Geeky Cat Miusings

After much talking and thinking about it I finally bought a new computer yesterday. I placed the order by telephone and they said it should be delivered to me within the week. I’m so looking forward to it!!! I got a 22 inch monitor and with my existing 17 inch monitor I should have a decent amount of screen real estate — that is something that is very important to me but that is beside the point of this post. My main message is that I just hope that it actually gets delivered to me: after I placed my order by phone the sales clerk sent my a list of specifications that I requested. It was all correct but they recorded the wrong postal code for my address. I emailed right back (< 2 minutes) but I got an out of the office until Saturday reply. I called the company but they said to call the next day when the office is open -- even though they advertise that they are open 24/7! So I called the next day and they said they can't change the info in the system. The information is like a contract and that can't be changed. Holy Santa Cleopatra!!! They said that I will need to watch the delivery status online and when the status changes to shipping I need to contact them at that point because all they can do is change the sticker on the package, they can't change my address in the system. Isn't that ridiculous! It should not be too difficult to change a customer's address and it is a very important function for a business to do so because it is their business to serve customers and to ensure that the customer gets the merchandise. This company should take a good look at its business practice and make some changes right away.

Looking forward to my new computer!

Lynn Miles is known for her melancholy songs about loss and heartbreak. She has won a Juno for 2003’s Unravel, a whole album of dedicated to sad matters of heart. I didn’t know about her music until recently when a friend shared some of her songs with me. I thought the music was really nice and I appreciated that she is a talented song writer but this Saturday when my friend surprised me with tickets to the Lynn Miles concert in Hamilton. When I listened to her singing and playing the guitar and the piano live, my appreciation grew many times over. There was an opening act for the show and the opening singer was okay but his singing just cast a greater contrast upon Lynn’s talents. He was an okay singer while she was a very expressive singer. She moved her audience with her voice.

Here is a sample for you: Lynn Miles Sings “Rust”, a song she wrote for her dad.

ps If you ever go to Hamilton you should try Affinity Vegetarian Restaurant…it is very good and has a fabulous assortment of vegetarian dishes.

I was listening to A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose podcast on my commute home. Tolle talked to a caller who said that she wanted her child to grow up to be an enlightened adult but was unsure how to do this. She said that her child, like most children, want things and will do whatever they can to achieve their desired ends including yelling and crying. It is very frustrating for an adult. What is the conscious way of dealing with children. Eckhart Tolle’s response was for the adult to be still. To listen to the child and not judge. Has anyone had luck with that? I have tried it with my cats but they can continue to put up a fuss for hours, it does not matter if I don’t respond to them. In fact, Pumpkin meows incessantly when I try to watch the webcast on my computer and distracts me so much that I decide to wait for the podcast and listen to it on my iPod.

Has anyone been able to get through to their kids using this method?

I was hoping to climb the CN Tower again this year to raise funds for the WWF but, since my toe doesn’t seem to be doing all that well even though I have been carefull with it, I don’t think I’ll be able to do the climb. It would not be wise as the toe can still ache and, sometimes, really pains me.

Since I need to wear flat shoes for my toe to heal and most of my shoes have heels, I’ll need to go buy some shoes. What hardship;-)