The Family

Nathan said that Pat failed his stress test…  The doctor told him he was strong as a horse, but that something was wrong and he could not figure out what it was from this test.  They are checking Pat in to the hospital and observing him thru the weekend.  On Monday they are going to do that test that involves radioactive dye and getting a 3d image of the heart beating before and after stress.  If that one does not show the doctor what he needs, he plans on a third test.  Nathan said next test involves making a cast or something.  :)   Somehow i doubt if they are making a cast…  but who knows.
It sounds like they are being thorough…   like the doctor is taking Pat seriously.  And hopefully, tomorrow i can call and talk directly to Pat.

The only update i have is that the number that i was given to reach Andrea, her cell phone, is not working. And i cannot reach her at home because they have changed their home number and Pat did not give me the new one because he is not there anyway, and it would be better to reach him on his cell. So i will just have to wait. They seem to be keeping us informed thru Nathan. I will call him tonight.

Just an interesting note. Carrie has been trying to get into the message board. She says the password does not work and she keeps getting messages about java something and other confusing things. Seems she has been following the link that i have on my geocities page to get there… only i did not put a link on my geicities page. She said, yes i did, and went to my page to tell me what it was called… and there it was, just like she said… whiteboard.  🙂   So we talked and Carrie is now a registered white family message board user.

I had thought about putting a whiteboard on the family site. Had forgotten about that…..

I’ve seen comments around here about not seeing updates on a website, waiting a while, coming back and seeing so many new posts it’s almost embarrassing. Well, I’m going to help you out by giving you a little bit of online education. MMmmmm…. edumication…Before we begin, I’m going to make a few assumptions. First, you use firefox. Internet Explorer 6 need not apply. (and, unless they make some changes, Internet Explorer 7 can go away too). Mozilla/Opera/Safari have things similiar to what I’m going to talk about, but I don’t use those browsers. Second, you know how to use bookmarks. If you don’t… wow. You must have a great memory. Third, you are ready to learn about the wonders of RSS Feeds.

Ready? Let’s go get some learnin on!

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Carrie just called….. said that Nathan called her to tell her that Patrick is in the hospital. He (Pat) thinks he had a heart attack. Pain in the chest, shortness of breath, numb left arm… sounds like a heart attack to me. Of course i can’t reach Pat. They make people turn their cell phones off in hospitals and i don’t know where he is (or if he has even been officially checked in). Apparently this happened about an hour ago.
It’s not unexpected, but it is still upsetting.

I got some signals mixed up. Every time Christina having a blog is mentioned, Christina says something like, “oh i am just ranting about work,” or “it’ nothing.”

I want to read Christina’s blog. I really do… but i also want to give her her privacy, and what i pick up from Christina’s reaction to my reading her blog, is “I would really rather you not go there… it is not really written for you, but i can’t exactly say that because i don’t want to hurt your feelings and, after all, it is right out there in cyberspace for all to see.” So when I have started to go to her blog, I think… well… I know that i can….. but i do not want to intrude. Everyone needs privacy. As i said a couple of posts ago, if i were to put a blog online i do not think i would tell my brothers and sisters. It is not that i do not want to share with them as much as it is that I would like to be selective about what i share with who. It does not matter what my motives are… It only matters that if i wrote a blog, it would not be “to” them. It would be “for” me. I would want to be completely honest. Being completely honest can hurt feelings. Being completely honest can set those who love you on a rescue mission too, if they think you are on a wrong road.

So, i have always chosen to not read.
Today i……. well, frankly, it is not fair that Ramona can read her blog all the time and i can’t, and i have been TOLD that i can… so, by George, i am going to. If i run across anything I think Christina would rather i not read, then i will stop and not mention it. I make this deal with myself.

And i find, in Christina’s blog, exactly Christina. The honesty that one finds in a blog is so much of what attracts me to them… some of them, anyway. I find her worrying about things that bother her and ranting about things that make her mad. I read about her finding her place in the world and finding where her place is definately not….
Actually i found nothing in the blog that i did not already know…. it is just that as i sat here and read the whole thing, it became more and more obvious that Christina had been saying, “You don’t have to read my blog… i don’t want to make you feel obligated…” or perhaps, simply, “I am embarassed that we are talking about this.”   And i misunderstood.
Christina…… I thoroughly enjoyed your blog……..

Here’s a can of worms that people are going to just love having around.  I introduce to you Zillow.com

Now you can happily go, enter an address, and find out just what houses in that area have been going for.  Isn’t that nice?  Now anyone can get an idea of what your home is worth!

It is sooooo good to come here and find so many messages to read and respond to!

I wish my family would use the White family board.

The other day, I went to the White family board and left a message for about the 4th time without anyone else having left a message… I wanted to say things that would be better left unsaid if anybody were to come to the board and read it. I really wanted to say those things! I was frustrated. I thought, “If I had my own blog I could vent all I wanted” (and chances are nobody would ever read it because i do not think i would tell anybody about my blog.) 🙂 So i bought a domain name. thecornerofmylivingroom.com. I still like it. It is where i am when i am on the computer and it has the flavor i wanted. (Sooo many names like that were already taken.)

Whether to set up a blog for myself is there in the back of my mind now. Even though i have done nothing with it, it is cool to have my own domain name. Right now the decisions i am cogitating over are whether to do it, and whether to host it with the whitefamily site (as an add-on domain) or to buy my own space. Chris, how hard is it to move a blog with contents?

Having a blog has always appealed to me. You know how much i love to talk and lecture and give people the benefit of my wisdom. 🙂

I like the “make a post” link in the sidebar.

Well, I think I have a problem… a real problem…. And i suspect Penelope.

Yesterday i went to the sewing room and found a cat pile. It was a little dried out so i did not know for sure when it was made, and i could not remember for sure if the door to that room had been closed. It could have been that one of the cats got shut up back there when the urge struck. I know that nobody has been shut up back there so long that they could not have held it but i gave the benefit of the doubt, cleaned it up, and saturated the area thoroghly with enzyme stuff.

Today there was another pile near where i found the first one. I know, this time, that the door has not been closed. I cleaned it and saturated the spot, but i cannot ignore it this time. I have a problem.

I suspect Penelope because she seems to be the one most likely to not like sharing a dirt box, but it could be ano of them. I am watching.

I can’t ignore this. I thought maybe i should put a dirt box back there, even though i do not want to. Then i thought that if i do and the problem is that i have a cat who does not like to use the community bathroom, it would not do any good. All 3 would be delighted to find an new place to poop.

I could keep the door to that room closed (though closing it is going to mean telling Luke why) but if the offender is not wanting to use the public pathroom, she (or he) will just start going somewhere else. I am being very careful to keep the dirt box outside clean, but it has been clean for the last few weeks. ( I have sometimes neglected it till it was pretty lumpy.) sigh……… Do you have any suggestions?