I don’t think my throat has ever hurt so badly that it woke me up until today. Yes, I’ve been up since just before 5 am because of it. The temporary relief granted by gargling warm salt water only lasts…
House & Kid Nattering
I’m thinking of using this banned books list as a shopping list. I’ve read many of the ones on the list, but not all of them. Okay, I have no need to have American Psycho in the house (wasn’t that…
Stupid Losers
Now I’m remembering why I got off most pagan mailing lists. I recently joined a list for pagan women who are sexual abuse survivors, because I’m dealing with a lot of the old stuff coming up right now (it’s cyclical).…
Very Wrong Number
For almost a week, I’ve been getting a couple of calls a day on my cell phone asking for Henry. I’ve had this number for four or five months now, and this just started happening. Some of them are really…
Whiny
Waaaaahhhh. sambear forgot his cell phone this morning. We’re on one of those “family plans” so we can talk to each other via cell phone as much as we like, for free. So we usually talk throughout his icky long…
They Shouldn’t BE Homeschooling!
Okay, an acquaintance of ours has repeatedly moaned to me recently because her daughter isn’t learning anything. Truly—they’re supposedly homeschooling the kid, and she is still completely stuck on the same math concepts she couldn’t learn over two years ago…
Tech Unsupport
I just spent well over an hour talking to idiots who work for AT&T Broadband. Do they have an incompetence/cluelessness test that these people MUST pass to get a job?
I Hate My Body
It has nothing at all to do with my looks. It has everything to do with hurting all the time, and not being able to do what I should be able to do. What I want to do. What I…
Hard to Please
Is this whining? I hope not. We have a lovely big pan of lasagna that just came out of the oven. It’s been smelling better and better for the last hour or so. And now, suddenly, my mouth has decided…
Grrrr
Hmph. One of our PCs—the one Sam has been using for writing, and the one with the fastest processor and most RAM—has decided that sometimes she doesn’t have a NIC. It’s integrated into the motherboard, and sometimes she sees it,…