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[susandennis]

My wireless mouse is getting direction from someone or something other than me and it's making me nuts. It's been happening all week and never in the early morning. But by about 11, it starts playing fast and lose with the cursor, the focus and the click action. I think I'm going to get a good mousing cat for it. I must have a half a dozen corded mice at home (thought lordknowswhere they are) but I think rather than bring one in for the 4 weeks that are left, I'll just bitch about this one for that amount of time.

I am ready to bust out of here. I'm quickly gaining a negative attitude that only a 3 day weekend will cure.

One of my RSS feeds puts the Seattle 5 day forecast in the same window as the 5 day forecast for Charleston, SC. Today it's hard to tell which is which if you go by the temps. Ugh. By tomorrow night my condo will be an oven. I will be one unhappy camper if I have to drag that damn air conditioner out in fucking May. That's ridiculous.

Wow. What happened to Pollyanna???

Guess I'd better get back to the mouse wars... I have less than 2 hours left. I can make it.

Comments

[katbyte.livejournal.com]

Pollyanna died. I think she was just a brief interruption anyway.

[judith.livejournal.com]

I have found that most of my wireless mouse problems are caused by the surface they run on. I have had to test different colors and materials to get one that didn't make them nuts. I now pack that baby in the bag with the laptop.

[jimcarson.livejournal.com]

(Insert joke about "Mouse Balls" here.)

Try running it on a white piece of paper and see if that makes any difference. if it does, it's the desk surface. Another thing to look at is the little sensor thingie - there's an A/B channel, and a way for it to hunt for interference.

[susandennis]

I just came from dinner at Shanghai Gardens in the ID where they really do serve gluten balls so I'm primed...

But, you and Judith both added to my wireless mouse info. It never dawned on me that it might want a different background. I am taking in several colors on Tuesday and I'll check the channel. And, I might even see if I can find one of my USB mice here and just dodge the whole issue.

[pheon.livejournal.com]

By tomorrow night my condo will be an oven. I will be one unhappy camper if I have to drag that damn air conditioner out in fucking May. That's ridiculous.

Yup, "ridiculous" is one word. There are others. I finally hauled one of our air conditioners in and turned it on yesterday. It isn't enough to do the whole house, but it can make at least a couple of rooms bearable. Unfortunately, I am currently in the room furthest from the coolth and it is 82 in here. Which is better than the 95 it is outside, but still not good....

[frl.livejournal.com]

By tomorrow night my condo will be an oven. I will be one unhappy camper if I have to drag that damn air conditioner out in fucking May. That's ridiculous.

It is reduiculous, but I have noticed a trend for the west in the past few years which is that it is getting hotter and hotter each year. Not only that, but it's been getting humid in areas that have never had humidity in the past (well, nothing that's been oppressing or anything like you have in the south, for example). I was born in SF, CA but have lived in all three western most states all of my life until I moved to the south a few years ago. Washington and Oregon were my favorite and I was raised in Port Angeles as a kid and we went to Seattle on a frequent basis so that (as my mom put it) I could get some "culture". Seattle and Oregon are both known for their cool, wet weather. I was shocked the other day when I saw that it was going to be in the 90's in the Bay Area - that's just insane in May. The entire west coast was in red that day on the weather map - just amazing to me, having lived there all my life and it was never like that.

On cnn.com this morning this was one of the lead news stories: While the Northeast was bidding farewell to unseasonable temperatures in the 40s, residents of the northwest corner of the nation dusted off the sunscreen and shorts Friday as the National Weather Service issued its first-ever heat advisory for Seattle.

The advisory covering the urban corridor from Tacoma north to Everett was prompted by a second day of record temperatures. Friday's high of 89 degrees at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport broke a 33-year-old record for the date. Thursday's high -- also 89 degrees -- broke a 58-year-old record.

Amazing... shows the earth really is changing. The world is getting hotter and hotter each year.