Daisy, I love your family! Big-time congrats to the newly married couple.

My mom's third marriage gave her loads of family, and all three of us kids have been included.

Her husband, Wayne, had three children with his first marriage, two of whom ended up rather estranged from him over the years and weren't fully made up when he died (we actually wondered if his son would even show up for the funeral, and were relieved when he did). But, his youngest (D) was very close to him and when he married Mom, D became just as close to her. Her two daughters, both born after Wayne died, view Mom as one of their grandmas. Wayne's second marriage gave him a stepdaughter, V, who lives only 20 minutes down the road from Mom and Wayne's house, and her kids also view Mom as another grandma.

When Mom mentioned to a neighbor friend that I had requested that we go see D and her family before Mom had her surgery, she was really surprised that I even knew D, let alone view her as a stepsister and relative.

Oh Dj, that's so wonderful.

Oz is back home. He was under the neighbor's step. My neighbor, (who shows cats) is some kind of cat whisperer. He came out from under for him, not me.

How do I found out who produced the video for "Love is Free" ?(form Sheryl Crow's detour album). Google keeps telling me it is a Sheryl Crow video. But it had a producer and camera crew and stuff, and there has to be a way to find out who they were.

PSA for anyone unfortunate enought to use IE, that link to the historically accurate Disney Princess outfits triggered one of those irritating "you have 16 gazillion viruses, worms, and trojan horses!" msgs trying to strong arm me into buying fake virus protection. Could just be because i'm on a work computer running IE8 with bizarre firewall protections, but thought i'd put that out there.

Question for the (especially HR) hivemind:

As I was revamping my resume this weekend, I came across multiple sites with advice that suggested taking off experience over 15 years old unless it was super relevant (okay, that made some sense), and also taking off education dates if college was over 10 years ago. Does that make sense too? I am applying to tech companies and I wonder about the age thing. But then if you take it off, does it seem even worse?

Yay for Oz findage!!

Megan, I'm worried about exactly the same thing. My bachelor's degree is from 1988, and having that on my resume gets me nervous.

ION, I just filed my taxes, and between the fed and the state, I only owe $175 total, which, considering I've owed in the $600+ range in the past few years, I'm very happy with!! Now I can apply the rest of my savings account to my trip to Vegas and then my summer class (Archiving, for any librarians out there who might be interested).

and also taking off education dates if college was over 10 years ago.

Yep, I had to take the education dates off my resume because it just made me too damn old for their consideration.

FYI, that link to the Disney Princesses, perhaps coincidentally, coincided with a massive virus attack on my work machine, which triggered visits from supervisors and company IT people, who looked at me like "You're tech support and you're clicking on links? How are you so stupid?" This website is blocked during normal working hours anyway, and I access it through the alt address, so I told them I clicked on something in my email from a trusted source, and got the "You're not supposed to be accessing your personal email on work computers" talk. My usual computer is still not working, so I don't know how far the repercussions will go.

So maybe something that was lurking chose just then to blow up on me. Did anyone else get anything at all weird on their systems? I've got Win 7 Anti-Spyware popping up every few seconds, it won't let any internet windows come up in IE or Firefox, and they've already recreated my user profile. They are not pleased with me.

Connie, Erin Obscure also complained about the Deviantart link.

I admit I followed the link (which I don't usually do at work), and I got no problems, but then my workstation is so completely locked down for security reasons, I would be really surprised if anything got through.

Sorry for the problems -- I clicked the link, and I browse around deviantArt all the time and never have a problem.