Busy weekend with not much time for the Internet. Saturday was spent on battery wars with my Beemer. (BMW terminology lesson: Beemers are motorcycles and Bimmers are cars. Please don't confuse the two. The cars are a recent addition to the company lineup and the BMW motorcyclists aren't sure the cars are going to stay around.) The battery has been holding a charge for fewer and fewer days. Charged it Friday night. I had to take the ferry to the other side to go to Seattle to the BMW (motorcycle) dealer. The battery wouldn't restart the bike to get off the ferry. I had to wait until the cars got off and then I had to walk the bike off the ferry. The shame of it! Fortunately the off ramp was slightly downhill and a ferry worker (bless his heart) pushed me and I was able to pop the clutch and start the bike which wasn't turned off until I parked it at the dealer. New battery and all is well.

Ralph showed up, just as I got back from winning the battery wars, with 256mb of memory to install. Cool! I installed it and my computer wouldn't boot. Not cool! So I was down for several hours until I could get Ralph on the phone. It turned out I hadn't pushed the little sucker in hard enough. It booted and I have 512mb of memory. Cool again! One more memory slot to fill.

This morning I was raised from slumber by a phone call from Zoe (my LOML). Her mother (who lives in Redmond, the home of a company that shall go unnamed) had fallen and was being taken to the emergency room. Another ferry ride to the other side. She has something called Labyrinthitis—I think. Something has come adrift in her inner ear and she has lost her balance. Sort of a continual sea-sickness. It's temporary, but Zoe is staying with her until she gets her equilibrium back. I get to take care of Zoe's cats. It may be a few days.