Tag: Life

While We Wait

While we await our own end, we spend our time as though we were in a never-ending holiday. We do our daily walk, drinking in the impossible beauty of the pre-dawn city, breathing the crisp morning air to the bottom of our lungs… yes, we can still do that! The human did 15 years of formal karate training; karate teaches you how to breathe properly, and years of practise teach you how to use your whole lung capacity. We are certain that this is why, despite our lungs slowly filling with repulsive tumours, we are still able to breathe properly, and enjoy the smell of winter dawn to its utmost…

… we walk through areas that are almost totally different to how they were when we were young, which reminds us that we have at least lived long enough to appreciate these changes. Of course, it’s sad we will never see the changes that will occur, even in the next few years, but even thinking that re-doubles our delight at, currently, being alive…

… we spend about an hour a day, often more, in our garden. We are sure this, too, is good for us. If you are a gardener, you will know that a garden is a lot of work, there’s a lot of forward planning involved, not to mention all the digging/planting/feeding/watering, and weeding. We love seeing our plant babies grow, and bare fruit, whether it’s flowers or Brussels sprouts. We can’t help it, but we are even thinking of putting in another crop of potatoes, even though were aren’t supposed to be going to live long enough to harvest them… it’s just the joy of working the soil, planting the plants, it makes us happy, and we are pleased we have always been into gardening, we’ve gotten pretty good at it in the last 50 years, or so.

We spend hours a day reading, another of our life-long interests. We are working on a large painting. We spend the evenings, if not reading, watching movies, documentaries, and tv series. We recently discovered the entire 12 seasons of ‘Stargate’ were on Netflix… so we watched it from start to finish, and thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s wonderful to be able to just kick back and wait to die, confident we have taken care of all the important things, and now we can just relax, and enjoy being alive… and we certainly do enjoy it (:

And…we’re back!

To our delighted astonishment, all the functions we’d given up on trying to make work on our damaged Mac suddenly started, with no further prompting from us, to work… the installers for Adobe Bridge and Discord, that we’d been futilely double clicking (and trying all the recommended workarounds to get to open) two days ago, suddenly opened…

… not only that, which gave us beautiful Bridge and full access to Midjourney, again, but Bluetooth suddenly started working properly, again, and, most wonderfully, our iMac could suddenly see external disks, again…

… we have zero idea why these things suddenly fixed themselves, and we don’t actually have much faith they will stay fixed, given the things that have happened with our beloved iMac, but we are delighted to be able to use Midjourney, again, and delighted to just be able to do our thing, again…

… we spent time, yesterday, going through all our recent work which we were lucky was still on TimeMachine, (we have another, even older iMac on which we do all our Photoshop work, since Adobe and Apple got together and tilted the playing field, making it impossible, on new computers since about 2020, to use any of the Adobe products anyone had legitimately payed big money for, you now have to pay Adobe vastly more money to use those products without ever owning a physical disk… our 15 year old iMac is running El Capitan, and has been disconnected from the net for the last 5 years) and realised how far behind we’d gotten in our posts, so we’d actually started getting a post ready…

… and here it is! Beautiful punkettes in a delightfully rough style we really like… it suits the subject matter perfectly…

… we particularly like this last one, we’d love to develop this style further… but, before we do that, we still have a heap of other stuff, all different styles, to post.

We are really happy to be doing our thing, again, and, with a shiny, totally up-to-the minute new iMac already payed for and soon-to-be-shipped to us, we are hoping this one will keep working for the two weeks that is supposed to take, but won’t be surprised if it doesn’t, but we’ll also be philosophical about it (: