When I have a suckass day, I put it all into perspective by thinking about the men's room attendant at the International House of Asparagus.

Over the past few days there has emerged another chapter in the whole heart saga. A relatively minor chapter, all things considered, but still one worth mentioning here, albeit after the fact. I haven't posted about it on LJ because ... well, it just didn't occur to me, and if it had I probably would have been too dispirited to give it the ( Read more... )

I just loaded a blog entry at Open the Pod Bay Doors, Hal about me and Ray Bradbury.


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It's an odd feeling, reading Elizabeth's LJ for Aug. 2009 from this distant hilltop of Aug. 2010. Of course, I'm just glad I'm here to read it at all. I don't remember anything at all between July 10 and a year ago tomorrow-ish, and then only vaguely and (as I discovered reading Elizabeth's entries) not always correctly.

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I'm mentioned in an article with Arthur Conan Doyle, Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson, and Nicholas Meyer. Also Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Norman Mailer, and Gore Vidal. Wish it had spoilered the plot of my story correctly, but hey, I'll take it.

Today's my birthday.

No big deal, ordinarily, except that one year ago today was so close to being my final birthday that you would have made a foolhardy bet to lay down money otherwise. And yet here I am, pleased to be here, thrilled to be married to a rare woman who was fiercely determined to stare down those odds and slam Death's door so hard ( Read more... )

Henry VIII (played by Brian Blessed) on Twitter, as Henry 8.0:

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With Elizabeth at the Prime Meridian marker, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London. Nov. 2004.


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First of all, as reported earlier, today's our anniversary. So that gold chocolate heart there has a double meaning today. Yay!

Secondly, I should probably post something about this week's hospital trip. It was a short but significant one. I'm thinking that this could well be my final LJ post using either of my "heart surgery" tags.

As expected, the ( Read more... )