Seriously I am eating a reasonable amount of food but I feel like nobody lets me near the victuals. What the hell? I'm having to do reality checks on my consumption instead of just following my appetite because it's never satisfied. Maybe I'm missing some important nutrient? "Satiatine!" the vitamin that makes you feel satiated ( Read more... )

What is the actual difference between a drone and a remote-control device ( Read more... )

My computer resurrected itself somehow. I just poked the on button in passing because I needed something from the desk anyway and it turned on ( Read more... )

Say you have a relatively well-functioning (except some of the keys on the keyboard are a bit resistant to suggestion) six year old Fujitsu Lifebook laptop which is sadly running Vista, and the sound has cut out on it suddenly while you were clumsily trying to type on it..  The "volume mixer," which isn't a mixer in a real sense at all but only a ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was working on the downstairs bedroom so I don't have to live in a dump for the next year and so I will eventually be able to clean up the living room too ( Read more... )

It looks like the last few times I uploaded my work to googledocs I deleted the wrong ones, so I'm not out a couple hundred words but more than three thousand ( Read more... )

Laptop appears to have well and truly died. It hasn't started in three days. This is bad because: (1)I've been using it to write the not-Poland book while sitting in bed in the morning before daylight and (2)I had hopes of sitting in the yard with it down the line and writing under the apple tree ( Read more... )

Apparently, cut text and make a new document is too much to handle for open office on vista. I did not choose this configuration and I really, really can't afford to do anything about it.

I only lost a thousand words.

Guess who, after some really magnificent disasters in the past -- including a five-way backup failure -- had not backed up her work ( Read more... )