Ted Stevens is about three years older than my father would be had he not died this spring, and has been a member of the Senate for about three months less than I have been breathing.

Take that and relate it to your own lives as you will, I just hope the @$$#()|_[- goes down, and hard.

So, my new kinda-crappy-kinda-fun job has me talking to people on the phone all over the country.  Guess where I was calling earlier tonight.  You get three guesses and if the first two aren't Southern California, they don't count ( Read more... )

how your mind works, sometimes.

So I'm sitting reading this book by Terry Pratchet that I haven't read before and suddenly it hits me right between the eyes...  the last time I saw my mother actually happy and enjoying herself.  Charmaine and I were all packed up and getting ready to go to Minicon, Mr. Pratchet was one of the guests of honor, and ( Read more... )

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"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, ( Read more... )

I haven't been posting much for a while, much to the relief of many but also, I must confess, to the distress of some who have reminded me of this fact. This update is directed towards them ( Read more... )

Life is the struggle of order versus chaos ( Read more... )

Part of me thinks I should tuck this entire entry behind a cut tag but a louder part of me screams that that's part of the problem ( Read more... )

No, I don't mean that in a green sort of way I mean it in a basic science sort of way... or maybe both ( Read more... )

As of today, everyone is loose in the house.

No one has had to bleed yet.

I haven't been the center of this much jealousy since I was twenty-two. Or everyone is just sucking up to the Big Dog.

They're still easier to deal with than people.

What do you do for father's day when your dad was (is) an asshole? How do you ignore all the reminders of all the uglieness, violence and pain during every commercial break and every set of billboards and all the rest of the marketing bombardment ( Read more... )