This will be quick since I'm pressed for time: Things have been screwed up - had to deal with with more family stuff so I missed my first flight, they changed planes so some of my luggage is lost, using my credit card out of state marked it "stolen" and I had a hassle getting that straightened out, Tawana's flights got delayed too and worst of all ( Read more... )

So aforementioned parent is in hospice care now. It's officially what's called palliative care, which means the treatment is to make the patient as comfortable as possible... and that's all ( Read more... )

First off, I had a superb Sunday getting to visit Lord and Lady Solfire and basically spend a wonderful day with them - and getting to congratulate them on the Impendingness of Parental Status. The more I think about it, Ryan would almost inevitably make an awesome dad. I brought them one of my spare B&W monitors to help repair the server that will ( Read more... )

So... this last weekend I got a view of this "Life" walkway from both turnstiles again. The parent I spoke of last time (I'm being specifically vague because it's unfair to suddenly dump a lot of info on my LJ about something or someone if I haven't been writing about them all along) that the medical folks were unsure about as far as what was wrong ( Read more... )

I think that ought to be a word. It probably already is, but I think I'm going to assign it my own meaning. I've rediscovered and reacquainted myself with some of my old experiments at making computer music. I hooked up, programmed and jury-rigged some arcane setups in the past, long before there was MIDI, just getting all those different machines ( Read more... )

..but for the one who...
..had a not-so-great birthday - hopefully this will make up for it at least a little...


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Lifted quietly from the Witchiebun:
Copy this sentence into your LiveJournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.Not technically married yet, but so "not even thinking of anyone else" that it is pretty much only a technicality. I keep waiting for these ( Read more... )

First it was Vinchers...

Then it was me..

And after that...

And so... ^_^


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The silliness that brought this on!


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