thanks for the thank-you byline. not necessary - but grealy appreciated
congrats on yer gmail acount too

thanks for the kind words about my sis. i think, eventually, soon?, i have to talk to her - just to find out how she is doing. but honestly, i don't have much cash either - and i'm not sure what i could do for her. i think i'm doing best by just being her pal...but i dunno :shrug: - so it goes. things will work out, one way or the other.

whubout them rollerskate skinny girls, man? them's over in that corner starin at us? think they might want ta talk?

Ha, I even managed to get tomorrow off...I know I shouldn't dance in front of crippled people.

Lol...No I already had a "vaca" of sorts "planned"...well at least that's what I said before I started... I'll be in NJ after that and from now on. I have a lil' bit of time off. to get some parties out of my system and to move shit.

Ha, Uptight is a low watt bulb. No sweat.

Hey, I noticed that you like Spanish poetry...how about Pablo Neruda? I don't speak Spanish, but I read a little. Is it your native language, or did you learn it as an adult? My mother is from PR, but she didn't teach me Spanish.

Wow! I only got maybe a third of that. Please translate for me...especially the poem. I like to have both versions of poetry anyway, since the translation is not always literal.

Thank you for the translation.

Yes, it is a shame that my mother didn't teach me Spanish as a child. I could have been trilingual, since my father is fluent in Greek.

That is a beautiful poem. Thank you for sharing it with me. I will return the favor as soon as I find one.

I have an orange kitty...check out my pics section for proof. I am planning to get a pug someday, so I can have my very own Milo & Otis.

"Si Tu Me Olvidas"
~Pablo Neruda

Quiero que sepas
una cosa.

T sabes cmo es esto:
si miro
la luna de cristal, la rama roja
del lento otoo en mi ventana,
si toco
junto al fuego
la impalpable ceniza
o el arrugado cuerpo de la lea,
todo me lleva a ti,
como si todo lo que existe:
aromas, luz, metales,
fueran pequeos barcos que navegan
hacia las islas tuyas que me aguardan.

Ahora bien,
si poco a poco dejas de quererme
dejar de quererte poco a poco.

Si de pronto
me olvidas
no me busques,
que ya te habr olvidado.

Si consideras largo y loco
el viento de banderas
que pasa por mi vida
y te decides
a dejarme a la orilla
del corazn en que tengo races,
piensa
que en esa da,
a esa hora
levantar los brazos
y saldrn mis races
a buscar otra tierra.

Pero
si cada da,
cada hora,
sientes que a m ests destinada
con dulzura implacable,
si cada da sube
una flor a tus labios a buscarme,
ay amor mo, ay ma,
en m todo ese fuego se repite,
en m nada se apaga ni se olvida,
mi amor se nutre de tu amor, amada,
y mientras vivas estar en tus brazos
sin salir de los mos.

Not that you need it, but...English version.

"If You Forget Me"
~Pablo Neruda

I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.

If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.

If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.

But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine.

I bolded the last part because I love it. It seriously makes me melt when I read it. Blah...I'm such a girl.

Anyway, let me know what you think of the poem.

Hey, thought you might be interested in my new group, Master Debaters.

4 Mile walk? You should jog it man.

I'm glad you enjoyed the poem.

I needed screen capture because I wanted to show someone a list of viruses and the infected file names that were on my computer (without typing it all manually). Just being lazy.

Don't listen to germ13! Jogging is bad for your knees. Besides, your body will benefit just as much (if not more) from walking the same distance as jogging would.

So, you are awake all night like me then. Ah yes, unemployment will do that to ya. I take it you live in a dangerous neighborhood? Where I live, I could walk at 3:00 in the morning naked and not be afraid. Well, not afraid of humans, that is. (Maybe a bear or coyote though.)

I had Norton AV, but I got a bit lax with renewing it. I'm always current with Windows Update though. After finding the viruses, I installed an AV program offered through RoadRunner. Fortunately, no serious damage was done.

Thanks for accepting my request. Hi, new friend!

Sorry I took so long to respond...I just noticed the last post you wrote. Somehow I missed it earlier.

Thanks for the advice regarding Service Pack 2. I'll keep an eye out for it.

I've also been unemployed for a while - about eight months. I am losing my mind at this point. I hope EMU works out the way you'd like. As for me, I have nothing in the works. I think I'm having an early mid-life crisis. I have never been without a job since I was 17. And I have always supported myself financially since then. Pretty soon, I will have to start mooching! That will be a first.

People fly down this road, too. Which is why Russell is an indoor cat. I lost too many cats that way as a child. I feel guilty sometimes because I know he wants to explore the outdoors, but I just can't take that chance.

Talk to you later.

Yes, I have Windows XP...it's not pirated as far as I know. It came installed on my laptop.

The problem with finding a job is more about me being indecisive than anything. I mean, the job market here isn't great, but I could find something if I could figure out what I want to be when I grow up. I would love to work with animals, but that would involve going back to school. I have considered massage therapy, because I am really good at it with no training, so I'd be even better with training. Plus, I could have my own schedule. All I know is that I'm tired of working where I'm stuck in a cubicle and dealing with numbers all day. That's just depressing.

Your home sounds like where I grew up. We had 26 cats that roamed freely, inside and out. I loved having all of them around to keep me occupied. I hope it didn't sound like I was criticizing you for letting your cats outside. That was not what I intended. I realize that, with that many cats, it is impossible to keep them all in your house. If you did that, I would see you on a late night episode of Animal Precinct.

Thanks for the links!

sigh...i love vonnegut for the way he makes me sad.
i hadn't seen that before. thank you.

too kind...

my fave WBY, popular but still the best imo:

When you are old and gray and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true;
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

And bending down beside the glowing bars
Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a cloud of stars.

The original series of Star Trek had the first ever televised interracial kiss.

Believe it or not, I don't have a degree in accounting. However, I somehow managed to get myself a job in accounting. Maybe they were desperate. I left because they were laying people off left and right, and it was stressing me out to wonder when my day would come. Most of my experience is in Market Research (yawn), and I was a Chiropractic Assistant for several years.

Yeah, I wouldn't be able to euthanize animals either. I would love to be one of those cool chicks on Animal Precinct that gets to arrest the bastards that are abusive to their pets. That is my dream job. Plus, I am a detective by nature, so that would help.

I have taken a couple of those career tests, and guess what they think I should be? A freaking mortician! What does that say about my personality? "Sorry miss, we feel that you are more appropriate working with corpses than living, breathing human beings." What an ego boost...heh.

I'm sorry you lost your kitty to cancer. I would die without my baby snuggled up next to me at night, purring me to sleep.

See ya soon!

Funny that you say that, because I went back to school for Criminal Justice in 2000. I wanted to become a P.I., but the thought of being a police officer first is not appealing to me.

Yes, she is a big troublemaker. For such a tiny thing, she gets into the strangest situations!

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
- William Butler Yeats