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[Nov. 26th, 2009|12:01 am] |
This one's for Dave Woo, from Not Always Right
Customer: “Hi, I had my computer looked at there, and you guys said that it’s running slow because there are probably bugs in it. Well, I sprayed some bug spray in it and now it won’t turn on.”
Me: “Ma’am, when they tell you bugs, they mean computer viruses, not an actual bug.”
Customer: “Well, what can I spray it with to get rid of the viruses?” |
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| Announcement |
[Nov. 24th, 2009|01:48 pm] |
I have started up an etsy shop, mostly with some of my popular/personal favorite photos. The shop is at http://www.etsy.com/shop/Zyada
I also have business cards. I'll send a business card to anyone who wants one, and a second one that I would appreciate if you would post somewhere people put business cards up! Give me your address in the comments or email me your address.
( Poll for LJ peeps ) |
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| QOTD |
[Oct. 8th, 2009|10:54 pm] |
"Marriage is a vital social institution. The exclusive commitment of two individuals to each other nurtures love and mutual support. Civil marriage is at once a deeply personal commitment to another human being and a highly public celebration of the ideals of mutuality, companionship, intimacy, fidelity, and family. Because it fulfills yearnings for security, safe haven, and connection that express our common humanity, civil marriage is an esteemed institution and the decision whether and whom to marry is among life’s momentous acts of self-definition.
"It is undoubtedly for these concrete reasons, as well as for its intimately personal significance, that civil marriage has long been termed a 'civil right.' Without the right to choose to marry, one is excluded from the full range of human experience."
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, by way of Savage Love |
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[Aug. 17th, 2009|06:28 am] |
Someone please shoot me now.
Morphine would be nice |
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| Well, that took an unpleasant turn (may be TMI involved) |
[Aug. 14th, 2009|10:24 pm] |
I started feeling less than stellar about the time during our vacation it was time to head back home. Not horrid, but a little nauseous and very easily tired. I wasn't really feeling like doing much in the way of sightseeing, so we pretty much headed straight back home. Back home, the nausea and fatigue kept going, and I wasn't sleeping through the night, so I spent a few days trying to actually sleep for 8 hours straight. The fatigue got worse, to the point that I had to stop in the living room to rest when walking from the bedroom to the computer room.
( bad tummy woes )
So, Bob took me to the doctor on Wednesday. I got a new script for phenergan; reading the warnings, it apparently can cause breathing difficulties, which is probably why I wasn't able to get to sleep for any reasonable amount of time with the old script (it never fails - good properties fade while bad side-effects double). The NP also had a bunch of other tests done to see what is causing the fatigue, etc.
I got the results back today.
I have mono. |
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| Hey, New York peeps! |
[Jul. 29th, 2009|07:56 am] |
Can you tell me how bad this address is?
247 49th Street , Brooklyn, NY
ETA - Dave & Barb, would you be able to let us leave our car at your place overnight tomorrow night? |
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| On the road |
[Jul. 26th, 2009|08:58 am] |
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Bob and I are driving to New York for this year's ribfest! We left yesterday afternoon. Today, Arkansas and Memphis TN. |
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[Jun. 18th, 2009|02:32 pm] |
I guess I ought to catch y'all up on what I've been doing.
Mostly wasting too much time putzing on the computer!
I dragged Bob back to Dublin (TX) for one more attempt at finding my great-grandmother's birthplace. Unfortunately, we still haven't found it and it was too #$@#$ hot already for any serious exploring. When we got back home, I slept for 14 hours (I told people that the first thing I was going to do was to sleep until I couldn't sleep no mo').
I've been trying to do all of the cooking, but Bob sometimes tempts me to a restaurant. We planted a container with herbs and the dill and parsley had gone bonkers, so I made salmon poached in white wine and topped it with fresh dill and parsley. I've also made stacked chorizo enchiladas (aka mexican lasagna) and pork roast. Lots of leftovers have been had.
There's a small economy grocery store (Elrods) near where we live that caters to a large hispanic population. I like chorizo, but when I tried to buy some at Market Street a couple of years ago, I made the mistake of reading the ingredient list. The first ingredient listed was pork salivary glands. TMI, TMI!!! One of us made the crack "Makes your mouth water, doesn't it?", which has become a standing joke between us. At Elrod's, I looked through the wide variety of chorizo looking for one that didn't feel the need to enumerate which parts of the animal were used. I don't mind if they lie to me! One brand from San Antonio was called "Kielbasa Chorizo" - a lot of Germans settled in that area. This is the sausage I got and it was tasty.
One of Bob's co-workers "gifted" me with Amish Friendship bread starter. The recipe is more like a coffee cake. Tasty, but I'm not sure I want to be making this every ten days. I'm going to try it in my bread machine.
I've cleared out the den closet in preparation for re-insulating the attic; most of it has gone into the craft room, which is now hip deep in belly dance gear.
I've spent two afternoons over at Mom's, getting her computer system working. We ended up having to buy her a new monitor because the one she had, the one Mark had gotten for her, and my old one had all gone bad. But I got her printer working - go me!
I've been working a little on an Etsy store, a website and Amazon Mechanical Turk (7 bucks! Wow!). But, mostly spending too much time playing computer games. |
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| Kitties! |
[Jun. 10th, 2009|12:18 pm] |
I know that all of my friends will like this.
A person on the SDMB put out a call for kitty pictures, then made this video
Turn on closed captioning to get kitty and owner names. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) minirth - Amira makes an appearance a couple of times! Check her out at around 1:59
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