Once the Elizabeth Mansfield site gets going and there are actual discussions on there... I'm proofreading "An Encounter With Venus" for an eBook release this year (the 4th of the first set of 6), and this is the book my mom wrote where she was venting about having to take care of dad after his stroke ( Read more... )

So the other day I made some Traditional Medicinal relaxation tea (I forget the exact name of the blend), and I had it steeping on the coffee table. Nika, the oldest cat got on the table (an unusual move for her) and would not get down at a voice command (also highly unusual). She started stalking the tea bag and the mug.

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Work is somewhat analogous to the Gulf spill - you see the disaster coming, in slow motion, and there's not much you can do about it except complain about the terrible planning of the people in charge. The work fan will turn all brown and stinky next week, but I have no time to worry about it.

Because...

Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me ( Read more... )

Now I take Tuesday's off, instead of having a 3-day weekend and taking Mondays off, so R can attend a BNI  meeting at 7AM and I have the pleasure of rousting the kid from bed and getting her off to school. BNI is a business networking organization and we're hoping this chapter will boost R's business. We have been hurting from his lack of income ( Read more... )

Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, 'Do I know you?'   - Steven Wright

I used to think that was funny, until my dad started believing that was happening to him.

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I had to rearrange things in the basement so that the electrician (or someone like him) can have access to the main breaker in the basement. This was no small feat. I've been at it for the past 5 hours ( Read more... )

They are small grey ones, not the scary gigantic leopard slugs, but I guess with all the rain that's been happening here it was inevitable. I had to boot one or 2 off of almost all the squash I harvested today.

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I am now jobless. Semi-retired. On sabbatical. Off for the summer. I have finished as much as humanly possible on the zombie proposal (the proposal that wouldnt' die), and turned the sweeping up over to my colleague (who I will miss and I think will miss me), and I got out of there only 2 hours later than I wanted ( Read more... )