So James is feeling much better today, and is hoping to go back to work tomorrow. Meanwhile, what with Labor Day and James being home sick today, my internal calender is completely shot. Working at home as I do, I basically gauge what day it is by the two things that adhere to a regular […]
Monthly Archives: September 2005
So yesterday, we went out to Target and got a new toaster. And what was supposed to be a laundry bag, but which turned out to be one of those little mesh baggies for washing delicates. Except–this is the weird bit–it’s in a laundry bag package. For a different brand. I nearly took the thing […]
James is sick. He has some kind of horrible explosive cough, which came up very suddenly, so he spent last night in that special hell where you catnap for ten minutes, wake yourself up coughing, stagger to the bathroom, stagger back to bed, rinse, repeat. I, needless to say, spent last night in the rather […]
Good god, it’s Stumpy. I had written Stumpy off as having gone to the Great Wildlife Vortex in the Sky months ago, but what should limp onto the deck today but a squirrel with a puff of tail and a dangling and dislocated hind leg. I am quite astounded. Unlike Gimpy, her leg does not […]
So I just uploaded the last page of the fourth chapter of Digger. Next week, (i.e. two and a half weeks for the reader) I embark on Chapter Five! I am occasionally a little astounded that it’s gotten this far. The next chapter will introduce at least one (and hopefully a couple, depending on how […]
The cat decided it was time to get up. Normally we’re up at 8:30ish, which is fine by her, but since she has no real concept of weekends, our apparently random desire to sleep until 10 baffles and enrages her. We are violating the natural order, damnit! It’s up to Athena, last line of defense […]
Y’all may have noticed that I haven’t said anything here about New Orleans. Nor, after this brief comment, will I again. I’ll do you all the courtesy of assuming that you feel as any decent human being would feel, and are giving what you are capable of giving, and I’ll assume you’re giving me the […]
Another day of gaming with Twitchy the elf! As long-time readers may recall, the campaign’s premise is that we all have amnesia, and are only slowly learning what we can do. (Seriously, half a dozen sessions, and my only known skills are Hide and Knowledge- Political History. How sad izzat? Based on this, our GM […]
So I glanced out the window today, and saw a lumpy squirrel on the landlady’s feeder. Two big hairless bots, one in the armpit, one centered more or less between the shoulderblades. It’s a sign of how deeply living in the Wildlife Vortex has warped me that I felt a bizarre sense of relief, as […]