I was doing a lot better after a rocky few days, and then I came in and saw the woman who hired me into this job that I loved for so long, my direct-report boss for three years of my life, a coach and a really good friend...just announced this morning that she'll be leaving the company on Friday.

I'm okay, but....there's nothing quite like starting ( Read more... )

last week in Savage Love a mom wrote in to ask for advice about her fourteen-year-old son's porn consumption.  
(reading Savage Love is one of my guilty pleasures - guilty mostly because Dan Savage holds to the binary view of orientation, ya know.  lightswitch. people are always gay or straight - them bisexuals are just conFUsed!)

I'm pro-sex, ( Read more... )

while driving in northern berkeley, on the way to black oak books for a fix, i saw a family of deer on the sidewalk, right there amongst the houses on gilman street.  we stared, they stared back, their expressions a bit nervous; but here in daylight and safely on the sidewalk, they were nowhere near the wide eyes of a headlight encounter.  they ( Read more... )

so Windows Update keeps alerting me that there is an update ready for my computer.  finally, I give in to the nagging and decide to see what it is.

it IS the best update (from Microsoft's point of view) EVAR.

"Windows Genuine Advantage Notification

The Windows Genuine Advantage Notification tool notifies you if your copy of Windows is not genuine.  If ( Read more... )

it seems that the kids are ninjas, but more on that later.

it went really well in court today.  in a move that surprised no one, shawn sassed the judge, who had her removed from the courtroom.  ray spoke with respect, said all the right things about what's important (the children's welfare, not who has custody), and won over the judge and the social ( Read more... )

i've spent my weekend doing last minute errand/shopping stuff with a very touchy partner.  it's sometimes easier said than done, this business of being understanding when someone is being bitchy at you for reasons unrelated to you.

luckily, i have the next couple of days ALONE* to help me get over it.  ;)  better still, i managed to take that time ( Read more... )

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Dude.  Someday, I could have my own insulin field!

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2005/12/28/insulin-safflower051228.html

so my partner's parents, out of the blue, after telling him in no uncertain terms they did not think he should go out to Florida, just put a check for $500 in the mail to help defray the expenses of his trip ( Read more... )

I am not sure it's a good thing that the Kaiser emergency department staff remembers me from my last visit. (Ray woke up in the middle of the night in enough pain that he keeled over on the way to the loo. we're waiting on a cat scan now, yay. whatever is wrong, I'm sure it comes from the current situation, blah blah ( Read more... )