freeing a soul
: august 2002
8.28.2002
deep satisfaction
there is something beautiful about spending 2 hours troubleshooting
a network connectivity problem on david's laptop and finally winning.
was it the dongle?
was it the network card?
was it his computer's pc card slots?
no driver disks? ok. we'll download.
no floppy? ok, we'll burn them.
no win 98 disk? ok, we'll download drivers and burn.
is it the card? is it the dongle? is it the slots? (this is sounding
dirty!)
in the end, it was a dongle that was bad.
and lo and behold, we had another card and corresponding dongle.
and i had the patience to get the drivers downloaded and installed.
while crashing constantly.
yup, i am a rockstar.
posted by belen 11:29 PM
8.26.2002
the newest member
meet the newest member of lish's household! he doesn't have a name
yet, but we are working on it :) he is about 3-4 months old and came
from the uhmane society. this should satisfy my baby kitty urges for
a while :)
posted by belen 10:47 AM
8.19.2002
doing my good deed
my life is such a balancing act :)
this morning i was posting porn to newsgroups to promote our pay sites...
this afternoon, i spent $500 supporting Planned Parenthood.
why? you ask...
well, here is the deal. i have insurance. but what that guarantees
me is that when i have to go for that wonderful annual gynocologist
exam that women *love*, i have to wait 6 weeks to get an appointment
with a dr i don't know (because i am always moving). i visit said dr
and have an incredibly impersonal experience. i pay the $30 copay, and
then somehow, i end up paying another $40 or so for tests that the insurance
won't cover. then i pay $25 for each pack of pills, and i can't get
more than 1 pack at a time without a hassle (for those of us who are
not always next to their local pharmacy).
and all that joy costs me about $400.
*OR*
i could call Planned Parenthood, get an appointment for next week.
i go in, fill out some forms, and meet a dr who is there donating her
time because she whole-heartedly believes in what she is supporting.
i talk with her about things like traditional medicine vs. homeopathic,
the various new things going on in oral contraceptives, and decide that
i would like to try the consecutive pills (which means i take active
pills for 3 months and then give my body a break). then i go to the
front, pay the $150 for her time and support of the clinic and buy 16
packs of pills (for my consecutive pill experiment) *all at once*, and
wha-la! i have my entire year of feminine health taken care of, as well
as having a pleasant experience at an establishment i feel good about
supporting.
in addition, instead of keeping my higher insurance that covers part
of my pills, i am dropping to a lower insurance (almost 1/2 the cost)
since i don't have to worry about getting my pills for the next year.
the whole thing just makes me feel better about the universe :)
posted by belen 4:56 PM
8.4.2002
st. helen's pictures
here are the pics from our camping trip. if you want the description,
you need to go see my
livejournal (since i am a cheating whore)
Mt. St. Helens pics
the trees in our campsite:
dogdog holding our camping pass:
camping belen, a self-portrait
posted by belen 10:52 PM
8.2.2002
the agony, the joy
so much today!
first, i had to endure the agony of doing something i *swore* i would
never ever do.
i put frontpage on my machine so i could work on a client's really
awful site.
and the thing was so fucked up and FP was SO FUCKING BAD that i stripped
the html of all tags and killed all reference to FP after fighting it
for 2 hours.
i hate fontpage.
but my day had the biggest perk ever.
dre is having a rather rough time of it, so we bought him a ticket
to come see us!!!
aug 10-14, dre is mine! <MWAHAHAHHAHAH>
we are gonna do some theraputic camping :)
i want to burble on, but i have work to get done before we head to
mt st helens to campr for the weekend :):):)
posted by belen 3:22 PM
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