After Midnight

Meditation has become an important part of my life. A dear friend and mentor has put me in touch with an expert so I might take the heightened sense of awareness to the next level. This could be great or it could go horrendously wrong. My friend says this woman can provide me with additional “tools” for more consistent meditations. Things will be just fine as long as no one has confused the term “tools” with the word rules. Tools are OK with me, rules are another story. I never met a rule I didn’t bend, break or twist and that always gets me in trouble with someone. Yes, I know, good luck with that!

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I’ve also become quite the candle collector, the one in the photo is black cherry scented, very relaxing.

Well, about as close to normal as it ever gets around here. Last evening I was out shopping for candle holders, I’ve come to enjoy the peaceful flicker and soft fragrances of scented candles during meditation. As luck would have it my local Target store was stocked with a wealth of goodies far exceeding my limited budget. I returned home with a Lilac scented pillar, a red unscented pillar and some long white candle sticks. (Sorry no pictures yet.)

I was no sooner in the front door and to the top of the stairs then my roommate began complaining about network drop outs. I sat down with a fresh cup of coffee to see what was going on. Without anyone touching anything one monitor flashes network cable unplugged and resets itself before I can even begin to look for a loose cable. A few seconds later the other monitor does the exact same thing. Hmmm, just what I need gremlins. My days of running down gremlins are long since passed. I’ve got coffee and I’ve got time, I can wait.  It only took about half an hour, the router crashed. Two hot resets, three power downs and back up, gremlins captured, router dead.

I’ve been thinking about adding wireless anyway, no time like the present. Back out,  this time to walmart and back home with a brand new netgear wireless router. Out with the old in with the new. The install wizard ran out of magic half way through the setup process leaving me on my own with a manual config screen.  The rest of the setup was fairly easy, defiantly not rocket science. I left out one letter in the 26 character wireless log on, once I figured that out I could access everything just fine with the netbook. I really do like that little thing it works anywhere and it works extremely well.

As my insane world slowly returns to its typical level of insanity I thought I might share with you one more reason I really dislike most people. As most of you know I recently moved to a new apartment at the invitation of my landlord. What I didn’t tell you was why my roommate, her whole family and I decided to move so quickly. Here is the rest of the story:

Once we accepted the new apartment my landlord asked if we would show the old one to to one of his other tenants. A bit later what seemed to be a nice couple drove up in a brand new very expensive looking SUV. We showed them the apartment and they looked it over top to bottom. They told us they had to move ASAP because their daughter was being bullied in their current location. Naturally my roommate and I as well as our landlord felt bad for them and wanted to do everything we could to accommodate them. Trying to be a good person and against my doctors orders I agreed to get out of the old place as quickly as possible so they could move in. As I said in my last entry we were out in 12 days. The next day the landlord had the place redecorated for them and they moved in two days later.

Yesterday I bump into my old upstairs neighbor who is now also moving. It seems the people we were so desperately trying to help turned out to be first class ingrates and down right ass holes. The first thing the told my old upstairs neighbor was that he had to get his lawn chairs and table off their front porch. Their front porch? I guess they never learned about common areas of rental properties. The next thing the said was what slobs my roommate and I were since we didn’t clean the windows before we moved out. That’s what we get for trying to be nice. Not a thank you, now our daughter is safe, Not even a nod of appreciation for moving so fast to help THEM out.

Well that’s gratitude for you, I guess.