I’ve been trying my darnedest to visit my blogging friends, but the oddest thing is happening. I can’t get into any of the TypePad blogs. I’ve tried two different computers, but both run AOL, so I can’t tell whether it’s AOL or TypePad that’s squirrely.
If something’s going on with TypePad, let me know, won’t you? I miss Bogie and billy and P.J. and all the others over there!
Monthly Archives: March 2004
ORGY!
Well….actually “threesome” is more correct here. I was listening to WGN yesterday. They have two women, Kathy and Judy, who do a morning show, and you NEVER know what you’re likely to hear there.
Traveling Porn
I’m amazed at what I hear on the radio. I was fixing dinner and listening to my favorite personality at WGN in Chicago this evening. He was talking about a phenomenon that is developing thanks to DVD players in cars.
Latin??
Now, THIS is REALLY scary…..I got the same answer as billy. I stole the quiz from him, and figured we’d be miles apart. Go figure!
Furnulum pani nolo.
“I don’t want a toaster.”
Generally, things (like this quiz) tend to tick you
off. You have contemplated doing grievous
bodily harm to door-to-door salesmen.
Which Weird Latin Phrase Are You?
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Checking In, Part II
Dear Husband and I are contemplating the purchase of a new personal computer. We have unlimited access to the computer we use for business, but I’d like to be able to blog at night while I sit in the living room with DH.
We’ve been lost in a maze of choices that have to be made: how fast a processor, how much RAM and what kind, what kind of screen, speakers, sound card, operating system, memory, software, ethernet, and on and on and on….
It seems to me that we purchase a computer for the office about every three years, and in that period, they manage to change the entire world of how to order. I can remember the first time they started talking about megahertz. What the heck is that??? Now we toss it off with aplomb!
Gigahertz. Good God, what is a GIGA?? (I know. That was rhetorical. I counted on my fingers and toes to figure it out!) How could things have changed so fast?? Dear Husband wants to buy the most adaptable computer he can, thinking that it’s going to have to last us a while. The next younger generation look at him and shake their heads knowingly. It will be outdated before we open the cartons and get it set up.
I can’t believe that we are now debating a DVD player and burner! Who the heck has time to watch movies on their computers? And I have to make a point of ordering a floppy disk player now.
I have to make a call to our cable company to confirm that we are eligible for a cable hook up. We hope to be joining the world of faster communication. We live in an area that has such old infrastructure that gerbils run up and down the lines carrying messages. And with that change, we’ll be leaving AOL as our service provider. (Listening to RedEagle shouting YEA!!!! in the background.)
So, if you have any advice on what is a necessity on a computer these days, leave me a note, won’t you?
Checking In
I can NOT believe that the last time I posted was March 2! In my mind, just a day or two has gone by since the last time I blogged.
This week a medicine that I’m on was changed, and I spent a good part of the week sleeping. I had some trouble focusing my eyes to read, and kept wanting to take naps at 11:30 in the morning. Finally, Thursday night I decided that I’d had enough of THAT! I need to have a little talk with the doc about returning to the original medication.
Sometimes you just have to take life into your own hands!
I hope you are all doing well. March has been the traditional “lion” this week. We’ve had blustery days with up to 60 mph wind gusts, and occasional rain. I’m ready for the “lamb” part of the month. *G*
Go Read!
Go read the entry for March 3, 2004, titled “Of Mice and Muppets” at Tongue Oil. Be sure to get to the part that’s collapsed.
Mike had a risky Sunday, not the worst of which was running around in his mini-briefs. Let him tell you all about it!
Snoring
My cat snores.
My dog SNORES.
My stepson snores.
MY mother snore.
My husband SNORES!!!!!
What are the chances I snore, too??
Street Smarts
Would you say that you have street smarts??
I think I have more now than I did when I was 20, and yet probably not enough. I’ve read the articles that have been published for women about things they should consider when they are walking or traveling alone, and try to take them to heart. I suspect that we naturally become more wary as we grow older. I think younger women have simply not lived long enough to sense that they are mortal.
Pollyanna
In 1913, Eleanor H. Porter wrote the novel “Pollyanna.” The main character’s name evokes the image of a person who is cheery and positive, who looks for the best in people or her surroundings. Walt Disney brought the story to the movie screen in 1960, with Haley Mills as Pollyanna.
In my lifetime, the term “pollyanna” has come to imply someone who is naive and unrealistic, or someone who is a “goody two-shoes.” But, I think that we have lost touch with that simple and gentle part of our lives. Perhaps we need to take a step back and find the good that runs throughout each day.