March 2011 – Page 2 – Black and White

Swan Point

My sister loved this place, Swan Point Cemetery, in Providence. She worked there from February 2000 to a couple of weeks ago.

I am back home, hoping to file taxes, print pictures, do things that these days are facilitated by computers.
Both my home machines are displaying the Mac version of the screen of death. In five years of owning and using these two machines I have seen this screen on one machine on one occasion.
Naturally I wonder, what is causing OSX unexpectedly to quit?
I am pretty good on the Mac maintenance front, repair permissions regularly, avoid odd downloads, have redundant backups. This seems to be a software issue. Both machines are power PC macs running OS 10.4.11. Both will run in “safe” mode.
So, if there are any Mac cognoscenti out there that would be willing to read and interpret crash reports, help!
Unresolved kernel trap…
Thus it is with my soul.

immobile

Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: motionless, fixed
Synonyms: anchored, at a standstill, at rest, frozen, immobilized, immotile, immovable, nailed, nailed down, pat, quiescent, rigid, riveted, rooted, stable, stagnant, static, stationary, steadfast, stiff, still, stock-still, stolid, unmovable, unmoving–Dictionary.com

Computer operating system froze-up multiple times yesterday, kernel panic, whatever that is. Seized this morning in Photoshop, rather than rework the original file (from Providence RI, near Thayer Street, February 26) a screen shot with a point and shoot of the frozen computer screen will do.
These technological tools border on the miraculous. When the functionality get rough around the edges, I need not complain.

Sam

show of hands

cm1107-a1037-rivanna-hands — I would like everybody in this room who loves the Rivanna to raise their hand, it's pretty much unanimous...I feel like I am being Jack Jouette again, you've got to save the river--Fran Lawrence
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threading the needle

march 6 I-66 wreck
Motored back to Virginia yesterday. Sat still on Interstate 66 near Marshall Virginia in a driving rain as rescue crews reopened the highway. We were within seconds of this wreck. Virginia raised Interstate speeds recently to 70mph.

day of rest

I am trying to discover the names of the kind souls who made the two cornus florida trees appear at my sister’s funeral service.

traveling day

cm1104-a0958-jlo-ege-wport — Jim and Emma

lonely day

cm1103-a0923-ege-x2 — my mother, my daughter. The day, for a parent, that is not ever supposed to happen. Burying a child, burying a best friend, closing the best chapter of one’s life. She did all those things. Earlier this day.

homegoing

{25:6} And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
{25:7} And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
{25:8} He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken [it.]
{25:9} And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this [is] our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this [is] the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.–Isaiah

Month: March 2011