Courage of the Wannabe Decorator: A Smart Fridge? Smarter Than Moi?

The Liebherr Refrigerator and Zoned Food Care

Once upon a time I was house proud. Less so now. Rheumatoid arthritis inhibits the free flow of tossing furniture, paint and wallpaper about in a madness of renoelation; easier to re-do a blog outpost. Yet I sometimes graze home fashion magazines.

In Dwell magazine (July and August of 2010) at page 40 I studied an advertisement for a Liebherr fridge. By study, I mean I did require time to adequately understand the X-pense for an item common to a kitchen. The non-shaggy beast is massive, X-ceeding any appliance that ever graced our home in the days before the first Space Walk and Mr. Jackson's Moon Walk.

The cubic footage would hog current kitchen I use for the engineering of blueberry pies, pizzas, summer potatoe salads and IV-coffee fixes. The fridge is not a delicate, frail item but resembles more a 2-tonne truck. To give adequate view of the advertised fridge, the production people had to locate a kitchen half the size of Manitoba, Canada. My thoughts on the kitchen? Another post, perhaps.

I needed to read to comprehend that this appliance is a 'zoned fridge' because one does not want the wine at the same temperature as the lettuce. Yes, that could be a disaster, especially when attempting to find adequate room for leftover Mac-and-Cheese, an unidentified lunch meat and two boiled eggs too many for potatoe salad. However, the idea of a zoned fridge is tempting. Does it, perhaps, have a zone and setting for the chilling of panty hose on an overheated summer day when one must attend a rather formal affair? Will there be safe storage for the collection of hats?

The fridge is a cornucopia of foods and beverages on display, with prominent view of the promise of slimming meals. I realise that the low-cal food stuffs but promise and it is I who must organise a fast.

There is more text. This ‘smart’ fridge will create 'ideal conditions' for all those fruits, veggies and vitamins. O!Grated!Tree!Bark! my fridge has been dumbed down. All that is needed are shellacked labels that state: Happy Put The Lettuce Here or Happy Put The Lemonade Here. This fridge illustrates the wizardry of contemporary comfort and food security yet I’m thinking, truly this is -

‘scusa, I note the polo ponies are being rather quiet as they examine a new issue of Horse and Hounds.

© July, 2010. Sharilyn Calliou. 30 July, 2010.

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A Prayer of Thankfulness For All Who Assist With Oil Eco-cide

Prayer of Thankfulness

Creator, Grandmothers and Grandfathers
we humbly thank-you for all wisdom of guidance
to assist with repair of the oil gusher, a human
disaster greater than 40 days.

Creator, Grandmothers and Grandfathers
please bless all who assist with their
skills, knowledge, education, sweat and good hearts
to help all Brother and Sister beings.

Thank-you for giving them courage when bravery needed.
Thank-you for helping them to find laughter at bleakest times.
Thank-you for providing wisdom to use the technology we have.

Thank-you for all assistance of Divine Intervention
in these many, many hours of need.

We are imperfect beings,
accept our prayer for grace of your
merciful forgiveness and instruct
us please to live more wisely
and with more care about
what we think-feel we need.

Copyright July, 2010. S. Calliou. 28 July, 2010. All Rights Reserved.

Afternoon Musings and Tea 1 July, 2010: Whither Wordzoo and Happy Flower?

Life Is Just a Bowl of Jelly Beans or Fried Scampi or Even Possibly a Selection of Petite Fours or Maybe a Loaded Pizza With Everything, Including Broccoli Florets and Extra Calcium

For now it is Windows Live Spaces for loyalty is one of my most stubborn character traits. I seek Erehwon, wearing une cloche with veil, patterned with html code.

I miss blogging and leaping off to cyberstroll from wordzoo. Wordzoo was my all-in-one-service, which commenced, with great trepidation at October of 2008 at Windows Live Spaces. There was a diversity of visitors enabling my arthritic body globe trot from Beijing to Margate, from Rio to Chicago, from Saskatoon to Galveston, from Vienna to somewhere in Canada’s Arctic (Hi Arctic Fox). However, changes to Windows Live Spaces provoked induced hyperstimulated produced a scattering of guests. Individuals relocated everywhere and, as some have commented (via email, comment box), the cybermigrations make it difficult to track and follow persons.

Perhaps, I might follow via RSS feeds at Google Reader? Perhaps, I might learn how to use RSS feeds? However, I avoid to avoid info overload. I know myself too well. Soon I would be buried in ever-expanding breasts of abundant information. True. I could keep abreast of activity reading at a single page of my design. Efficient? Yes. But the fun, for me, is the random roaming through cyberspace by leaping from a commenter and then onto his/her blog. I had developed a trust factor with online network at Windows Live Spaces that extended networks were safe playgrounds.

A few WLS-pacers (via email or comments) speculated if we might stay until ‘we’ could work it all out/through/whatever. It is doubtful, for me, that ‘we’ could work it out together. I am not a shareholder in Microsoft and, as yet, no one has hotmailed me to assist with refurbishment, restoration, dismantlement, refinement of Windows Live Spaces. Doubtful Spaces as a blogging ‘service’ is on anyone’s radar, especially as Statistics, Guestbook and report of slow, slower, slowest Spaces services reported. There are other glitches. Today my profile read in Spanish? Or, perhaps, Portugese? Oh those witty scallywag programmers.

I speculate a majority of ‘we’ got fed up, saw the writing on the cyberwall or determined to utilize services elsewhere for whatever reasons.

It’s difficult for me to make a choice of relocation. I have not yet located a similar community and combo which enables graphic trading and a multicultural feel. Somehow Happy Flower found a similarly quirky yet serious community.

Windows Live Spaces had a truly unique product but, as I stated elsewhere, it must not have been a money-raker maker. Yet, I wonder this rainy afternoon as I busy myself with overdue housework, with the volume of move I have witnessed how are advertisers dooling over revenue? And how many can read my Spanish (er, Guyanese?) profile?

The difficulty is also one of selection in that about one-half equally went to Blooger or Minespace. Set up two blogs? Time and health constraints make maintenance of a space a labour, albeit enjoyable but still physically challenging. It becomes a question of which neighbourhood or just making the leap and zooming right into this century and going Facebook?

These are all rhetorical questions buzzing my cranium as I clean house before 1 July celebrations. I regret the loss of all-in-one-access and demise of WLS. [1] It was a superb service for family-style blogging.

Will wordzoo be moving soon? Soonish? Yes. In due time but I must honour first commitment. I am always grateful to Mr. J. Bord who once left comment re. the writing of my novel, ‘How much time are you spending blogging?’ This was a wake-up call to, occasionally, eschew short-term fun and remember long(er) term goals. For now, I must complete final draft of Susannah: The Novel, gently caretaking fingers/wrists and quantity of keyboarding. The priority is not to forget my writerly intentions..

However even writers have to vacuum, scrub floors and, ggrrhh remove the grawt from bathroom tiles. ‘scusa, just going to practice some folding with a floor rag. [2]

© Sharilyn Calliou. 1 July, 2010. All Rights Reserved. Revised 1 August, 2010.

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ENDNOTES

1. Housework becomes much more thrilling with Canada Day musical backdrop at CBC Radio 2, playing a 24-hour Canadian Music Shakedown: a day of 100% Canadian content, including French and classical music composers, voices and bands not too often heard mainstream.

2. I can hardly refold a napkin after a state backyard inner. For hyperOrgami enthusiasm, please click foldmegently.

NYAL

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