Why I didn’t bother updating today:

The board I co-administer has one person on it who is very intelligent, articulate, funny, caring, active socially and politically, and who can push my buttons faster than Weird Al Yankowitz can push the buttons on an accordion. He believes the US should be negotiating with Afghan, and that the answer to America’s problems is…

Tuesday, April 16th, Dar Williams is coming to my area. I purchased tickets months for this months ago, the same day they announced she was coming. I got two tickets, one for me and one for The Socialist, who is willing to sit through the concert even though he doesn’t much care for her music….

Things should be hectic the next few days. Work, as ever, is chewing my ass pretty hard at the moment. I’m starting a period of six-day work weeks, and I can’t say I’m thrilled about it. We don’t go back to five-day work weeks until January. Most of my department has the option of putting…

If one is tuned to the Soft Rock “Sounds of the Season” station on cable, is one watching television, or listening to music? It hardly matters; the sound track sucks either way. I’m sitting here staring at the little factoid slide-show that Music Choice scrolls through while playing music by musicians I would never listen…

Apologies to anyone who has read previous entries on this. Apologies also for the length of this entry (believe it or not, I had to leave things out because it was getting too long). I have never before written all this down at one time, in one place. Today I needed to. I reserve the…

The surgeon decided he needed more tests run before he’d operate. While I appreciate that he wants to make this surgery as risk-free as possible, the list of tests was far more than anything we could reasonably afford. After The Prof negotiated with the vet clinic, we managed to get the list reduced to only…