• The week that was

    It’s been a solid week on the road for Chuck and me. We’ve been traveling since last Sunday, and got home late yesterday. We spent five days in Yuba City where Chuck was doing some training, then headed down to visit friends in Vacaville, then yesterday we went to San Francisco to check out MacWorld…

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  • Chuckstrong!

    It’s been a nerve wracking week here at Chez O’Shea. This week marked nine months since the end of Chuck’s chemo treatments, and six months since his last PET scan. Monday they did a new PET scan and today we got the results. It was all good news. Mister Fatty Necrosis, of whom I wrote…

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  • Enough with the catalogs!

    If you’re like me, you get inundated with junk catalogs on an almost daily basis. A lot of the time they’re catalogs from companies from whom I’ve never ordered anything. Argh! What to do? Try Catalog Choice! It’s a little tedious at first as you have to enter the info for the catalogs you want…

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  • The wait is over. The iPad has landed.

    I viewed/read the Gizmodo liveblog of the Apple event this morning announcing the (ta-da!) iPad. Now that the wait is over (well, for the announcement, at least – you’ll have to wait 60 days for the device to start shipping), it’s oddly, well, if not disappointing then not quite as magical as Steve Jobs claimed,…

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  • Apple tablet, Apple tablet!! It’s coming!!

    My inner Apple fangirl is about to burst out and take control of my body for the next 12 hours or so in anticipation of the big announcement coming from Apple tomorrow. Will it be a tablet? Will it be under $500? Will it be able to walk on water (okay, probably not that…)? I…

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  • How to say good-bye

    I just finished watching Conan O’Briens last Tonight Show on Hulu (go Hulu!!) because, well, I can’t stay up that late anymore. Wow, what a show! I always liked Conan, and thought jay leno was kind of same old boring. Conan always has seemed to me to channel a sincerely silly inner child (versus David…

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