I decided to pay a monthly fee and give up all my privacy to get 2 TB of Google Drive storage, and every file of even slight importance I own lives on it, solely because even for pretty techy people like me traditional backups are a nightmare.

Oh Zen! You both made me laugh with the dysfunctional middle finger, and made me wince at the jump off the wall. Take it easy, woman!

I hope sound sleep happened, meara.

Zoe is acting 100% normal this morning. DH is taking her to get her echo this morning.

Backups happen for me nightly. A while ago I moved my computer system to a virtual machine at our datacenter where I store all my customer's medical records. Their backups happen multiple times a day, but mine just once is fine. Our datacenter is here in Florida, but it also replicates to Chicago at night in case we get hit by a meteor or something. I don't' know, let's just say I work with super diligent geeks. My local computer may have a few pictures on it, but I move things regularly to my cloud machine. I work all day in a remote desktop session.

I fly back to California tonight from the winter wonderland of Michigan. I land late, I have a cold, and I have to get up tomorrow morning at 5am, so Thursday is gonna be rough.

Working from my parents' house with them retired has been frustrating, with some role reversal where I'm the one yelling at them to keep the racket down and that some of us have to work in the morning.

So ideas to raise/earn an extra 4200 before the end of the year?

Yikes. Got anything big around the house you want to get rid of? Seasonal work? Offer services as a personal shopper? GoFundMe?

I know no one cares (and rightly), but I am watching a documentary about high school theater awards, and this one high school has the most obnoxious adults. Talking passive-agressive smack about another high school down the road that did the same show.

"They probably thought it was the best high school show they'd ever seen, and it was, but they didn't come see ours."

I wonder if Gud would find anything useful here: [link]

Wow, that's ridiculous Dana!

I did eventually fall asleep :) probably got about six hours when normally I'm an 8-10 hours girl. But maybe that just means I can sleep tonight.

Same dude, when his school was nominated for 16 awards and only won one:

"I don't want to say there's a conspiracy against us..."

My beautiful new boots are too tight across the forward part of my foot if I put my lifts in them and not quite cushiony enough to keep my tendinitis in check with no lifts. Sadface

Are they leather, -t? If so, look into getting them stretched.

It is indeed an infection, but surgery has only been moved back to 12/14, which is much less further out than I had feared.

If all goes well, she should be out of in-patient cardiac rehab by Xmas.

Backups: I got a Carbonite account, and have migrated through two computers now, so it's been worth the yearly fee for sure. Having had external hard-drives go bust on me, I'm more than happy with the thought of off-site automatic backup, which is incremental, so it's only hard the first time.