Birds have the right idea - fly south for the winter. And I'm not even in an area that gets truly "cold" in the winter. For a while, I was doing well even as it got chilly... all this extra blood flow from bebeh, I guess. But this week for some reason I have been FREEZING. I'm the only one in this part of the office so I bumped up the heat even ( Read more... )

Today will be a busy day... lunchtime meeting (OT + free lunch, who can complain), then I have to drop off materials at the convention center on my way home (or maybe earlier in the afternoon ( Read more... )

Best of intentions and all that, but obviously I didn't get much of anywhere. The computer actually got turned on a few times, but I didn't make it as far as actually getting online. Blame part of it on obsessively reading the last book in Michael A. Stackpole's DragonCrown cycle. Great fantasy series folks - highly recommended, especially if ( Read more... )

Firstly, a Papaw update for those who have followed his health/cancer issues. He has completed radiation treatments, and followup scans reveal that the tumor in his lung has responded favorably by shrinking to the point that they do not feel chemo is needed to reduce it further. His age helps - since the body's general slowdown also slows tumor ( Read more... )