I read something this morning that made me smile. It is from a review of

"The Secret Parts of Fortune:
Three Decades of Intense Investigations and Edgy Enthusiasms"

by Ron Rosenbaum

I'd give you all a bigger piece, but this is all I thought to clip at the time: "Rosenbaum is rougher with Bill Gates; he lights into the billionaire's fabled high-tech home, which he says "exhibits the distinctive feature of the totalitarian mind: the inability to distinguish between private and public spheres. It suggests this isn't just the way he wants to run his house, it's the way he wants to run the world: total surveillance, enforced entertainment, everyone isolated in programmable pods." End of quote.


I thought of that as I cranked up my Linux Box this morning. The windows box invited something to update itself, and I discovered that, unbeknown to me, the Windows computer has been saving a second copy of everything it receives. Documents, Programs, everything, in two completely separate places. So my 16 Gigabyte partition cranked to a stop because there were only 840k of room available. Not enough to even boot up. My Computer Wizard can't come for a couple of weeks. Hurray for Linux.

I know that everything works fine in Windows and Internet Explorer for everyone else, but occasionally, Windows gives me a few little problems. Like this one.

I have not sought out lots of entertainment since my sister died.
I'm doing a lot of reading, praying, thinking, singing, breathing on purpose. That's how I get through things. Little by little I'm making my way back.

"The Secret Parts of Fortune:
Three Decades of Intense Investigations and Edgy Enthusiasms" by Ron Rosenbaum is going on my list of reading to get to. It should actually come up to the top of the current list about November.
Maybe you might enjoy it sooner?

Comments:

Quite interesting... glad you're doing better. Smiling is good!

Sounds like an interesting book