The Geek Who Understands You
From Future Brief: Most American consumers don’t realize Internet merchants and even traditional retailers sometimes charge different prices to different customers for the same products, according to a new survey. The study, “Open to Exploitation,” found nearly two-thirds of adult…
curiousmay9 left town Friday to visit with her family. Her grandmother passed away on Saturday. The grand lady had been in a nursing home for years, and her death did not come as a surprise. Still, it’s never easy to…
Pulling Up Beside My Husband at the Stoplight –Marjorie Saiser From Bones of a Very Fine Hand We are going to the same place but we take two cars. Sunday morning and there’s not much traffic so I pull up…
I missed a doctor’s appointment this morning—one of those that it has taken MONTHS to get. I’m not happy. I just couldn’t wake up, though. Sam roused me long enough to get meds into me this morning. I fell asleep…
It’s impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time. -Mignon McLaughlin, author (1915-) It makes sense to me in that you can’t have four “number one priorities.” Even with…
We got Katie’s California Achievement Test results yesterday. Math: grade equivalent is 13 (beyond 12th grade). I can’t remember the percentile at the moment, but it’s really high. Language Arts: same on the grade equivalent. 99% percentile. Spoken vocabulary and…
A friend just posted one of those “anonymous confession posts,” enabling anonymous commenting and disabling IP address logging. I never have anything to say in those threads. I can’t think of anything that I wouldn’t just say as me. I…
wordcandlemage has an important event happening today. Unfortunately, I’m not up to going. sambear and shadowkatt are there to represent the family. I’ll rest more, and hopefully have the energy to do some things around here. Another nice thing about…
Thanks to Sam, I’m sitting at my lovely new computer armoire. I have all manner of devices connected to my USB hub. The cable for downloading photos from my camera or putting songs on my MP3 player is right here,…
I got *maybe* two hours of sleep all Thursday night. That was verified by the monitoring tech. In fact, he came into the room around 3:30 and said, “Are you ever going to go to sleep?” Of course, I was…
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