My doctor is an IDIOT! Yesterday, they told me it was perfectly natural for a two-week old incision to burst open and spew Betadine (left over from surgery) and blood everywhere for hours. Today, I have a freaking hole in my chest. It's deep. It undercuts the part of the incision scar that didn't open up, and you don't want to know the kind of ( Read more... )

These are photos of Las Pozas, commonly called the Bird House. Built in the lush jungles outside of Xilitla, Mexico, by an eccentric, flamboyant, British millionaire named Edward James and his friend Plutarco Gastelum, Las Pozas is a Wonderland of surrealistic architecture. Paths wind through verdant jungle, alongside a wide clear stream that opens ( Read more... )

Still scanning photos. Looking at all these pictures, it's really sunken in just how much travel and how many misadventures my sister and I have shared. Anyway, today's theme is Cool Stuff My Sister and I Used To Do Together Before She Had A Baby and I Became A Workaholic.

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Yep, more photos.

( Kitties Sulking about a Snowfall )

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The story: Once upon a time, my sister and I almost rammed a moose with a canoe. We canoed around the bend of a narrow stream to find ourselves a mere eight feet, and closing fast, from a very large, very hairy brown haunch, the owner of which was grazing in belly-deep water with his back to us. Our first thought was "Grizzly Bear!" as we had been ( Read more... )

AAAHHHHH! These fucking doctors are driving me mad. Yesterday, I got a nasty call from my surgeon's office telling me I had missed my appointment yesterday morning, the appointment I had thought was for Friday. We rescheduled for next Wednesday. Tonight, after the surgeon's office was closed, I got a call from the hospital scheduling department for ( Read more... )

Today's random photos are of Devil's Hole in Texas. This pit appeared in a Nissan (I think) commercial a few months ago, albeit with its depth of 150 feet greatly enhanced by computer-generated graphics. The pit is on park land and is usually closed, but on this occasion it was opened for a caving convention. Unbeknownst to us, however, the park ( Read more... )

Sorting through old photographs the other day, I realized how many of them are fading fast with age. Last night, in the middle of the night, during those hours when it never occurs to me the magnitude of work involved in my latest bright idea, I decided to start scanning my old photos, so I could archive them on CD. At 6 a.m. I was still scanning ( Read more... )

It's raining unbelievably hard, so I've put off today's errands (on no small account because the windshield wipers on my lemon of a truck tend to stop working unexpectedly, enhancing my appreciation of life through paroxysmal near-death experiences). Fall always puts me in a reflective mood, so I'm wasting the afternoon sipping absinthe, reading my ( Read more... )