We found two gray kittens under a bush in the back yard. They were about two weeks old.

They are now five weeks old. Valerie feeds them KMR. I am seldom able to get upstairs due to edema from meds, so Valerie is now a mommy- right after getting a rad hys.

The gods do not have a subtle sense of humor.

It's been a month since her surgery. They got everything they were looking for, and she's even off the post-surgery oxycodone.

Valerie has taken a train to go see her relatives.
That's her present.

I haven't.
That's mine.

Valerie, my best friend and boon companion of 36 years, told me yesterday that her doctor had found a malignant tumor in the lining of her uterus.

After Christmas they're going in to take it out, along with uterus, Fallopian tubes, and ovaries.

Please pray for her on Christmas.

But you pretty much have to follow @PrezHarrington on Twitter to hear from me.

Rapid feedback has spoiled me rotten.

#JSYK.

WRITE THIS DOWN.

Bacon is a FOOD.

Cheese is a CONDIMENT.

Post this conspicuously in your kitchen, add it to your shopping list, and use glass etching fluid to put it on the window of every goddamn restaurant you can reach before you run out or the cheese apologists get you.

This is embarrassing to relate, but next year I plan to go to my first WorldCon ever, and I don't have enough money for a hotel room.

I need over a thousand dollars.

My PayPal is shandalimas@earthlink.net, if you can throw me something.

Think of it as a Christmas miracle.

It occurs to me I've never published this idea, and I think it's the only explanation.

Dreams do not occur at unthinkably high speed. Dream images occur all over the brain. All the images in a dream occur at the same time, generated by different parts of your cortex. The brain is so made as to require some kind of order, and it assigns times to ( Read more... )

This morning I dropped my roomie Valerie off at the train station, to visit her family for Thanksgiving. The train was nine minutes late.

IF HILLARY HAD WON THE ELECTION THE TRAINS WOULD RUN ON TIME!

(Of course, people who voted against her would ride in boxcars....)