A couple of weekends ago I made it to the local county fair for the first time in years. I finally have the pictures uploaded and organized ( Read more... )

I lost the contest at work to Mayhem and the US Women's Olympic Gymnastics Team but I'm pretty happy with my costume and as it turned out TPTB forgot to buy the traditional gift certificate prize so all they get is bragging rights anyway.
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This week has ended up having a sort of theme. I read Storm Front, the first Dresden Files book and followed it up with The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. Both are urban fantasy and are about as different as can be and still be in the same sub-genre. And yet...

( More review plus how Death is a theme in real life this week )

I've recently realized that I've been behind on the stuff I follow for over a year. I frantically get caught up on one thing only at the expense of letting other things fall behind and using time I should be using for more productive things.

I'd really like to try to start writing again and all too often the large unread pile facing me when I boot ( Read more... )

Not going to happen.

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It's been a very not fun week. Last week of the financial year and tons of stuff to do related to that, my car broke down and needed expensive repairs, and a tropical storm decided on a Florida vacation.

Lots of flooding in my area and the road I usually take to get from my neighborhood to the highway is going to be closed for a long time but damage ( Read more... )

Yesterday I ordered my first Smart Phone. It will get here Tuesday and even though I've resisted getting one for years I'm finding I'm really excited about playing with it. IT at work is making noises about blocking streaming audio again and if I can't listen to music on Pandora or old radio shows on YouTube I might commit work place violence.

After ( Read more... )

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When LJ did its last update I could finally get it to load on my computer at home without hitting refresh multiple times and disabling Java. I spent a couple of weekends working my way through backlogged update notices and cleared a couple of hundred items out of my overstuffed Gmail inbox.

And then Firefox updated and I'm back where I started.

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I'm sure some of you remember me whining about being on dial-up. Well, something has updated at LJ that hates dial-up even more than I do and it's kept me from posting much for a while now. If I visit LJ from home getting a page to load requires hitting refresh multiple times, sometimes over a half hour or more. Getting the post page to load is ( Read more... )