The bad: my cel phone just slid out of my pocket and into the toilet, post-morning coffee exodus...

The good: somehow, it's still alive.

The ugly: must now find way to absolutely sterilize without undoing good luck and killing phone with cleansing solvents.

EDIT

Hmmm, may have spoken too soon on that whole "alive" thing... more like "living dead;" ( Read more... )

Once a week, in prep for our story meeting, I do a whip-around of all the smaller regional papers (better reporters would do this more often than once a week; if it happens on Monday, I'll never know).  Since I still have nothing to write about of a more personal nature, I thought I'd share my enjoyment of this paragraph from an article about ( Read more... )

I am in the land of so many different kinds of work hell, there is hardly gigabites enough here to ennumerate them all.  However, in a minor break from routine, I got to call a meteorologist today for a year-end story on the North Carolina drought.  I love talking about the weather.  I love it even more than talking about sewers.  Because ( Read more... )

So I now join the not-so-distinguished company of People Who Own Cats With Tubes in Them (our company needs a better name).  The frakkin cat, as a result of her love of the outdoors and apparent inability to establish her rank in the pecking order of neighborhood felines, got herself chomped on the tail recently, a condition I discovered when said ( Read more... )

 
Want to draw your attention to this giant scary article about all the unregulated toxic chemicals to which we're exposed.  It'll make you want to throw out half the things in your house, or at least (in my case) stop microwaving my leftovers in tupperware...

My demolition derby story ran this morning.  I'm rather proud of it.  You can spend 4:37 finding out why here (no script yet; accidentally deleted it last night).  Or you can just look at the photos (I recommend the slide-show option with the captions turned on -- cool black background).  I really need to turn one of them into an icon...

Thanks to all who responded; I really appreciate all the advice and recommendations!  I shall now go read up on Consumer Reports and check out secret web-specials and familiarize myself with the world of things Macintosh (one highly pertinent question: does Mac run the my preferred audio editing software?).  Will report back when I finally take the ( Read more... )

In the name of being able to write-off the taxes on my moderate freelance income this year (and because of course I couldn't just save my gas receipts like a sensible person), I've decided I need to buy a new laptop before the end of the year.  Or possibly today ( Read more... )

 So I have some time before I head over to Post's friends' house (Post, stuck at his catering job, will be arriving later), so I figured, why not write one of those sappy 'What I'm Thankful For' posts ( Read more... )

I'm supposed to be meeting with this painter Friday morning for a magazine profile.  Except now all my emails are getting bounced back and the postmaster tells me her account has been suspended for 'abuse.'  I assume this is all a misunderstanding.  Or she's crazy.  In either case, this is definitely not an auspicious sign ( Read more... )