I got an email several days ago, from a voice from my past...

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Our friend meglimir passed away last night at about 8:30.

Please remember her by participating in the Meglis Project if you can. And if you cannot, please send your good thoughts to her husband sammyd and her two sons, who, no doubt, are having a very hard time right now ( Read more... )

There is something in my mind that says there is no way I can actually afford to be this idle the week before Christmas--but it appears that I can be. Everything is pretty much done.

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All the cookie boxes are packed up, all the reindeer food is jarred up, everything is in readiness for gifting tomorrow ( Read more... )

Today, my DH was supposed to be scheduled for a CAT scan, so we both took the day off....

And then it turned out that he wasn't scheduled for a CAT scan. Scheduling hiccup ( Read more... )

Here is an article about the Republican Veep candidate who considers herself not only an intellectual but also an advocate for autistic children, but who can't figure out that some of those fruit fly experiments have directly affected, to the positive, research regarding the origins and potential cures for autism in children ( Read more... )

Anyone from around our neck of the woods is familiar with the Sunnybrook Ballroom. The Sunnybrook has been a tradition for being one of the hubs of live entertainment on the east coast, especially during the big band era, when the likes of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Louis Armstrong and many, many others ( Read more... )

Go here, and read about how my husband passed his scans with flying freakin' COLORS, Bay-bee ( Read more... )

I was watching Hillary Clinton's concession speech this morning, and maybe I'm mistaken but what Hillary Clinton said was, "Go out there, support and vote for Barack Obama ( Read more... )

I'm cutting this from the git, because I know it's going to get uber-long, and that's just fitting because I haven't posted in awhile....

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