Category: another day in the life

  • I heart craigslist, mostly

    Boy, if you have something you want to sell at a fair price, I can’t recommend [craigslist](http://craigslist.org/) highly enough! My friend Cheryl has been a fan of craigslist forever – she used it a lot in northern California to find people to do work around her house, and even found someone to set up her…

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  • A tale of two iPhones

    As readers of this blog know, I have had my troubles migrating to the iPhone. First there was the matter of my peripheral-eating computer that managed to kill two iPhones that were attached to it, and there was the one that was dead out of the box and never even made it out of the…

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  • It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

    Here at Chez O’Shea, it’s the time of year when our electrical bill goes through the roof, and our neighbors sigh and shake their heads, and wonder when the hayseed trailer trash moved in. Yes, it’s time for holiday lights, courtesy of I-Have-No-Shame Chuck. He spent two weekends before Thanksgiving doing the preliminary stringing of…

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  • The toys, they keep getting bigger

    Our little business has a business phone line, and a business fax line. This situation necessitated our getting a fax machine. I pooh-poohed the fax machine as an antiquated technology and scoffed at the idea of us ever needing to use it. Well, was I wrong! Over the past few years we have faxed a…

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  • Happily ever after, five years later

    Chuck and I celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary yesterday. It amazes me that so much time has passed. We went out to dinner at a restaurant in downtown Long Beach and ended up sitting across from a couple who were celebrating their 14th anniversary! They had actually had their reception at the restaurant, and had…

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  • Flight 93

    Well, if you have followed this blog for anytime you know I don’t write often.  In fact I noticed when I logged in to make this post it said I’ve only made 7 entries in the past.  Now is the time for another. Yesterday on our way from Washington DC to Pittsburgh we stopped at the United Flight…

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