Don't be poor. It makes you stupid.I lived this experience. My oldest daughter was still in her first year of life, and we were on Medicaid at the time. We had a decent medical practice, as good as we could have expected it seemed. She was having issues with reflux, which were of course very distressing to us, as we had a kid who was not ( Read more... )

Warning: graphic sexual language ahead ( Read more... )

I find with age and experience that I’m exposed to more and more uncomfortable truths. These aren’t cases of right versus wrong, or even wrong versus wrong, but rather right versus right. My favorite fictional example comes from the movie The Incredibles (2004), in an argument between Bob and Helen Parr over allowing their (superhero) child to ( Read more... )

Yeah, because this happened today ( Read more... )

Longtime followers of my LJ might remember this creature that lived in the apartment beneath us several years ago. Because of the rather nonsensical but terroristic menacing he did we called him “Nearly Brainless Nick”, or Brainless for short. Needless to say we needed away from that house, and we did end up buying a house in another town a few ( Read more... )

So, when’s the last time you went bowling ( Read more... )

I remember a couple years ago when the original “Missing Stair” post was penned over at The Pervocracy, and my wife remembers my reactions to it quite well. I was pretty much - huhwhat? Then came some incoherent audible frustration that probably included a few made up swear words. The term “rape babysitter” was now a part of my lexicon, and it ( Read more... )

I haven't really touched my LJ since my last run of Idol. So when I go back and look at my profile, it's interesting to see what about me has changed and what hasn't. I might even update it ( Read more... )

Yup, dusting this off for one more go-round of LJ Idol. It'll keep me out of trouble... oh wait, that's a filthy rotten lie right there!

Introduction coming... soon!

cheshire23 and I spend our Fridays in the rural area southwest of Albany, NY doing disaster recovery work. It’s been a year and a half since Irene and Lee drove through the area, and while it looks nothing like what it did in the immediate aftermath of the storms, there’s still a long way to go. Most of the houses have been fixed and people have moved on ( Read more... )