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Happy Day!
Happy Easter, Blessed Passover, and Joyous Spring to you all, my dears! -
In my life....
I haven't posted in a long time. We've been doing fine. I'm still in the journey to achieve some kind of restful sleep; I had the throat surgery, but I had a sleep study a couple of weeks ago which showed that I still have apnea. So, I'm getting an implant on Thursday. It will move my tongue for me(!) while I am asleep so that I can breathe ( Read more... ) -
Alert
This week's Doonesbury is about the controversial Texas abortion laws and is not being run in many papers, including the Twin Cities papers. It can be found at Doonesbury.com. -
A mostly merry Christmas
It was a good day.
( Not perfect... ) -
Happy Birthday!
Have a good one, lsanderson! -
The Very Quiet Birthday
At my age they don't mean so much. carpe_noctum_93 wanted to do something nice for me, so she made me breakfast in bed; it was VERY decadent. Bacon waffles and the whole newspaper all to myself.
After that, very little. gmcdavid and I had business at the local bank, so we went over there; we had hoped to do a little shopping after, but a) the store didn't have what the ( Read more... ) -
Thankful that we survived
We had what passes for a good Thanksgiving. ( What that means ) -
Windycon
That was truly excellent. We made a particular point of going to Windycon this year because our old friend Frank Hayes was Filk GOH, and Christian Ready, who is brilliant and fun and full of the latest astronomical goodness, was the Toastmaster. We got to see some of our oldest and bestest friends. Best of all, they got to meet the Girl. ( Read more... ) -
For the record
I had mentioned last spring that I felt weak and puny and was going to start going to the gym.
I am pleased to report that I was on my feet yesterday for three and a half hours, blending fiber, and had NO fatigue. This is by contrast with last spring, when a similar effort left me all kinds of tired.
Yay gym! -
Most excellent day!
A couple of days agocarpe_noctum_93 (otherwise known as The Girl) and I made our first-ever batch of puff pastry dough. This had been on my List forever; it finally Came to Pass because we wanted to put together a celebration dinner and I thought of Beef (well, Venison) Wellington.
We used some of the pastry in palmiers and cheese straws, and then today it met ( Read more... )