Summer Waning Summer Moon
Duffel bags and cloth grocery bags went into the plastic Yakima carrier on top of the Colorado state car, the Subaru. Ruth got in her car seat with the two spongy plastic balls Grandma bought her. Gabe crawled through the morning grass and got some cutting on his Gap jeans and his pale blue shirt the color of his eyes. Herschel came out, bounded up in the front with Ruth, then went, reluctantly to his place in the rear where he has a small fan to keep him cool. Finally, Mom and Dad got in the front seat and the Olson family headed out for points west.
Grandma and I stood, waving as they left. We were sad to see them go. Jon will have surgery on his shoulder on August 12th, surgery made necessary by his joint crushing fall now over two years ago. Jen starts her work in a new school at the end of this month and she’s excited about that. Ruth and Gabe will continue to head across to Marcella’s, or Humphrey’s as Ruth calls her long time day care provider.
We’ll seem them again sometime in the fall; I may go out for a visit after Jon’s surgery to help out for a bit. It still feels a bit odd to be the Grandparent, the one visited by the kids after a long drive away from home. Odd, but good.
Last night I scored a minor geek triumph. My photoshop elements ceased functioning a good while ago, over three weeks. This is a program I use a lot. I got so frustrated with it that I took it to the Geek Squad. They fixed my disappearing optical drives, sold me two more gigs of RAM but said pass on a photoshop fix.
The guy suggested a repair install or a remove and reinstall. I did both. No joy. I went through all the diagnostics I know the machine has available. None there either. Finally, late last night I went back to the chat rooms and found, on an Adobe forum, a possible fix. I tried it. Damn. It worked! Satisfaction. Felt pretty damned good.
Installing the two gigs of RAM was the first time in my long experience using computers that I had cracked the shell and done any work inside. It took a bit of time and care, but, by god, I got them in and now this computer has three gigs of RAM. More satisfaction.
