Working feverishly to meet deadline and to get all the tax documents to the accountant. State of my brain right now: Me: This USB drive doesn’t work. Gordon: Why? Me: Because it’s a lighter.
Innkeeper Will Be Posted Tonight
Hey guys, we have some old busted windows, and we scheduled a window install next week, but they had an opening and showed up today. The house is a bit of a war zone right now, with all the furniture moved, so we will be posting the next installment of the innkeeper tonight, after the
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2019 and All Its Warts
It’s December 31 in our corner of the world, and the kids are planning to spend it with their significant others, so it will be Gordon and me. Tomorrow is my birthday. My father has Skyped to remind me, in case I forgot. ๐ 2019 was a tough year. I am not going to go
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Happy Holidays
Happy holidays from us to you. Thank you for being a bright spot in the otherwise very difficult year. I promised you the pictures of the giant fake Christmas tree, and here they are. We hope that you’ve enjoyed hanging out with us this year. ::hug:: Now it’s time for me to make pies and
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Safe Place
Last night a woman was kidnapped by the parking garage where Kid 1 parks. Austin police received around 7:46 p.m. a report saying a man wearing a red hoodie and driving a black sedan kidnapped a woman at gunpoint near the intersection of 24th and San Antonio streets, University of Texas police officials said Wednesday.
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Holiday Shopping and Horse Urine.
I am clawing my way through the holiday shopping. Gordon spent the day sending corporate gifts. After much shopping, I bought this yarn kit for the one gift I was responsible for. I think the recipient liked it. ๐ Now it’s gifts for the family. When the kids were little, it was toys. When they
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What Happened?
You haven’t posted. Did something bad happen? Margaret Why do you guys always assume that something bad happened? ๐ Nothing bad happened. We are just super busy. We are having some work done on the house, which means bids and estimates, we are going to KissCon in New England this weekend, and we are trying
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Place to Retire
It’s October, and yesterday, even though I am still sick, I swam in our pool. It’s still hot. So very hot. Originally when we moved to Texas, we liked the sunshine and the heat, but the longer we stay, the harder it is to make it through the summer. We can’t walk the dogs. We
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Fun With Voices
I’m so tired of being sick.
US Medical Insurance or Ripping Your Hair Out
A quick primer for the non-US readers: in US a lot of small business owners like us buy our policy from ACA Exchange, which is a government site. It presents us with policies from various private insurance companies, we pick one, it lasts a year, then it expires and we have to repeat the process.
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Back to life, back to reality…
Thank you so much for a great release, guys. We are both very grateful for all of your support. It’s very exciting to see our work produce so much discussion and speculation. It’s also a little tiring. I called Jeaniene on Friday and tried to have a conversation, and ten minutes into it, she said,
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Hidden Dangers
First, important question. Does anybody have experience with WP Engine private server hosting? Are they worth the money, because the price they quoted me is stratospheric. Three days ago Me: There is a giant mosquito. Gordon, picking up a fly swatter: I’ll get it. Me: I think you might need a bigger flyswatter. Two days
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