my feet hurt

So there I was, sitting at my computer, trying to get some email done, when ACfH starts begging for fetch. This has become a routine; my sitting down to the computer is a signal for fetch to begin. She’s lost her butt-ugly mushroom somewhere in the apartment (it didn’t even turn up during the usual…

Big City Hospital called me at about 3:30 this afternoon. As I may have previously related, I was expecting a call between 3:00 and 5:00 this afternoon to let me know when tomorrow I was scheduled for surgery. I was told I could be asked to report to the hospital any time between 5:45 am…

The five year reunion of my class from veterinary school was a bit of a bust. The way the reunions work for my school is that they hold an “Alumni Day” once a year on campus when any graduate can attend. During that alumni day, graduates celebrating their -5th or -10th anniversary a specially noted….

Can we say “ridiculous”, boys and girls? Yes, I heard again from the mental midgets who man the email at Double Day Books. I’m done trying to talk with them. I’ve gotten more intelligent responses from ACfH. It is my most avid of hopes that, some day, one of their PR people stumbles across this…

Remember the little problem I had with Littman/Barclay jewelers back around the end of last month? Remember when I ended up eating my words a day or two later, when they made good the FUBAR they’d created? If not, a short synopsis is in order. Last December: I purchased some jewelry at Littman’s as Christmas…

was a disaster, though not for the reasons I had anticipated. It’s hard to accuse someone else of screwing up when you find that you yourself are a bigger screw-up. Turns out The Prof did go to the math lab yesterday. He showed up an hour late, but he went. He didn’t over-sleep; his late…