October 2010
2 posts
My dad's tech support skills only go so far
“I was finally getting around to updating Microsoft Office on the upstairs computer, and somehow I downloaded the Spanish version. It kept asking me—I think—if I wanted to continue. And ‘no’ is always on the right side, so I clicked that. I chose English the second time but it stilled showed up in Spanish. I dunno what happened. So, I just sent them an email asking...
Don't let the terrorists win, Mom
I saw this quasi-terror alert for travel to Europe last night before I was going to sleep, and my first thought was not for my own safety, but rather, “Aw jeez, I hope Mom doesn’t see this.”
Alas, this was one of the moments where Mom’s paying attention to the news, and she called me this morning as I’m getting ready to go to Berlin. “I could write you a note...
