I'm playing with my new toy. I gave up on waiting to get a new computer, since the period of time that my old one reliably worked was getting shorter and shorter.
As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, power outages, or other such things that could keep us off DKos. It's also so we can find other Kossacks nearby for in-person checks when other methods of communication fail - a buddy system. Members come here to check in. If you're not here, or anywhere else on DKos, and there are adverse conditions in your area (floods, heatwaves, hurricanes, etc.), we and your buddy are going to check up on you. If you are going to be away from your computer for a day or a week, let us know here. We care!
We have split up the publishing duties, but we welcome everyone in IAN to do daily diaries for the group! Every member is an editor, so anyone can take a turn when they have something to say, photos and music to share, a cause to promote or news!
If you would like to fill in, either post in thread or send FloridaSNMom a Kosmail with the date. If you need someone to fill in, ditto. FSNMom is here on and off through the day usually from around 9:30 or 10 am eastern to around 11 pm eastern.
If you'd like to be part of the Itzl Alert Network, please leave a comment asking to join, or send us a message asking to join. We'd love to have you. The bigger our network, the less likely someone will be stranded all alone.
I got a desktop one this time, rather than a laptop. I like the idea of available memory being measured in terabytes, and I'd never moved my laptop off my desk in the whole almost seven years I had it.
It's Saturday as I'm writing this, and I am listening to the last disk of Raising Steam at the same time - it's been a couple of years since I dared to that with my laptop.
The week at work did go more smoothly than I had dared hope - we only got the printed posters on Thursday and the meeting they were for started Friday (fortunately, it's happening locally this year). Very few of them needed any fixes, but one was a true adventure - the fix it needed involved a figure that I had not been able to successfully do anything to before sending it to be printed.
We got one manuscript submitted and returned to us for an explanation of our approvals for the pig hearts used in the experiments. The vendor is approved for our organization (they provide some of the best beef and pork commercially available in the Pacific Northwest, and organs for research as well) and our lab has approval for 100 hearts a year - we test many variations on our research theme in vitro for a long time before any of them get as far as animal experiments, much less human.
I need to get out to do my grocery shopping. I also need to get some laundry done. Sunday.
It's cold here at the moment. I'm not sure it's going to get as warm as the forecast says. Although, having gone outside, I believe it's cooler inside than out.
Saturday mail included a box from Amazon. The new Peter Wimsey book has arrived. Oh, yes - I plan to thoroughly enjoy.
Has anybody else noticed that Charlaine Harris has started a new series? It looks to me like she took secondary characters she liked from all her other series and put them together in a small town in west Texas to see what would happen. The first book was good enough that when I finished the library copy, I went and bought my own. I am going to have to actually read the Sookie Stackhouse series (I stopped about halfway into #5) to figure out a couple of the characters in Midnight Crossroads.
My mother is in San Francisco for a wedding. She was drafted to stand in for the grandmother of the bride, who died last month. The mother of the bride has known my family since before she was born - she's the one who drafted my mother to stand in for hers.