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We went to see Talledega nights - cost 3 boxes of lasagne noodles, a can of tuna, and two cans of peaches (all of which were sitting in the pantry) plus $8.50 to get in and get 2 'small' popcorn bags and two large soft drinks.

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We had planned, yesterday, to go to a movie tonight at Regal Cinemas where movie admission today only is 3 cans of food for the food bank. It's possible we might still do that, if Terri's anger cools by then. I'm hoping so, anyway.

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My alarm went off this morning, and first thing I got was an earful about keeping Terri from sleeping in. Then I got on the phone, and found the 2pm appt info was correct, but there was also a 10:30am appt. Partly because she was md at me, I think, Terri decided to cancel both appts, so I called again and canceled, but had to leave voice mail for someone in order to get one appt re-scheduled. A little later, the phone rang, and I was expecting the dental office, but instead it was a creditor. I don't deal firmly enough with creditors, and that call really made Terri blow up. So I'm sitting in the car this morning listening to Rush on the radio and pouting. Terri is inside, doing stuff at her computer, probably a lot more relaxed without my presence in the room.

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Wow, I've really made Terri mad today -- wasn't doing so hot yesterday, either. Last night as we got into bed she got upset with me for not following up to check the status of her dental appt at 2pm today. So, in spite of the fact we had agreed to sleep in this morning, I decided to set my alarm for 7:30 and call the dentist. That decision upset her even more.

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This is a rather cool feature, in some ways, but I'm not sure if it's really useful. Maybe as a way to be sure I don't forget things later that I might want to put in the blog.

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sheesh, still trying to get this stupid thing to go to the right place from my text pager.

Hooray!!! ! The e-mail - blog feature really does work, as long as it is set up to have an address for every blog you post to and each address is different. It seems that if you only set up one address, it assumes that applies to all your blogs and it posts to whichever one was the earliest blog opened. Somewhat annoying.

Sandy

I just have to put in this cool picture my wife took of Sandy yesterday :-)

Blogger Beta?

Now I see that I get all the same views whether I log in to Blogger or Blogger Beta. So, I guess this will be my only entry on what I thought was separate, unless I find I need another blog for something.

Dog park heartache

Yesterday, we learned that our favorite dog park was closed. We're not sure when it closed, but we know it was basically a surprise. The dog park is not public land, it is land that belongs to a church. The board of trustees did a pretty much complete turnover recently, and in checking up on various bits of church business, learned that the church had no liability coverage in the event someone got hurt by a dog on the church property, and decided to sue everyone within 5 zip codes for their medical bills and pain and suffering.

There was a meeting this morning where the church facilities manager and a couple of other representatives talked to about 30 of us dog people. One dog person is sponsoring an e-mail list for us so that we can make contacts and find ways to help the church accommodate us while still keeping the church's risk low.

So far, the only thing the church people know for sure is: Their insurance agent is not sure whether the church can get coverage for a public-access dog park on its property, and if the coverage is available it will cost "thousands and thousands of dollars." They are very reluctant to head into the areas of charging membership fees and providing either dog-collar tags or passcards for some kind of electronic gate locks, two of the alternatives mentioned so far, because the facilities manager is concerned that there is no way to prevent someone without the membership from bringing a dog and causing trouble.

At this point we are only in the beginning of investigation into solutions. Hopefully, we can come up with some good thing soon!

Killer migraine

Terri has a migraine today. This one brought on by the stress of having a sick kitten. This is the first migraine she's had in almost a year; thankfully she recently visited a doctor and got a prescription for Imitrex, which has helped in the past. I'm off work this morning to deal with kittens while Terri sleeps off the migraine. She used to get migraines regularly, almost every month, and it's been a relief for both of us not to have to deal with one for awhile.

pictures and stuff

Odd things are going on with my wife's computer...When she edits the kitties blog, Blogger doesn't always let her upload pictures. It has so far always worked if she sends the pictures to me and I post them. We haven't figured out what's going on yet. It's just weird.

New monitor

I love Craig's List. I just got a ViewSonic PF790 flat-front 19" CRT monitor for my computer, for free, from a company that recently replaced all their monitors with LCD monitors! It's especially cool because it's the same model monitor my wife already has plugged in to her laptop most of the time, so they'll match :-) Except she's using Windows XP and I'm using Debian Linux.

Happy today

I have a small thinkg to be happy about today: I got a new (to me) computer yesterday courtesy of craigslist and my wife (who originally saw the post). Previously using a 166Mhz Pentium II, with Debian Sarge as the operatings system. It ran fine in the TTY screens, using lynx as a browser worked fairly quickly, but of course with no graphics. But anything I did in the Gnome GUI was extraordinarily slow. The "new" computer is an e-machines 533Mhz CPU (not sure the exact CPU). I pulled my hard drive from the old computer, plopped it into the "new" one, and it booted just fine. I even got higher-resolution video, because the "new" computer has a lot more memory. Everything works much faster now. I re-loaded firefox, and I tried to reinstall Forecastfox, but forecastfox doesn't want to keep working for some reason.

a start

Please visit http://foundintheattic.blogspot.com to learn how I've been spending a fair amount of my spare time lately.