Guess I have to admit it - my social media consciousness has switched over to Plurk entirely (with the occasional Tweet). Sorry, LJ. You're so 2003 ( Read more... )

In 2012, ( Read more... )

I don't know if you knew this, but Ron Greeley died a couple months ago. They're informally naming an area on Mars after him.

My Christmas tree is still up. Well, after all, it is artificial, and I didn't get it up until the day before Christmas. I want some time to enjoy it! So up it stays until at least mid-month. Though I suppose I've waited too long again to get more ornaments for it ( Read more... )

Heh. Riiiiight.

Not that I'm not looking forward to it, and not that there'll be a lot of fun in it. But there's going to be precious little me-by-myself time. So I think I will take the 27th off of work, too, and make that a me-day. Finally go see 'Hugo' or the Muppet movie.

cressida0201 took me to task for not having updated this for so long. Mea ( Read more... )

Just talked to my mom. Ron's still in the hospital, but he is slowly improving. I'm praying like mad that that continues...

And if you missed it, pictures from my fall day trip to Temperance River State Park.Dear Other Parts of the Country: Plz to be sending us ur snow. Kaythnxbye ( Read more... )

Sis-in-law posted on her Facebook page this morning ( Read more... )

She died yesterday after suffering a stroke.

Definitely time to re-re-re-re-re-re-reread the Dragonriders of Pern series.

I haven't written anything about my brother for a while, as things have been so much up in the air. But now I can share more concrete news ( Read more... )

(I'd best finish this off while I can!)

Mom and I actually managed to get up early on Friday. Dad always gets up early, and goes out while it's still dark. We usually don't join him, but this morning, we decided to do so, and went to join him on the Hill when it was just starting to get light. That's when we found out that Fan and Mortar had ( Read more... )