I’m working on finishing some stitched presents today, to be taken to my family of origin tonight or tomorrow. I won’t be online, for the most part, as that doesn’t really work so well with the stitching. Yesterday, shadowkatt and…
Thank You
From the bottom of my heart for your kind help. You are a blessing in my life. I promise you that the help will be “paid forward” in every way I can ever manage.
Poetry: How I Came To Drink My Grandmother’s Piano
How I Came To Drink My Grandmother’s Piano by Kathleen Norris It has to do with giving, and with letting go, with how the earth rotates on its axis to make an oblate spheroid. It has to do with how…
Cards
All the addresses were on the dead hard drive. At this point, obviously, the cards will be “holiday” rather than Yule/Solstice/Christmas! I *still* want to send them out, so PLEASE send me contact info! How the card should be addressed…
Ick. Requesting Help.
I’ve never, ever done this before. It’s very hard now. However, the data recovery on the hard drive is $600. I am not going to be able to finish my coursework without that data, which will mean losing my financial…
How About We Just Bring Back the Whole Jim Crow Thing?
I realize that the survey wasn’t of a statistically significant population, but I find the whole thing horribly disturbing. America: Land of the Free. Well, sometimes. Some of us. The right kind of people, you know? In U.S., 44 Percent…
Unhappy Computer
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?
An Explanation
I’ve identified one reason that many documents produced by “technical communicators” are so unreadable. Our professors consider someone who uses “foregrounding” rather than “focusing on” in an article to be an authority.
Self-Portrait Quiz
More Feedback, Please?
One of my other assignments is to create a patient information brochure about fibromyalgia. I’ve uploaded it to my website as a PDF and would appreciate any constructive criticism you care to give me. It’s designed to be printed as…