Or, at least, three days off-line.

So, late Monday evening, my laptop crashed.  I know enough to know that I don't know how to figure out what was wrong with it.  So I needed help.  But of course, I couldn't get online to find someone to help me.  It started dawning on me how much we've come to rely on internet access.

A friend of mine had had a ( Read more... )

I was watching my usual morning television (Good Morning, America) and caught a "Christmas preparation" commercial that nearly broke my heart.  Okay, that may be an exaggeration, but it did make me very sad.  I don't recall what the name of the service/store it was that was being advertised but... Here's the "story" of the commercial -- Mom is at ( Read more... )

In the house I grew up in, in Michigan, my parents' bedroom was at the top of the stairs.  Now since we were a family who opened Christmas gifts on Christmas morning, this meant great impatience for myself and my younger sister Joan.  What did we know of clocks, especially on Christmas eve?  We would try sneaking past Mom & Dad's bedroom door, and ( Read more... )

I think I've mentioned it before: I have this website.  Even though my ambition for it has always been to regularly add new material to it, the reality is that I don't do it very often.  A big reason for that is that it does take a chunk of time to build a webpage.  I'm not the best at it, and half the time I'm not entirely sure I know what I'm ( Read more... )

I think I've mentioned it before, but I am my own webmaster for my website,ScribblerWorks.  When I began, three years ago, it seemed like a good idea that I learn to do it all myself, so that I would not be dependant on someone else when I wanted to update the site.  Of course, that meant learning to use a webpage building program.  I ended up ( Read more... )

In 2009, ( Read more... )

 (I hate it when half-composed posts get accidentally lost! Boo!)

Our office closed on the 14th, and we're not expected to be back in the office until the 2nd. A nice break, yes?

Mine had been filled with "heavy" labor. Clearing the apartment, having some maintainance done (new blinds! yes!), receiving furniture from Houston. Work, work, work, and ( Read more... )