slow news is good news

Well, first, I wanted to thank everyone who wrote to me expressing get well wishes or offering suggestions about my pitiful ears! It’s one thing to see the page-hit numbers on the blog report, but quite another to attach names and personalities to some of said numbers! Y’all are terrific!

And in answer to your many questions, I’m caffeine free for a several days now and I haven’t been bothered by the ringing as much, but I’m not sure there is a correlation. I’ve also stopped sleeping with my earplugs, because the quiet (which used to be lovely quiet) only accentuates the alarm bell in my head. It could be I’m exactly the same, just not noticing the problem in the same way. It’s very much like those 3-D drawings they had everywhere in the late nineties where you look and look and can’t see a thing but then something shifts in your brain and whammo, there are a bunch of whales, or a race car, or a guy playing the saxophone. So I could be just getting better at not listening to it. The ringing. This is disturbing to me, actually, as I prefer an approach to life where I experience more not less. You know, mindfulness and all that. And, instead, here I am training myself NOT to notice something. But, I guess there are some parts of the human experience better left unmindful. We’ll see how it goes.

In other news, after the third time of needing the family camera (a workhorse Canon g3 that takes nice shots, but man, is it a brick) and finding it GONE, that is, gone with Paul, at his job, I decided I wanted my very own. So, after a day or two of poking around the internet—what is it about researching digital cameras that is so obsessive? Nothing is as great a time sink, I’m convinced—I got an itsy bitsy Fujifilm Finepix f100FD and it is on its way to me as we speak. I got an awesome deal what with a whopping $100 rebate and one of my lovely amazon gift certificates. Perhaps this will usher in a new level of photo fun for mayaland. Stay tuned.

And finally, our sweet black and white goat, Lucy, is expecting kids! At least, we’re pretty sure. It’s hard to tell with goats. But she did have a date with a buck named Curtis and, ahem, a good time was had by all. Several times. Stay tuned in July for incredibly cute baby goat photos, assuming all goes well.

And that’s the news from the yurt. A slow news day to be sure, but often, those are the best.