For those of you that have not been made aware in some form already, this entry is to pass along the word of the passing of Lucinda Stephenson. (This is her family ( Read more... )

Butterfly pie is not pie, nor does it contain butterflies. Sorry. It is the name on the box of pastries from the Asian supermarket where Liam and I ended up yesterday noon. I would call butterfly pie 'palmiers,' the clerk at my local panaderia would probably label them 'orejas;' either way, they're sugary puff pastry, rolled up from both sides ( Read more... )

Liam and I actually overpaid the feds last year, so we're getting a bit back--which will go straight off to the state. For some strange reason, even though we overpaid, the feds still want us to make estimated tax payments this year. I dunno, I don't understand how the guvmint works and I've worked for them almost all my career ( Read more... )

My poor, neglected journal! I haven't posted anything in at least three months and tonight, I'm mostly on to bitch ( Read more... )

We had a pretty quiet new year's eve--I had forgotten one of my dad's Christmas presents, so Liam and I drove in to the San Gabriel valley to deliver it and also get Liam a pastrami sandwich at Top's on Colorado, which he had been seriously jonesing. Since we would be in the neighborhood, I decided to add a visit to the Sierra Madre rose float [in ( Read more... )

I was sitting in a room in Riverside Community Hospital, wondering if they were going to let me go home by Christmas ( Read more... )

This is kind of amazing--for the first time in weeks I didn't have to stay at work an extra hour and a half, just to do the stuff that the administrators think we can do ...sometime ( Read more... )

The news & weather guys were saying Saturday that there was a possibility of rain showers and possible thunderstorms in the deserts and mountains. Yesterday, they extended this forecast to other parts of southern California, but with a fairly low probability ( Read more... )

Last weekend, I ended up having family things to do in the San Gabriel valley both Saturday and Sunday, so rather than drive the hour home and back in between, I stayed overnight with my sister. This left me with a few hours to go shopping on Sunday morning ( Read more... )

You were born during a Waning Crescent moon

This phase occurs right before the new moon.


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