kNOw Thyself…

“Future upgrades to WordPress.com Stats will only be available in Jetpack. Jetpack connects your blog to the WordPress.com cloud, enabling awesome features.”

Urmmm.. not sure I like the sound of that. Many IT folks have a big issue with these whole “Cloud” computer things, feeling they gather too much information on  people and store it and/or sell it to third parties. Especially scathing this week was the review on Amazon’s new Kindle, the Kindle Fire. The consensus was that it was a completely breach of privacy, and did not fully and obviously disclose what was stored (everything, EVERYTHING, browsing history, location, network, IP address… more than I’d like to be sending out through a BOOK reader…) and what Amazon was going to do with that information.

Now, yes, I get the premise. Clouds allow you to store information in a central location, and then get it from anywhere, put it anywhere. Great idea. I’m just wondering how this will work with WordPress. So far, the reviews are not what I’d like. I tend to not ever install anything that is rated less than 5 stars, because I know that the people who have problems usually complain. If nobody complains, then it is worth getting (which is at least 2-3 patches, or updates, or whatever done to the sites that are new).

The thing is, I don’t want to lose all of this again. The hosting company had this site down for two weeks from some error THEY did when changing servers and software. So I’m not really keen on seeing how they handle the newest version of WordPress, really. I guess time will tell.

Okay, yes, I know that the hospital (car dealership service department) is doing everything it can to properly diagnose and treat (identify the issue and fix the car) my beautiful blue car… but it has been three weeks, and I miss her! And now she’s all the way up in Kalamazoo, Michigan getting operations! She is homesick and tired of strangers and icky hospital food! Every day it is “Hopefully _______ will fix the problem” and every day, nope, that didn’t work, let’s try something else. Frustrated? You bet. But at the same time, I am VERY grateful to Cody and the other people working on my car, and that they were kind enough to give me a loaner car so I would not be without transportation, that was a real Godsend! I just still want my blue car back! *sigh*. “All good things come to those who wait”.  I’d sure like to know who said that, and smack them. I’m no good at waiting! I stink at waiting! Okay, not completely. I can wait in a Barnes and Noble for anyone to do anything, and still want to stay “waiting” longer, hee hee.

Still… I am crossing my fingers that this newest part they ordered that should arrive this afternoon, fixes the problem and they can bring her home. If not… well I’ll probably rant some more, lol. Of course, I don’t want to drive the car when something is wrong, so I completely understand them wanting to get to the bottom of the issue, but my issue is more financial worry. So far it is over $2,000.00 and honestly, I do not have that kind of money. I have no idea how I will get it. But, the other option is to have yet another car up and die on me, and I like this one too much, and it is too new, to do that. So, I guess I’ll figure something out, somehow…. (Stargate Atlantis joke: “Somebody do something to help someone, somehow, somewhere, sometime!”)

Down. Up. Down. Up. Down…. and here I stay. For now.

Car breaks. Can’t find a new one, finally find a gorgeous new one, and then she gets sick (breaks) and is in the hospital (service dept), has undergone multiple operations (Uh, I severely dislike the word the service folks used, so let’s leave it at operations), and a root diagnosis is still not forthcoming. On the semi-up side, after over a week of promising this was IT, the car WOULD be ready tomorrow… and then it not being ready tomorrow, they gave me a loaner car. Mercury Milan. Nice car, but it isn’t my Jag, and I miss her. Plus, she said hospital food stinks. I think my mother might agree, as will I.

Sick… get better, get sicker, get better-ish… get “flu” shot, because I am very susceptible to getting quite ill at this point… Well, I just want to smack someone… the “mild flu-like symptoms” they tell you that you may experience… yeah. Not mild.

So, after reading something, I dare not hope, dare not dream, that someone I’ve been looking for for over 8 years after falling out of touch, could be an email away. I did send the email, but nothing, I didn’t want to even turn on my computer. If it isn’t that person, I’d either get no reply or a “Lady, you’re nuts” reply. If it IS the person I’m praying it is… well, there is no possible way I could catch up via text, or even where to start, or how, or… and it would be one heck of a long phone call, hours, I mean, we would spend hours on the phone when we lived nearby each other! lol.

So nope. Not gonna hope. NOT getting hopes up. Every single time in the past two months I have gotten my hopes up, they have been shot down within a week.

And while physically, I am feeling a little better, well enough to go get the medication I need… all night it has been pouring down rain so the roads are very wet and slippery. I’m driving an unfamiliar loaner car, and it has pretty bad tires, is only front wheel drive, and the pharmacy I have to go to is over an hour’s drive away.  Yeah… So I’m unable to get the medications, because gosh, go figure, I’m not willing to risk wrecking the hospital’s car, when my “baby” (baby = car – no people, not a real baby, please do not send me hate mail)  is still in their care, lol.

So another day of “hopefully tomorrow” turns to “Well, ain’t happenin’ today, no way.”. At least I’m not throwing up every half hour like the past week.  I guess we could look at that as a bright spot…

I mean, yes, all things happen for a reason. I get that. I also get I can’t understand those reasons or fathom them. But honestly? I’m tired. Bone, weary, worn out, tired of the constant maybe hoping, then dashed hopes, with no good news.

I am carrying on. Just probably not as well as some may. But under it all are the other issues I had. So this is adding to stress and pain and it is rather difficult to live daily in pain, for anyone who has never had the pleasure, I mean, displeasure…

Prayers, good thoughts, well wishes, whatever you believe in. I could use them.

(P.S. Speaking of bright spots… our sun is spitting out some major sun spots and solar flares. So if your cell phone goes wonky for a few hours today, blame it on the concussive shockwave from the last huge flare. In other words: “It is the sun’s fault”. That’s always a good excuse, and who can argue? It is right there in the news! )