Grace (on the left) and Suky (on the right) waiting for me to get back on the sofa in their puppy-pile on a very warm day in San Diego - they love this old sofa. They are 2 1/2 and about 1 1/2 and dominate my life.
Grace (front) at 11 months; Suky (blaze on face) at 4 mos; Sitting in Sunbeams after a lot of running
Gracie (12 weeks) and Chuck - Memorial Day 2009 - Grace's ears and head turned brown
High Tech Layoff - How to Get Back Out There (PDF)
The Perversion of the Concept of "IP"
On Releasing Vintage Engineering to the Web
Star Trek is 40 - And I am STILL a Trekkie - New Movie is FAB! It's #1! LOVE IT!
How to Handle Word and PDF
eEditing/eCommenting/eAnnotating
Save Yourself
Guide to Backing Up that Hard Drive!
Published:
Silicon Valley Romance Writer's of America Newsletter
October 2006 (Volume 10 Issue 7) pg 10-12
Unloading the House
Published:
Silicon Valley Romance Writer’s of America Newsletter
November 2006 (Volume 10 Issue 8) ) pg 6-8
Hoisted by my Own Petard
Published:
Silicon Valley Romance Writer's of America Newsletter
November 2006 (Volume 10 Issue 8) pg 4-5
Sometimes Love Comes in Orange Fur
Published:
Silicon Valley Romance Writer's of America Newsletter
February 2007 (Volume 11 Issue 2) pg 4-5
Sighs Matter
Published :
Silicon Valley Romance Writer's of America Newsletter
May 2006 (Volume 10 Issue 8) pg 1, 3
Exploding Pie
Submitted for Publication December 24, 2006
Published :
Silicon Valley Romance Writer's of America Newsletter
April 2007 (Volume 11 Issue 4) pg 5, 6
SUMMER - at 1-yr - Cat Queen - Not so sure about her housemates! Well, yes she is. She keeps them in line!
In San Diego, they are perfecting the "neglected puppy" pose. "Mommy! We are bored!"
Of course, they do this on a new, deeply cushiony throw rug.
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Donnamaie's
Diary - 2011 - 2012
Last Entry: August 11, 2011
I have been in three writing classes so far in 2011, and I ordered 3 more lecture packets (I don't like MOODLE). I have pitched the Hot Cop series including synopsis and a full on the WIP to one company, and if rejected I will get my PRO pin. After that, a second publisher would like to see it. And a third editor is coming to my writing group. They both also want to see the Italian Vampire. Which needs a total re-write. To 100,000 words....
I still work - 36 hours (MAX) per week. Take a couple days off to run to San Diego once a month and check on my house. I have put in a security system down there. 484 miles each way is taking its toll. Nearly 200,000 miles on the Tacoma.
Grace and Suky are dominant beings in my life, as is Summer, noisy little thing that she is. Ranger, old and crabby, lives mostly in the garage.
I did get an iMac instead of a big PowerMac. I am getting used to it. And weaning off the G5. A power surge probably helped with that...... took my son hours to help me get it back to ground zero! I also have a DELL - for FrameMaker projects. I have five high-tech books to upload to Lulu.com - I did get one up there!
- Morning ritual - highly refined October 25, 2010
- Mother Nature Has a Sense of Humor October 20, 2010
- Mild Hysteria; or; Can the Universe Stop Dicking With Me? Please? October 2, 2010
- Braces - Two Months Later - OUCH! Now they hurt! September, 2010
- Braces - at over 60? Yep - they wired me up. August, 2010
- Hitch-Hiking Sparrow Things that interrupt writing PHOTOS July 21, 2010
- Panty Raid Update on the puppies PHOTOS July 17, 2010
- Why British TV Succeeds and American Pap Fails appeared in the SVRWA Newsletter, Volumne 14, Issue 5, May 2010. May 18, 2010
- The Calendar - Updated appeared in the SVRWA Newsletter, Volumne 14, Issue 5, May 2010. May 18, 2010
- Walking Puppies - The Terror of the Potty Bag May 18, 2010
- Back to Dreamweaver CS3!! I hate CS4! May 18, 2010
- Pricing eBooks and Self-Publishing March 3, 2010
- Rainy Sunday Morning wet pups, sleepy momma Feb 23, 2010.
- Me, Toyota, and the DMV A week in hell - waiting for Friday February 4, 2010
- The Beauty of two Beagle Puppies January 13, 2010
- CES is on and they predict all kinds of things. Hold on. I disagree! Stop shoving all these complex toys at us and settle down people. Some things don't need to be on the net! And can we have ONE format every eReader can read? January 4, 2010
Donnamaie's
Diary - 2009
I have been writing every day -- but I have been holding on and not posting (busy surviving). I have promised myself to get my act together. And then I got Beagle puppies (2). I just love these guys to pieces!
Journal Entries: 2009:
- I have updated myself into Hell! I may never upgrade again! November 9, 2009
- New Computer Saga OMG! Transferring software from old PC to NEW! Someone shoot me! Please! October 26, 2009
- 19 Days and Counting On waiting for my new PO number, and walking a puppy in the rain, and getting the nerve up to install software onthe NEW PC October 19, 2009
- Wild Puppy What puppies do if you turn your back October 16, 2009 [Photos]
- Bad Week Termites still alive, a new PC, and where did they hide the DVD drive? October 15, 2009
- Typhoon No walking a puppy in a Typhoon - so she finds other ways to get exercise---sigh! October 13, 2009
- How to Mess Up a Beagle Paddling Pool Sept 26, 2009 [Photos]
- Don't Bang Loudly on My Door! UPS won't be doing that again! 9/24/09 [Photos]
- Baby on a Tether I don't trust her! She eats books!---- 9/23/09 [Photos]
- CHP Q & A – or Mostly, Just How DO you Undress a Cop? (Besides Carefully) also published in the SVRWA newslettter 9/24/09
- Everything Old is New Again--- it never leaves 9/24/09
- ASIC, Bit-Slice and me - My Career in Texts 9/24/09
- ASIC Design Flow - Start work in progress 9/24/09
- I Bought a New PC - Horrors! I need it for FrameMaker - faster, 24" screen, running XP! Dell said "We Heard You!" - because only an idiot bought VISTA! September 14, 2009
- Naughty Puppy They are so creative! July 16, 2009
- Baby Beagle is Microchipped June 11, 2009
- The Perversion of the Concept of "IP" What happens when you miss the essential concept June 10, 2009
- Smaller Bra - Growing Puppy June 5, 2009
- Bad Puppy PHOTOS May 31, 2009
- Sunny Day PHOTOS of the Puppy May 31, 2009
- Yardwork and Puppy Pads May 29, 2009
- I Have a Puppy They are busy little bees--- PHOTOS May 28, 2009
- Tuesday Morning - Day after MEMORIAL DAY I am fighting attack of the sinuses May 27, 2009
- Memorial Day I am visited - Gracie is exhausted May 26, 2009
- OK - I NEED A VIDEO CAMERA! Puppy tries to climb the cat tree -----May 16, 2009
- In Which Summer (Feline) Gets a Housemate (Canine) I didn't have enough to do evidently ------and I love her to pieces! May 15, 2009
- Puppies are Devils! Gracie into EVERYTHING! You Just THINK Your House is Clean! May 14, 2009
- The Gods are INSANE! I did it ---- oh Lord! May 12, 2009
- IRS Incompetance Showing- File - File - Who's Got the File?.... April 22, 2009
- How I got up on Sunday Morning or, rude awakening April 19, 2009
- Me, the Firemen --- and a False Alarm .In which I handle the firemen.... April 15, 2009
- FrameMaker 9 - OMG! WHY DID YOU CHANGE SOMETHING THAT WORKED???? The marketing branding widow is the worst thing they ever put in software. April 8, 2009
- My Mad Monday When I try to be organized..... April 6, 2009
- Surviving the Depression I am collecting ideas - check your relatives - add to the collection! (No - not April Fools!) April 1, 20009
- Me and the Scanner For anyone who fights with office equipment--- March 31, 2009
- Check out my web pages - www.donnamaie.com - I have vintage manuals and datasheets for Bit-Slice components and AMCC arrays on-line. I was the trainer for both product lines. They are both - obsolete. Years and years worth. And they are both - still around! I think I finally finihed that little project. Enjoy!
- Botox Redeux on Fixing the broken windshield, the water leak into the cab, and a lube and oil, after getting re-shot with Botox. Down with the dreaded "11"! Smooth out the bleeding lipstick! Puff those lips! Smooth that forehead! Get back to full time employment! THIS IS A BLOODY WAR! March 10, 2009
- Macro Libraries - Toughts about the right way to use them March 10, 2009
- On Releasing Vintage Engineering Data to the Web Old user manuals, design rules and guidelines, old macro information, obsolete products - History January 21, 2009
Journal Entries: 2008:
- I tried to set my kitchen on fire - I really did - of course - there's always tomorrow November 26, 2008
- and then dropping the bird ---- and flash-cooking a pumpkin pie November 26, 2008
- Pre-Thanksgiving Cooking In which they try to put the cat into the pumpkin pie November 26, 2008
- Getting Up with Good Intensions November 18, 2008
- Everything Old is New Again November 16, 2008
- Sex on the Page and Pacing - Workshops - What fun! Intense! headed out to sign up for the workshops on-line - need hardcopy (weel - electronic copy!) Study! BOOKLIST - WHAT I AM READING October 26, 2008
- Fires on the Freeway Tanker trucks burning North and South - sloppy driving! October 22, 2008
- Cutting Costs - Saving Money CNN gave some guidelines - we need more than that! October 22, 2008
- The Beauty of Living Alone Racketing around sick to my stomach in a big flannel nightgown, baking brownies, and watching Jane Austin October 11, 2008
- Holy Moly! Where is the Lone Ranger? The country needs a hero. Ashes, ashes, all fall down October 10, 2008
- Stitch in Time Time to fix the face up! Must keep working! October 9, 2008
- Rainbarrels! Yep - it's time to go back to basics - conserve water, enjoy pure water, get back to how we used to do it October 9, 2008
- Time for the Victory Garden! America - step up to the plate! October 9, 2008
- Up in Smoke My retirement plans ended in a week October 8, 2008
- Trying to Buy A Software Upgrade at Work moving through the rocks October 6, 2008
- Hysterical Food Choices Why I need a liquid diet and a doctor's supervision October 1, 2008
- Daring of me, Isn't It? September 16, 2008
- Looking for work on a job site? Some things to watch out for --- September 9, 2008
- Mumbling About in the Morning Disjointed thoughts pre coffee September 7, 2008
- Southbound on I5, 60 miles North of 198,
70-75 Mph, Newly Laid Roadway,
No Shoulder, and an SUV Driver Looses Control Ahead of Me. A litle hysteria on the freeway September 5, 2008
- Corrective Shoes September 4, 2008
- So------- September 3, 2008
- Labor Day Week End - Saturday 2008 August 30, 2008
- Sewing Trying to figure out what size I am with the fat gut and sizing changes and here comes the wedding August 3, 2008
- Office 2008 Upgrade for the G5 Beginning the annual software update slog August 2, 2008
- It Must Be Monday Because everything is just slightly non-functional July 21, 2008
- Ads, Ads, Ads Everywhere to the point of losing your attention July 8, 2008
- Bees in My Chimney Happy Fourth of July! Have a Bee Invasion! July 7, 2008
- Vicious, Vicious Starbuck's! Evil People! Dark Chocolate Mocha in a Bottle - Lethal! June 24, 2008
- Erased from Starbuck's I am evidently not the proper clientele - I want a SKINNY (or LIGHT) DECAF MOCHA GRANDE - hot or Frappachino - either one - nope - no can do. June 22, 2008
- Eating Strange Leftovers Recovering - slowly June 21, 2008
- High Heat and a Blown Breaker It tops 100 and the main air conditioner was not running ---- June 21, 2006
- DVDs from Amazon UK In which I have been rudely introduced to Region codes on DVD players and media and am now contemplating how screwed up the media producers really are. Men must have been in charge. Oh Yeah - the Mac PowerBook plays them just fine. May 30, 2008
- AVID Mac User! Technobabble May, 2008
- Getting Back on Track On restarting my ambition to actually loose the weight and keep it OFF! May, 2008
- Silly Kitty Summer made a break for it May, 2008
- The 1943 Guide to Hiring Women - Oh Lord! What they thought in 1943 is still around today ---- May 1, 2008
- Don't Lose Your Job! I have a few comments on an article run on Yahoo.com - adding to the mix as it were April 11, 2008
- The Economic Census Comes to My House My Tax Dollars at Work April 10, 2008
- How to Tell When you Forgot to Have the Cat's Claws Trimmed April 8, 2008
- The Screams will be heard from here to the East Coast Once they try Fancy Feast - Chicken - Salmon will not do! April 8, 2008
- Waking up at my House March 5, 2008
- Never take Drixoral and go to work! Feb 28, 2008
- Sunday Morning is Dark and Gray February 24, 2008
- The Blue Cake Or, what I did for my son's 32nd birthday PHOTOS! February 21, 2008
- Crazy Morning Never, ever run out of coffee at work! February 19, 2008
- Loading the Truck - Another Haul South February 6, 2008
- Overslept Or, my mornings aren't getting any better January 26, 2008
- Flaming Inferno! It didn't have flames - but it was overcooked! January 13, 2008
- Ants - Sequel My birthday - 66! How did that happen???? January 11, 2008
- Cookies in My Truck And I can't resist January 11, 2008
- Ants and Cookies Mommy to the rescue January 10, 2008
- Do-Over Sometimes you need to fall back and regroup January 3, 2008
- January 2, 2008 In which I get a new badge - yes, January 2, 2008
- Whirlwind Setting up my new company November 12, 2007
- Meetings - Or, Don't Annoy the Women at Work October 29, 2007
- Diet Sabbotage - or, Self-Destructive Behavior At least I recognize the problem - correcting it is another matter September 28, 2007 - yes - 7
Stories - 2004-2005
Stories - 2006
Stories - 2007
Favorites
Where in the World is Fabio????
The hilarious short Essay - The Calendar You Gotta Read This One!
The Mousepad: What happens when a woman gets a FABIO mousepad? You would not believe me
It's picture Day - And they can't find their shoes!
How to Make Your Son Want to Leave Home 6/6/99
Another take on Parenting - Working Mother's Morning
Published in AMCC's internal newsletter 1984
Bad Boys in the Bathroom - Or, Why I'm Glad I'm Single!
Butterpats on the Ceiling This one is something to read - what boys can do with food....
Bad Boy with a Gun, Or, Stalking the Livingroom TV
Top 10 Uses for MacAddict Magazine
Published in MacAddict, issue 3
Top 10 Ways to Know You're a MacAddict!
Submitted to MacAddict
Top 10 Ways to Know Your Son is a MacAddict!
Submitted to MacAddict
When the Sap Rises.....
Published in AMCC's internal newspaper
Diet-Busting Tips Or, how I scold myself when dieting 5/7/99
Women of a Certain Age Indeed! 5/5/00
The Red Jacket My youngest is on a kick - better than Fabio - his goal 6/3/2000
Who said that Mornings Get Better as the Kids Get Older? Not me! 1/26/00
No More "One Size Chemo Fits All"
Two of my technical ebooks are up at dacafe.com:
http://www10.dacafe.com/book/parse_book.php?article=0127466606/index.html
thenakedhousewife.com - American version of Bridget Jones' Diary
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