so there i am last night chatting with a friend who says randomly "hey, didn't you bundle online backup with your virus software on Mr Nigel-Murray ( Read more... )

I survived. I wasn't sure I would for awhile there. It's been a crazy year, after all, but here I am, with only a few days to go until the New Year. I hope I'm not jinxing myself saying that, but I'm past due to post an update so here we are. Picture-heavy, so under an LJ cut

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A college in Indiana now requires its students to play "Portal" as a requirement for some sections of one of its mandatory courses (the course is called "Enduring Questions" and "Portal" is part of the module on issues of perception -- once they iron out the technical and logistical ( Read more... )

Got the beads months ago but RL kept cropping up. Also, I've been sore (still am but her b-day's on Monday and I want to give her the present before then). And you know that egg recall? Totally hasn't been announced in Ohio yet, but here I am recovering from what presented a lot like Salmonella so, yeah. The one time I don't raid the sister's farm ( Read more... )

for "wtf ( Read more... )

suggested by Ellie. It not only works for her in an odd way, she answers to it. Sorta ( Read more... )

and I have today, tomorrow, and Saturday to get the old place presentable before I hand the keys over again (and, man, are my back, knee, and wrists screaming at me over it).

Anywho, Betty's meet new nemesis. She's not used to having mirrors on her level and two of the closets in this place have mirrored doors. She concedes that other!cat is a ( Read more... )

First a brief update. Helen and the girls are in town and I should get the last furniture moved into the new place tonight, weather allowing. I dearly hope so, at least because I'm officially no longer comfortable in the old place overnight. Noisy domestic incident last night was noisy and ended up spanning two floors of the building before the ( Read more... )

is slow and difficult going. It now looks like we won't be done until Saturday night or Sunday although we did get a great many boxes moved today and I'll be able to get a lot of things unpacked/organized/cleaned tomorrow. The trick will be not spending any great amount of time outside. The heat index at this moment is 110 degrees F (43.3 degrees C ( Read more... )

Heather has unilaterally declared that I'm not allowed to move again until I get rid of many, many of my books. I'm inclined to agree. I had no idea I had so much heavy $h!t in my home. But I do and I cannot WAIT until it's all shifted and organized. I ache so bad and I don't think my chest and muscles have been not-tight and not-sore since about ( Read more... )