Riddle me this. When there is a problem on my machine, it is usually caused by the fact that I do not normally run my processes as admin. Switch over to admin, run it, fine fine fine. I have usually had this problem concerning my scanner. I recently got back a terrible roll of film that I was trying to scan in - on Friday I attempted to make the ( Read more... )

It's Halloween - time to reheat some pasta. I bought some candy the other day just in case Trick or Treaters show up. It's my first Halloween in this house and I don't know what to expect. It was a small smattering of kids in Iowa, but enough to have some candy on hand. I am so glad I left the Halloween themed candy bowl on the curb in Iowa. Or did ( Read more... )

I have the smartest cats. I bought new toys for the girls, one of them was a laser pointer in the shape of a mouse. Every other cat owner I know who has one swears by it, and I have to agree that it works wonders. Isobel has been chasing the dot for 3 days now, up and down the main hall of my house. However tonight, as I was entertaining her with ( Read more... )

Ask and ye shall receive

The cool thing about this whole situation, if Candide there is any bright side to the situation, is that I will get to meet my long lost cousin. That's not entirely true, I just really want to be able to say I have a long lost cousin I am reuniting with. For a long time the family didn't even know they had her, so I guess she really couldn't be ( Read more... )

Thank you summer, for being really awesome this year. Usually I am not a fan of summer, I'm more of a cool weather man; but this summer was rather exceptional - thanks in part to my good friends in Iowa. They are the reason that summer 2007 will be burned into my mind forever. Fall - you have potential, and usually you are my favorite; but you've ( Read more... )

ah - internet....praying upon me in my weakest hours. i can't believe i fell for this...also i like the ultimatum squeezed in at the end: IT'S PRETTY FUNNY THAT YOU OPENED this because in the next seven days you will ( Read more... )

So last night Joe and I hung out, which was great because we hadn't seen each other in a while. Joe bought some beer and brought over the movie "Running With Scissors". When that was done we popped in Disc 3 of Season 1 of BSG and kept drinking and talking. It was good times. We stayed up until about 530am, and Joe decided he better crash at my ( Read more... )

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well - apple released even NEWER ipods...meaning that all my favorite geek sites will only report about that for the next 3 months. thanks a lot apple, for clogging my nerd feeds with updates about how i can finally touch my U2 album art on my ipod. thanks.