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Geek Love

Hi Honey! I’m Home!

You may have noticed yesterday that if you popped in here at BPC, there was no site to be found. I’m sure you were shocked and confused … as I was when I discovered it myself! It turns out … well … uhm … I’m a dork. At the beginning of the month, I remembered that the domain was coming up for renewal, mainly because I set the site up last year during the Blogathon. So if it was Blogathon time again, it must be time to renew. However, I didn’t have my PayPal card handy at the time – so I put it off. And in the chaos and mayhem of my life lately, I forgot to do it. So, it lapsed for a few hours, but once I fixed the problem it still took several hours (and for some people a whole day) to resolve so you could see the site again.

Even more frustrating is the fact that this is actually the second time this has happened. So last night I calendared everything else that is coming up due in the next year – and it won’t happen again!

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Amuse Me

Not About the Bling Bling…

Really now, why can’t *every* store be more like the Free Store? Because I am all about the free. Shopping would be so much more fun if you didn’t have to pay for a thing and it was perfectly legal to do so. [via Ste.]

However, I guess it would be a flawed system. Eventually, we would want to be paid for the work we do – because while we are all about taking things for free, I don’t think there are many people that are willing to work all the time for free.

Oh well, I would still love to check out the Free Store.

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Geek Love

Sigh of Relief…

My site is back! My site is back! The Evites have gone out for H-Town meets Beantown on Friday! All is good in the world!

If you’re going to be in Boston, near Boston, or want to go to Boston for dinner and drinks Friday at 6pm in Harvard Square, let me know. You will get an Evite too!

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Amuse Me

It’s In the Genes…

I can’t help but wonder if my love of Boston is somehow tied to the fact that the first Selleck in America, David Selleck, moved to Boston in 1641? He was a “Boston Soape boyler,” which is also ironic because I make soap. I would check out the site where David Selleck lived next week in Boston, except it’s part of the Big Dig now.

More information on the family tree is here.

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Amuse Me

Blogathon’ers Going Strong!

I could have posted about all the people doing the Blogathon earlier, but I was offline running in circles around Houston, so this is the first time I’ve sat down with the computer all day. If you want my opinion, after midnight is when the Blogathon really gets funny – people get way too punchy and slap-happy! I wish I had money to donate to all the Blogathon’ers out there, but I don’t. If you want to check out some of the sites participating (and hopefully donate to their causes), you can visit the sites listed below!

:: Brandy – blogging for First Book
:: Brian – blogging for Save the Children
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Christine – blogging for PawSafe Animal Rescue
:: Daphne – blogging for Red Cross.
:: Faith – blogging for Precious Pugs Rescue and Adoption
:: Gordon – blogging for Amnesty International
:: Jake – blogging for Electronic Frontier Foundation
:: Joni – blogging for Adopt-a-Cat of Houston
:: Kelly – blogging for Global Fund for Women
:: Lynda – blogging for Good Mews.
:: Mary – blogging for Denver Dumb Friends League
:: Melissa – blogging for the ALS Association.
:: Michele – blogging for Magen David Adom
:: Mike – blogging for Interval House
:: Rannie – blogging for AIDs Committee of Toronto
:: Rori – blogging for Scleroderma Foundation
:: Scott Andrew – blogging (writing music) for The Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation
:: Snazzy Bloggers (group project) – blogging for Goddess Magazine.
:: Sylvie – blogging for Gilda’s Club

… and many, many more!