Things are stressful around our house right now. Manly has to have eye surgery (he has to have the vitreous humor removed from one of his eyes, and diabetic-related damage fixed. It's gross and terrifying), and the cherry on that sundae is the $2,000.00 copay. For which they won't let us make payments - it's 100% up-front ( Read more... )

Little Tree and her GF  took the kids to school for me this morning, so I could get a little more rest. I spent most of the weekend lying about like a slug. That was not how I intended to spend my weekend.

I did watch a bunch more Being Human, and I'll get to the episode recaps sometime later. It's tickling my fanfic center, so I might even ( Read more... )

Been doing a lot of genealogy research this week. Found a picture of my great-great grandfather at a Civil War Soldiers reunion. He and his father both served under Fielding Hurst in the 6th TN Cav. To quote the product copy for Hurst's Wurst by Kevin McCann:

It was described by one Confederate soldier as an ignorant posse of men led by vicious ( Read more... )

I don't want to get into it; it's too upsetting. Let's just say that I'm taking a page from telaryn's book. As of today, I don't have any first cousins on my dad's side.