Mystery tour!
One week of work to go, then we're on vacation! I have no idea where we're going, but I know what we're doing. It's our ninth wedding anniversary, and every three years we go to see a certain show (I'm
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A collection of 520 issues
Sleep
Strolling round the mall Saturday we stopped at the sleep number bed place. Not that we were planning to buy a horribly expansive bed, but it was fun to try them out. It is the oddest sensation to be lying on a bed and feel it deflate beneath you, getting
Getting served
(Back on my lovely laptop, mended and rescued by Hubby and working better than before. Huge thanks and warm fuzzies to Jeff of Bytes for a Bit who just happened to have a Win98SE setup CD with him on Sunday. Cold pricklies to Compaq for selling laptops but not giving
Nashville Roadtrip
Hubby and I drove out to Nashville TN on Friday night to stay with Sehlat for the weekend. Caught the amazing fireworks display from the top of a multi-storey car park, I'd never seen shaped fireworks (heart, star, and a great smiley face) before, or the 3-
The cat ate my laptop
I haven't posted this week because the laptop ate my wireless PCMCIA card settings, then decided to trash a bunch of networking DLLs I don't have a disk for, all on its own. My laptop is possessed, or possibly wanting some alone time off the internet.
Unfenced
It is a measure of how nasty the old fence was that the house looked nicer with no fence at all. It was an elderly stockade fence with peeling white paint that leaned in all the wrong places. The corpse of the old fence was stacked on the driveway last
Therapy cat
Quantum is about two years old now, she was our house warming present from Pat and Jodi. Her tail had been crushed, and then amputated since it wouldn't have healed, so she's a bobtail cat. Her previous owners didn't want her without the tail,
Funeral
I'm getting Princess-Diana-Funeral-Week flashbacks. When Princess Diana died, we'd just come out of watching Conspiracy Theory, and we were sneaking a shortcut through Guildford Railway Station to get home. There was a late edition of the Evening Standard on sale in the station
Gardening Observations
Three people multiplied by two and a quarter hours plus one electric hedge trimmer, two rakes, and one broom equals eight and a half bags of yard waste plus one dramatically improved yard.
Contemplative hedge trimming doesn't work too well. Contemplative raking and sweeping works a lot better.
Weather
Would the person who ordered a Midwest Monsoon please stand up? I'd like to see you in my office. Now.