After two months of frustration with Linksys and Earthlink, we now have our wireless network functional at home. Happy dance! Of course, it did require switching to Netgear router and network adapter. No sudden and inexplicable dropouts. Although it has only been 10 hours. I will continue to keep my toes crossed ( Read more... )

It's almost past that magical hour. If I can hold out until 5am I should be ok. I'm working a grave shift tonight. Midnight - 8am. Wacky holiday hours. The four o'clock hour is always the harderst for me. I'm very tempted to take a nap but I'm afraid I won't wake up. I haven't received one phone call or one legit email from a customer. Lots of spam ( Read more... )

If you always do what you always did, then you'll always get what you always got.

Your thoughts become your words.
Your words become your actions.
Your actions become habits.
Your habits become your character.
Your character becomes your destiny.
--Anonymous

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.

John Ruskin
(1819-1900, British Artist and Author)

• May is to be an interesting month. I can feel it in my bones. Here it is only the third, and already things are changing.
• Today is day 56 without a cigarette. Yay for me! Susano_otter has gone even longer. I'm very proud of him. The cravings are just about gone. It's more like an itch in the very back of my mind. I often forget about it. Usually in ( Read more... )

Happy Anniversary Pete!

UPR!

11 days since I've last smoked. Pete quit just before Christmas. We finally figured out that we can't both stop smoking at the same time. In fact it only worked for him because he took off for a week to see his parents. That inital week of cravings was dealt with then he returned home to me. I think it's actually going to take this time. I'm using ( Read more... )

Happy belated b-day big brother! Love you & miss you lots splotchthegreat

Argh! Already the 3rd. I'm trying nanowrimo again this year. I forgot it started on the first. This is me trying to catch up. :)