The Geek Who Understands You
The trustee for Katie’s trust fund just informed me that he doesn’t want to pay her health insurance premiums anymore because “it’s just wrong” for us to be covered under curiousmay9‘s benefits. Those are domestic partnership benefits, and the asshole…
Damned crackers hit our server. picksmanraven is rebuilding the mail server now, but we haven’t had email since, um, Friday? So we aren’t getting copies of our comments. The working email for me is technomom at spamcop dot net. Current…
My laptop is sick. It looks like it might be the hard drive. No email and little ‘net for me since Sunday night. Pout. Call me at the house (not on the cell) if anything is important, ok?
Note to self: NEVER plan any social event here without scheduling a visit from the maids right beforehand. Anyway, curiousmay9 and I went to Sears last night and bought our new stove! It will be delivered and installed tomorrow. It’s…
I actually opened chat clients today, but can’t stay connected. We’re on day two of 50% packet loss, and the ISP tech won’t be here ’til tomorrow. Much of the stuff I do for the family requires online research and…
The line wasn’t nearly as bad as that for early voting last week, so I’m glad we waited. Things seemed to be moving along quite well. All of the poll workers were “church ladies”—women well over 60, most probably over…
I’m the webmaster for Working to Halt Online Abuse. WHOA helps people who are being harassed online. Our site is full of material about avoiding and dealing with harassment, good anti-harassment policies for forum owners, etc. There are many contact…
Google Alert just sent me a mention of my name associated with an article called “Types of Rape.” As I don’t believe I’ve discussed that in the past, I had to check out the URL. It’s a re-post of an…
sambear bought a Tempsoma memory foam pillow for me. I love it—except for the smell. I just could NOT handle the chemical smell, and Febreeze and the like didn’t help. I washed it according to the manufacturer’s directions, just adding…
I adore my laptop. I hate everything there is about moving to a new PC. BUT—I’m sitting here in my recliner, all comfy, working away with a wireless connection to the network! I’m having trouble adjusting to the keyboard—my typing…
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