WAAA HOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

While walking from the main building to my office yesterday evening, I watched grey storm clouds jostling for position over my head. A red-tail hawk soared into view, surfing the edge of the storm front. Tail and wings fully spread, he could have been a kite without a string. Other birds had taken cover from…

You get pushed out of the plane with no warning, and it’s 9.8 m/s2 straight down. The lurch in your stomach, the wind in your hair, everything so tiny beneath you growing steadily larger. You are all powerful, looking down on the ant hills below. The sense of weightlessness is almost exhilarating. You didn’t jump;…

I seem to have escaped the clutches of bronchitis only to fall into the arms of some gnarly gastro-intestinal ailment. I’ll spare you the gorey details; let it be sufficient to say that you should be glad that this isn’t transmissible through the web. I sent out an email to the ex last night telling…

If that last post looks to everyone else like it appears to me, I’d guess the bugs are starting to creep into DD.org.

I’ll get the depressing stuff over with first. Got a call from the Specialist’s office yesterday afternoon – they want to go ahead and do a bone marrow biopsy. It’s just one of those “we want to be sure” things, but there are certain blood disorders (I love a good euphemism) that could produce the…

CatControlled’s entry today reminded me of something that happened to me twenty-odd years ago. It was mid-day Saturday. I was home, doing some cleaning, which back in those days meant that I not only knew where the vacuum cleaner was, but I knew how to find the on-switch. I had just turned the vacuum off,…