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Heroin, Retail
One evening a few months ago I was in the mood for some kind of chocolaty evening nosh. As I was in the local Rite Aid at the time and saw a bag of chocolate-covered peanuts, I thought "why not" and bought them.
I now know the pleasure and pain of addiction. Worse, chocolate-covered peanuts are apparently an uncontrolled substance. That means ( Read more... ) -
Dad - the PET scan
I've been a bad son. It took me until Tue. of this week to call Dad to see how he was doing since having birthday dinner with him the middle of Sept ( Read more... ) -
Living Again
Some semblance of the flu / tension headache / food poisoning found me late last week and left me in bed all weekend + Monday. Sparing you the gratuitously gorey details, let's just say I can't remember when I was last that sick ( Read more... ) -
The Markets - Fear is in Control
Something happened in the investing world today that I've not seen before. (Don't assume the opening comparison means more than necessary: I only started following the stock and other markets regularly in 2003.) I subscribe to one of the market charting services that lets me look back as far as 10 years. When I look back at the last 9 years of ( Read more... ) -
Going, going...
My beloved Winehouse is about to make a transition from its current life and location to a new one. Wed. Sept. 3rd is the last night of the Winehouse on Olney Rd. That evening the chefs and bartenders will pull out the stops to offer the remaining food and cocktails in new and even more inventive styles, since they can't take those to their new ( Read more... ) -
Capote + Cartman = Ziro
I saw "The Clone Wars" over the weekend. One of the characters is Jabba's uncle, Ziro. Though Jabba only seems to speak Hutt-ese, Ziro speaks... uhhh... whichever of the Republic tongue's that's understandable as English ( Read more... ) -
Take Me Away
I need a break. Between being turned into the most capable clerk in the office (a festering discontent), leading a new board into a new year, organizing a fund raiser, keeping up with a father undergoing cancer treatment, and just generally trying to keep the chores done, I'm overwhelmed ( Read more... ) -
Dad - the good and the questionable
Three days with Dad turned out to be a good thing. First, he's tolerating his chemo treatment very well, which is encouraging, considering he's only had one. Hopefully this will be the pattern and not the exception. Twelve treatments are planned, one every other week, which means he'll be at this the rest of this year ( Read more... )
