My tweets

• Fri, 16:32: Forging ahead http://t.co/hqyzaVF4
• Fri, 17:23: U.S. budget deficit shrinks by over $200 billion, reaches 4-year low http://t.co/2c6GAllv via @maddow
• Fri, 17:27: Paul Krugman: Triumph of the Wrong? http://t.co/GOsLUFAG
• Sat, 10:09: RT @Skilling: Lake Michigan is down 14" from a yr ago & has tied the record for the lowest Oct water level set in 1964 according to ...
• Sat, 10:19: RT @justinemusk: what Madonna did + why the pursuit of your dream is your sacred obligation | Justine Musk http://t.co/ipuCEf9K

In other news

It’s raining. Gonna rain most all the weekend. We do need it. The Lake is down 14″ to the lowest level since the mid-60s while closer to home–as in, my basement–the sump pump well has been so dry so long that it has become quite the spiderarium. But the lawn has thinned enough in spots that the pups track muddy footprints when they return from bathroom breaks, and chilly&soggy is just my least favorite weather condition ever. Which makes one wonder why in hell it’s my dream to move to the PacNorWet.

All I can say is that mountains trump chilly&soggy. Portland&Seattle trump chilly&soggy.

Weekend point to ponder–am I the only person who has absolutely no issues using both Macs and PCs? I switched from PCs to Macs in the early 00′s in order to avoid infestations, and had no difficulty making the OS transition. Used PCs at the day job, and never felt a speedbump. OK, the backspace keyless MacBook keyboard trips me up every so often. When I return to PC-ville, I lose half a sentence before I remember where I am, but I think that the deletion of the MacBook Backspace key was done for space-saving reasons rather than to accommodate differences in language.

Anyway, I know some people have Definite Views–no need to restate them here. Mine have faded over time. In the interest of economy, I would even buy a PC laptop as a back-up system if I decided to return to Word or write purely in rtf or found some other word processing program that worked seamlessly between Mac and PC. I like working in Scrivener, but I’m not 100% committed to it.

Mirrored from Kristine Smith.