After wacking my head on a metal furnace pipe I decided that it would probably be a good idea to get a tetanus booster. I can't remember the last time I was vaccinated for tetanus, but I'm pretty sure that's not just because I hit my head hard enough to make my childhood memories wobble in their sockets ( Read more... )

Is anyone willing to spare me some floor space in their room to sleep on?

I have never gotten more than a bit buzzed in my life. I rarely drink and when I do I almost never drink enough to do anything stupid. The extremely rare times in my life (twice?) that I drank enough to be tempted to act stupid, I just sat quietly until the feeling of sobriety crept back up from the primitive center of brain stem inherited from my ( Read more... )

Ginger's memorial service had originally been planned for the first week of October, but I called it off for several reasons ( Read more... )

Night before last Anton and Linda went to see daughter Megan's marching band competition. I had tentatively planned on coming along to shoot some photos. But when the time came I was sitting in fuzzy blue bathrobe and feeling a little under the weather ( Read more... )

On Her Casino Royale Majesty's Secret Service ( Read more... )

The car is still in the shop. I had so much trouble trying to wake up today that I missed their phone call at 9 this morning. I set the clock on my cell phone to go off twice, once at an unlikely morning hour for me to get out of bed (to make sure that I at least take my pills on time) and a second at noon. I must have mistaken the phone call as ( Read more... )

Stopped by Jules' and picked up Ginger's wedding ring. Jules had repaired the damage due to wear & tear and fashioned a hanger piece that keeps the chain from sawing away at the soft silver that it is constructed of. When I have time to get the Ginger's favorite diamond necklace from home, Jules will set it to hang in the center of the ring. It's ( Read more... )

Waiting for the car to be repaired is going to delay moving base of operations back home. Staying with the Petersen's for another night. The battery was dead and the electrical system has an issue that messing with the fuses did not resolve ( Read more... )

I've decided that I'd really like to stay in the Twin Cities. And I'd really like to stay in the same apartment ( Read more... )