Congratulations!!! You’re a PowerSeller on e-Bay. Get your PowerSeller benefits now! I love when I get such obvious phishing e-mails like these. I have never sold one thing on e-Bay. As a matter of fact, I’ve never even bought anything on e-Bay, and have probably been to the site maybe twice ever. Powerseller, indeed. From a … Read more
There’s something about the noise that a head makes when it bangs against a cement floor that’s not easy to forget, or stop thinking of once you’ve heard it. A customer—a young, very thin, black-haired girl just fell off a stool here at Helios; the back of her head banged the floor as she hit … Read more
My new Marpac Dualspeed Sound Machine 980a is really doing the trick. Deep sleeps; coma-like sleeps. I don’t think I mentioned (though I guess I could go back and check) that I used my favorite comparison website, mysimon.com, to see where online I could get this item for the best price. Love that site. Before going … Read more
Singapore Airlines has taken the unusual step of publicly asking passengers on its new Airbus A380 plane not to engage in any sexual activities. The potential problem has arisen because the first class area of its giant super jumbo contains 12 private suites complete with double beds. The rest of the story… Who knew? There … Read more
I’m not convinced that “Lucy” wanted to dress up for Halloween. Lucy the Smashed Pumpkin. From wral.com’s Viewer Submitted Halloween Pictures. I forgot to mention a major development in my professional life yesterday! I had a very brief instant message conversation with my manager in which she broached the subject of my return to work … Read more
Sent to me by a friend… I worked from home today, and once again, got a ton of editing done. Yay! The UPS guy delivered my new sound machine at about 3:30 today. By the time I got to the door, he was back behind the wheel of his truck, which was parked behind my car. … Read more
I worked from home today, and edited my little heart out. I got so involved in it that at one point I checked the time and it was 10:30. “30 more minutes and I need to connect into that conference call,” I thought. When I next looked up, it was 11:30. As it turned out, … Read more
I uploaded the final few pictures that were still in my camera from my trip. The address of the Sydney Westin, at which we stayed, was 1 Martin Place. Here’s a few pictures of me in the square about the hotel, and a picture of Robert that I love, love, love. And here I am … Read more
Regretfully, I was unable to schedule anyone to test Jason’s and my codes this afternoon. Notes out to three potential folks to help me out were met with two people (Will & Kim) being out of town for the weekend and the other one (Courtney) responding too late in the day to work something out. Kim did … Read more
I slept in again this morning. Yay. My exterminator was supposed to come some time today between 1:00 and 5:00. I was going to call the company to see if they could have him come more toward the 1:00 end than the 5:00 end, but didn’t. He showed up at 1:15. Yay. I ran to … Read more