I may now have a new top for "dumbest things I've done in a car." While I was sliding down an iced-over hill, trying to get out of my neighborhood, I remembered there is a side exit with a steeper, but shorter, hill.

Thus, I slammed my car into reverse, pressed the accelerator, and tried to make a ninety degree turn, on the ice, in reverse, in ( Read more... )

I guess it's about time for an update to State-of-the-Mgad ( Read more... )

Long, complicated week(end) which leads to half my family learning what it's like for our lives to take a sudden sharp turn upwards while irreparibly crashing down all around us. Kat's lying in bed crying, Dad's burying himself in more work than usual (and kinda disappeared), Sam & I have... well, we reverted to "parent mode" while we just try to ( Read more... )

I actually fixed a hardware issue ( Read more... )

Making four or five trips across town in the middle of the night makes cross-town moving trivial. Time to say goodnight, computer. You'll wake up in a better place in the morning.

Time for a positive entry ( Read more... )

Now, at 10:40PM, I finally got back from bringing my Uncle to his pre-op hospital visit, and picking up his dog, Bonnie. My dogs want to kill Bonnie. Bonnie wants to kill the stray cat who's living on the front porch. Who is the best behaved cat I've ever met. I finally got them all fed, walked, calmed down, and cleaned up the various messes ( Read more... )

I had a disturbing experience at work today.

I overheard a mention of neonatal (really young kid- <1 month in humans) testing, and my Special Friend Jason calls his puppy "neo-nate"*, so I listened to the conversation. He was ordering laboratory animals from Charles River. I know it goes on, but it's still a bit odd to hear hundreds of lives ( Read more... )

So, I didn't get kicked out on my birthday. I paid next months bills & rent, had the check clear, THEN my sister kicked me out. At least it bought me another week. And her realizing that she really can't get by without me- still blames me for her not liking the work dad gives her, his only giving her $3K/month, and people saying she should stop ( Read more... )

I'm starting to lose my patience with my sister ( Read more... )