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Redundancy is good…

Turning the laptop on its side is the only way I can keep the juice flowing.
The External Hard Drive of Doom arrived safely so that I can back up the laptop and get it healed.
The drives have been imaged. Then I ran the Vista M$ backup. THEN I copied every file as-is [...]

Note to self:

Maybe you should be just a tetch more interested in site stats? Then you wouldn’t be lookin’ at this:
Please refer to the troubleshooting flowchart, specifically the segment that asks Is it after 1am? when you’re contemplating further changes to ANY plugins, decorations, and/or webby-type stuff.
Love,
You.
PS: Gold star, however, for making sure that at [...]

NC Homeschoolers, Save the Date - August 16th

The Love to Learn Homeschool Resource and Information Conference will be held at Catawba Valley Community College Multipurpose Complex. From their website:
This conference was created to fill the need for up to date, accurate, unbiased, information concerning issues that affect the climate of homeschooling in North Carolina. We want to provide a [...]

Unconscious Mutterings Week 286

Flicker :: light
Styling :: and profilin’
Episode :: missed
Sexier :: really?
Studious :: bookworm
Mushroom :: and barley soup
8 minutes :: save a horse, ride a cowboy
Bald :: sexy
Immunity :: from prosecution
Sectioned :: orange

Now you!.

I’m a Mom (again)!!!!!

Because I very firmly believe that the Family you choose is as important (if not moreso) than the family you’re born into, it thrills me to no end to introduce y’all to my shiny new oldest daughter Dori.
SQUEE!

My new Favoritest Plugin “Known Limitations” warning

It still won’t do the dishes.
Tagline Rotator Plugin for WordPress.

The Jello Shot that Won’t Melt Experiment

can be found here. In that post, they will tell you exactly how much alcohol you can add before the gelatin will lose its structural integrity.
This post on the same site will tell you how to make some pretty tasty jello shots using liquers and different flavor combinations.
So please, go see those guys at [...]

The Helplessness of Parenting

I think by know everyone knows there is no instruction manual that comes with a freshly birthed baby. There are loads of books, but you have to pick and choose and try different things before you find one that works for your family. You hold your baby’s hand as they learn to walk, [...]

Mutterings Week 285

Intimated :: that they were lovers
Brush :: hair
Masquerade :: ball
Procedure :: to follow
Tattoos :: delicious
Square :: peg
Tuck :: and roll
Boyfriend :: newp
Badass :: yup
Thousand :: Island

Your turn!

My Blogging Software: Then and Now

Once upon a time, in a horridly ugly alternate universe, there lived a Scary Webpage. Although the images weren’t indexed by the Wayback Machine, thanks to a friend, I can show you it.

Click the image if you want to biggie-size it. Also? A different friend sent the image to me as-is and [...]