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Long Time, No Post Part Two: Pantheacon, RIP RAW
Off to Pantheacon this weekend! Can't miss this one, as it includes not one, but two memorial celebrations of the life of Robert Anton Wilson, not to mention the official Meme-Orial at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk on Sunday (to which I have scored a ticket). RAW's writings and lectures were a major influence on me during a time when I was trying to ( Read more... ) -
Long Time, No Post Part One
It's been a long time since I last posted anything relatively significant here. Busy with other things, and dealing with a dying hard drive on my desktop and wireless network problems on the laptops. Now here I am at work on a quiet afternoon with the higher-ups gone, the phones still and everything in a general lull. Sweet, as long as it doesn't ( Read more... ) -
Which Discworld Character Are You?
Granny Weatherwax? Corporal Nobbs? Archchancellor Ridcully? Rincewind? The Luggage? DEATH? Test yourself at http://quizfarm.com/test.php?q_id=82543 and find out ( Read more... ) -
A picture from yesterday
Just experimenting with uploading photos to LJ for the first time. Here I am with Laurie & my mom after dinner at her house yesterday.
http://pics.livejournal.com/amidb/gallery/00003s3h
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...and a Pleasant Thanksgiving Holiday
I've been enjoying a very pleasant and relaxing few days. Wednesday night was my poly men's group meeting in Sonoma, and then I had a comfortable morning and afternoon at home organizing & cleaning up cluttered computer files and helping Laurie prepare our part of a group Thanksgiving dinner - helping mostly by staying out of the way unless needed ( Read more... ) -
Changes at work...
I was looking forward to a pleasant and restful long weekend, and that's what I got. I needed it too, after a tense couple of weeks at work culminating in a round of layoffs on Friday and Monday. Three people were let go, which is a significant number in a company of 17. Two of the three that were let go were ready to go anyway and at least one was ( Read more... ) -
Still in full-gloat mode!
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Notebook Chronicles Part 2
You will recall that in Sunday’s episode, our feckless hero was contending with a new notebook computer which refused to pick up the signal from the router and was advised by tech support to take it back for a replacement. This Toshiba was one of the featured sale items on the front page of Office Despot’s Sunday newspaper circular, but the one I ( Read more... ) -
Neeeneer, neeeneer, neeeneer!!
I must say I am pleasantly surprised by the election results. Alright, I admit it - I’m more than pleasantly surprised - I’m gloating shamelessly! And to my conservative Republican friends and relatives (who won’t be reading this anyway), may I say with all due respect and understanding for your feelings, “Neeeneer, neeeneer, neeeneer!! You lost, ( Read more... ) -
Drat!
So today I gave in to the urge to buy a new notebook computer. I've never had one of my own and it has been four years since I had one at all (courtesy of my previous employment). I found one, a Toshiba, that had everything I wanted at a very good sale price, and I even consulted my Internal Guidance System about it. I went to the local Office ( Read more... )
