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Yay. I am back on-line at home. Man, that was a long six weeks. Even though my home internet experience had been pokey due to an ancient computer and dial-up connection, I sure missed it when it was gone. Finding things to occupy my time--time once filled by the internet was not so much a challenge as a chore. There was, of course, unpacking to ( Read more... )

This computer has become so achingly slow and difficult to use that I have decided to put it out of its misery and pull the plug when I move in a few days. I will not get internet service at my new place until I can afford to get a new computer. This may take a month or two ( Read more... )

I am feeling all, I don't know . . . weird lately. I think its just the tide of normal life events (moving and relationship-y stuff) has pulled me slightly out of my nice comfortable orbit and part of me revolts! But things are good. I looked at that place my coworker is looking to rent and I have agreed to take the place despite some flaws ( ( Read more... )

I know I have said this before, but if I disappear for awhile it is because my computer died. Well, I do think its going to be sooner rather than later. My computer is on its death bed and I am thinking of canceling my internet because I can barely use it. It keeps freezing and shutting down. I tried reinstalling the internet software but it ( Read more... )

I woke up repeating the same few sentences about anticipation and how we are all, every one of us, waiting for something in our lives. Over and over again. What had I been dreaming? I wonder. Hmm.

A lazy Saturday. I napped, and watched Borat, and read the novel Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland. I love Coupland because even though his writing ( Read more... )

Has anyone seen the previews for Bridge to Terebithia? Because I saw one last week, knew immediately what the movie would be when I saw the kids swinging on that old rope. I was excited for a second but then the trees started moving a la Lord of the Rings and there was battle a la The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe and it morphed into some kind of ( Read more... )

The phone rang at 4:15am this morning. By the time I woke up, processed the fact that the phone was ringing and that I needed to get up and answer it, the machine picked up. It was my 91 year-old downstairs neighbor. She said, "I need help." and hung up. I raced downstairs just as fast as I could with my gimpy knee. She had been having trouble ( Read more... )

So I was reading the Reno News and Review's Foodfinds column. It was a pretty ordinary review of an ordinary restaurant until I got to this sentence:

"My Mom, in an uncharacteristic display of mateyness had the fish and chips . . ."

Mateyness? Thats gold, baby.