Today is Jeff's birthday. Together we are over 104 years old. I feel every bit of those years too. To celebrate, I took Jeff to Outback Steakhouse (g'day, crikey, fair dinkum, crocs, you call that a knife and all that stuff). On our way home he got a call out of the blue from a former coworker he was very good friends with. Hearing them catching up ( Read more... )

Today was a day of errands. Earlier I had to go back to the parts shop and pick up a pair of replacement tail lights for my MINI Cooper S. Though it hardly seems like it, I've had that car for over ten years now! The original tail lights have become cloudy due to UV damage from sunlight, and unlike many cases where I've sanded and polished the ( Read more... )

For the entire day I've been unable to access my friends list view here on LJ to catch up on everyone's stuff. Seems I am not alone, but at the same time, it appears to be a fairly isolated problem. The status page shows all systems go, but there are a few folk leaving tickets for tech support. I've done a bit of individual friends reading, but it' ( Read more... )

Okay, what's gotten into LJ this time? Russians? Martians? Someone tripped over a stray network cable?

Sometime during the last of all the camping trips last year I had lost or misplaced the battery charger for my little Pentax Optio W30 point-n-shoot. Since my trusty Canon S230 bit the dust a few years ago, this was my only pocketable camera, save for my cell phone. I figure the only way the charger would ever show up is if I were to buy another ( Read more... )

Wouldnt you know it. The 'net decided to work when I finally have the teck over to check out my cable issues. I could scream, but I predicted it would be like this. A silver lining though, it seems I was not the only one with issues, and all of us were on the same node. Comcast will be dispatching techs to check out the infrastructure to see what ( Read more... )

For the last 4 days I have been laboring through cable internet slowdowns and stoppages that essentially ground me to a halt. The last entries and comments I have made on LJ have been made courtesy of my old standby dialup connection using my ancient Compaq laptop. The phone lines here have deteriorated to the point where all I can manage is a 9600 ( Read more... )