Keyboard crap

It was a little bitty piece of food that was stuck under the key(s) of my keyboard.  It kept moving around - hence the random sticky key.
It makes me unreasonably happy to find this out.  I really need this computer, and we certainly can’t afford another one.  I celebrated by defragmenting the hard drive.
In other [...]

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Nablopomo

I think I’m going to give next month’s Nablopomo a try - the theme is “Voices.”  Could be fun.

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Now it’s the “i” key

Maybe there’s a parasite living in my keyboard.  The “m” is fine now.
Not much going on, besides the usual mayhem.  Rain.  Sleeping baby (!!).  No dissertation work - I’ve decided that I’m taking time off until I get my home routine/life/persona settled.  Until I do that, I’m just spinning my wheels on work.  I did [...]

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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

I think every personal blog out there has at least one entry with that title.  But I digress.
We’ve had a couple of very big changes here, all stemming from the fact that C. discovered his thumb this last week.  For the record, we’re not pacifier people.  I don’t intend to criticize anyone by saying that; [...]

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Now with more bullet points!

Because, apparently, this is as cerebral as I get these days.

M. developed a case of shingles.  Shingles develops when your autoimmune system is out of whack, which can happen when you’re stressed.  M. is very stressed - it was only a matter of time.  Happily (?), it’s only on his leg (so far, knock on [...]

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Here’s a question…

What is up with all the “China Doll” stuff?? My parents, who persist in thinking that “Oriental” is the correct term for “(East) Asian,” have never used this term, but I keep hearing it. Once was from a friend I hadn’t seen in awhile, who kept saying that MM looked like “a little [...]

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So…

I broke the baby. Or, rather, the baby broke my fall.
I managed to get through all of MM’s infancy without actually drawing blood, but not so with C. We were all heading out for a walk yesterday afternoon (after I’d promised and promised MM that we’d definitely, positively go for a walk after [...]

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A few changes

Since I’ve come over to WordPress (ie: I’m not hosting my own blog anymore), I can’t use certain widgets that I was using before - namely, the one that allowed me to comment, LJ-style, to comments, and the one that allowed me to crosspost over at Live Journal.
I’m a bad responder to comments on a [...]

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