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Also, BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY to pasticcio!!!!!!

(Apologies for taking so long to write this up.)

Eventually Baroness Margaret Lad, the Kingdom Chatelaine, came over to Newcomers' Point to relieve me (and cheerfully organize the pile of free garb that people had been pawing through; she does everything cheerfully). That gave me a chance to wander around and greet people and even spend a few ( Read more... )

Gosh, I suck at updating this journal, don't I?

I'm just plodding along on a boring proofreading project for pay. The boy toy and I watched Tom Brady win the Super Bowl on Sunday. This coming Saturday (the 13th) is the next Virtual University of Atlantia (hey,
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So, we've had a weekend with Halloween, the end of Daylight Saving Time (which will start again in about 137 days...), and a blue moon. Seems appropriately scary, given what this country is about to go through.

I finished writing the article a bit late and have not heard back from my editor since. I guess he is keeping me waiting the way I kept him ( Read more... )

Well, I take too *many* breaks. I have a feature-article deadline on Monday. I hate having untreated and exacerbated ADHD, inattentive type.

Just wanted to let you all know that I still exist.

I have received my notice that on Election Day I will be a same-day-registration judge at the local high school. But it didn't say who the chief judges will be ( Read more... )

1. I am still rocking the two-monitor setup on my desk. The fact that it's an older monitor, with an aspect ratio slightly less "widescreen," actually helps with displaying documents. And when I want to bring the laptop into the living room, it's easy enough to unplug the second monitor. More cheap tech goodness: a few days ago, I scored a free 500 ( Read more... )

I'm still here. I'm 61 now. Today my mother would have been 101.

When the boy toy and I went shopping at Lidl, I noticed that our cashier's name tag said "Jeannette." My mother grew up thinking her name was Jeanette, with one N, until she learned that her mother had wanted to call her Henrietta. So she went to the courthouse for the name-change ( Read more... )

Because everything is random these days ( Read more... )