Things Change

Our cat Tuxie is missing. She took off a week ago Saturday. She has been seen twice but wouldn't come when called. So we will just have to wait and see if she ever comes back.

It looks like we will have to pay for our wonderful spring while much of the country was still having storms and snow. Now we are having 100 plus days and it looks like a long hot summer on the way. The only nice time is evening when it starts to cool off. It is nice sitting outside then.

I can remember what summer was like when I was growing up. No air conditioning. San Diego would still have been built up along the coast, but inland where we are would never have developed like it has without air conditioning. It would be a different world. I liked it like it used to be. We had to drive to El Cajon to go to stores. Lakeside did have a store grandly called a department store but it had old stuff to buy and sometimes we had to blow off the dust. Everything smelled old.

My mother built a concrete brick house on the foundation when I was in high school. It had tiled floors...no carpets. I remember laying on that concrete floor for coolness with a cold wash rag on my forehead. We grew up in the little concrete block house next door. The old foundation was poured first and then left for lack of money.

My last stepfather got the place when my mother died and then later when he died his current wife got it. By then they had borrowed money on it to buy a new place. She called me and told me a sad story about her financial condition. That was years and years after my mother died and I couldn't talk to her. I think she was worried that I would put in a claim on the estate or something. I hadn't talked to her in all those years or my stepfather either.

Things change. One day someone is part of your family and then they are not.

My forum for Photoshoppers is getting a lot of fake members...ones that sign up with a robot. They call them spam bots but they are not the e-mail type bots. The join forums and then post ads. Some are innocent enough but then there are the drug pushers...Viagra and such and the porn pushers. I've fixed my forum so new members have to be activated by me. That has stopped the posts but not the fake members signing up. Yesterday I had a legitimate site sign up for my forum using a bot. What is with that. I looked up their site and filled out a mail form and told them what I thought of them. Maybe they will get the message. I can't believe that legitimate sites would use spam bots in that way. What is the matter with them. It sure doesn't make for good will.