This is terribly embarrassing, but

About a week ago I lost quite a few people from my notify list. I shrugged it off at the time, figuring I’d gotten a little repetitive and was becoming boring. To be honest, I never even checked to see if I could identify who I lost. I have now discovered that at least one…

Two pieces of news from a single phone call just now. My mother’s estate has finally been settled. I’ll be receiving a check for a little more than $82,000 this weekend. Damn, I didn’t want this money. I wanted her to spend it on herself. She refused to touch the principle on any of her…

… I miss my mind the most. This week so far: Tuesday: I was supposed to get blood work done. I forgot. I thought it was NEXT Tuesday. Still waiting for fall-out over that one. Wednesday: Spent all afternoon waiting for The Socialist’s Aunt Artist and Uncle Oregon to call. They never did. I got…

Back on Monday, June 17th I stopped bringing the mail in. Nobody noticed. I gave up and brought it in the Sunday after. I became curious. The next week I didn’t bring the mail in. On Sunday I brought in five days worth of mail. The next week I didn’t bring the mail in. On…

I have been trying to reach my doctor’s office since 9:00 this morning (it’s now nearly 10:00). It has been wall-to-wall busy signal, for the most part. I did get through once, but it was the answering service who picked up. I asked them what time the office would start accepting calls. She told me…

Ziltoid molted last night. I found a great little reference on the web about How to Identify Monarch Caterpillar Instars that leads me to believe that Ziltie is now a fourth instar, which means he’ll do one more molt into a bigger caterpillar before he becomes a chrysalis. I wanted to take a picture of…