Over the last week or so I'm suddenly getting a lot of spam comments in my LJ mirror. I don't think it's anything in particular I'm writing about; the main blog isn't getting more than usual.

Anyone else seeing this? I just mark 'em as spam and delete 'em. I guess if it gets to be a time sink I can turn on comment moderation, or something.

Cheap to operate.

Edmunds just completed a study that calculates the true cost to own and operate a number of 2008 vehicles. They didn't just look at gas mileage, but included overall costs like depreciation, repairs, and insurance. (None of the hybrids made the top ten, in spite of their superior mileage; they just cost too much to buy in the ( Read more... )

A month and a half after upgrading to Wordpress 2.5, I found a fix for the borked plugin that lets me crosspost to LJ. So now my posts come here again ( Read more... )

I seem to remember one or two people on my friends' list lives in Boston.  Can any of you give me the skinny on what it's like to live there?

I just upgraded my blog to the latest version of WordPress, and my crossposting plugin is not compatible.  As I'm far too lazy to do it manually, the posts will be limited to BerthaBlog until the plugin gets updated (assuming it ever does).

Good news though!  It has an RSS feed, so if you pick things up with Google Reader or another newsfeed ( Read more... )

I came home with my son this afternoon. Put my purse down on the table, reached behind me to give the door a little push to close it. It swung most of the way and stopped-no noise to indicate why, it just stopped. I turned around to see what was blocking it.

There, in the doorway, stood Phurball, the door gently rebounding off his body, an ( Read more... )

We're still seeking a home for our foster cat. (If you know anyone who wants one...) I think she came to us to learn how to be a housecat before going to her permanent home. She's now allowing us to walk past her without bolting away, and we can walk towards her to pet her instead of crouching down and coaxing her over. When I say hello to her ( Read more... )

Our Christmas was relatively quiet. Which was nice, after taking a friend to the ER on Christmas Eve. (Short version: bad reaction to antibiotics given for strep earlier in the week left her severely dehydrated. She's okay now.)

We had the parental units all come over for turkey dinner. The kids made out like bandits, as usual. Everyone ( Read more... )

Little cat appears to have forgiven me. Tuesday evening after she came home she was staggering around the house, making sure everything was as she had left it, even though she was obviously so groggy she could barely keep her eyes open.

Later in the evening I lost track of her. Looked all over the upstairs, couldn't find her, figured she'd ( Read more... )

Just heard from the vet. Little cat is out of surgery and recovering comfortably (they said it took a fair amount of anaesthesia to put her under-not surprising considering how frightened she was).

Turns out she wasn't pregnant. Her little bulging belly and swaybacked walk really had us fooled. She did have roundworms. She tested negative ( Read more... )