Beam's Blog of Writing and Other Things.

On the lighter end of this blog post, I am now using a new browser for the internet; as most of you probably know I've been using Chrome since about my freshman year of college, and it usually served me pretty well. I had some linking problems with it recently, but nothing too major... at least until today. I don't know if it's because I switched out on batteries last night or what, but Chrome got really buggy today. I couldn't get the search engine to work, and it could only load pages that were automatically saved into my search history. It was really strange.

I fought that for a few hours before finally giving up and getting a direct download link for Mozilla Firefox, so I think I'll be using that for the time being. There's an option to download Chrome, but I'm a bit wary of touching it after this last experience, especially when even Internet Explorer was working better than Chrome was for awhile in the short time I switched back to it.

So let's see how Firefox runs for now. So far so good, I quite like it.

On the, well, not so light side of things... I went down today after fighting with my internet browser to get a snack, had this lovely conversation with my mother:

Mom: Jamie lost the baby.

Me: ... Jamie was pregnant?

Yeah, turns out my cousin was pregnant with a baby and my mother thought she'd told me, but she never did. So literally the first time I hear about this baby is right after she lost it. It was an early pregnancy, so they don't know quite what happened; physically my cousin is healthy, but when she went in for the check-up there was no heartbeat. I'm still a little stunned by it myself. It's this weird sensation of numbness and wanting to curl up somewhere to cry.

She'll be all right. I just have to keep telling myself she'll be all right. And we'll be there if she needs us.