Last night a guy murdered a bunch of people in Nice, France. This following last week's tragedies with police shooting citizens, and citizens shooting police ( Read more... )

The BoS/Judah situation has eaten my brain a great deal over the last few days, even before I came back from vacation. It's complicated and messy. I have a lot of thoughts, most of which I probably will not commit to public electrons right now. But I can scarcely do anything else while I'm so monopolized. I hope at least writing this much will help ( Read more... )

Yes I heard about the tragedy in Arlington.
No that's not my neighborhood.
I just read up on it and I'm almost sorry I did because now I'm feeling ill.
I can't tell you how much I don't want to talk about it.

No T = No work.
I live next to Watertown, Belmont, and Cambridge so I feel compelled to keep an eye on if they tell me Arlington should duck and cover, too. In the meantime, here we are, wiping yogurt out of Crime Fighter's hair, doing laundry, and making breakfast.

ETA (12:22): primal_pastry and rintrahroars combined households were home, making late breakfast and acting ( Read more... )

So, I'll let you pick your flavor of news to hear about today's latest act of hate at the Boston Marathon ( Read more... )

We are about to lose Windsor Button, not because it was not well loved or well visited, but because they are losing their lease. Well, thanks to everyone flocking there, the sales at Minds Eye Yarn have plummeted in the past month to the point where the dear owner is thinking she may have to close by June if things don't turn around this coming ( Read more... )

My father texted me "don't panic" ... "Shooters at Chardon High are in custody" ....  "school in lockdown"

Fast forward to when Mom herself called me 20 minutes ago to say she's catching a ride home (her car blocked in by investigators). She sounded sturdy and fine. I watched the noon press conference and it sounds like one of the students has died ( Read more... )

Before I went off on my own and figured out what chosen family meant to me in that context, I have had plenty of experience with people my parents added to our family.

Martin had been that guy- like a brother to my Dad (who's never had a brother by genetic connection). They co-owned two boats when I was growing up: Snakes and later Random (Yeah- ( Read more... )

So, this has been a thing for a few days/weeks in Internet Land. Short version: Nathan Fillion said in an off-had way how if he had a crazy amount of money (won the lottery) he'd buy the rights to Firefly and make it available all the time. And of course, some really hard-core people took him at his word. The thing is, Fillion has said (several ( Read more... )

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