The (Other) End of the Internet

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I mentioned in a post last week that when Daughter Number One comes home from college for the weekend our internet connection goes haywire. Last weekend we had to pull the phone line out of the DSL modem to reset […]

A couple of changes you may notice:
First off, I’ve removed the “tag cloud” from my sidebar. It just looked too spammy.
Also…
This morning, for about the third time in a week, the “ThoofRank” badges that I’ve been displaying on every post stopped working. This wouldn’t be too much of a problem, except that it means that […]

We got our first winter storm of the year last night . . . if you want to call it that.It started raining somewhere between 8pm and 9pm and then the temperature dropped to the mid-teens during the night. Where we live, the rain had stopped before the temperature plummeted, but in the northern part of the county they […]

It looks like the new neighbors are planning a garden this spring. At least, I hope that’s the reason for the uber-tacky naked lady bird bath that appeared in their front yard this weekend.
My wife took one look at that thing and decided that maybe she could find something they like better. She did what […]

I scared myself today. My daughters were headed into the kitchen to wash the breakfast dishes and Daughter Number Three stopped to ask why we couldn’t buy a kitchen aid dishwasher. I swear, it wasn’t me who answered her. It was my father’s voice I heard saying, “Why? I have FOUR of them already.”
When I […]

I am so sick of spammers and telemarketers! It seems like today every time I sat in front of the computer I was looking at emails for ciallis or viagra and every time the phone rang (which has been entirely too often today), it’s been somebody wanting to either tell me that the warranty on […]

I noticed something strange recently, and I would really like to know if anyone else has experienced this.
Normally, our 1.5Mbps DSL connection cruises along nicely with no trouble at all. Last month, Daughter Number One came home from college for Christmas vacation. She, and her Windows Vista-based laptop (or notebook - I will never see […]

I had a minor catastrophe last week when my c: drive hiccuped and I couldn’t get the computer to boo(or, more accurately, stop rebooting).
I wish I had known about Fast-teks inc. before now. They offer a complete line of I.T. services - everything from website design and Hosting to quickBooks Training to remote data […]

On a message forum I’m watching right now there’s a big discussion getting started because someone approached a blogger and asked them to write a post advertising a jewelry site. Compensation for this ad was supposed to be a chance at winning a $1500 pair of earrings.
I can understand the blogger’s puzzlement as to how […]

Last month we set up a web hosting account with Dreamhost. The plan we signed up for was $119.40/year, but because I found a coupon, we got the first year for $69.40.
Now, keeping in mind that $69 was paid last month, and they’ve been saying for the last three and a half or four weeks […]