Monthly Archives: August 2007

Milk Glass Moon

A relatively slow and easy day at work. Returns were light, though having been heavy all week there is still a lot of back log to shelve. Looking forward to my paid holiday Monday, though I still do have to … Continue reading

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The Frozen Toe Guide To Real Alaskan Livin'

A nice, quiet day off when nothing happened. I did go back to the lab today for my fasting blood draw and some more of my test results were posted. A different test suggests that my diabetes isn’t as good … Continue reading

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So I had my first doctor appointment today. BP way too high, as expected. (The nurse looked at the BP read out and said something like ‘you’re lucky you haven’t had a stroke with that number’ and I piped right … Continue reading

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Ubuntu?

Busy Monday at work. Returns were very heavy and I worked my butt off. We had a new substitute working today and I was asked to show her the ropes and answer her questions. Katika was very nice and that … Continue reading

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Home To Big Stone Gap

Work was very busy today, as is becoming the norm for Sundays. We weren’t really overwhelmed with people, but returns were very heavy and we could not scan and put things away as fast as they came in. No new … Continue reading

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I HATE computers!!!

So David came over around 10pm, armed with CD’s and ready to do battle with our old laptop. The hacked verion of OSX seemed to install effortlessly, but when it was done and we popped the CD out the machine … Continue reading

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Puter Probs

So yesterday I was all set to post, had picked out a couple of books even and was ready to roll when something Odd happened. The laptop is weirding out. It connects to the Internet, but then the browser can’t … Continue reading

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I can hear

Today is my 50th post to this blog. Clearly I have not managed to do the daily book report I had (rather ambitiously is seems in retrospect) originally planned to do, but this tiny milestone is progress and already I … Continue reading

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Monday, Monday

Sunday was as expected a busy, hectic day. We are getting huge volumes of returns and have a lot of material backed up to be shelved. To make sure it was a completely sucky day, my hearing aid died at … Continue reading

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A Land Called Honalee

Work is, well, work. Somehow I let a week slip away from me without posting, and really only one book caught my eye during that time. I did finally get my copy of Pan’s Labyrinth, a movie that Nina mentioned … Continue reading

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