*  On Saturday, during the book signing, I got two text messages from Chicken. 1.  “There was a small fire in the kitchen today. The funniest part was looking at Dad as if to say, ‘There, there is a fire. What now?’” 2. “OMG I SAW MY LITTLE BROTHER NAKED AND I’M SCARRED FOR THE… Read More

This first picture is the Florida skyway– it is notable because it’s the bridge Tory fell from in Black John.   BTW– Tory is an asshole. The second picture is of poisonous snakes in Florida. What’s notable about this is that it’s at a restroom in Florida– so yanno.. Watch out for poisonous snakes! The… Read More

Okay, so I’ve been known to terrify people with my agendas.  You’ve seen them– what I do during the day, and it’s usually exhausting? Well, yesterday we went to a knitting workshop on color work with the amazing Franklin Habit, and we had the best fun!!  I learned a few things (speed swatching, garter jacquard–… Read More

Okay– so, it’s dumb. I was getting ready to fold clothes–and there’s ALWAYS a LOT of clothes. I used to call it the laundry monster, remember? We’d pull clothes out of the clean pile and wear them and feed them to the dirty pile and repeat the process? Well, anyway– trying to catch up with… Read More

So, I leave in two days, and I’m behind deadline and I’m a little sick and I’ve got a dozen things todo and whine whine whine whine who cares. Mostly, I had a normal day, and the most exceptional thing was that I got to talk to Aila, my aqua instructor, whom I haven’t seen… Read More

I had my “lady parts” visit today– I’ve got a healthy family history, and with the exception of the weight I’m relatively healthy, so I get these about every two years.  In spite of the fact that Kaiser has been the closest thing to socialized medicine until the ACA, it’s gotten really human in the… Read More

There’s this sort of dance married people do sometimes. “Oh, I’m sorry dear–I’ll get the dishes.” “No, no– you’ve been cooking dinner for the last month. I’ll get them.” “But you’ve been busy with gaming and meetings and with helping Chicken with her broken car, I’ll get it.” “No, no– don’t worry. I’ll make it… Read More

Today, in light of the thing that was inflicted on our nation on Friday, a lot of people were quoting George Orwell’s 1984. Now, 1984 is a favorite of mine–I used to teach a unit on that and Brave New World that I really really loved. But although those books deal with fascism and massive… Read More

Today’s schedule: Wake up at 7:30 Take Squish to school at 8:30 Get home at 9:10 (with coffee and sausage burrito of course) Walk dogs, use the bathroom, leave at 9:50 Get to  Chicken’s at 10:15 Get Chicken to work a little bit late at 10:50 because we stopped to get her food, and she’d… Read More

Okay– two things today, one old, one new: New: ZoomBoy has taken to calling the dogs “assles”, thinking that I won’t notice he’s really just copying ME when I call them assholes. I let him get away with it because A. Middle School, B. Mom swears all the time, what did I expect, and C…. Read More