My mom lost one of her front teeth. It happened three weeks ago when she bit into a bone in a piece of meat. And I only noticed yesterday. (Of course, dad knew already because she told him. And her houseguest from Nigeria knew already, because it was her who gave her the meat. [Her and her crusade against boneless meat. Feh.]) I'm so bummed ( Read more... )

I'm listening back to Saturday's show. I'm at the very beginning, so have a little under three hours left to listen to.

I won't write (much) about the dj's in front of me who kept yammering on and on and ended up running into my time; they did me a favor, though perhaps unintentionally. Their yammering on and on allowed me more time to collect ( Read more... )

The thing I couldn't remember to add to the last post:

I realized last year that I think life has no meaning.

I was reminded over the weekend, while listening to a radio show, that I don't believe world peace is an achievable goal.

(T'was the tail end of Work with Marty Nemko. He ahd two guests on--one who argued that diversity necessarily ( Read more... )

I would like to be a social smoker (of cloves) again. It's annoying that there are so many health reasons that make it an unreasonable proposition. I'm considering it anyway. Because risking and then experiencing a humongous bad consequence (bound to happen the way my luck is going lately) is the only way I'm going to be convinced that bad ( Read more... )