In case anyone noticed that I disappeared again, I'M BA-ACK! I had an equipment failure and got knocked off for over a week. Lost ALL my bookmarked sites and cookies. Damnit. But I'm crawling back to where I was. If I've missed anything important let me know. And also welcome back to a returning British friend--you know who you are! I ( Read more... )

Before I get into what's been happening to me for the last couple of years, I need to know how to make an LJ cut. I've completely forgotten, and since this is going to be a rather long post it really should go behind a cut. Trying to be merciful here.

I guess you can say it's been awhile. 80 + weeks according to the Home page screen, actually. I'm going to be busy getting things re-set after so long ( Read more... )

Guess who's here?  Well, occasionally, at least.  Sis managed to get a phone line in here where I'm incarcerated, and for an hour or two every night (mostly) I can get online.  I can't tell you what this means to me.  I'm much more relaxed, even though there's no telling how long I'm going to be in here this time.  I'm in a different kind of ( Read more... )

We're getting networked.  My dad has located a computer guru who has upgraded his Gateway desktop so that it'll be a better fit with my Dell and my sister's Toshiba laptop, as a partner on a LAN--we're now a LAN, or will be entirely once the guru has my sister's laptop ready to link in.  We're mainly doing this so that they can use the DSL access, ( Read more... )

Did anyone by any chance see "Good Morning, America" this morning (Friday)?  Because if you did, you might have seen the feature about the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, the people who raise the orphaned baby elephants.  And guess what?  MY FOSTER DAUGHTER WAS ON THE REPORT!  I was so excited when Dr. Sheldrick introduced my little Lesanju, and we ( Read more... )

It seems that the latest fashionable thing to do these days is to adopt an orphan from Africa.  So much so that Sis and I couldn't resist adding to our own African foster family--yesterday we fostered another child, this one a poor little baby girl elephant, only four weeks old, who was lost to her family when she fell into a well.

The tribesmen ( Read more... )

...and all that jazz, oh Lady of the Wicked Wit.

Well, maybe I shouldn't call her a girl.  She isn't really anymore.  But I haven't seen her since she was a pre-teener, a skinny kid who had her mother's wiry build and her father's fair coloring.  Her father being my half brother, which makes Kim my one and only actual niece.  Now, I've kept track of her as an aunt should, even and aunt who isn't ( Read more... )

...and you must understand that "freakin'" above stands in for a word I can't make myself use in polite company ( Read more... )