Someone who I previously counted as among the most important people in my life chose to throw away a 22-year friendship rather than finish a discussion ( Read more... )

Had a good, if somewhat disjointed, trip. Did a beach thing as the official "old now" celebration, which was low-key but surprisingly enjoyable. And, of course, did the usual shop-and-eat our way across several cities ( Read more... )

Off to Cheeseland. See ya!

Had a lovely trip, with much quality gaming, writing-talk, and general hangage. The drive there was a bit much, due to my being seriously attention challenged; note to self, get more sleep the night before. The drive back was better -- wet, but relatively uneventful ( Read more... )

I'm off to Chi-town and points north for four days. Have a good weekend, y'all!

Made it back home last night in a reasonably timely fashion. Had a somewhat snowy drive from otterwort's to coffeerainbows's on Saturday. From there to home on Sunday had fine weather, however -- even the bit around Kzoo, about which I was far more stressed than necessary, was clear ( Read more... )

Looked at a fistful of houses today. Nothing really suitable; three possibles, but all with less than ideal locations and/or odd layouts. The best of the three could be quite fun to work on, but I'm not entirely sanguine about its resellability, or that it would increase in price enough to be worthwhile ( Read more... )

It's pretty discouraging when even the realtor calls to check, "You're not driving all that way just for this, are you ( Read more... )

It was a lovely weekend/holiday, hanging out at otterwort's. Games were played, stores were shopped, chats were had, food was eaten -- oh god, was food ever eaten. If it weren't for the cats, we might never have left ( Read more... )

Going to Wisconsin for the turn-of-year holiday & associated weekend. Boo for a seven-hour drive in the middle of winter, but yay for the land of cheese!

This presumes, of course, that I don't have a massive cerebral aneurysm trying to get everything done beforehand....