In my dream, I was in Fredericksburg. I think it might be some confused version of my grandfather's funeral, because I was wearing my suit, and everyone was formally dressed, but my grandfather was there, too. At some point, I got into a fight with my family, and I got so angry at my father that I just left, on foot, the two of us screaming at ( Read more... )

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...I have paid off my debt to Visa, refilled my cell phone with minutes (sorry to anyone who's tried to reach me, lately), bought Janice and the kids and myself an enormous dinner out, complete with cocktails, appetizers, and dessert (something that has not happened in a LOOOONG time), and made plans to actually go shopping for CLOTHING, tomorrow ( Read more... )

...especially those that posted heartfelt advice and reassurances in my previous entries. Not sure if this is the other side of the storm, or just the eye, but for the moment the walls are holding, and, after all, I think that's all we can ever claim, no matter how well we think we're doing ( Read more... )

Attended Any Fest, this weekend, which was mainly nice because I got to see Myers, Ian, Georgie, and Sam Williamson ALL AT THE SAME TIME, which gave me major Onalee Drive flashbacks. As I told Georgie, "Now I'm just waiting for Myers' mom to show up and chew us all out ( Read more... )

I contracted a violent stomach illness that kept me out of work for most of a week. This was exactly one week after the Monday in which I updated about opossums because I was semi-fake sick. This is the kind of thing that normally gets me in trouble, as it constitutes a "pattern" of non-attendance, but it turned out not to matter at all, because ( Read more... )

Straightened things out with one of the collections agencies, repaired some second-hand speakers and assembled a new sound system for my basement studio, spent an evening with Cristin (watched Disturbia, which, though I hesitate to open myself to ridicule in this way, was a pretty decent movie) while Janice went out and partied, discovered that ( Read more... )

In the last hour, we have attempted to burn the house down, twice. There's blame all around, on both counts ( Read more... )

Last night, I was transported (in my dream) back to the American Revolution, where I learned the following things:

• They actually had telephones, already, at that point in history. It was just that no one ever wrote anything about them, so we didn't know. Apparently the technology was lost, and re-discovered, later, not actually invented. They ( Read more... )