Off the rails

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…

“In the external scheme of things, this evening is as brief as the twinkling of an eye yet such twinklings is what eternity is made of.” – Fred Rogers, 1928-2003 Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood debuted in the US in 1967. I was eleven years old then, far too old to take any interest in what was…

We lost power about an hour and a half ago during a rather nasty electrical storm. After about 45 minutes worth of waiting, I was starting to think about where I could go to keep myself amused when it occurred to me that my poor foster cat was down in her room in the cellar…

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…

Another day, another withholding for Uncle Sam. Thank heavens I have to go get my stomach scoped tomorrow. I’m not sure I’d make it through another day at work. I wish there’d been some way to ease into things, but having tomorrow off helps, I guess. One nice thing did happen. I got a call…

Last night was a flurry of activty. Feed the cats, clean and refresh the water bowls, clean the litter boxes, grab dinner, pack for New Year’s Eve, all while trying to claim some quality net time. Something had to give, and I didn’t get to check up on as many diaries nor leave as many…