I started this as a private response to someone I consider a dear friend, but it got out of hand and I didn't want her to feel like I was proseletysing. There's been a few other incidents in my life recently which sparked the length and vehemence herein, so I probably am a bit. But here it goes ( Read more... )

Ok tech type people. I need a bullshit meter on the following. Just received a phonecall from a company in Sydney saying that my regional router had been sending them a lot of error and warning messages about a computer in this house that is allegedly crawling with trojans. Furthermore apparently the firewall on this computer has been "weakened" ( Read more... )

If you can't make it tomorrow, but consider yourself big and strong and muscly, I have a trailer arriving Sunday afternoon to cart my bigger pieces of furniture to my Mother Unit's and my Paterfamilias'. Any and all lifting assistance welcomed.

In the spirit of Pterry's assertion that sufficient belief in something will render it tangible (see Hogfather), I would like you all to believe, deeply and passionately, in the Migraine Fairy. When you hear the little glingleglingleglingle that signals the manifestation of belief, nab the bitch and give me a call. Don't be surprised or alarmed ( Read more... )

For prayers, chants, sacrifices, whatever it is you do to ask for things.

They think Margaret's got a tumour on her cerebellum. As well as having just had a hysterectomy (and having the doctor leave a quarter of an ovary to grow some cysts on it) and part of her bowel removed for endometriosis. As well as Paget's disease. As well as SLE (lupus) ( Read more... )