I'm posting from a motel room in Madison Heights, MI.  Because Dad's side is having their (note:  "their" not "our") first ever family reunion.  And I'm stuck going.  I didn't even bitch too much as my folks are very good to me and don't ask much in return.

I guess I don't want to go because I know hardly anybody, most of the rest I don't even want ( Read more... )

I took a slug of the orange juice before I added the peach schnapps.  Just as a test.  Waaaaaay better afterward.

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I think that's the bottom of the glass.  Must go fix.

. . . I'm at work again.  Posting from the cashier's desk, actually, when I should either still be home in bed at almost 11am on a Saturday or on my way over to my parents to do my laundry.  I'm apparently the only one who answered the phone this morning (which is unusual in itself because it will normally take me a while to figure out what that ( Read more... )

I didn't realize how much losing my I've-been-collecting-these-for-30-years book collection would just flat out ANNOY me until recently.  All I wanted to do was read the jailbreak at the end of David Weber's In Enemy Hands.  To do this, however, I couldn't just pull it out of my full collection of hardback Honor Harrington books, but had to go ( Read more... )

I HAVE TELEVISION!!!!!

Comcast showed up yesterday afternoon and I finally got to watch CSI after waaaaay too long.  The dvr doesn't have as much storage space as the one I had from DishNetwork, the search functions are for absolute shit and I haven't been able to get it to give me a list of skipped events (in case I want to record a re-run) but ( Read more... )

I still hate modern technology.  Todays contribution is the ipod not wanting to be recognized by the laptop.  And that's after I started a download form iTunes (a song and two Battlestar Galactica episodes), went out to do some shopping and came home to an error message that windows had recovered from an unexpected shut down.  I'm waiting for a ( Read more... )

Or maybe it's not the technology, but rather the minutae of using it.  Today:

I moved into my new apartment.  Yippee.

Had the DishNetwork guy show up within the first hour of the time window.  Double Yippee!!

Discovered said Dishguy couldn't do the installation because various landlord regulations wouldn't let him.  Major suckage, as I now have to pay ( Read more... )

I'm thinking this could be kind of fun once I figure out what the hell I'm doing . . . as I have absolutely *no* programming skills whatsoever.  Meh.  Whatever.

Still, I suppose I should thank Kristel for friends-locking her journal and forcing me to set up an account, which will hopefully (now that I can) force me to comment on some of the buckets ( Read more... )