A bit over a week ago I wrote about the failure of our Roomba vacuum. While I thought the tale would end there it did not. Shortly after posting the entry about my customer support experience I found a follow-up email from customer support. It indicated that it appeared that the connection had been lost during our call. Being in an annoyed mood ( Read more... )

Roomba that is. All it does is go in circles and since I have no circular rooms that's a bit of a problem.

( Tale of woe below along with some venting. )

I posted these on Facebook but I thought I'd share them here as well. I replace the front lights this weekend.

Here is the before shot. As far as I know the brass & glass fixtures are original to the house when it was built in 1987.


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Just curious if anyone in LJ land is using Square for mobile credit card process or a similar device. I know Intuit has such a device as well. I think it is a neat idea and seems like it would have been great for my folks when they used to sell stuff at events.

I still checking LJ on a fairly regular basis. I enjoy the longer format which allows for more verbiage than what folks ate for lunch or their current video crush. I just don't seem to have much to say myself of late.

For a day or two recently there has been an Internet upheaval over some employers asking for Facebook passwords during the ( Read more... )

ted_badger and I went to Somerville last night to hear Aimee Mann perform. Ted is a big fan and I came to know her solo work from him. badgary and Ted's former roommate Joe joined us. Aimee covered a lot of her old work, dipped back to Til Tuesday with Voices Carry and shared a few new pieces from an album that should come out this summer. We all seemed to have a ( Read more... )

When I sang with the church choir there was a song we sang during Advent that I liked a lot. I still think of it this time of year, especially on the Solstice.

God of day and God of darkness, now we stand before the night ( Read more... )

Today, December 1st, is World AIDS Day. Since 1988, World AIDS Day has served to increase awareness and commemorate the fight against HIV/AIDS ( Read more... )

A little story in honor of National Coming Out DayI have a new co-worker and I've been tasked with getting him up to speed on the environment we support. In the course of this we've had a lot of interaction. I mentioned I had to leave early last Friday for a appointment with a sleep specialist. We ended up have quite a discussion about sleep ( Read more... )

The advantage of having a husband who bakes bread on Saturday is that I very often get to enjoy the homemade bread toasted on Sunday morning. It is so good.