Ed. note: This is the Christmas memo going out in my Christmas cards this year. If you're not on my IRL friends list -- or even if you are -- please accept my Merriest Christmakwanzukkah holiday greetings, and enjoy my year in review.

I hope that 2019 found you well and leaves you in the same condition.

The big thing in pop culture these days is ( Read more... )

Ed. note: This is the Christmas memo going out in my Christmas cards this year. If you're not on my IRL friends list -- or even if you are -- please accept my Merriest Christmakwanzukkah holiday greetings, and enjoy my year in review.I hope that 2018 found you well and leaves you in the same condition ( Read more... )

Chad decided to schedule his kidney stone-ectomy five days before we left on vacation ( Read more... )

Laura (and her sister) haven't been in my Sunday School class for a good while. And while that's usually chalked up to them visiting one set of grandparents or the other on most weekends, I heard news yesterday that gave me pause ( Read more... )

ED. NOTE: Due to the expiration of my laptop on Saturday, all subsequent vacation posts were handwritten on the flights home.

SAN YSIDRO, 7/10 -- The reason for the trip: Chad turns 32 today.

After presenting him with his birthday card, I made like House and limped to the car with him in tow to the nearby trolley stop. (Yes, we toured the ( Read more... )

ED. NOTE: Due to the expiration of my laptop on Saturday, all subsequent vacation posts were handwritten on the flights home.SAN YSIDRO, 7/9 -- With Mexican ridges looming in the near distance over our motel, we hopped on a northbound trolley for some San Diego sightseeing and a Padres game ( Read more... )

We had received word several weeks ago that one of the other ministers in our parish had been hospitalized with pneumonia -- except it wasn't exactly pneumonia, but Legionnaire's Disease.

It's not communicable, so there's no concern there.

However, there is an as-yet unknown source of the Legionella bacteria in the eastern end of the county, ( Read more... )

Currently, I'm working off Dad's computer.

In preparing for my train trip to DC next weekend, I decided to get my laptop fixed. (The DVD player is only playing the audio -- so I can't even access the menus.)

So that meant a visit to mamallama's (now with her own vanity site) ancestral home, where her recently-returned-from-Nashville computer-whiz brother ( Read more... )

My grandfather is progressing nicely. He is finally out of ICU and into a regular room ( Read more... )

Late last night, I was gathering up my laundry for today's weekly visit to the family laundromat ( Read more... )