Elizabeth Moon's Blog, page 139

Sometimes the penny does not drop

In configuring the desktop computer, formerly known as the Internet Virgin (I think she may have to be renamed Madonna because she's proving a very material girl...) for the internet,  I went with my favorite browser and mail programs.  Oboyoboy I can get email that comes up on a screen with the chair right in front of it.  I can sit up straight(er) and the font's naturally bigger on a bigger screen (never mid tht it's an ancient Vivitron 17 sold me by Gateway and still bearing the Gateway logo

Snippet alert

There's a new snippet up at the Paksworld blog.

I mean to put one up on my birthday in each of the blogs but things got busy and I missed one.

The plumber's here now and has just pointed out that the fumes from the gas hot water heater weren't going out the vent to the roof because the pipe was disarticulated (that was R's term; the plumber said "broke.")   So it's a good thing I asked for the heater to be evaluated and we're lucky the house is so leaky. 

By the end of the day, maybe, we will have

A little more on guilting, with history

According to my mother, my great-grandmother Burks was a champion Guilter--as was her eldest daughter, my great-aunt and first step-grandmother (whoever said families were simple?)  GGM had a partial excuse--she was raised in strictest Calvinism and remained a staunch predestinarian Presbyterian, but she terrorized the family.  My own grandmother (her second daughter) was one of the family rebels; my great-aunt Jessie even more of one, but the first daughter--pretty much forced to be the spinste