Bah humbug! I'm sick. I have a stopped up nose and my throat really hurts. At least it started last night and not yesterday ( Read more... )

I live in a mostly-college-people neighborhood (Southside) of Birmingham and almost all of my neighbors are young people. Last night my neighbors were being quite loud. One of the boys in the house across the street was learning how to play the bass guitar so he was playing arpeggios. C C F G F C. Very bluesish. Then, at the same time, one of the ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I went to a homeschooling party. As usual, it wasn't terribly exciting. Well, there was talking, but that's just about all. Compared with some of the stories that I hear from my schooling friends, it was positively comatose. They tell about parties where there's alcohol and pot, and parties where the parents are out of town. Those kinds ( Read more... )

Ok, yesterday I was at a dentist appointment (hate those) when our car refused to start. Now, this is also the car that we temporarily share with my dad and pick him up from work in. This car is one of those really annoying cars that, if you don't have just enough gas in it, won't start when it is facing downhill. Anyway it was raining and my ( Read more... )

Greetings, earthlings ( Read more... )