Today would have been my dad's 92nd birthday. He's already long since gone now. He died 10 days after his 78th birthday. Hard to believe it's been almost 14 years now. I hope Roger is hanging out with him now. Dad served in Munich during the Korean War. His platoon had been slated to go to Korea as well, but at the last minute a runner came aboard ( Read more... )

So if you HAPPENED to be on my page in the last hour or so, you may have noticed that it looked pretty chaotic, if you HAPPENED to refresh it multiple times you might have noticed that it was gradually reconstructing itself. Well now it's all finished. I was working on reclaiming another of my favorite layouts. Spring Argyle and now it's perfect ( Read more... )

Dude. I finally got my third jab yesterday. The first two I barely felt. This one holy crap, I watched her put the needle in and it was like "NO I'M NOT GOING IN!" The pharmacist saw it too. She said something like "Man... I need to order some different needles, these are not very sharp," and it wasn't! It stopped three times, once at the skin JAB ( Read more... )

I don't want to rant about this on Facebook, because I'm still mad about it, and I yet I don't want to offend anyone that might be a coworker. But yesterday a thing happened that really upset me. It upset me a surprising amount and I'm still not over it... So I need to rant about it and get it off my chest ( Read more... )

So frustrating ( Read more... )

My thoughts on Maus by Art Spiegelman being banned from schools in McMinn County Tennessee?  Ok. see I do get it.  We're talking about 8th graders.  13 and 14 year old kids.  I get that. I also feel like some of the reporting is a little disingenuous.  Some are just presenting a boogieman of a book being banned and really glossing over the things ( Read more... )

You know.. so a couple of weeks ago, I broke my glasses. So I went to the same eye doctor i went to the last time I needed glasses. They were old anyway, and I needed new ones before they broke. This was just the stick that broke the camels b... glasses. lol. So when I walked in there, the doctor was out sick, so I scheduled for a week later since ( Read more... )

I did not write at all tonight.  NOT ONE WORD. And I'm not going to start now. I wasted way too much time with TurboTax trying to get the free service that my bank links to, but which they claim to have discontinued.  But then they have a DIFFERENT free service for simple taxes (like mine). Only it's NOT... because they will find SOME excuse to try ( Read more... )

So Chapter 18 - What If?  It's finally taking shape.  It's 4 scenes (really 3, but the first one has a shift in PoV and a small amount of napping, that I split into two scenes ( Read more... )

My planned activity for today was as follows ( Read more... )