Bizarre events of the day
House on Red Corner · 2005-09-26
So I’m sitting around all day trying to install Linux onto an ancient laptop. Well, that’s the first thing, the mailman rang the bell at nine in the morning with a box of Linux CDs from the Netherlands. The strange thing was he actually was at the door when I got there, normally they rang and dash, leaving only a little yellow slip of paper that you find hours later. So, EJ and I are working on the laptop after lunch when the buzzer goes off again.
At the Door is a Korean woman and she has got this stroller that someone was trying to sell yesterday at the stoop sale. She asks if I am Nathan, naturally I say yes. Then she gives me the stroller and a bag of books, clothes and a stuffed rabbit (no comments about what the Local Australian population has to say about that!) and tells me that she doesn’t normally do this sort of stuff. Then she tells me that; and I have to quote her here because you just don’t get words like this in everyday life from strangers on your doorstep; “You should consider this a message of love from God.” My next door neighbor then chimes in with a great little quip about how it’s just one great, big, Happy family out here in Bay Ridge.
I do not want to be ungrateful, and in fact I am not really ungrateful, I do appreciate it. I told Steph yesterday that we would get a new stroller later when the one we have is no longer suitable. Here I turn around one day later and it is given to me. I guess it’s time to get a new stroller. This really did freak me out a bit, especially since recently I have been dealing with some depression and even some anger. It’s difficult to just really put any sort of scope on what has just happened right now, but I do know that whatever is in store for us in the near future, it will involve me getting out of the house much more frequently. Perhaps this will help me as well.