Today is my wedding anniversary.
Flashback
I had moved back in with my parents. They lived in a nowhere suburb. Nothing but single family homes with parents and kids. No single guys or any singles at all. No way to get anywhere except to drive and driving terrified me. Plus I wasn’t someone who would go to a singles group online or off. In desperation, Continue reading ‘Barf Bag or: How I Met My Husband’
HP Mini 1000
I bought the black version of Molly Wood’s famous Vivienne Tam netbook. I am in no way a tech writer, but a lot of people asked how I liked it and wanted pictures.
What I wanted was a thin, small, light, netbook that I could put in my purse and carry with me. Continue reading ‘My HP Mini 1000′
After eye surgery in December 2007, I had to lie down flat for five days. I would be unable to use the computer, read or watch tv, so I went looking for a fun podcast to load on my iPod. There was a CNET podcast called Gadgettes, with Molly Wood and Kelly Morrison. I’d never really listened to it, but it seemed like fun, so I downloaded all of the episodes. Continue reading ‘Gadgettes’
I got my first iPod in 2007, mainly because I wanted to check out podcasts. There was a tech podcast called Buzz Out Loud from CNET that was pretty good. Sometimes my mind wandered when there was a story I wasn’t too interested in, but the hosts were fun so I kept listening. In February-March 2008 they referred to a chat room on a site called WatchBOL created by someone named pb30. Continue reading ‘WatchBOL and Me – My Life In #CNETFans’
This is not a tech post. Tech friends please feel free to move on. My next post will be tech-related.
I was born with two eye diseases in both eyes. Fuchs Dystrophy, and an optic nerve abnormality that developed into Optic Nerve Head Drusen. Continue reading ‘Eyes’
One day in early December, a very friendly and welcoming lady on WyldRyde PMed to tell me about a very nice man who’d been around WyldRyde for years. He was shortly to play Santa. She invited me to the #santa channel and introduced me as another possible “elf” helper. Continue reading ‘Santa’
WyldRyde is an IRC network. But not just any IRC network. Their site says it’s, “a safe, friendly, easy to use, spamfree, and professionally managed Internet Relay Chat Network with servers worldwide.” Continue reading ‘WyldRyde’