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Thursday Thirteen #25 - SPRING!

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Since today is the first day of Spring, here is thirteen things I love and hate about Spring:

Love: Flowers. Who doesn’t love flowers?
Hate: Flowers. I’d like to know who came up with the idea that flowers should make you sneeze? I ache for poor Jack this time of year.
Love: The [...]

Thursday Thirteen #24 - Annoyed

I haven’t done a TT13 in a while so I figured it was time to do one. I wish it could be more positive, but alas, I’ve had a rough couple weeks and I just need to get a few things off my chest. Here’s thirteen things that really annoy me:
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Lots of snot = no sleep

Remember this guy? He’s baaaaaaack.
You know how when you go swimming and you accidentally get water up your nose, it hurts and sometimes makes you sneeze? That’s how it started yesterday: the feeling in my upper sinuses that I’d snorted chlorine water. Then I started sneezing a lot. Then I started feeling like I [...]

Our dentists love us - thursday thirteen #21

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It all started in November when our family dentist notified Jack that we were all overdue for our checkups and stuff:

December 3rd: Melissa had her checkup/cleaning appointment
December 10th: Kevin’s checkup/cleaning
December 10th: My checkup/cleaning where I found out I had cavities… the horror!
December 10th: Jack had an appointment for a cavity [...]

It’s not even my birthday

Yesterday I needed to be able to edit a document for work. It was a PDF document and I didn’t have a PDF editor. I downloaded one that I found via Google search and promptly hated it. So I uninstalled it.
The program was Abdio PDF Editor. This piece of crap program screwed up my [...]

Lunarpages gets personal

Over at Web Hosting talk, someone claiming to be an employee of Lunarpages posted what he/she called the truth (here’s a link):
how bout a little from you Merlain’s Lair?
Merlain’s Lair = Scott Wilson
Merlain’s Lair = Disgruntled X-employee of Lunarpages
Merlain’s Lair = The guy that knew Lunarpages was “testing” the 404 error page and getting ready [...]

Dreamhost and Lunarpages

There’s been quite the scandal in the web hosting world lately. Dreamhost, a rather large web hosting provider and the company that happens to be my web host, had a major billing snafu. In a nutshell, during a manual update of their billings they accidentally billed for December 2008 (it should have been 2007). This [...]