My best friend, who I met through fandom, was diagnoised in Oct 2016 with stage 4 pancreeatic cancer. She was given 3 weeks to live if she didn't start chemotheropy immediately. She did and has had a year of relatively good days, however, the cancer has started to get a leg up on the chemo ( Read more... )

So Thursday morning, I officially became an orphan.

Daddy passed away in his sleep, unexpected, yet expected for the last 10 years. We didn't think he'd make 70, but he passed that by. He ended at 75, willful to the last. He wasn't always that way, but the TIAs and strokes noticably changed his personality. He's happy now in the ether with Mom.

Had a moment to fling some thoughts out into the 'Verse. Please don't expect profoundness in my meanderings, just easing on down the timeline of life ( Read more... )

It's cold. Not just cold, it's COLD. Nipple and other outwardly pokey body parts freezing stuff. Officially, -17F with wind chill of -33F. Even for me who likes winter, that is a bit much ( Read more... )

So it's almost that time. Actually, I never was one for celebrating this recycling of the calendar. It reminds me that time moves forward, relentlessly, until that time when you kick the bucket to the next plain of existence ( Read more... )

Yeah, so 2013 since I last posted something. Life moves fast ( Read more... )

Yeah, so, I'm still mostly out of commission waiting for my desktop to be repaired/upgraded - it's a work in progress - not! At least, the parts have been ordered and should be installed this weekend. That might be a lot of supposing on my part ( Read more... )

Two weeks ago, ye olde desktop decided it didn't want to cooperate with me anymore and won't let me log on. Bit of a bummer that as I had reminded myself not too many days prior to start backing up my files. Premonition maybe ( Read more... )

You've been gone from this earth for twenty years now and I miss you every day ( Read more... )

... otherwise known as procrastination ( Read more... )