I once again have the weird non-curable cold/flu/allergy thing. The thing that starts with a sore throat and continues to have a sore throat but adds on stuffiness and exhaustion. The thing that doesn't respond to cold meds or allergy meds or OJ or vitamins or herbs. The thing that I at one point suspected of being related to taking Flonase ( Read more... )

One of my pain-in-the-neck editors, a guy whose book is publishing a year late, just finally sent me the preface. The book's in production and we've been asking for the preface for weeks now. So I finally have it, and I read it through to make sure everything is correct, and I get to this:

We have also been privileged to work with an ( Read more... )

My dad had spinal surgery this morning. My parents were up at 4 AM, at the hospital at 6 AM, and my mother called me at 9 AM to let me know she'd just talked to the surgeon and the operation went well. Go, efficient surgeon man, go. Dad just called me from Mom's cell phone to let me know they're on the way home. (His SPINE was operated on this ( Read more... )