So...2010 ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas, everyone! Tomorrow, pghkitten, the kittens and I will spent Christmas morning with my folks, then repair to New Castle for Christmas dinner, to return to Pittsburgh on the 26th. Hope all of you have a safe, warm, happy holiday!

...at this hour, I was putting on my suit, although the tuxedo waited till later in the afternoon. A few short hours from now, about the time she'll be coming home from work today and falling into my arms again, Stacie was holding my hand as we pledged to stay together forever ( Read more... )

So when I saw a headline on Yahoo about a new movie starring Debbie Gibson and Lorenzo Lamas involving a giant shark and a giant cephalopod, I assumed it was some sort of Internet meme or joke. Apparently I underestimated the potential of the modern world to yield things that no sane brain would ever conceive.

Mega Shark vs. Giant OctopusThis ( Read more... )

I'm back ( Read more... )

My grandmother is dead. She passed away on February 27th; I only just found out. I'm not grieving, but am gradually coming to the awareness that that entire generation of my family is now gone; I no longer have surviving grandparents. More to say about this and other things later.

Best road signs ever.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29017293/?GT1=43001

I'm not often one to wax poetic about a sports team...but damn. The Steelers just won an incredible last-second game, making them the only time in the NFL to win six Super Bowls. They didn't play their best...our vaunted Steel Curtain defense was evidently a bit rusty...but we pulled some amazing plays and came through. And as a storyteller, I ( Read more... )

The kittens are home. Eris was released from the hospital after she received an appetite stimulant and started eating, and the same was sent home for Mina. The two of them are very happy to be back together- I think the strain of their first separation since birth has worn on them and slowed their healing- and now both are playing, eating (less ( Read more... )

Out kittens are sick. They haven't eaten except for a few nibbles in two days, are listless, and Eris is throwing up. We took them to an emergency vet today, but there's no clear diagnosis; could be a bug, could be worms, could be a bad reaction to the rabies shot they had the other day. In any event, they're home now, and sleeping on a chair ( Read more... )