First off, sothacid is okay now. We were able to get into the HAWC low-income clinic as a walk-in to get the work he needed done done, and walked out with a bill we can actually comfortably pay ( Read more... )

sothacid left about ten minutes ago for his work-study interview. After that comes his first day of classes (today it's Organic Chemistry, German, then the Organic Chemistry lab). I packed him most of a lunch--I wasn't sure about the entree while assembling it, which we decided this morning would be creamed corn with cubed, fried Spam--and wrote DO NOT ( Read more... )

sothacid, upon noting that the Dow has jumped 200 points today for "no readily apparent reason," has a theory.

"It's 'cause the stock market is playin' the mountain climber game on The Price is Right [Cliffhanger], and that one time we crashed was 'cause the little man fell off. [yodels the tune a bit] And it stayed down for a while 'cause they were ( Read more... )

So yesterday sothacid drank a whole bottle of MD 20/20 Red Wine Flavor in an attempt to forget the fact that we were watching Hell 2 The Naw willingly. Yes, we're talking an entire bottle of 26-proof screwtop bum wine in one sitting. He had a homemade chicken dinner in his stomach and continued drinking water (from the bum wine bottle, in fact) and ( Read more... )

This evening we'll be taking a "fancy camping trip" to Reno, where we'll stay in a hotel overnight before viewing an apartment there. If we like how it looks, we'll arrange to get the unit they'll be cleaning out around the first of July. The car should be shipped here by then, too, as should Alan-a-Dale Parsons-Turing ("Alan" or "Alan-a-Dale" ( Read more... )