I’ve mostly been complaining about being pregnant and especially about being on bed rest, I know. I’m not normally this negative, but you get cranky when you can’t do stuff for yourself, go pick up whatever food you have a hankering for or your fingers are tingly all the time (which mine are).
But, I realize there are good things about being pregnant (namely, the baby at the end) and bed rest and its accompanying activities. So let me count the ways I can appreciate bed rest.
When you need to send an email ASAP and your Internet is down, and your wife is trying to find out what’s going on from work to help you out, this is not what you want to see.
And to think, just the other night, I was saying to Trinity, “we haven’t had the problems that I’ve heard other Time Warner internet customers have had.”
What the heck is it with my favorite Lakers ending up in Texas? First Robert Horry (and I wonder if the Lakers watched in chagrin as he collected two more NBA rings with the Spurs?), now Trevor Ariza. Criminy. And for Ariza we get Ron Artest?! Really???
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and the Online Gargoyle
One should be able to answer that question easily but its apparently getting harder to answer that question definitively. I stumbled onto this interesting article from Time magazine about whether Facebook is replacing face time with friends or not via Yahoo. Now, you would think, since we’re spending so much time on Facebook, we’re not really spending a whole lot of time with people in the flesh. But, seeing as how our lives are so hectic that we feel lost if we accidentally leave our phones at home, maybe Facebook is actually keeping us connected.
Enter Facebook, which provides a constant flow of information via short updates from everyone a user knows: a distant cousin is glad he skipped the cheeseburger chowder; a colleague has a new book is on sale; a close friend is engaged or newly single. Jenny and I, along with three of our childhood pals from Saratoga Springs, N.Y., learned that a dear old friend had ended her seven-year relationship through a Facebook status change. We expressed dismay, albeit through Facebook’s IM feature, that we had to learn such potent information in this impersonal way.
I’ve actually been wondering lately about Facebook posts and how you could actually tell a lot about what a person posts. But it tends to annoy me when people post their own work or blog posts on Facebook — until I started doing it myself. Is it annoying? Anyone want to weigh in on this?