I prefer to write without my word processor trying to assist me, so my first drafts are often written in the text-based Notepad. Through the years, I’ve managed to strip down the MS Word icons and auto-“features” to give me as much screen real estate — and as little “assistance” — as possible. Well, this week I came up in the IT department’s rotation for the upgrade to MS Office 2007 and IE 7. Some…
According to KC’s most esteemed weather geek, it has snowed/iced/frozen-precipitated every 3.5 days for the past 81 days. (That’s since Thanksgiving, for those of you without calendars handy.) And there’s two more “weather events” on the 10-day forecast. Please let this be over soon. Please?
My former yoga teacher always said that everyone has one pose they can naturally do really well. “L pose” is mine. I do it almost daily to stretch out my spine and loosen my shoulders, and I’ve used it as on alternative to the ubiquitous downward-facing dog pose when my arthritis acts up. I started classes with my new teacher eight months ago. In her class, however, L pose isn’t a destination but a preparation…
It’s the oddest thing… all of my socks, or several pairs at least, have all lost structural integrity — at the same time. Seems like every pair I’ve tried on this week — which were fine last week — have immediately drooped down around my ankles. Go fig.
…. and Mother Nature gave me a doozy of a birthday present: It was 70+ degrees in KC today! Of course, tomorrow bodes ill with threats of freezing temps, freezing rain, and other freezing crap falling from the sky to coat our roadways and incite madness amongst drivers who, on most days, would merely be bad multi-taskers. Tomorrow, they’ll be bad multi-taskers rushing around like crazy people and driving too fast for conditions in their…
