Opening MS Word Office support window. Customer service rep: Hello, how may I help you? Me, very annoyed: Hello. MS Word refuses to recognize the custom installed font. CSR: Have you checked if the font is installed on the system? Me: Yes. Windows sees the font and renders it appropriately. MS Word sees the font,
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Migraines and Other Things
So Kid 1’s migraine is back. We are controlling it for now. We have a follow up on Monday and that’s when we will figure out a more long term solution. Right now mostly it’s severe nausea. She is taking medication for that too, and it’s keeping her from vomiting but she still feels nauseated,
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A Day Off
My father has departed. These two weeks were ridiculously difficult for a variety of reasons and the difficulties continued tot he very end. Just to give you an idea, both ours and Kid 1’s cars got flat tires, so Dad had to uber to the airport, his plane was delayed by 12 hours and he
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Socuments and Dropbox Hate
We changed computers – ours were old – and I had to reinstall the Dropbox to get all of our documents. The computer has a dual drive, C for the operating system and D with much larger capacity for everything else. Me: Download Dropbox to D drive. Dropbox: Okay! Me: Install dropbox. Dropbox: Okay! I
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Frustration Lessons
A few words about the comments on the previous blog post. You’re not a loser if you had to move in with your parents because you’re in school or can’t find a job. You’re only a loser if you mooch off your parents by not contributing anything to the household. Kid 1, when in school,
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Job Frustration
Sometimes work makes me deeply frustrated. Not the writing part – although that too. The writing frustration mostly results in me moaning about being a fraud or not talking at all until my brain sorts itself out. But the business part of publishing makes me boiling mad. Unfortunately I can’t vent about my business publicly,
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The Purse Story
K. writes You had a funny story about your purse on the blog and I can’t find it. That’s because it’s archived. After a few years, I archive some posts from Family and Life categories. But since you asked. So it’s May 2015. We just finished a draft of WHITE HOT and we are exhausted.
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Sigh
Today I am the sad girl in the photo. I’ll just take my imaginary stuffed lion, hang my head, and go sit in a corner somewhere. Honestly, last few weeks have been rough. Stuff happened. Pets were sick and injured. Cars were flooded. I have to go to a medical specialist on 29th for a
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Things That Disappear
Things disappear in our house. I-phone charging cords. I buy these cords all the time. I just ordered 6 of them. They vanish. It’s very simple: two cords for the charging station, one cord for each computer, two cords for the car. The current total of cords in the house: 1. How? How does this
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Knight’s Retreat House
This is a must see. I usually link bizarre houses, but I would actually buy this odd house this time. Behold, Knight’s Retreat. Super private estate nestled on almost an acre and a half. “Good Morning America” named this the #2 backyard in America. No detail was left untouched. Master bathroom is spa-like. HUGE bonus
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A Sequence of Unfortunate Events
First of all, thank you for the incredibly amusing comment thread on the previous post. The consensus is 36 instead of 6 in the numerator and + instead of – in the denominator and we seem to be good to go. Now on to the subject of this post. On Saturday Kid 1 had a
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Test Your Eco Might
Today I bring you this fun quiz from CNN, which talks about what we can do to keep our planet. I totally failed it, by the way. I think I got a 40%. If you take the quiz, you will see that a lot of it has to do with curbing our waste, in particular
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