If you have ever wanted to know about the process of embalming bodies in North American funeral homes, Sundry has a brand-new post just for you. She tagged along with her brother-in-law, who works in a mortuary, and watched him prepare an elderly woman's body for a funeral ( Read more... )

So I popped off all the keys and cleaned my keyboard thoroughly with rubbing alcohol, and then I gave it a few hours to dry. Tonight I decided to test it out by typing "the quick brown fox".

The result looked like this:

wxNo, I'm not kidding. It's really that bad. *weeps ( Read more... )

MY EYYBOAD IS DEAD & TS ALL MY FAULT A RRGH.

& yes iiiiiii diiiid trrryyyyyyyy cleanniing iiit.

hedda62, I saw these and, inevitably, thought of you ( Read more... )

...where my Unpopular Opinion of the 28th went, it has been flushed. I've archived a copy of the page, and it's available upon special request if anyone feels they must know exactly what was said by all parties, but I doubt anyone is really that interested. I know I'm not ( Read more... )

My eighth grade teacher died today.

Jessie Paul was only in her sixties, but she'd always been ill with a host of ailments... even when she taught my class, I remember her leaning heavily on her cane and missing a number of work days. Her body was swollen with glandular problems, leaving her face and form bloated and puffy. But she was a warm, ( Read more... )