Posted in General, tagged aquariums, blood pressure, doctors, fish on November 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I’ve had some trouble with my blood pressure lately, & was told by my doctor that until it’s fairly stable, & closer to where it should be, I should avoid strenuous activity. That’s all well & good except in the case of an emergency with the fish.
I had several fish laying on the bottom of [...]
Posted in General, tagged Comedy, marriage, work on November 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
A married couple working together is a tough call. Many couples try it, & from what I’ve heard, Chris & I are the exception to the rule. He knows a couple of different business owners that tried working with their wives, that didn’t work so well. One of them fired his wife 5 times. I [...]
Posted in General, tagged customers, drano, liquid plumber, plumbing, stoppages on November 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
From a customer who said their basement has flooded 5 times since Saturday, because a line is backing up. Then she gives me the bad news: They’ve loaded the lines with Drano, with Liquid Plumber, & the like, & he has another bottle ready to go into the line. All I could say was “please, [...]
Posted in General, tagged computers, technology, virus on November 26, 2007 | No Comments »
The virus in Chris’ computer had taken over everything in that machine. It was awful. It was opening windows like mad, all by itself. In less than 2 hours, it had opened 28 Internet windows.
Saturday evening I talked with a pro, who explained what I needed to do. I had the recovery disk that comes [...]
Posted in General, tagged advertising, Billy Mays, con men, suckers on November 26, 2007 | No Comments »
Chris & I were at the store the other day, & he wanted something “that would really work” in the shower stall. He’d been seeing the ads on TV about this stuff called “Kaboom” bathroom cleaner, so he got it. (Almost $7.00 for a quart size bottle, some of which Billy Mays got a cut [...]
Posted in General, tagged computers, heat, Linux, technology, virus, Windows on November 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I long for the days of old, where technology was a hundred years into the future, & I’m 50.
Between Norton, Windows, Active-X, & a host of other problems, Chris’ computer is infected with something, Norton isn’t working correctly on mine, & I’m ready to pitch the whole kit & caboodle. I’m even checking out Linux to [...]
Posted in You've got to be kidding, tagged books, entertainment, reading on November 20, 2007 | 5 Comments »
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/19/arts/19nea.html
I’ve always believed that reading a book for entertainment is a good thing to learn. Now it appears I’ve been right all along.
Too much time spent on TV, video games & computers, not enough time reading they think is causing a short fall in associated skills. Well duh!
I’m surprised it’s taken this long to figure it out.
Chris, I [...]
Posted in A multitude of things, tagged Comedy, cooking, food, technology, Thanksgiving on November 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
My stove & I aren’t speaking. We’ve seen too much of each other.
Saturday was 10 loaves of pumpkin bread, 2 of apple. Sunday was 3 of the most horrid stuff in the world, & has my kitchen smelling of brandy. Fruitcake. For my ‘fruitcake’ mother. Yesterday was 2 batches of oatmeal raisin cookies, again for mother. To [...]
Posted in General, tagged Comedy, holidays, time, age, liquor, vermouth, jewelry, shopping on November 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I was setting up an appointment for the guys to clean the grease interceptor in Longmont (which is huge, is a 2 man job, & Chris will try anything to get out of it) when the girl called back, & said that the Cafe manager remembered it from May, & asked if it could be [...]
Posted in You've got to be kidding, tagged Audubon Aquarium, bush, FEMA, fish, Katrina, New Orleans on November 14, 2007 | No Comments »
Instead of waiting for FEMA to send the money, New Orleans officials chose to repopulate the Audubon Aquarium who’s “stock” was decimated by Katrina, in a way that made sense. They went fishing. In various locations, they’ve replaced a lot of what was lost, for 1/6th the cost of going to vendors.
Instead of being thrilled [...]
