Nothing funny about feldspar

Hi, I’m switching to this application from one that’s a lot older and which is designed to do a different task. Can you make this program work just like that one?

We don’t get many catalogs here at the Rock Pile, but today we seemed to hit the bonanza.

First, we have the Uline catalog. For certain things their boxes and other shipping supplies are well-priced, but beware the freight costs.

Next, LL Bean. I don’t mind their clothes, but there’s something that’s not quite compelling about them.

Third, Norm Thompson. I got this catalog by mistake (wrong address), and happened to see something I wanted in it. Plagioclase got me the desired item for Christmas, but now I keep getting the catalog even though I don’t really care for the clothes.

Finally (and frankly, most oddly), we have Pyramid Collection. This catalog comes addressed to my mother. I think it’s because she once bought something from it for My Sister’s Child. Interesting clothing and stuff — my 20-year-old self might have bought some. My 40-something self won’t, though.

Which is a sign that Orthoclase is agitated and/or worried.¹

Plagioclase’s mother is in the hospital. Surgery is a possibility, but not until she regains some of the strength she lost over the last few weeks of creeping illness.

We’re dealing with an entirely new medical system this time, but frankly, it’s not that much different from the last one. We’re constantly asking for information; told one thing by one person, and something else by another, and in the end a third thing occurs. There is much hurry-up-and-wait involved (including being told to “get her to the ER now!” and then after an hour of ER waiting room “Go home and we’ll tell you when there’s a room available — maybe midnight” and then (less than a half-hour later, just after we got home again) “Hurry up and get here — you don’t want to lose your space!”)

So all we can do is wait, and ask and ask again and wait some more. I’m getting quite a bit of cleaning done…

1. Not that I don’t wash all the dishes every time, but we use a lot of glasses, and usually some are being dirtied while the dishwasher is cleaning the rest. My cabinets overfloweth with glassware.↩

See that middle-aged short-haired soccer-mom-looking woman bopping along to something on her iPod shuffle that matches her shirt while shopping in the chi-chi supermarché?

She’s listening to Rob Zombie.

(To be absolutely honest, she’s not sure what she was listening to; shuffles don’t tell you what’s playing. But it was noisy and lurid with a rather strong upbeat and a lot of growling.)

Dear Mac OS X Icon Designer:

Please take the color blue off of your palette.

Thank you for your attention to this matter,
Orthoclase