I finished up the kool-aid-colored socks, and since I still had some lunch-time left, I pulled out my navy blue socks to see where I left them ( Read more... )

This morning we got e-mail that the IT people were going to be doing some auto-magic voodoo on all workstations at noon, wherein it was said ( Read more... )

Got my eyes dialated this morning, so I'm at home.

Phone call, someone with a thick east-European accent claiming to be a rep from American Airlines and Toshiba trying to give me a "valuable traveller's prize."  I don't need to send any money or buy anything.

Then send me the instructions in a registered letter.

Oh, they can't do that, they need to ( Read more... )

Grocery shopping is never the highlight of my schedule, but last night was particularly miserable ( Read more... )

A couple weeks ago I finally figured out what I wanted for Christmas:  A pot rack.  Or should I say, I finally decided it was time for it to happen, as I've wanted one for years ( Read more... )

Saturday was Cookie Lab, a friend's annual baking extravaganza. Although nobody in our family actually made cookies ( Read more... )

One of the things I do is to review LOMA (Letter of Map Amendment) requests that we get from FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Angency).  These are quick & easy reviews, I'm just double-checking FEMA's technical contractor reviews for a couple Illinois-specific requirements ( Read more... )

Some subset of IT people in Springfield are treating us like mushrooms.  Last week one of the secretaries got e-mail that said "Hi, you've been randomly selected to be the liason for the network migration project."  Yes, they really did say "randomly selected".  She, not surprisingly, brought it to me with a side of WTF.  I told her I'd deal with ( Read more... )

Yeah, the Tree of Damocles that's been off the lines since July 1, and is currently in firewood-sized pieces, drying for said use.

You see, there were 3 lines in the path of the Tree of Damocles - AT&T, ComEd, and Comcast.  We haven't had cable service for something like 10? years, but the line was still there.  In a very early foreshadowing, the ( Read more... )

I semi-regularly cruise the listings at a couple-three dog rescues.  This morning, waiting to make sure a bus really did show up to get The Sprout to summer school, I hit the collie rescue group.  Oooh, a smooth-coated 3-year-old female ( Read more... )