Here's hoping that things have generally been good for you this year, and particular hopes that this day is extra special!

Happy Birthday wishes for Chaoswolf !

This is an original show produced by WGN about building the A-Bomb.  But even more, it's an exaggerated and charicatured version of how people were reacting to the stresses of working on the project (if scientists) and living in such poor conditions with no explanation of "WHY?" (for the families of the scientists ( Read more... )

I won a couple of tickets in their lottery, and the person I had expected to use the other one will not be using it (health reasons ( Read more... )

The Lunal Eclipse is in totality right now. Sometimes enough light gets refracted by the atmosphere to make the moon a fairly solid red. Other times the moon just mostly disappears. Tonight it's the latter. There's some red on the leading half, the trailing half is almost invisible ( Read more... )

One of my neighbors has a soft spot for cats. She also has a second home out in the valley. The development it was part of went under, and a lot of people abandoned their cats when they left. So she took them in, made sure they were copy-protected, and brought them over here. She had about 6 of them, passing some on to new homes but always seeming ( Read more... )

The Perseid meteor shower is tonight, and the moon rises late and is only a sliver anyway. But unfortunately, there is a bit of a haze tonight. It not only mutes the light of the meteors themselves, it reflects back a significant amount of the city lights nearby. And when the moon rises (pretty soon now), the light from it will also be scattered ( Read more... )

We were able to care for her at home all the way to the end, thanks to the good help of Hospice of the Valley. A good life, well lived, ending shortly after her 90th birthday. All her surviving children were here. We were truly blessed to have had her as our mother.

It's awfully quiet in the house tonight.

My Friends page had turned into a "Page Not Found" error message for several days. I had tried clearing my local cache, but that hadn't helped. So I sent in a support request. Today I got a response from LJ indicating that the page worked fine for them, and directing my attention to the FAQ about clearing my local cache. Not all that helpful - ( Read more... )

Yesterday and Today, when I try to access my Friends Page I get an error message that the Page Wasn't Found. That's happened before during the Denial Of Service attacks on LJ, so I just gave it some time. But it still hasn't resolved, and there's nothing listed on the Known Problems page that would seem to have any bearing on this. Anyone have ( Read more... )