Fuzzy and I have been house-sitting for my parents, and the internet there is highly uncooperative. On the extremely off-chance anyone has been trying desperately to get a hold of me online, good luck with that. I'll be back regularly early next week, when I move back here, with my nice reliable interweb ( Read more... )

So Fuzzy was futzing around with my computer yesterday, and for some strange reason, decided to try lifting up the keyboard and pressing the NumLock key. Lo and behold, the light came on. Pushed it again, and it went off. Tried typing, and what do you know? It worked again. So I was able to log in, type my password properly, reset the date and time ( Read more... )

First there was this lady on the phone. She was looking for some book about horses, which turned out to be a photography book anyway, so I really shouldn't have had to deal with her at all. The book is called "Horses." As you can imagine, this is not going to produce useful results, so fortunately, she had the author's name, and it was unusual ( Read more... )

I've had several knowledgeable people advise this, but it still just seems wrong. Hopefully, though, it will solve the larger problem, because that's even wronger ( Read more... )

Fuzzy and I bought new dishes today. Woohoo! I wasn't really a huge fan of the old dishes, partly for personal reasons, and partly because they simply weren't really my style. I like the new ones much better, even if we do have to exchange a few of them because a few pieces were broken. They're white, blue, and turquoise-ish green, with stripes and ( Read more... )

Well, no Christmas music yet. If that could just hold off for another few weeks, that'd be awesome ( Read more... )

But it's perfectly easy to become green. All you have to do is drop a glass bottle of green food colouring on the floor, which is easily accomplished by having the shelf on which it normally sits randomly detach itself from the wall. And I'm so happy it happened right in the middle of cooking dinner, too. So currently, half our spice bottles and ( Read more... )

So I just talked to Gill about the resolution of out damage deposit issue. She sent the landlady the court papers, and then promptly received the cheque, made out for somewhat more than anticipated, but still not the full amount. Would any of you who read earlier posts about this woman's communications methods care to guess what happened to make ( Read more... )

... you find yourself wandering around in a mall and biting your tongue to keep from asking lost-looking people if you can help them find anything ( Read more... )

So I bought some curtains for our living room, so we (OK, I) can stop flashing the neighbourhood all the time, and I hung them today. Now, the previous tenant also hung curtains at some point, so, figuring that there's really no point in adding more holes to the wall if you can use the ones already there - especially when they also already contain ( Read more... )