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Here’s something fun:

See how well you do at putting colors in order of grade from one to another. I scored 16, which is pretty good, weaker in blues and greens than other colors, which I suspected. http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77

2009 02 12 Alison Links Comments (0)

Something about Hacking.

We had what appeared to be an emergency last week, when one of the girls was told by someone she was IMing that he might have transmitted a virus to her that would completely wipe out her computer. There was much scrambling around for blank CDs to copy her files onto, hubby checked every possible [...]

2009 01 29 Alison Rants Comments (0)

Will it Work with Facebook?

I dunno. I’m trying out an app to see if it puts a note on my facebook page when I publish a new blog post. So this is a test. 1, 2, 3. . . You know the drill.

2008 12 31 Alison Comments (1)

My First LOLCat. . .

moar funny pictures

2008 12 19 Alison Cats
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Typing One-Handed!

Oh, the things we do for our kids! Saturday was the day of the band competition hosted by our school. Lots to do, much rushing around, and of course I had made enough cookies to feed an army. I came into the school holding them in one large metal tray, and as I made my [...]

2008 09 29 Alison Comments (1)

A Sad Way to Start a Birthday.

For the past several weeks, I’ve been nursing a couple of litters of kittens back to health, with varying degrees of success. The shelter released them to foster because they were scheduled to be euthanized, but had the potential to get healthy if they got the kind of one-on-one attention that a crowded, busy shelter [...]

2008 08 22 Alison Cats Comments (1)

Change of Life. . .

Well, not the kind you might be thinking. That, unfortunately, seems to be a long time in coming. Life, though, is changing. I didn’t realize how much the crap with Smart Carpet was stressing me out. I still have a bit left to go, because they pulled up the laminate floors and laid the carpet, [...]

2008 08 16 Alison Wellness Comments (0)

Miscellaneous Stuff, I Guess.

I really wish I were better at long-term planning. A lot of the yard work I have to do could have been done in the fall or in Spring, instead of staring me in the face now shouting the accusation, “You have the sloppiest yard in the neighborhood! Everyone with nice yards hates what you’re [...]

2008 06 21 Alison House and Garden Comments (0)

The Power of Prayer. . .

Not too long ago, I passed on a story about a young girl who died because her parents were treating her diabetes with prayer. A different church attempted the same thing with young Ava Worthington, with equal success, and now Ava’s cousin has had the same results. Fortunately, Oregon, unlike Wisconsin, has laws that hold [...]

2008 06 19 Alison Politics
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Sometimes. . .

it’s so hard to be nice. Yes, I’m a really nice person, sometimes disgustingly so, but I’m only human. I need to blow off steam just like anyone else, but that side usually comes out only in front of friends (who can forgive me) or on the internet (where it’s de rigeur and hardly noticed.) [...]

2008 06 03 Alison Rants Comments (2)