Last weekend we tried printing boarding passes from a hotel computer, so I thought it would be a good time to change the password I use on the JetBlue site.  I logged in successfully to my account there and went to the preferences page which, reassuringly enough, asked for my current password before allowing me to change it ( Read more... )

The other day, having officially Given Up on the damned thing, I tucked my nonworking T/X away in my carry-on bag, so as not to have it taking up space while it was useless to me.  We've spent the last few days as we usually do:  We take a long hike in the morning, break for lunch, and then go out in the afternoon on a less strenuous excursion.  ( Read more... )

So, M and I have experienced our first Bay Area earthquake.  We've been through a couple in New York.  They felt like a huge truck going by-- and going by -- and going by -- and still going by...  This wasn't all that different.  We were on the bed, which began to tremble, and the reflections on the darkened television screen were rocking back and ( Read more... )

In a (futile, I'm afraid) attempt not to buy more books before we put up more bookshelves, I've been going back through some old favorites.  Now I'm finishing up a project I've meant to get to for a while:  reading through all ten of the Martin Beck mysteries, one right after the other ( Read more... )

Last month, I was on the plane to Halifax when I opened my ancient Palm Pilot (m500, I think) to check that I had Dan's phone number with me (because he'd invited us to dinner on our last night of the trip), and lo, my ancient Palm Pilot was, effectively, dead.  So I got Dan's number from the phone book while we were in the airport, and I figured I ( Read more... )

We've been home for nearly two weeks, but I'm still feeling the effects of our Arizona vacation.  We flew to Phoenix, and drove up from there to Sedona, where we spent two nights.  We've been to Sedona a couple of times before.  It's great for us because there are a lot of fairly short hikes (a few hours) with spectacular views of the rocks.  This ( Read more... )