Everything's in Kansas black-and-white ( Read more... )

Gah! I give up. I'm going to poll my friends for a decent local computer shop, drag my box in and say "Please make work!" The CD drive just died, the video card doesn't seem happy and the new Maxtor drive has been excommunicated by my motherboard. I know I'll need a new motherboard and possibly a new CD drive. I have friends who are good at this ( Read more... )

I stopped by my parents' house Saturday. Mom had surgery on her hand Friday and I wanted to check in on her. (The knife block got knocked off the counter and Mom reached out to grab it. Bad idea. Slash across the fingers of her right hand to the bone. The microsurgery was to neaten up the natural healing and correct one of the fingers that had gone ( Read more... )

Yesterday was just a bleary, blah day. Just before I was going to leave for work in the morning, I decided I had 5 minutes to go out and fill the bird feeder. I grabbed the seed container and headed out the patio door in my bare feet ( Read more... )

We had another movie night Saturday. It gave me a reason to clean up the house, and pushed me a little farther down the path of "Hey, they're your friends - they want to have fun with you, not judge whether you are Martha Stewart!". I mean, the cat hair gets vaccummed up, the surfaces get a wipe-down and the clutter gets tidied, but I'm not ( Read more... )

Last night, L, M and I played a game of Seafarers. L set up on of the pre-arranged scenarios and away we went! The boys were flanking an 8 wood, and my 8 was on an ore ( Read more... )

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Ever wonder what kind of online test-taker you are?

You are an

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I'm like, the Queen of Games. I have about 40 of them, of all kinds, and I keep a tub of them in the trunk in case someone holds a game night or something. I love games. So lately, I've been thinking about cataloging them, so I pulled out every game I owned and piled them in the living room ( Read more... )

I was surprisingly productive and non-productive this weekend ( Read more... )