Tag: random
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Sentient DVR UPDATE
So, remember a couple of days ago I posted about how either the cats were DVRing things for me or that the DVR itself might have become sentient? Well, if you recall, one of the shows I’d set it to record was Psych. After discovering that it hadn’t recorded any of those episodes for the last…
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Random Questions from blog prompters
I was stumped on what to write tonight, so I went to a random prompt generator and got some random questions. 1. You are forced to flee from your home and relocate 2,000 miles away. You can take only what you can carry in your arms. What will you take? Cats, phone, external hard drive (with…
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The cats (or something else) have taken over the DVR!
A weird thing has been going on with my DVR. The last couple of months it hasn’t been recording shows that it recorded perfectly well in the fall, and instead it has been giving me “surprises” to watch instead. For instance, it hasn’t recorded a single episode of Psych since its winter break. I was left…
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Beach day
There are several posts I mean to write this month. One of them is maybe a new “Learn a New Animal Day” entry, but I can’t quite decide which animal I want to do. I’m open to suggestions. Instead you get to hear about how I went to the beach today and how, despite my…
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Things I have observed today
In list form. The days I come home so exhausted that I don’t even have energy to shower and just want to collapse on the couch are the days when I most need to be clean and can’t really sit on any surfaces in the house. People read signs, if you make the letters big…
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Alrighty Then: pop culture references that… don’t.
Recently I’ve started paying attention to various ways our everyday language is strange (being in a place where people commonly don’t quite understand one another even though we can all speak “English” does that to you). Our use of expressions and idioms, for instance, must confuse some people not from the US to no end.…
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My Little Helper
Cats all have funny little habits. As someone who spends a lot of (let’s call it) quality time with her cats, I especially notice their odd habits. While I’m convinced that Caspian (a.k.a. The Gray Wonder) has OCD (which is a whole other blog entry in and of itself, probably), Leena (a.k.a. Calico Princess) does…
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I broke the grocery store.
For years my mother has teased me (in a good-natured manner) about having a metal plate in my head. This is because a seemingly large portion of the time electronics (especially cash registers) are, well, screwy around me. Screwy? Yes. They freeze, they jam, they just don’t work and no one knows why. I also tend…
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Thursday Treat: Cupcakes!
Today was a long day, and I decided to treat myself to something sweet at the end of it (and after I’d had supper). Unfortunately, all I had in the house were some box cake mixes that I not only was saving to turn into other things (they make good bases for stuff), but make,…
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Post-Christmas Clean-up Fail
Sometimes I’m just like the mouse who was given a cookie. I don’t know if it’s something to do with my age, or that I suddenly have a lot of energy for doing things because I’m excited for the new year or what, but I woke up this morning determined to get down as many…
Joanna Volavka 