Catching up Finished my first temp assignment, got part of the afternoon off to catch up with Sluggy, User Friendly, Get Fuzzy, the Telegraph, blogs, and the list of spam that Postini caught
Home alone I know the church men's retreat is a good thing and all, but not having Hubby around feels like someone's cut off a limb, albeit a limb that can talk and hug back. House is attaining some semblance of order, will be greatly improved when we&
Housing Called an electrician out when half the kitchen (including the fridge) lost power. We tried the obvious fix of turning off the power, turning it back on and flipping the offending breaker, and it didn't work because the breaker was dead. According to the electrician, there are people
Verisign customer service Verisign has transferred someone's domain name without permission. Someone in Berlin faxed a registration in (for a domain that was already registered, and not due to expire for a while yet) and Verisign/Network Solutions handed it over, no questions asked. To quote the original owner, Leslie Harpold:
Monday Mission 2.18 The PromoGuy's Monday Mission 2.18. 1. Do you have any tattoos? If no, why not and what would you get if you did get one. I have no tattoos or piercings. I don't want a permanent mark on me. Used to wonder about joining the
Moving day The appliances are en route, the carpet has been cling-filmed, 90% of what can be packed has been, the apartment looks like a warehouse. And DSL is working at the house, roughly twice the speed it was at the apartment. Now we have to shift all the stuff and
Signs of the times At the exit to our local Quiktrip petrol station, there are two signs for exiting drivers. The first says "Right turn only." All well and good, though you could have worked that out from the way the exit points to the right, making it almost a U turn
Changing spaces Being "between houses" is odd. We're living in the apartment until Friday, with no phones and no internet access. We're not in the house yet, but the answer phone is, and it's the only home number we have. The house has dialup
Hunting The trouble with having two or more computers is working out exactly where the files you want have been shifted to. And with 66 Gb of potential hiding place, plus about 11 backup CDs, it can be a little hard to find stuff.
In our new house! The phones aren't connected yet, and the DSL is off at the apartment, so we are wholly without internet access. This will be posted when the dialup starts working. Jed and Jen were our first visitors, apart from the guy changing all the locks. Larry and Sarah are