So we are retiring our bird feeders until winter is well underway.  I should say our bird feeder since the finch feeder has a 6in x 2in jagged whole in along with a couple of random teeth marks in it.  I guess we can be added to the list of people around town who have had their bird feeders destroyed by bears.  I know that yesterday as I was ( Read more... )

Saw Up with Emma last night and we both really enjoyed it!  I will say that parents who have kids that can scare easily or get sad easily might want to pre-screen the movie, there are a couple of touchy places.

Ok now off to rollerblade.

-steph

Happy 6th birthday Emma Ming!!!!!!

Is it weird that I now keep looking for a like button on livejournal and get annoyed when I can't find it?

;)

Anyone have a 2.5" USB 2.0 or Firewire drive enclosure that I can borrow?  I need to retrieve some data from my dead laptop hard drive and don't want to pay ~$30 if I don't have to.  :)

-steph

Finally I have in my possession my Grandmother's Singer sewing machine.  I have been trying to get this thing forever!  It is so pretty and maybe, just maybe I will now learn to sew.

A picture of the very pretty 60+ year old machine can be found here: www.gweep.net/~doom/sewingmachine.JPG

-steph

As an FYI where I work now has Gluten Free offerings. I know that some friends need to avoid gluten so I wanted to let people know. I work at Stone Hearth Pizza, Co.  There are currently 3 locations - Belmont Center, Porter Square and Needham.  We have rice flour pizza crusts and most of our toppings are not made with any gluten products.  We ( Read more... )

Snippets from HP email support - "you seem to be experiencing a known issue" "covered under extended warranty for known issue" "qualify for free mail-in repair ( Read more... )

As if there wasn't enough suck this year. My laptop's motherboard is DEAD! The thing is only 1.5 years old so I am more than a little annoyed. Checking with compac to see if I have a chance in hell with the warranty or if it was only for a year. Q was quoted $500 to fix it from the Geek Squad or gee we could get a brand new one for around that ( Read more... )

Anyone encounter this in Windows Vista? It had happened previously on my laptop and I had to do a forced shutdown and then reboot. At that time I got the screen that windows was shutdown improperly..blah blah blah. Once it was up again it ran fine. Now the computer will not boot at all. The power light will come on and I can hear the drive ( Read more... )