic friends, if you ask them a question about Faith and Morals, you are likely to be referenced to this document, this document, or this argument or what have you.  No kissing pictures necessary.

For me it is not really about whether homosexuals can marry each other legally.  Sure they have as much right to be stuck in miserable marriages just like everyone else.  I am leery of messing around with an institution that has been around in some recognizable form since the dawn of civilization.  Why can't other legal means be tried first? I understand the whole bit about emergency rooms and all that.  I've lied to keep my best friend in the ER with me.  I am leery about what this means for the Catholic Church.  I don't think some people will be satisfied until they see homosexual couples kissing at the altar.

Here's the other thing, I don't think marriage is a right like we understand other rights.  I think of the Catholic Church.  There are all sorts of conditions to exercise your right to get married in the Church.  If you don't meet those conditions, you don't have the right to get married.  If the priest don't agree, you ain't gettin' married.

Perhaps this has fundamentally skewed my understanding of marriage.

I don't know.  I do know calling me a bully does not succeed in changing my mind towards your way of thinking.