Our family has a tradition of naming our various computers after stars and star constellations. Various appellations have included Sirius, Castor and Pollux (matching IBM ThinkPads wouldn’t you know), Pixis, and Betelgeuse. In a variation on the theme, I named my Toshiba Satellite laptop Oshumi after Japan’s first space satellite.
However, the desktop that for the [...]

My cat Crunchy is a Summer Cat competitor at mediabistro’s blog, Galley Cat, this weekend and you can vote for him! As you can see from the photo, he had the moral support of my dog, Roxie, in coaxing me to continue my editing taken some time ago and I couldn’t ask for a better [...]

then you know I’ve been itching since last week and can’t see my doctor until tomorrow afternoon. I’m not sure how it happened, but something triggered a sizable eczema outbreak. (Remember what I said about the need for cotton undies not too long ago at Pursed Lips?)
It started on my hands, just a dot here [...]

comes from Wordle. Heck, the site’s name feels good. But here it is:

Speaking of words, you’ve probably noticed that I’ve been somewhat absent here. We had a death in my husband’s extended family which required some travel. Then last Friday my daughter and I were part of the throng that gathered at Rockefeller Center to [...]