Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

a duck and its shadow

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Sometimes I have to make little lifehacks of my own. Maggie and Jeep are little fat pigs, and when there are three people waking up, they will attempt to get breakfast three times. They rarely make it to three, but two is pretty common. And so, I present to you, the "Did You Feed the Cats?" handy template. Stick a new one up every Monday morning! Now I know I’m about the only person who feeds her cats three times a days, but you get the idea. When I don’t, they just eat until they throw up. It’s worth the trouble though. I love the little buggers! Download the template!

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This was the first thing I did when I moved to town. It’s been a year. I went again, this time with the K’s and Jen. Also ran into lots of other cool peeps (Joseph, Jess, Liz, etc). We had a fun time, including some outdoor live band karaoke, although I think the highlight for me was the plantains!

So my desktop computer is one that my ex put together for me. It has no sound card. No really. It really doesn’t have a sound card. I have checked. Now what do I need to know to buy one? Can I just buy this, install it, and expect it to work? Is there any reason to drop any money on such a thing? Seems to me it’s the speakers that matter the most.

I actually woke up thinking I’d watch the "As It Happened" feed on CNN.com, since I overslept that morning. I called in sick to my job in Martinsville (I was doing some contract testing), and I don’t know what time it was when Hamilton (my now ex but then husband) woke me up and couldn’t believe I wasn’t in front of the television. The feed isn’t working for me. Is it working for you? By my watch, it’s 8:39am. Still nothing. Maybe it was a bad idea after all.

OK, CNN Pipeline officially sucks. I have now spent 45 minutes of my morning trying various ways of watching this video. I even opened Internet Explorer! I even tried joining Pipeline for $.99 for the day. None of this is working. I woke up intending to pay homage, to be moved, to experience something that I hadn’t experienced when it happened. Now I’m just irritated with the CNN web sit. Drat!