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Framed a large picture to hang over the fireplace, but got tired/bored and decided to go see Noah - told my son we were going to go as a family, and he complains he has too much homework. I go check and he's playing minecraft. I told him I was going too block the IP address for mine craft, and then I used Mac screen sharing to go in and quit the game in the middle of what he was doing. 2 minutes later I see he is doing his science homework.

Jon, is that a rat in flight? One of the pictures I took yesterday is doing quite well on 500px. Currently on the 3rd or 4th page in landscapes. http://500px.com/photo/66066819?from=user

Iain, really cool owl! I wish I'd see one in my trees! Shelly, I'd have a panic attack. Glad you were able to recover them!

I just had a little flashback reading your reference to red spirit.

Fought with Microsoft for an hour and a half because Office 2011 wouldn't activate on my oldest daughter's Macbook Pro after the Apple store replaced her crashed hard drive Friday afternoon. Fortunately she had the AppleCare extended warranty and a recent time machine backup, and any critical files between backups were on Dropbox or Google Drive and a thumb drive. The Apple store had it up and running for free by closing time. But after the Time Machine restore MS Office told her that it was activated on too many computers (3 license version for students, one for each kid). We tried the phone activation twice, feeding the automated activation line the 54 digit installation ID, and then having the voice on the other end thank us for contacting Microsoft and then disconnecting the call without further notice, and no confirmation ID needed to activate Office. The first Microsoft tech I spoke to (daughter was at work and couldn't call them) stated that Office 2011 treats any new hard drive as a new computer, and to activate Office 2011 on her new hard drive I'd have to pay $40 for another license. I told him that made no sense because in 2012 I backed up her old computer before I wiped it, and installed her clone onto her new Macbook Pro, and Office didn't complain about the changes. I told him I did the same thing with the other 2 kids computer upgrades in 2013 and 2014, with no issues. But now he's telling me that "the new hard drive counts as a 4th computer" and he would not budge to activate Office. WTF? The dipshit put me on hold for almost half an hour when I asked for his supervisor, knowing I'd eventually hang up so I couldn't complain and get him in trouble. I had to call Microsoft back, but the next tech was very nice and gave us a confirmation ID right away so we could activate Office again. Meanwhile my daughter spent the hour and a half freaking out over it, with an important paper due soon that she couldn't work on during her free time at work. Maybe I should have paid the $40 right away and saved her the misery of not knowing if we'd get Office fixed, but it was the principle of the thing that made me continue to fight for our current license to work.

My wife helped me figure it out. - I bought the Kindle for my mom in Dec 2012. - Mom came to visit us in May 2013 and commented that she didn't have WiFi at home to buy books. - I thought that meant I mistakenly bought her the WiFi only model. - I traded mom my Kindle with keyboard for her Kindle touch, so that she would have 3G. - She had never tried to use the 3G, doh, and I simply forgot that I had bought her a 3G model 6 months earlier. - We've only used it sporadically since, until the other day when I noticed the 3G signal bars. When I recently bought my Paperwhite I didn't pay the $70 extra for 3G because I have a hotspot on my phone to give it internet. But it turns out to be fairly convenient with the 3G Kindle to not have to turn on the hotspot on the phone just to sync the Kindle's last page read or bookmarks.

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Jason sent me an email this AM, Oppos on the way!

Boy do I miss him...