I'm back after my long visit home. Counting layovers and travel, it took me close to twenty-four hours to get back. I've spend the last four days recuperating and trying to get my internal clock resynchronized. My father's cancer is popping up all over, but my mother's thankfully hasn't gotten any worse. My husband and I have moved into a new place, so I've had the task of slowly unpacking and organizing our things to contend with, as well as travel exhaustion. On the brighter side of things, the website now has a forum available...hooray! I'm going to be working on more chapters as I try to organize the house and continue my search for a job. I hope everyone had a great holiday and new year, and happy St. Patrick's day for those who celibrate it!
I've got three days left before I fly home. I've been so busy planning everything and trying to find out solid information concerning baggage restrictions that I've had precious little time for writing. I've managed to write most of the next chapter of "Fiend of Mine" but haven't had time to edit it, yet. I should have more time to write once I've arrived in the US and have recuperated from traveling. In the meantime, here's a funny that I found concerning Bill Gates' comparison between computers and the automotive industry. At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If General Motors had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon." In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics (and I just love this part): 1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day. 2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car. 3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this. 4. Occasionally, executing a manoeuvre such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine. 5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads. 6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light. 7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying. 8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the Radio antenna. 9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car. 10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.
I just found out today that my mother's cancer has returned, this time in the form of a mass on her spinal cord. It's too early to know if she has it anywhere else, but I'm going to organize a trip home to be with her and help her for a few months. I don't know exactly when I'll be going or how long I'll be away, but I want to be there over the holidays. I have a laptop now, so I'll still be able to write when I have the time. I'll also have access to the internet while staying with my parents, so I will continue to update while I'm over there. I can't promise to pump out new chapters every week, but I do promise that I will update whenever possible. Hopefully my creativity doesn't suffer a blow this time...depression makes motivation sluggish. When I have further information concerning when I'm going and how long I'll be away, I'll post it. We're going to the Flight Center tomorrow to look at options and costs.
