Everything is Everyone and Each One is All
5 October 2009
Sometimes, you can win and lose at the same time. It was an innocent thing at first. We went to a free fair by Frontier Computing Vision. There were all kinds of products and services demonstrated in the basement convention center of the Indigo Hotel in downtown Ottawa. We saw about forty of the total of about one hundred and fifty guests who attended the fair during the course of it's two day event.
About two weeks after the the Frontier Computing Vision Fair, Peter answered a call from a representative of Frontier Computing Vision. Apparently, Peter was a runner-up winner of a gift. The gift was a new Dell 20 inch flat screen monitor. A courier would deliver the prize as soon as possible. In fact, at about 9:00 am the next morning, a courier did arrive to deliver the new Dell flat screen monitor.
The new Dell flat screen monitor did sit in it's fancy cardboard box for the rest of the week. On Sunday afternoon, the urge to merge was evident in some activity to begin the process of moving a new 20 inch HP plug and play monitor from it's position to make way for the new Dell flat screen monitor.
I began cleaning Peter's desktop around the very large and heavy HP plug and play monitor. Peter took a test lift on the brute of a monitor and decided that it might be more prudent to keep the monitor he had and let me have the new flat screen monitor to replace my old and dying monitor.
I worked away at cleaning, unplugging cables and wires, and packing a box full of items from clearing off my own desktop. About two hours after I started my efforts, I decided to break for my daily bath. I filled the tub and began my habit of washing the three cats we have. I was shaking with fatigue and really needed to stop to rest my overworked body.
About half way through washing cats, I was called back into the computer room. My bath was poured, suds floating on the surface of very hot water just waiting for me, one cat waiting impatiently for my attention, and I wandered off to help Peter with moving the monitors. Even the cats couldn't believe that I would interrupt my habit of paying them attention by washing them in preparing for my bath.
It was inevitable that my old monitor would be replaced, but the question was whether it would be the new Dell flat screen monitor or the new HP plug and play monitor. I went through the trouble of plugging in the new Dell flat screen monitor on my desktop and then turning on Super Stupid, my four year old Asus 2500+ mhz motherboard powered personal computer. Would you believe that Super Stupid, my faithful and really capable PC would not light up the monitor without the installation of new video card drivers. Thank you.
The lazy plan of placing the new monitor as we had intended wasn't going to work out as easily as we had planned. We would have to give the new Dell monitor to Peter and I would take the new HP plug and play monitor. The only trouble we had left to surmount was the fact that my desk had a top shelf that was three inches too low to allow the HP monitor to sit on the back half of the desktop. You know it would have to be something that we would have never thought of to defeat what we had planned.
The top shelf of my desk has about two boxfuls of stuff, sundry and various, sitting in a heaped pile on it. I would have to pack all of the boxes, cases, CD's, cans, and other stuff into another location. I sighed and after an hour and a half worth of effort expended already, returned to my cooled and waiting bath. I really needed a rest by that time, if only to cool my temper more than my bath. Right.
My bath had cooled quite a bit by the time I returned to it. I called the cat I had been washing when I was so untimely interrupted. Poor Mr. T was ever so happy to be called back so I could pick up where I had left off. I had soaked him with suds and only partially dried him before I had left for the computer room. Now, I resoaked him with more suds and resumed washing him. He loved attention and I was doing my best to make up for the interruption.
I washed Mr. T and petted him dry in about twenty minutes. It was a small thing for me to pay such lavish attention to the intelligent and obedient indoor cats. Then, it was Twister's turn for me to wash and pet dry. I had to whistle and call her a few times before she came to me. We played tag with my kimono belt for a few minutes before I started actually washing her. I spent a long time with her too, knowing that she had been sitting down in the livingroom at my spot on the couch while waiting for whatever. How nice that I was now doing what I was supposed to be doing so long before. Ha!
I had to drain out most of my tub full of sudsy water before refilling it with straight hot water. I stripped off and eased myself into the hot water of my bath. I lit a cigarette, sipped fresh coffee that wasn't as hot as my bath, and laid back to relax completely. I did manage to smoke over half of my cigarette before I fell asleep in my hot water bath.
Perhaps an hour passed while my cigarette butt floated in the water beside me. I woke in tepid water, sipped cold cup of coffee and then lit a cigarette. During my movements, I spotted the floating cigarette butt. I fished it out and put the soggy mess into the ashtray at the head of the bathtub. The next thing I did was to towel dry and drag myself into the bedroom where I slowly dressed.
The next thing I remember was going back into the computer room. I set about picking up where I had left off. I plugged in the massive HP plug and play monitor, hooked up the cable to Super Stupid and turned everything on. Believe it or not, Super Stupid started flawlessly for the first time since early in the summer when a new harddrive had been installed. Apparently, Super Stupid didn't need updated video card drivers for the old style plug and play TV sized monitor. Next.
It took a bit for Peter to get used to his new flat screen monitor. There were a few differences that were immediately noticed. It isn't big and heavy like the new HP plug and play monitor, nor was there the big square face of glass to look at. Peter does like the look that DVD movies have when they are played in the wide screen mode. And, Peter admits that the flat screen monitor does have about the same resolution for his viewing pleasure as the massive HP monitor did.
Meanwhile, I have a huge monitor sitting half way out of the place it should be on my desktop. There is barely enough flat space to rest my keyboard with only two inches of overhang on the desktop. Most of the available desktop space I used to have is now occupied by the out of place monitor that dominates my desktop. I have so much to do before I can move the HP monitor into position to free up my desktop space.
I can summarize the past twelve hours with the results of my efforts to get back to where I was with a few simple words. Unfortunately, they are not repeatable. And, my tired body longs for the bed as much as I want to sniff my pillow. I am so tired that I shake when I think of trying to hold something, even my cigarette.
I think I have managed to get Super Stupid working properly now. I am also thinking of the box of stuff packed into the box sitting on the floor beside me instead of sitting on my desktop. Then, there is the matter of the two boxes of stuff that have yet to be packed to be able to move the top shelf of my desk. Tomorrow. I have to quit now, just to resume my efforts tomorrow. It has been a long day and I am finished, even with this, finally.
About two weeks after the the Frontier Computing Vision Fair, Peter answered a call from a representative of Frontier Computing Vision. Apparently, Peter was a runner-up winner of a gift. The gift was a new Dell 20 inch flat screen monitor. A courier would deliver the prize as soon as possible. In fact, at about 9:00 am the next morning, a courier did arrive to deliver the new Dell flat screen monitor.
The new Dell flat screen monitor did sit in it's fancy cardboard box for the rest of the week. On Sunday afternoon, the urge to merge was evident in some activity to begin the process of moving a new 20 inch HP plug and play monitor from it's position to make way for the new Dell flat screen monitor.
I began cleaning Peter's desktop around the very large and heavy HP plug and play monitor. Peter took a test lift on the brute of a monitor and decided that it might be more prudent to keep the monitor he had and let me have the new flat screen monitor to replace my old and dying monitor.
I worked away at cleaning, unplugging cables and wires, and packing a box full of items from clearing off my own desktop. About two hours after I started my efforts, I decided to break for my daily bath. I filled the tub and began my habit of washing the three cats we have. I was shaking with fatigue and really needed to stop to rest my overworked body.
About half way through washing cats, I was called back into the computer room. My bath was poured, suds floating on the surface of very hot water just waiting for me, one cat waiting impatiently for my attention, and I wandered off to help Peter with moving the monitors. Even the cats couldn't believe that I would interrupt my habit of paying them attention by washing them in preparing for my bath.
It was inevitable that my old monitor would be replaced, but the question was whether it would be the new Dell flat screen monitor or the new HP plug and play monitor. I went through the trouble of plugging in the new Dell flat screen monitor on my desktop and then turning on Super Stupid, my four year old Asus 2500+ mhz motherboard powered personal computer. Would you believe that Super Stupid, my faithful and really capable PC would not light up the monitor without the installation of new video card drivers. Thank you.
The lazy plan of placing the new monitor as we had intended wasn't going to work out as easily as we had planned. We would have to give the new Dell monitor to Peter and I would take the new HP plug and play monitor. The only trouble we had left to surmount was the fact that my desk had a top shelf that was three inches too low to allow the HP monitor to sit on the back half of the desktop. You know it would have to be something that we would have never thought of to defeat what we had planned.
The top shelf of my desk has about two boxfuls of stuff, sundry and various, sitting in a heaped pile on it. I would have to pack all of the boxes, cases, CD's, cans, and other stuff into another location. I sighed and after an hour and a half worth of effort expended already, returned to my cooled and waiting bath. I really needed a rest by that time, if only to cool my temper more than my bath. Right.
My bath had cooled quite a bit by the time I returned to it. I called the cat I had been washing when I was so untimely interrupted. Poor Mr. T was ever so happy to be called back so I could pick up where I had left off. I had soaked him with suds and only partially dried him before I had left for the computer room. Now, I resoaked him with more suds and resumed washing him. He loved attention and I was doing my best to make up for the interruption.
I washed Mr. T and petted him dry in about twenty minutes. It was a small thing for me to pay such lavish attention to the intelligent and obedient indoor cats. Then, it was Twister's turn for me to wash and pet dry. I had to whistle and call her a few times before she came to me. We played tag with my kimono belt for a few minutes before I started actually washing her. I spent a long time with her too, knowing that she had been sitting down in the livingroom at my spot on the couch while waiting for whatever. How nice that I was now doing what I was supposed to be doing so long before. Ha!
I had to drain out most of my tub full of sudsy water before refilling it with straight hot water. I stripped off and eased myself into the hot water of my bath. I lit a cigarette, sipped fresh coffee that wasn't as hot as my bath, and laid back to relax completely. I did manage to smoke over half of my cigarette before I fell asleep in my hot water bath.
Perhaps an hour passed while my cigarette butt floated in the water beside me. I woke in tepid water, sipped cold cup of coffee and then lit a cigarette. During my movements, I spotted the floating cigarette butt. I fished it out and put the soggy mess into the ashtray at the head of the bathtub. The next thing I did was to towel dry and drag myself into the bedroom where I slowly dressed.
The next thing I remember was going back into the computer room. I set about picking up where I had left off. I plugged in the massive HP plug and play monitor, hooked up the cable to Super Stupid and turned everything on. Believe it or not, Super Stupid started flawlessly for the first time since early in the summer when a new harddrive had been installed. Apparently, Super Stupid didn't need updated video card drivers for the old style plug and play TV sized monitor. Next.
It took a bit for Peter to get used to his new flat screen monitor. There were a few differences that were immediately noticed. It isn't big and heavy like the new HP plug and play monitor, nor was there the big square face of glass to look at. Peter does like the look that DVD movies have when they are played in the wide screen mode. And, Peter admits that the flat screen monitor does have about the same resolution for his viewing pleasure as the massive HP monitor did.
Meanwhile, I have a huge monitor sitting half way out of the place it should be on my desktop. There is barely enough flat space to rest my keyboard with only two inches of overhang on the desktop. Most of the available desktop space I used to have is now occupied by the out of place monitor that dominates my desktop. I have so much to do before I can move the HP monitor into position to free up my desktop space.
I can summarize the past twelve hours with the results of my efforts to get back to where I was with a few simple words. Unfortunately, they are not repeatable. And, my tired body longs for the bed as much as I want to sniff my pillow. I am so tired that I shake when I think of trying to hold something, even my cigarette.
I think I have managed to get Super Stupid working properly now. I am also thinking of the box of stuff packed into the box sitting on the floor beside me instead of sitting on my desktop. Then, there is the matter of the two boxes of stuff that have yet to be packed to be able to move the top shelf of my desk. Tomorrow. I have to quit now, just to resume my efforts tomorrow. It has been a long day and I am finished, even with this, finally.
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