Posted on November 21, 2009 by topsytechie
Have you ever felt trapped in a particular situation in your life? Trapped by circumstances beyond your control? Control-freak that I am, I’ll admit that doesn’t happen to me much, but once in a while, I wake up and realize my back is against the wall, and there isn’t a single crappin’ thing I can [...]
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Posted on November 17, 2009 by topsytechie
For many of you who have been following me for a while, you may already be aware of this, however it is completely new to me. Why someone hasn’t given me a head’s up on this before now, I’m not quite sure. It certainly would have been the compassionate thing to do. But instead, everyone [...]
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Posted on November 16, 2009 by topsytechie
Ok, normally I let my birthdays slide by like sands in the hourglass, but this coming Friday happens to be a celebration of my very last year in my 30’s, so I’m puttin’ on the ritz.
R-T is taking yours truly for a night of fondue fun at the Melting Pot, AND, of course, I already [...]
Filed under: Holidays and Special Events, birthdays, giveaways, humor | 13 Comments »
Posted on November 11, 2009 by topsytechie
You’ve heard, haven’t you?? The great news?? The news to beat all news??
Yup.
Kindle for the PC is here!!!
Ok, perhaps that is CRAPPY news to those of you who shelled out 300 or so smackeroos for the little handheld doodad. But for the rest of us who either were too skint to splurge, or [...]
Filed under: books and reading, digital life, electronics, humor, technology | 7 Comments »
Posted on November 10, 2009 by topsytechie
That’s right. Someone has actually nominated Topsy-Techie in this year’s Homeschool Blog Awards for the category of “Best Unschooling Blog”. I even get a button!!
Of course I never know about these things until its almost too late, but thanks to one of my gal-pals who IM’d me tonight, I found out in time to [...]
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Posted on November 10, 2009 by topsytechie
You head to the microwave to warm a cup of tea, and discover that the clay version of the angel of death (complete with sword) beat you to it…
(warning: this could become an occasional regular feature. You have no idea the crazy things that randomly show up around my house!!!)
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Posted on October 29, 2009 by topsytechie
I don’t know what your take on the Blu-Ray players is, but mine has always been…what’s the point? I mean DVDs work perfectly fine. They are definitely a step above VHS because of the whole no rewinding thing, and they take up less space in the entertainment cabinet, so I see no reason to change-over [...]
Filed under: Holidays and Special Events, YouTube, birthdays, digital life, electronics, humor, internet, streaming tv, technology, television | 10 Comments »
Posted on October 15, 2009 by topsytechie
So I came home from that glorious Camp Greenville field trip on Sunday to a message in my inbox from one of the members at my SecularHomeschool.com website. It seemed that while I was hiking and dosey-do’ing, a major tool of a person was busy hacking into the site.
I didn’t want to believe it [...]
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Posted on October 9, 2009 by topsytechie
Ok, so I totally ran out of time to do a Friday’s HHH post today. It’s been one of those days.
Where the phone rings so much that you get a temporary case of tinnitus.
Where you forget to put a VERY LATE bill into the mailbox, so you have to drive to the post office, which [...]
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Posted on October 2, 2009 by topsytechie
One of the subjects Uber is studying voraciously these days is healthy living. You may remember how last Thanksgiving turned him into a vegetarian, cold-turkey. (LOL – – I actually crack myself up sometimes!) Well, apparently being an herbivore also makes you reevaluate all kinds of other areas of your life, too. Uber now [...]
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