Bought speaker for home computer

Closed eTrade account

This is the third try. Let's hope it took this time.


Today's earrings: lizards, rocks

Bedtime reading: Passage, Connie Willis


This is post #900

I have Cheerios

But should I get yogurt, and possibly granola? Inquiring minds want to know.


Today's earrings: lizards, rocks

Bedtime reading: Night Watch, Terry Pratchett

To cable, or not to cable?

Just got a bill from Comcast, so I need to call and browbeat them into not sending me any more bills. Or I could let them coax me into becoming a customer again.

On the "stay away" side, we have the expense, the general evil of monopolies, and the specific evil that is Comcast. Also, Netflix and next-day online rebroadcasts.

On the "go back" side, we have my Thursday night conversations with b2 and the delights of channel-flipping.


Today's earrings: lizards, rocks

Bedtime reading: Rat Race, Dick Francis

Giveaway, Part 2

VHS tapes! Yes, most of them are home recordings of Survivor. But! There's also a copy of Dogma and part of a box set of The Avengers.

Does anyone still pay for vinyl?


Today's earrings: lizards, rocks

Bedtime reading: Hip Deep in Alligators, Robert Campbell

Hot Hot Hot

With puppets.



Today's earrings: lizards, rocks

Bedtime reading: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling

More computer fun

Got home tonight to find that I couldn't get online. Had a nice chat with the help dude at my ISP, and discovered that it wasn't them; somehow, Explorer and FireFox had gotten set to a proxy server that was refusing connections. Proxy server? huh?


Today's earrings: lizards, rocks

Bedtime reading: "Like Little Ducks Each Day," R.A. Lafferty

On the radio this morning

There was a story about a woman who's been harvesting the trees in people's yards and passing the fruit on to the food bank. (Yes, she gets permission first.)
http://www.kgoam810.com/Article.asp?id=1223871&nId=9&spid=15884

Google tells me that gleaning projects have been going on for years in various places around the country.


Today's earrings: lizards, rocks

Bedtime reading: Lafferty in Orbit, R.A. Lafferty

Re-paint

Turns out the battleship gray was primer. The door is once again browny-peach, but of a pinker shade. The colors still don't work together, but now you have to look closely to notice.

In other (Top Chef) news, I hate Stefan, and also Hosea and Leah. I hope they get everything they deserve in this life.


Today's earrings: lizards, green eggs

Bedtime reading: "The Polite People of Pudibundia," R.A. Lafferty

Here lizard, lizard, lizard

Today's earrings: lizards, rocks

Bedtime reading: Miracle, Connie Willis

Full day, with serious ick factor.

New Dude started work today. (Yay! Hooray!) I spent a couple hours explaining Turkey. Then I went to lunch with the Cricket. We did not eat turkey. In the afternoon, I got a little work done while fielding questions from New Dude.

Met b2 for wine & pizza after work. We were waiting at the counter for the staff to uncork another bottle so we could have seconds when Hot Guy appeared in search of a quick slice. We invited him to sit with us. We talked tv for a while, then HG told me I'd missed a team-building exercise: after I left, my colleagues had decided to clean the Troll's desk. HG had decided to do something about the mold growing in the coffee cup that the Troll had left half-full when he went on vacation, and I guess things escalated from there. They shook a loaf's worth of crumbs out of the keyboard, chipped the filth from the desktop... but there wasn't much they could do about the crusted yellow stain on the chair. Ewwwwwwwwwwww. Then HG left to pursue his evening plans, and b2 and moved on to less revolting topics.


Today's earrings: lizards, rocks

Bedtime reading: Modesty Blaise, Peter O'Donnell

Fitness

"Somehow lizards just belong on rocks."
- - Michael Sackett, http://www.letsrockcarvedstone.com/


Today's earrings: lizards, rocks

Bedtime reading: Through Elegant Eyes, R.A. Lafferty

Left work early

The system was god-awful slow. I was sitting there fuming about how some programmer somewhere had decided that the best possible use of my time was to sit and wait... and wait... and wait for the screen to refresh. Or worse, that the highly-paid programming team hadn't even thought that much about the end user. Steam was staring to come out of my ears, so I walked out and went to Stacey's. I feel this was an excellent call on my part.

Today's book purchase:
Bad Monkeys, Matt Ruff (HarperCollins)
The Gospel of Food, Barry Glassner (ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins)
Hard Row, Margaret Maron (Warner Books)
The Atlantic, September 2007


Today's earrings: lizards, rocks

Bedtime reading: Hard Row, Margaret Maron