Journals of Journeys

40/365: Scream by h pants explosion (on creative hiatus-see profile), on Flickr School started for the Pie Dudes last week Wednesday, two days after we returned from a week long vacation in Ashland, OR and attended several plays at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.  More later.  In fact, that seems to be a bit of […]

Hey all. I just got back from dropping the Pie Dudes off at their first residential camp (meaning they’re away from home on their own for a full week at camp).  It was a very, very long 10 hour drive.  Good news: I gassed up on the way back for an unbelievable $4.06 […]

Tired lioness by Tambako the Jaguar, on Flickr The Pie Dudes and I just returned from a week long trip.  I think I might have finally caught up on my sleep, but I’m pretty sure I was looking like the lioness above as the beds felt about as comfortable as that log looks.  Our […]

“Windows cannot configure this wireless connection If you have enabled another program to manage this wireless connection, use that software. If you want Windows to configure this wireless connection, start the Wireless Zero Configuration (WZC) service. For information about starting the WZC service, see article 871122 in the Microsoft Knowledge Base on the microsoft.com […]

Laughing Star by cindy47452, on Flickr Have you listened to a late night show and throughout the entire show found there was someone out in the audience whose laugh was shrill, or loud, or just annoying?  There’s some woman on Craig Ferguson tonight that just won’t stop with this annoying “weeeeaaaaaahhhhhh woooo” noise.  Makes […]

Hubby’s home today.  He said that when the smoke dissipated a bit, they found another fire that had been burning.  Approximately 2,500 acres have been burnt so far by that fire. Also, on the wire El Dorado county sheriffs are looking for information regarding a suspicious fire.  Apparently a vehicle was found at the bottom […]

I just read a post by a fellow MySpace buddy that gave suggestions on how to reach out and offer a helping hand to those affected by the wildfires.  The first item on the list was to call the local fire department and offer to man phone lines or deliver food.  It was, I’m certain, […]

Well, here we are again contending with numerous wildfires caused by dry lightning strikes.  It’s awesomely similar to the strikes we had back in ‘99 that ravaged the canyon and destroyed many homes. DSC 0457 by Dain Sandoval, on Flickr And, once again, we have varying reports about the wildfires.

Not As Bad As It Looks by DonnaGrayson, of Flickr Mow your own $&#(!*% lawn.  I’m tired of getting my fingers smashed up on that jerry-rigged starter. 

Have you checked out Google Alerts?  It’s a great feature that allows you to plug in whatever keywords you’d like and when something new comes up on the Internet, you’re emailed with a bit-o-bit of the site.  It’s like an ongoing search query. I have it set up for a number of things, for […]