Ok, let's see if we can get this thing posted before our nightly compu-meltdown occurs. Last night I got so angered with the thing that I didn't even download my NPR stories! Just went off to bed in a huff.

Anyway before I get going, I wanted to do something I should've a couple entries ago and welcome my new LJ readers: beautyofgrey, sarcasticcissy, and thenodrin. Thanks for ( Read more... )

Wait, does such a state exist? Ah, I didn't really think so. Well then perhaps my quirky life is ok ( Read more... )

So today I began my quest to acquire these new hearing aids. In doing so, though, I encountered a bit of a problem. I'd been trying to contact my counselor at Division of Services for the blind for months now, as they'd told me that my case had been transferred. Once I finally got him to call me back though, he said I was still on record as working ( Read more... )

I've not entirely finished this book yet, but I figure that's a good thing as it will force me not to give away its ending. I have, however, spent much of the last two days reading it. Given that I lost the USB to mini-USB cable I use to connect my Pac Mate to the PC, I'm not sure how I'll read books on the go after this one is done. But we shall ( Read more... )

I've gotten in a surprising amount of reading this summer. Three books in this month alone, with one of them clocking in at over 770 pages. Goodness. A couple years ago, it would've taken me two or more months to finish a monster like that ( Read more... )

So this is the first entry I've written from my laptop. Why, you ask? Well, because my desktop was attacked by a viscious virus that shut down pretty much all of my Internet. I'm so annoyed at this I could spit! I just don't understand the reasons for creating this kind of nonsense ( Read more... )

Ah, the heat has settled over the Southeast like a much-loved blanket. In celebration of this, I acquired my first box of ice cream sandwiches in probably 10 years, and have taken to eating them while on the front porch. The nostalgia is grand ( Read more... )

Gah how time flies. It's already been since the 9th that I last wrote in here. It definitely doesn't feel like that, probably because of the amount of craziness to which I have recently been exposed.

The biggest clown in my circus has been trying to find a class to take along with the one I must re-take from last Fall. I'm trying to get into an ( Read more... )

That comes from the fact that we sometimes call North Carolina "North Cackilacky". I don't know exactly where that nickname came from, though ( Read more... )