Our daughter Sharon has run into this thing called FILE VAULT which has her and several upward layers of Apple Customer Service folks at a standstill.

Do I know anyone who has insider knowledge about getting around this that I can introduce to Sharon?

I use this same username on gmail and I will forward replies to her.

The new, supposedly improved Livejournal format. I do not see any link to my Friends Page.

That's what Resident Curmudgeon Columnist the late Richard Allin used to call it when winter paid one last visit to central Arkansas AFTER the daffodils got up and blooming. Someone had even presented him with a framed photograph of a clump of daffodils chin-deep in snow, with a snow tire positioned right behind the clump.

( This morning, central Mississippi had its own version. )

That's because, except for learning model rocketry with the Civil Air Patrol cadets, it has pretty-much just been keeping-on keeping-on.

So there.

One thing Free Speech is very good at: letting others know how you *really* think, so they can make up their own minds whether they want to hang out with you.

or not.

Just posted this over in the Quilting group

This verse, which I use in the song as-I-sing-it, was found in the 1976 edition of the HOPSFA Hymnal, with no indication on the page of who actually wrote it ( Read more... )

I am picking up the mail for a next-door neighbor just now, and yesterday I spotted a fire ant mound just across the driveway from her mailbox. On the way back to OUR house, I spotted a mound in the middle of our front yard. And there is a third one in our back yard, visible from the kitchen window ( Read more... )

At the time it was built, this facility set a world record for factory size, with 85 acres all under one roof ( Read more... )

( Being a direct-steal from an apa-contrib I just emailed to the OE. )