WAY back in the day, when I lived in Libya (ok, all of 2 years ago, but sometimes it feels like a lifetime) I used to try and collect stamps. In a turn of the utterly ironic, though Libya does not have a functioning postal system (which makes sense as Qaddafi took down all the street signs. I lived at the 5th house on the left on unnamed street # ( Read more... )

Be safe, be aware and be free.

Sigh...laptop's dead. Deader than a doornail. I turn it off, I turn it on and no POST, no beeps, nothing. Screen turns on but is blank. We never get to BIOS, never get to the hard drive and while it'll read a CD it won't do anything. If there's no BIOS there's no computer. I'd been having this problem intermittently since reinstalling Vista ( Read more... )

Ok, so not really redux, but more like Part Deux. After scampering off the other night after I convinced him to get out of the engine, the little dude, whom I'm now calling Lucky but totally am *not* taking home, has been adopted. Sort of. As one of the guards said, they're friends. He brings Lucky tuna and sardines and milk and in return Lucky ( Read more... )

This is what I've been working on for the last freakin' two years! I'm not ashamed to say I got teary at the playing of the Stars and Stripes. Today was a good day.

US Flag flutters over Libya

Libya is full of stray cats. At any given point I have at least 2 strays in my yard, mostly because I don't run them off or throw rocks at them or anything. We've got a live and let live policy unless they're driving the boys crazy then I have to run them off ( Read more... )

I think they're onto me. I just got an invite to a "special meeting" and dinner with Microsoft. <.< >.> There will also be a special announcement. Hmmmm....very interesting.....

Yesterday I went with my friend A to her hairdresser. I was badly in need of a cut as my current do had totally grown out and was getting to that unmanagable, I don't care stage. The hairdresser speaks French, A assured me. Well, yes the one she went to the week before had, the woman yesterday...no so much. She did speak french but it was ( Read more... )

Yes, I'm late but considering I have no internet, my modem doesn't even attempt to make a link with the DSL provider now, I'm doing ok.  Thankfully the neighbors wireless is unlocked.  Sadly, because of housing construction, I have to be all twisted up like a pretzle to enjoy it ( Read more... )

I'd say I want to go back to bed and start over but frankly, I'm not sure I could survive another day like today. After spending my entire weekend at work and we're talking like 8 hours on Friday and another 5 on Saturday, there's today. Last night I had started to smell cat pee in my bedroom. Which is a bad thing because um, there's no box in ( Read more... )