Money up, Mom down, work up: steady.
Apr. 13th, 2004 11:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonFinished up my Massachusetts taxen last night. I knew I had been tired and not taking the task very seriously the first time, so I rechecked all my math, and yep... I found an instruction I had skipped. Now I get $80 back instead of having to shell out $280. Yay!
I called my Mom to give her some potential good news. As usual, she was too busy to really talk to me, but I outsmarted her by calling on my walk home when I only have about 6 minutes anyway. She and I are not very alike, I'm afraid... and I intimidate her sometimes, and I just have to be a reminder of her bad marriage to my dad. It's really no wonder she often doesn't seem to like me much, though she is probably forced to love me (yay for biological imperative), so I believe her when she says that. Phoo. I can't seem to help reaching out from time to time--too many memories, I guess, and I keep seeing this potential in her that I like. But I always end up feeling rebuffed, because she never ever feels like chatting, she isn't amused by the same things I am, and we have almost no activities in common. No wonder she always wants to get off the phone. Unfortunately, whenever asked about the issue, she says she loves having an adult daughter, feels like my friend, and thinks I'm the one good thing to come out of that old dead marriage. If only the words she says matched up with the way she acts, so I could stop being confused.
Oh well. At least I am a Java Swing studmuffin. I think I have persuaded JTree to do things God and its designers never intended... and my way is working! GUI work makes me happy sometimes... the results are so visible. I've never gotten custom renderers and editors to work as well as this little bastardization does. :)
Steady as she goes.
I called my Mom to give her some potential good news. As usual, she was too busy to really talk to me, but I outsmarted her by calling on my walk home when I only have about 6 minutes anyway. She and I are not very alike, I'm afraid... and I intimidate her sometimes, and I just have to be a reminder of her bad marriage to my dad. It's really no wonder she often doesn't seem to like me much, though she is probably forced to love me (yay for biological imperative), so I believe her when she says that. Phoo. I can't seem to help reaching out from time to time--too many memories, I guess, and I keep seeing this potential in her that I like. But I always end up feeling rebuffed, because she never ever feels like chatting, she isn't amused by the same things I am, and we have almost no activities in common. No wonder she always wants to get off the phone. Unfortunately, whenever asked about the issue, she says she loves having an adult daughter, feels like my friend, and thinks I'm the one good thing to come out of that old dead marriage. If only the words she says matched up with the way she acts, so I could stop being confused.
Oh well. At least I am a Java Swing studmuffin. I think I have persuaded JTree to do things God and its designers never intended... and my way is working! GUI work makes me happy sometimes... the results are so visible. I've never gotten custom renderers and editors to work as well as this little bastardization does. :)
Steady as she goes.
