Archive for April, 2007
Bring me back to life
is what this old Toshiba Satellite Pro M10 seemed to scream at me, after its original hard disk quit yesterday afternoon. No thanks to the nut on the keyboard who ran Acronis on it about 5 or 6 times just to get the partitioning right for several Linux-based operating systems to work. Started with DSL [...]
Reunion
The loss of one baby led to a gathering of the rest. My eldest son Athelstan Emil came to visit over the last weekend of my not-quite-maternity leave and for a few days I had all my babies in one place.
Athelstan Emil “Kuya Pakx” turned 24 last March. He works for a call center in [...]
Crisostomo “Toming” Gaerlan y Padua, 1924-2007
I first met Daddy Toming a mere 5 years ago, as his namesake son’s girlfriend being introduced to the family. Of course these were not ordinary circumstances—I was 39 years old, four years older than his son and with two sons from a previous marriage to boot.
Daddy Toming was 78 at the time, and [...]
Four the Record
*tagged by Ralph of Mi E Mi Sombras*
FOUR JOBS I HAVE HAD
1. Web team leader
2. Copywriter for an ad agency
3. Writer for a mag based in Cebu
4. copy and layout for a printing press
FOUR MOVIES I HAVE WATCHED OVER AND OVER
1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. Batman Begins
3. Lilo & Stitch (Maia kasi eh)
4. Meet Joe Black
FOUR [...]
Goodbye Nico
Sam woke up in the dark past midnight last night, because he felt there was someone tugging at his feet to wake him up. There was a little boy at the foot of the bed, saying something quietly as he was pulling on Sam’s foot. Something like, “Let me go. Let me go.” When he [...]
Why I’ve been away
When you have to decide which paid services you can do without, you know that your budget is not cutting it.
I lost my internet connection late in January, after deciding that the internet was one of the things we could do without, after several years of 24*7 connectivity. Finances were not optimal … there was [...]
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