impudent strumpet

New: 1. The Hangman by Louise Penny 2. Ruth's Journey by Donald McCaig 3. The World of Post Secret by Frank Warren 4. An Astronaut...

This bereavement has given me some insight into the condolence script. During my last bereavement (which was 15 years ago!!) I hadn't ...

My grandmother passed away early this morning.  I'm still processing the situation. I am therefore a one-week hiatus from blogging, un...

10. If you don't understand the difference between "required to" and "permitted to", and therefore advocate for poli...

For the past week or so, I've been hearing drilling from the apartment upstairs.  It happens in the afternoon, on weekdays, for an hour ...

The good : the whole process took less than 4 business days, despite my having been told that it takes 7-10 business days. The bad: it did...

My first flat computer monitor (and, in fact, every subsequent monitor) was a 17" LCD monitor with a screen that's made of plastic ...

As you've probably noticed, these past couple of months I've been finding myself disproportionately stressed about things that don...

As I've mentioned before, every computer I've owned has been from Dell, and I've been completely loyal to them my entire adult l...

If you look up an active web page on archive.org (aka the Wayback Machine) and they don't have it archived, you get a page saying: ...

New: 1. Crashed by Timothy Hallinan 2. As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes 3. Yes Pleas...

Another recent stressor has been that the In Death fansite has stopped posting fanfiction, and another reliable source has not yet materiali...

All of my computers have been Dells, always because I got at least five years out of the computer and was extremely happy with their warrant...

From the Toronto Star (can't find an online link, typos are my own): This year your creativity soars. You also seem to develop your in...

DEAR ABBY : I was at the hairdresser yesterday, and when I went to the register to pay, the receptionist asked me if I was over 65 "...

The computer: Dell XPS 15 running Windows 7 In early December, one of the built-in diagnostics found that the hard drive failed a "SM...

Lately I've been having dreams of being stalked and harassed to an extent that has never happened in real life. For example: 1. I dr...

People talk about smoothies like they save time, but they don't!  Preparing fruits etc. to go in a smoothie requires at least as much pr...

Recently, captchas appeared on my comments pages.  I didn't put them there, my comment settings have Word Verification set to "No...