10 September 2008 – 10:55 am
I both love and hate eBay. On one hand, you can buy anything there. ANYTHING. EBay makes it possible for people to collect absolutely anything that interests them, from anywhere in the world, which is kind of cool. You don’t have to have all the exact same stuff in your house that everyone else does anymore just because all you have in town is a Wal-Mart. And you also can spot high shipping fees before you even look at the auction. Other online stores often try to get you fill a shopping cart and three pages of order forms before you get to find out whether they intend to rape you on “shipping and handling.”
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20 August 2008 – 10:28 am
There is an eBay store with some really nice handmade bags for tarot decks, runes, dice, etc. here: Broake & Thumb Studios. Lots of different designs. I just got one and I really like it.
Verizon Wireless just called and interrupted my nap to try to press me into renewing my cell phone contract right now. I said I didn’t want to do it over the phone, but was glad for the notification that it was almost up and would look at the options online.
And you know what she then told me? It wasn’t actually up until February. February!
Yes! Cory is walking now. It started with a sideways step between two pieces of furniture several days before. Then nothing for a little while. Then over the last few days he started doing it in earnest, first a few steps here and there and now most of the way across the room.
The first step was kind of funny. Thud and I both saw it, and there was this realization that hey, that was his first step! And you sort of feel like there should have been bells ringing and lights flashing and confetti, but it’s over in an instant, none of that stuff happens, and Cory just goes back to drinking his juice.
With all of the excitement of walking, he has also been more short-tempered and ornery. And, unfortunately for me, has decided almost overnight that he should be eating more grown-up food. It’s not that I don’t want him to, of course, but it’s gotten much more difficult to figure out what to give him. He doesn’t like everything we eat, and it’s not always practical anyway. Suggestions? So far I have had no luck with the foods designed for toddlers, things with larger fruit chunks or mini ravioli for example.
Last night he ate almost an entire wedge of spicy black bean quesadilla, although it took him an hour.
Yesterday was a bad day for technology around here.
Without going into too much laborious detail, I was trying to install a new piece of software and change the location of its user files. It kept failing to move the user files, and eventually while I was watching the directory they were going to, I found out the software was confused and was trying to move all of my user files, not just those specific to itself. No wonder it couldn’t move them.
At some point in all of this, apparently Windows XP became suspicious that I was trying to tamper with it or make an illegal copy or something – I still don’t know what – and refused to do anything else until I “activated” Windows.
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