wherein Dawnne types for a while, trying to avoid the various synonyms for “incoherence” found in the various definitions of “maunder”….

note #1: the otherwhirled, currently located on the public Wordpress site, is going to be moved to its own domain, hopefully within the week, and presumably without any untoward digital perturbations, so that i can avail myself of more space, since to do what i do over there, i need to be locally storing the images. while i have begun doing that, i have noticed the use of the storage space allotment of 50Mb rapidly increase over the past two weeks since i made the promise that i would start storing the images locally.

note #2: it appears, from comments in my “support ticket” with my ISP, that it is at least nominally possible that given the relatively low throughput on the otherwhirled (which, while increasing, is still not exactly on par with millions of hits…ever), that i will either not be charged or will only be minimally charged for the hosting. that being the case, and this blog being somewhat less than one percent of the bandwidth of the otherwhirled itself, i will also be moving this blog to its own domain. the nice thing there is, though, that i already own the domain, so moving it is literally no expense.

note #3: the otherwhirled, when moved, will live at otherwhirled.com, and perpetual dawnne will live at dawnne.com. and yes, i am aware that dawnne.com currently points to the business site. that was done long ago and quite intentionally.

note #4: indeed, i do still plan on following through with my intention to use perpetual dawnne not only to continue to document our experiences regarding the impending convergence of our family with The Elder and Unknown; random photographs of family, children, and kittens; but also to document my re-investigation of things which unfortunately fall within that grossly overgeneralized category of “metaphysical”.

a while back, when communicating with The Elder and Unknown, the Spouse-Unit accidentally gave The Elder and Unknown a link to this blog. while i have no idea how deeply The Elder and Unknown might have read all this, a short while thereafter, there were several clickthroughs into previous months’ postings. so, it is potentially possible that The Elder and Unknown is now aware that she is on my mind quite a bit, and that i truly hope for the best for her. i think i probably mentioned that in a previous post, so if i just repeated myself….well, go figure.

at any rate, October draws nearer, and more quickly than i had anticipated, though unsurprisingly so, given the number of games that #1 Son and i have on our schedules to referee. i don’t know what The Elder and Unknown will want to do, if anything, when she attains the legal age, and right, to contact us, but her cell-phone number is already actually stored in my own cell-phone, and has a special ring-tone. just in case. because i’m anal-retentive about some things. but more truly, because if she did happen to call, Murphy’s Law dictates that she would do so while i’m in the middle of something else, and i like to have a second or two of prior warning. i just hope she realizes that i am not quite the self-absorbed knucklehead that i was when she was born. sure, i blog, and sure, blogging is inherently egocentric in certain regards, but it’s not like blogging either here or “there” constitutes the totality of social awareness.

at least, i don’t think it does….

well, i’d better get back to work. Nikon has two cameras coming out that would be decent upgrades to ShadowMoon’s capabilities, and i’ll never get them if i don’t help get the bills paid.

my best to you and yours, and to all.

~d~

My update rate sucks. Sorry. Last time I wrote, we were in the midst of our mini-vacation, and now school has already been going on over the past week, and we leave this afternoon for a wedding out in Minneapolis. Soccer got mostly rained out (or if not rained out, the fields were simply too wet to play on), which while inconvenient in one sense meant that we could make more TaeKwonDo than we had expected: definitely a good thing.

Our trip out to Galena was really quite nice, though necessarily short. The kids seemed to have a pretty good time, at least. I’ll have photographs up eventually.

Mom heard from The Elder and Unknown recently, with some photos even, which was nice. She sounds like she’s doing okay, though going through a period of indecision about college, no-college, moving out of the house, getting a car, and all that good stuff. I remember all that quite well myself, even though it was “so long ago”. I think she’ll survive, one way or the other.

I have a ton of games to referee this season—not as many as some of the younger guys who can be more available for games than me, of course, but more than usual. #1 Son is working higher-level games than before, now, too, and is excited about it. Unfortunately one of our wet-field cancellations was an upper-division game for him. I’m not certain if he was upset about not getting the experience the game would have provided or not getting the money. A healthy dosage of both, I would imagine.

#1 Son started school on Monday and #1 Daughter on Wednesday. Both are doing well. I’ll be helping out once a week in #1 Daughter’s class again, but not this week. They’re on a new five-day rotation schedule which is applied literally (it skips the holidays, in other words), so the days that #1 Daughter’s teacher wants me to help float practically from week to week. So, we’ll see what kind of help I can manage to be. #1 Son is already fitting in well at such a bigger school. Of course, it’s still too early to tell, but his attitude is certainly up. At least no one’s given him crap about being “the new guy” yet, and he’s a got a few friends scattered around the school from soccer, summer camps, and TaeKwonDo, so that helps.

The kittens are growing quickly and are a ton of fun. The older cats are even getting along with them a little bit. Sometimes. I’ve been too busy to take too many photos, although #1 Daughter and I did take a few the other day. I’ll try to get those up online as well. I keep wishing the big cats would play with the little ones, but they still seem to prefer acting like their territory has been invaded. They mostly ignore the kittens, and tend to simply turn away and stalk off when confronted, as opposed to the hissing and other posturing that was being done before. I suppose that’s an improvement, anyway. Because Jupiter especially is apparently too stupid not to take a swipe at either Pluto’s or Ginka’s tail as they walk by.

So there you go. Another boringly domestic update. More later.

We’re about to head out for annother day roaming around the Galena, IL area and annoying the children with “boring” stops that don’t involve ice-cream, spending money, or other such things.

I’ll have a write-up on the trip here when we come back, as well as some photographs. Galena’s a pretty area.

I guess tomorrow, we’re heading towards you, Mrs. Degidio, so even though you knew that was going to happen, You Have Been Warned!