I talked to Dad yesterday and he told me Scott was home from the hospital and glad of it. He was mostly sleeping, which makes sense, as everyone knows, even if you're not in pain they never let you get much sleep in the hospital ( Read more... )

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Friday, 3 pm$7 for an hour and a half of connectivity. Hmm. Nope. I'm not an addict, I am NOT an addict. Not not not ( Read more... )

My knowledge of the details is pretty sketchy at this point but early yesterday evening my brother was stabbed three times by his next door neighbor. No one else was home at the time so he went inside and called 911 himself, the cops came, looked at him and called an ambulance. He's in the hospital now and set to go home (probably) tomorrow. ( Read more... )

While I'm waiting for the video that I took of the baby giraffe running around to upload to the LJScrapbook (I was unable to upload the video, not sure why, I know others have done it). I wanted to recap last week ( Read more... )

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Fun birthday celebration for deusinnomen yesterday, too much good food, catching up with some previously met folks (hi beknatok and trollbrian!) and meeting some new ones, then off to The Boats (well, just one for me) to pay my Stupidity Tax, but I had fun there as well ( Read more... )

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Penguicon was lots of fun, I'm definitely glad I went and would go again. The drive was fine, we had beautiful weather. lunch at Cracker Barrel (mmm, cheesy hash browns) and found a couple of caches on the way. We got to Troy in time to have dinner with lverhulst, register, and wander the con hotel. We wound up in the gaming room playing "Betrayal at House ( Read more... )