Eurovision Song Contest on Yahoo! News Photos OH, dear. Joey, AKA the Accordion Guy, may need to know he’s got competition in the “Hot Accordion Player” category. Via Manolo the Shoeblogger. The horror of the Eurovision Song Contest has come for your soul.
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Yes, after all that, I forgot the damn power supply for the laptop. But not to worry, David says via text message that he’s sending a power supply next day air. And within 5 minutes, I got a delivery tracking number on my cell phone. We are SUCH GEEKS. I had hoped to watch a downloaded episode of some show or other via laptop – I did not watch the Amazing Race finale last night and don’t know who won yet. If I get spoiled, so be it – I had a lot of other stuff to do last night.…
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Yes, well, my husband David rescued me again. He sent a spare power supply via next day delivery, so I was able to keep using the laptop on my trip. It did come in handy yesterday, having the laptop and at least a dialup connection, because there was some community information and other stuff to look up for Mom. Also, I was able to fire off an email to the local newspaper’s circulation department to ask them to continue to put her paper on her porch, and not halfway down the driveway as they recently announced. They put a flyer…
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So. Off into the blue tomorrow on a fact-finding trip. It’s just a short weekend trip on my own – my husband David and my cat Riley will be batching it while I’m gadding around the urban wilderness of Salt Lake. Books and Stuff To Read Another Country Sudoku Easy by Will Shortz Large type copies of several Sudoku puzzles Moleskine notebook (or knockoff of same)((nearly full) Moleskine notebook (the real thing)((empty)) Pens, pencils, highlighter Deciding whether to bring more books Techery Laptop Case Logic case Wireless mouse (I know, but it’s so damn handy) AC/DC adapter phone cable for occasional dialup access…
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London Underground Tube Diary – Going Underground’s Blog Yesterday when coming home, I noticed there was something weird about the people coming up the escalators at Leicester Square (they weren’t dressed as Santas – that’s the best escalator picture I could find for this chilly time of year in London – I was freezing at work yesterday!). No-one on the up escalator was actually moving. It was as though someone had pressed a pause button on a video. After a few seconds of surprise and looking around at each other, they realised the escalator had just stopped and as there…
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Riley was so frickin’ cute just now. His favorite bag is starting to get pretty battered – I’ve been sort of helping that tear in the bottom corner, hoping that he’d start playing with it. Tonight, my wish was granted. Sometimes he likes to just sit on the flattened bag, but tonight when I opened it up a little, he went in and out a few times. David and I went about our normal evening routines… but then the bag started rustling and cracking a lot more than normal. I moved to where I could see him, and caught a…
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Was this a good idea or not? I was tinkering around with that last, big post and realized that ecto had announced that the latest version was available. There are some updates I’ve been waiting for in the new version, so I was all set to download it and give it a whirl. A caveat: it required that I uninstall my previous version of ecto. I didn’t want to lose a huge amount of settings, data, and that one big draft post, so I finished it as “Adventures in Paradise, Part 1.” I did the reinstall – during this process,…
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All the obvious hints aside, yes, we were gearing up for a return trip to our second spiritual home, Maui. This time we're staying in Napili, an area north of the Ka'anapali area that's s supposed to have good snorkeling. We had an uneventful flight, although a cramped one – it was absolutely jammed full of elderly group travelers from Wisconsin. After some delay in getting the rental car, which we may swap out again later, we drove up around Macgregor Point, and encountered our first whale, and our first Na Pali traffic jam. It's been one of my peeves…
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It seems my husband David has fallen into a life of crime; he sent an email to his mom just now telling her that she had left her red umbrella in our car, and he was holding it hostage for some mushroom barley soup. Red Brolly Hostage Crisis, Day One David’s parents had heard good things of an exhibition at the Milwaukee Public Museum called “St Peter and the Vatican: The Legacy of the Popes.” They bought tickets and we arranged to meet at the Hyatt on Lake-Cook Road, where we’ve found it convenient to rendezvous with other friends in…