Archive: January 2005
An Excess of Kindness
I went to the library for lunch (yummy hot chicken salad) and on the drive home wound up behind an elderly man in a very beat up old car. Turns out that he had a habit of coming to a dead stop (on a major east-west thoroughfare) for every car trying to turn out of [...]
(Full Post)Cooking for Engineers
Mrs. OotFP, you’re going to love this! What a wonderfully elegant way to present a recipe.
Via Confessions of a Girl Geek, while trying to figure out why Spam Karma is turning off email notification of real comments.
Being Patronised
I went to a home improvement place yesterday to buy faucets and a sink, and to look at tile. Elderly Guy was working the tile department, and asked if he could help me. I asked about samples, and he muttered something about lending out sample boards, then looked down at me gravely and said, sadly, [...]
(Full Post)Remodeling
Our remodeling has begun. I came home last Monday evening to find that all the furniture had been moved out of the living room, and carpet removal was underway. Now the steps have been dismantled, the gas fireplace removed, and the drywall cut out to the level of the new floor.
Remodeling background: we have a [...]
Weather
I think we can declare the migraine gone now, thank goodness.
Now I just have the irritating tingling and numbness (yes, Virginia, thanks to MS I can have both at once!) in the right arm and the shooting pains in the legs.
Argh!! Symptom journal! I hate symptom journals! I will not keep a symptom journal!
Nice weather [...]
Good Spam Karma
Without any intervention from me (that I recall), Spam Karma has figured out how to send digests (1 email per 10 spam comments) rather than 2 emails per comment. It’s working beautifully now.
I still have the same low-level migraine (what, 2 weeks now?). Maybe it’s the new glasses.
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