This will be brief, as X-chan is here and in any case I don't want to spend Easter weekend on the Int0rbuttz, but we were talking about my father's people. X-chan has been doing the genealogy on that side, which so far has eluded me, and I asked if she'd been able to find out anything about Great-Grandpa's parents, which is where the line ends ( Read more... )

+ I guess it still hasn't really hit me that my grandmother is dead, because last night lolmom and I were talking about gravy (she made the best gravy you ever had, seriously, no mean feat for someone who hated to cook), and lolmom was saying that she had no idea what my grandmother did because there were no measurements involved. I thought, Next ( Read more... )

There's a longer post in the works about the wake and funeral, which I need to get out of my system but haven't finished yet. I don't know when that's coming; sometime this week, I suppose. Anyway, the main thing is: I went, and yesterday my aunt Diane and I drove back up from Savannah (she lives in Indianapolis and wanted to miss race day, and I ( Read more... )

( A life miscellany that got kind of long )

Hopping on mostly to say,

Happy birthday, samanosukesgirl!Alas, there is no deeper post, as I am exhausted and bid fair to stay that way (worked until midnight on Friday, drove up to Gaston on Saturday, drove down to Indy, then to Terre Haute, then back to Evansville on Sunday, slept until noon today, worked a full shift until 11 tonight, and must be in Tell ( Read more... )

1.) I feel as if I've been through the ringer, and there is absolutely no reason why I should feel this way. I did nothing whatsoever on Monday and Tuesday, other than some minor picking up.

2.) Last night, I dreamed that I was going to fuck imperfectkatoru, except then I woke up and it took me a minute to realize that I wasn't still dreaming so I was all like ( Read more... )

So for the past week, more or less everything was more entertaining to me than the Internets, so I wasn't around too much. I wish I could say something really interesting or exciting happened, but basically I just went to work, read stuff (finished Taiko, finally), watched Return of the Jedi for the bazillionth time, and slept way the hell too much ( Read more... )

Computer is still in the shop.

I can now say "pixelation is my homegirl friend" in Cantonese, if I could remember the word for "friend" which I just learned last night AAARGH why can't I like normal things like TV or whatever it is the puny normals like ( Read more... )

This morning, I received a Grade-A piece of spam in my inbox from a Mrs Cindy Howard, informing me that I had won a million pounds sterling from the British Tobacco Commission. This in and of itself was hilarious, but even more so was the fact that the reply-to e-mail address was a Chinese domain name. Methinks the Lads from Lagos are at it again. ( Read more... )

My grandmother had cataract surgery on the 8th, and she seems to be recovering well; she's a little blurry in the eye where she had had the cataract, but the doctor said that was to be expected and it should abate once the swelling goes down. The lolmom is not in such good shape; she was congested and sniffly in Florida, and also managed to get ( Read more... )