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trueMJ2006-05-22T12:56:00-04:002006-05-22T17:04:25Z2006-05-22T17:04:24Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574259.post-114831746434781955Got no rhythm, got no musicHere are some things I don't miss about my job in educational technology: the education, and the technology. Particularly the latter. However, I have to say that technology at the office was NEVER as difficult as it is at home. For example, here at home my power pack has quit working, so I'm working off the battery on my laptop, and I have no idea how long this will last before I have to dofalseMJ2006-05-20T18:06:00-04:002006-05-21T19:11:48Z2006-05-20T15:28:28Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574259.post-114813890827985570The Ramblin' ReaderLast week we took a rather impromptu trip to New York. Mr. VR was speaking at THREE, count 'em, THREE, events for librarians, and staying with his aunt and uncle, and we decided, sort of on the spur of the moment, that it would be fun for all three of us to go. We all drove down together on Thursday, then Vintage Baby and I drove back on Sunday, leaving Mr. VR there to fly back later.
We didn'tfalseMJ2006-05-20T10:18:00-04:002006-05-20T14:55:14Z2006-05-20T14:55:13Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574259.post-114813691399140540Recent acquisitionsAll kinds of good things have been coming in the mail recently. First, through PaperBackSwap.com, I've recently received Slaughterhouse-Five, which, believe it or not, I've never read. I've also received a couple of middle-grade children's books that look promising, including From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, which I have always--and I do mean always--wanted to read, from thefalseMJ2006-05-05T21:19:00-04:002006-05-06T01:30:29Z2006-05-06T01:30:29Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574259.post-114687902939308460eBay peevesI got a nice friendly email from an eBay seller today. Here's what it said:
"If you would like to exchange postive feedback, please enter yours and then I will do the same."
Um, no. That's not the way feedback works. Here's how feedback works: I'm the buyer. My ENTIRE responsibility in this transaction is to pay for the item. In this case, I did so via PayPal within a few hours. If I havefalseMJ2006-05-03T16:48:00-04:002006-05-04T02:58:14Z2006-05-04T00:29:57Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574259.post-114670259736262469Radio days, againSo this morning, while finishing up Vintage Baby's retro romper, I decided to actually try local radio again, because the Saitek was downstairs and I didn't feel like setting it up. The local radio scenario probably isn't really any worse than it is anyplace else; on FM we've got a great classic rock station, NPR, one of the "Jack FM" affiliates that plays the music of my misspent youth, andfalseMJ2006-04-25T07:15:00-04:002006-05-02T20:22:23Z2006-04-25T11:15:54Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574259.post-114596375450817361Things I'm glad I boughtCarol suggested a couple of weeks ago that I do a list of things I'm glad I bought as a companion to the post about things I wish I had bought. I'm working on that; I want to add pictures to that one, which takes me approximately FOREVER. In the meantime, here's something I just bought recently that I'm really, really glad I bought: the Saitek A-250.
I had read a very positive review of thisfalseMJ2006-04-18T21:33:00-04:002006-04-19T02:55:26Z2006-04-19T02:51:37Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574259.post-114541509759085616My Favorite CardassianSo today I sat down with Vintage Baby to try to calm him down and feed him. Usually for the 2:00 feeding (which is usually around 1:30; to keep everything easy when we talk to the endocrinologists, the hematologists, the feeding clinic, and the surgeons, we refer to it as the 2:00 feeding) we watch Deep Space Nine on Spike, but today SciFi was running an Incredible Hulk marathon. In a neat littlefalseMJ2006-04-16T21:07:00-04:002006-04-17T01:10:17Z2006-04-17T01:07:55Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574259.post-114523607564255641Paper, fabric, and other fun thingsAngry Chicken has found some wonderful old printable paper dolls.
[NOTE: If you click through to the Printables web site, you'll need to disable JavaScript to do things like, oh, say, add the site to del.icio.us with the Firefox extension or blog it with Performancing--a couple of things that you'd think would be desirable actions by web site visitors--because in a rather pointless effort tofalse