After a slow start this morning, Michael and I got out of the house around 11 to have some driving lessons and do some shopping. Driving lessons? I can’t drive a manual transmission car. Never even tried. When we bought the Civic with manual transmission I was scared! But Michael is willing to teach me, […]
Archive for January, 2006
Driving lessons, shopping, and house stuff
January 21st, 2006 by pleia2
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Sick
January 18th, 2006 by pleia2
I have an upset stomach %( I called out of work this morning, slept a bunch and now I’m sitting here with my laptop. “Hey, maybe I can do something useful like get my wireless card working while I’m home with this free time!” No go. My head hurts and I feel too lousy to […]
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Laptop! And MoncoLUG
January 17th, 2006 by pleia2
When I got home last night Michael had a laptop on his desk. He’s always bringing laptops home from work to work on, so I didn’t think much of it, but asked about it all the same. “It’s yours.” “Mine?!” “The last of your Christmas presents!” YAY!!! %D!! He’d mentioned an old Dell laptop they […]
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Rock Bottom – KoP
January 15th, 2006 by pleia2
Last night we decided to check another local brewpub off our list and head out to Rock Bottom in King of Prussia with Bob. In Lew Bryson’s book, he defends the fact that it’s in a mall (one of the biggest malls on the east coast!), and so we were hopeful that it would still […]
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Grapples
January 13th, 2006 by pleia2
Michael and I went grocery shopping last night and while checking out the fruits I came across something called a Grapple. “Looks like an apple. Tastes like a grape.” Why wouldn’t I just eat a grape? Still, I couldn’t resist. How is this done? Some sort of genetic engineering? I must know! So I picked […]
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bn.com shipments
January 12th, 2006 by pleia2
My Aunt Elaine and Uncle Chris gave us a Barnes & Noble gift card for Christmas. I decided to use this to purchase The Question of God DVD, since I really enjoyed watching it on PBS. Of course it costs $24.98. You need to spend $25, not including tax, to get free shipping. I’m sure […]
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Required reading for who?
January 11th, 2006 by pleia2
A few months back I purchased Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing by Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher of the Carnegie Mellon Project on Gender and Computer Science. This book had been described to me as “Required reading for women in IT.” It’s not. [lj-cut] It’s a wonderful book detailing the work at Carnegie Mellon […]
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Returning to Healthy Habits – 3 Month Update
January 10th, 2006 by pleia2
Back on October 19th I wrote an entry with the subject Returning to Healthy Habits. There was tons of good advice in the comments. The entry has been very helpful getting me on the right track and knowing what bad habits I need to target and deal with. Now that the holidays are over I […]
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Monday
January 9th, 2006 by pleia2
4:20 – Wake up with bloody nose, creates headache 5:20 – Cat wakes me up to feed him, I take advil 6:00 – Alarm goes off and Michael gets up 6:50 – Michael comes in room and asks if I’m OK, “I’m fine, bloody nose make head ache” 7:25 – Normal time for me to […]
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Guacamole and the weekend
January 8th, 2006 by pleia2
Movie night went well, the usual crowd was there, the guacamole I made went over very well – it was gone before I knew it! 2 Tablespoons fresh cilantro, chopped 1 1/2 Tablespoons white onion, chopped 1 large or 2 small Jalapeno peppers, chopped 1 teaspoon salt 2 large, ripe avacados (about 1 1/4 pounds) […]
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