Teyrnon

It's been a couple weeks since my last entry here so I thought I'd post one this evening. Things are mostly okay. Not much new to report. The weather lately has been entirely too hot for me. That's one thing I really hate about living in Georgia, these hot humid seemingly endless summer days.

I am getting pretty tired of the door-to-door religion peddlers. Several groups seem to have decided this neighborhood is prime territory for their depredations. Of course they're all some flavor of Christianity or another. I've been able to identify three distinct strains. Jehovah's Witnesses, of course, being one. Another seem to be Mormon-like although if they're Mormons they're being pretty stealthy about not giving it direct reference. The third strain is particularly worrisome to me in that they seem to be trying to push some sort of prosperity gospel nonsense.

My KVM switch seems to have developed a new quirk this past month. The keyboard keeps dropping out when I change computers. Unplugging it from the switch for several seconds has restored it thus far. I should probably seriously start looking into getting a new one. I got this one shortly after I moved to this house and it was the cheapest one I could find. It's a four port KVM and I paid about $20 for it in '04.

The search for an electronic replacement for my paper journal/notebook has ended for now. I found a Toshiba NB305-N310 at a price that I couldn't refuse. It came with Windows XP Home and has a stated battery life of 11 hours. In my initial tests it managed to last 14 hours on a single charge. It's not a perfect solution but it's small and light and it'll do the job for a couple years. Beyond that we'll see what's on the market in 2012.

I've lost track of many friends over the years. The closest friends of my life are long gone by and large. I've been holding on to a very old email address mainly for the hope that anyone I've lost track of in the last decade might try to email me using the last address they had. No matter.

I had a very close friend I knew from about 1990 through 1995. We spent a great deal of time together those years. Then one day she simply vanished. She stopped going to our usual haunts, calling, or even showing up at her job or classes. I tried calling her only to be stonewalled by her family. There was an incident with a Pentecostal faith healer that I've long suspected had something to do with her sudden disappearance. She had a few health issues she was taking medication for. Atleast one was a fairly serious psychiatric condition. The last time I saw her this idiot of a faith healer was putting on quite the act and telling her to throw away all her medication. Unfortunately, at the time something else had come up and I had to leave to deal with it. In retrospect I wish I'd stayed around to talk to her. It was the last time I ever saw her.

Long story short, recently while researching something else I ran across her obituary from '96.