It’s a Girl

It is indeed round, Yehti. This is a marginally better picture of it, though it would seem I have no pictures at all of it that don’t include at least some portion of cat. I got this vase for a song because there is a scratch through the paint on one part of it. The…

Armed with pain meds (dulling both my nerves and my brain) I decided it was safe to go back into the water. Put less prosaically, I was way over-due for a shower. I’ve been doing my best at the sink, but it just isn’t the same thing. While painful, the experience of lukewarm water on…

… a 13 year-old hispanic boy lost his life after being trapped in a house fire that maimed his brother and destroyed his family’s home. His mother found the courage to make an impossible decision under heart breaking conditions. Remember that boy today.

I’ve been listening to a lot of PRI radio these days. I go through phases of it. Eventually I get tired of listening to music radio, especially when none of the recent new releases grab my attention, and I’ll drift over to Terry Gross and Todd Mundt and Marty Moss-Coane. Then the time will come…

Yup, I just interrupted my work so I could take another one of those senseless surveys. This one comes by way of Slipperman, so don’t blame me, blame her. I guess I shouldn’t have picked the carrots.

Is there anything in life quite as awkward as a holiday spent with someone else’s relatives? If so, don’t put my name on the list of participants. I’ve had my share of awkward for this season. The original plan was that the Professor’s grandmother would be making dinner Christmas Eve, which Daughters #1 and #2…