I'm getting congested, and I know that as soon as I lie down to go to sleep, I'm going to be breathing through my mouth.

"I hate this! Can't I just remove my sinuses?!?!??"

"No. EEEEEW. First of all, the cats will want some . . . "

One of my coworkers was born in 1984, the year I graduated from high school. She is barely old enough to drink, and of course she has an attitude six times larger than she is. There are several of us who are in our late 30s and early 40s who are just deeply, deeply amused at her world-weary people-are-so-stupid attitude, and we love to tease her. ( Read more... )

So far I have been writing for my own amusement, but I have actually connected with someone I know, and there is now the possibility that someone else would read this. I've been discovering that quite a lot of my friends write better than I do and have lives of the mind, whereas I write like a bear in a chinashop and am rotting my mind with home ( Read more... )

Way back in the days of Windows 3.1, when in order to share files you had to FTP them, I found a shareware game called Sherlock. It was a logic game: you had clues, and had to use them to determine which items went with other items. It was well done -- a simple interface, easy to play,very addictive. The guy who wrote it has continued to write ( Read more... )

Saw Harry Potter last weekend. Very dark, visually. I though it overdone -- the book was not so dark until the end. Less choppy than the third movie, though.

Spent most of today running around doing Christmas shopping. As usual spent most on Mom, who keeps saying she doesn't want anything. Bought some games for nephew. Have been asking for game recommendations, and now have a long list of games I want to play. I will buy some for him, and get more use out of them that way, since I am too lame to play ( Read more... )

Some customers are soooooo glad to find someone who will be patient with them and not sigh and roll the eyes when they ask "It says click next to continue. What do I do?" that they don't want to ever let you go. Which, if it's 4:00 and I'm about to be put into the phone queue, is just fine. I like the internet queue better. The phone queue, if you ( Read more... )

The way our system works is, you can have one cable modem active on your account at one time. The way most cable modems work is, you can have only one device plugged into it at one time. If you want two computers online at the same time, you generally get a router ( Read more... )

Our company has seventy-eigh jillion trucks and vans on the road on any given day. They drive around from job to job to Dunkin Donuts to job to job and then back home to Lowell. Someone that lives down the street and over a bit obviously works for the company, because there's a company van parked there almost every evening ( Read more... )

The last call of the night was kinda cute. Someone called in with two computers connected to a router. One computer could get online and one couldn't. She said something about an IP lease problem from a few weeks ago, and that gave me a hunch. So I asked her for the make and model of her router, and sure enough, it was actually a switch. No gonna ( Read more... )