Kevin has decided to be evaluated for PTSD. I am both pleased and relieved he has made this decision. (Like all mental health issues, the afflicted person has to want to do something about the issue ( Read more... )

Earlier tonight, I twittered: Dear get-rich-quick people that keep following me: I have a net worth of $104 (not a typo) and I am okay with that. Now go away.That doesn't do justice to where I am right now. Financially, we are scraping the bottom and have our fingers crossed that an interview later today turns the months-long tide of ( Read more... )

After I have burned my thumb (nothing serious, mostly the nerve endings all yelling "WHUT?" at me) because you decided to duck and bob as I was trying to get your freaking breakfast onto the table around you, please do not dawdle getting dressed and make "ehh" whining noises when I tell you what today's weather will be like so you can dress ( Read more... )

After several episodes of going into Laurel's room (comfortably warm but unpleasant after I got sweaty) and wiggling the computer cart several inches in a few pushes, I got the blasted thing pushed down the wall it was on from the corner by the window to to the corner by the patio door. Next I moved the rack of small bins to the corner by the ( Read more... )

If you saw my Facebook status earlier today and were mildly confused: Vogon decided to part out and fry turkey at 2200 last night. He fried a few pieces at a time in the cast iron skillet and all went without incident until he got to the final batch. Oil got sloshed out of the pan and smoked, causing all of the hard-wired alarms to go off at 0030. ( Read more... )

In the process of installing applications to my new system [1], I picked up MailWasher a few versions newer than when I last used it. Since I was feeling magnanimous, I asked Vogon if he'd like me to sic it on monitoring the catch-all ravenshire.com [2] addresses. 12,000 messages later, I discovered he hadn't set up a forwarding address for Laurel ( Read more... )

I nearly inquired into the availability of a lot of 6500 zippers today in a second-chance sale at an online donation-matching service (Excess Access). What saved me from this insanity? Said zippers are in San Francisco and they're local pickup only ( Read more... )

We've dried out pretty well from the deluge earlier this week. We got about three and a half inches of rain in my neighborhood, but we're in a high area so we didn't have the excitement of people refusing to evacuate flooded low-lying neighborhoods or people driving around barriers and getting their vehicles stuck in the water ( Read more... )

Three cat-related items ( Read more... )

I finally tracked down the source of our pantry moths!

Some time ago, it was a sandwich-size zipper-lock bag full of wheat germ and oat bran mixed together. Yesterday, it looked like a katamari ball.

They also got into the sushi rice, TVP, and a bag of jasmine rice. I tossed a few other items in nibbled outer bags for good measure ( Read more... )