We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

Last evening was a madhouse. I didn’t get out of work until 4:30 for my 5:00 dentist appointment. Fortunately there was little traffic, so I wasn’t late. However…. My longer-time readers (you masochists know who you are) will recall my confession of several years back, when I made my first dental appointment in a long…

It’s been a while.  I see that things have changed in my absence.  I’d gotten so used to coding the html myself that it’s almost disappointing to see that the whole thing has been "dumbed down".  Then again, there’s a spell checker now.  In all, I suppose that’s worth the trade off. Why did I…

I finally got something approximating a good night’s sleep last night. Granted, that means that I got six hours rather than three or four, but it is an improvement! I’m just doing a countdown to the weekend now, when I can stay in bed and doze until I’m sated. Kitten was in a strange mind-set…

There’s a good article in today’s online edition of the New York Times. Entitled “Internet Gives Teenage Bullies Weapons to Wound From Afar the article gives an overview of online cruelty. A line from the article: The new weapons in the teenage arsenal of social cruelty include stealing each others’ screen names and sending inflammatory…

I slept until ten o’clock this morning. It was a sound sleep, relatively uninterrupted, amounting in all to about ten hours worth. I’m sure the Ambien had a hand in that, but I’ve had insomniac nights even with the Ambien, so I suspect a good part of it was sheer exhaustion. I’d been sleeping like…

Well, New Mexico is still tentatively on. I managed to get the follow-up doctor’s appointment rescheduled to Monday the 12th, although I was warned that I could expect a long wait. No problem. I’ll just take a couple of good books with me. I spent last night with my legs elevated, as per orders. Can’t…