I'm surrounded by papers that need to be graded for tomorrow, so I figured this would be a good time to update my much-neglected Livejournal.

A remember promising myself awhile back to try and write something every day. For awhile that meant nightly love for Livejournal. But LJ was like a gateway drug into the seedy world of blogging. Starting in ( Read more... )

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Becky's due date has been bumped up to January 25th. She will soon be a baby cannon.

I'll post pictures when that happens.

So I got to thinking... wouldn't it be neat to document my little laptop experiment for the entire world to see? So I did - http://TheEeePcExperiment.blogspot.com. After less than a week, I was surprised and excited to find that I already had comments. Apparently Google wastes no time indexing new blogs. I was especially excited to see that someone ( Read more... )

s of yesterday, I have a new goal. For the next 99 days I will only be using my new laptop for all my comouting needs. Why is this a challenge, you ask? First, it's insanely small - that means chicklet-sized keys and a screen about the size of one on an atm. Next, it's very limited on memory - after operating system and software, only about 1gb of ( Read more... )

Judging by the subject line, I bet you're anticipating some quip about our new president elect. Actually, it's in reference to my recent laptop acquisition. I noticed almost immediately that the enter key didn't work well. No biggie. I returned it yesterday for another. This time, the enter key worked like a charm, unless of course you wanted to ( Read more... )

For my birthday I splurged and bought myself a new laptop. I've had my eye on it for a long time, and even though Becky thought it was a wee bit useless, I'm enjoying my new toy. It's called an Eee PC, and it's only seven inches long. That's two and a half inches smaller than Ron Jeremy's penis.

Here is a picture of it compared to our old laptop. ( Read more... )

Update: The laptop works again. When all else fails, take the battery out, blow on it like it was an NES game cartridge, and then reinsert it. Maybe I do know how to fix everything.

The part I neglected to mention in my post was that I got a new iPod for my birthday. In addition to a few sweet features, this one is better than my last because it ( Read more... )

I have to stop pretending to know what I'm doing. Sure, it was a fluke that I didn't blow up the house when I tampered with our water heater. Maybe I took more credit than I should have and now this is karma biting me square in the ass. Tonight I tried to "fix" a problem I've been having with Becky's laptop. Mind you, everything I've ever done on a ( Read more... )

I was anticipating record numbers of kids tonight for Halloween, but we ended up with about a dozen total. It's actually made me quite grumpy because I was looking forward to handing out candy (I was seeing it as a duty of homeownership). Oh well ( Read more... )