I don't believe in them anymore. It seems silly to spend one night a year spinning pie-in-the-sky fantasies about what you'd like to do with your life, only to inevitably break each and every one of them in short order. Spun sugar concepts like New Year's resolutions rarely survive the hard light of a handful of days. True commitment takes more ( Read more... )

Just wanted to give anyone still watching out there a quick update on my medical condition. I'm no longer in constant pain; I only have a problem if I sit down in one position for more than five minutes or so. Standing, walking, lying down, and sleeping are all activities I can now enjoy without needing to reach for the Vicodin. The approval for ( Read more... )

Found out why Grundy was being so sweet and affectionate. Poor thing's gone into heat. She would have been fixed when knghtsky brought her to the vet the first day, but what with her being underweight and having intestinal parasites we were told it should wait until she was fully healthy. So now we get the horny kitty serenade in the middle of the night, ( Read more... )

My bathroom ceiling is leaking. It started around 2:00 a.m. this morning. It stopped for a good part of the day, but it started up again about two hours ago. Everything's soaked for a second time around. Maintenance guy came in around 7:00 a.m., looked at it, and then left. Never heard anything about the issue until I put in my second emergency ( Read more... )

Last Sunday night, I had just come back from putting some food outside for some of the local stray cats (and the ducks), when there came some absolutely pitiful (if loud) cries from outside the front door. Upon my opening the door and calling out the universal hail to all cat kind ("Here kitty kitty kitty!"), there came a frantic scrabbling of paws ( Read more... )

This morning was gorgeous. Lightly overcast with a stiff, cool breeze, the smell of dry and decaying leaves in the air ( Read more... )