Historical Archives
A friend wanted me to title this “Still Not Def Capped.” For you non-WoW’ers, let me explain. Each type of player needs a certain level of stats to do well in higher level dungeons and raids. Stats include things like defense, spell power, attack power, hit rating, etc. Players who mostly deal damage strive for…
I’ve reached that point that all parents reach, where they’re actually looking forward to having their kids out of the house. With one week left to go, I’m ready to finally have the house to myself. Since my house is also my place of work these days, I’m even more anxious. Work has been accomplished…
I’ve just returned from my post-vacation grocery run. I wanted to follow my new rules, and actually, it wasn’t that hard in many cases, thanks to my store’s new brands. Sadly, the web site gives little information about them, but I checked labels dutifully, and many of them really do only have natural ingredients. I…
My car mechanic knows my name, knows the whole weird my-husband-and-I-have-different-but-similar-last-names scenario. I don’t know whether to think this is cool or scary. Right now, I’m going with cool. Everyone needs a mechanic who knows their name. Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure
Image by lorda via Flickr Last week, I devoured three books about food. First, Julia Child’s My Life in France; second, Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food; and third, Julie Powell’s Julie and Julia. All were delightful in their own way. It was a bit jarring to go from Child’s autobiography to Pollan’s description of…
This is actually true: Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure
15 years ago today, Mr. Geeky and I got married. It’s hard to believe. The early years were a whirlwind of babies and career changes and moves across the country. And now we’re in the middle, more settled to be sure but still with many challenges ahead. When we met, I was a hippy-like aspiring…
Image by lorda via Flickr I’m on vacation this week, without my computer and without much access to any kind of network, so I’m away from WoW. Which is a good thing. WoW can get pretty intense at times. A few weeks ago, they released a new patch which added some new features to the…
Dean Dad had a post last week that looked at the staff side of the equation during this economic downturn. I lived through a downturn during my first years as a staff member and saw 30 people get laid off. In many departments, this meant a 20%-30% cut in their staff, meaning that the rest…
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