My father would be 100 years old today, were he alive.  Something Sean wrote hit a clicky thing in my head, and I'm now remembering this:

I'm guessing I was fifteen at the time, which means my dad would have been 59.

Mom had, as I think most women had at the time, three or four full-length slips to wear under her uniform (she was a nurse, and the ( Read more... )

Ray has noted that Em and I gave each other two versions of the same thing: frogs.  I love it.  He also alluded to the fact that he did some weeding out downstairs.  Seriously.  Awesome.  Broken fluorescent tube, random old keyboards from random computers, and probably a lot more.  I'm still feeling tired and sick, or I'd be checking it out in ( Read more... )

We watched Twilight:Eclipse last night, the four of us.  Much hilarity ensued.  Especially with the assistance of Rifftrax ( Read more... )

Hat-tip to ElbieseeI am so amazed and glad not to be hung over this morning.  Wait, I know that sounds really bad, but yesterday was a doozy.  I posted about all the physical work I did.  Then Em came home from school.  Girlfriend is just a seething mass of emotions these days, because she's finishing high school and going on to college and one of her best ( Read more... )

Crap.  I allowed myself to read a bit about Dr. Tiller, and now I'm having flashbacks to ten years ago.  Dr. Slepian was such a decent man.  I installed landscape lights all around his house in July of '98.  It took several days.  Some mornings he would let me into his yard while he was still in his bathrobe.  He'd probably been up all night ( Read more... )