Author Archives: Susan

REALITY: Fantasy

Posted on July 30, 2005 by Susan

Oh!  Oh! Just saw my man Willie on the Tonight Show and he wasn’t wearing a wedding ring!  And New York’s only about an hour and a half from my house!  And Jim’s still away… Continue reading →

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TECHNOLOGY: Oh joy!

Posted on July 29, 2005 by Susan

Fixed the CMOS/BIOS problem on my computer.  Oddly enough, the info was wrong for the setting on the CPU, but by removing a jumper connection on the motherboard and resetting it after five seconds with the computer off, it goes … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Not Good Nor Well

Posted on July 29, 2005 by Susan

Headache pounding, stomach growling in retort to eating naught but scallops, cherries, ice cream for four days.  Stress level on red alert, the glass is cracked and so am I, unsuccessful, trying hard and reaching but unable to complete the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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TECHNOLOGY: Annoyances

Posted on July 29, 2005 by Susan

I have always been a huge fan of instant gratifcation.  Santa Claus and Christmas, with their weeks of anticipation have driven me to the point of ambivalence in my later years; to become a snoop as a child. Firing up … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Reading DOS

Posted on July 28, 2005 by Susan

Not literature, exactly, but certainly story and besides, I wanted to keep all the "reading" questions and discoveries in one category. In putting together a pc, the hard part is really the software and getting it to work correctly.  Everything … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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TECHNOLOGY: All Systems Are Go

Posted on July 28, 2005 by Susan

At least on the hardware end of it all.  I’ve got one computer all built, one halfway there, and am currently fdisking and formatting the new hard drive on the first one.  Then, if all goes well, the system files … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Living Single

Posted on July 27, 2005 by Susan

I realize that this may be in poor taste, but it was just too funny not to share.  While the husband’s away, I’ve got computer parts decorating the kitchen table.  Hard drive, floppy and CD drives, tools, screws and widgets, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Arnzen’s 100 Jolts

Posted on July 26, 2005 by Susan

As I mentioned in a previous post, what I found most interesting (at least from a writer’s viewpoint) in this collection is the sudden thoughts that cross the mind when asked to make up a story on a particular topic, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Evaluating

Posted on July 26, 2005 by Susan

Now here is where everyone will jump down my throat, but something just came up that somehow relates to our ongoing literary questions of good, bad, and says who? In one of the boxes my husband brought home from his … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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WRITING: Reading

Posted on July 26, 2005 by Susan

In and out and in and out I wander through the door that holds my world within it and world of all of us without.  Yet, it is my backyard, enjoyed this year in daylight as in dark. Some minutes–sometimes … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Free at last!

Posted on July 26, 2005 by Susan

Can’t help it; the words echo in my head.  After five years of study and a month with my husband home every day, today’s final close to the degree and my husband’s early morning takeoff to PA gives me an … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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EDUCATION: Final

Posted on July 26, 2005 by Susan

Okay, so after all the bitchin’ and moanin’ about the course, I ended up with a 97.3 average.  Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Oh the horror!

Posted on July 25, 2005 by Susan

What a lovely dip into the pool of blood after a long dry day on the sands of reality.  It’s been staring up from the pile with a horrific grin for quite a while, and I finally couldn’t resist Michael … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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EDUCATION: The End?

Posted on July 25, 2005 by Susan

Never the end, never.  But at least of that which will bring me that degree in hardcopy form.  Took the final exam just a bit ago, and while I said I didn’t care, the part of me that is obsessive … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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LITERATURE: Old and New

Posted on July 25, 2005 by Susan

Good post at The Reading Experience, "Safely Ensconced," on a statement by Steve Wasserman regarding the dependence upon the old, already pronounced as worthy literature: "The best reading experience is to occupy your time with the worthy dead rather than … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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