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Father’s Day is coming, and the assembled family types want my wish list, so here it is:

• I desperately need a new wallet and belt; both have been beat to pudding.  Something roughly similar would work; this wallet on Amazon looks decent, and the belt (new) has to be shorter than this one- as I’ve lost weight, I now have ( Read more... )

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On the positive end of things, the podiatric surgeon said that my foot is looking a whole lot better, and that the whole stay-off-it routine is working.  He did say that a stay at a rehab place is not going to be covered by insurance, and that my only real option is staying at home off my foot.

On the other hand, I’ve had MAJOR frustrations re work ( Read more... )

Finally got the house ‘financial’ PC back up and running; a recent Windows 7 update had crashed it pretty severely, and really messed up its connections via a wireless fob to the house network.  After some messing around, I came to the conclusion that the best way to fix this was to (a) buy a 50′ length of Ethernet cable and (b) string it under the ( Read more... )

Since I’m now the designated Doer of Laundry, I’m trying to deal with a backlog of stuff; I think I have everything downstairs and sorted out, it’s just a matter of going through huge amounts of stuff - and the interruptions in the sequence.  Mere wants this smaller bunch done right away for her first day of school (tomorrow, for the 7th grade), ( Read more... )

For the group mind:  Meredith has a iPad (16 GB Wifi only);  we’re trying to figure out how to put Skype or something similar on it, and hook up a webcam of some sort to use for video purposes.  We’re kinda running in the dark; no extensive experience with the iPad (she got it as a gift from friends, and has pretty much been the sole user) and no ( Read more... )

…and really, MONTE CARLO was a cute bit of teenager romantic fluff.  Parents, it’s watchable if you care to, and your brains will not rot on contact with it.  Selena Gomez does a nice job, but I swear I could see every pore on her skin.

Had problems over the last few says since the storm with the cable, internet and phone being out at various times ( Read more... )

Still coughing and whatnot, but it seems that the more unbroken sleep I get the better off I am - also did a little shopping and took care of some quick errands with my MIL driving me around on Saturday; first time I’d felt like I hadn’t been knocked around for a week or so. Enjoyed the nice weather (raining cats and dogs now) and soaked up a ( Read more... )

I’m looking for some kind of document manager that will be able to easily file away my own, personal digital documents collection; scanned personal papers, scanned financial papers, pdfs of technical articles, that sort of thing. A good friend who is far more adept at programming came over the other day and was chatting at me about his similar ( Read more... )

Apparently, anyone who has ever commented at one of the Gawker sites has had their user name, email and password hacked, and the complete set of all of that has been openly posted and redistributed on the internet; all of a sudden,  various accounts of mine started going *no way* when I tried to log in earlier.  After all of the major frustration ( Read more... )