BREAKFAST SKILLS: FAIL ( Read more... )

At 8 pm Ginger's temp was 100.7 ( Read more... )

Ginger was getting so weak that she couldn't get up out her chair. Her feet were puffing up and her lower limbs were cool to the touch but her arms and head still felt really hot ( Read more... )

I've been monitoring Ginger's condition as best I can with just a thermometer and some Tylenol. I haven't been able to get her temp below 100 since she got home ( Read more... )

I looked up the text of the Declaration of Independence and entered in the I Write Like site ( Read more... )

Ginger was released from the hospital on Tuesday. For reasons that were as inadequately explained as the reasons why it wasn't necessary to keep her in the ICU, the reason they took her off the heart monitor or even why they stopped regularly testing her hemoglobin for, oh I don't know, signs that she was slowly bleeding to death ( Read more... )

Ginger is out of the ICU and in a regular hospital room ( Read more... )

Drove Ginger to the hospital this morning. About 2 minutes after dropping her off at her usual dialysis place, she called me on my cell and told me to turn right around and get her to the ER. She had been feeling tired when we left home and now she was so exhausted that she could hardly stumble into the car ( Read more... )

I would like to see more active self-policing of convention panel audiences. Maybe we can't legislate morality for the con as a whole, but I would love to see CONvergence make more of an effort to endorse the public shaming of rude cell phone users ( Read more... )

I'm amazed at the vast improvement of childrens' behavior at the con this year. Knock on wood--it's only been day 1 of the event ( Read more... )