On Friday morning, my internet would not go. I picked up the phone, and the phone wouldn't go, either. Not even a dial tone ( Read more... )

This morning I had to buckle my belt one notch tighter. That's the tightest notch on the belts I bought when my waist was at it's most expansive. Any smaller and I'll get to switch to some of my older belts that fit a smaller me.

After scaring us last night, Dog seemed perfectly normal this morning. Stupid cat.

After not going to the pet emergency room in the previous 32 years, I've now been there twice this year. Hopefully it will turn out better this time than last time ( Read more... )

I haven't taken a lot of pictures in the last few weeks. I've not processed ones I took previous to that.

On Saturday, I went to the Zilker Botanical Gardens for a little while and took pictures. One's made it up on solarphage.net, and there is at least one more that I expect to be printing large :) The dragonflies, sadly, will probably not ( Read more... )

On the advice of Charlie, I've switched from using fitday.com to track my weight to using thedailyplate.com. It's so very much nicer - lots and lots of foods already entered, nicer graphs, and it doesn't make me log in every 5 minutes. Much better. The only downside is that TDP says I need about 400 fewer calories per day to maintain my weight ( Read more... )

As I recently posted, I got a 1T internal drive to be my main photography drive. I already had 2 external drives that would become two alternating backups of all my data. I'd previously been using one external drive as primary and the second one as backup, so the hope was to have a faster drive for actual photo manipulation and then two slower ( Read more... )

Thanks to a lot of data movement and the 4th of July sales at Fry's we're now a 3 Mac household ( Read more... )

Upon further reflection (and several hours of running errands around town), I realized that I just wouldn't be comfortable taking a known-bad car on a 1000 - 2000 mile trip. I'd be worrying about those noises the whole time ( Read more... )

( cut for excessive car problems )