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Phone Call Albatross

The phone is my albatross. Yesterday, I managed to get a lot done between dropping off DD and needing to pick her up again. I have been feeling totally overwhelmed and like I have way, way too much to do. So I was surprised that yesterday was manageable. Except the phone calls. Off to work [...]

The Up Side

I still haven’t finished my filing and all the administrative tasks that go along with it. But I did spend an hour today opening mail, sorting it into piles, filing, marking things “recipient deceased, return to sender,” and other unpleasant things. So progress has been made. I walked past my friend in the library today, [...]

No Improvement

My day did not improve. I spent just about all of it wrestling with my banking software, which eventually turned out to be Quicken 2010, which I only installed after everything else also sucked. DSC07596 by bumpy doink It’s cumbersome. And it doesn’t sync with my Blackberry. But at least I don’t have to set [...]

Frustration

The theme for this week seems to be it’s always something. Dammit! by gfpeck My copy of Quicken has stopped accepting data from any bank. Which DH says hardly seems fair since I did pay for it. Right. Annoying. Investigated and tried Online Quicken, which stinks. Ascendo which is beautiful if you only keep one [...]

Character Map and Disappearing Gmail

Just in case anybody ever wanted to use my asus, I think I have now rendered it completely unfriendly to others. Not on purpose. But it has worked out that way. I have both an English and French dictionary installed. And have added about a dozen different html and writing add-ons for Firefox. Today, I [...]