We still have our original Discwasher, but all our records are in storage so I don't know if it would still work or whether the nap would fall off it the first time we tried. :)

If I'd given my money to my mom I would never have seen it again. (I know, because I tried that once.)

40th anniversary next September. Rome wasn't built in a day. :)

Doot de doot de doot de.... urrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp..... :)

My great-grandparents were among the founders of the Salvation Army. I never met them, but I know for a fact they wouldn't have put up with today's anti-gay crap. The more so because one of their direct descendants, my daughter, is gay, and I know what they'd have to say about their beloved organization kicking their…

Don't bother talking. Just leave without her if she's not ready to go at the right time. And keep leaving without her, since it's clear she doesn't care what it looks like.

People who are always late may say they want to change, but it almost never happens.

My radio pukes when "Walk on the Wild Side" comes on.

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Why? What's Lou Reed ever done for me?

If you wait that long to look at your data, you definitely should have just thrown it away, because you definitely did not need it.

Don't use your hard drive for dead storage. Spend as much time as it takes looking at everything you've got there. Delete anything that you're not going to use again. If you think there's a possibility that any of that dead junk might be needed, move it to DVDs as much as you can.

The Container Store has a big selection of cable shorteners in their "stocking stuffer" catalog right now. Whitson, you know where the Container Store is. :)

When I first tried working from home my husband would interrupt me constantly. And it was always for some question that he could have answered perfectly well by himself if I wasn't sitting there. I finally had to throw a flat-out screaming fit to get him to stop. I yearned for an office where I could go and shut the…

Oh man, you do NOT want to put binder clips on your socks. Besides the fact that they rust, if you have a front-loading washer they're going to bang around in there like crazy. There are little plastic clips made especially for clipping socks together.

My dad, who never got much beyond the typewriter age, had a VCR. He only used it to play rented tapes, never to record anything (couldn't figure that out). The power in that area wasn't all that reliable, so of course after every outage there was the VCR clock flashing 12:00 12:00 12:00 12:00 and after every time…

My husband is very active with a volunteer organization that regularly has meetings in the evening to plan for other meetings because that's the way they've always done it. And the organization is heavily populated by people who are not really up to speed on email, so trying to coordinate that way doesn't work very…

Years ago we lived in an lower-income neighborhood where break-ins were depressingly common. I bought some of that silver window tape for security alarms and applied it to the windows where a burglar would have been least likely to be seen, and to the window in our back door. Also bought some security-system decals…

Around here (Los Angeles area) there are quite a few different brands and flavors of soy, almond and rice milk available right next to the cartons of regular milk in the supermarket.

I've been checking out e-books and audiobooks from the Los Angeles Library web site for quite some time.