Boo

Yes, we're still here; just not online very much. I don't feel able to order repairs on the laptop until I'm sure the warranty will or won't cover them -- hopefully will. Then I could glory in your reassurances without having to actually spend them.

I've been doing a lot of thinking about what this technology, and this blog, means to me. Isolation is, it seems, an almost inevitable consequence of chronic illness. It is so seductive to take it personally -- I'm just a bad, unattractive person -- but reading (on the web and otherwhere) shows me that this is not so. It takes energy to be social, to be active -- and illness uses that up.

So for me, this place has become my coffee shop, my living room, my circle- of- friends. And I am missing you.

While it all settles out, remember to visit: 

Friday Ark
The Carnival of the Cats
The Carnival of the Dogs

I will be receiving guests, and visiting again, soon.