Today I am feeling very old. My little brother turned fifty yesterday, I'm finally buying a car this week and a dear friend passed suddenly Saturday evening. Joe makes thirty-three people I mourn but have been unable to bury in this poison year. I'll regain my feet in another day or two, but right now I'm winged.

--J

So snapshot from early this morning ( Read more... )

Wow, you'd think a big company like this could kick the heat on.

--J

Holy cats. Got an email this morn that ins enrollment through Creative Group is now open - and that I freaking qualify - and I have now enrolled in their "preventive plus" (big on wellness visits & cheap drugs) plan ( Read more... )

What a lovely day! Perfect weather, wonderful folks, more interesting and unusual cheese than you could shake a stick at-- what could be bad ( Read more... )

Something just came to me:

My eyes, my teeth, my jewelry, my foot--
not to mention my mended head, hands, knee, ribs, pelvis--
all guarantee that I will always be identifiable.

What an odd thought.

--J

Original laptop battery died a horrible death (smoke-- SMOKE!) so I finally decided to dive in and switch that out. Thirteen teensy screws and the fourteenth, the second screw that nails in the battery, stripped immediately. M*****F*****. After sweat, cursing and some creativity that I'm sure totally voids the warranty (what warranty?) - if ( Read more... )

So yesterday I ( Read more... )

Trying my hand at a little stone-soup pho for this evening's dinner. It has been some time since I've made proper pho, and I didn't have all the proper pho ingredients in the house... but I do like that I'm able to concoct wonderful, delicious things out of the random bits I have on hand. Like the evening I cobbled together a hot pot of yummy and ( Read more... )

I tend to make the better part of my posts here my-eyes-only these days because, though I'll always be a writer and always need to record my thoughts, I don't always want to share much of my life or subject others to the unfuzzier workings of my brainbox. It's not always pretty or friendly in here and I'd much rather be solitary if it means I can ( Read more... )