Aug 3, 2022
On Sunday I met up with my sisters and had brunch at a beautiful gardening place with cafe, and got to talk for hours with them. Afterwards, my sister’s husband mentioned that back in the early 1980...
July 26, 2022
For my oldest sister’s sake, who had cancer surgery earlier in the year, I have tried to notice what is written about Covid. Apparently we’re a little bit better off than we were awhile ago. There...
July 23, 2022
I have needed something to laugh at, recently, and popular comedies are often not funny to me at all. So the Prime Video streaming of Dark Shadows sounded just the thing. I never saw this decades ago ...
July 14, 2022
Seven out of the last 8 rain/thunderstorms have passed without raining, and the neighborhood looks like a drought region. Since nobody on my street really waters their lawn, we all have dying patches ...
June 30, 2022
You never know… I’ve been starving for a domain sale, and just discovered that one, a man was trying to buy from us, is the name of a cryptocurrency that’s now trending somewhere else in the wor...
June 24, 2022
It little profits that an idle judge, By this supreme hearth, among these unfit cohorts,Match’d with a seditious wife, I mete and doleUnequal laws unto a hapless race,That work, and weep, and breed,...
May 20, 2022
*If you don't like reading about electricity, you can skip or skim all this!Just had my first electrical outage of the season, which always helps remind me to prepare for the next ones. But this one w...
May 4, 2022
Let’s see… my great-grandmother died of complications from an illegal abortion around the year 1900. It even said this was the cause of death, on her death certificate. She was married but her hus...
Apr 24, 2022
Remember not to stand on chairs to reach things, and absolutely never climb to reach something when you’re not wearing good tread footwear, and the chair is slippery wood. Chairs aren’t meant to b...
Apr 6, 2022
Yesterday I spent hours trying to renew a single domain name that is held in a Spanish registry. The .es website, Dominios.es, translates into English but this doesn’t help. It still doesn’t tell ...
Mar 23, 2022
I was immediately intrigued when I saw a couple of articles about how two "tech bros" purchased the domain name Knitting.com, and their remarks about the knitting community put that community up in ar...
Mar 12, 2022
Here goes with news from the world of domains, which probably is very dull, but it’s what I know about…The 2nd-largest registrar in the world, Namecheap, recently announced it will not allow Russi...
Jan 24, 2022
These days it seems as though I’m sitting waiting here for an all-clear, as if the world was on fire and we had to wait for it to be put out. When am I getting out of here?And it snowed again, so Iâ...
Jan 16, 2022
I’m peeking out the front door periodically, wondering how long this predicted snowfall will take. It’s supposed to be anywhere from 6 to 12 inches over the next 24 hours. Started at 3pm today. So...
Dec 22, 2021
I haven't heard other people talk about a problem that several of my family go through at Christmas. It's a phobia about gift-giving. One sister announces each year that she doesn't want us to get her...