Today is Charles Babbage's birthday. Also Boxing Day, but I haven't written a song about that. Yesterday was my first Christmas without Colleen. I'm not going to try to summarize the week this time.
The YD held a Solstice party Tuesday, so I finally got to see her new ( Read more... )

It's been a week. I bought a Molift Smart 150 Patient Lift (via craigslist), and a portable air conditioner (off Amazon, selected purely on the basis of delivery ( Read more... )

Where did Wednesday and Thursday go? It's been a long week... Oh.
I think I'm supposed to feel accomplished -- I had quite a few tasks to do today, including some unexpected ones, and I think I succeeded at almost all of them. So maybe I'm just out of spoons? Let's see:

• Contact contractors about making a smooth pad for Colleen to ( Read more... )

My mother was an excellent cook. I have no idea where she found her recipe for cranberry relish, but today is the day to make it if you wanted it to be at its best on Thanksgiving. So I did. It's trivial.
Ingredients: one apple, one orange, one pound of cranberries. Cut the ( Read more... )

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance.
I will confess that I didn't know about it until yesterday, when I followed the link from eftychia's QotD to Transgender Day Of Remembrance 2020: Murdered, Suffocated And Burned Alive - 350 Transgender People Killed In 2020.
Not surprisingly, hate crimes against trans people in the US have ( Read more... )

N and the three teenagers arrived late afternoon; G followed after work -- I met him when the 5:40 ferry arrived. (That's the ferry that leaves at 5:40; I occasionally get confused and get to ( Read more... )

It occurs to me that I haven't given an update on Colleen, and one is due about now. Today (early afternoon) she finally got releast from the hospital, and is now in rehab. She still has almost two weeks worth of IV antibiotics; they installed a central line yesterday morning.
She can stand up (she transfered in and out of the ( Read more... )

Not a good week, on the whole. Some high points, to be sure, but a week that covers an unexpected flashback and my wife going into the hospital (again) (and finding out about new problems) has to be pretty low on the goodness scale.
Well, let's have the good parts first. I published two posts: Writing Without Distractions (a ( Read more... )

An interesting week. Parts of it were good. The high point was ( Read more... )

So, once again I find myself approaching the end of a day without a post, so I'll give you an update on Colleen. When she got to her appointment with the nephrologist Monday, they took one look at her lab results and told her to go the hospital, stat. Apparently her kidney function was way down. (It has improved somewhat since ( Read more... )