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Micro Blogging for 2026-07-29
Jul 29th, 2008 by nycgadgetgirl
11:24 PM July 28, 2026
Destination TinyLittleTown achieved at approx 630pm. Talking w/my sis ever since. Sorry I stopped twittering in Ohio… my bb battery died!
@zbarahona same time zone. possibly a different planet though.
@primitivedog didn’t hit any traffic on the whole trip, thankfully!
@mollydigger I hope you gave him some modern money. Not sure if the deli will take shekels.
08:32 AM July 29, 2026
First lesson about living in the country: Don’t walk in grass on the morning walk! (Even my socks are wet.)
03:06 PM July 29, 2026
just unpacking. a lot.
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Micro Blogging for 2026-07-28
Jul 28th, 2008 by nycgadgetgirl
12:04 AM July 28, 2026
aahhhhh… checked into the hotel, fed and walked Snickers, ordered breakfast, snacking and then I’ll be sinking into the king size bed.
@zbarahona STILL???? UGH
@mollydigger it waited to start raining today until I was getting in the U-Haul to drive away. What does that mean? NYC likes me, I hope.
@primitivedog Snickers mostly rode in the floor between the seats. His bed fits perfectly there.
@zbarahona GO HOME
@zbarahona oy
Tell your asst editor that I’m very sorry you spent so much of your day with me!
10:19 AM July 28, 2026
Four Points not as nice as regular Sheraton, but breakfast was delicious and cheap. Walked Snick. Checking mail then heading out!
WV welcomes me
Oh! Ohio!
12:49 PM July 28, 2026
People out here probably can’t fathom why 8mm ppl live on top of each other to be in NYC.
@mollydigger of course!
@jmauro for diversity, culture, ethnic takeout, music, shoes, museums, and what @mollydigger said
@tollers ha ha ha… what GPS? Have GPS and Google Maps on my BB but don’t think it does trip time.
@tollers however, my brain estimates I will pass thru Columbus around 1430
PS to all, yes I twitter and drive. Don’t tell the po po.
@zbarahona Zeeeeeeeeeee! I misses u.
02:27 PM July 28, 2026
Just hit east edge of Columbus, OH.
Real buildings!
@tollers who needs GPS?
3:00 PM
@Snick_the_Dog Snick! I’m driving!
Rest stop. Walked Snick. Got Diet Coke for me, water for him. And we’re off!
@tollers my data is incomplete but I’m guestimating 7pm arrival
03:46 PM July 28, 2026
Just saw a huge billboard that said JESUS IS REAL. We’re not in NYC anymore Snickers!
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Micro Blogging for 2026-07-27
Jul 27th, 2008 by nycgadgetgirl
7:30 AM
Hour late waking up. Head is throbbing.
Walking Snick. No time to enjoy it tho.
Snickers FREAKED OUT when I left for u-haul… screaming and howling at the door.
He knows it is Sunday. I am not supposed to leave.
In the cab to u-haul and hoping that (1) the scheduling works out right today and (2) I’m not making a huge mistake! We’ll see!
Will probably turn on TwitterTools before I leave, so it will blog my tweets while I move.
10:00 AM
Things are looking up! Got the u-haul. Just waiting to be able to park it outside my building.
3:20 PM
Heading into the Lincoln. Bye NY
JUST SPENT $99 ON GAS!!!
PA welcomes me!
Just shared a cheeseburger with Snickers. He’s a great travel companion.
6:59 PM
On the road again.
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Micro Blogging for 2026-07-26
Jul 27th, 2008 by nycgadgetgirl
@tollers 17 boxes so far. I keep thinking I’m making progress and then turn around and realize I’ve only done 1/3 of the apartment.
I seem to have hit an “I don’t know what to do now” place in my packing. Urgh.
@tollers I can’t get random yet. I haven’t done my fragile stuff.
overwhelmed and unhappy
@tollers ok. fragile stuff, wrapped in newspaper and padded with clothes, coming up.
@tollers except the kitchen. I can’t pack the kitchen. not enough paper to wrap stuff in. leaving it for a friendly volunteer to pack 2moro
@tollers I have 5 friends & 2 paid guys coming 2moro. My u-haul reservation is f’d up tho, so I’m not sure I’ll even be here wn they arrive!
Snickers must be reliving the meetup in his sleep. He’s barking and running… very excited.
@tollers calling and whimpering only put me on standby behind 5 other people with 9am reservations. I have to just go and hope for the best
I’m tired. Gonna go walk Snickers and see if it helps restart my energy.
Snick and I are taking our last bedtime walk around the city. <sigh>
I’d rather be sleeping.
Totally stressed that I won’t be back with the u-haul when all my peeps show up tomorrow. And still packing.
achy tired and have a headache. so much packing left to do. and then I have to CLEAN the place.
I give up. Nowhere near done, but I MUST get some sleep. Going to bed now… will get a four hour nap.
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Micro Blogging for 2026-06-14
Jun 14th, 2008 by nycgadgetgirl
I love NYC because there is so much to do, so many interesting people, and everything is open 24 hours.
I hate NYC because the only time it isn’t too crowded to enjoy is super late at night. I skip things I would like, because of the crowds.
I love the lack of scary things like snakes and big spiders. I love the lack of darkness. I feel safe never being alone. I love the food.
I love the big dog-related community and how easy it is to find friends with similar interests!
I hate the noise. I hate how I always get a parking ticket outside my apartment when I rent a car for vacation.
@abecker1029 lol. I am. Must be the heat.
@mollydigger heh. I don’t get roaches. I get drunks and homeless with the random garbage on my front step.
Watching a sudden, powerful spring storm. Thunder, lightening, rain. I love how a hard rain cleans the streets.
Thunder and lightening are sexy. Is that a weird thing to say?
@Neilochka that’s pretty fast! I’m watching people huddle under canopies outside. They’re hoping it will stop as suddenly as it began.
The center of the storm must be getting closer. The lightening is striking closer each time.
Storm is over.
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Micro Blogging for 2026-06-07
Jun 7th, 2008 by nycgadgetgirl
@Nikkoth awww… Did she move to her second foster today?
@zbarahona @jmauro don’t you guys have AC?
Sitting in the shade at the dog run, drinking coffee and loving the inus. Headed to the flea market soon, then home to the cool apartment.
@zbarahona @jmauro ah. I see. We were outside too, but sitting under the shade trees. Inside in the AC now till the sun goes down.
Watching The Blues Brothers (for the first time). Was about to give up on it (SO STUPID) and finally got to the music. Yay! Now it’s good.
Ray Charles! OK, now I’m understanding why this movie was such a big deal. (I really could have done without the first 45 minutes though.)
Bookkeeping for NYCSR. <sigh> Never ending work.
Wondering about Star Trek TOS. Ship-to-ship video conferencing, wireless personal communicators, etc… but the library is kept on tape?
Saving Shibas was a lot more satisfying in the beginning when I was involved with the dogs. All I do now is push paper. Boo.
@Neilochka thank you. the dogs ARE what matter.
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Micro Blogging for 2026-06-05
Jun 5th, 2008 by nycgadgetgirl
Note to self: STOP FORGETTING to buy toner for the printer. And thanks for finally buying new socks.
I normally stay away from talking politics, but I’m SO HAPPY that Obama won the nomination!
This kid from NC moved into my building recently. Either he’s high ALLLL the time, has an IQ of 12, or both. Can’t stand the guy!
It should be illegal for a headache to last 3 days. But how do you punish a headache?
Begging for money for two of NYCSR’s foster dogs, Bea & Rusty. http://tinyurl.com/6jtshy
Wow. NYCSR’s Facebook Cause (http://tinyurl.com/5f249y) just hit 100 members! Go Shiba supporters!
@primitivedog well, it’s just a number really but it makes me feel good.
what we REALLY need is money!
@primitivedog spread the word… send the donation links around to friends who love your dogs and would like to help other inus!
CRAVING CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM. Again. <sigh>
@Neilochka if my SonicCare would just get online and order it’s own brush head refill things, I’d be happy! No twittering required.
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Micro Blogging for 2026-06-04
Jun 4th, 2008 by nycgadgetgirl
11:00 AM
: This day is off to a slow start, but there is so much to do!
3:00 PM
: Woof Patrol posted a great interview with my friend Cathy Schine and a review of her book The New Yorkers: http://tinyurl.com/4jhrdk
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Micro Blogging for 2026-06-03
Jun 3rd, 2008 by nycgadgetgirl
Why does everyone assume I will be their personal tech support service?
If you pay someone to fix the brakes on your car, would you ask them a month later to teach you how to use your car radio? NO!
I mean, you could ask… but to assume they will do it is ridiculous and to EXPECT them to do it - for free - is OBNOXIOUS.
@mollydigger eh, same sh!7 different day… clients pay for one service and then think they can ask for help with everything “technical.”
leaving work… why do I feel like I slaved away all day and didn’t accomplish anything? yesterday I accomplished enough for two days though
I am considering having ice cream for dinner AGAIN. This does not mesh well with my desire to lose weight!
@tollers yes… and you know who X is!
uuuuggghhh… I just ate WAY too much for dinner. And, yes, it was chocolaty-delicious.
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Micro Blogging for 2026-06-01
Jun 1st, 2008 by nycgadgetgirl
Coffee at the dog run on the weekends… the one leisurely activity I REFUSE to give up for the rescue.
I have a tiny Inu in my lap and another next to me. This is the life. Too bad I have to go to the office today.
Just solved a work email crisis brilliantly!
Walking home from the office on a Sunday evening. Phooey to working on weekends
Walking dogs at 120a. Gah.
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Micro Blogging for 2026-05-31
May 31st, 2008 by nycgadgetgirl
Just slept from 2 to 11!!! Ahhh…
Kept the poor dogs waiting all morning, finally headed outside and it started raining before we got downstairs!!! Hoping it will stop.
Rain is getting worse instead of better. May have to go up and get a jacket and hat and walk anyway, before Snick pees on the stoop.
Ugh… Got half a block during a reprieve and now it’s pouring again. Snick won’t budge from our new dry spot.
@mollydigger GROOSSSSS!!!! Seriously?
@mollydigger that is incredibly nasty
Rain stopped long enough for us to walk to the pet store and now we’re stuck here. I still haven’t had my coffee.
Ah ha ha the irony… we made it home and now it looks like the rain has completely stopped. The sun is blazing!
Having coffee at the dog run on this beautiful, sunny afternoon!
@tollers believe it or not, the sun is so strong it has dried everything already except the worst puddles. I’m sitting on a dry park bench!
@mollydigger I hope that sewer thing isn’t recurring. NYC’s spring “showers” (flash floods) could be pretty gross for you if it is!
Stopped a camera weilding tourist on the corner today to find out what everone is taking pics of… the “Sex and the City” BILLBOARD! Geez.
@mollydigger heh. Who the hell knows.
So annoyed… something is up with my cable and I can’t get online with my laptop to do any real work.
Yay! I’m online. That was distressing.
@tollers Are there any good Japanese take-out places there? I mean, really good ones?
@tollers I gotta know! Hmmm… I think I’ll order some Japanese right now!
Just pigged out on a most excellent bento box.
@Nikkoth thunderstorm? maybe I’d better go walk the dogs before that gets here!
Way. Too. Muggy. Out.
@jmauro I can never figure out who u r talking to or what about.
Thanking the universe for air conditioning.
@Nikkoth just got back with them. We’re all set to be stuck inside! Yay!
@Nikkoth poor Mashi (and you). I could not cope w/the humidity without my AC.
@jmauro ok, that one I know was for me.
If you address your tweets with @ username (no space) then whoever follows you will understand.
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Micro Blogging for 2026-05-30
May 30th, 2008 by nycgadgetgirl
just walked by what looks like a BAD thing. Someone said a crane fell? 911 folks from 90th to 92nd on 1st Ave.
I haven’t seen this many cops in one place since New Years!!
working, battling a headache, wishing I wasn’t going to end up coming to the office this weekend… <sigh>
wonders how people can feel safe living in houses without bars on the windows.
I really hate wind. A lot.
I can’t figure out why SO MANY people are taking pics outside my building the last two weeks. Nothing is attractive and nothing has changed!
@zbarahona walking inus, hair in my face, can’t see, also gives me the sniffles and blows grit in my eyes. Just HATE it!
@zbarahona ohhhh. Nothing prompted that one really. Just remembering how scared I was in the house my ex and I owned. No bars.
@zbarahona Anyone could just walk up, break a window and come in!!! Why bother with locks???
can’t keep my eyes open, so I’m going to bed early. Night night New York.
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Micro Blogging for 2026-05-28
May 28th, 2008 by nycgadgetgirl
Soooo busy at work these days.
As seen on Tech Republic: “10 most annoying programs…” So true, so true! http://tinyurl.com/6lc5tf
@mollydigger That was the problem… I was at home working via VPN and the disappeared ‘puter was at the office, so I COULDN’T smack it.
@jmauro LOL! Which BB did you get? And which carrier? I’ll help you. I have to set up Sara’s Curve later this week too. <g>
@mollydigger @jmauro @nikkoth what REALLY works best is to install Mail for Google. much better than the browser, plus you get notifications
@mollydigger @jmauro @nikkoth for Google Apps mail (like NYCSR) go to http://m.google.com/a in your phone browser and install from there
@jmauro uh, no you don’t. they really aren’t all that.
@jmauro there you go! now you’re set.
Installed the Twitter Tools plugin for WordPress yesterday… not sure if I like it yet or have it configured the way I want. Hmmm…
only just walking home from work why?!? why so late?
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Micro Blogging for 2026-05-27
May 27th, 2008 by nycgadgetgirl
I had a very busy weekend and spent part of yesterday afternoon with a friend whose dog is in the hospital. She may not make it.
installing service packs and checking user configurations today. Joy joy.
Is anyone else using the Fotobook plugin for WordPress having issues with wp_list_pages? Excluded pages appear when Fotobook is activated.
I was more interesting when I had more time to read.
heading home from work and hoping Snickers is feeling OK.
is logged into the office remotely. My body made it home, but my brain is still working at the office. At least I can pet Snickers this way!
has to go to work early tomorrow because the computer I was working on DISAPPEARED while I was out walking Snick and I can’t wake it up!!!
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