Author: leilani

Warning: uber-geeky rant ahead. This has NOT been my week with machines. My phone, which is new-ish, decided to randomly go to “Do Not Disturb” mode. Every time I turn it off and on, it goes to DND mode. Midday, it goes to Do Not Disturb. Overnight it goes to DND. It’s not a setting,…

A FB friend posted a photo of this upscale vehicle, together with the comment to the effect that it was parked in a handicapped space. Mind you, there’s a handicap hanger shown in another photo of the vehicle, so the driver was entitled to park in a handicap-designated spot. That wasn’t the issue. The remarks…

As most of my handful of readers know, the husband unit and I go weekly to yard sales, buying odds and ends for the house and for resale. Over the course of the past three years or so we’ve built up a staggering collection of vintage Pyrex bowls and other goodies. We finally agreed it’s…

We cut the cable TV cord almost a year and a half ago. Cable television has become so prohibitively expensive I simply couldn’t justify the expenditure any more. Now that the budget has changed, I’m more grateful than ever that we dumped it. Unfortunately where we live, while technically considered a suburb of Phoenix, is…

A couple of months ago I ran across someone who was asking for people to write a short story – in essence a guest blogger. I volunteered, sending in something that was a bit of a departure for me yet still let me convey a complex message in a simple way. The blog post was…