Reason's To Be Cheerful

A series of "unfortunate" events prevented me from posting yesterday. I had one of those days where absolutely nothing went right, till we went out for dinner with the Hardens in the evening. Actually, today, things have not improved much. How about this:

• Bdo's eye suddenly filled with blood yesterday. It sounds dramatic, and looks pretty scary. The doctor was more worried that she's had a headache for a few days. So even as we speak, she and bwo are at Tel HaShomer Hospital seeing an eye specialist, and ENT specialist and neurologist. Hopefully it's nothing serious. I will keep you updated.


• Our home server (mumps) crashed and burned yesterday morning. This machine runs all the email, web pages and everything that is ostrin.org, so its pretty important. I spent yesterday running around like a chicken without a head trying to get the machine back up. It's completely fried. I was caught in a little purgatory, I needed access to the internet to get mump's replacement up and running, and our router was stuck looking for mumps. So even the backups I had did not help. A whole day was spent without internet.


• At some point I decided I would go off to work to get the software I needed to get mump's replacement (ocd) up and running. I got about half way there only to realize I did not have my keys. I went back home, searched everywhere and realized I must have left them at work on Friday. Sigh!


• Bso had two friends over for the weekend. They moved the "rockband" drums and guitars into the lounge. We were subjected to incessant brain-numbing beats and wails while they played every song in the game. They went on till 4AM Friday night and most of Saturday. I hate that game.


• To crown it all my Prius decided it did not want to unlock or lock using either of the remote controls. I thought it strange that both batteries should give out at the same time, but what do I know. This morning I took both remote controls into Hertz. They handle the leasing of cars for the squints and thus are theoretically responsible for all repairs. So they took the remotes and promised to deal. They returned them a few hours later with the following story. It appears that the Toyota dealer has been swamped with cars having problems locking and unlocking using their remotes. They claim the reason is that due to the war, the Airforce is using some technology that causes these remotes to stop working sometimes (I swear on my life this is true). Apparently there was an expose on this on TV on Friday. So the war is even effecting us wimps in the center.


• To top it off we ran out of toilet paper here at squint central. That is bad news for a roughage loving vegetarian.


• Mostly I'm stressed because I'm off to the States on Friday and you all know how much I just love traveling.

Bwo just sent me a picture from her cell of bdo's eye (I updated it with a picture from later, that's Julian in the background). They are still sending them from doctor to doctor and want Dylan to come in tomorrow for some tests to see why this is happening. I don't like it at all.