I'm having a low-energy day (due to several factors), and I very nearly decided to skip this . . . but I think I've got time to write up a little something before midnight for Blog Action Day, which is dedicated to the environment. As my mood indicates, I'm tired, so please forgive this rather stream-of-consciousness ramble. It does come from the ( Read more... )

Does anyone else out there use Safari as your main browser? For the past couple of weeks, it's developed a problem that is REALLY annoying. Frequently (as in a few times a day), it stops responding and I have to force quit (losing all my open tabs, of course). Yes. Annoying. Plus, it's just gotten really SLOW. Sometimes, anyway; other times it's ( Read more... )

Hello, and welcome to my blog. I've been keeping a journal here since July, 2003, which is far longer than I ever managed to keep a paper journal. In addition to my personal entries, I may do some genealogy blogging from time to time, to keep track of my family history research. Genealogy entries are public; personal entries are locked to "friends ( Read more... )

I spent a lot of time at my computer today, but in spite of the fact that I played some Scrabble (and am getting my BUTT kicked), and some Sudoku (ah! This, I can do), I managed to finish two rather large projects. This has resulted in a lovely sense of accomplishment ( Read more... )

The mood is due to the book I'm reading right now: "The Book Thief." I'm only about half way through, and it's tearing me to pieces, but it is also SO beautiful. A novel set in Nazi Germany, narrated by Death. I want to read more, but I felt like I needed to take a break. Has anyone else out there read this book yet? If it keeps up like this, I'll ( Read more... )

I meant to sit down and write a gigantic update this evening, but instead I played spider solitaire all night long. And now it's almost bedtime, and too late for me to write anything with any real content, so here's a fun meme instead (which I first saw over at one4worldpeace's journal).

What have I been searching for? What have YOU been searching for? If your ( Read more... )

If there is one or more people on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

I am very, very, very angry with Earthlink right now. We didn't have Internet access for a day and a half - not because the service was down on their end, but because (apparently) something in our modem got corrupted and needed to be reset (in a way I'd never had to do before, or I'd have just done it myself), and it took phone calls with FOUR tech ( Read more... )