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Another Reason Divorce Sucks for Kids

Yazan: Candace | 22 April 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Divorce, Family, Life, Relationships, Technology

Every time my kids go to their dad’s they ask me to take care of their Webkinz gardens. At xmas time they ask me to loot the NeoPets advent calendar for them. I do my best but times three kids it can add up to a considerable amount of time. I try hard to get […]

How to Procrastinate

Yazan: Candace | 21 April 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Canadiana, Food, Happy, Life, Relationships, School, Technology

When did a B become a bad mark? (omg I hope I don’t get a B on my assignment.) It seems this is what happens moving up into graduate studies. Everyone is stressing over grades. Nothing below an A is good enough and a B is required to pass a course. I hate having that […]

Always a Decision to Make

Yazan: Candace | 21 April 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Family, Feminism, Life, Relationships, School

I hate limbo. I like to have a general idea of where I’m headed, what’s next, where the groceries will come from next week. So I’m getting anxious because I haven’t heard yet if I’ll receive the funding I applied for to finish my master’s. I had planned to do this degree in one year […]

How to Get Your Girlfriend to Play WoW (and other video games)

Yazan: Candace | 18 April 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Organizing, World of Warcraft

It’s all about negotiation. When I was young /*sigh — was that only last year?*/ I had plenty of time for playing PS2 or World of Warcraft with Rob. Life seems busier now with grad school and a bigger house (and bigger kids) to take care of. We played some WoW over the xmas break […]

Some Keys to Blended Family Happiness

Yazan: Candace | 17 April 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Divorce, Family, Happy, Life, Relationships

These may be obvious to others but I’ve recently discovered a few things that are making life a lot easier. Rob and I blended families last fall and it hasn’t all been a picnic. Some of it’s because of the craziness of our own particular situations but some of it is just because it’s hard […]

Getting Your Daughter or Son a Computer? Think about the Asus Eee

Yazan: Candace | 17 April 2008 | 4 Comments
Categories: Gadgets, Linux, Nintendo, Toys, Windows

It looks like a Nintendo DS only slightly larger. In five fashion colours too: At TigerDirect.ca yesterday I saw that the Asus Eee is priced at 365.99. My daughter’s starting to save for a laptop since she’ll be taking some computer science courses in high school next year and she finds the disparity between computers […]

Geeks get the Monthlies

Yazan: Candace | 08 April 2008 | 2 Comments
Categories: Aging, Bodies, Feminism, Life, Sexuality, Technology

I’ve been playing with calendars on my fresh install of SuSE Linux – experimenting with customizing Lightning for Mozilla Thunderbird and trying out kOrganizer. I’ve got all of my calendars (kids here, kids at their dads, Rob’s kid, campus activities, due dates, birthdays, etc) on the home network so that I can see my events […]

Compiz on SuSE 10.3

Yazan: Candace | 04 April 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Linux, Organizing, Toys

I’ve had Compiz on my desktop for almost a week.

Lightning (or lack of) on Suse 10.3

Yazan: Candace | 27 March 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Calendars, Google, Linux, Organizing

I spoke too soon in my last post. I installed the Lightning extension for Thunderbird and thought everything was good to go. At first glance everything in the calendar addon looked as it should. I should have configured it before posting though because it doesn’t work. It doesn’t respond when I try to add events […]

National Organization of Men

Yazan: Candace | 22 March 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Activism, Culture, Feminism, Life, Sexism

You must go see yesterday’s Toothpaste for Dinner comic. Hat tip to Alexandra.

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