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Friday, March 09, 2012

 

Mark announced, from the kitchen, "I'm very popular in here." He is making a tuna sandwich, closely supervised by 2 cats & 1 dog. :-)

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Both devices are now updated to iOS 5.1. One thing I really like about Apple is how easy it is to keep the OS current on mobile devices.

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Monday, March 05, 2012

 

Eye doctor time. Apparently, with my existing glasses, my distance vision is 20/25 in both eyes. I was right; it's time to update the Rx.

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Sunday, March 04, 2012

 

I never knew that card stock from Staples can be used as braille paper. Now I know why my friend's letters to me use pretty color paper. :-)

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Headcold, headcold, go away! Please come back NO other day! :sneeze: :cough: £$&%#*¥•!

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Friday, March 02, 2012

 

ARGH ARGH ARGH. scalded both hands with hot water. And I have to interpret. SOAB.

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Thursday, March 01, 2012

 

OMG. I had no idea, when I ordered braille paper from APH, that their packages are ENORMOUS. Now I can bury us all in braille paper! O.O

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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

 

Happy birthday, Simon Gagne! :-)

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Monday, February 27, 2012

 

My fantasy hockey team doesn't appear to have been altered much today. So far. Aside from Jack-Johnson-to-Columbus a few days ago, that is.

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Sunday, February 26, 2012

 

Man. Hugo is winning it all. I might as well answer all the Viggle app questions w/Hugo. Looks like I'll earn more points that way.

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George Clooney = OOO LA LA. And Brad Pitt right after him. Be still, my heart. Oscars RedCarpet CloneThemBoth

Labels: CloneThemBoth, Oscars, RedCarpet

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Holy cow! How did I miss the fact that Nitty is back in the A? He's with the Syracuse Crunch (the Phantoms' current opponent).

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Hee, the movie with my pet phrase is on: Singin' In The Rain. Which reminds me: I think THIS FREAKING HEADCOLD can go sing in the rain. ;-)

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Friday, February 24, 2012

 

This headcold, this congestion, this cough and this sore throat all need to go sing in the rain. Argh. Stupid symptoms.

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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

 

Back spasms, meet naproxen and its friend, the microwave heating pad.

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Monday, February 20, 2012

 

Installed ChromeVox, a text-to-speech screen reader. Now when work causes eyestrain, I can HEAR the screen's content & keep on working.

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Aaah, shoot. Raul Ibañez signed with the dang Yankees. No more cheering RAUUUUUUUUUL at Phillies games. Drat those rat fink Yankees.

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Sunday, February 19, 2012

 

Alumni, Round 2. Got back in line after taking a photo with Mark, Bryz, and Phil E. Phan. The end of the line was almost exactly where I originally got OUT of line (Sec. 218 instead of 219), so I feel like I've picked up where I left off. I'm getting these dang autographs if it kills me. ;-)

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Bailed on the alumni line.

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Saturday, February 18, 2012

 

Can we have some farging team D around our net, please? KTHX.

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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

 

Working my tail off online. But I'm seeing light at the end of the tunnel now. I'm gonna hit Inbox Zero if it's the last thing I do.

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Monday, February 13, 2012

 

To my iOS-using friends: I recommend the Viggle app. Watch TV, check in, earn points (which add up fast), redeem for prizes. Winning.

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Sunday, February 12, 2012

 

Ratsin' fratsin' BLACK ICE all over our front step... GRRRR... Is it Spring yet?

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Saturday, February 11, 2012

Mini and the Air Horn
 

Mini sleeps in a crate overnight. I don't know how she was raised (I have my suspicions that she slept in a hoomin's bed), but as Mark has got allergies, we have a "no critters in the bedroom" rule to keep the hair and dander level minimized in there.

In the past few weeks, she has started to wake up in the middle of the night and, apparently, get bored. Instead of going back to sleep, she has started barking.

So the question becomes, what to do? Ignoring it doesn't work, as the barking will continue for minutes on end. Going and hollering at her is a form of attention, which is why she was barking in the first place. So rewarding the barking, even with negative attention, isn't going to resolve matters.

I finally remembered a cheap little air horn I got a year or two ago. It operates with a plunger, so it never "runs out" of air. I went and dug it out of where it was stored.

A couple nights ago, every time the barking started, instead of answering with my voice or by getting up to reprimand (pay attention), the only answer was FWEEEEE. Even then, it took a couple minutes before Mini realized that FWEEEE was the only response her barking was going to draw. She stopped.

Last night, at about four AM I heard AR! AR! AR! from the crate. FWEEEEE went the horn. No more barking. A couple hours later, another bark. Another FWEEE. No more barking.

I think she "gets it" now. :-)

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Sunday, February 05, 2012

 

And now I appreciate the HOCKEY playoffs all the more. I feel cheated when I don't see a handshake line at the end of the final game.

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Jiminy CRICKET! This Super Bowl has taken FOUR HOURS and it's still on? Good thing I'm earning points for having it on (yay, Viggle app)!

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Thursday, February 02, 2012

 

Small victories are great. I just devised my daily calorie budget so that I can have two Dollar Dogs tonight at the Flyers game. :-)

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Monday, January 30, 2012

 

Sadly, I've got to work, so attending the AHL All-Star events is out of the question. FYI, I sure do wish the PHANTOMS had relocated to AC.

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Thursday, January 26, 2012

 

GRRRRR... we're entirely out of black ink. What crummy timing. @*#$&@*#&$

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

 

Working/listening to a decidedly frustrating Phantoms game (we're down 4-0). We have 20 mins left; there's time to make things interesting.

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Ran across Funny Girl on TV. Hellooooo, Omar Sharif. I'd forgotten what a looker the man is. Mama mia.

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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

 

Interesting: How the US lost out on iPhone work: http://ping.fm/2jlZp

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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Titanic?
 

I just heard that, at the moment the Italian cruise liner hit the rocks, Celine Dion's hit song from the movie Titanic was playing in the ship's dining room.

Seriously? They freaking played a song from Titanic on a cruise ship? What nitwit thought THAT was a good idea? Isn't that kind of like playing a plane-crash movie as an in-flight film?

The captain's excuse for why he abandoned the ship long before the evacuation was complete was that the ship tilted, causing him to fall overboard and land in a lifeboat. Yeah, right. Maybe he can fall into a prison cell next, along with any other officers who helped themselves into a lifeboat and left the passengers and crew to their fate.

I admire the Coast Guard chief, who managed to limit himself to only two expletives while in the process of tearing the captain a few new orifices and order him to get back on board the ship. I assure you, I was thinking way more than two unprintable words when I read the transcript of that conversation. The order he gave the captain, which translates as, "Go back on board, you [bleep]!" or "Get the [bleep] back on board!", was the top trending topic on Twitter in Italy. I suspect that we won't have to worry about that cruise line inflicting any more unfit-for-duty officers on an unsuspecting public, because they're likely to be sued off the face of the earth by the thousands of survivors. Which, if you ask me, is a fate they richly deserve.

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Saturday, January 21, 2012

 

Mini DESPISES snow. I had to carry my wee pup out the door for her walk, as she dug her tiny paws in at the threshold and refused to budge.

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Monday, January 16, 2012

 

It's 14 months to the day since my surgery. To celebrate, my incision is itching. :-P :applies lotion:

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Incoming work emails means one thing: fire up the internet radio, roll up my sleeves, and get to work. :-)

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Thursday, January 12, 2012

 

Watching (actually, "listening to") the Flyers on TV, while creating a Conflict of Interest Policy document.

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Ping!
 

Twice so far today, just as I completed the last outstanding item in my work inbox, "Ping" went the email program, and another assignment came in. Yay... gotta love it. :-)

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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

 

Work + Internet Radio = <3
http://ping.fm/Kp3Yl

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I just got an email from AADB. They cancelled their 2013 convention.

My response to that development is, "@#$@*&#?$!!!"

Rats.

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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

 

Yes! Work = Inbox Zero! Go, me. :-)

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Working and Internet Radio. Perfect together. Thank you, WNYQ, for putting your stream back online! :-)

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Monday, January 09, 2012

 

YAY... the sun is no longer all the way down when I walk the dog at 5:00 PM. I like seeing clear evidence that the daylight is returning.

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Working and listening to WNYQ http://ping.fm/M58Su , the Phantoms flagship station.

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