Now, hear me out before you condemn my stupidity. I did go to the park today for a light, gentle hike, at Washington Park, to be exact. Except that I had read my guide wrong and instead of grade two hikes, these were grade four, which is one level below absolute wilderness. It was cold […]
Category: Just Shelley
Gooseneck lamp update
Not that everyone is breathless with anticipation of my next health update, a quick message about status of back, legs, walking, and combination thereof. One thing about being a klutz, you heal fairly quickly. I’m doing much better. I can sit at my desk now, which accounts for frenzy of activity lately. And I can […]
I received a letter from the storage company I rent a unit from in San Francisco — it’s raising the rate on my unit in February. I can’t continue with it so I have to figure out what to do with my ‘wordly goods’. Once I have a break in writing and screwing around with […]
Trying to save the gooseneck lamp
More detail than ‘Out’… I fell on the ice last week and hurt my lower back/hip area. It’s been getting progressively worse and today, when I tried to walk around the gentle, flat Tanglewood Trail at Powder Creek, I fell again. Except it was 70 F, and clear trails and I didn’t slip as much […]
Why writing tech is hard
AKMA has been having problems with his MT installation on Windows NT 4.0. My first reaction was to say, “Dump the trash and get a real OS, Linux”, but I realized that could be less than helpful. Reading the discussion thread where AKMA found his solution highlights how difficult it is to write about technology. Believe it or not, it […]
