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Archive for 2009/08


I got caught again

Welcome back!The obnoxious neighbor caught me outside yesterday afternoon and started rambling again. I can’t give you a detailed list of everything he went on about because he changes subjects faster than you could believe. He did get my attention at one point when I heard him talking about North Carolina and I was instantly […]

100 things that piss me off: 8. Verizon wireless

Not too long ago, Alltel was bout out by Verizon Wireless. This means that Verizon is now providing the service for our four cellular phones. We weren’t given any sort of choice in the matter. If we had been, we wouldn’t have gone with Verizon. Here’s an example why:
Yesterday my wife was trying to call […]

Do you talk to your computer?

Because my wife is legally blind, I’m almost always looking for little things that will make her life a little easier. I found a program that turned on a screen magnifier whenever she clicked her middle mouse button. I made a “quick and dirty” web page on her computer that contained links to all her […]

Baby needs a sun visor

The other day was one of the few occasions when we actually put the baby in the car and took her to America’s largest retailer. I got a good reminder of one of the reasons why we don’t do that very often. We made about half of the 10 minute trip when baby Mollie started […]

100 things that piss me off: 7 Paypal

I’ve never been able to understand the way paypal.com does things. If you buy something on ebay, for example, and use paypal to pay for your purchase and the money isn’t all in your paypal account to start with, then the balance is deducted from your bank account instantly. however, when you’re transferring money from […]