I was in the living room today surfing through various blog entries, and scrolled past a photo from a subscribed nude photo group -- a shot of a topless woman standing in the snow.  Patrick walked by, glanced at the laptop screen, and said "You know, I can legally look at that now ( Read more... )

Ten to fourteen inches of snow forecast for the next day and a half... and my car started giving me trouble on the way home from picking up Teresa from work. Of course. The last thing I want to be doing tomorrow is taking a car to the shop in the middle of a snowstorm ( Read more... )

I finally went ahead and re-did the cardiac stress test about a week and a half ago.  I was apprehensive to repeat the test, considering I had a heart attack about 16 hours after the last one in April.  The nurse and technicians were noticeably more attentive this time, requiring at least two to be in the room for the duration of the treadmill time ( Read more... )

Teresa and I are almost over our severe colds/flu of last week.  She was off work for two days, and it was definitely the sickest we'd been all winter.  It's hard when we're both ill at the same time.  We were trying to keep The Boy away from us too, because this week he had his Michigan Merit Exams, the last and biggest standardized test of his ( Read more... )

I will start posting here again. Eventually. Until that happens, here are some quick one-liner Twitter-style updates:

• Teresa is still at the downtown jewelry store. This one hasn't gone out of business. Yet.
• Patrick is still doing very well in school. He missed the honor roll this term, but it was close. Discovering World of Warcraft in ( Read more... )

I just can't manage to make myself post in this thing consistently.  I have stuff I'd like to write about / comment on / document for my own later review and humour, but when I sit down to start typing I always end up clicking some random link that leads me off into the fiber-optic stratosphere.  By the time I return, I'm too sleepy to type.  ( Read more... )

Patrick is fine.  I've talked to him three times since 11:30am (all hail cell phones!).  He's upset because he knows the girl involved, but says he wants to stick it out the rest of the day to see if he can find out anything else.

For those of you in larger cities who shrug and go "Oh, another school shooting...", you have to understand that these ( Read more... )

So, The Boy is now almost halfway through his sophomore year, and turns 16 in ten days.  That's right... 16.

I know.  I did a spit take too.  16?  Yikes.

His dramatic improvements at school have continued this year.  Just before the start of the Holiday break last week, we had his final IEP (Individualized Educational Program) meeting.  I requested ( Read more... )

Patrick as an anime character:


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The boy is happy. It started sleeting around 4am and turned into a significant ice storm by 6am, the deadline for deciding if schools are open. Everything in the area including the colleges are closed for at least the morning (they even closed Delta, Crystal -- you know that never happens). Most schools were in the middle of exam week and were ( Read more... )