Well, everyone, I hope you all had more fun with 2009 than I did.

Lift a glass at midnight, and here's hoping 2010 will prove immeasurably better for all of us.

Happy Thanksgiving, one and all. I'm sitting and writing this with my first spare moment today ( Read more... )

Those of you who are bored by heraldica should probably skip today's post.

So I've been trying, honestly trying, to update the Pictorial Dictionary so that every period charge includes a date, a family name, and a citation. I keep discovering charges I thought I'd covered, going back and re-doing. Given the Absolute and Utter hell my life has ( Read more... )

Our offices are moving at the end of the month, so this week is being spent packing: papers, files, books, old travel records, all the paperwork that we never look at but need to keep ( Read more... )

When I say everyone seems to want a piece of me these days, I'm only barely metaphorical ( Read more... )

I know everyone says life isn't fair, but I didn't expect it to be this unfair.

Kitty contracted H1N1 around Labor Day. She's been in hospital for three weeks. This is a young, energetic, active, powerful woman. The stupid swinery shouldn't have had a chance against her ( Read more... )

I am preparing to go to Parents' Night at Jacob's high school, there to meet with his counselor and his teachers for the coming school year. I leave shortly.

And I can barely contain the effervescent joy of my anticipation for this ordeal.

Worker 1: Thanks, Worker 2, you're awesome. Sometimes.

Worker 2: "Sometimes"?!

Worker 1: (shrugging) Well, awe isn't sustainable.

There are two kinds of dogs in this world.

The first, when they see you petting another dog, say, "Pay attention to me too!"

The other, when they see you petting another dog, say, "Pay attention to me instead!"

(And let's face it, some people are dogs.)

(Yeah, let's talk about something else besides my disintegrating body for a while ( Read more... )