Those happy kids are creeping me out. It all started with a neighbor’s birthday party…not long after we moved here. One of Jacob’s new Cub Scout den-mates invited both Jacob and Timmy to his birthday party. It was a Beyblades tournament. Our sons weren’t familiar with Beyblades at the time, I had sent a starter … Read more
A small British grocery store opened up right up the street, called The British Pedlar. The ladies who are running the store are very kind and they have just about everything that I remember from my childhood, when my mom would frequent the British grocery store in Virginia Beach OR she’d bring things back from … Read more
Not a complete fail, but a “mostly” fail. Today I officially gave up on the CrashPlan 30 Day free trial to send files to “the cloud”: the CrashPlan Central offsite servers. I had a 30 day free trial to try this out, and after 27 days, I had only uploaded 60% of the files. I … Read more
Paul and I have gone nearly a week uploading to each others’ computers with CrashPlan. It’s been quite successful, in that we are successfully connecting to each others’ computers consistently. That’s the good news. The bad news is that I’m seeing just how slow my AT&T DSL network is. I purposefully selected a data plan … Read more
This week my youngest son is celebrating his 6th Birthday. I won’t be specific about which day, but with family in town this weekend, I made some pre-birthday cupcakes to serve as dessert. Last weekend we were at our local mall-like-shopping-location. It isn’t really a mall, since it doesn’t have that old-school enclosed building thing … Read more
Isn’t Schoolhouse Rock the BEST???? I Googled images for “Hooray” and this scene from the episode on “Interjections” appeared. Yesterday we had success! Paul and I did a couple more tweaks with our respective firewalls, and after dinnertime, the grey lights turned green on our CrashPlan GUIs! This point-to-point uploading is going much much faster … Read more
I called it. On Saturday I enrolled in CrashPlan for the 30-day free trial and so far I’m not that impressed. Their website claims “Free, Easy, Automatic Backup”. So far, no. Paul kindly offered to sign up also — we can always backup to each others’ machines with the CrashPlan GUI without charge — and … Read more
“So — first Yoshi? Now Ninja??? What’s next? Ginsu?” Yep — this will be a more positive commentary than the Yoshi review, I promise! Dave and I got a nice generous Bed, Bath and Beyond gift card from Dave’s brother for Christmas. Earlier this week we took a trip to Pensacola to run some errands … Read more
Opened up my Yoshi Blade…seemed to cut up an apple well enough. But then I read the care instructions, which I’ve transcribed here for your reading pleasure. Remember, this is NOT a metal blade, but a ceramic one. Still, some of these warnings are a bit extreme…I’m kind of miffed about not using it to … Read more
This Yoshi? No, this one: Today I ran up to Publix, our local grocery store, for some last-minute items for chicken parmasean. While there, I came across a section with a bunch of those “As Seen on TV” gadgets…all marked down! I very very rarely succumb to the “As Seen on TV” craze. I got … Read more