about a year ago, my cable company sent me digital boxes that i needed to attach to my televisions to get them up and running with their new digital service. about two months after that, i picked a day to try to get them hooked up and running. i got them hooked up okay but i never did get them to work. so i've been without a functioning ( Read more... )

67F.

i do not think that means what you think it means.

sometime fairly recently, at a guess, when i had my boiler replaced and had the door from outside into my basement open for about six hours, a bunch of flies took up residence in my house. i've been killing them off, gradually, but there appear to be a lot of them. i've discovered a new method, though. last night i left a glass with a little ( Read more... )

just typed the following into an IM window:

it's so warm in here that i think my brains are cooking. do zombies like cooked brains?

(my furnace is on the fritz, yet again--this time it won't shut off.)

i have phone on the first floor but no phone on the second floor and no internet because all of that is on the second floor and when i tried to move the router down to a functioning phone line to use with the laptop, i did not succeed. i don't know if that's me or that my DSL is differently hosed but last night at ten o'clock, i only wanted to ( Read more... )

i have no phone or computer at home. i've called (from work) and they are checking it but if i seem remote and hard to reach....it's not personal for you.

this staying home and not having a science fiction convention to go to thing really helps with getting stuff done around the house!