As you may (or may not) know, I work from home as a legal word processor. My background is going on over 40 years of experience as a legal secretary/paralegal; and I can type fast – but word processing lets me work from home. So I have an attorney send me a document for State…
My mother’s motto was You can write your name in the dust, just don’t put the date. I am my mother’s child. Recently I undertook the Herculean task of cleaning my personal Augean Stable – the area under my computer stand. We won’t discuss when was the last time I cleaned under there, besides my…
No, I am not being sponsored by Duolingo (or anyone, for that matter, just fat old me here). Duolingo is FREE. FREE, FREE, FREE! It is a wonderful website where you can learn other languages. For free. I’m learning Spanish. Ever since moving to California, I have wanted to learn Spanish. Growing up in Michigan,…
If you are a skeptical person (which I try to be), Google Scholar is your friend (along with Snopes, of course, and all of the other quick ways to check on things that seem “too good/horrible to be true”). My husband is the editor for the NAAFA Newsletter and I help him with the news…
Not the payee – the payor. Who is paying you? That is who you are working for. Got it? That means, you now do things the way your current employer directs. Yes, we know that at your last job you did things differently. Don’t care. Yes, we know you are used to doing stuff a…
Is there anything that makes you feel more stupid than trying to make your computer mouse work right, and you look down and you are holding it in the wrong direction? You know the mouse is saying, “Lady, I’m trying here, but I just don’t know what you’re doing!” I blame this, not on my…
My darling husband decided we needed to upgrade our cable equipment. He wasn’t wrong. Our equipment is very old (and yes, this is true of us personally as well as the cable company equipment – but cable company upgrades to equipment are free). So he unhooked everything, and I took my silly ass down…
As you may have noted, I like to include some kind of image with my blog posts. I really enjoy searching and finding an image that tickles my fancy. For some reason, Yahoo wants to tickle more than my fancy when I do an image search. When I do a Google image search, I get…
I am usually pretty good with tech stuff. I use a computer for fun and profit every day. I have a Kindle Fire. But what I cannot seem to get a handle on, to save my soul (if I have one), is how to get my cell phone to behave like other people’s cell…
I’ve had a few comments on GoodReads and FaceBook about how many books I read. There are a few reasons for this: I’m reading when I should be doing other things (like house cleaning); I read pretty fast; I have a shitty computer; and Google sucks I keep my Kindle handy while I am on…
Thoughts from a Fat Old Lady 