Mom and grandma were talking last week, and grandma has realized she is not getting any younger and it might behoove her to start checking out any assisted living facilities near us and my uncle up in Algonquin. She did visit a place up north and apparently wasn't impressed, so since mom has tomorrow off, they figured they'd look at one that's ( Read more... )

I'd just updated my Duolingo app within the past couple weeks, and here we go again--another update. The previous update was a bit of an overhaul, and I didn't care for it, enough that I went to the full-on website to see what people were saying. I did notice comments mentioning something called crown levels, but that didn't really make sense to ( Read more... )

My parents are working at reducing their monthly bills while my father has no income. This week's episode: Cable. The cable bill came and was waaay too expensive, and it mentioned something about the whatever package going up in price by $3 per month. My parents realized, uh, we don't even *need* that package. So, off to the Xfinity store to ( Read more... )

Mom got an email the other day saying Batavia-opoly was in. I think it mentioned that one could pick up a reserved copy at the Chamber of Commerce, which is downtown. She implored me to go get it, since they're only open 'til 5; that's when she gets home--on a good day. Wednesday was my big shopping adventure, so she asked me to go on Thursday ( Read more... )

Back in the summer, our Chamber of Commerce started advertising a Monopoly-style board game based on our town as a fundraiser. This seemed intriguing and I figured mom or I would sign up for one at Windmill Fest. She actually beat me to the punch when she came across a booth at the 4th of July festivities, handed over $25, and gave pretty much ( Read more... )

Today was a busy day, one where it'll be better for me to distill what all happened and post tomorrow at the soonest, so instead I'll note a couple recent milestones ( Read more... )

This started off about being something silly, but a couple amazing things did happen today, so what the heck. I should buy a lottery ticket, it's that kind of day ( Read more... )

Every morning, I weigh myself on the Wii, then do whichever two mind and body tests that come up. There are two tests that show how quickly you can shift your weight to wherever the particular bars are placed (say, with 80% of your weight on your left foot, 20% on your right, then 60% left, 40% right, until the fifth and last one wants you to be ( Read more... )

We *thought* we'd have a quiet evening at home. Then mom pulled out the wine ( Read more... )

I'm already thinking of what to give up for Lent this year, and one obvious one is to give up playing online games. I got really into them when I wasn't working, to the point where I was playing them for several hours at a time. I then stopped because I knew they were bad for me. But a couple weeks ago, I got a hankering for some online ( Read more... )