Whew. So glad the Adam & Eve skeletons aren't Sun & Jin.

OK - hands down, that had to have been the biggest wind storm I have ever lived through. I had a blast standing in the back yard watching these hundred-foot tall pines swaying by forty feet, no exaggeration, until too many branches started to rain down and the wind became so strong I actually had to turn my back towards it to keep from suffocating ( Read more... )

This is miraculous… a new PC. By “new”, I mean new. Like virtually right out of the factory. HP 2009m with a 20-inch flat monitor and Windows 7. Since yesterday I have gone from 6GB to 600!?!? I can access any website now, instantly. I don’t have to comb through my Temporary Files folder on a daily basis any longer to free up space. It ( Read more... )

My standard disclaimer for posts such as this: I don’t care about celebrity or fame. Having said that, notoriety due to expertise and accomplishment is laudable, and I’ve always held great admiration for the generation that put men on the moon and their justly-deserved renown. So I was shocked to read online this morning that the legendary NASA ( Read more... )

I backup pics and documents and music a lot, being that I operate the oldest known home computer in New England (very well a possibility) that could give up the ghost literally at any given moment. That amounts to a LOT of sparsely-filled discs accumulated over the past few years. Having to slog through a dozen or so backup discs just to find a ( Read more... )

Yesterday’s adventure at the Easthampton Registry of Motor Vehicles consisted of two hours’ sitting on a wooden bench specifically designed to damage lumbar vertebrae, not to mention how unmentionably uncomfortable my scleral lens is. Oh, and I’d be remiss in not mentioning that the saline inside the lens clouds up after two hours. But there were ( Read more... )

So my driver’s license can’t be renewed online, since I did that already five years ago. I have to actually go to the registry in Easthampton to do it. *rolls eyes* And it costs $50 for the privilege, lousy Taxachusetts. Lovely. Not so bad by itself, but this all means I need to take the eye test again ( Read more... )

Enough with the pinecones already ( Read more... )

This is quite amusing for me and anyone else who thinks background characters in Star Wars have very clunky names and cartoonish backstories:

Real Names That Sound Like Star Wars CharactersI think it’s high time I start amassing “Lost” on DVD, season-by-season. It’d be nice to buy the whole series at once when it’s available as a box set come ( Read more... )

Today is the exact middle of winter. Every December when I buy next year’s calendar, I count through all the days and find the exact middle of winter and summer so that I’ll know there’s less crap ahead than before. I really hate winter and summer; I really love spring and especially autumn. Not that this winter’s been anything to complain about ( Read more... )