We just took advantage of a Cablevision deal: we got cable (basic family package), internet, and internet phone all for $100/month for the 1st year. Previously, we had been spending nearly $70/month on just the normal phone, with crappy television reception. With Elynn's continuing issues at work, we had been talking about a home office for graphic ( Read more... )

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I just responded to an email from the lead person with DreamCatcher Repertory Theatre - she had invited me and a few other volunteers to a sit-down meeting on September 29. Can you guess my response?

So I'll see how it goes...

I just taught my kids rummy - we only played until 400 points because they had to go to bed.

I've never been so happy to lose.

Tagged by poisonedsweetsRules: Pick seven songs that you're into right now, list them ( Read more... )

Dogfish Head 90 minute IPA ale!

It's so quite I can hear the crickets, and the amazingly noisy HVAC air filter at the renovation of the Seton Hall Science Building.

The kids were shipped off yesterday to summer camp for a week of unsupervised mayhem... only kidding, they have counselors who all seem to be 16 and 20. There seem to be a couple of adults around at the higher administrative levels. Puppy is rooming in a bunk with one of his best friends from Hoboken; Princess also has a friend from South Orange ( Read more... )

Last December, the university gave me a different telephone number - I had a new telephone line and they had exhausted the numbers on the old exchange ( Read more... )

i just returned from the memorial service of one of the faculty here. He died of post-surgical complications. A nice, extremely active professor, I knew him quite well. Mel will be missed.

I won a pair of tickets to see the New York Liberty play the Connecticut Sun through a raffle the University sponsored ( Read more... )