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Christine Eclavea Mercer

who has written 546 posts for Frog In North Georgia.

Apr
3
2010

Front Porch

Ah, the porch.  The most fantastic, wonderful place in the world to relax and drink coffee when the weather is good.
We had the house assessed a while back and the assessor said that the porch would sell the house, but sadly he hardly ever sees anybody using their outdoor spaces.  Not so for our family.
Technically [...]

Mar
23
2010

Library Wifi Success

Hooray, I’ve got a reasonably useful connection in the library.  That only took an hour.  Bah.
For anybody who needs to know, the secure connection at the Forsyth County Public Library requires WPA2/TKIP.  Not AES.  And Service Pack 2 for XP.
Yes, I’m sure you wanted to know that.  However, that has been my morning, the upside [...]

Mar
21
2010

Hampton Park Library

Our new county library opened.  It’s a miracle.  It was scheduled to open this past Fall, then delayed.  And since something seems to always go wrong with a new municipal service, I had expected it to be delayed again and open eventually.  Not so.  I am happy that my pessimism was unwarranted.

DOWNSTAIRES LIBRARY EMPTY SHELVES [...]

Mar
18
2010

The Pacific

We watched the first episode of The Pacific on HBO.  It was great, as I expected. Except that I am familiar with the history, which makes the story somewhat less mysterious since I already know from the first episode who is going to die.
This doesn’t make the series any less interesting to me.  But the [...]

Mar
16
2010

Bright Red

The color red must need a lot of chemicals to be created. Because I am having as much luck finding a bright red handbag as I did trying to find a bright red lipstick without a lot of chemicals in it.
And I’m not looking at an ingredient list for a bag. I’d just [...]