Laura Thompson gave me a Gmail invite, so I signed up for an account yesterday. It’s nice. The keyboard shortcuts are great for a grizzled old Pine user like me. I’ve been sending myself test e-mails, trying to get Google ads to show up promoting the products that I’m mentioning in my e-mails, but, so …
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Delinquent.
Just now, I received a call from my credit card company, Juniper. They’re this great Internet-savvy credit card company that turned me down for a credit card a few years ago and, in response to a complaining e-mail from me, called back and took the time to explain how I could get my credit score …
All good things must.
Yesterday I got back from my two-week vacation. I spent a few days in Charlottesville, then took a week at the beach (Corolla, NC) with my family. Here’s Ida in full beach regalia, as held by Trish, my sister in-law. Upon returning from the beach, the festivities surrounding Noah and Amanda’s wedding began, which ran …
Drug me.
As a kid, it was never so clear to me that sleep functions as a sort of a time machine as it was on Christmas Eve. The sooner that I went to sleep, the sooner that I would wake up and it would be Christmas morning. Of course, nervous excitement made this more of an …
Undue attention.
I just got back from a John McCutcheon concert being held a couple of blocks from my place, at The Lyric. Well, the first half of the concert, anyhow — I have a hacking cough, a result of the lingering effects of flu, and people were giving me dirty looks. I thought that I had …
Ideological correction.
It has come to my attention that I have described myself incorrectly on a fair number of occasions. When asked my ideological leaning, I have often reported that I am “very left,” or “extremely liberal.” I had thought that this was the case, but after the save-the-rainforests lecture/discussion that I attended here at Virginia Tech …
Happenings.
We’re having our first spring rain shower here. There’s some thunderiness, and it’s real windy. There’s a strong smell of ozone in the air. Since it’s in the seventies, it all makes for some mighty nice weather. I need a little springiness. I’ve been sick. Saturday afternoon I was stricken with the flu, or something …
Ding dong.
I finally did it: on Friday, I got sick of my next door neighbor [1,2,3,4], and I sent a letter to my landlord, detailing the antics with which I’ve put up, serious noise problems and otherwise. Today, I got a call — they’re be kicking him out. The owner of Blueridge Realty, who owns this …
I got an A.
It took a lot of work to establish sufficient credit to get a credit card, and I’ve worked in the past few years to build up my credit rating. It’s very rare that I have any cause to do anything that involves a credit check — my preference for working with local businesses means that …
Home again, home again.
Every time that I’m gone from Blacksburg for more than a few days — Thanksgiving, Christmas, spring break over the past 10 days — it is such a disappointment to come back here. Blacksburg and Virginia Tech aren’t bad, but, for me, they comprise a world that has had all sense of possibility and interest …