Monthly Archives: November 2012
New shower.
Another cute flashdrive? Gimme!
I’m addicted to cute flash drives. There, I said it. I have quite a collection of them and use them all the time. I’ve backed up the back ups of my backed up back ups.
Why? Well, I lost an entire book once because I’d neglected to back up my files. I swore then it’ll never happen to me again.
I cracked up The Curmudgeon at Staples when he caught me drooling over the racks of novelty flash drives. I saw a dozen or so more I’d add to my collection. I’d kill for a bull terrier one. LOL!
You all have a good one! And don’t forget to back up those files! 😀
A USB flash drive in the shape of a piece of ikura (salmon roe) sushi. Photo taken by Tokugawapants using Konica-Minolta Maxxum 5d with Minolta AF 100mm Macro lens. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
A squirrelly sort of day.
They are taking over! The tree rats are invading the yard again. Everywhere you look there’s another one. Gavin and Patty are beside themselves over the numbers they are seeing outside.
These are brazen squirrels who stand their ground and only run from the dogs when they are almost upon them. Cheeky boogers.
New monitor
I finally got off my butt and went to buy the new monitor I needed. The curmudgeon grumped at me as soon as I got downstairs yesterday.
“Took me 40 tries to get that damned thing going today.” (Speaking about how we have to turn the old monitor on and off many times before it works.)
“Let me have some coffee and then we’ll go get the new one.” I wandered into the kitchen in search of sustenance.
After an infusion of caffeine, I got him and his walker loaded into the car and off we went in search of a new monitor.
We went to Staples where a sweet young man practically pounced on us as soon as we entered the door. “May I help you find anything?”
“Monitors.” I replied.
He led us to an area where they had several set up, none of which were any that I’d seen in their online store.
“Um, you had a Viewsonic and a Gateway online that I was looking at. I don’t see any Viewsonics here at all.”
“Sorry, but the online store often has things we don’t have.”
Now I was fixing to whine. ‘But I want to see the product in person before I buy it.’ That is until I spotted a couple of real nice ones that were cheaper and bigger.
“Show me these, and do you have a measuring tape?”
“Um, what do you need a measuring tape for?”
“I forgot mine and I want to see if these will fit in the desk opening.”
Meanwhile the Curmudgeon was looking at some I knew were too large for the space. After I found one that I liked both the size and price, The Curmudgeon pointed out a larger, cheaper one that had a lovely picture.
“I think you should get this one.”
“You serious?”
He nodded.
“Hey, kid. Go get me one of these.”
You all have a good one!
Bring back Firefly
I enjoyed watching a marathon of Firefly on the Science channel yesterday. I do wish they were still making the show. I found it ‘after’ they cancelled it. I discovered the show on reruns. I became a fast fan.
It’s unbelievable that I became a fan, it is a melding of space and western, and I was never a western fan.
I do wish they would bring Firefly back. It is so much better than many of the horrible shows on TV today.
You all have a good one!
(From left to right, top to bottom) Adam Baldwin, Ron Glass, Summer Glau, Alan Tudyk, Sean Maher, Jewel Staite, Morena Baccarin, and Nathan Fillion at the 2005 Serenity “flanvention”. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
BBQ ribs!!!
A Facebook friend gave me a fabulous recipe for ribs starting with a wonderful dry rub and then a slow cooking method. Well, I used the dry rub, had the ribs in it for 10 hours. Then I put them into my crock pot with sliced onions under them and I poured a small amount of apple juice into the pot. I cooked them on high for two hours and then turned them to low for three hours. The last hour, I slathered them with BBQ sauce. They were as yummy as they look.
Pictures… because I don’t feel like writing today
Me with some of my favorite people…
You all have a good one!
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