So I've complained, at length, about the stupid security tab in the Subaru.

It directly contributed to the problems starting the car, not least because it was gradually corroding to the point that we'd graduated to needing to turn the key in the ignition while at the same time leaning down to not just press the security tab to make contact, but ( Read more... )

Mmkay. I expect to switch either to a sub-account on Veggie's new T-Mobile plan, or to grab a pay-as-you-go off T-Mobile, sometime during October 8-10th, when I'm next south ( Read more... )

Zach talked me into going for a very low-level offroading expedition today. I'm not entirely sure how, but he did ( Read more... )

I put K on a plane yesterday, and today Mom and I have been working on Cleaning The Fairhaven Place. Mom very kindly worked on kitchen, laundry and bathroom floors, because having to put weight on my hands is still not my favourite thing, and the damned vinyl in this place looks dirty even when it's scrubbed, because of how the plastic gets marred ( Read more... )

*squinting Dubiously*

So I have a smartphone now.

My husband is cooing at it.

I am sincerely concerned it is gathering information for a SHIELD dossier.

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Oh, great. The big computer (the one we use for the business) just spontaneously rebooted.

Veggie and I were on the couches. We both looked up when it bonged.

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Thank whoever. I actually hated the phone I had between the Evil Device and this one more than the Evil Device (used Blackberries: evil little bastards, even before you drop them in the bathtub).

I'm now on a Verizon plan, as a second line on my brother's plan instead of the fourth line on daiv an billradish. The reason I switched to this method, instead ( Read more... )

Thank all the gods of engineering that dad likes to leave extra phone wire when he's adding jacks ( Read more... )

So we get back from a lovely weekend in Victoria with friends! Slightly earlier than we were expecting, even ( Read more... )

If I had (or should have) your phone number, please either comment here (comments screened) or email me at a.rogues.gallery at gmail.

No, I don't want to talk about it. Suffice to say that the Evil Device is no more.