So...upshot of today is, Mom didn't get a Mac. Yet. So far. Thank gods for the Apple Store guy who basically inundated her with information and (I think) scared her off a bit. His telling her that no, the books that come with the Mac are very very basic and not extensive at all -- … Continue reading Mom & Idiot Brother, parts II, III, IV….

My Mom's decided she wants a Mac. Mom's in her 60s. She's been using Windows machines forever. She just got a laptop last year, a very slick Dell that seemed to be working just fine at Christmas, when I showed her how to use iTunes and the Apple Store so she could take advantage of … Continue reading dear gods…

Per the info from the poster -- the piano mike was accidentally left out of the mix here. Now I didn't know that when I first hit PLAY...and thought Journey was doing one helluva alternative version of DSB, dropping the piano out, letting Ross and Arnel and the crowd do the work. DAMN, it works. … Continue reading Mistakenly AWESOMELY Awesome…

So it's the oddest thing, what I've been experiencing and encountering for years, as I write these tales, as I've written *any* stories, the sense that my characters are alive and sitting/walking/talking with me, and not just when I'm writing. I know they're not "real", not in the sense that the world usually considers real, … Continue reading …

...as I re-discover how much fun taunting Fundies on Facebook is.

Wear a skirt, become a Coke...

Pat Robertson Being His Usual Jerk-self.

The Cartoon.

So my sister gets a bill from the hospital for $6000...for surgery done over three YEARS ago... ...because her insurance company did an "audit" and decided they overpaid. So the hospital's billing her for it. And even though Brett untangles/fixes this kind of thing for a living...even though myself and many of her FB friends … Continue reading Stupid Family Creatures