So! Today: Breakfast at Bob Evans. Yum. Grocery store (had 10 things on the list, still managed to buy a lot of stuff – how does this always happen?) Sat at home, thought about White Dog’s power problem, saw that the Genius Bar had available appointments at 12 noon (which was about 75 minutes from…
Month: May 2011
white dog wahhhh
White Dog’s going for another visit to the Genius Bar on Monday morning. (Genius Bar = Apple Store tech support). It’s not holding a charge, even though the power supply I bought a few months ago is attached. The reason for this is (hopefully!) simple: the plastic on the outside of the laptop around where…
Frankly, I blame Eric Clapton for this…
(watch out, this may be the blog post to get me kicked out of my family…) So, the other day I was driving around and one of Gene’s Richard Cheese songs came on the iPod. Let’s agree that it was his lounge lizard version of Baby Got Back (which is a pretty good version, until…
Work
So, here’s what I have learned in the last 10 months (since leaving the old job): * Work sucks. Too many hours, annoying coworkers, annoying clients * Employers suck. They don’t let you work overtime (see above), they don’t hire enough people to do the job, blah blah. * Yeah. So anyway! In Big Payroll,…
And a week later,
let’s talk about seeing Former Boss Gwen at the bookstore. It’s a funny story. Please don’t recommend that I should be institutionalized, OK? So, I was sitting in a fast food drive through one Sunday afternoon. I’d gone…somewhere (library? mall?)…and promised Gene I’d bring him home a drink. I’m staring off in the distance while…
Other stuff, not maudlin or crazy…
1) Shopping for a new phone. May actually join the 21st century and get a smart phone. I have my eye on the HTC (?) Inspire. If you’re thinking, “Hey, Elaine, aren’t you typing this crap on a MacBook? Don’t *they* have a cell phone?”, my answer is, “Yeahhh. No.” Too expensive (even w/ Gene’s…
once in awhile…
A few times a year I get an email from the photography company who takes the pictures of theme park guests, advertising some great new special. It includes a picture of the Boy and I, taken on a theme park day in (I think) 2007. I usually don’t even open the emails but today I…
Monday grumble…
1) My archrival at work Broomhilda has already asked off the week of Nerd World 2011. So pissed off about this, can barely form words. Broom’s not even going to Nerd World, why does she need that specific week off?? Auuuugh! 2) No really. AUUUUGH. 3) Sometime before Easter I ordered a cute laptop case…
So where the hell have *I* been?
So! 1) The hosting for Laineyd.com comes due on 4/30/11 and this year I procrastinated paying it until May 9th. Until I finally got around to paying for hosting, I didn’t want to post here because it felt a little like stealing. 2) Debating the Purchase of a New Dishwasher (eventually deciding against it for…