by CJ | Nov 18, 2009 | Journal
Jane’s found her string stash, the tuner still works, and I’m taking up the 12 a few times a day to get my fingers to re-form their calluses. It’s amazing: if you’ve had good calluses in the past, you just need to insult your fingers a little...
by CJ | Nov 17, 2009 | Journal
http://www.krem.com/news/Woman-pistol-whipped-in-70268762.html Did I tell you we got out of that place because we were living across the landing and directly above people who I doubt would have passed a background check—as evidenced by the armed police takedown...
by CJ | Nov 16, 2009 | Journal
Apparently I dinged a blade at some point. I’m very careful with my skates, and Larry, who sharpens them, says I could have stepped on one of the threshold screws the hockey teams sometimes expose at the gate—they go out in a huge rush: and they sometimes...
by CJ | Nov 14, 2009 | Journal
…of course I could be wrong. But our snowfall yesterday melted nearly as soon as it hit, and our prediction of several days of snowfall has moderated to mostly hovering between rain and snow for the rest of the week. Jane and I both prefer the cold: I call 75...
by CJ | Nov 13, 2009 | Journal
…and forced to buy shoes. Jane talked me into a pair of tennies. I cannot wear tennies. They cut the blood off to my toes. But Jane was driving. I had no choice. And I’m amazed. The whole story is on her site, and I won’t reiterate that, except to...
by CJ | Nov 12, 2009 | Journal
Kids are still out of school, or at least some are, which means terror on the ice…I love the little princess who spent most of her time digging her toepick into the ice near the wall, so that an unsuspecting novice can fall and break his/her neck, but hey, ice...
by CJ | Nov 11, 2009 | Journal
The program would seize up and cause the hard disk to churn endlessly. This is a known issue with a file (svvchst or thereabouts) that is necessary for the program to contact the internet. Now, granted, I probably had issues with a prior installation of Norton: Note:...
by CJ | Nov 10, 2009 | Journal
For several weeks Jane and I have traded an ailment that amounts to many of the symptoms of the swine flu, but a pale, pale shadow of it: exhaustion, nagging cough, dizziness, and shortness of breath. It’s been going around the rink. It seems to last a week or...
by CJ | Nov 9, 2009 | Journal
You know. Russian Nesting Dolls. That’s what we’ve got for a file system. First you crash a computer. But save its files. Do it three times. Then get a new computer and move the files. But restore the files you’re working on. Do this through Dos 3.5,...
by CJ | Nov 8, 2009 | Journal
…are the spammers going broke, or are there enough people out there who will a) take a drug OF ANY KIND provided by a spam sollicitation? Besides the usual, there are people out there offering fake vaccines, etc. b) get a mortgage from an online sollicitation...
by CJ | Nov 7, 2009 | Journal
…are good. We’re in the Atkins induction phase. We’re both the sort that can gain weight on green beans: any sort of carb loves us. And we wear tutus to skate. Spandex provides a certain impetus to be good. So we’re in the protein-only phase...
by CJ | Nov 6, 2009 | Journal
I have a love-hate relationship with this product. It seems to target my computers for problems, while leaving everybody else in the house just fine. After the disaster of AVG, the worst program I have ever used, Norton 360 began to look better… BUT it turned...
