Ardellis | February 5, 2008
My husband and I spent the weekend visiting his relatives, which is a 4.5 hour drive from home. In the span of time between Saturday and Monday, here’s what went wrong:
We had tickets to see Wicked with our 2 nieces. One of them couldn’t come because her ketones were way off (she’s diabetic) and there [...]
Ardellis | January 7, 2008
Friends are for having things that you would love to have, but that you have the good sense not to. Like video gaming systems that you know would suck all the time out of your life. Andy and I visited friends like this over the weekend. Kate and George have X-Box 360. They have Guitar [...]
Ardellis | December 27, 2007
So, Yule and Christmas came and went, and there was baking and eating, and there was wrapping and opening. And yet, it is not over, for there are still packages that need mailing and out-of-state relatives that need visiting.
And real life continues apace as well, with unexpected car repairs and sudden computer troubles. So, really, [...]
Ardellis | December 14, 2007
Under normal circumstances, it should take about 10 minutes to drive from Kenmore Square to the Cambridgeside Galleria in East Cambridge. Maybe 15-20 during rush hour. Yesterday afternoon, as apparently everyone in Boston tried to leave early because of the incoming storm, it took over 2 hours. And a fun ride it was, too. Andy [...]
Ardellis | December 12, 2007
Well, the new oil burner is being delivered today, which means that we can stop checking the old one every day to make sure it has water in it so that it won’t shut itself off.
Andy took a trip down to Florida over the weekend, to get the stuff we inherited from my father and [...]
Ardellis | December 5, 2007
Our oil burner’s acting up, and we’ve lost our heat twice in the last 12 hours. It’s currently somewhere in the middle-50s in my living room and dropping. But the burner service guys should be coming today, according to the landlady (aka my mother), so I’m hoping it’s fixed by the time I get home [...]
Ardellis | November 14, 2007
Little things like the USB wireless adapter I’ve just gotten — and it is tiny, too, about the size of a portable flash drive.
This particular little thing means that I don’t have to choose whether to sit in my own office, in my comfy desk chair, and use (shudder) dial-up or move into my [...]
Ardellis | October 31, 2007
Well, maybe 15 seconds, since that’s how long it’ll take you to read my quote at the tail end of this Boston Globe article about Salem at Halloween. (My RL name is Robin Whelton, in case you didn’t know.)
Ardellis | October 29, 2007
I fell asleep sometime in the sixth inning. Maybe the seventh. I was a little fried after all the walking I did yesterday. But it looks like the Sox didn’t need me to pull it off.
Good job, guys.
