I just awoke from a 'nap' -- to discover the DVR (yes, our brand NEW DVR, to be specific!!!) was frozen. And that it had been frozen for an hour or more. Really ( Read more... )

Sister Sue is at her cribbage tournament right now, so feeling well enough not to stay home. (She also went to her weekly cribbage for the first time in weeks last night, after going to the doctor yesterday morning.)

Marilyn and I drove up the Columbia River Gorge (always a fantastic, scenic drive) to The Dalles, Oregon to have dinner at Spooky's ( Read more... )

I'm learning things about the Windows 7 OS pretty quickly, actually! I hate 'grouping' on the taskbar, for example, and have learned how to eliminate it. I've got a double-wide taskbar set up, with 'small' icons/buttons that works well. I've change the desktop view and have loaded my own wallpaper (not as easy as it used to be, by the way ( Read more... )

I may have mentioned before that I'm a light-weight when it comes to drinking. (smile ( Read more... )

We were all FREEZING today at the office! The entire building was terribly cold. This does NOT come as a surprise to me, because Dave from Trane told me weeks and weeks ago that we wouldn't be able to turn on the heat when it got cold, as a part was broken. And Marilyn and Ashley turned around immediately and told the guy from the City (the City of ( Read more... )

I don't remember if I mentioned that Marilyn and I were considering driving up the Columbia River Gorge today, but that was one of our possible plans, anyway.

After a late afternoon nap, Marilyn suggested we go for dinner at Spooky's Pizza in The Dalles, Oregon. So we grabbed our laptops (they have WiFi) and off we went ( Read more... )

Marilyn mistressmarilyn bought some books from Writer's Digest, including being kind enough to get me a book on how to write young adult novels.

On Friday these books were on her desk (she had them mailed to Angel's to avoid our neighborhood thief), so I grabbed my copy of Writing & Selling the YA Novel by author K.L. Going. I've started it and am already ( Read more... )

This 'computer power' icon is so not appropriate for this entry that it is! (heh ( Read more... )

I won't spend time explaining now (even though I did start a long entry about it earlier today). Let's just say our old Cisco modem is (finally) about to be replaced by a new modem.

But not until TUESDAY, which probably means we'll be without internet until then. (yikes ( Read more... )

Give me a hammer, please! (grin ( Read more... )