Hell’s Half Acre

This happens each year so I don’t know why I’m surprised.  We are all wickedly sick.  Chest cough stuff or head cold stuff or whatever the flavor of the month is, I honestly don’t know.  Our immune systems are at a serious disadvantage after all our Mexican sun and never a flu season so I [...]

I think I fried the CPU on my laptop.  It has been running hot for a while and I’d hoped I could stay its death sentence with Arctic Silver, but alas, it seems to have died an honorable death.  I have frequently backed up the files and programs and I’m hoping I’ll be able to [...]

For some that would be a nightmare, but for me it is the result of watching my intake and increasing my exercise level. I was 90 kilos about 7 or 8 weeks ago and I have been working hard to get rid of these 5 kilos. My dad is down some 20 pounds [...]

I have just compiled a database of all our online and hardcopy (very little) financial information and how to access it. I started at about 8:30am and just finished. Yikes! I had no idea it would be so difficult.
I stored everything on an external drive and used Kee-Pass to encrypt the data. [...]

Jamie has caught the tummy bug that has managed to pass itself around here regardless of the fact that we interact with few people. We really must be living in a petri dish to constantly be picking up these bugs without having contact to infect us. Since he was under the weather and [...]

What an ABSOLUTE Farking headache! I’ve been at this since early yesterday and I’m still not absolutely certain it is fixed. My one saving grace is that I ALWAYS button down the files on my server. They are ALL and ALWAYS set to 0644 (file permissions) and 0755 (directory). So no [...]

I had been rather diligent in updating software but fell into a lull after 2.0.3 of WordPress. I rarely, if ever, check my stats so I’m not sure how long it has been happening, but something got hacked. If you run WordPress, check your stats and then go here.
Oh My Goodness!  That was [...]

If you are a Democrat (or wish to vote Democrat, I suppose), you do not need to establish a US address and file a voter registration for that state.  Apparently 20 delegates have been set aside for those of us living outside the US.  While we have always been able to vote in an election, [...]

is a place of horror that I am currently avoiding.  I’m bad, I’m awful, I’m a terrible person.  I know this.  I am working on it though, and hope to tackle the dreaded inbox after a long infusion of rum (as I don’t believe I have the courage to even approach it without some mind-altering [...]

My hosting company is physically moving their datacenter, so Monday this site will be down for 4-8 hours.  Also, by that time, I PROMISE to return all the comments and lovely emails.  I’m too embarrassed to say how many there are and how old they are.  Now, carry on.