The coldest winter I ever spent
Archive for the ‘General’ Category.
Dear Lazyweb,
I fill out about 10 web-based time-sheets every day, taking notes on each of the clients I see with a clunky mix of clicking, tabbing, and copy-pasting. The website simply wasn’t built for easy data entry. Do you know of a program where I can write my data in a neat format, for instance, a spreadsheet, and then the program does all the ridiculous click-type-click-tab-type-typing for me?
Megan, Abigail, and I will be moving from our apartment in Berkeley to a much larger house in El Cerrito on January 2nd!
We’ve loved living here with the quiet street and long driveway (we’ll miss jumping in Avery’s Puddle when it rains!), the short walk to Monterey Market, and especially King Park. But we’ve been feeling growing pains in our apartment for a while.
Just ask and I’ll tell you our new address!
Merry Christmas to all! All the presents under our tree! Abigail will wake to a wondrous sight!
In the next few weeks we are planning on moving… twice! Three times if you count our vacation!
– We will be moving my mother-in-law Penelope from Napa to Albany.
– Then the three of us will take a little break to a snow park near Strawberry, California. This will be the first time Abigail has seen real snow!
– Then we are planning on moving to a bigger house just up the road!
All this before the end of holiday break!
Clean air tip: If the air is smokey, go to the hardware store and get a really good furnace filter. Your home will feel like a bubble of good air in an otherwise smokey mess. (The bay area forest fires are getting kinda crazy. We’re safe but the smoke is everywhere)
Full instructions:
If you use Cricket Wireless, you may have found, like me, that Cricket Visual Voicemail sucks. Here’s how to change to using Google Voice voicemail.
Step 1: Get free a Google Voice account with a new phone number
Step 2: Set up conditional call forwarding like so:
**004*[your google voice number]#
Step 3: Have someone call you and the call should be answered by your google voice. Rejoice in the non-suckyness!
You can disable this forwarding with #004#
You can read more about conditional call forwarding for GSM phones here
Update 11-6-19: On the Google Pixel 2, I was unable to use the **004* code. It threw an error. So I did what a few websites recommended: Put the SIM card into another phone, type in the code above, put the SIM card back in your phone. Done!
Why do I say the Cricket Visual Voicemail Android app sucks?
What do you do with a sick boat?
Take it to the doc!
A neutron walks into a bar and asks “how much for a beer?” The bartender says, “for you? no charge.”
Two hydrogen atoms are walking down the street. One stops, looks in his pockets and says, “Wait, I think I lost an electron!” The other says, “Are you sure?” The first says, “Yes! I’m positive!”
A helium atom walks into a bar and the bartender says ” we don’t serve noble gases here.”
No reaction.
Did you hear about the uranium atoms that went to the anti war rally. They got bored and split.
Two uranium atoms are at an anti-war rally. From the other side of the way an atom throws a proton and hits one of them right in the head. The other says, “Don’t let his negativity effect you!”
What do you call a bear with no teeth?
Gummi-bear!
A drum and a cymbal fall off a cliff
[Ba dum bum, tssss!]
What do you get if you divide the circumference of a pumpkin by its diameter?
Pumpkin pi!
What do you call a fish with no eye?
fffsssshhhhh
Why shouldn’t you write with a broken pencil?
BECAUSE IT’S POINTLESS!
What do vegan zombies love more than anything in the whole world?
Graaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaains!
What did one snowman say to the other?
Do you smell carrots?
what do you do with epileptic lettuce?
You make a seizure salad!
There’s two fish in a tank. One turns to the other and says
‘You man the guns, I’ll drive’
A man didn’t like his haircut, but it started to grow on him.
Guy walks into a bar with a slab of asphalt under arm. Says to the bartender: “I’ll take a beer, and one for the road.”
Why did the cowboy adopt a weiner dog?
He wanted to get a long little doggy!
How does the man in the moon cut his hair?
ECLIPSE IT!
Where does George Washington keep his armies?
In his sleevies!
Why does a moon rock taste better than an earth rock?
Because its a little meteor!
Please help me. I sleep on my side. Most nights my hip sinks into my bed, pulling my back out of wack and giving me a backache. Nearly every bed I’ve had in my life has started to sag in the hip area after a few months. Do you know of a bed that doesn’t have this problem? Please don’t write saying “I’ve never had a problem with xxx bed.” Most people haven’t had a problem with ANY bed. I’d like to hear “I had a problem with several beds but found THIS bed to be better…”
For reference, I’m 6’1″, about 210lbs, and a sidesleeper.
A partial lineup of the beds I’ve killed: