Monday February 9, 2009 Countdown to Cupid: Where to find a date by Saturday That’s what the AOL headline reads.  Then it suggests you go online to a dating website and hookup with someone and hurry, you’ve only got 6 days to do it.  Now I’m all for meeting people online but I’m also all for getting to know someone new before meeting them in person or going out with them alone.  And it’s not that I’m old school, I just don’t like to waste anyone’s time. Continue reading →

There is really a festival of birds going on outside my office window at the bird bath.    I can’t identify what everyone is, but there is a pair of cardinals, who are regular visitors, and a big red topped woodpecker.  There are two little finchy looking birds and one darkish brown with an orange underbelly bird that I wondered if he was a robin.  They take turns having baths, each watching out for the other.  Lke Rev. Michael Beckwith says, “taking care of each other”. Continue reading →

My Brother is an overeater.  Not my brother Jerry, but my Brother MFC-665CW printer.  I’m not proud of it, so I am teaching him to not be so greedy.  He’s like a little kid that has an ice cream cone in one hand and wants another before he finishes the first.  Just before I printed out 86 invoices, he asked for a new black ink cartridge.  I knew better and didn’t replace it yet.  Ten invoices in, he asked for a new cyan ink cartridge.  Hmmm.  I stood my ground.  86 invoices later, the black and cyan ink both look fine and I haven’t yet replaced the cartridges. So, if you want your ink to last longer, simply hit the OK button when you get the “replace cartridge” message and it will bypass and print for you.

Sunday February 8, 2009     I’m sure I don’t have to tell anyone that all the info we blog about and put on Facebook and MySpace can be read by anyone.  Even if someone is not on your Friends list and you have your privacy features on, it’s possible with very little effort to hack into your comments and postings.  Continue reading →

Sunday February 8, 2009 I have an oversized long red knit top I got years ago at Old Navy.  You know the kind: as the day goes on, it gets longer and longer.  It has long sleeves.  I have long arms.  As the day wears on, I am constantly cuffing and re-cuffing them.  If I don’t cuff them 4-5 times and push them up over my elbows, I will end up with my sleeves dragging in the dishwater or paint. Continue reading →

Saturday February 7, 2009 Do you ever just get tired of eating?  Ha.  If someone said that to me even 5 years ago I would have cracked up laughing.  Tired of eating?  My main source of addiction and pleasure?  No way.   Now, since my eating habits have changed, I’m eating less carcass and processed foods and more vegetables and fruits.  In the past few years, I have morphed into a new routine as far as eating to go low fat and largely unprocessed.  That changed my cooking habits.  That changed my shopping habits.  Now, instead of just stopping in the restaurant down the street, it’s less hassle and more variety if I just cook for myself.  Continue reading →

Saturday February 7, 2008    I spent yesterday morning running errands and had been home about an hour when my Uncle Jimmy drove up.  Uncle Jimmy is my dad’s younger brother and he looks like a younger, shorter version of my dad, who was 6’6″ tall.  He built my home here for me when I moved up from Miami in 1983.  He lives nearby, as do several of my cousins, two of his sons and his daughter and their families.  There is a whole little pack of us here. Continue reading →

Friday, February 6, 2009   The outside thermometer tells me it’s 30 degrees but when I step out into the wind, it feels even colder.  It’s nice – and novel – to be able to bundle up inside, thermostat set at 60 degrees, wearing sweats and socks and even my fleece jacket.  This is Florida.  We’re not used to dressing in layers.  Eight months of the year we think less about fashion than we do about “what is the least amount of clothing I can wear this hot, humid day and still be legal and inoffensive?” Continue reading →

My brother and I are working on several projects together, and he does all the technical work for us.  The last few days we’ve been working the bugs out of a new system, and I’m getting some good insights from it.  At first I was having a problem with some design aspects of a page I wanted to send out, like I could not get the image to insert in the file.  Brothermine told me to make a version of the page without an image and that initially sent me into a headspin.  It made me realize I have come to rely so much on images to convey a message. Continue reading →

Thursday February 5, 2009  Parsley?  Who eats parsley? That’s what I used to think until 2001.  After an accident in 2000 that caused some nerve damage in my hands, I began researching what natural foods helped repair nerve damage.  Parsley was high on the list. Continue reading →