My stepfather is flying in this weekend to help me with home repairs. I’m feeling really blessed to have supportive parents — and someone knowledgable to ask questions. Boy is my knowledge lacking when it comes to home repairs.
He is flying in tonight and will be here until Sunday. Yay!
There is a full Eclipse tonight. I’m taking pictures when we go out and uploading them. If the cloud cover stays minimal, we’re supposed to have a great view. Very mild outside too. First picture at approximate 9:10 PM. Taken with a Fujifilm FinePix S9100, shutter speed 1/13, F4.9 (Yup, auto mode.) The entire family…
Yesterday I got a call from someone in Tennessee with a 423 area code. My cell phone has a 423 area code (long, convoluted story) and I sometimes get random calls from people with really thick accents. That’s okay. It happens. I politely told the person that she had the wrong number. This morning I…
This past week a dear friend’s father died. I went to his funeral on Monday. I’d never met him, but his daughter is a phenomenal person. Stepping into a funeral home was like being two places at once: at my own father’s funeral and present at my friend’s. The funeral home decor was almost identical:…
Yesterday, I tried Microsoft’s product, Money 2006. It uploaded part of my financial records (potentially including over a year’s worth of transactions, account numbers, and account passwords) to the MSN servers. I told the software to remove the information from the servers and then uninstalled the application. Having account information on a server not within…
I have been on Yasmin/Ocella (generic version) birth control pill for the past 6-8 years to help control cramps. It has been one of the few pills that hasn’t made me loopy. When I was at Mom’s over the weekend, she mentioned that she had heard about a class action lawsuit against Yasmin and Bayer…
Breezy has had a strange lameness that has manifested as either back left or front right. It looks like her back strides aren’t the same length. She’s had several weeks off and it hasn’t seemed to help. The vet came out yesterday to do a lameness evaluation for Breezy. The vet used a lameness locator…