Memnison Journal

What I can mention is that the New Year’s Party was a good time, though a little frazzling.    I also spent a good deal of the day in the library with Rich Rostrom, who stayed over and was helping me with getting all of my stuff out of the closet under the stairs in the [...]

Actually, it’s pretty bone dry in the basement, and just laying out the stuff so it can rapidly dry seems to be making a LOT of headway.  Yeah, it’s not going to be as neat to store, but the entire idea was to scan the suckers and pitch them afterwards, so that the only copy [...]

I have been having a LOT of problems with my eyes recently in regard to reading things, and set up an appointment a while back with the eye doc that the rest of the family sees.  (I’m the only one who didn’t need glasses to function; Susan had LASIK surgery a while back, and does [...]

I’ve been busy this weekend in going through immense piles of paperwork, and scanning and dumping, and lots of side dumping in any event.  The prozines are things that I don’t believe that I will ever re-read, and that it’s a lot more sensible to pass them on than to have them take up storage [...]

Today was Mere’s ‘family’ birthday party out at her great-aunt Marlyce’s house in Elgin, and we moved the time up somewhat because of the weather; it was getting slick and messy from sleet and snow.   And also, it looks like Mere is coming down with a cold.  She came home, and moaned and crashed very [...]

Oh, there’s some things I’d like to get, but we’re really short on money today.   Susan is out right now at Home Depot; Mere’s bed is broken, and Susan has to get some plywood to put it together again.  That trumps a lot. And nobody in the house is about to fight huge lines and [...]

There’s been a big push here to organize the tons of CDs and DVDs in the house that are home-made - DVDs off of the TiVo, of course, are the big item, but there’s a ton of outdated software stuff around, and I’m tired of scratching for things when I need them.
All of the software [...]

The real thing is that if you are living a digitized life, you need to be able to make sure of two things:  enough space for all of those things you’re storing, and a way to find it later.
And, of course, the same is true of any library or other paper system.  People looking at [...]

My main computer (the one on my desktop) has been giving me fits for a number of reasons, one big one being storage space - and the lack of it.  I have too much stuff, and one drive that was supposed to be an archive drive has been giving me fits along the lines of [...]

At the end of this month, marmotgraphics.com will go away forever.  Seriously.  If you have email addresses for either me or Susan with that domain, contact me for the proper email address.  I am in the slow process of reposting everything that was on the old site into memnison.com, but I have limited time and [...]

If this comes through fine, then the problem is that if I write something at 6:30 am and set it up to actually post in the Wordpress end at noon, what happens is that it ginks into that mess of One Link Going Nowhere that you saw.  If I save it again (not changing a [...]

The tired level from all the stuff earlier this week is dying down, and the side-edges of the big basement project that had to be hurryupandshovedaside are being taken care of.  Just an awful lot to do, all in all, digging through the rest of this stuff.  And I’m in something of an overwhelmed funk [...]

This has been a terrible week, and I’m not in the greatest of moods (and exhausted to boot) so I’ll cut here and save y’all from the long version ‘less’n you’re curious.
NOTE: a lot of posts that I do that aren’t ‘timely’ are done when I have the time in fits and spurts, saved in [...]

I have been working my buttsky off with The Basement this weekend; dumping out ten-plus boxes of books, tons of magazines and whatnot. And scanning and dumping tons of papers, and working my butt off on the household finances. Dale Cozort, the present co-OE of POINT OF DIVERGENCE, came over to riffle [...]

As you can surmise, I was working like a demon on the basement this weekend; I basically went down there the whole time and only popped up for food breaks or when I was done for the night.  I got a lot done, but it’s hard to see all of it unless you know things [...]