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Drama, it never ends.
So another month has gone by. Nothing huge, but a lot of smaller things have been happening ( Read more... ) -
Glasses are expensive.
So sunday last weekend (8 days ago) I went to the mall eyeglass shop for a eye exam and a new pair of glasses. I had the FSA healthcare money that had come out of my pay pretax, but with the unexpected buyout of ALPS, I had to use it or lose it by the end of the month. So got my eye exam, ordered safety glasses. seven hundred and some dollars. ( Read more... ) -
ALPS is gone.
So it's been an exciting two weeks at work. Monday afternoon april 16th, company president calls in every employee in the building for a meeting. ALPS has just been bought out by 4WALL and is now 4WALL Boston. Took me totally by surprise. Some of the managers were told a week or so before that, and prior to that only the owners and one ( Read more... ) -
Free food today!
So, as a lifelong batchelor and indifferent at best cook, I now find myself cooking meals for my mom and myself. In being prepared for emergencies, I have a generator, fuel, keep a few cases of bottled water, and I bought one of those buckets of food that was a weeks worth of food for four people ( Read more... ) -
Two years ago.
So, two years ago, around two in the afternoon, my home caught fire. Folks who have been following me already know what happened then. Today is the closeout of any new claims on the insurance on the house. There haven't been, but I have been procrastinating on the final signoff until last week just in case. That was signed off my mom last ( Read more... ) -
Power outage, day three
So, in the last week, two noreasters blew through eastern mass. There is third one forcast for monday that may also wallop us. First one was mainly rain and high winds, and did major damage to the power network in southeast mass and cape cod. Second one started out as rain and moderately high winds, gusts only up to around 40mph. But it ( Read more... ) -
Busy February.
It's been a busy month. We had some weather to complicate things. Busy with preparation for and actually running the con suite for Boskone again. The weekend after Boskone was Anthro New England at the Boston Park Plaza hotel. Now I'm busy wrapping up the final claim on the fire insurance stuff for the house. I have lots to say about all ( Read more... ) -
Arisia fails again.
I tried to go to arisia today. Just for a couple hours to visit the dealers room and see a few friends. Their lovely and allegedly much improved registration system wouldn't sell me a day badge. According to the obfuscatory staff person who kept repeating platitudes right out of Dilbert when I was asking about getting a badge. They were ( Read more... ) -
Happy nu year.
So it's 2018. 2017 was not fun, I hope 2018 is better ( Read more... ) -
One year ago today.
At around 11pm, the people at the nursing home called to let me and mom know that my dad had just passed away. No memorial service or anything, just remembering that it's been a year. I miss my dad.
Crossposted from Dreamwidth.