by CJ | Jul 9, 2013 | Journal
I don’t want to put hotmail.com on the comments-banned list because many of you legitimate folk are using it, but if you start having e-mail troubles, consider switching to another service. Right now, out of 25 new spammers, 15 were hotmail, and 4 were outlook....
by CJ | Jul 7, 2013 | Journal
e-mail me personally at cj@cherryh.com and tell me your preferred user name; I’ll sign you on myself and e-mail you a temporary password. The press of spambots trying to register is too great, over 10 an hour—I’m deleting all registrations via the...
by CJ | Jul 6, 2013 | Journal
We helped my brother with his pond on an emergency basis when we got to his house…and we arrived back to a mess with the koi pond (we are draining and filling as we speak: our big koi are ok, but we don’t know about the little ones—can’t see...
by CJ | Jul 2, 2013 | Journal
Facing the better part of 500 spam attempts—I have not accepted any new memberships registered in the last week or so. If you are a real and sincere person unfortunately caught in the mass deletion of the spam-net, please do sign up for the site again, and this...
by CJ | Jun 23, 2013 | Journal
…taking a little R&R.
by CJ | Jun 23, 2013 | Journal
…taking a little R&R.
by CJ | Jun 22, 2013 | Journal
…mnnnn, no, that’s another filksong. Got ’em. If you’re not one and got caught in the tide of shoes and purses and brides from Asia, let me know. SIgh.
by CJ | Jun 20, 2013 | Journal
Clean bill. I thought it was 120,000 miles. Actually it’s 130,000. I also checked out the head gasket problem…a nice spendy item that was an issue in models prior to 2004, and we are a 2004. Yay!. The 2004’s and ‘5’s have a catalytic...
by CJ | Jun 20, 2013 | Journal
There’s a tiny bit of onion in the Atkins recipes, and that causes water retention, especially for us. We’ve been struggling with attitude and ‘where’s the pony’ thoughts regarding slow progress, and also getting a shade weary of the same...
by CJ | Jun 19, 2013 | Journal
We’ve been dry for a while, and we’re headed into July and August when we have more heat and less water. Jane set my fig bush out yesterday: it’s liking the weather: so are all our new and transplanted trees, except the Harry Lauder’s...
by CJ | Jun 18, 2013 | Journal
In Oklahoma most any gas station can do it. In Washington, in Spokane, there are 2 state-run inspection operations, and the addy listed on the internet is wrong…it lists it as 930 N Hamilton, but that’s Gonzaga U. It’s actually hidden by the...
by CJ | Jun 18, 2013 | Journal
I have a bad habit of not drinking water. Yesterday, within a matter of hours I… …decided to make coffee, removed and dumped the grounds basket, left the holder in place above the tank (it’s a lever-pour tank system: Cuisinart)— …poured...