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Pictures, questions, and a how do you do
14 years ago
Don't expect this to make one lick o' sense. I would hate to dash your dreams from your mind and throw them to the fishes in the lake. But, hey! That's what expectations do.
So, I was going through my old hard drive - was originally the internal HD for desktop, but is now relegated to duty as external for my laptop - and, low and behold!, I found a cache of old pictures. These pictures are from the first -and, as of yet, only- furcon I went to, FWA '09. I recognize a few suiters in them, but mostly I have no clue who they are. There are even a couple videos of of the Fursuit Games volley ball games they had while I was there that day.
So, first question: should I spend some time and upload the better of the pictures over the next couple weeks? Or just leave them trapped on my old HD?
And, for the couple people who may keep some semblance of interest in my sporadic journal postings or talk to me outside FA, I am out of the hospital. I have been since December 29th, actually...just haven't posted to say so. After two weeks in the hospital, they released me - more confused and baffled as to why my lung function dropped than before I went. During the second week, I found out that the only [unexpected, as I always grow staff] infection I had was a bacterium known as Bordetella bronchiseptica. Yes, those who keep up with veterinary medicine, that is Kennel Cough.
I caught a non-human pathogen that typically only affects canines - tell me I wasn't meant to be a furry! hahaha
But the infection was not even serious enough to account for the lung function decrease. And my function is yet to rise back to the level it was stable for the past several years - and my doc doesn't expect it ever will be. [sarcasm] So, that's great news for me...[/sarcasm]
So, how are all of y'all? Good, I trust?
So, first question: should I spend some time and upload the better of the pictures over the next couple weeks? Or just leave them trapped on my old HD?
And, for the couple people who may keep some semblance of interest in my sporadic journal postings or talk to me outside FA, I am out of the hospital. I have been since December 29th, actually...just haven't posted to say so. After two weeks in the hospital, they released me - more confused and baffled as to why my lung function dropped than before I went. During the second week, I found out that the only [unexpected, as I always grow staff] infection I had was a bacterium known as Bordetella bronchiseptica. Yes, those who keep up with veterinary medicine, that is Kennel Cough.
I caught a non-human pathogen that typically only affects canines - tell me I wasn't meant to be a furry! hahaha
But the infection was not even serious enough to account for the lung function decrease. And my function is yet to rise back to the level it was stable for the past several years - and my doc doesn't expect it ever will be. [sarcasm] So, that's great news for me...[/sarcasm]
So, how are all of y'all? Good, I trust?
It sure does suck to get continually interrupted mid-sentence while reading a book. I was reading Ivanhoe -- which I never realized was about Robin Hood but so it is -- and I couldn't figure-out why reading it was so difficult. At some point I realized it was probably all of the semicolons. Then I looked-over the sentence I was reading, and realized it was several pages long. I guess that I like to use periods as a moment to holistically consider the sentence, so maybe learning to read through semicolons and understand long sentences is a skill people develop. I wonder if there's a structural logic behind their use.
Good luck with that book. When we both read it, we'll be among a handful of people we'll encounter who can discuss it. We'll also both be graduated adults though . . . Pretty cool.
Maybe, though, that in itself, is a reason to use them. For when the material is meant to seem too intangible to truly grasp?
Perhaps a period is too final, while I comma is merely a diversion from a shift in the dialogue? But then why not simply devise a better way to finalize the shift, make it more concrete, than to use such a flexible character as the semicolon?
I honestly can only rarely find a good time to use them. Most often it seems somehow to pretentious and unwarranted.
At a few thousand pages, I hope so. hahaha