Author: Eileen OShea
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8 years
Tomorrow is Chuck and my eighth wedding anniversary. It feels most of the time now like we have always been together. Eight years ago I was working at USC, hating my job. I had just bought a house and felt broke and overwhelmed by the responsibility. Chuck came into my life and everything changed. He…
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Thankful
It’s Thanksgiving and that marks the start of the holiday season (in my mind anyway – a lot of stores seem to think the holiday season starts on Halloween. Whatever.). And it’s also the time when we are all supposed to take some time and be thankful for, well, whatever you want to be thankful…
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The mysteries of data usage
A few months ago, AT&T was the first mobile carrier to switch to tiered data usage plans, and now the other big behemoth, Verizon, is following suit. AT&T charges $15/month for 200MB of data, or $25 for 2GB (if you were an original iPhone user they grandfathered in the $30/month for unlimited data). We tracked…
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Time has this way of getting away from me…
Wow, I just looked at the last blog posting and noticed it’s been almost a month since I’ve written anything! Bad, bad blogger! There’s no good excuse except, well, life has just intervened and I haven’t taken the time to document it. In my defense, we’ve been working a lot during the week and playing…
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Ripples
We take for granted so many things in our lives, and it starts early. As children we take our parents for granted, the food we eat, the beds we sleep in, our siblings – we take all of these things for granted. We also take for granted, or maybe I should say, we forget to…
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Google Voice rocks!
I have been wrestling with a phone issue recently: I’ve got a headset and can hear on it but I can’t seem to make myself heard very well, so always end up having to use the handset to make myself heard. Not a big deal on a short call, but a pain on those long…
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