Facebook disabled my account without even telling me why. How rude.

I forgot to mention this in my last post... I'd been procrastinating on making labels for a lot of my storage baskets and canisters because I don't have a label-maker, and hand-written they look kind of sloppy...

Well, I finally got around to doing something about that, I took a baby step and made some temporary labels out of post-its (that I can peel off and replace after I get a proper label-maker, sloppy labels is probably better than no labels). And then, even better idea where I could, I made labels out of the original packaging that I was about to discard. I was really happy with my labels made from the original packaging because I was able to put everything in nice stacking canisters, but the labels are still there with what's in them and they're easy to read and recognize. Just pick out one of the smaller labels from the package (like on the side or top or bottom of the box) and cut out and scotch tape on. I cut out the suggested cooking directions for the rice, and taped them on the back of the canister as well, in case I need to remember the cooking times for the different kinds of rice.

I thought I'd throw that out there as a suggestion to anyone else who's been procrastinating on labeling things because you want it to look neat, cutting a label from some old packaging affixing with scotch tape looks so good I may not relabel those ones once I get my label maker!

"Shipping is a feature. A really important feature. Your product must have it."
- http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/09/23.html

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/17/why-i-dont-use-twitter/
"What can be said in 140 characters is either trivial or abridged; in the first case it would be better not to say it at all, and in the second case it would be better to give it the space it deserves."

lol...haven't I said that before? that's definitely my thoughts...the same reason I neither care for texting nor tweeting generally speaking

Yay, the tow-truck finally came this morning to tow the abandoned vehicle outside my apartment. Now I can have my favorite parking place back, and not have to keep backing in all the time to park in front of the abandoned vehicle. Guess I can be glad I parked up the street last night (rather than right next to the abandoned vehicle) and wasn't blocking the tow truck's easy access to get in and hook up its tow stuff, because the other abandoned vehicle that'd also been red-tagged on the next block didn't get towed yet, probably because it was sandwiched in between other cars and would have been too hard for the tow-truck to get to.

"BTW, this is also why the river of news approach doesn’t work for everyone.  If you’re subscribed solely to feeds from popular blogs and web sites, a river of news is ideal – you get a flow of information that you can scan for stuff that looks interesting.  If you miss a story, no big deal – it’ll float by later if it’s important. But if you’re also subscribed to feeds critical to your business, this approach is unacceptable.  You don’t want a flow of uncategorized, unprioritized information that combines articles from Boing Boing with items from your company’s internal feeds.  You need separation between the stuff you read for fun and the stuff you read because it’s critical to your job." -http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2009/05/a-listers-are-late-to-the-stream.html

Hmm, I've ran into a slight bottleneck in fixing the leaking caulk in the bathroom...the place where its really leaking, I just can't get dry enough to apply the caulk. Like seriously, you dry it with a towel, and a little while later its got a bead of water coming out. You can repeat this several times and it will continue to drip water. And even if you leave off the shower for two days...it'll still be wet there, and i'm definitely not skipping showering for a full week just to fix this leadk. Hmmmm. I may have to "work around" the real problem and try to identify where the water is getting *into* the metal frame rather than patching where its coming out of the frame and do what I can to minimize the water going into where its leaking out. But the problem as a whole really needs fixing because I'm tired of mopping up large puddles on the bathroom floor daily. Guess I'll just have to keep at the caulking project

"When we honestly enjoy other people's company, we hardly have to think about how to work a room. All the 'right' things come naturally, because we want to make people feel comfortable and cared for. They respond to that and to us." -Susan RoAne, How To Work a Room