We went to the dentist last week. KJ had fewer cavities than she expected, which pleased her ( Read more... )

Making a thing is fun. Partly it's fun to be creative, to exercise one's imagination. Partly it's fun to create, to bend reality to one's will and leave a tangible something as proof ( Read more... )

KJ got a new laptop today, so I get to hang on to her old one (this one). The battery acted dead in the water at first, but eventually it started charging ( Read more... )

The latest idiocy: I can't open Sound Recorder unless there's a recognized recording device attached. Because, you know, no sane person would want to just open a program to see what it looks like or anything. No, don't be silly, we aren't going to allow you to choose what programs you open on your own* computer, we're going to decide for you what ( Read more... )

So I finally fished my old laptop HD out from where it fell a month or two ago, and it still works. Yay ( Read more... )

So the old laptop HD is now acting as an external HD on my laptop. No Master_Resume, apparently, but I got a few cut-down versions that should do the job. Really, the main pain with re-doing my resume would be getting all the dates straight, but I'm just glad to be able to access that stuff again.

Between the QT going to open up across the way and the Dirt Cheap moving away, hopefully there will be many fewer idiots blocking left-turn traffic up into the intersection in the future ( Read more... )