I have low blood pressure and am prone to fainting, so salt and water are my best friends. Oddly, drinking from the ocean doesn't really help.

Not always awkward!

Skarmory?

Higher quality may or may not last longer, depending on how you take care of it. It does look better though. I can tell when someone is wearing polyester pants instead of wool gabardine. There is no substitute for the look and feel of a raw silk blouse. I mean, go to Target by all means for your playclothes, but…

I would add: only buy quality items. I would rather wear the same pair of high quality Italian leather heels every day than own twelve pairs of cheap mall shoes. Buy two pairs of pants instead of ten. You can vary your outfits by wearing different-colored tops—you can actually get decent quality tops from places like…

Car rides nauseate me (motion sickness).

"Thank you" is absolutely the correct response. I don't see that as conceited—you're thanking the other person for saying something nice about you, regardless of whether you agree. When you deflect a compliment, to me it often sounds like false modesty, and like you're fishing for the other person to persuade you of…

I don't see any problem with getting a job doing whatever while you're looking for a career job. I've waitressed, done data entry, and other random things while in between. I don't list them on my resume, and in interviews I usually just say I waitressed and other similar jobs to pay the bills—it's never counted…

The three bedroom my parents owned on 86th and Lex was certainly an investment. I just wish they had held onto it a little longer.

We have a relaxed dress code at work, but I've recently started dressing up more. When I wear jeans and no makeup, I look like I'm 18. Throw on a sheath dress, heels, and a touch of makeup, and I actually look 28. This is a good thing.

It also is to lessen the strain on cell towers which were built to do handoffs at 60mph, not 600mph.

Dear Doc,

There should never be simple syrup either! Tequila, triple sec, and fresh squeezed lime juice. What more could you want?

Arch is my favorite too. I started on Slackware and moved to Ubuntu when it came out, but when I discovered Arch, everything fell into place. I find it easier to set up and maintain than any other distro, including Ubuntu, plus I also feel like I know what I'm doing in Linux now.

If you keep XP, for the love of [deity] don't ask your poor overworked IT people at work to support it. We have enough to do without (unnecessarily) removing viruses and troubleshooting drivers every other week.

I have an HTPC which also functions as a server. Right now it's running Arch Linux, which I adore but is too unstable (rolling release) for a server/htpc. Does anyone have a good suggestion of a linux distro for HTPC use (mythtv/xbmc) and server? I don't trust Canonical's agenda, so I'd rather stay away from…

God no. One of my favorite treats is to take myself out to dinner — just me, a pleasant restaurant, and a book. I never thought that was weird until someone said to me once they wouldn't go to a restaurant alone. *shrug* whatever floats your boat

I'm not a coffee geek at all, but I use an Aeropress because it's convenient for a single gal living alone, and I think it brews a pretty darn good cup. Were you using the inverted method? I think that's key. I've gotten good results from grinds from drip all the way down to near espresso, so *shrug*

I use this one :)

No picture. But I have a dasKeyboard (the regular kind) and a SteelSeries XAI mouse. I love them both.